Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1926, Page 5

PROBE HAY LOVER PRVARY EXPENSE Publicity Given Money Spent in Pennsylvania May De- velop Sentiment. DY DAVID LAWRENCE. The public may be shocked to learn that nearly 00,000 was_spent in Pennsyl by all the candidates for 1he Republi States S - and Governor—but ihe politicians here ave not surprised. “The only surprise is the candor and frankn of the witnesses. And while it is too early to assess all the effects of the revelation. it can be said date that a distinet > has been fulfilled by the investigation. For the high cost of’ modern elec tions has been too little realized by the public. And it would not be displeasing to most of the political folks here if one of the results of the investigation was to bring about ‘a complete change of mind on the part of many people tow d the primary election system. 17 s are expensi cost anyway, but the to public offic for the lust Eaws Got Around. It Is no exazperation to say &s conpared with the mon n e fight., wtionately large other States of of the Stutes re. campaign ex- circumvented e Union quiring publicity penditires are e And were it not witnesses {rem Pel told abeut the Senate investis have had no whatever terrogate them about strictly State tters. The Supreme Court hax i that Congress cannot pass laws ulating campaisn expenditures in v clections, even though a 5 ator i running for 1 ked ation It is a weil known fact amons ticians that the dual sys ernment in America permits 3 abu in the fi { political campaigns. The national politi pecially in pres mpaizn; nization ney jut it is difficult to draw the the work done for a i state office and a candidate for In this y a president candidate may actually have had spent in his behall in the entire Nation not more than three or four million dollars, while in the sevel tates there may have been as fteen to twenty million do. nded which aided the national ticket Battle Was in State. Just the effect in 3 battle, as revealed by the v was for control of the State zovern ment at Harrisburz. Joseph i Grundy, president of the Pennsylv: Manufacturers’ Association, underwrote mnearly $500,000 of reverse proc as governor, and in_the nominate Georze W, Senator. frankly admitted th not much _interested in Mr. Pepper but wanted to make sure that a gov- ernor elected whose attitude on the taxation of corporations would not be disadvantageous. Conversely, a great many business men sup. ported Representative Vare's candi dacy for United States Senator be- cause they believed he might develop into a Penrose, who Harrisburg and Washington combined 80 far as Pennsylvania intere concerned. Until the several States make laws forbidding the pavment of watchers at the polls and otherwise repressing extravagance in campaign expendi- the experience in Pennsylvania ar will continue to be encoun- in other States. The totals be lower, but the proportion ganized by friends of the candidates, and no accounting is usually insisted upon. The amount spent by the can- didate himself and the committee over which he has jurisdiction cannot be a drop in the bucket so far as the total actually spent in u campaign. Might Refuse Seat. The Senate can, if it chooses. re- fuse a seat to any one who spends arge sum of money in either a primary or a final election, but usu Iy this is 2ttempted only when there evidence of fraud. Is the selection ¢ watchers at the polls at §10 a da; a fraud, especially if 40 or 50 thou- sand watchers are employed? Until now the employment of watchers has not been frowned upon and has been considered legitimate. Also the pri- mary system has brought in_many other forms of expenditure. Should, therefore, the primary system be abolished? Pennsylvania is in a sense like the Southern States. The pri- mary is the real election, for a Re- pubifcan nomination is equivalent to election in the Keystone State, just as a Democratic nomination in the South is usually ratified in the Au- tumn election. The Senate is beginning to talk about finding a way to limit expendi- tures, and there will be agitation to change the primary system ot ole(;» tion, but for the immediuate future it is pardly probable that the investi- gation will do any more than furnish o justification for relaiively smaller but inevitably legitimate expenditures in other States of the Union. (Copyright, 19 52 to Get Law Degrees. Special Dispateh to The Star UNIVERSITY, Va.. June 12.