Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1926, Page 8

-1stry as a blow at constitutional 50V | from the Pole, 90 degrees, the Pole! 8 MHE EVENING ¢ With Sunday Morning Editlon. WASBHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . -May 12, 1926 - THEODORE W. NOYES. .. . Editor Fhe Evening Star Newspaper Company Buetness Office: 11th St and Pennsyly New York Ofice: 110 Chicago Office: Towe European Office Nlllu’ i ngland silding. t.. London, The Evening Star, with tho Sundar mom- adition, i delivered v carriers withir the clty at' 60 cents per month 45 cents per month: Sunds per month. Orders may be teloptone Main 5000, Collec arrier at the end of each mont Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. and Sunday....15r. All Other States and Canada. and Sunday. 1 yr. $12.00: 1 o, AT | . 1 mo. 1 mo. Member of the he Associated to the use for renu vat-hes credited to ted iu this pi alen the loo piblished herein ghts ot publicat, of special dikpatehes herein are also reserved. Constitutional Government Wins. After several duys of seeking, a formula for the 1justment of the general strike in Great Britain has heen found, and today the word goes forth to the union forces to resume work. The government carries its voint that there can be no resump- | tion of negotiations settle- ment of the mine e until the eneral strike abandoned. The rade Union (ongress carries its point that the miners must be re- Jleved. The result is that as soon s the workers return to their tasks 1he government will undertake to continue the coal mine subsidy for v period and will seek an adjustment is STAR| “|action on the proposed changes may the formation of a distinct highway plan in the neighborhood of Ivy City. Much Lenefit will accrue to the city from the activities of the committee {alung these lines. Traffic is increasing at a rapid rate and the streets are becoming serfously congested. Through | routes which will take the motorist tdirect to his destination should be {opened up with all possible speed. | Even with its unusually wide streets Washington has already outgrown the javailuble highway space, Whenever it i& feasible present streets should be widened and in the construction of new roads particular attention should | be paid to their width. In the suburban { districts, espectally, it will be practical to construct wide thoroughiures, while in the city proper streets should |be widened wherever it Recommendations of the cemmittee are made only after careful and inten sive study. It is the hope of every resident of Washington that prompt |be had when they are taken up by {Congress, H B | torce Victory of the Norge. TLe airship Norge crossed the North Pole at 1 a.m., Norwegian time, today and the wireless of the ship, at the moment of this writing, is telling that the Norge. flying a mile high and sail- ing sixty mfles an hour, 18 passiug over the unexplored part of the earth bLe- tween the North Pole and Alaska. In a few hours news may come that the Norge with her crew of seventeen has | arrived at Point Barrow, Alaska, mak- | iug the transit from an island in Europe to the mainland of America and a part of the United States. Tt is an impressive event. The flight of Byrd and Bennett to the Pole and back to Spitzbergen was an achieve- ment which tended to immunize peo- ple against Arctic thrills, but the per- formance of the Norge bearing Amund- «©f the wages and hours dispute in that industry. The general strike has lasted eight days and has caused an enormous loss to business in Great Britain and 10 the government through the adop- tion of emergency measures. It has cost the workingmen heavily and the vnijon organization un incalculable sum in strike benefits. profited. Everybody has lost some- thing. When it was ordered the general sirike was characterized by the min- ernment, which was denied by the labor leaders. A stout battle of words has been waged on that issue. The government acted on the basis of its declaration that the strike was s challenge to the established pub- lic procedure. It yielded nothing. Tt insisted that there could be no move for the settlement of the initial trouble, the miners’ strike, until the general strike was canceled. It has therefore won its major and vital contention. Ttesumption of the coal subsidy is 2 concession. made for the purpose of restoring order and industry. The Trade Union Congress will doubtless contend that the government would never have agreed to this resump- tion but for the pressure of the gen- eral strike, and will therefore seek to justify the strike order. But it is not assured that there would have been no resumption of the subsidy if there had been no general strike. 1t is not immediately important whether government or union “wins” in this settlement. The essential fact {s that a way has been found to resume industry without further cost, without bloodshed. Later will possibly come important political re- ons from the stril Militant worites will perhaps seek to sain parliamentary control. The gov- ernment may seek the enactment of laws which will strengthen its hands against a possible re-employment of the general strike weapon in the future. Out of efforts to secure such laws may come realignments in Parliament, possibly a general elec- tion, In which the lines will again be drawn between laborism and con- servatism. n re- this crisis the British people have borne themselves admirably. | They huve met the situation in good per, with paticnce and with loy- ; to government. Although sorely by the general strike, they ad- justed to the difficulties. They bore their losdes uncomplainingly and of- ‘ered themselves to the government or all necessary It was | this pirit on the part of the unor- ganized public that enabled the gov- ernment to hold firm for its major contention against any settlement without the cancellation of the gen- eral strike order. Gloomy predictions that this strike | meant the break-up of the British | empire have been proved false. True, the real problem has not been solved. Radicalism prevails to a certain ex- tent in Great Britain. It remains a | menace, to be dealt with hereafter. 