Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1926, Page 8

—_—— THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . .. ...May 19, 1826 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ofice and Pennsylvania Ave New Vork (Mee: 110 East dind St. Chicago Office: Tower Building. Furopean Office. 14 Rezent St London, England. 11th St The Evening Star. with the Sun Ing edition. 15 delivered by earrie the city at 60 centa per month: dails onlv 45 cents per month: Sunday_only. 20 cents per month. Orders may, he sent by mail or telephone Main 5a00. Collection is miade Uy earrer at the end of each month ¥ morn withir Rate by Mail—Payable Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ails and Sundar. 1 vr. 500 1mo. The il only 1 V1 S8:00° 1 mo. hoe Bunday oty 13183700 1 mo.. 2ae All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday.1yr.§12.00: 1 me. $1.60 Daiv ‘only 1Ar TeR00 1 mol TBe Sunday” only 135 $400:1mo, #3c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Pross i< xclusively ertitied 10 the e for renahieation « € all nevs die- Patehes credited 10 1t or not otherwise cred- Tted i (his naner nd also the local new piblished Keroin Al rights of publication f special disnatehes herein are also reserved. The Pennsylvania Primary. 1t is to be rected that the “wets” will hail the result of yesterday's sen atorial primary in Pennsylvania as victory for their cause, but the “dry: will find comfort, and even elation, in the fact t the total vote cast for Pinchot Represen whose mind artisa likely to clusive in Pepper and G greatly exceeded that tive Vare. The obse 1s not strongly nator w ver prejudiced by ship for either cause is not find 1n the rety dication of the real sentiment in Penn. maoditication ns any con svlvania as to repeal o of the Volstead act Had it lbeen a straightout contest between Vare, the wet, and Pinchot, would have been il- luminating, hut Senator .Pepper, thousgh accounted a dry, did not stres: the liquor question and made his caw paign largely on other The wets and drys may guess to their hearts" content. but there is no way to tell what proportion of the Pepper would have goge to and what to Pinchot had Pepper been the dry. the vote issues. vote Vare not in the race. It is not le doubted. though, wat Mr. Vare's victory will give addi- tional the campaign for lberalizing prohibition and he is on early record with o declaration of in tention to force the issue in the next Republican national As his election to the Senate would log fealiy result in his selection as a dele gateatlarge the convention, he would be in an advantageous position to labor for a faverable platform dec laration. impetus to convention to of the backers of the Amundsen ex- pedition has said that despite the neg- ative,findings of that expedition it is still a probability that there is a great tract of land between the North Pole and Alaska. Admiral Peary from a point 2,000 feet high on Cape Colgate in Grant Land, about the 83d degree, wrote: “It was with a thrill that my glasses revealed the faint white sum- mits of a distant land which my Esquimos claimed to have seen as we came along from the last camp.” Thomas Tubbard, standing in Axel Heiberg Land, which is about $2 or 83 degrees mnorth, thought he saw white mountains to the north. Mac Millan, far in the north, thought he saw unknown mountains before him. went fifty miles in their direction, ob served that they did not become plain er, and concluded that the mountains were mirage. Stefansson is taking some of the cold out of the North Pole climate, but will probably not draw many im- migrants to the region. He peints out that the Amundsen party reported the Pole temperature 12 above, zero and he says that temperature is not extraordinary in New York, Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis. He says that Arctic temperature ranges from 100 in the shade to 80 degrees below zero and that the Weather Bureau gets reports of o4 below zero in Canada and Alaska. This will not shake the popular belief ti Autumn sets in early at the North Pole, that Spring violets are a little late and that Winter there is long and dark e The Yankee at Geneva. The attitude of helpful leadersiip toward the goal of arms limitation as by the United the opening of the preliminary conference on disarmament in G vesterdas cannot but be gratifying to millions of Americans. The United States is sin cere in its efforts to better conditions throughout the world and to reduce the probabilities of another world war through limitation of the arma ments. At the Washington confer. ence on limitation of armaments four vears ago, Secretary Ilughes of the State Departnent, heading the Amer ican delegation, thrilled the world with his practical proposition for naval lim itation. Tn Geneva, the American dele gation under the leadership of Hush Gibson, American Minister to Switzer land, is carrying on. with the purpose firmly in mind. In the sug- gestions made by Mr. Gibson opening of the conference, the same vein of ticability is found. The American effort is to avoid abstruse problems and to bring about real re med States at neva at prac is sults same | the | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C THIS AND THAT North and South America being | brought closer together, a successful air line would serve to cement this re- lationship. Of course, even if the first flight is successful, it will be many vears before such a project can reach culmination, but nevertheless anything looking to the establishment of closer ties between the North and the South will not lack for support from the peo- ples of both countries. —rao—— Ordeal by Nails. Not all the motorists of the District have occasion to traverse the Klingle Bridge on Connecticut avenue extend- led, but there is likelihood that any | \who do will remember the crossing for me time to come. “The boards which compose the floor- ing of the two roadways are so worn down that they are ornamented with a collection of spikes, projectfng any- where from a quarter of an énch to an inch or more. As one approaches the beginning of the bridge he or she is reminded of the boards on which Hindu fakirs recline in order to lay up for