——Fifty- iwo students of law in the University of Virginia will receive the degree of bachelor of laws during the graduat- ing exercises in the Mcintire Amphi- theater next Tuesday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. n nomination for United | ctions them- | could control | sts were THE EVENIYG STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1926. Senate and House Sending Committee To Welcome Byrd The Senate and House yesterday appointed a committee to go to New York and welcome Comdr. Richard E. Byrd, first to achieve the North Pole by flight, on his re- turn to the United States. The Senate committee is com- posed of Senators Swanson and , Virginia; Oddie, Nevada; New Hampshire, and Montana. The House includes Representatives Porter of Pennsylvania, Lehlback, New Jers Wainwright and | Bloom, New York, and Woodrum, { Virginia. | 'CONGRESS SEES END " BY WEEK OF JUNE 27 Last Appropriation Bill to Be Taken U on 21st—Arboretum Measure Likely to Pass. 3 Leaders now expect that Congress will adjourn early in the week of )t June 27. They now feel fairly cer- tain that adjournment can be taken between that date and Juiy 4. i nt plans contemplate the ppropriation measure—the deficien: ppropriation bill which is now being ted—to be reported a week from and be taken up the following June 21. Tt is expected that will occupy two days in on of this measure and will thereafter be ready adjourn as soon as the Senate has completed its ile. urances were given again today the national arboretum bill pro- se of the Mount Hamilton tract {and to be adminis ment of Agriculture will be brought up for passage in the House early next week. This measure has already passed the Senate, ' SENATE APPROVES - STATE ROAD FUNDS Passes Bill Already 0. K.'d by the | House Continuing Federal Aid Until July 1. 1929. ederal aid to the States for road | building will be_continued until July | 1, 1929, under the bill passed by the { Senate vesterday and previously ap- proved by the House. The vote was 63 to 6, Senators Bing. ham and McLean, Connecticut: Met- calf, Rhode Island, and Mose: - lampshire, Republicans, and _kd- wards, New Jersey, and Gerry, Rhode { Island, Democrats, comprisini the op- + amended Dby the Federal aid to ilding unti ally for the zeneral con: annually for the national forests and parks. tern Senators opposed to the sure contended their States are forced to pay an unreasonable appor- tionment of the appropriation, while supporters of the bill held its failure to pass would disrupt road-building programs of the Nation. e BAPTISTS LAUD COOLIDGE. Tightening Up Prohibition Law Is i Gratefully Acknowledged. ROCKLAND. Me., June 12 (P.— Gratitude to President Coolidge and Federal officials for their attempts to tighten up the prohibition law was expressed yesterday at the united Baptist convention here. “Especial- 1 the resolution added, “since this relieves the pressure of the rum fleet on the coast of Maine this Summer.” Other resolutions expressed ‘‘fear and dismay at the expanding propa- ganda of the War Department and militaristic circles of this country to lead the minds of youth along the paths of theory and practice of jmilitarism.” Opposition was regis- tered against the establishment of military units in colleges and second- ary schools. DRUGGISTS WILL MEET. Virginia Group to Hold Annual Gathering Next Week. Special Diapatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., June 12.—The Virginia Pharmaceutical Association is to meet in Bedford City June 16-17, this being the 45th annual convention. The program calls for several :laborate entertainment features, abong them an excursion to the Peaks of Otter, with dances,. receptions, golf tournaments and the like. The visitors will have a chance to visit the National Elks’ Home, located at Bedford City. Walter L. Lile is chair- man of the committee on arrange- ments for the convention. Several distinguished pharmacists are to at- tend and make addresses. Wealthy Farmer Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., June 12.—S. Romanus Helshman, 65, one of the leading farmers and live stock deal- ers of the Star Tannery section of Frederick County, died suddenly ves-! terday as he was about to get out | of his automobile. He had been as- sisting in weighing wool in the neigh- borhood. He owned three large farms 307 ATHOWARDU. RECEIVE DEGREES Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, Retir-| ing President, Among Sev- eral Honored. Howard University celebrated its fifty-seventh year of activity yester- day by conferring degrees on a class of 307 graduates. An impressive aca- demic procession was headed by the administrative officers of the univer- sity, Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, presideat; Dr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary-reas- urer; Dr. Edwin Slosson, Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes, canon of the Washing- | ton Cathedral: members of the board of trustees; Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent it receive v degrees, including | Dr. Charles Benjamin Boyer, superin- tendent of public school i ity, N. Arthur A. Cole I, and Dr. George (. seon, of Chicago. < Address by Dr. Slosson “Learning Hows to Learn” was the | subject of the commencement address | delivered by Dr. Edwin I5. Slosson, director of science service of this city. “The reason why this occasion is called commencement instead of con- clusion,” Dr. Slosson told the gradu- ates, “is because now you commence to learn—now if ever. “\Whether you will, or whether you | can, remains to be seen. Your diploma | does not insure that. Today marks | n epoch in your life, like that day, | which you wére 100 young to remem bher, when your mother dropped her arms and watched with anxious eves to see if you really could walk all by vourself. With the same sort of anxiely vour alma mater will watch | your step during the next few years to see if you can go it alone.” Justice Stanton J. Peelle, the oldest member of the board of trustees, con- | ferred the degree of doctor of laws upon Dr. Durkee, retiring head of the university. | 'he of graduates will be print- ed In tomorrow’s Star. ; | ARLINGTON POLICE WILL GET INCREASE, Salary Raise of $35 Monthly Will Compensate for Heavy | Losses in Fees. | Special Dispateh to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., June 12.