1t this present settlement is a com- promise, however, it leaves the forces of law and order stronger than be- fore as the strike has at least proved that the great body of the British people are unwavering in their sup- port of constitutjonal government. ———t—————— services. The lingering Winter has r the test not only of the early but that of the first straw hat. ——— New Through Highways. Plans for relieving traffic congestion by the opening up of new through streets were discussed by the city and park planning committee yesterday. The committee mewdbers determined to make a study and survey of several proposed highway extensions with a View of cventually providing attra tive streets which would serve to di- vert traffic from many of the congest- ed arteries. 1ixtension of Brentwood road north- east. from its intersection with Rhode 1sland avenue to connect with the T street bridge over the railroad yards, thus relieving conditions on Rhode Ts- Jand avenue, was recommended by the committee. It was also decided to study the present street plan in the vicinity of Soldiers’ Home to open up a direct highway to Bladensburg road; | {and working conditions by mutual | 4 law, assuming the President’s signa- sen, Ellsworth, Nobile and their com- panions gives to peoples over the world the utmost gratification. After going into the sky at Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, the wireless oper- ator of the Norge, Frithjof Storm Johnsen, was in communication with the statlion at Kings Bay, and hour by hour reported the position of the ship, speed and height, the appearance of the ice and animals seen on the ice desert. With a map one could follow the course of the Norge, §2 degrees, 85 degrees, 89 degrees, one degree Then, though not turning from the north course followed from Spitz- bergen, the Norge was heading south on our side of the earth and the posi- tion of the ship was given in descend- ing degrees. She was sailing through the sky over the million or so miles of the earth's surface marked on the map “Unexplored Area,” lying between the Pole, Alaska and Siberia. No land is reported at this moment, but the view from the ship, though it is a mile high, covers but a relatively narrow strip of the unexplored region. The course from the Pole to Point Barrow, Alaska, is between the 150th and 160th par- allels of longitude. The feat of the Norge seems to make it plain that she or another ship will land at the Pole gnd that men will make a close examination of things at the north end of the earth. The thickness of the ice, the depth of the sea and the character of sea bottom will be learned. Something more than is now known may be learned of ter- restrial or solar magnetism. The sea bottom at the Pole may tell some- thing about the age of the earth and whether the north part of the earth was always frozen. If new land is found on the north cap of the earth it will be explored and the lands known to be within the circle of the 80th degree latitude—North Greenland, Peary Land, Grant Land, Ellesmere Land and Franz Joseph Land—will be explored. In the case of much of the | Arctic land on the maps all that is known of it is that it is there. Whether mineralized. or, if so, how, is not known. If there are rocks in the Pole region they would tell something of the world's history and if they con- tain fossils they would tell much of | the early earth. That coal has been found very far North indicates that the present North Pole was not always the end of the earth or that the north | end of the earth was not always frozen. Exploration of Arctic lands seems for- bidding, but with airplanes and dirigibles for transport and bases in the new lands it can be carried out. - v There has been so much agitation | concerning the local government that the District of Columbia seemed in danger of letting its mind drift mo- mentarily away from the parking prob- lems. ~satns When supremacy among flyers is mentioned, the "i"” in “bird” now be- comes a B The New Rail Labor Board. By a striking but in no way a sig nificant coincidence the Senate yes- terday passed without amendment a House bill providing a better method of settling railroad labor disputes just as the British general strike was reaching its conclusion by agreement. By a vote of 69 to 13 this measure was enacted and now merely awaits the signature of the President. It is de- slgned to permit railways and their employes to settle disputes over wages agreement, abolishing the Ralilroad Labor Board created by an earlier eu- actment. ! ‘The bill that is now about to become ture, provides that railroads and em- ployes shall establish adjustment boards; that the President shall ap- ts possible | « | Without the destruction of property. | phase THE EVENING settlement, by adjustment boards, by the board of mediatien, by arbitration and Ly the President’s emergency board. There is, however, no provi- sfon in the new law for enforcement , of eny findings, and there is nothing {im the bl as it stands to show fwhat would huppen in se the |1ast court of resort should fail to ! bring about « settlement. The law is framed upon the belief that out of | | these four methods some way of ad- Justment is practically | found. | In one striking particulur the new llaw giffers from the old. There is no { direction that the public shall be rep- { resented on any boavd. The ouly stip- lulation is thut the members of the bourd ot mediation shall lave no pe- cuniary interest on either side. The | Railroad Labor Board, which will go out of existence with the signing of the new law, has three representatives, | one each from lubor, the railroads and | the public. When created it was sup- posed to be clothed with mandatory powers, but the Supreme Court has de- ] clded that it hax no authority to en ix therefore without pow- ceessor, the board of megdiation, has no enforcing authority. v its decisio er, even as its su A. to the possession of great natutal resources, including a widely distributed asset of common sense. The recent birthday of “Un- cle Joe Canno makes it fitting to refer with respect to the celebrated “the wisdom of the plain people.” e L.eopold will not be asked tu tell the grand jury what he knows about the escape of prisoners. 