themselves merit in the future life. Steering the four wheels of a car in and out between these stalagmite-like tire destroyers is a ticklish job. Often the driver who thinks he has passed the ordeal safely later finds a slow- working nail of vast dimensions im- bedded in one of his treads. One nall in particular is of such outstanding altitude that the approaching driver is under the impression that some hardy weed has taken root in the moss and mold of the ancient boards Just now the usual solution of the problem is for the motorist who must cross who desires to cross -and there are thousands of them once to groove his wheels in the street car | trac Following the attainment of this line of vantage, no other motorist {can safely pass him on the left or with propriety pass him on the right. Not only ave vehicles endangered by this condition, but traffic is slowed down. The subject of widening and perma- nently surfacing this bridge has been broached and favorably considered. Doubtless it will be done in due sea- son. In the meantime a few truck loads of fresh hoards, firmly nailed in place, would bring smiles of gratifica- tion to thousands of careworn faces N 8, The American was sup posed to have reached his ultimate de. velopment in 1. . Barnum. Barnum | depended on his own audacious origi nality. The modern showman intrudes into political affairs and seeks to util ize reputations entirely ted to public amusement for his advantage Barnum declared that the people love to be humbugged; but he clung to the showinan unre With the Yankee conception that |idea that even humbugging has its “the way to disarm is to disarm, ethical limitations B : the American delegation has put for ward the suggestion that if it is not The rejoicing which the wets are {practical to work out a pian for lim- the Pennsylvania ts will not he lessened by vesterday Albany. where Gov. Al Smith came out finally in favor of a Statewide referendum on the Volstead law. Results of this referendum will leave no doubt as to sentiment in New York State, and the wets are confident they achieve an overwhelming victory. In this they may be mistaken, New York referendum would watched with even more interest thun was aroused by the Pennsylvania primary likely do over primary rest developments at will on prohibition be The political barometer certainly in dicates coming alcoholic storms, but there are storms and storms, and not all of them are attended by mois ture r——— The traffic director cannot be ex pected to regulate flirting by motor drivers. The sidewalk “masher” could at least be told to move on. The auto. mobile charmer must be restrained from obstructing traffic. but efforts to regulate his sense of personal pro priety become too complicated o be undertaken in the present pressure of police duty. - Philadelphia is more or less inclined to suspend proceedings as the “City of Brotherly Love” on election day New Polar Land. The Noith Pole having been “dash- ed”’ by Bird and Bennett and crossed by Amundsen and sixteen others, fur- ther exploration will have the aim of finding land between the Pole and the shores of Europe. Asia and America. An announced purpose of the Amund- £ was determine if land o the Pole or on a route from the Pole 1o Point Barrow along or near the 155th parallel of longitude. Without doubt the stronger reason for the was determine whether hip could cover the transpolar route from Europe to Amer- to expedi to an ai ica. Nothing extraordinary was seen ar the Pole. The view from the air- the 90th degree north seems ship at t» have been not unlike a view that might be had from an airship above the Arctic Ocean in latitudes «onsid- erably south of the Pole, which have been entered by large num- ber of men. No magnetic storm was met at the Pole to turn the ship and crew topsy-turvy. There was no vor- tex of winds roaring up from the south from the directions of Europe, Asia and America. The sun atsthe 90th degree looked as it does at the 70th degree in mid-May, the only dif. ference being its position in the sky. That is a difference of which astron omers at Washington know as much as an astronomer at the Pole could find out. No monsters of the north rose from the frost to devour the ad- venturers. The frightful spirits of the north that have raved in Scan- dipavian mythology for at least 2,000 years did not set upon the Norgenauts. There was polar ice and one report says that there was thin ice with water between the floes, indicating that it was 3 warm and early Spring in the Arctic. The general manager of the De- troit Arctic expedition has wirelessed Capt. Wilkins at Point Barrow to go ahead with plans to find any land there may be between Alaska and the Pole and that “the hoard of control of the Detroit Arctic expedition agrees with you that the scientific and dis- covery program should be pressed for- jtation of armaments covering the whole world, regional agreements may e successfully planned and brought to consummation. 1t is well established that the prob. land armaments is largely academic so far as the United States is concerned. W 000, or about one man for each 1,000 of the population. the reductions have iem of been as drastic as can be made with any regard for national security. In Europe, however, the situation is vast- Iy different, and it is to help to cure that situation that the United States is now at Geneva, as well as to seek further limitation of naval armaments in which the United States naturally is more keenly interested than in land forces. The great danger the present conference lies in the de ire of some of the attending nations to broaden the scope of arms limita- tion until it takes in everything un der the sun and falls its own to the success of by weight. France, Italy and some of the others insist that the industrial strength of the nations must be reck oned in arriving at any ratio of arms limitation. To such a suggestion the United States and Great Britain will offer strong opposition. Strength in industry may be potential strength in time of war, particularly under the conditions of modern warfare. But co is strength in' agriculture, and at Geneva, the effort should be made to keep the problem