—Their compensation reduced by a new law affecting fees in prohibition cases, | passed by the last session of the legis- | lature, police officers of the county | will receive a raise in salary from | $90 to $125 per month, according to | an announcement by the board of | supervisors. The feereduction law | hecomes effective June 22. The salary jump takes effect July 1. | The bill provides the following: | Where arrests are made on charges | of being under the influence of liquor | the arresting officer will receive a fee of $1.50 instead of $10, upon convic- | tion. In cases of transporting lees | than onehalf gallon the fee is re:| duced from $10 to In cases of | more than one-half gallon the fee re- mains at $10. The commonwealth’s attorney is also affected by the new law. When_the defendant pleads guilty in the Police Court to charge of be- ing under the influence of liquor the commonwealth's attorney receives no | fee, having under the present law re- | celved $10. If the defendant gos to trial and is convicted the fee will be $5 instead of $10. In the Circuit Court, upon plea of gullty, the fee to | the commonwealth’s attornev will be | $10 instead of $25, but should defend- | ant go_to trial, upon conviction, the | fee of $25 remains. i Under the new law, in cases of con- viction on charge of being under the | influence of liquor the fine will be | $9.25, where defendant pleads guilty, instead of $28.25. Where the case Roes to trial the fine, including costs, will be $14.75 instead of $28.25. DRY OFFICIALS SUED. Maryland Company Asks Alcohol Permit Be Restored. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, June 12.—An in- junction suit was filed yesterday by | the Latin Manufacturing Co. of this city against Edmund Budnitz, Fed- eral prohibition administrator of Maryland, and David H. Blair, com- missioner of internal revenue at Washington, in the United States District Court here. The company asks an injunction compelling reissuance of a permit to obtain specially denatured alcohol for purposes of manufacturing hair tonic and toflet water. The com- pany alleges that the Federal offi- cials exercised unwarranted and il- legal assumption of power in the revocation and cancellation of an lcohol permi Hotel Inn 604-610 9tk St. N.W. | Daily, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 and bought cattle and other live stock extensively. A widow and 10 chil- dren survive. Ban Johnson MARIETTA, Ohlo, June 12 (®).—A gift of $25.000 for the building of a new gymnasium for Marletta College by Ban Johnson, president of the American League and former stu- dent of the school, was announced to- day. House Argues Over Printing in Record Of Democrats’ Attack on Wadsworth Whether the Congressional Record is a proper organ for publication of tife New York Democrats’ letter to Senator Wadsworth on his pronounce- has become though in the House. by Democratic delegation, fter Senator a subject of minor, controver The letter, sponsored ‘members of the New Y was_published shor Wadsworth, who is a_candidate for renomination in the New York Re- publican primary, had declared him- self on the wet and dry issue. It ap- peared in Thursday’s issue of the Record as an “ex n of remarks” by Representative O'Connor, Demo- crat, New York Representative Jacobstein, whose home is in Rochester, was the only New York Democrat not Hsted among the sponsors when the letter was pub- lished, but several others, including Representative Black, a resident of Brooklyn, have since asserted that it | was written ivithout their knowledge. | Unlike Representative Jacobstein, | they have no objection to the general purport of the letter, but they do obiect to its phraseology. The Senator was accused of turning political flipflops on prohibition, his votes for dry measures being cited; was told he had been “fired”’” by the Republican drys, and was advised to “join the only wet party in the State of New York—the Democratic party” —Iif he wanted to appear on that side of the issue. New York Republicans and Demo- crats as well conferred with Speaker i Longworth yesterday on the ad- visabllity of having the letter expung- €d from the Record. The Speaker thought it was likely that such a move would come from the Demo- cratic side. l i7 rooms, 8 Yoom. % PAID ON | SAVINGS | o« DEPOSITS | MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. 