Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1926, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY.....June 23, 1826 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Comp: Business Office 11th St. and Pennsyivania Ave New York Oce: 110 East 12nd St Chicago Office: Tower Building. Zuropean Ofce: 14 Regent St., London, Fngland. The Evening Star. with the Sundav morn Ing edition. Is delivered by earciers within the at 60 centa per moath: daily on)y 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 70 cents per manth. Orders mas be sent by mall or telephona Main 5000, Collection is made o carrier at the end of each month. Rate yable in Advance. faryland and Virginia. Paily and Sunday....1vr. Daily anly Lyr Sunday only Iy $6.00° 1 mo $3.00: 1 mo, Tafly and Sundas 1 yr. § 1r 1yr. $R.00: 1 me $4.00 1 mo’| Member of the Associated Press. The Assaciated Prass in exclusively sntitiad tn the use for repuhlication of all PAtches creditad o it or not other: {ted 1 this paper ard aiso the lacal news Al righta of publication punlished herein Af special dispatches herein are alao reser: Buildings and Parks. Tn the course of the debate in the Hense on Monday relative to the Capi tol-Plaza hill, which was passed, much was said regarding the redemption of Pennsylvania avenue from its p ronditian in the stretch the Capital. This ziven eancern to Congress for w fram subject vears Tt has ziven even greater concern to the people of this city, wha, however, have heen impotent to effect a change letter ™ the the future of the lands the Avenue the + hall from Capitol to a-question from to this matter ‘cleaning up this situation down on for the owing nneer 1ainty as to hordering in mile and sury Tn answer an ather member relative ot Pennsylvania avenne.” Representative Eliett, in charge of the Plaza bill, said that hill not there was a pending about aken it up he we have more that, “but we have canse of the fact that thinzs on onr hands than we ean han Ale” He that bill complete canisition of the Plaza indicated the to the Jands was hut ene step in a pr Inoking 1o the complete cure of all the now renders the a reproach ta the unsizhtliness that center of the eity Nation Wihen the fifty-million-dollar hill hecame a law five with Rriee amendment prohibiting the proposed new tiuras north of Pannsylva f hnilding Incation of any of the public st nin avenue, save the new printin fiee, it was helisved that & way was last apen for the cure of the Avenue ronditions thronzh the = the of all naininz wi Mall-Avenue trian 1o et alveady Rut sodings have lassensd hope al made on substantial authoriry for the nisition by iovernment the lands re thin the mwned. snbse auent pr this Seve proposals have been amplacement of public buildings with- ' In the Mall rather than within the triangle. The latest suggestion of this echaracter of larzest of all the Government depa mental huildings on the park. Park emplacements should never he potential sitex \vailahle within the zone of con and suitability. The Mall Avenue trianzle offers the ideal sitna tion for all of the contemplated public huildings under the five year program, ps the Department of Agri Iready in Mall, National Gallery Build Ing is provided for, it will probably he, A it <hould, placed in the park adia- New [T 't is for the erection o a long as venienee save perl enlinre hegun the When the new cent 1n he National Museum, to which it will e an adjunct. Such a 4 desirable, hut hiilding should park espe cially a monster such as that proposed fon A Incation is suitable a no placed departmental bhe within the area, the Depariment of Commerce. od many vear agzo a specifie Was before Congress for Al i N-Avenne tria [l the ac smisition M only of e land within Ont of it came of the western the one fractional purchase, that the ond Government five square tract at which has lain out of use Now it proposed 1o take that part, build on it ind the ever since. is iweeording to the latest rk for a build that eannot he placed in the five and with sugzes Lip over on the pa Rguare site conveniently a view o future growth, This shonld is a retrogressive palicy. It by the with the the puilic huildings park s And whiie this matter of locating de is under surely not he countenanced Prblie charged task and Anthorities » conserving of ng the partmental struetnres con be no Police where it nuisance-breed. sidaration there mave to put the proposed new Conrt in Judiciary Square, will he a disfiguring, ing trespass. shonld e Ar. investigation is valuable in the degres that seeks responsible and salient facts; and pernicious in the degres that it seeks merely 1o gratify Idle curiosity or a spiteful resentment. —.e The $1,000 Maximum. Praceeding on the half-a-loat princi- pla the executive committee of the Government Joint confer- ence has asked the conferees on the ratirement annuity bill now in dead- lack to agree upon the House meas- ure, which fixx a maxtmum of $1,000 Against the Senate maximum of $1.200. This petition is actnated by helief that nnless an agreement can he had at this session the measure may fail of passage altogether during the present Congress. All considerations of equity point to the larger maximum. Keonomic fac- tors, however, have entered into the equation, and proponents of the Houge bill feel that they are hound by them. It Is desirable that relief he estended fo the Government annui- tants, who are now suffering from in- compensation under the original law. At a maximum of $720 A year they are unable to live dacently in comfort. They are suffering in moxt cases from privation imposed upon them in their compulsory retire. ment from the service. Many of them it employes’ as the adequate 3| An nces, at pittances. Only those who had been fortunate enough to save out of their small earnings something for the “rainy day’" of retirement or dismissal were able to subsist properly upon | their annuities.” In many cases the {drop from active duty pay to retire- | ment two-thirds or three ‘1||I5I‘KP This matter of the annuities Is plicated by mathematical calculations that befog the average person. A formula for the computation of the |pay to be granted upon retirement {had been devised by actuaries, which |only one well versed in the matter |can apply. But the average annu- |itant, present and prospective, knows