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8 THE EVENING ST With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. . June 8, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busincss Offio h St. and Penneyivania Ave, ork Office: 110" East 42nd St. Chicago_Office: Tower Building. European Office: 14 Regeut St., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morn- ing edition. is delivered iera within the city at 60 cents per nionth: only, 45 cents per month: Sunday on per month. Orders may, be senf telephons Main 5000, Collection carrier at the end of cach momth Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and vy Daily_enl Sunday only - All Other States and Canada. Dally and Sunday : yr.$12.00: 1 mo.. $1 Daily onix 130 SK00% 1 mol, Sunday only . 1yr. $4.00:1mo. Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Preas is exclusively eutitled 10 the use for reoublieaticn cf all vews di patehen credited to it or not otherwise ted in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rizhts of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Disgrace to Congress. Whether the House of Representa- tives moves to punish the member of Congress who yesterday assaulted an attorney at a hearing before one of the committees, or allows the matter to rest with a mere reprimand ad- ministered in committee, public opin- ion emphatically condemns the action which yesterday brought to a sensa- tional close the impeachment inquiry in the case of Commissioner Fenning. The scene that followed the hurling of a dangerous missile was utterly | disgraceful. 1t was humiliating to the members of the committee and to all present save perhaps the violent partisans who participated. 1t should not merely pass into the record of proceedings without action which pudiates such conduct as that which Pprecipitated the riot. Apart from the question of the dan- ger’ involved in physical violence, however, there is a profound consid- eration affecting the rights of those summoned for trial or hearing before congressional committees. Public in the presence of reporters for tie press and representatives of the pub- le, a congressional cross-examiner makes a statement which, unjustified by any of the numerous charges for- mulated, or by any testimony adduced previously or by any suggestion ad- vanced in the proceedings, indeed in | the face of testimony quite to the con- trary, implies a criminal breach of trust on the part of the defendant at the bar of the committee. It was the duty of the defendant's counsel immediately to protest and to declare the imputation false. & court of law such a question of imputation would be at once re- buked by the court and the protest of counsel would be sustained. Is there a different code in congressional committee proceedings? Can a con- @ressional examiner or cross.examiner engage in condemnatory imputations with license or with physical violence when his words are challenged? Throughout the whole proceeding, now brought to a close in the present stage, there has been a manifestation of bitter feeling, of unreasoning hos- tility, of unrestrained disregard for the proprieties of judicial or quasi- Judicial inquiry. There has been no Justification for such passionate prej- udice. The committee on the judiclary has charged itself with a grave dut that of ascertaining the facts regard- ing the conduct of a public official. Tt has guaranteed the accused official a fair hearing. It has been flouted by those who have appeared as prosecu. tors, repeatedly offending in their manner and their methods and climax- | ing In a disgraceful display of bar- baric, murderous temper. Surely the committee owes it 1o itself to punish this affront to its own dignity, not to speak of the assault committed by one who was present by its permis- sion as proxy for the prosecutor-in- chief. The House itself should take cognizance and by some action reg- ister its disapproval of the flagrant breach of decorum and of law. oo, Crown princes are very much ad- mired in America in a highly unselfish spirit. They contribute nothing to the tangible welfare of the Nation, but they | promote a spirit of good will, which helps to reconcile people of divers opinions concerning systems of gov- ernment and stimulate them toward an effort at understanding. vt It might be a relief to a large ele- ment of the American public if some means cculd be found to compel Harry Thaw andEvelyn Nesbit to release their grip on the front page of the news. vt To Succor the Franc. American trade is likely to suffer as a result of the drastic program adopted by the French government Jooking toward stabilization of the | franc, but if that purpose is accom- plished in the end the resulting bene- fits will more than offset temporary losses. To put through the program is going to require more courage than has habitually been displayed by post- war French ministries, but the situa- tion is a desperate one and it may be that this time the government means business. It is hoped, Paris dis- patches announce, to avoid the neces- sity of enforcing meatless days, the issuing of bread cards and oth time food restrictions, but it is de- termined to reduce to & minimum im- | ports of every kind that call for cash payments. It is the expectation that a great volume of foodstuffs and raw mate- rlals now derived from American and British sources and calling for the purchase of dollar