1t mignt require the services of a shrewd psychoanalyst to determine whether he fs telling the truth. S e TR Mussolini, being a man of large enterprises, does not hésitate to undertake rebuilding Rome when he could continue to enjoy enormous credit simply by keeping the Italian capital well policed. ————reee- Having experienced so many kind of political trouble, & number of Tt sian politicians are ready and anxious to contribute suggestions concerning any kind of trouble anywhere. ————s No nation is reticent about laying claim to newly discovered land, de- spite the manifest difficulty in ad- ministering the affairs of territory known since ages past. o People have been cheerfully walk- ing to work in London. After all, the man who really loves his work is not so much of a myth as cynics have suggested. —— e The “corner saloon” is no longer dreaded, excepting when a reckless bootlegger, bent on dispersing bev- erage, dashes around a curbstone in a high-powered car. o The drys have tlie assurance that the North Pole lies in an open sea and, though uncompromisingly wet, is under no suspicion of alccholic con- tent. oo Interest in evolution abates as it is realized that the discussion is prolong- ed at the expense of the taxpayer without much prospect of material ad- vantage. e The parlor Socialist is entertain- ing in conversation, but a nuisance when he attains enough influence to interfere with supplies in the kitchen. ] SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON To a Critical Reader. I know you'll say this verse is punk, Devold of all relation To any think worth being thunk Or phrase worth the narration. It is an effort frank and fair, All modesty expanding. To give what editors declare The public is demanding. Scarelty. “You must have the courage of your convictions.” “It isn't so easy,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I1 have participated in a good many investigations and I don't recall having secured a single com- plete conviction.” Omar Annotated. A book of verses (page Rudyard Kip- ling) underneath the bough (page for- estry service), a loaf of bread (page bakers’ trust), a jug of wine (page Wayne B. Wheeler), and thou (page divorce attorney) beside me singing (page Tin Pan Alley) in the wilderness (page Theo Roosevelt), the wilderness were paradise enow (page Billy Sun- day). Jud Tunkins says u good salesman can make you feel like the talk is worth some flnancial recognition whether the goods are or not TUnadjusted Instinct. “The Eskimos are rapidly becoming civilized.” ‘Not very rapidly.” answered the traveler. “They still regard tallow candles as great delicacie: 'Merely a native eccentricit; “But dangerous. I brought an Es- kimb home with me and he made him- self sick by trying to devour the elec- tric lights. Make Up. Marguerite comes street Her face looks strange to me, I vow. 1ler knees, her ankles and her feet— It is to them I make my bow. ‘When down the point with Senate consent a board of | mediation of five persons, none of whom has a pecuniary interest on either side, to intervene when the ad- justment boards fail; that boards of arbitration shall be created when both parties consent to arbitration; that when other methods fail the board of mediation shall notify the President, ‘who may appoint an emergency board to investigate and report to him within thirty days, during which period there shall be no change in the conditions a change of the present route of Utah avenue to make it conform to the line of the dispute except by the agreement of both parties. Eye to the Piduresque. “T hear you are going to leave your wife.” “She made me throw my pipe away,” answered Mr. Meekton. ‘Surely you would make a small sacrifice like that to please her!” “Willingly. But she compels me to sit in the ‘den’ she fixed up for me and wear the smoking jacket she bought, just the same:” “Makin’ new friends,” said Uncle Eben, “is like gatherin’ mushrooms. It's terrible easy to pick yvohself a ~ ui the old Rock Creek Ford voad, and . This provides four modes of possible, toadstool.” N ain to l)o‘ STAR, WASHINGTO. The seven ages of modern childhood may be listed as follows: Baby curriage 2. Bcooter, . Velocipede. . Roller skates. . Bicycele, Motor cycle Automobile. From the cradle to the grave, man rolls along, acquiring in childhood the dash and speed which characterize Hm ¢he remainder of his life. Middle and old age may be said to be merely extenuations of the sev- {enth, or automobile, stage of his child- hood days. The wheel is the symbol of our age. irst comes the infant rolled along by the nurse in a fancy new baby car- riage of gleaming wicker, with all the latest improvements in brakes, tilters, snap and drop top: Rubber-tired wheels come us part of the equipment. Some carringes huve little windows, so that the nurse | may not Le put to the great eertion of craning her neck to see how her charge is getting along. ite Shakespeare's vefer e habits of Baby, when the Bard declared that the infant is ing and puling in his nurse’s arm Modern bables do no such thing, and especially would abhor such lan- guuge in description. Would it not be quite sufficlent, Mr. Shakespeare, to say that the little dear is suffering from a slight attack of indigestion, as a result of the absence of its morning cup of orange juice? Then comes little Johnuie ou his scooter Watch him seoot, See him cleave the ether, as areens down the sidewalk. naking Jones shrink with 2dge Mrs. Jones! 