that, whatever the formula, the final figure reached by the calculations will at the best be inadequate to meet his needs, Doubtless it is good policy on the | part of the Government employes’ con- | fevence to ask for the enactment of the bill carrying the smaller maxi- | mum in view of the fact that there is ‘.flll;;l]l chance of agreement upon the large upon a compromise. from § to $1,000 {Will be a great boon and blessing to !the maximum annuitants, and the other increases in the scale will simi- larly help many who are now suffer- ing from inadequate maintenance. But Acceptance of this adjustment does not lessen the reason for contin- ued effort to.secure justice in greater measure for these faithful workers for the Government who have been push ed aside under a rigid svstem of tirements regardiess of their qualific tions for continued effective service. pay was m- or even increase . Welcome Home to Arctic Flyers. A tremendous welcome iz being given today In New York Lieut. . Richard E. Ryrd, § 3 nd o veach the North nd the first 1o fiy over it. He is wimed with all the honors due to a . 1o one who has made a great achievement Konors, for Indeed his flight with Pilot Richard Flovd Rennett was an In- trepid dash into the unknown of the world's northern Pole, It took Ryrd and Bennett only four- teen hours and thirty minutes to fly from Kings Bay. Spitzhergen, to the Pole and back. It took Admiral Peary eight months to traverse the distance from his Greenland base and return by dogsled. Though Byrd made no landing. he made observations which will be of scientific value. The magni- tnde of his exploit in no wise lessened hy the shortly later filght of the Norge. In which Amundsen, No- hile. Kllsworth and others flew over the Pole on their extraordinary trip from Spitzbergen to Alaska. For Byrd and Bennett took a desperate chance the possible failure of their ma- Although they had a large re- serve of fuel, they were in danger of encountering adverse winds and lent cross currents, exhausting forci landing dunzerous conditions, Even in the light of their achieve ment and that of the Norge party, this seems an almost incredible per- formance. Their frail craft. however, 1aid the course without deviation and The most hazardons flight ken by man ge and it may he but the frst of many. If others go some will for that unfortunately is the almost mathematical certainty attend ing any human flight. Only vesterday in a fiight Mitchel Field near New York of the most enced of the Army aviator to death from a height of 3,300 feet, with a West Point cadet, a gpsident of this city. There is no possible ex planation of this disaster. Something happened, the nature of which can- not he known, and two lives were lost. might to Comd T h the se IS ac man was on chine vio- their supply and a returned ever nnder This was a pioneer v he 1o a ove, one experi crashed a a Such a colla in the filzht and the world would never have known the circumstances. Somewhere up on tfte Avctic wastes would have of an airplane and the course of lain the wrec Loties of the courageous explorers, to tie covered probably by the snows of successive Arctic Winters, never to be found. Rut that did happen. Many weeks of careful preparation had in- sured the most perfect possible condi not tion of the machine, and the fullest | possible acquaintance by its eccupants the conditions of the Arctic. They reduced every chance of mis- adventure to a minimum, and they won. For that they are now hailed in A wele in which all the American people join, with e home S Taking the ex-Kaiser's property away from him was evidently recog nized hy German citizens as a danger- ous experiment which might set a dis- ! astrous precedent. If a former Em- peror could not protect his holdings what chance would the little fellow: have in case the mood for confiscation should attain bolshevistic momentum? e In the Clear. Passage of the amended traffic bill Is confidently expected either today or tomorrow following the signing of the conferees’ report yesterday by Repre- sentative Gilbert of Kentucky, the last remaining member of the committee to affix his signature to this important measure. All differences regarding the bill have now been ironed out, and Washington will soon be operating un- der a code that, while not perfect, is & decided Improvement on the one now being administered. Representative Glibert's action in promptly signing the report upon his return to the city is especially gratify- ing to Washingtonians. One of the con- troversial points In the measure was the taxicab concessions. The House, when it passed the bill, added a clause which prohibited private companies from monopolizing street space. The Senate District committee rejected this | provision, and it was expected that the House conferees would insist on its re- | tention. When the conferees met, however, there was immediately noticeable a de- sire to obtain prompt action regardiess of the compromises necessary. Repre- sentative Gilbert, due to ahsence from the city, was not present at the meet- They are well deserved | in the | have occurred | the R\'rrl-lisnn-lll THE EVENING them nigned the report, which 4id not contain the House taxicab provision. Mr. Gilbert, returning yesterday, was handed the report for his signature and, realizing the importance of the | bill and the danger of delay, promptly | affixed his name. Thus the way is now cleared for Senate and House final action. The bill will then go to the President for his signature, and Washington will be {saved from a Summer of trafic con- fusion. o RS A Unique Paradise. The American paradise has been discovered! The place every dreams about, the place where every one wishes he lived—in short, the ideal community—has béen unearthed. Hid- den away in Clayton County, lowa, is the tiny village of Garnavillo. Its Inhabitants number 349. Every man owns his own home and ts engaged in gainful occupation. It has mno Jall. There hus not been an arrest within the memory of the oldest native. It is six miles from a railroad, a bys has replaced the old stage coach which, before the days of steam, jour- neyed to meet the boats that docked nearby. One hardware and one furni- ture store as well as a few grocery stores and markets supply the needs of the people. No one in the village has ever known