of arms limitation as simple as possible. B Geneva cables convey the reminder {hat the world is still more interested in the subject of disarmament than in the boastful reference to war prepara- tion. once considered necessary by va- rious countries as an appeal to na- tional pride. Pennsylvania politicians miss Boies Penrose, who settled many questions in a rather arbitrary fashion, but who prevented politics from asserting it- business. oot Amundsen failed to see the recep- tion committee at Nome. An Arctic explorer cannot be expected to dis- cover everything. = ——— New York to Buenos Aires. ‘With the exploits of Amundsen and Byrd fresh in the public mind par- ticular interest is manifested in the proposed effort to link North and South America via the air route. On May 22, if the flight is carried out as now planned, Bernardo Duggan of Argentina will soar aloft at New York with two companiong and when “finis” is written to the historic trip he hopes not only to have reached Buenos Aires, but to have laid the foundation for a regular schedule between these two citles. Aithough the flight will not be with- out stops the aviators intend to push through as rapidly as possible and to come to earth only when it is neces- sary for refueling or repairs to the plane. If successful the proposed air voyage will be the first direct flight to Buenos Aires from New York. An American aviator, who attempted the feat several years ago, was six months en route and required a replacement of his seaplane before he finished. A regular service between the two Americas presents an alluring picture han Army of 118} selfl as an in(errup!i.cm to general ; Forest fires rage in various parts of the country. Uncle Sam may vet feel the necessity of paging Gifford Pinchot and requesting him to ot his engagements in geperal politics to con- sider economic concerns in which he is a recognized expert. - - int An open polar sea, with no postal or telegraph connection, proves, by a | freak of chance, one of the greatest | publicity centers on earth. = = In German affairs P ident Hinden burg is apparently doing very well although he is admittedly no st | spotlight getter as Mussolini. iEbaiis R The Pennsylvania election enabled Philadelphia to register the fact that Smedley Butler retained no lingering political influence. | The World Court has been early provided with the prospect of an overcrowded docket SRS " SHOOTING STARS. o i, BY PHILANDER JOHNSON very, Merit. Who's goin’ to get elected” Who's goin’ to win the prize? If vou want to be selected, You've got to advertise. he flowers come a-bloomin’ In the garden an’ the wouds. They don’t need any boomin’ strength in population, and every ‘Cause they know they've got the other conceivable asset in a nation ! goods make-up. In the fnterest of success| A Great Purpose Attained. “What is your opinion of the recent investigation” “It's a success,” answered Senator Sorghum. *I find from the press clip- mentioned several thousand times.” Victim of Circumstances. The radio tells me to “stand by." 1 list to the commander And count myself, with many a sigl An innocent bystander. Jud Tunkins says an Arctic explora- tion always looks to him like the dis- covery of a lot of places to keep away from. Untrustworthy. “Do you believe in divorce “Not any more,” answered Miss Cayenne. “Some of the most famous divorces of late have resulted in rec- onciliations.” From Bad to Worse. | “A bad workman,” said Hi Ho, the Chinese philosopher, “is useless in his present occupation. Rather than dis- miss him, a kigd-hearted chief pro- motes him to become a worse task- master.” Descriptive Powers. “In describing the costumes at the reception, what would you say? ‘Next to nothing. “De man dat’s allus talkin’ ‘bout hisself,” said Uncle Eben, “must at least git credit foh always havin’ a kind word foh somebody.” o Overmanned. From the Rutland Herald. Some repair shops have one chanic and six accountants, N The Important Test. From the San Francisco Bulletin, Mills College is said to lead all oth- ers in marriageable graduates. But can they cook? me- atos Endowment. From the Duluth Herald. ' The best philanthropy for the fine ward, modified only by avolding the | With trade constantly increasing and [ ld American stock would be f‘o en- saurge followsd by -Amundsen.” - One interests of the peoples of bothldow a high chair, Y pings that my name was prominently | | BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. We have heard with great satisfac- tion of several persons who are mak- ing scrapbooks of This and That, one even continuing the good work while in Europe. Others are collecting separate pa- pers dealing with literary topics, par- ticularly on‘the poets, while others, according to information we receive from time to time, are putting the ani mal stories in their scrapbooks. Collections such as these are well worth while, not so much for what is collected us for the collector’s per sonal interest. It pays large dividends of content in this life to be interested in some topic enough o make collections of ma terial regarding it. The enthusiasm of the stamp collector is perhaps the Dbest known. Many gather together books upon one tople, such as chess, golf, games in general. detective stories, etc. We have heard of one gentleman who be- lieves he has on his shelves practi- cally every tale of mystery in print. A well known local clergyman has in his church office scores of detective stories of Conan Doyle, Fletcher, Har- tung. Carolyn Wells and other writers of this sort of fiction. The late Daniel Murray of this city, well known colored leader, had filed scores of This and That papers in his magnificent collections, made over many vears and begun when he was first” connected with the Library of Congrass. There is an inexpressible satisfac tion in making collections of articles that interest one, 0 much so that we know of but one quotation that ade quately fits the case. Shukespeare said My crown Nor deck. Nor to b not on my head Indian sto led con <in my heart d with diamonds my crown is % * The writer of this column as a boy collected assiduously from. the col- umns of The Evening Star the mi cellaneous articles dealing