and sterling ex- change will be obtained from Ger- | many and payment credited to the account of reparations. Hope also is expressed in Paris that considerable supplies can be obtained from Russia and at least part payment credited to the pre-war Russian debt owed in | France, but this probably is more a hope than an expectation. The case with Germany is different. < | certain war loans, in pursuance of a In | war- | Under the Dawes plan Germany has signed up for heavy annual repara- tions payments to France and the [ more of these payments that can be {made in kind the better for German | industry and the lighter the demand |on German cash resources. One of | the difficulties foreseen to successful | working of the Dawes plan was in | transferring large cash payments | without upsetting the equilibrium of | German finances, and a safeguarding | clause provides that when this can- not be done cash payments shall be | held within Germany to the credit ! of the reparations commission. The more Germany can pay in goods the | more cash she will have available for | the purposes of productive industry. The consequences of the mnew French program, if carrled to a logical conclusion, are likely to be far-veaching both economically and politically. Not only will it cause changes in trade channels which prob- ably will endure long after the emer- gency is past, but there is every rea- son to belleve that political results will be of lasting consequence. If the arrangement proves of mutual bene- fit, and it hardly can fail to do so, & better understanding is bound to come between the French and German peo- ples, and a better understanding be- | tween France and Germany would be {one of the largest imaginable contri- | butions to the future peace of the world. ——— b Spot-Cash Federal Financing. With the United States Treasury meeting its next-due obligations out of current revenues, the extraordinary | spectacle is presented of a govern- | ment liquidating its war debts without | a refunding process within eight years | of the close of the emergency. On the | 15th of this month short-term securi- | ties to the amount of $333,000,000 will fall due. These securities were issued to provide funds for the discharge of policy that has been in practice for several years. Had the Treasury not been in sufficlent funds from current revenues, it would have been neces- |sary to call for another short-term loan, perhaps in a smaller amount | than the sum to be patd on the 15th. | However, it is now possible to pay | every one of these notes with interest | next Tuesday out of the regular in- | come. This does not mean, of course, | that the debt-paying will henceforth | be accomplished without new loans. | It will probably be necessary from | time to time to readjust the debt, per- | haps at smaller rates of interest, as | large obligations fall due. But again it is probable that, short of an ex- | traordinary reduction in revenue, the | Treasury will be able from time to [tlme to liquidate without borrowing again. | A double gain is effected whenever these loans are paid out of current revenues. Interest is saved {n large |amounts. Likewise the total of the | future obligations is reduced. In the | case of the present loan of $333,000,- 1 000 the interest for a year is $13,320,- | | 000 at 4 per cent. Had Secretary Mel- | lon borrowed the $333,000,000 at 4 per | | cent for a year the Treasury would | | have had to pay that $13,320,000 in | |addition to the principal. By paying | {out of the current revenues that sum | is saved, to be applied, it may be, to | future liquidations. : This spectacle of liquidation out of current revenues will appeal to every | person in the United States with busi- | ness experience. There may be some who will feel that this ability to pay | | cash for maturing notes might be bet- ! ter applied to the end of further tax reduction. But that is a short-sighted | view. To tho extent that the Treas- !ury 1s able to care for these refunding sues out of current revenues the | period of normal taxation is advanced. | The $333,000,000 that will be spent for debt reduction next week out of cur- rent assets is an investment in tax | reduction in the near future. | ——— The E Street Car Tracks. The Public Utilities Commission has decided against the petition of E street business men for the removal of the car tracks from that street in conjunction with the widening of the thoroughfare., It holds that these tracks are still of sufficient use for re- routing in hours of congestion and in emergencies to justify their retention. ‘With the widening of the street they will be of less disadvantage than they have been heretofore. It is, however, desirable for the commission to study this question of possibly superfluous tracks to keep to a minimum all rail lines that are not needed for the usual operation of the street cars. Had the street in question not been widened it is possible that the disadvantage of the obstruction to traffic and to busi- ness would have outweighed the con- sideration of valuable use in emer- gency or in rush-hour congestion. | Naturally street railway companies |are reluctant to yield established | routes, but the commission must con- | sider the public interests ahead of tHose of the transportation companies. ——————.