Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1926, Page 8

8 THE EVENING With Sunday Morning "V[“)\R!mlher‘ perhaps especially on mother. Edition. | That may be the reason for children's - | cagerness to go to Summer school. | It 1s a little too much to believe that they tax the capacity of the expand- ing Summer schools because of hun- ger for learning. It s announced that many children will be turned way from the Washington Summer hools, which will be opened July 6. Registration of pupils is larger every vear. There are persons of considerable ‘age who may regret that conditions 1 Fhs Erening Stor. with the Sundas AT, | have changed. Today a large number e G at a0 ety monthy dly 00 of children live in flats and in hoases Der Rl A s iney. Jue woot it or | in close-bullt parts of the city. They tolephone Main sue, " Collortion 18 made BY [ pave no aunt, no uncle, to go to in the country near Washington. If they go to the country it is to a hotel or boarding house, and family finances cannot stand more than a | week or two of that Kind of a vaca- tion. Generally children boarding at ‘h a place do not get the experience which boy rls used to get on the farm. City men, who were coun try boys, must regret that children grow up without knowledge the pleasures—the profitable pleasures- ved in this paner and also the loal TR of the country. With many of those ©f «pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. e their best memories are of the = o i ons learned from Building in the Mall. gentle farm horses, oxen and ox carts, the plan to locate the ! from tramping through the flelds for Department Building | blackberri=s, tramping through the iSaaei the pro- | woods fur hucklcberries and lending ponents of that site that it is in con- 2 hand in the corn and tobacco flelds. formity with @ plan advocated some The pressure for admission to Sum- gmars ago by a commission which, un- mer schools shows that an increasing der the auspices of the Senate District | number of children are bent on get committee, made a survey of the Cap- | ting as much schooling in the short- ftal and proposed an elaborate scheme est time they can and then going to which included the location of a num- ' work. ber of public structures within this — reservation. That survey was never approved by Congress. Nevertheless it fs constantly referred to as some thing established, and building em- placements in accord with it spoken of as warranted by the Millan plan. One of the chief f WASHINGTON, D. C. | WEDNESDAY.....June 30, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor | The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Business Office . 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New Vork Office: 110° Eaxt 43nd St Ohicago Oftice . Tower Building Zuropean Office: 13 Rezent St.. London, England Rate by Mail—Pay n Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday . $9.00: 1 mo.. Daily only oo SH00° 1 mos Slndayoniy 135 $500: 1 mo” All Other States e ada. B 50 nd Can a0 1 mo a0 1 mo $4.00: 1 mo. onls and Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Pross fe exclusively entirled 0 the nea for republeation of all news i patehes credited o it or not otherwise cre of country, of les: In defense of new Commerce tn ths Mall. it by r————— Typical American Service. In the opinion of many of the peo- ple of Europe, and some of the gov- Americans are graspers, with minds solely on the dollars, with hearts throbbing only to the rhythm of the clink of coin. Uncle Sam has been pictured repeatedly in the satiric project was the limitation of What IS art of the overseas press as a greedy, popularly called the Mall to @ rec- hard-boiled collector of funds, a ruth- tangular space much smaller than the less usurer. present park area, extending from the | In view of this belief regarding our Capitol grounds to the Monument. national character, it is gratifying to with buildings flanking the sides, and note a striking example of American with the remaining space treated in generosity that may serve to dispel formal design. When that plan was |the illusion of American avarice that devised there were standing Within |so generally prevails abroad. Yester- the park only four structures, the day at Budapest Jeremiah Smith, Smithsonian, the old National Mu- | American economist, who has recent- seum, the Army Medical Museum and | ly complet'd a two-year task in the rtment of Agriculture. Since | reorganization of the finances of Hun- others have been erected— | gary, declined to recefve 2 check for Y iy war build- | $100,000, representing his fee for that the New National Museum, the | service, tendered to him by the gov- ted Agricul- | ernment of Hungary. The conversa- Gallery. | tion between Mr. Smith and the prime Now it is proposed to lofate the Com- | minister on that occasion, as reported merce Department Duilding there. in the dispatches, is worthy of repeti- the north side, and in the contempla- | tion: tion of the plan for tonal | “Give it to charity,” said the Amer- CGallery Duilding it has been accepted | ¢an, as he handed the check back to ; . . the astonished prime minister. *“Your that it would be placed alongside of poor need it more than I do.” the National Museum “But it is yvour compensation for In the propesal to locate the Com- ernments, atures of that the Dey then fo not to ings two ture Building wings of on new New ~which has upon the scheme. at quarters. Commerce ur- new and ways e many was vour two years’ service