with ani- mals. Evidently some one handling the exchanges in those days was fond of every created thing. including b tigers, dogs, cats, birds, snaike sects, bees, butterflies und the mainder of Nature's children Everything that went on all fours flew through the air, or crawled the dust, or swam through the seas was food for his clipping shear and in turn for our home pair scissors. Although he never saw us. and we in turn do not know his name to this in- re- or in day. there was between us a bond of interest, a common love for what we have since called “the people that God forgot,” the creatures that can- not_talk There was scarcely a copy of this paper in those days that did not have one or more items ahout ani- | It was our habit, as we remember, carefully go over the envelopes from time to time and flle between the leaves of the book, at the ap- propriate places, the various clip- Dpings. In this way our “Natural Histor: was supplemented with papers “by various hands,” and contained a lore of animal history utterly beyond the original volume. Unhappily we lost the book, and also our collection, but the memory of both remains with us. - Modern systems ef filing in boxes and drawers and in books have sup- planted to some extent the old scrap- book, but the latter still has thou sands ot adherents. One's serapbook is almost as sacred as one’s diary. (By the way, does any one keep a diary any more?) Two handicaps of scrapbooks still remain —their bulk and the necessity of mussing around with paste. Efforts have been made to surmount both these difficulties, however. WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1926. Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln The Oregon primaries on Friday will wind up the nominating elections for Congress and State officers for the present month. The interest in the Oregon primaries centers about the selection of candidates for the Senate seat now held by Senator Stanfleld, Republican. The Senator is seeking renomination, and. according to re ports from the State, he is likely to be successful. There are eight can didates in the field for the Republican senatorial nomination, including Sen or Stanfield. sition to Senator Stanfleld may be | commanders, grand officers and well divided with so large a field, and | STand crosses. by this division his vietory may be | o0 s made mote easy. His chief opponents | @ 11 1 gelf mateh aue of v b ave Frederick Stefwer and Alfred k. | " 1':';‘,""”{‘"’ “’“f::;"',' ';:,‘V bl Clark, both of whom are putting up | Peins : o b S a strong fight. Steiwer the in :llr'.).”.' l'.‘(-l.l‘;." Tr.u;]m"'od' ”1“” ““h.”',,"' dorsement of the Anti-Saloon League. | jropPed the ball B had onts o Both are actively engaged in the | JCheS 10 ’,"”' e e campaign, while Senator Stanfield has | i, Sowt 1) (L Clpned e Bad T been and is In Washington attending | i equived of him was to face the to his senatorial duties. The Senator | hole and drop the ball over his | has been indorsed by the State Federa- | gjotiqer, and that thers it The main thing is that scrapbooks are still kept and that unknown thou sands still get pleasure and benefit from their keeping. As stated, the chief point of interest is not so much what 1s kept as the very keeping it- self. Running a scrapbook means that you are interested in something. Now there are tens of thousands of persons who actually seem interested in noth- ing! Perhaps they do not “just sit,” but at most they indulge in little that requires either mental or physical effort. Such vegetating persons would be immensely benefited by going in for serupbooks. The columns of this pa- per are full of interesting material. The well known Rambler papers. printed every Sunday for the past 1 ars, are in lundreds of serapbooks. The news colunins, besides an inex haustible fund of information on any one of thousand of topics, still carry much clipped miscellaneous matter, although not as large a quan tity as in past vear: One who has never tried it will be surprised and delighted. we believe, if he will start a collection of clipped material on some topic that interests him. The recently established garden column in The Saturday Star, for in- stance, is filled with interesting and informative material If this material Is cut out every week and properly filed, it will be of aid to every gardener, amateur or otherwise. At the particular moment one may have no need for information of the culture of the dahlia, but next vear—ah, that is another matter: * x * * Sa it goes awith scores of topies, If you have the proper temperament (and. of course, vne has to have it) you can get a great deal more out of vour paper than merely looking over the headlines and reading an article now and then One's favorite magazines are filled | with matter of interest. but they pile !the t mals. Oune it would be a note on beavers and their dam-building exploits, The next it mi prove 1o be halt dozen lions. Whatever it was. the clipping went into one of several envelopes, variously labeled *“Ani- mals. Birds.” etc In those davs we possessed a hand- some copy of Wood's “Natural His- | tory.” which. though it might not have been an extremely accurate work, did manage to inculcate Iove animals and considerable up s0 in the average household that ashmen get them all after awhile. Why not cut out the articles that particularly interest vou and file them away in some convenient manner, so that in future years you may have them for reference An intellectual hobby is as neces: sary as a physical one. Get the s book i ap- habit and realize some perma knowledge of their habits in count- | nent good out of the millions of words less thousands of children If President Coolidge were asked to | Pole name two of his most irksome worries | isn't chances are he'd mention the States Shipping Board and Alaska. In accents that savored a bit of despair, ha discussed both subjects with White House callers vesterday. Not long ago, when it “fired” Admiral Leigh C. Palmer from the presidency of the Emergency Fleet Corporation the Shipping Board nt Mr. Coolidge a document that it described as its “declaration of independence.” In so many words, the board said it was its own