1low fellow parents, will this frightfully ancient personage insist on incumber- ing ihe sidewalk when our little John. vants to take his exercise? it needs some exercising, too, but think of Johnnie, please! His poor little body needs toning up. The doctor said so. The tonicity of his muscles is not all that it should e, the wise doctor sald, John's tonsils. too, are in a bad way. Nature is a queer thing, is it not? Here is John, 3 years old, seemingly the very picture of health, yet whose tonsils are bad already. Since Johnny looks so very well in every other way, we wonder how it happens that the tonslls give out so soon. But we do not question the doc- tor. Mercy, no! He says the tonsils ought to come out, and Le cught to know. It seems that the Creator made some sort of mistake, and the surgeon will set Him right. How kind of the st * geon Next comes the This is characterized by a penchant for imaging one’s self as a fire engine, which requires much ringing of the bell. Watch out, Mrs. Jones! Al though this vehicle is not as merci- less as the scooter, it is pretty hard on brittle bones, for all that. All in all, however, the velocipede WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC Politicians on Capitol Hill are floundering around in a sea of dis- traction in connection with the farm bills. Most of them are afrald of belng “damned if they do” and “damned if they don't.” Efforts to put the ear to the ground “back home” and get light and leading there only result in confusion worse confounded. One member of the House who queried his “key farmers” recelved two replies favoring the Tincher-Jardine bill. lation at all. A Representative from of his leading farm supporters would like to cash Mr. Haugen's $375,000, 000 draft on the Treasury. The Dem- ocrats are in w pale blue quandary about the whole business. Support for the Haugen bill is tantamount to a vote for the protective tariff, vet a vote against it plays into the hands of the Coolidge adminigtration. Tt fe a pretty mess, of which all concerned pray early riddance. i | Rear Admirmai Colby M. Chester. 1. S. N., retired, who was 82 vears {ola the other day. is in Washington, {preparing to descend upon the | League of Nations at Geneva. THe still claims to be the rightful owner of the “Chester concession™ for vast oil flelds, mineral rights and railroad facilities in Turkey. Not long ago Admiral Chester learned that the Mustafa Kemal government at An- gora has denounced the concession it gave him 1n 1922, so the venerable American sea. dog, who fought at the hattle of Mobile Bay in 1864, is going Geneva to see it somehow justice cannot be done him. The Chester concession comprehends immense areas in Irak, which is now domi- nated by Great Britain. The ad- H ito miral’s friends gather the impression | that he holds British oil maneuvers responsible for the action of the per- fldious Turk. R * 5 awford Capper was cra- Tlorence The daughter of a Kansas governor, later the wife of a governor Who served two terms, and then consort of a United States Senator ro-elected to a second term, all of her mature years Wwere spent in public life. Senator Capper found her an able and enthusi- astic adjutant and gave her ungrudg- ing praise for the part she played in his fine career. Mrs. Capper had the distinction of entertaining . at her beautiful home in Topeka, at one time or another, the three last Presidents of the United States—Wilson, Harding and Coolidge. She and Mrs, Harding— both Florences—were bosom friends, and, while Mr. Coolidge was Vice Pres- ident, Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. Capper were inseparable companions. They called each other by their first names and shared a non-political passion in common—dancing. Mrs. Capper was jordinately ambitious for her hus band and proudly cherished the hope, harbored by many of the farm bloc leader’s friends, that cne day he would be elected President. SR k! Josiah Stamp, who this week gave the United States Chamber of Commerce a graphic and gripping plc- ture of the British industrial crisis, is a statistician, accountant and au- ditor by profession and a railway ex- ecutive by occupation. Just now he is chairman of the board of the London, Midiand and Scottish lines, but his hobby is economics. In Washington Sir Josiah is staying with Vice Pres- ident Dawes, with whom he served on the reparations commission. Stamp is a big. broad-shouldered son of John Bull, with just the bit of a cockney accent. He has sat on every impor- tant British commission dealing with taxation, revenue and finance during |- the mast 10 years. The Chamber of Commerce address on the coal crisis, though highly technical, made a deep THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. puk- | he | fear Tong, | her folks ought to keep her | is true that Mrs. Jones | velocipede “stage. | OBSERVATIONS All the others | said they want no agricultural legis- | a neighboring district found that ail | dled in politics and Joved the game: | D. ¢, WEDNESDAY and tricycle age of childhood is by far the most harmless. The child {enjoys himself, gets plenty of fresh {air, ‘and 18 not altogether intent on ¢ {wrecking Mrs. Jones and her like. | Quickly comes the roller skate | stage, fourth in our mystic list of | seven—number of ancient mysteries— number into which the week is di- vided—number into which the = of Ufe of man so easily fall. Perhaps there is no age awheel so enjoyed by the uverage child as that of roller skates. + A city such us Washington, paved |with concrete and asphalt, seems { verily made for roiler skating. If the streets not smooth for | this eport, what are they smooth for? |So, with much threshing of arms and rhythmic_twisting of bodles do the youth of the city swing around corners, dash alon sidewalks, spin across streets | Now, if ever, old Mrs. Jones must | watch her step. She need not expect Sammy to get out of her way. In- | deed, shie need not! If Mrs, Jones is lus wise as her white hair would secmn to indicate, she will stay indoors untfl | the skating fever ¥ | This, like the other lages, cscept | the lust, dies a natural death. Its | expiring moments are marked by a | desire to skate on grass. Now, grass is perhaps the worst possible skat- ing material, but something about it evidently appeals to the spirit of the skater, for he invarlably ends by skating, or trying to skate, on the lawn. The bicycle gge we may pas: fefly. Like ping-pong, it has seen, tter days. Thousands of bikes are sold every year, but even the boys Jook forward to sowething *‘peppler.’ The fifth stage. however, leads mer- rily on to the sixth and seventh. for 2 modern youth does not feel at home except on wheels. Roll, he must—not his own. merely, but himself. So he takes to the motor cycle first, if he can wheedle the “old man” into buying one. Unless he decides to take up the profession of motor c policeman, he soons tires of this means of locomotion, and decides upon a real ear. The seventh stage that never ends is that of the motor car. With sec ond-hand ones to be picked up at from $15 to $30, there is no reason W any office boy need to be without car these days. Very few of them are. There remains the course, but its wheels are rudimen- tary, and wheels are what the world loves—wheels within wheels, wheels that go around, the faster the better. 1f we look back over this seven fold perpetual motion, we see that rom infancy the modern vouth is ac- | customed to being on the go. Al-} though the up-to-date infant i3 never ] rocked to sleep, he is wheeled into restiessness with a ri t good will. His subsequent years but increase his desire for speed and yet more speed. It makes us smile from time ! {o time, then, as we read an article in which some good person wonders over the restlessness of modern youth. With such bringing-up on wheels, how could a modern youth sit down and contemplate infinity in a grain of sand? Will he see Heaven in a wild flower? “So's your old man!" WILLIAM WILE. impression on his American hearers. “That Britisher certainly kmows his stuff!" was the expressive tribute paid him by a Midwest captain of In- dustry. ! e * Capt. Adolphus Andrews, U, §. N.. who is now at Geneva for the prelimi- nary disarmament conferencs, had an amusing experience the last day he was at the White House before sailing for Kurcope. President Coolidge hap- pened to be receiving a delegation of bishops. The former skipper of the Mayflower (who was in eftizens’ | clothes) was presented to them. One S | of-the prelates mistook Capt. Andrews | for Gen. Andrews. chief of prohibition enforcement, and showered him with the church's congratulations on “the magnificent work you are doing to ! stamp out the liquor traffic.” . A Washington society girl has just { broken into the movies. Although a beginner, she's started out at a salary | of $150 a week. Her father, a retired | judge of a United States court, re- marks the fact that until Congres recently ralsed the pay of the Feders Jjudiciary his daughter's movie wages worlk out at about §1,500 a year more than was ever paid judges of the bench on which he sat. Senor Don Ricardo Alfaro, the ac-| complished young Minister of Panama ho is completing his fourth succe sive year in the United States, recom- mends _his country as a Summer re. sort. He claims it's a lot more com- fortable than Washington in July and August, despite Panama’s ~tropical | latitude. Dr. Alfaro watches inter- national weather reports and finds that when eggs are being fried on the asphalt of Capitol Hill, it's usually republic. % The Bureau of Standards is about | to make a laboratory investigation of | the world’s latest fire danger—spon- taneous combustion of crystal radio sets. A conflagration answering that description was recently brought to | the bureau’s attention by Charles S. Lusk, secretary of the Bureau of Catholic_Indian Missions, at Wash- | ington. Mr. and Mrs. Lusk were at | dinner and when they returned to the room where their crystal set is in- stalled, they found it afire. As no particularly inflammatory stuff was on the afr, the cause remains a mystery which T{oover's wizards at the Bureau { of Standards must now, unravel | (Copyright, 1926.) | —————— : Fame. From-the Oakland Tribune. For 200 years Capt. Kidd has been regarded as u blood-thirsty pirate and “the prince of villains.” And now at this late date one writer steps forth to declare that Kidd was innocent, {that he was, in fact, “framed by {Eroups of Lrifishers of the same gen- | eral sort, who distinguished them- selves in bringing on the Revolution.” Whether the evidence adduced in Capt. Kidd's behalf be bona fide or not, it is not likely his name will ever cease to be synonymous for all that s dark in piracy. It will continue to emain u convenient metaphor. Such is our love for fairness, how- ever, that this attempt to Lrighten a black reputation will be thought creditable, if there be a basis for it. But quite reverse is the reaction ex verienced to those other attempts made recently to besmirch the noble char- acters of our national heroes—and, specifically, that. of the ‘“Father of His Country.” These attempts are dis- creditable to those making them, and they are rightly spurned as the feeble work of notoriety seekers. | Wants Another. | Frem the Detroit News. Mr. Brookhart, who was told to get up and give Mr. Steck his seat, has st';ned back to the box office for an- other. jof the entire Si about 20 degrees cooler in the Canal |y MAY Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln No dent has yet been made in the dry forces in Congress by the primary elections so far held this Spring—e: cept the nomination of George I3 Brennan for the Senate by the Demo crats of Illinois. Mr. Brennan, the Democratic national ~ committeeman for Illinois and party boss of Chicago, was unopposed by any dry candidate. Indeed, his opposition was inconse- quential and his nomination a fore- gone conclusion. 