to us,” argued merce Department within the park, it | COURLBetRlen 1 desire i urged that it would not trespass for my work is the appreciation and upon the “Mall.” ifussmuch as under |the friendship of the Hungarian peo- been adopted—it would merely front | ¢hay he could not conscientiously ac- “Mall” s laid out in that | cept even his salary from a people in In other words. under the |0 Straitened circumstances as the ngarians. plan mentioned the Mail is to be cut But the vouchers already have down from a large park to a strip of heen issued by the state and their sward with straight driveways, flank- entry cannot be altered in the treas- proximately sixty per cent. la gift from the American people to The only possible justification for a ' the people of Hungary.” Mr. Smith park placement of this proposed gigan- | rejoined, declining definitely to accept ; o the money. tic building is that the site will not | “\when Count Bethlen suggested that cost the Government anything, as it ‘lhe Hungarian government would already owns the land. That is a | lke to honor him with a high deco. dangerous principle upon which to | Tatin the oston lawyer answered: proceed. It would, if followed con-|give you. Your friendship and grati- sistently, lead to the spoliation of the | tude ‘are more precious to me than greater part of the Capital's most dis- | @03 decoration.” tinetive and valuable park. It would | This incident happens to have be- the same time defer and perhaps | come widely known through the pub- permanently prevent the redemption | Jic circumstances in which it occurred. of the disfigured south side’ of Penn- | But there have been scores of others sylvania avenue, which is now a na- | of a like character, though perhaps tional disgrace. | not in just the same terms. Ameri The Department cans have repeatedly given their serv. gently mneads So do | jces for nothing for the sake of suf- other departments of the Government. | fering humanity. They have served Rut the inimediate meeting of that |in perilous situations in times of need should not be at the cost of the | famine and disease, under the fire of Capital's distinguisninz feature, its |artillery, in the midst of turmoil, as central park. | Samaritans for the succor of the afflict- B | ed, as guides for the redemption of Political forecasters continue lnigre:u numbers, sometimes as leaders range the country with a view to X-|in crises. Their names are legion, and plaining how i ceriain region I8 | have never been blazoned. going to vote usually, to sub-| In this vase Jeremiah Smith follow- sequently explaining how it voted|ed a natural impulse. He had done a several other | remarkable work in the rescue of Hun- | gary from financial distress, perhaps Saimer Sibicols. | from collapse. He had, in two years, The Summer schools continue to| by ihat COUNtry onits teet. The par- grow In popuiarity. because they aim | Lament had hailed him as the savior o mcet the meed of many youns per. | °f the country. e felt that he could vone and oo 16 Lo ot the. gy |Tot nocept & feo for suchie work. “He, pns and g ° ¢ |had not gome to Budapest as a busi- sire of pavents. The Institu-{noeq man, hut as the friend of an un- tion of the Summer school, or the Va- | tortunate people cation sehool. was long discussed and |\ ‘Spith hag rendered a great sery. long postponed. There was doubt |jcq 1o his own country in thus declin. that children and parents wished iy 1o capitalize his labors fn Hun. school work to continue through the | og,. 4 warm months. It ol eaKy e Lo diepeljanian, | just illugion regarding the Anerican many persons that no considerable | national character. Although he may number of boys and girls would be | refuse to receive any decoration from willing to forego vacation. It was it the government of Hurgary, he will tradition and had come to be thought Le crowned with laurel by his own gne of the rights of vouth. It seemed countrymen upon his return for hav- that children would resent the 1aking |ing so gailantly and modestly carried away of their olden privilege. It was on the fundamental American tradl- their right in Summer to go to the ! tion. farm of an aunt or uncle and learn B lessons in natural history by helping | Farm relief brings up the old co to milk the cows and feed the chick- | tention that ready money in hand is ens, to wander through woods and |better than ready wit in argument. learn the songs that the wind sings - in pine trees and the difference be. | Italian Reforms. tween white, red and black oaks. It| A constructive program of reforms was the children’s right to go black | gesigned to redeem the lira from its berrying and to help a little In getting | jresent depression and to rescue Italy the bugs off potdto plants and Worms | from an unfavorable trade balance has off tobacco. It was also their right | just been proclalmed by the govern- to revel in the swimming hole of the ment at Rome. Nothing quite like it branch, to get sunburn and freckles |has ever before been attempted by and to go barefoot and have experi|any national administration, demo- ence with stone bruises, cratic or monarchical. It is a drastic Tt is now known to be the desire | series of restrictions and limitations, of many children, and of more than |coupled with affirmative proposals that the schools can accommodate, to seek to cut down waste, increase pro- shorten the number of school years!'duction, concentrate expenditures and stick to their lessons with the upon necessitles