boss. was responsible only to the Congress, which created it, and would put up with no interference from the White House. The President cordially and completely disagrees with that view. He holds that any Federal agency charged with executive and administrative duties is manifestly part and parcel of the presidential system and that nothing but chaos and confusion can result from any other conception of its functions. * ok ok * the United 1t's the eternal patronage 1uddle in Alaska that bobs up to plague the President whenever there's a_ ederal job to be filled. Being: inhabited by several thousand Americans, politics is, of course, one of the Territory's favorite pastimes. Whenever a United ates judge. district attorney or mar- hal is to be appointed. parties, fac tions and local bosses clear for action and cause as much trouble at Wash ington as human ingenuity and parti- san rancor are capable of churning up. Mr. Coolidge indicates that unless Alaskan factionists can bury their dif- ferences and unite on Americans resi- dent in the Territory for appoint- ment to high Federal posts, he will take the bull by the horns and fill the places with non-residents from the United States. But the President s by no means persuaded that such a recourse will calm the partisan wa- .ters. Indeed, from everything he can gather ahout Alaskan politics any perfectly good American pitchforked into it finds himself allied to one of the Territorial factions within three months of arrival. * Kk Kk William C. Redfield of New York is probably ready to emblazon “Sic tran- sit gloria mundi!” on his coat-of-arms after a recent experience in Washing- ton. The Secretary of Commerce -in the Wilson cabinet conducted an ac- tive campaign to be elected a director of the United States Chamber of Com- merce at the election held during its annual convention. There were Red- field ballots, Redfield badges and Red- fleld buttons in omnipresent evidence, and a well organized brigade of Red- fleld buttonholers and boosters. Redfield found himself outside the breastworks when the vofes were counted. His friends were confident that Redfield’s prestige as the former chief of the Federal business depart- ment would carry him to vietory with flying colors. EE Chaim Bialik, the Hebrew poet, of Jerusalem, will shortly do a tour of duty in the Library of Congress at Washington. He wants to acquaint himself with the Library’s entire sys- tem, with a view to adopting such of its features as may prove feasible in the new library of the Hebrew na- tional university in Palestine. Before the war the sweet singer of Judea was a publisher of Hebrew literature at Odessa. When the bolsheviks seized power in Russia he was exiled, and has since that time devoted his time and talent to creating the new Jewish national home in Palestine. Israel Schapiro, chief of the Semitic division of the Congressional Library, himself an accomplished Hebrew scholar, will be Bfalik's guide through the Nation's treasure house of books and manu- scripts, s * % ok K Suggestions that Westover, the old family home of the Byrds in Virginia, be bought by Congress and presented to the airplane conqueror-of the North - State anyway, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. betag printed nowada) overlook one little detail that altogether without significance That is that Richard Crane, a former Washingtonian and one-time Ameri can Minister to Czechoslovakia, now owns Westover and lives there. With the aid of his cle Senator William Cabell Bruce of Mary- land, “Dick” Crane dispenses ho pitality in openhanded Southern fash- jon at the well known estate. His riends doubt seriously whether he would be inclined to give up West. over, even in honor of the distin guished sailorman whose name is now being mentioned in connection with the place. What the punsters would do if a “Dickie” Crane were to evaci- ate in favor of a “Dickie” Byrd is al- * wife, a niece of | most 100 terrible to contemplate. But | | Landres, France. *ix K Florence P. Kahn, Republican, the gentlewoman from California, has in troduced in the House of Representa- tives a bill to provide special com pensation for one of the truly great heroes of the World War. He i Sergt. Michael A. Donaldson. “Mike holds 32 decorations for World War fighting service, including the Ameri- can distinguished service cross. The latter was awarded Donaldson “for extraordinary heroism._in action” on October 14, 1918, at Sommerance-ep- The sergeant, who was o member of the 165th Infantry Regiment, rescued six severely wound- ed men from a position exposed to heavy shelling by enemy machine gun fire. necessitating six trips to the top of a hill to carry the wounded men back to a place of safety. His residence at time of enlistment was Haverstraw, N. Y. Representative Kahn's bill, it approved by Congress and signed by the President, would award Sergt. Donaldson the sum of $10,000 and a life pension of $200 a month. * * ok Kk ¥ The National Civic Federation. of which Elihu Root is the honorary president, has had President Cool- idge's recent D. A. R. address on vote- slacking inserted in the Congressional Record. The purpose is to distribute more than 100,000 copies of the Rec- ord in question (May 12) throughout the country, with a view to arousing practical interest in the obligation of suffrage in time for the 1926 congres- sional elections. For the past year the Civic Federation, under the lead- ership of its zealous executive coun- cil chairman, Ralph M. Easley, has been building up a program of politi- cal education. -It not only wants citi- zens to get out and vote on election days, but to enroll in party organiza- tions, participate in the primaries, and even join their respective ward clubs. Roosevelt used to say that politics begins in the mwecinct, and that a. man or woman who doesn't take the trouble to interest himself in precinet politics is starting on the wrong road to good citizenship. (Copyright. 