'The (rys were suc- cessful in renominating number of Congressmen in Illinoig, some of whorn had wet opposition. Both Col. ¥rank L. Smith, the Republican nomi- nee for the Senate, and Senator Wil- liam B. McKinley, who was defeated, were declared tisfucto 1 the dry The stage is set, therefore, for a real wet and dry contest for the Senate seat out in Illinois next Fall, but the odds to date appear entirely in favor of Col. Smith, not so much, it must be said, however, hecause of the dry issue as because of the over- whelming strength of the Republican ¥ in the Senate. P Tn South Dakota Senator Peter Norbeek. a dry, has been renominated by the Republicans for the Senate and his election is regarded as certain. Several wet candidates presented themseclves as candlidates for the sena- torfal nominatlons in Indiana, but none of them was successful at the primaries last week. 5 centered fur the which are to May 18. They ntative Will ublican nomin; and Edward Wet Lopes are present on the primarie be held nnsylvan Repre tion for Senute 5 teidleman of Harrisburg for the Re. publicar gubernational nomination. A victory by either one of these can- dldates over their dry opponents would give to the wet cause a great hoost. Naturally the drys are not a little concerned over the outcome. Should Pennsylvania, the second State in the Union in size of popula- tion, wet, it would consolidate a great the most populous for its size in the United States as wet ter- ritory, including New York, New Jer- Maryland and Pennsylvania, with large numbers of wets to be found in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, still further enlarging the damp area. Representative Vare's candidacy for the Senate was announced chological moment, both and for the wet cause. With the wet drive on in earnest for the first time since national prohibition became law, and with the dry vote dlv between his opponents. Senator Pepper and ov. Pinchot, his chance greater than they could po have been under almost any clrcumstances s81D] In Philade!phia tales are circulating about men of prominence in business, the professions and society, who ordi- narily would be found aligned with Senator Pepper or Gov. Pinchot and gainst the machine boss, Vare, but who are now said to be prepared to swallow Vare just to register thelr strong opposition to the prohibitory law. One of these stories is to the effect that following a drill of the famous City Troop, in which are en- rolled enly scions of the F. paraphrase the abbrev blue bloods of Virginia—the command. ing officer called attention to the need of every man's voting in the primaries next Tuesday and for Senator George Wharton Pepper, one of thelr own kind. He is reported to have request- ed the members of the troop to meet him tmmediately after the drill to dis- cuss ways and means of atding the Pepper campaign. But only about one-third of the members of the troop turned up—while the majority of the others, in another room, lock step and shouted as they paraded for Vare and the beverages which are now banned by law. A defeat in Pennsylvania will be like a dash of coid Atlantic water for the wets—if it comes. To listen to and to believe Mr. Vare and the speakers who are campaign- ing for him throughout Pennsylvania, one would get the impression that pro- hibition has resulted in the corruption ate. The rougher the gibe at prohibition, the greater the applause from the audlences which guther at the Vare meetings. There is no pussyfooting by the Vare outfit on this issue. The extravagances of the speakers seem hard to swallow, but the bait they hold out is enticing to many voters. * Raymond T. Baker, former director of the mint, genial, vital personality, is to leave Washington for his home in Reno, Nev., this week, and, soon after his arrival there, is to make his formal announcement for the Democratic nomination for Senator. unless present plans go awry. If he is successful in winning the nomina- tion, he will oppose Senator Tasker L. Oddie, the present Republican Senator_from Nevada. or possibly former Representative E. . Roberts, mayor of Reno, who is at present campaigning vigorously for the Re- publican nomination, Nevada already has one Democratic Senator—Key Pittman—who was re-elected by some 8,000 votes over h Republican op- ponent in 1922, The total vote cast in that election was between 28,000 and 29,000, so the: §,000 plurality which Senator Pittman received is considerably greater than it appear at first Dblush. The > has a Democratic governor. While Gov. Scrugham has been men- tioned as a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination, it is now re- ported that he will seek to succeed himself as governor. Senator Oddie, in 1920, wus elected over his Demo- cratic opponent by about 1.100 votes. Mr. Roberts, in 1918, was the Repul Iican candidate for the Senate against former Senator Henderson, who, how- ever, was defeated two years later by Senator Oddie. President Coolidge carried the State in 1924, but his vote was less than the combined vote cast for Davis and La Follette by some 3,000 votes. Nevada is a real battle ground with the odds usually favoring the Democrats. This is one of the | States where the Democrats hope to ipick up a seat in the coming sena- torial elections, . The announcement from Vermont that John Barrett, former director general of the Pan-American Union, is to be a candidate for the Repub- lican senatorial nomination against Senator Dale mnext September has caused no little comment in the tional Capital, where “John” was a familiar figure for years. Vermont is the native State of President Cool- idge. It is as surely Republican as Virginia is Democratic. The nomi- nation of a Ilepublican for the Sen- ate, therefore, is equivalent to an election. According to dispatches Mr. Barrett is to run on a platform which makes the support of President Cool- idge and his policies, not to mention Attorney General Sargent and his in- terpretation of the laws, his principal issue. Efforts have been made in some quarters to discredit Senator Dale because of alleged non-support of President Coolidge and the meas- ures for which Mr. Coolidge has stood. But an examination of the record discloses the fact that, with the ex- ception of the soldiers’ bonus bill and the bill increasing the pay of the pos- tal employes, Mr. Dale has been as regular as a clock. On taxes, the World Court, the settlement of the foreign debts and other important measures, Senator Dale has voted strictly with his party and its leaders. So far as the soldlers’ bonus is con- oerned, it may be remarked that the of success | other | formed in | ANSWERS TO Q. Is a gold certificate worth more than face value?