and develop indus- idea of getting to work earlier. There tries. {s an urge among Young persons to | . Outstanding in the program of the get on an earning basis. They have 'Fascist government is the lengthen- seen father and mother perplexed ing of the working day by one hour. with the task of paying the grocery l'rhl- is put in the form of an “‘author- bill and keeping up the payments on | fzation.” It does not appear to be a the house. They have dreamed for |mandate. Will the Itallan working- years of being able to bear part of |men accept the new condition? Is the burden resting on mother and'the compensation for a day's 'wark to Y THE EVENING Ibe correspondingly increascd? These questions await answer. If the Mus- I solini government is going to compel | everybody to work an hour longer each day it is tackling one of the hardest jobs it has faced from the start. N More work, less play, more produc tion, less luxury. This is the sub- stance of the new program for Ital It is sound in theory. How it will work out in practice remains to be seen. The Italian people are indus- trious, but they are also pleasure lov- Ing. The working classes bave little in the way of luxury. The more afflu: ent delight in relaxations. Wil the new formula for the national life er- fect the desired results? The economic effect of even a ten per cent addition to production by Italy will be felt beyond the bound- aries of the kingdom. Foreign mar- kets will be affected. The balance of trade may not be soon reversed, from the unfavorable to the favorable side of the ledger, but under an intensive series of stimulations Italy may materially, and every item of gain on this score will help the liva. Thrift and industry, maintained for i decad will do much to redeem that unfo tunate currency unit from its depressed cohdition. . the Traffic Bill! of certain bill on Pass Although an opponent provisions in the amended traft was able to prevent final action the measure when it came up in the Senate yesterday for the adoption of the conference report, Washington 1s confidently expecting final passage in both the ifouse and Senate within a tew days. In its present shape it can be called up in either house at any time. All differences have been ironed out by the conferees and except for its single opponent in the Senate the bill meets with universal approval, and should encounter no further delay The new traffic code is admittedt not perfect, but it is a great improve- ment over the present code, and, fur- thermore, its passage is necessary to avold additional confusion in the traf- fic regulation of the city. With this in mind Congress cannot act too quick- Iy in giving the National Capital the benefit of an improved code. oo President Coolidze walking more than of sport. This enjoyment acteristic of many people. President Coclidge prefers to take his promenades through the leaty and sequestered haunts of New England, instead of along F strect or the Avenue, where the scenery ve garded by many experts as exhilarating. said to enjo; other form char However any is most e The modernists and the funda mentalists convey the comforting as surance that our instinctively pugna- cious representatives of scholarship have to go far back to find something to quarrel about SRRSOV Competition is mentioned by -oal merchants. No ultimate consamer has vet received a bill to indicate that there was a cut-throat war on hand to reduce prices. R - Eagerness to borrow money sug gests that a number of nations have |adopted the famous Mr. Micawber as their patron saint in financial manage- ment. ——— An investigation of affairs the Distriet of Columbia looks like small stuff when the figures involved in various State elections are turned in O e some adroit the possibility still deeper in in Farm relief requi management to avoid of landing the farmer debt. - Syria is at this time so many rumors of universal are proving unfounded. regretting that peace al cam- always politi not “Money talks? paign its expression is logically eonvincing. —e—s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON The Printed Page. I've read the words of wisdom spread Upon the frinted page. I marvel at the wisdom shed To glorify the age. It brings the lamp which reason lights To guide us safe and free, And vet we still have strikes and fights, Oh, how can such things be? These printed lines, from day to day, It measured end to end, Would reach through space too far away For us to comprehend. Yet, even when we've been to school We heathen love to rage. We let the fighting impulse rule And scorn the printed page. Real Work. Are you going to take a vacation this Summer?” o, answered Sdnator Sorghum. “After engaging in vumpal:a!h'ely recreative activities here in Washing- ton I'm now obliged to get out among the home folks and do some real work." * Light-Weight Apparel. Mary had a bathing suit, She thought it large and crude. She had an inspiration cute, And got herself tattooed. { Jud Tunkins says the Fourth of July is gradually coming to look mostly like a selling point for the fireworks manufacturers. The Autocrat of Form. “For whom is that girl at the edge of the pool waiting? The swimming teacher?"” “No. The camera man."” Books. man’s books he will not coal show. As literature they would be slow. We'd really rather read about The flapper and the race track tout. The “Sympathy,” said Uncle Eben, “is sometimes only de satisfaction some one feels in lettin’ you go ahead an’ tell how much trouble you