1026.) - Let Off Lightly. From the San Bernardino Sun. Kid McCoy was sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter and 14 years for assault. If he had merely talked xl;‘tmgh he might have been sent up for . o Pedestrians Always. From the Lyncburg News. Man will always walk, declares a scientist, who seems to have given up all hopes of finding parking space close to his office. ] Gang Justice. From the Durham Sun. Speaking of the abolition of capital punishment, the gangmen appear to have taken over the function of the tion of Labor. He has labored hard and long and with much success for the bill liberalizing the civil servic retirement act, increasing the annui- ties which go to the retired civil*sery- ice employes. * K %k On the Democratic side of the fence, Bert k. Haney, former member of the United States Shipping Board, and former Representative Klton Watkins are fighting it out, with the odds apparently in favor of Haney. Watkins fs waging an active cam paign. but the general opinion, as re- flected in reports from. the State, is that Mr. Haney will be of the Democrats. ok ok * The first of the June primaries is tin North Carolina, June 5. Sena Overman, who has the distinetion of looking more like a Senator than any other man in that body today, and who not only looks like a Senator hut acts like one, is up for renomina tion. 1lis success is assured, although he is opposed by Robert R. Reynolds of Asheville, who has made a house to-house canvass in many parts of the State. Senator Overman has been a member of the Senate =0 long that he has become one of the pleasant traditions of that body. He was first elected Senator in 1902, and next to his colleague, the senfor Senator from North Carolina, Mr. Simmons, he has th tor the longest record of continuous service of any of the Democrats Senator Warren of Wyoming, Re- publican, is the only Senatof, by the way, who tops’ Senator Simmons in point of service. Senator Simmons came to the upper house just two | years ahead of Senator Overman The two North Carolina Senators hit it off well together is the recognized political leader in his State and his support goes invariably to Senator Overman when the latter is up for election. Senator Overman has u record of able and industrious service. During the World War he was acting chairman of the Senate judiciary committee and handled much of the important legislation made nec- essary by the war conditions. Republican opposition to Senator Overman is looked upon as little more | than a gesture. An effort was made by the Republicans of the State to get David . Blair, internal revenue com- missioner. to he a candidate and. fail ing him, to win over (‘harles Cannon, a brother-in-law of Mr. Blair and a cotton manufacturer, to make the race next Novembi But Mr. Cannon declined. e Two of (he primary elections set for June have particular interest for the progressive group in the Senate—the Jowa primaries on June 7 and the North Dakota primaries on June 30. In the lowa elections former Senator Brookhart, insurgent Republican. 1s seeking to wrest the Republican no ination from Senator Cummins of JTowa, and in North Dakota Senator Gerald P. Nye, progressive, is pitted against former Gov. L. B. Hanna, the candidate of the “stalwaris,” a nephew of the late Mark Hanna. In both these elections the regular Repulb cans are putting forth their utmost efforts to win, using particulariy the slogan “1'phold the President * o x Senator Nve, who holds his seat to day by of North Dakota to fill temporarily the vacancy caused by the death last Summer of Senator Ladd, has the united support of the progressives of the State, better known as the Non Partisan leaguers. Senator Nve's campaign is based principally on the tenets of the Non-Partisan I.eague. but he is stressing also the World Court issue, the World Court being unpopular in the West. Senator Nye was one of those who voted against American adherence to the court last January. He is attacking also the ad- ministration’s tax reduction bill. With no little ingenuity, Senator Nye has worked out the tax reductions of his constituents in North Dakota as com- pared, for example, 10 the amount of tax reduction which the new law gives to John D. Rockefeller and other wealthy Americans. Using the 1923 tax figures as his basis. he estimates that total income tax reductions for all the people of North Dakota are less than one-twentieth of the reduction granted Mr. Rockefeller. As a matter of fact, the surtax reductions in the new lew, he sa. affect only 10 ta pavers in the State. Senator Nye, Jike others of the progressive group in Congress, insists that the tax re- duction law was principally for the benefit of wealth. Another point of the Nye attack is the foreign war debt settlement. In- deed, the criticism of the present Con- gress by the progressives is to the effect that it has done nothing ex- cept reduce the taxes on wealth and give billions of dollars to the people of foreign nations. This, of course, is vehemently denied by the adminis- tration forces. Senator Nye recently introduced a-resolution providing that the farmers who borrowed money dur- ing the agricultural depression should be permitted the same lenient terms in making their payments as those ac- corded the foreign debtors of the United States. * ok ok K Senator Nye's opponent, former Gov. Hanna, was governor in 1913, when the Non-Partisan l.eague came into existence in North Dakota. The story goes that it was the adminis- tration of Gov. Hanna which so aroused the farmers that they or- ganized the league. The Democrats will choosa one of two nomination in North Dakota, either Halvor Halvorson or C. L. Burchard. The Democratic nomination, how- ever, is of little value in North Da- kota, where the party is much in the minority. o Not only is Senator Nye seeking the nomination for the long term, which begins March 4, 1927, but he is also seeking the election for the short term, which expires March 3, next. Gov. Hanna is his sole opponent in this election. Should Hanna win this election, he would at once come to the Senate, irrespective of the elec- tion which for the long term is to be held in November, although the nominations for the long term take place June 30. The only other senatorial primary which is to be held in June is that in Florida, where Senator Duncan U. Fletcher’'s election by the Democrats 1is a foregone conclusion. * Ok ok ok The prohfbitionists find themsclves confronted with a number of car: Tn a measure, the op- | the selection Senator Simmons . | The Indianap appointment from the Governor | candidates for the senatorial’| ANSWER Q. As a center of population, how is | Philadelphia situated?