the meaning of hard times. It is situated in one of the rich- est farming belts in Iowa. Telephones, tractors and radios are in common use and the homes are of modern style. But, most wonderful of all —and this deserves a separate paragraph—the village has two banks and the total {of deposits In these institutions is | $2,500,000. The Farmer's State Bank | was organized twenty vears ago and 85 per cent of its stock 1s owned by the farmers, man owning more than ten shar:s of stock and some owning only The Garnavillo Savings Bank now has deposits of more than $900,000. Another ftem of interest is that the hardware store last year did a gross business of some $40,000 and the fur- niture store disposed of $30,000 worth of goods. The history of this unique village has come to light through fts | bunk report, just filed with the State | Banking Department. But for that and the diligence of a reporter the | world would never have known of this paradise in the heart of America. | Garnavillo citizens are indeed to he congratulated. They have solved the age-0ld problem of content and happi ness in these times of struggle and dissatisfaction. They are sufficient unto themselves and the rest of the {world envies them and thelr commu- nity. May they live long, continue | | to prosper and set an example of citi- zenship in this hurly-burly struggle of modern civilization! no two. ———— The veteran newspaper headliner | Who used to refer to Europe as an! | “armed camp” and point to a war| cloud on the horizen “no bigger than | a man’s hand” set a pattern which | posterity at the copy desk is still com- | pelled to imitate, | - ) | Certain phases of Broadway publi iil\‘ pen up a cuestion as to whether ’dlsl ussion of the theater onght to h!{ {left with the dramatic crit |over to the police reporters, = or turned c———— The term “plutocracy” should be re {ferred to Einstein as a study in rela |tivity. In the eves of a man who s broke, the possessor of a five-dollar bill is a plutocrat. | ——t———e The German people possibly do not | love the Kalser more, hut anyvthing i tha vors of communism léss, SHOOTING STARS, | BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, The Gloriou | We'll have a celebrs Down to Pohick-on-the-Crick. We'll put in observation | Some fircworks, mighty slick. | We've lost our bitter feelin’ I; 'Bout the rough old days gone by, And our joy we'll be revealin’ As we journey through July. ‘We'll journey through the roses An’ the honeyvsuckle sweet, | While the mockin' bird discloses Melody that's all complete. ‘We'll ask for no oration To revive an ancient kick, ‘When we hold our celebration Down to Pohick-on-the-Crick. Extraordinary Advantage. “George Washington is still a vivid figure In American patriotiam.” “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum, | with a shade of envy in hix tone; “but |George has had a tremendous advan- tage. None of us statesmen have ever enjoved his facilities for using the two-cent postage stamp as an advertis. ing medium.” Scale of Prices. The high cost of living Has caused us misgiving. X We hoped that the trouble would cease. > ‘With patience persistent I sing of days distant When votes were $2 aplece. An egg brings no pleasure; A pork chop’s a treasure, As all things their prices increase. To wish I'm presuming For times unassuming When votes were $2 apiece. Jud Tunkins says every time the bakers raise the price of bread he has lens reapect for that sentimental motto, “Say it with fours.’ Footgear. “Any bootleggers out your way?" " answered Uncle Bjll Bottletop. | “They’ve got so prosperous that they all wear patent leather shoes.” Unfortunate Affability. “What d1d you say to the judge?” “I sald ‘Good morning.' " “‘He couldn’t take offense at that.” | his | which to meet “He did. I sounded so genial and familiar that he took it for granted I was an old offender.” “Livin’ i« liabie to be a little cheap- er,” sald Uncle Eben, “if the time were quite competent to continue at |ings. The other five ronferees acted [comes when a man kin git as much !l eMcieney when they were !\v“r\!{‘w"h commendahle speed in reaching ( 2pplause foh hoein’ corn as he kin foh @ of the departments and burcaus agreement on the mggsure, and all of playin’ de ukelelt R STAR. WASHINGTON, ‘THIS AND D. WEDNESDAY, THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “Three men, sitting in a bus, were discussing the subject of clubs. ““I belong to a golf club,” said one. “My dues were §105 last year, and I played 7 games." ““That made your golf cost $15 a game, eh”” sald the second man. “Yen,” smiled the tall fellow. “And how about you?" “Well, let me see,” mused the sec ond. “I belong to a tennis club, and pald $15 as a charter member last vear, and played—let me see—yes, Just two sets.” Which made your tennis cost you $7.50 a set!” ‘I got you all beat,” piped up the third man. “T belong to a_club which has the nominal dues of $1 & month. I never usa the clubroom, and do not like the types of outings. [ merely attend the banquet every two vears.” “Which makes you pay $24 for one eh?” grinned the first inan. tlemen seemed to all con be pretty expensive. v agreed that to ket one's money's worth it is necdessary either to make use of a club or to drop out. Yet how many hundreds of persons continue to belong, for any one of a number of reasons, and continue to pay, unknowingly, exorbitant prices for their amusement? ook x The thing resolves itself down, in the last analysis, to whether one really to be himself or not. To most men, it is easier to stay in a club which has fafled to hold their at- tention than it is to send in a letter of resignation. “Oh, 1t 18 only so much a vear! Yes, but this “so much” ig, indeed, €0 much that might be more profit- ably used by the person involved. Think what the man who paid $i5 for his -golf per game might have done with his money! Once he really cared to play the game, and enjoved it, but family and business duties at last got the better of him, and for a number of years he has plaved only seven or less games per year. The fellow who went in for his tennis at seven and a half “iron men" per set might have used his money to better purpose, whereas the poor chap who paid $24 for his banquet, once every two vears, deserves the pity of mankind The latter gentleman, who is a great