—— Plans for restoring the glories of ancient Rome may yet compel Musso- | lini to decide whether he will present himself to his public as a dictator or |a realtor. ————— Missed Connection: Goldstrom has failed in his effort to break the globe-circling record held since 1913 by John Henry Mears of approximately thirty-five days. Run- |ning more than two days ahead of | schedule, Goldstrom was forced to give {up his hurried trip at Chita, Siberia, when Japanese plunes that were to rush him to Yokohama failed to ap- pear. The President Madison, the liner which the world circler was trying to catch in order to reach the western part of the United States in time to break the record, sailed yes- terday without him, and with it went all prospects of a new record. Goldstrom had. covered approxi- mately one-half of the earth’s surface {in two weeks. He had nearly three | weeks in which to complete the trip. Arrangements had been made for an |at a fast clip through Manchuria to Yokohama, as the entire success of the | expedition depended on catching the | Pregdent Madison, but evidently all plans went awry and the latest dis- Iwill wish to succeed himself. airplane or special train to carry him’| THE EVENIN patches place him at Chita in a d consolate frame of mind. Thus an interesting attempt to test the progress of transportation since Mears made his record has failed. It seems peculiar that in thirteen years transportation has not made strides great enough to allow a considerable shortening of the time required for a round-the-world trip, but even with the advent of the alrplane there are still certain sections that must be traveled in the same leisurely manner as a decade ago. Mears’ record is therefore still in- tact, but with a little better luck Gold- strom might have been the man to set a new mark. He has one consolation, however, in that the rest of the trip will be one of pleasure and he will have no more schedules to meet. Te any traveler this is a rellef, and Gold- strom will probably take the fullest advantage of it. —————————— Gasoline at Glentornan. The tiny and secluded village of Glentornan of Donegal, in the Emer- ald Isle, has just celebrated the ap- pearance of the first automobile in its midst. In honor of the occasion the residents are sald to have hoisted flags and in other wavs demeaned themselves exuberantly. Automobiles are all very well, but how about the Little People? They positively do not like them. And fewer and fewer are becoming the spots in Ireland where there is no lingering trace of gasoline to fairy nostrils, or cross-hatched tracks in the dirt road or the green turf. Horses are well enough, and don- keys, of course. The Little People have been used to them since the be- ginning. In fact, ‘like the witches, they find hairs from the tail or mane of a horse of a certain color efficacious in the spells with which they punish those who affront them, while thg wee folk have been known, on good authority, to borrow a nag and ride it all night long on their own devices. But a motor car? The wee Little People hate them, as they do cities or towns, and it is stated on good author- ity that once a fairy “rath” or danc- ing place has been visited by a car- load of sightsecrs, that green ring is never more used. These folk love and cling to such little back-wash places as Glentornan. If on rare occasions they mischievously abused the inhabi- tants, on the whole their frequent presence did more harm than good. No country has as many fairies as Erin, or ones so sympathetic with humans. Glentornan can pat itself on the back that it is now on the map, but it would seem that it has lost some- thing far more precious. At the pres- ent rate of progress it will not be long until all the tribe must stay,| every night in the v within the fastnesses of the great purple moun- tain Slievena-mon, and never more, headed by their redoubtable monarch Brian Connor, go traipsing through the four kingdoms of Ireland. — »aor—s. It is assumed that Gov. AL Smith The | present enjoyment and hope for the future the office has so far afforded leaves no intelligent excuse for any desire to relinquish it. [ It he can personally boss the enormous and powerful organization which now operates under his name, Henry Ford is a man indeed. BENp In all fairness the post office should give more periodicals a chance at the advertising which results from exclu sion from the malls. . Plans to establish a “Riviera” on the Florida Coast have fallen through. Means for absorbing easy money will still be found. —— et Towa threatens to become a politi- cal battleground whose fame will rival even that of Ohio. . e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Bloodless Clash. ‘We hoped for the battle that's blood- less. We studied for many a day To make an oration in argumentation Replace man'’s original fray. Two orators stood in contention And showed how the trick may be done. They started no duel—for that would be cruel— Yet popular plaudits they won. ‘We earnestly heed prohibition. About propaganda we think. One hurled, scorning slaughter, tumbler of water, And one hurled a bottle of ink. And so, while some things we're de- ploring As arguments queer fade away, To Coue we're debtor. We're all get- ting better And better and better, each day. Tmpetus. “What became of that investigation you started?” “It went too strong,” answered Sen- ator Sorghum. ‘‘People wanted to in- vestigate everybody connected with it, including myself.’ Service. The mocking bird's a friend we prize. He is a vocal star. The poor old buzzard, coarse, but wise, Is usefuler, by far! a Jud Tunkins says a man ought to discuss all his business with his wife 80 as to divide the responsibility when something goes wrong. Apparel. “Do you approve of the clothes women are wearing?"” “‘Entirely,” answered Miss Cayenne. “The only doubt in my mind relates to the clothes we have dispensed with.” Divided Responsibilities. The politician wears a smile. His task he is not shirking. He speaks a piece in public while We common folks are Wworking. “Shootin’ crap,” said Uncle Eben, “don’t seem sinful when you's in a winnin’ streak. But it's gineter ap- pear powerful wicked when you lose. I | \ | | { sound 3 1 STAR. WASHIN( TO. TUESDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Psychoanalysts, learned gentlemen with delving complexes, ought to in- vestigate the drawings made by those who walt for “Central” to connect them with the right party. Any office, particularly any tele- phone booth, would furnish them with a mass of material, out of which they might deduce any amount of horrible facts about the lives and desires of the impromptu artists. Recently we made an office tour and gathered up an even dozen speci- mens of what men and women draw, pencil in hand, while hopefully wait- ing for the operator to put through thelr call. 1f we were a psychoanalyst—which, let us hasten to say, we are not—we might be able to divert you today with character readings showing that John Smith, when he drew that conglomera- tion of mingled ladders and cubes, was suffering with a desire to wreck half the city. If we had the psychoanalysis “bug” —which, let us again hurry to de- clare, we have not—if we had, how- ever, we would solemnly assert that Simpleton Smith, when he conceived this crazy-quilt of lines and circles, was revealing his penchant for hot- dog sandwich As matters stand, we can offer, to our readers today only a plain account of what we found on the 12 sheets of paper we casually picked up. The writings thereon ranged all the way from the simple word “‘rhubarb” to varfous naw The designs, however, we were interested in. * oK K % Tlow does it come about, for in- stance, that drawing a five-pointed star with five strokes of the pencil seems to be the favorite occupation of those who walt on telephones? Some persons achieve marvelous dexterity in drawing these stars, so much so that one, looking at the re- sult, would swear it is fmpossible to execute one with so few strokes of the pencil. We have a handsome specimen of this star-stuff, howe 46 times over that possible. This unknown gentleman ranged his figures in neat rows, across the page, 10 to begin with, the asterolds growing larger and larger as the bot- tom of the page was teached, until those at the bottom were veritable comets. Evidently most of the astral artists begin the stroke of the pencil at the left, the point of the whole thing being that one is not to lift the pencil from paper until the design is finished ©One stroke to the right establishes the left and right points of the star design; another movement of the pen cfl downward, and the lower left point is put on the map; a sweeping line upward, and the top is established; another stralght downward, and the lower right is fixed; and last, but not least, upward to the left, and the star is completed. There seems to be an inexpressible intellectual satisfaction in drawing these designs, so much so that, once started, it becomes almost a sort of vice, n disease, from which only the of the operator can awaken were what the thing one. It is conceivable that if “Central” er, which proves | 1s | would ¢ of the “star complex” might go on multipiying his design until eternit trump, when St. Peter would “Ifello, hello, is that you?" * % k k Others find peculiar pleasure, evi- dently, in surrounding the penciled number they are calling with an intri cate series of lines, woven and inter woven, until no spider in the world could hope 1o equal them. Spiders, as a matter of fact, work with a real system in_their ugly looking heads. Spiders of one species will make exactly the same namber of lines this way and the same number that. One family of spiders, for insta uses 42 lines as the main found for its web, while the members another group achieve their am tions with a spare (We he this explained ver X other night over radio, so we know it must be right.) Those waiting on the telephone, howev not o limited by i ited instificts, but use as many lir they please. Only their invention and the size of the sheet of paper limits ther We have one design that fiils the sheet entirely, s no doubt the gentleman had to st around another when he finally got his ¢ through and started to jot_down wha the party on the other end of the line had to tell him Parties on the other end of the line, by the way, are forever telling one something to jot down. One instin / takes up paper and pencil wher calling a number in order that he ma be prepared. And Is it not a nuisanc ® ok Here is 2 neat checkerboard pattern cross design that betrays ality. This much, . uce without strz credulity of our readers. Here, on two sheets of paper found widely geparated points, we dis the same emblem a circle »d by two palrs of lines at | at cover The writing on this sheet was sepa rated into paragraphs by lines headed with arrow marks at each end and transfixed at the center by a short, fat_arrow