8. Treasury | 1408 H ST. N. W. On the Roof Atop the Earle ADMISSION Ladies, 40c Gentlemen, 85¢ SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS Geadtomes, $1.25 Swaneo Syncopators Direction Al Kamons 13th & E Sts. STRICKEN IN LODGE ROOM Maurice E. Palmer Dead When Re- celved at Georgetown Hospital. An attack of heart disease proved "in the camp’s lodge room in Potomac Bank Building, Wisconsin avenue and M street, about 9:30 o’clock last night. He was dead when friends reached Georgetown University Hospital with him. Nr. Palmer. a native of this ecity, filled a clerical position in the income tax division of the Internal Revenue Bureau. Surviving him are his wife, four sons and _a daughter. The sons are Maurice R., James C., Walter F. and Richard Palmer, and the daughter is conducted at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Interment will be at Herndon. pF U S— Ordered Here for Treatment. Capt. John P. Lake and First Lieut. Mark G. Brislawn, Infantry, at the Three First Sergeants Retired. Three first sergeants of the Ary have been placed on the retired i of the Army on their own appl tions, after having served more tha 30 years on active dut Eugene Bonneau, fatal to Maurice E. Palmer, 50 years old, 1833 Monroe street. meeting of Georgetown | wuged in the Modern Woodmen of America, | tending a Camp, vhile at- For Afternoon and Dinner Sheer Chiffon and Georgette in exotic prints—sometimes out- lined with beads—airy, flutter- ing affairs. Sketched —Women’s Sunni Georgette Frock, with spiral de- sign, $39.50. Women's Frocks, $29.50 to $39.50. Misses’ Frocks, $25 to $39.50. Dress Sections. Third and Fourth floors. For the Dance Lace—or lace combined with chiffon, in black, ecru or the new shades—or taffeta in bouf- fant style. Sketched—Ecru Lace and Chif- fon Dance Frock, with flutter- ing cape, $39.50. Misses’ Dance Frocks, $25 to $39.50. Micses’ Dross Section. Fourth floor. el e Suzanne i.uglen’s idea of a tennis frock—is a one-piece sleeveless Frock of Drury Lane, Rajah, Ranee Crepe or Chinese Damask that assures you of being chic, whether you play or watch. In white and colors. Sketched — White Chinese Damask sleeveless tennis frock, $16.75. Tennis Frocks, $15 to $25. Sportawear Section. Third floor. Hved for many from Herndon, Va., where he was en- b returied here : years seven miles Place For Dance and Evening Fringed Gowns, with swaying cape and tiers—sheer chiffon— black lace over flesh—ecru lace and chiffon—will grace the eve- ning mode. Sketched—Fringed White Crepe Elizabeth Gown, $38. Women's Gowns, $29.50 to $39.50. Women's Dress Section. Third floor. Miss Evelyn Mankin Palmer. Mr. Palmer was active in Mount Vernon Methodist South, where funer Episcopal services Church will be | Hospital Coats for Motoring and Traveling Soft tweeds, in ombre and plaids or mixtures—Camel’s hair, Llama cloth and Shag- moor coats that are smart and comfortable. Sketched—Ombre Plaid Tweed Coat, in tones of beige and green, $49.50. Women’s Coats, $39.50 to $95. Misses’ Coats, $24.50 to $75. Coat Sections. Third and Fourth floors. Fashions That Add Smartness to Mountain or Seashore —or any Summer Resort —European or American Smart fashions for smart resorts—sponsored by Paris and the successes of Biarritz and Deauville—that will be seen at Newport, Southampton and other fashionable re- sorts. Fashions that will assure you comfort, ease and chic—for all occasions at the resorts and while traveling. Woodward & Lothrop will be glad to assist you in choosing a smart Summer resort wardrobe, the correct accessories and luggage—that are so important in mak- ing vour trip a success. You will find many helpful sug- gestions on this page, in dresses, coats and hats that will make you chic wherever you go. Shoes, Hosiery, Scarfs, Handkerchiefs, Hand- bags, Lingerie—every accessory that could pos- sibly be desired. ' For Swimming and L) S g . One-piece wool bathing suits— mannish suits, of shirt and trunks—printed silk suits—will make fashionable bright spots on the sands. Sketched—Gray and Red One- piece Suit, in checks, $13.75. Cape, $29.50. Bathing Suits, $5 to $29.50. Capes and Coats, $5 to $29.50. Sportewear Section. Third floor. Fashionably Astride on the Bridle Path Jane Wandl white and natural linen habit, with or without sleeves, $15.75. Or sleeveless flannel jacket, $15 and $16.75. White Gabardine or Linen Breeches, $5.95 to $10. Sketched—A habit that makes - the trail twice as alluring con- sists of-- “ Green Flannel Jacket, $16.75. Linen Riding Breeches, $10. Sportewear Section. Third floor. Signal School, Fort Monmouth, N. J., have been ordered to this city for treatment at Walter Reed General Clark, Tex.; Randa Cavalry, at Fort Riley, James B. Smith, 10th Fort Huachuca, Ari: Coats for Smart Occasions Of georgette, faille, Mallinson crepe, satin and white flannel— in new Summer fashions—will be chosen. Sketched — Reversible Black and White Silk Faille Coat, $29.50. Women's Coats, $25 to $95. Misses’ Coats, $16.75 to $35. Coat Sections, Third and Fourth floors. travel and sports —and very large models of Milan or hair for more leisurely occasions. Sketched—Beige Antelope Hat, $15. Large capeline of fine white hair, with black velvet crown. $22.50. Other Hats, $5 to $25 Millinery Section. Third floor. i [l A Hats for Every Occasion —small antelope felt hats—for The Sweater—in ombre stripes that young fashionables indorse, is smart—worn with a white crepe de chine or flannel skirt. Sketched—Sunni and Orchid Ombre Slip-on Sweater, $7.50. Crepe de Chine Skirt, $12.50. Othei Ombre Sweaters, $7.50. White Skirts, $8.75 to $15. Sportewear Section. Third floor.