lover of flowers, has confided to us that if he did not have to pay nominal dues—oh, yes, merely nominal-he would join the American Rose Society, at $3 a vear, and_the American Gladiolus Soclety, at $2 vear, and enjoy the annual hook pub lished by the former, and the onthly magazine put ont by the latter, He still would have $14 lefr, with the his office for subscriptions to wedding. presents, flowers, etc.. etc. He is al wayvs glad to “chip in.”” and has never missed a chance to do so; but since { that_conversation on the bus that day he h direc gazed rather wistfullv in the ion of his vanishing cinb dues, * * x % After all, it is not so much a money matter as it {s of leading one’s own life to suit one’s own ideas of the proper and right Dare you he yourself? demands around | How many socleties do yoi: belong to that you get very little, if anything, out of, and yet hesitate to drop out of? In vouth you Jjoined. Life was different then, your interests were dif- ferent. But now the vears have given you new and better interests, or, at least, 80 they seem to you, and you discover the old organization in real- ity a thing of the past with you Shall you stay in or drop out? It is a personal problem, of course, and every one must decide his own | for himself; but, if you “have come to yourself” (as Seneca sald long agoand | Woodrow Wilson 2,000 vears later), you will quietly begin to drop the un- | necessary clubs out of vour life. i Such a step will benefit not only you, but also the ciub. Inactive mem- bers are only suffered in any club be- cause of the dues, Never be fooled upon that point. Any man in any organization who does not take the trouble to use the privileges is not a good club member. Yet every one who has had any connectlon “with the management of clubs, of whatsoever character, knows that the inactive members are never weeded out, although they ought to be. A small club of active, enthusi- astic members is a better club than the sprawly, overgrown one, boasting a long membership list, of which 30 per cent never come around. It would seem only common sense for a well established organization (perhaps there is a sound financial rea son for the beginning club to act other- wise!) to offer two sorts of member- ships —one, the active, and two, the associate. ‘Thus a man who wanted to remain connected with the organization; but who knew he would not either desire |or be able to avail himself of all the privileges constantly, might retain his | membership, out of sentiment, at a cost which would he wholesomely less than that paid by those who got more. ok % ox There is an economic waste fn such futile memberships that might well be taken Into consideration by large ganizations that are serfously at tempting to inculcate the virties of thrift in employes. Saving at the spigot, wasting at the bunghole, hag never been a popular Aport, even in rich, extravagant America. That wisest man of his age, Benjamin Franklin, did his work well { No matter how thoughtiess a man i« |in spending, usually he has some shame in throwing money away It may bhe argued, of course, that money spent in dues for a club out of which one zets practically nothing is not money entirely wasted. This we may grant, without altering the gen- eral proposition that it might he bet- ter spent in other ways. The implications, rather than the mere money, are what count. It takes | moral courage, it takes clear thinking, to lop off exc agzage, whether in {the form of clubs or a ton fat stom {ach. |7 1t 1s much easler to just allow mat ters to drift along. to keep on paving $15 a game for golf, vear after yvea If vou have the heart of the true golfer, no doubt # game is worth that {much. Maybe tennis is worth $7.50 | game. Perhaps a banquet is cheap |at $24 a plate. . is vour old mar reverent youth of today A8 the ay. ir- WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President (‘oolidge was uncommon- Iy effective in his budget speech to the Government' husiness organiza- tion on June 21. Hix language, when attuned to his favorite economy theme, is unfailingly Coolidgesque. It bristles with the homely epigrams of which he is a master There is 1926 campalgn ammunition for the whole Republican party in ine President’s pungent passages ahout Federal re trenchment, past, present and future. Politicians of ali hues concede that in “Economy” Coolidge has an lssue of incomparable and almost invincible strength. Sepators may fall in pri | mary contests, on 1ssues local or na- tional, and Represeatatives meel ine same fate. But no Republican or Democrat of consequence honestly he- lieves that Calvin Coolidge can “slip very far, far as the country at large is concerned, as long as he main- tains his ground on the “Kconomy fssue. \What proposition can profes. sional politicians put forward that goes straighter to the head and heart of every voter in the land than this characteristically Calvinian thrust “What we do here reaches into every home in the land. It determines whether the taxgatherer is going to require more money from the head of the household to meet the cost of malntaining the Government, or whether the taxgatherer Is going to leave more money with the head of the family to meet tne cost of main- taining the househoid. Gen. Lord, the director of the budget, at whom Mr. Coolidge threw a whole bouquet of posies at the econ- a B |dal a bit ton early in the game to avail | omy feast, filled his address to Government officials, as usual, illustrative anecdotes. Discus President’s insistence upon tlon of unessential activities,” Lord spun this yarn: A man sold his pig. “How much did you get for him? sked a friend. “Thirteen dollars, the reply. “You couldn't have made much on him at that price, the friend observed. “Let me see. said the man. “I paid $5 for the pig. $3 for his pen and $5 for his food. That makes $13--just what I got for him. No, I didn’t make much money, but I had his com- pany all Summer.” Gen. Lord suggested to the money- spending Federal officers that they should “insist on having something to show for their expense and effort beaides the company of the pig.” B the with Nick Childs, a well known colored newspaper publisher in Topeka, is a rival of Senator Charles Curtis for the forthcoming Kansas senatorial nomination. He has no chance of defeating the