heading up and down Here is a series of rapid marks which look like the signature of an eminent gen tleman we know. On this sheet some one has drawn a square-headed man, with squares for eveballs, circles for eyes, an inve: triangle for a nose and an elaborate and extensive parallelogram for a mouth. Probably this is a portrait of Prof. Matthew Matics himsel Here is the alphabet, by neatly grouped by threes, diers, A, B and ¢ walkir followed by D, E s are embellished w nount of continuous circles resembling spri Blacked figures, which must be fill our mext sheet. On the re- p intic array of n with sand. Conan Doyle or A. Poe m tell vou what these designs ou mean, but we have no such deduc mind. We merely place the pictures before you and let you draw your own pencil eorge, ke together, These b conclusions. BACKGROUND OF EVENT BY PAUL V. COLLINS. is aflame with revolution The news of rebellion in southeastern Poland—where the Ukrainians are numerous—was not alarming, for the Ukrainians are not Poles by race and are sald to he bolshevik in sympathy. They have never accepted the unification of the Poland and unrest. Polish Republic and have agitated at | autonomy if opportunity for independent into an every not separation country ‘What makes their present revolt especially significant is the report that, simultaneously with it. German troops are crossing the Polish corri- dor from west to east Prussia with- out the consent of the Polish govern- ! ment to the invasion of its territor This raises the question as to how far Germans are conspiring with Ukrainian bolsheviks to upset the Pilsudski dictatorship or even to break up the Polish Republic. Ger- many_has recently with Russia. Poland has had to face enmity from both her old partitioners —Russia on the east and Prussis on the west, north and east. Austria- Hungary on the south. though help less, is supposed to have experienced no changa of heart. * x % % . The poet Campbell, a century ego, when Poland lay bleeding at the feet of her partitioners—Russia, Prussia and Austria—was_optimistic enough to declare, “She, like the eagle, will renew her age,” and the admirers of her brave struggle through the cen- tury and a half of imperial persecu- tion and wrong have hoped that her revival, through the peace of the World War, would be lasting and un- mg‘;:.edl’nsudskl a few days ago over- turned the presidency and declared that Parliament had demonstrated its incompetency and must be disposed of. He refused his own election to the presidency. because the constitu- tion does not give sufficient power to that office. Putting into office a man without any political _experience whom he could control, Gen. Pilsudski retained command of the army. The Sejm (or Parliament) will be sus- pended until Fall, and in the mean- while Pilsudski and his President, gulded by an extra constitutional “Council of Patriots” and backed by the army, will rule the country. "That is the setting into which now comes the open rebellion of the Ukrainian Natfonals in south !olan and the invasion by the Germans across the northern corridor. * kK K One of the famous ‘“IFourteen points” of President ‘Wilson was, “Point 13: Poland, to include indl:s- putably Polish population. and have free and secure access to the sea, and to have her independence and integ- rity guaranteed by international covenant.” In the Peace Treaty was Article 93, ! by which Poland agreed to protect the interests of ,the inhabitants of Poland who differed from the majority of Poland in race, language or reli- glon.” Thus the minority was pro- tected from persecution by the government, similar to that of the century or more of persecution which the Poles had suffered by their con- querors, the Prussians, the Russians and -Austrians. P ften"the fall of the Czar, the Bol- shevik government of Russia indorsed President Wilson’s declaration as to the Poles, saying: “In the name of the higher principles of equity, it (Russia) has removed the chains which weighed upon the Polish people.” Thus ended Poland’s servitude which had endured since 1772, when Catherine II began the partitioning, which Prussia and Austria continued until they had fully absorbed her life and territory. * ok koK 1t is customary to refer to the parti- tion of Poland as wanton crime of tyrannical power, with no blame upon the victim of rapacious grabbers of her territory. It is also assumed that the revived Pcland is the same as historic Poland of the partition. Both pictures are inaccurate. The present Poland does not fit made a treaty | President Wils idea “to indisputably Polish populati includes also 10,000,000 non-Foles in its total of 30,000,000 population. Even when Poland was one of the greate powers in Europe. its population was never homogeneous. The nobles were rich and powertul, while the peasants were serfs, and there was no middle class t was Polish. The tr ng between the nobles and serfs was done mostly by Jew: the two ex tremes of the Poli: ver came to_know each othe When Russia began to plot to en {croach upon Polish liberty., Poland | had lost all her former virility and greatness. Only 50 per cent of her population, even then, were Poles, a third were Ukrainfans and Whit Russians, and the rest were Germans Jews. Lithuanians, Letts, Armenians and Tartars. Poland then was a re public in name, but all rights and privileges belonged only to the forme |nobles. Two centuries