—C. E. E. A. Half the entire population of the United States lives within a ra- dius of 500 miles. Within a radius of 150 miles of- the city approxi- mately 20,000,000 people live, and about half, of ‘these within a radius of 50 mil | Q. What are the various classes in | the enich Legion of Honor? - J. ™ A re chevaliers, officer penalty, anyhow. Who was right’— A. The rules of golf stipulate that in dropping a ball the plaver must stand erect, us well as face the hole, and drop the ball over his shoulder. The penalty for an infraction of this rule is the loss of the hole in match play and of two strokes in medal play. Q. Where do circuses get thel lions and tigers?—W. R A. Most of them come from me- nageries and zoos, and the chief sup- ply is from stock bred and reared ir captivity in the United States I Q ilow r | weigh?—I C. P | A Various ecolors of outside house | paint have different weights. Brown and green are light in weight. while nd light shades are he The brown and green Weigh 14 pounds per gallon, white lead 1% pounds, red lead 22 pounds. White lead is used for house painting. while red lead is used for metal painting | white Q. Was Cuba ever considered a par of the United States?—G. . S. A. Cuba was not considered a part of the United States. The treaty of Paris, 10th of December, 1898, provided for the temporary occupation of Cubu by the United States. This occupi- tion lasted from the 18th of Julv, 1898, to the 20th of May, 1902. On th ter date, at 12 noun. the Republic Cuba was establish ct known as Mur- k City, the scene Revolutionary Q Was the dist | ray Hill. New Yo of a battle | War?—A N A. A battle was fought on Murray | Hill, September 13, 1776, following | Gen. Howe's victorious attack on the Continentals at Brooklyn, and Wash- ington retreated to Harlem Heights | The rise of ground on the farm of e . And Man of i - To the vounger generation of the present day Alton B. Parker was s the Democratic can- | known simpl | didate so overwhelmingly defeated by Rooseveit in 1904, yet his recent death | disclosed a widespread appreciation « { his legal ability and I characte: as a man., The New York Evening Post (independent) says he was re- garded in his own profession as “one of the foremost lawyers of his day,” a distinction which he preferred 1o po- litical success Speaking of Judge Parker's useful career as a citizen, the Providence Journal (independeni) points out that he “accepted his political overthrow gracefully, re-entered the practice of the law, retained the esteem of a large |circle o professional, political and | ersonal friends and died. s many would like to die, if they must die at all, with scarcely a moment’s var lin the midst of cheerful activit lis News (independenty es that “He had the quiet dig {nity of the true gentleman, was no | seeker of or feeder on publicity, but | rather disposed to shun it. In short | the man was a fine type of American citizenship, devoted to his country and its welfare and always striving 10 set forward the cause of righteousness,” affirms the News P The Albany News (independent Re- publican) traces the State career of Parker: “lle was born in Cortland in 1852, taught school and at 21 was graduated from Albany Law School. He serve@ as surrogate of Ulster County, became a Supreme Court justice, and in 1897 was made chief judge of the Court of Appeals. He Was an able judge and a great law- | obser | | ver He preferred jurisprudence to politics, according to the Syracuse Herald (independent), which says: “Judge Parker made 10 effort to ob- tain the Democratic nomination for President in 1904 and probably would have preferred to stay on the hench. As a politician he was not a success but as a jurist and lawyer he had few peers in his generation’ “Alton B. Parker had the misfor- tune.” explains the Lincoln Star (in- dependent). “to be pitted against Theodore Roosevelt when the latter was at the zenith of his popularity with the American people.” Parker would have “made a strong and able Executive,” the New' York World (in st, as well as in the Bast, in which the prohibitory laws are serlously challenged. Out in Mon- tana there is a movement on foot for a referendum on the liquor question, which put on the ballot in November a measure repealing all the State laws relating to prohibition except that prohibiting the sale of liquor to minors. Similar gevements are un- der way in Missouri, Illinois and Wis- comsin. The New York Democrats in the House have sent a letter to Gov. Al Smith urging him to approve the bill providing for a State-wide vefer- endum on prohibition, signed by 2| of the 22 Democratic Representatives. Only one Democratic member of the House from New York failed to at- tach his name to the letter. He was Meyer Jacobstein of the thir- tyeighth district. The Democrats are hoping that in New York the liquor question will rise to confound the Republicans, who must re elect Senator Wadsworth. this Fall. They figure that the dry Republicans will in part fall away from the support of Senator Wadsworth, who was a strong opponent of the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution when the resolution proposing it was be- fore the Senate. For weeks and months the modifi- cation or repeal of the dry Jaws has been agitated here in Congress by the wets. After long hearinge, the Senate judiciary committee, strongly dry, has thrown into the discard the bills introduced by the wet Senators from New Jersey and Senator Druce of Maryland, aud has reported fayor- ably the bills to strengthen the Vol- stead act, sponsored by Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews, head of the prohibition enforcement. In#iew of the demand for an early end of the present ses- sion of Congress, it is not expected, however, that these bills will pass now. The prohibition fight shifts, therefore, from Washington to the States, where the wets are intent upon gaining additional members of Congress, and the drys will paigns in the Wi every merve to prevent inroads into | potential the present overwhelming dry ma- Jorities in botly houses. 