leader of the Senaté ma- jority, although 20 to 30 per cent of the Republican vote in centers like Topeka, Kansas City and Wichita is a colored contingent. Childs is the second negro to aspire to a senatorial nomination this year. The other is Dr. Norrell, an Indianapolis physi- olan, who opposed Senator Arthur R. Robinson in the recent Indiana pri- marfes. Norrell obtained on votes in the whole State. Not since the years following the Civil War have colored men sat in_the United States Senate. Hiram R. Revels, a negro, was Senator from Mississippl from 1869 to 1871, and Blanche K. Bruce, also a colored man, had a full term from the same State between 1875 and 1881, * o x One of the most popular Japanese ever stationed in Washington, Mme. Sadao Saburi, has just passed away at Peking, where she was with her husband i{n connection with the inter- national customs conference now in; progress in China. As the wife of the counselor of the Japanese em- bassy, during the year or two preced- ing the Washington conference and thioughout that memorable season, Mme. Saburi played a conspicuous role in diplomatic soclety. Both she and her husband Americanized them- selvez in eountless directions. They learned to dance nnr dances, drove their own autgmobiies, played golf and _{whom the wish is not entirely 15,000 | entered generally into the spirit of the Capital's life. When Mr transferred to an important post in | the Japanese foreign office at Tokio, | Mme. Saburi became the successor of | | Mme. Matsudaira (the wife of | present Nipponese Ambassador Washington) as official the Empress of Japan kreat distinction and responaibllity. | Mme. Saburi was the daughter of the |late Marquis Komura, Japan's chief | delegate at the Portsmouth Russo- { Japanese peace conference. * ok ox % the ! at interpreter to Representative Martin B, Madden of Ilinofs, watchdog of the Treasury in the House, showed the Longworth- | Tilson leadership that he's no slouch of a politician and parliamentarian. when this week he hlocked the hig! | command’s plan 1o fix an adjourn- ment date. The veteran Tllinoisan whose Congressional Record “Who's Who merely says, “Klected to the { Fifty-ninth and each succeeding Con- | Rress”—must have taken fiendish de- light in rebuffing the leaders. It was the same group that encompassed | Madden’s downfall when he aspived |to the speakership a vear ago. The { white-crowned Chicagoan is in his | seventy-second year. but can’t make anyhody believe it. His latest triumph in the arena of House politics was worthy of a forty Ilave the Demoacrats sprung the { PennsyIvania primary slush-fund sean. |them much in the November elec- tions? Philosophical Republicans with unre. lated to the thought, think that may be the case. They recall that Teapot Dome and its attendant “dynamite were exploded so early in the 1924 presidential campaign that by the time the ides of November approached the people had forgotten all about them. 1It's nearly five months from now until election time. A long and presumably hot Summer will inter- vene. Politics will be adjourned dur- ing a good deal of that time. Can Penn’s £3,000,000 “gold rush” be kept in the electorate’s mind in sufciently Turid s to send voters to the polls in punitive mood, as far as the G. O. P. is concerned? Politiciana are won. dering about that. ok ok % Chauncey G. Parker of New Jersey is general counsel of the United States Shipping Board. Evervbody, including the President, calls him “.Judge,” but Parker says he's never been on the bench in his life. He has a brother Wwho is a justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, but that, the Shipping Board's lawyer asserts, is as near | A claim as he possesses to the rank | and title of judge. Parker's father was a_distinguished citizen of Jerse who went through life with the title of “Governor,” although he never held that office. Joel Parker was Jersey's Civil War governor, and the other Parker once told him how the latter was dubbed “Governor” all over the State. “Must cost von a lot of money, doesn’t {t?” the Chlef Executive said. * o ok % If extempore eloquence is the acid test of genuine oratory, “‘Jim" Reed of Missouri is entitled to the blue ribbon. Of all the 14 Senators who eulogized La Follette at the recent memorial service in the Senate Reed was the only one who spoke without notes. A usually happens on such occasions, his tongue was far more silver-toned than that of any of his colleagues who read set speeches from manuscript. Reed told this observer that up to the time he reached the Capitol he hadn't & glimmer of what he was going to say. (Copyright, 1926.) Juvenile Work. From the Detroit News. Anita Loos. the novelist, wrote her first movie scenarin when she was 12 yvears old. which. scenarios con- sidered, seems l‘all‘r late in life. B a position of | JUNE 23, 1926. Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. One week from today the voters in North Dakota will go to the polls to determine whether Senator Gerald P. Nye, Republican Progressive and antagonist of many of the policies of the present administration, shall he continued in the Senate or former Gov. Hanna, a nephew of the late Mark Hanna, shall be substituted for him. A special election is to take place for the unexpired term of the late Senator Ladd which ends March 4, 1927. At the same time the voters will determine whether Senator Nye is to have the Republican nomination {for the regular term, which begins at the moment that the Ladd unexpired term ends, or Gov. Hanna is to he o honored. Here I a real conteat between the progressive wing and the regular, or more conservative, wing of the Repub- lican party. Gov. Hanna two years ago_managed the Coolidge campaign in North Dakota. and hung up a_vic- tory for the President in a State which had been reckoned strong for the late Senator La Follette, then a candidate for the presidenc the votes were all in, it was found that President Coolidge had won the electoral vote of North Dakota with 94,931 popular votes against 89,922 for La Follette and 13,858 for Davis. ok X % Nye has the support of the old Non Partisan League, which came into existence while Hanna was gov- ernor in 1913. It is said that the Progressives are almost solidly back of him. He is making his campaign on the issues of taxation, the World