—A. R. ! A. Gold certificates are receipts for | actual deposits of gold in the Treas-| ury and are redeemable in gold cofn. Q. 1s the Southern Cross visible anywhere in Mexico?—A. L. S, { A.On very clear nights, at the| [proper time of the year, a part at least of the Southern Cross may be | seen from ecven the most northern part of Mexico. Q. Are there two sides to a rain- bow?—T. C. A. You can never see a rainbow un- less vou are between it and the sun. You could never_gee a rainbow if you were looking at the sun, so if You | see one you may know that any one |on the other stde of it could not see it because he would be looking at the sun. Q. When was the umbrella invent- —G. R, A. Umbrellas are said to have heen known as far back as the early days of Nineveh and Persepolls, for rep sentations of them appear frequently | in the sculptures of those early days. The women of ancient Rome and Greece carrfed them, but the men | never did. Jonas Hlanway of London 15 said to have been the first man who walked the streets of that city with an open umbrells over his head to keep off the rain. He is sald to have used his umbrellas for 30 years before umbrellas came into general use for that purpose. Q. Where dces the word “gas’” come from?-G. T, A. A Belgian chemist, Van Helmont, | coined the word “gas’ in the first half of the seventeenth century. The Dutch word ‘“geest.” signifying | “ghost,” suggested the term to him end his superstitious nelghbors hound- ed him into obscurity for talking of | ghosts. Q. Which county ranizs first in products?—V. N. P. | A. According to the 1920 census, | Los Angeles County of California | ranked first in the combined value of rop und livestock products; Fresno ounty, Calif., second. Q. Please give a description of the cathedral at Bryn Athyn.—M. Z. A, A. The Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce says that the cathedral at Bryn Athyn is one of the most’ mag- | nificent and costly structures in the | world. into it is being cut by hand and by expert stonecutters brought from abroad. It is being erected entirely at the expense of the sons of Mr. Pit irn, former nead of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass le in_ California | Q. Who discovered bacteria’—W. K. ! A The first recorded observation of tho bodies we now recognize as La terfa was made about the middle of |the seventeenth century by Antony | {van Leeuwenhoek. a Holland lens | grinder, who reported his discovertes | to the Royal Society of London in 1683. Conunuing his investigations, | Leeuwenhoek discovered the presence of bacteria in the mouth and in the intestinal evacuations, and it is in- teresting to note that there followed | these discoveries a germ theory of dis-* BY FREDERIC Jivery bit of stone that goes | I QUESTIONS . waska ease no whit less far-reaching, if e« accurate, than that which exists @ the present day Q. How much tobacco was used the United States last year?—W. L. A. The consumption in the Unite States in the year 1925 was 487.235 small cigars, 6,630,914,967 large cigars 75,009,864,510 small cigarettes. 15,200 281 large cigavettes, 371.788. pound of tobacco. Q. What is the average salary of & engineer”—D. W. G. A. It has been estimated that eng neers make from $2,000 to $4,000 vear after being out of echool fi 00 and $6,000 3 Q. poplar be told apart? —". 1. 11 A. Basswood can be distinguishec -ellow poplar by the following is pale 3 of_vellow poplar ut yellowish brown in color. 90 Lias @ characterist not pronounced, but it is ¢ ognized in whittling the vellow poplar ts practically odorle Basswoo n Q. Wers Germans other than Ilcs sians sent by England to fight America?>—W. . B A. All the German soldiers hired by England for service in the Rev lutionary War were indiscriminate! called “Hessians.” The total ser America was 20,867, of whom returned. the remaining 548 wer some of the wounded, peared here. T in Q. Can one scee a reprodu the Taj Mahal in this country” A. A reproduction of th bu will be constructed for the Sesqu tennial ¥ Q. What is the pressure at ii bottom of a body of water 3,000 fec long, 1000 feet wide and 30 fec deep?—E. G. A. The Bureau of Standards sa® that it would be 23,980 pounds pe square inch. Wandering Jew acter in a legend which arese short after Christ’s time. According to tra dition, the Jew refused to help ( carry His cross to Calvar: his cruelty s condemned wander over the earti. Did you ever write a letter to I're eric J. Haskin? You can ask hin question of fact and get the ansi wn @ personal letter. Here is a « educational idea introduced info 1 lves of the most intelligent people « the world—American newspaper rea ers. It is a part of that best purpose of @ newspaper—service. There is charge ercept 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Address Irederic 1 Haskin, director, The E Information Burcau, Washington, D. ¢ Straus, Practical Idealisi, Oscar S. Straus, who as a boy came | to America with his family from Ba- varia, died the other day, appreciated as one of the great of his adopted land. He is luuded as business man, lawyer and diplomat, but, above all,| great-souled servant of human- | In personal life a man of most unusual benevolence, sweetness and ready approachability,” says the Bos- ton Transcript, “he realized notably the ideal of a man of wealth, who re- garded not only his wealth but his whole life as a trust for the whole community. Not in a thousand years, nor either in the Rhineland, where Oscar Straus was born, nor in the length and breadth of our own demo- cratic land, are better men or finer citizens brought into the world than he_was. £ Though recognizing Straus’ position as statesman and diplomat, the Du- luth Herald declares that “it will be the human side of his great soul that will