earlier, the Republic of Poland had been | greatest republic since the days of Rome, and not until the American Revolution was there another that ould compare with it But she sank into lethargy and un edness foy, national defense, for slaved peasants cared nothing for patriotism. The powers, her neigh- bors, made pretense that she was “anarchical” and must ken in hand for the peace of Europe. It is openly charged by Poles that today there is an organized bolshevik effort to repeat histor: ¥ renewing “anarchy” and justifying intervention by her old enemies. Her hope lies in finding a “'stronz man"—perhaps Pil- sudski—who will arouse patriotism and organize her forc * X * x Since the three main parts of his toric Poland passed into the hands of separate conquerors, and there re’ mained under different policies pression so long, it is natural that these parts—although still Polish— should take on the effect of their periences. The result was the creation of three kinds of Poles. Russia_was cruel in her tyranny. All Polish schools were Russianized, and to speak a word of Polish was a crime punishable with prison or death. The terrorizing of the regime of Mura- viev, the hangman, still sends shud- ders to Poles. Prussia adopted the policy of flood- ing Poland with Prussian colonists, and systematically robbing the nati As late as 1908 she adopted a law giv- Ing the Prussian governor in Poland the power to expropriate (rob) any Polish landowner of his acres at the governor's arbitrary will. Austria was more humane or politic. She gave Galicia—her slice of par- titioned Poland—more autonomy. The result was that into Galicia flocked the educated Poles and those trained in government and administration. So Galicia (now divided into Tarnopol, Stanislowow, Lwow and Krakow) is in- habited by alert Poles and by non- Poles who are ready to declare their wills as to government. Russian Poles who people eastern Poland. north of Tarnopol, are more illiterate, backward in economics and socially and politically inexperienced, |but, aside from the 30 per cent il- literates, they are devoted to literature and art. The Prussian Poles of Poznan and Pomorze (of the corridor) are methodi cal, unsentimental, illiterate, but me- chanically efficient and orderly. In the last 30 years the Poznanian and Po- morzian_ (i.e, Pomeranian) peasants have been the mainstay of the Polish cause of patriotism. b Eighty-two per cent of ethnic Po- land has been under the mastery of Russia since 1772, 10 per cent under Austria and 8 per cent under Prus- sia since 1793 and 1796, respectively. Taken as a whole, modern Poland is rated by historia as_potentially stronger than old Poland ever was, aside from her reliance upon pledge of the League of Nations and the great powers—France, England and Italy especially—to protect her. (Copyright. 1926, by Paul V. Collins.) include e I » dead the unhappy victin | only to be awakened by the last loud | ery, | for 2 | political pz for all the world | d | hour: “tor it | the | of sup- | me‘ JUNE 8, 1926. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM .G M. AND HAMILTON. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1 For the second time Mr. moment possesses both the substance d form of drama itself. Such period nters invariably upon tinet and exclustve question, as drama also is |confined to its chq {case the political theme, definite content, in aim and in development projects contending human forces | drawn up on opposite sides of the | matter at issue. These are the :uc tors in the pi: e outcome o struggle stand: the his is the ¢ Around b tches the s ated events, determining nd quality of the ac the tion itsel “'he purpose of th atizing National politics is to repeople | political history with living men, to revitalize old fssues to fresh service, to bring into closer and more influen n separated parts of a single of political endeavor, It is “to reate, if possible, a heroie, pic- |turesque’and lusty age; to x the men of the s vings flesh and blood; to stage the drama of a day when' real giants trod the board: * K k¥ Battles of tie Jackson first prese historfan, in the role of ymaker. A vivid perform which certain _determin- Y history of in the very thor in dram o n the Jackso 1 « fact step o but ihe {into eI {1t shadov; It is her comes 5o mi pr edu cle gre: m ctical polit ition means r and pass iment by part plin E ay, | many {tself. first time, gener . | into ression- of service upon 7 Jquence. Party advocated passionate The conventi cabi i a marvel of that has been from the Jackson period to e STy n of rewa at of vine period o political ir | sedulously the borr ar An fe tii tive reps from nd then set- al r political history but t the foundatfon of c and in the last two years he Wilson adm To chting fi to the political | to the achievements in of stable republican gove and to the huge background of y supply. a ger anse ment, of same method and achieves rtfonately greater effect out of 1 more epic theme. In the sented by these two, de- s horn. The vital fssue Republic separate s of government, each | sought with his utmost of power to | pattern the new Republic upon bi | own ges Hundreds of important 1d notable men people this great Me hose n; proportioned the " Heroic drama | dominate the movement throughout. t the he others thefr own to the true letter. It is such sense of r ortion constantly operating that gives the keen