Court, the forelgn debt settiements and farm relief, in all of which he is opposed to the administration. Gov. Hanna, on the other hand, has behind him the regulars of the party, and much work has been done for him in the State. Reports have come to Washington that regulars feel they have a good chance 1o win. Hanna 1 4 man of large wealth and has been a power in polities of the State. In the closing days of the cam palgn, unless his present pians are hanged, Senator Robert M. La Fol lette, jr., will deliver a number of speeches in North Dakota for his friend, Senator Nye. Thus the two youngest members of the present Senate will be found stumping the State against the old guard. lette 18 only 31 and Nve will not he 34 until next December. If Senator Nve wins, and odds look 10 be in his favor, his victory will be hailed as another evidence of the dissatisfaction of the agricultural West with the policies which have been malntained in Washington with regard to the farmer. Brookhart In lowa and Smith in Iilinols, to a less degree, have already won Republican nominations for the Senate hecause of thir fesling of resentment. * ko % “Glad” Tydinga s the sohriquet lately given the vouthful Representa tive of Marvland's second congres sional district by Senator Bruce, Dem oerat, of that State. Mr. Tydings, it {1s confidently predicted now. will be } the nominee of the Demacrats for the Senate to make the race next Novem her againat either $anator Weller, the present Republican Senator, or John Philip Hill. the wringing-wet member of the House. who fs contesting with Senator Weller for the Republican nomination. Mr. Tydings is just 36 jyears old. He is a graduate of the University of *Marvland in both me.- chanical engineering and in law. He served with distinction in the World War. Running on a. ticket with Gov. i Ritchie, as he is expected to dn, Mr. P | Tvaings will prove a strong candidate., Saburi was|and the Democrats are already count. | ing his vietory. | * o x % The wet and d | excited | East, ry fight. which has tremendous interest in the is becoming more and more AN issue in the Wegt, notwithstand- ing the arid reputation of those States. The most recent victory of the wetd is that in the fourth Minne- *ota district, where, on Monday. they nominated 2%-vear-old Melvin J. Mass on the Republican ficket over Representative Osear E. Keller an.i Fred A. Snyder. both drys. Mr. Keller has carried the district, which in- ludes St Paul, four times. Mass, it appears manv votes as his two opponents combined. He ran on a light wine and beer platform. favoring modifi- cation of the Volstead aet, but no ireiurn of the old saloon. The wet and dry issue wili he fought out in a long line pf States {extending from New York to Mon- tana, where there is to be a referen- ;dum on the liquor question in Nb- vember. In New York, Senator received as {for hix political life. {vavia, Representative Vare, Republican In Pennsyl- Wiliam nominee, will he pitted against Willlam B. Wilson, former Secretary of Labor in the Wilson administration and a dry. for the Senaie seat now occupied hy Sen- ator Pepper. A little farther to the West there looms a fight between Senator Willis, drvest of the drys, and former Senator Pomerene.. ac- counted a wet. In Illinols, George E. | Brennan is reported to be sefting the plaing of Chicago ablaze on the wet lssne, even if he is not having the same effect on the agricultural districts of the State. Indeed. the prediction is now that he will poll an enormons vote In Cook vl"‘hlnh includes Chicago—so enormous that success in the rest of the State (o overcome the metropolitan vote. Missouri primaries will determine whether wet candidates for the Sen- Ale are to he nominated by both the Republicans and the Democrats. Harry Hawes, the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination, has come out as a wet, and Senator Wil- liams, the Republican incumbent, 1s also reckoned a wet. The Wisconsin primaries bring Senator Lenroot, dry, against Gov. Blaine, wet. These are but samples of the contest over prohibition which is again becoming nation-wide. LI In answer to the rising strength of the weis, there ia now a move- ment on foot to set up again the old Prohibition national party, which had been allowed to fall by the wa side after the adoption of the eight eenth amendment 10 the Conatitu- tion and the enactment of the Vol- stead enforcement law. D. Leigh Colvin of New York is still national chairman of the Prohibition party, although ih most of the Sigates the party machinery has been allowed to go into discard. convention in New York tomorrow Is expected to launch a movement for a return of the old party, and La Fol- | consecutive ; Wadsworth, Republican, must battle | County, | Q. Was Billy Sunday actually en gaged in playing base ball before he became an evangelist?~R. E. G A. Billy Sunday had a three-year contract with the Philadelphia team at the time he abandoned hase ball as a profession in March, 1891. He received his release from Col. Rogers, president of the Philadelphia club, on March 17 of that year. Q. What js w i fish, when its tail © ng with a gold looks fringed”— A. The Bureau of Fisheries says that if the tail of a goldfish is fringed or fraved out, this isx caused by a fungus growth, and it is ad- visable to give it a salt bath fre quently, Q. Are there any ish peers in Kngland? A. Jewish peers are the Hon. the Karl of Reading (re cently made a marquis), Baron Roths child and Baron Swyihling. Sir Her bert Cohen leads a list of 20 haronets who are Jewish. This is followed by a list of 26 knights who are Jewish. ominent Jew. t the Right Hon. Montague and Right Hon. Sir Alfred Mond, M. P. are prominent Jews. These names are followed by 1 other mem bers of Parliament helonging 1o this M. P, ANSWERS TO Right Of the members of the government, | R - QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. race. You might also be interested 1o know that there are 30 Jews whn have heen awarded the Distinguished Service Award. | Q. What is the difference hetween {cane sugac and heet sugar’—G. B | A. When highly refined no one can | distinguish hetween cane and heet sugar, as they are one and the same | thing. Between the crude or raw best | and cane sugars there is a great dif- | ference, the latter being edible, whila | the former is not, as it possesses a very disagreeable odor and taste Cane-sugar molasses is good for culi- nary purposes: best.sugar molasses is not. Cane juice contains glucose, but heet julce does not, though the lat niains rafinose and the former d not. < The keynote of the times is eficient service. In supplying itx readers with a Free Information Buseau in Wash- ington The Evening Star is living up *0 this principle in deed and fact. We are paying for this service in arder that it may be free (o the public. Suh mit wyour queries to the staff of er perts whose services are put at your disposal. Inclose 2 cents in stamps to | cover the return postage. Address The | Evening Star Information Rureau. | Frederic J. Haskin, director, Wash- Lington. D. €. Millions spent in the Pennsylvania primaries, now under investigation by a committee of Congress. have set the entire country to talking Was Secre tary Mellon right when he safd expenditures were legitimate? Is there | grewter corruption In primasies or in conventions? Whut should he me about campalign expenses? These are the questions presented “What is Pennsyivania going to do about #?" aske the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin (independent Repub. lican). ‘““There are rumors that the Senate will be so affronted hy the un virtuous practices of Pennsylvania I that it will refuse to seat Mr. Vare. {The rumor is altogether unlikely. al though it mav not he impossible. But the Senate mav he expected 1o he stir- red 1o xome sction for the more rigid control of political expenses, if only to meet a certain and insistent public sentiment.”” ‘The Pittshurgh Times (Republican) similarly ' v law! would, in large degree, prevent the situation of which complaint is {now justly made with respect 1o our {recent primary.”” but this paper adds, ‘A cure of the condition complained of can he effected only by the people | themselves 1aking a proper interest in ithe selection of candidates and the | election of public officers:” sylvania. the Altoona Mirror (inde- pendent) thinks “the Newherry ex penditure was modest,” and that “‘the exten! to which money was used in this State ix beginning to stir the people.” Legal justification is found by the Philadelphia Inquirer “for ex- penses running into enormous totals™ and the Inquirer concludes that “the system discourages men of moderate means from becoming candidates.’ The Pitteburgh Sun (independent Dem ocratic) wants to know, “if such vast expenditures are necessary to main tain political organizations. are such political organizations wo continu ing, or should they he endured?” *x o % Observing that “the people had a great direct popular primary. but money talked,” the Worcester Tele gram (Republican) declares “the ex be perfectly lawful hut it is scandalous.” Reaction against the Republican party already is seen iby the Providence Journal (independ. ent). “That money is an ipvestment. and if it did not pay dividends it would not be put out.” states the Fort Worth Record-Telegram (independent cratic), while the Hartford Times (in dependent Democratic), asking wheth er Big Business is “to stand bevond the reach of the people’s control through the polls.”” asserts: “That the logical‘end of the free money ele tion idea. There is serious difficul in getting rid of a condition which all admit is bad. vet none have seen clearly how satisfactorily to avoid. Quoting the statement of Secretary Mellon—" helieve that committee will find all of the expendi- tures legitimate and essential”—t! Milwaukee Journal (independent) of- |fers the comment: “There’s nothing left but money. That is what Mr. Mel lon’s words mean. If that is true, we jare rushing to tragedy. This is going to make Brookharts and La Follettes and men who will go farther than these ‘radicals’ ever have gone.” The Louisville Courler-lournai cratic) contends that “Mr. Mellon is 100 logical a that a primary could not be conducted At less expe It is perfectly pos- sible.”” continues this paper. “ta hold A primary election without the ex penditure of a single venny hy any candidate. His point was that it takes more money 1o do the same thing by the primary method than by conven tion." l ! | | penditure may * X ok % i he hard fact ie.”" says the Syra . Frank Smith, the Republican|cyge Herald (independent). “that in | nominee, will have to run with great | {the city of Pittsburgh alone the total number of paid watchers was more than 50.000. From this it must bhe inferred that at least one Repub- lican voter in every four or five had to be tralled in the Interests of politi cal honesty. or else that the watcher system is a convenient method of rounding out the patriot-guardians themselves for a good cause and set- tling with them in advance.” The Baltimore Evening Sun (independent). quoting_the statement from the Pepper-Fisher side that fts money “‘was as legitimately used as money given to a church,” declares that “‘somehow Pepper in the perfume of sanctity produces a rtench inclined to promote active nausea.’ The State primary has h and’ found distally wanting, the Cincinnati Times-Star tried insists (Republi no national issues which divide di rectly the two major political parties. carrving the standard of proHibition modification or repeal in a number of the States. Farm relief is dividing An unofficial dry | the progressive and the regular Re. cont publicans in several of the States, The huge expenditures of money in the Pennsylvania Republicar pr the | iting expenditures of ecandidates | In view of what happened in Penn- | practical working out of the primary | Demo- | the Senate | (Demo- | thinker to have meant the effort to bathe Mr. | Democrats and Republicans alike are | «gfhat Should th; AC‘(;uiltirngo “ About Money in Primaries? can). while the Indianapolis News (independent) predicts that “knowl edge of the amount of monsy spent lin the Pennsylvania primary will have no small influence on the Legisla tures that are called upon 1o recon «ider their primary laws next Wine rer The Nt Paul Pioneer Press (independent Republican) says “the lesson in Pennsylvania, as elsewhera, is that the State-wide primary i= a mishegotten insrument. fit for the shelf.” The Harrisburg Telegraph (Republican) feels that ‘unless all signs fail, the tide of opposition wiil reach its height in a