be longest remembered.” The Herald also records the fact that “his attitude toward his wealth was that of a custodian in the interest of humanity,” and it states that “the heart of tals good man, who is gone, was larger than any creed or race or tongue, and thousands who have benefitted by his generosity will prax that his rest may be sweet.” Ir, Straus’ lIife,” according to the Asheville Times, “might be cited as an outstanding case of the perfect development of the immigrant; his career as a statesman would have been a rare one for any American, and his reputation among his fellow men is one to be envied.” The exam- ple he set is praised by the Erie Dis patch Herald as one “‘worthy of emu- lation by all whose ambition goes be- yond their personal fortunes to their country's good,” while the Bridge- port Post remarks that he “upheld the tradition of a name that had be- hind it no blood or fame in the ac- cepted sense of these words, but was built solely ‘on sterling character.” “Oscar Straus, like most men who have done much for the world’s bet- terment,” observes the Atlanta Jour- nal, “was a practical {dealist—neither a Utoplan dreamer nor an earth- bound utilitarian, but a thinker of soaring faith and workmanly will. A great-souled servant of humanity he was, a citizen who bore his country's goodliest principles aloft and, as Georgla proudly remembers, once a school child of her own.” Similarly, his place as a “humanitarian of a practical sort” is recognized by the New York Evening World, which calls him *“a philanthropist with vision, always found on the side of humanity, justice, liberality.” The Evening World ranks him as “an | licist and a wise one, a patriot | many Lauded as His Career Ends referring 1o various sery which Oscar § s performed « his lifetime for his adopted count: and for his race.” finds l!'uu “alto i ssive r of and vigorous “Art-loving, fun with an unfailing fighting edge 3 the estimate of the Louisviile Courisr Journal, “Oscar Straus, like his clder brother, Nathan, lived a round, fu and various life, rich in service to his country and to his fellow: man out side as well as inside America. He was a lawver and a dignified one, a business man and a successful one, ¢ diplomatist and a skilled one, a pub 1 a1 unselfish one, a humanitarian «nd intelligent one. Few men of his ger eration in any country attempted s things and particular field so h: To his possession of » sonality, “an unu mbi the New York Evening Post uttrit “the attention he drew from v occupants of the White House, the Post adds that “ir is men Oscar Straus who keep bright the | traditions of our diplomatic service “It is not surprising,” the Utici Observer Dispatch suggests. “tha Presidents of different political parties called upon bim to perform importan services,” and citing his record unde Cleveland, Harrison, Roosevelt, Taf and Wilson, the Utica paper concludes« that “appointments from such sources constitute a high tribute to his leve headedness. impartiality and loft: purpose in life.” American opportt nity for the immigrant boy meant also something more, the Alban Evening News remarks. with the con ment, “Whatever in opportunit America gave to him he gave back t America in good citizenship and i high ideals and high service.” “An exumple of how men of a faiths trusted and depended upor him.,” the Youngstown Vindicato points out, “came when the Fedem Council of Churches of Christ i America asked him to visit Palestix and help restore harmony among th: religious sects of the Holy Land while the Canton Daily News states that the various posts which came t him_ “were but the honors whic marked his service to all people «f all classes, of all races and of al creeds.” The St. Paul Dispatch als testifles that his “lifelong advocas of class and religious tolerance e deared him to his fellow citizens, n less than his practical philanthroples The place of the Jew life,” notes the Spring “has widened consideral nee raus’ first appointment to office. He 0 pub! d Unior American asset,” as' it recalls that “this immigrant paid more than lip service to American institutions,” and was “a patriot in the real mean- ing of the word. E3 the Cincinnati Times “that blend of practical lofty idealism which of- ten distinguishes the really great men of the Jewish race had a notable em- bodiment,” and the MHartford Times, “In_ him, late Senator Lodge, then Republican leader of the Senate; Senator Curtis, the present leader, and Senator Wat- son of Indlana, the assistant leader, all voted with Senator Dale to pass the bonus bill over the President's veto. Senator Dale has been regarded in Vermont as a Progressive in politics —although he probably would be con- sidered very conservative in North Dakota. There has been antagonism toward him on the part of the rail- roads and some insurance companies in the State. He has been on the other side of the political fence cften in the past from that occupled by At- torney General Sargent. But he is| popular in the State. and any one who hopes to defeat him at the pri- | maries next September 14 will have! to hustle. Up to date Senator Dale is not reported to have lost any sleep over the announcement of Mr. mr-f rett. - was one of the pioneers who made racial and religious equality in the United States an actuality as well as a theory.” The breadth of his syn pathy is emphasized also by the Ja gon Citizen Patriot, which observe~ that “he was an ardent supporter of the cause of the Jews throughout the world, and a _generous contributor Jewish and Christian charities e Two for One. From the Toledo Blade. Man gets a alight shock sees two dandelions toming he dug one out last season. The Three Stages. From the Duluth Herald. Short and sad career of a fou: flushing social climber: Show ujp show off, show down. Miscast. From the Durham Sun. ‘The trouble with musical comedies lies in the fact that too many of the dancers sing. o A Literary Standard. From the Portland Express. The platform of a great many liter ary critiés is: If the it's punk. Pachiy w s,