contact, the driving effect, the portraiture of drama itself |as against the less vivid effect of ain record. * ok ok % The average of us having stu our history lessons are more or less | familiar with the outer layers of fact ing upon the beginnings of gov- |ernment in the United States. Stu- dents quite above the average know a deal besldes concerning the theories of government evolved by the fathers for a new and hitherto untried scheme |of government. To both classes, as well as to the even deeper student tof history, “Jefferson and Hamilton’ will come’ as a revelation of reality |and immediacy of effect. This book {1s life itself. "Men possessed of per- | sonality, character, temperament and | special turn of idiosyncrasy come and |go here—actively, natur convine- |ingly. Even more convincing than the ‘statesmen under our eves, since here the hidden springs of individual are revealed, the laid-out plans | of procedure are made plain—elements | these that lie hidden in those working | politically in the flesh tod: Claude Bowers is a surpassing ple- |ture maker and this art he applies | here to the re-creation of an epochal ! day and of the men who filled it. His | backgrounds are life itself—the back- ground of New York and of Philadel- phia, each the seat of government for a time. These settings are not drawn for picturesque effect alone. They are a part of the political thought of the time, separating the people into the two great classes reflected in the Federalist group on the one hand and the two great classes reflected on the other. Rompance itself never had a | better subjéct than Alexander Hamil- ton. Here, however, he is presented as the fiery and flaming advocate of monarchical ideas to be engrafted upon the new On the other hand is the les: ting Jefferson, |ardent for the partaking of all the people in the affairs of the young na- tion. It is by the activities of these two, opposing each other in warfare open and secret, that the moving period of history walks befcre us. Illuminating as a_chapter of our own political history, fascinating as a pag- eant, does the matter open up. Another cause of its immediacy of effect is that that day is so exactly like our {own. Here are the same cries against monopoly, against the reactionary, against property. And here the same arguments for the living wage, for fair dealing toward the monevless man. Indeed. the atmosphere of the | period is so like that of our own day |its political shibboleths are £o mu |the same, its political objectives are |at heart so similar, that one might be ireading an eloquent and masterly sur- | vey of certain phases of the present. | The two protagonists, however, tower | mightily with 1o one else approaching them, either in that day or in this one. Mr. Bowers is an intellectually just man. One is sure of that. There is no doubt that he has used his historic material fairly, never skimping his text on the one hand nor enlarging it on the other. But—it is clear that his inherent love of democracy has slipped into his consideration of the great Democrat. Jefferson, a tender re- gard that takes a bit of a rest while he is doing justice to the figure and public service of Alexander Hamilton. A superb study, nevertheless. Twice now are readers in debt to Ciaude G. | ¢ | Band make a con et |11 i Band Bowers ! per | demonstrates that a political period of sort of clothing? en subject. In this ! < in | cover] ments f the | &3 come of the [ sap ol the pine tr HeXEt atepAn | vou nd | spir ANSWERS TO BY FREDERIC Will the United States Marine rt tour this Q i the Marine 4 for the vember 20, A concert tour by has been authoriz od September 20 to N 1926, [ L wear shoes or some | W.oWw authentic record aim that foo ing or orna Q. id man fir ¢ A. There is no l06_manufacture ng antedates ¢ M Q. What is turpentine’ s A. Turpentire, in the form known | “gum spiri s distilled from the e, the residue bein “Wood turpentine” or “wood is distilled from te pin wood. Q. Was John I the Amer! i A. The ¢ rank and pay Americ Y known as held in the Swedi Q. When w in this count icsson an officer in D, - refused the admiral in the wished 1o be on,” a rank s the first the: (ARG 716 in Williamsl a site facing v and s still known Green, a4 narrow p: from Duke of Gl in colonial & roval governor Q. How long does it t. pole to become a frog?- A. The Lureau that the len; a tadpole Lo become depends en 1 the e ull cars from 5 1cester Ve, extend palace, ré you sure that sugar cane is used for rov for cattle Q ne s never used dry for g the plant te which YOu 1y ised extensively, espe- ¢ in the Middle West. Cane sorzhum different plant from sugar c: Q ha ne. e some information Rock, in Morro Bay Please Morro known as Bl Morro in! Calffornia s 576 feet from the ater. Its base covers 40 acres It The rock is o uablo buildin extensively qua posed of trachyte, material, which hat s the W. B. W. ing mean. tlon of substances ha grea of coheslon to sol bing each other, t reduce friction. cation is that th pose an almost f tween the surfices to wk applied. The requireme lubricant, therefore, internal cohesion to resist being squeez the pressure. principle of lubri the appl Q. When and here was adopted as the electrical m . N A 'he watt was adopted by Congress, approved July 12, 1 fining the legal units of electrical meagure in the United States, follow-| Ferguson-Moody Wash | QUESTIONS J.H recor 1 ng n Q John Bruce ) this day ar Ministeria rd Q Ger D ¥ moved to n from The Informat di Inclose postage. Bet Again Turns Spotlight on Texas “Ma” Feri Attorney General Moody, h opponent in her fight 1o be re governor, has turned the ht ‘on Texas politics The next Governor of very likely be the Hon. Barr of Dallas, lieutenant governor, dicts the Houston Chronicle pendent), which believes > “may be called upon to serve out unexpired term of Gov. Mirlam Fe guson, who has agreed to resign the event that Dan Moody by one vote in the July Dan has accepted the continues the Chronicle, ing to place his re torney general on the hook if beater 25,000 votes in the prima W usual turn of politic leaves the lieutenant governor in wha must be a state of high expectancy, and serves again (o mas the int portance of selecting the right man tor lieutenant governor.” % Referring to James Ferguson's | opening speech at Suiphur Springs in the campaign “for the renowination | of himself and his wife as governor the Fort Worth relegrain | (independent Democratic) declares | he spoke for two hours, and a. careful reading of his entire speech does 1ot disclose one valid reason why his wife should be returned to office in | name, and himself in fact, nor a sin- | gle reason against the nomination of | Dan Moody. The entire speech,” | says the Star-Telegram, “was one of | violent abuse, and Moody was the | sole and only object of that abuse.’ * kK The challenge appears to the Abi- | 1 lene Reporier (independent) | “typically Fergusonian defi, for Jim | has done little things like that many | times in his stormy career. The only new feature,” the Reporter adds, * that this time the dare was called He didn’t get away with it this time. Dan flung it right back at him. We | predict that we will hear very little more about the dare and its accept- ance from here on out. It will just naturally play out, because Di prompt acceptance took all the force out of Jim's dare.’ s to the public, the Worc Telegram (Republican) think hard to see what Texas will gain by the willingness of these two oftice- | holders to refrain from servi: the present terms in full” and “that it can be assumed that neither Mrs. | Ferguson nor )&r. Moody has any settled and burning convictions about the {1l effects of ‘lame duck’ rule in State governments There are differences of opinion to whether the wager is fav to one candidate or the other. It is to_be seen,” remarks.the Charles- | ton Dally Mail (independent Repub-| lican), “that ‘Ma’ generously gives her opponent the favor of the odds. | Thus she qualifies before the Texas | voter as a ‘good sport’ and as of a | chivalrous nature. Perhaps, also, in | the nature of the challenge lur a little campaign material; an appeal | to the lighter and frivolous side, the sporting element.” In the opinion of the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times (Repub- lican), however, while “it may appear to be a sporting proposal, Mrs. Fer- guson retains the better of it for herself, though ostensibly she gives it to Moody. The attorney general has been a constant sounce of trouble | to the governor. It is not strange | that she should desire to be freed | from his attack. Were Mrs. Fergu- son to lose, under the conditions of her proposal she would sacrifice a few months of office, but Moody would not gain the governorship any soon- er because of that. Were Moody to lose he would sacrifice a few months of office, but in addition the gover- nor would gain freedom from his of- ficial assaults. Thus ‘Ma’ is bidding to gain more than she would lose.” e R “Mr. Moody would bigger man morally,” A % have been a declares the | ment | sion “He wonld red on them by the approved by the Pl (independent Demo: Advance find little s “This Ic of the Wir Republi the = of cand ing the situa tion in_ Texa worse than anything els fication.” The Louisvil ocratic) also fee \ lic office displa of the respc and be deem the public ma afar rable hit w 1a; Lone nd to fr " people in unanimity. THINK IT OVE How Health Education Tm- proves Children, By William Mather Leuwi. education. basis of national al the ation et clency. The conservation of health @ great economic problem challenging the best thought. With the high ten of present-day activities, with the development of muititudinous time and labor saving devices, whole some exeretve In connection with the day’s work is greatly restricted. In creasing demands are beirg made upon the stamina of the ruce. The school which gives sharp attention to the physical well heing of its pupils is adding tremendousiy to their chances of success. The study ¢ chief element Ith edu Learning the bones of the body does not cure rickets. Nor ] where the inter of the school cen- ter on the training of the 11 strongest boys for specialized sport, while a thousand shivering children sit on the bleachers and cheer, raise the average* of physical efficie The school physician, the nurse, the playground direc the parents working together to re- claim the subnormal, the weak, the delicate—that is the combination which will produce results. Many an anemic, pale and dull child bent over his book at some school desi today be saved from life of invalidism and dependency. e total roll of our human waste material in sanatoria and ! aldy and county institutions is Let us see to it that the nu our children are not added to the Lst. (Copyrizht. 1026.) hzy is not the school or and