5 have uch does house paint | that about Gen. Robert E. | strain jadd tanning BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Robert Murray gave the British an advantage till Washington, person- ally, rallied the troops with “Take to the cornflelds, men!” Aaron Burr guided the rallied troops to a place of safe Q. What flicker, get ain? - R R ATt the varfation in the gencrators or intermittent somewhere on the line electric and then makes dim, lights bright speed of ound Q. When did American Indians first horses? T Y. Horses were fans prioe known to the advent of the The first horses inland Indians were anish invaders of slex not y the white man in Amer i seen by the those of the ico. A few years later De Soto brought the horse into Florida and westward to the Mississippi, while Coronado, in 1541, introduced it to the Indians of the Great Plains QW Queen was first cailed “Empress of India ¢ A. The title “Empress of India was fir v Queen Victoria of Englan INT6 & bill was intro duced into ment providing fo, his tit'e. 1t met with much oppos tion, and Disracli was zccused of s rendering to the whim of the Queen in this matter In reality, the idea of the was to impress British suzerainty forcibly upon the minds of the native princes How does the tusedo coat get ket. so cal me of @ Sun punty, N. .J name. The the Delawar in which the calied Ptuksit Took seat. Tk term for w He iksiteu eu or. ja ssaie ( the sam from name and s from p° When was Mohammed horr A. The tradi ed's birth is Al date o AD Mohammedanism 610 AD. ha i It 1s though was four Lee tharough. education of p eflicacious weans o prosperity of the Nation of the distinguished Southern L general are none the less true mou {than when ke spoke thew . Our Wash | said, “The ople is promating These mast the words ington Information Burcau is one o’ the greatest agencies for the distribu tion of free information and educa tional data in the world. Its services are free to readers of this paper. A wou rneed to do is to send in your query together with 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Address The Fve- ning Star Information Bureau. Fred- eric Haskin, director, Washinagton D. ¢. 2 e Parker Eulogized as Lawyer High Character Telieves. but dependent Democratics it also concedes that “as a politi cian he lacked the qualities necessary i a with the resourceful Roo: ce Parker's elaim on the admiration and respect of b lows was not_dependent on ine of office.” the World « “Ha stood wkile on the bench that is highest and finest service. in politic cleanest, in his d and nelghbor fo mirable.” While acknowledging t | Parker “lacked brilliance and what | we call personai magnetism d was doomed to failure as a candidate for | electoral office.”” the Worcester Ga zette (independent) feels that “almost | any other man in the country would have suffered defeat in kind. if not lin degree.”” in running against the “magnetic and popular Roosevelt i | November, 1904.” P or all in_ public for that which s Iy life as citizen all that is most ad at Judge The Pittsburgh Gazette-Tines (Re publican) recalls that “while Parker was defeated by the largest plurality given up to that time against Democratic candidate, he gained much of public respect for his inde ques tion ‘The Savannah Press (Demo cratic) also, commenting on the can didate's insistence on a gold plank in the Democratic platform. sayve: “It | was a remarkable example of stead | fastness and courage. It did net | bring victory in November, but it pre- vented the party for all time from returning once more to free silver.' “He will be chiefly remembered in | American politics,” the Asheville | Times (independent Democratic) thinks, “for his outspoken telegram to the Democratic national conven tion (1904), in which he placed hevond any question his dissent from the views of the free silver element of the party.” In the opinion of the Yakima Repub- Ie (Republican), Parker was “an able and a fine citizen, ‘even if he was no noisy enough for the White Tousa' The Seattle Times (independent® Re publican) declares: ““There was no doubt that Judge Parker was of presi dentlal size. Learned lawvyer, upright judge and a stanch patriot though he was, he was not a politiclan. Te would sooner meet defeat than com promise his convictions.” The Char- lotte Observer (Democratic) concludes that he “held safe place s one of the ablest statesmen in the Nation and the country missed a mighty good chance when it turned him down, for all that it gave Roosevelt to the prest dency.” 1 | | pendent stand on the currer i | e Shoe Leather in the Orient. From the Seattle Daily Times. Occidental influences are working a slow but unmistakable change in Oriental habits and customs, regarded for thousands of years as immutable In the matter of footwear, for ex ample. Figures just given out by the Seattle district office of the United States Bureau of Foreign and D mestic Commerce show that in 1 China bought five times as much American sole leather as it imported in any of the five vears immediately preceding the World War. The Philippines imported six times as much. And Japan's imports of the commodity showed a large gain. The Orient millions of feet that have never known the feel of shoe leather. There is food for thought in the fact that the owners of these feet are turning from na ture's foot covering or sandals of straw to the brogans of the Western World. Tt should interest the American farmer who produces the hides, and the American manufacturer who tans the leather. The United States has a surplus of the kind of leather that the Orient is likely to demand in increasing quantity, and can in. crease the production many fold if a market can be found for it in the Orient. s Eventually the growing Oriental de- mand for shoe leather may have an important effect on the tanning in- dustry of the Pacific Coast, which v {to the present time has languished for want of a market. Seattle might well f leather to her list of new industries needed to huild up reciprocal trade with the countries across the Pacific,