vigorous as | ®ault on the present law about the time the next Legislature gets weil und The Buffalo Eveninz Cews (Republican) also helieves that “the people may well question whether the State-wide primary i {a fit and proper instrument.” oo o On the other hand. the New Yori World tindependent Democratic) helde that “the kind of political plutocrat | who would deny the general will hy | bribing the purchasahle elements in the electorate of a primary won deny it as readily hyv seeking debauch a convention. Bernardino Sun (indepandent) arzies that “the country is not ready 1o drop the direct primary system | may never drop it. but that it | extensive reform has been appar | for vears” The Albanv Eveninz | News (independent Republican) con cludes that “if this evil of heavy campaign_funds can he eliminated some good will have come out of this and out of the “Perhaps the primary had a part in the financial dehauchery.” according to the Lynchburg News (Democratic). “but under the old convention svstem there was also opportunity for cor ruption. There is something funda- mentally wrong irrespective of the | metfod~ by which candidates are | nominated.” The Canton Dailv Nev (Democratic) thinks the apathy of the voters is at the hottomn of the entire trouble. “Reversion ta the old arder wonld I make had condition worse,” declar the Spokane Spokesman-Review ( dependent Republican), with the added comment that “campaign expendi tures ean he curbed as readily under the direct primary. or more readily than under the convention system ™ | The Santa Rarbara News (independ ent Demacratic) suggests that “the refined and zentle East might well | turn to the West to learn the lesson of honest elections.” The Rochester Times-Union (independent) offers the remedy that “those guilty of wide spread use of money should he ex {cluded from office.”” and the Quinev Herald-Whig (independent) finds it | “encouraging that the public has in- sisted that an example must be mada of the men who staged the scandal.” The Charlotte Observer (Democratir) feels that ‘“the revelations should prove so revolting to the peopls of Pennsyivania that the Legislatare would be forced to enact corrupt prao- tice laws with teeth enough to elimis {nate the corruption that has becoms | a stench in the nostrile of American | deceney In this way, the Bloom- | ington Pantagraph thinks the present e “has rendered a distinct_public | service.” The Youngstown Vindica- | tor (Democratic) would brand the par- {ticipants in “bidding for office” as “enemies of the Republic." | “The railroads and manufacturers of Pennsylvania.” concludes the To- peka Capital (Republican), “hava bought senatorships for so long 3 period that the people of the Stata have hecome inured to purchased elec The country as a whole. how Id have something to sav debaiichery of the recent | the primary.” 'HINK IT OVER Do We Overeducate? 1 By William Mather Lewis, | [President George Washington University | 1f school and college are to develop | thinkers they must have a good | zrade of material with which to work. | A larger percentage of American outh is attending college today than was found in the high schools in 1830. Because of the universally awakened appreciation of the value of education there are flocking to the doors of our institutions countless thonsands, many with the capacity 10 take advantage of what is offered. but many others without the mental equipment or the stamina to achieve | results. ! The university, in fairness to itself land to the youth whe come to its | doors, must ascertain the impulse which prompted desire for member s<hip in the academic body: must weigh the capacity of the Individual: must not yield to the craze for numbers and, | through lowering essential standards {and creating multitudinous courses, become an intellectual five-and-ten store. Thousands of vouths without the capacity for higher edu cation are found in our colleges fo day. Other thousands, who have the | to place candidates of the Prohibi- | maries, revealed by the Senate in-|capacity, are not enjoying the priv- tion party in the field again for gov- vestigation during the last two weeks, flegze. An outstanding educational t New Yorl .| have provided a sensation that may | problem is to limit the opportunity %‘T: 5 ;rommua:u'::nfioofi:}::mw?n become an issue, certainly if the Dem- | bf those Iacking capacity, but o give back former State Senator F. Cristman, League has picked to make the race for the Republican nomination for the Senate against Senator Wads- worth. w. * %k x % Take it by and large, the issues which are to be fought out in the coming oongressional and senatorial ocrats have their way. They are possible, the primary system which has been adopted in nearly all of the States, and to bridge a return to the old convention plan of nomi- nating candidates for Governor and Senator. The Republican organiza- tion in New Jersey, which met in convention yesterday, had this issue before it. One faction. led by State to all who have capacity the oppor- whom the Anti-Saloon |Deing® used also to break down. If|tunity. no matter what their financial timitations may be. : And this means a revision of entrance requirements. We are now asking only a record of accomplish- ment, not of possibility. The director of admissions of Columbia University well says: “Many a student does and should graduate from high school without being a suitable subject for primaries and elections will be prohi- | Chairman Edward C. Stokes and Sen-[, college education. just as many a Dbition and farm relief, and, in a lesser [ator Edge, favors a return to the |giudent graduates and should grad 'measure, the World Court. The Demo- | convention plan, while National Com-| yate from college who Is not of Ph. D, crats are striving to make the tarify| mitteeman Hamilton F. Kean and|caiiber A paramount issue, hut so far have|former Senator Frelinghuysen headed met with no marked succese along this line. The contests are localized te a great extent within the var'ous States, and as :eg there ssem to he a faction which desires the retention of the primary svetem. The conven- tion adjourned, for a week to thresh this matter out later. This situation accounts for tha §rowing interest in the intelligence test. We nead a gauge in the gaso- line tank. (Copsright. 1026.)