has got yohself into,” - STAR, WASHINGTON, One of the most interesting gardens ' Washington is. the old-fashioned one lving south of the White House, between the mansion proper and the execative office to the east. Fat robins, not one whit_ disturbed they are v the President’s search for worms there as they do in ordinary gardens, Solemn guards, shooing hordes of sightseers along the corridors, man age to keep them out of the place, but they are witerly unuble to do any- thing with the robins. Hopping along the green turf by the small pool, beside the white Japa nese iris, now in bloom, the robins wth many a worm, with a toss y: 0 s, Mr. President. but I must have my dinne; Tt is u,fascinating glimpse which the outof-town visitors to the Vi hite House in such large numbers these mer davs get of this simple, old- ned garden, set in its borders of trimmed hodge, Here one sees no “new-fangled” plants. only the old and tried favor ites of American gardens. In the fol lowing description of it we will tell only as much as any one may see looking out the corridor windows. Talke, then, this peep at the White House garden, and, if you like it, visit the place perscn,” to bear awa your own idea of its beauty. ok ok ok May we not that the guurds ure placed there to enforce the proper way to look a garden—that is, at some distane We detest fingering everyvthing. They are not content looking at flowers in a poke their fingers among the stalks, disarranging the bowl. They cunnot calmly view vour pe old book, but must immediately grab it up, rumple the pages, split the ba and then be no better off than they were before, not even knowing the name of it. ~‘Ihese persons are given to gr ing your new diamond emblem, sizn of your secret fraternity, between thumb and forefinger, and peering at it from a distance of 2 inche. If you permit jt. they will remove it from your person, and pin it upon their own noble chest, in all proba- bility breaking the catch before they Rive it back There ought to be u public educator, to teach such persons how it is pos sible to view objects without luying hands upon them. So, in museums and other places, it his been found advisable to erect chalns, festoons, glass and other bars against the cternal grasper Most properly, therefore, sights are restricted to viewing the old-fash foned garden from the eool cor There, through large windows, one may look into the sun-lit place, and take away with him as much beauty as he is capable of mentally grasping * ok ok ok Those who plan to put bizarre plants in their own home gardens might take stock of the White House garden with great henefit Uncle Sam. a rich old fellow, could planted here the strange floral gifts of many lands and climes. no, he wisely decided in favor plants which any garden may have. You see here iris, both the German persons who insist on with merely 1se, but must of Huston Thompson, militant member of the Federal Trade Commission, is the latest gladiator to enter the sena torial arena. He aspires to be the Democratic candidate in Colorado at the 1926 election. Thompson's term on the Trade Commission, to he was appointed by President Wilson in 1920, will ex e in December. golng to Denver in a few days to explore the palitical situation. His friends are urging him to enter the Democratic primary against Gov. William . Sweet, and, if he wins the nomination, promise to wage an aggre ve cam gn for his elec: tion against Rice W. Means, Repub- lican incumbent. When Gov. Sweet d to fill the Colorado vacancy _following the death of Senator Nicholson in 1923, Woodrow Wilson sent a famous telegram to Denver, recommending the appoint ment of “my friend Huston Thomp- son.” Sweet did not act on the sug- gestion, but named Alva B. Adams. Thompson_would be a battling ex- ponent of Wilson ideals in the Senate. He is an aggressive liberal, a Prince- ton man, just turned 50, and has the backing for the Colorado senatorship of national Democrats who consider him one of the party's future leaders. * ok ok % Andrew W. Mellon bagged three university degrees at June university commencements, heading the cabinet batting average list for the year, but the Secretary of the Treasury is still 2 long way behind Herbert Hoover as a degree holder. The Secretary of Commerce has been “doctored” by no fewer than 2§ institutions in the United States and abroad—in token, in most cases, of his World War serv- ices as American food administrator and reliever of human distress around the globe. Not long ago Hoover found that to be a “doctor” isn’t the empty honor it's supposed to be. He and his boys were motoring through southern California, There was a temporary embargo on gasoline supplies for everything except urgent cases. Only physicians were being accommodated without question. Hoover had an ur- gent trip in front of him. One of his youngsters suggested that the Secre- tary was a “doctor” many times over. That was all right with the dispenser of the gas, and the secretarial tank was forthwith filled. e June 30, 1926, marks the twentieth anniversary of pure food legislation by Congress, 8o in honor of the day the New York Consumers and Producers’ Association gave & luncheon party this noon for Dr. Harvey W. Wiley of Washington. As chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture in 1906 Dr. Wiley was malinly responsible for the passage of the pure food act. The New York organization, which recent- ly made him honorary and advisory chairman of its national food stand- ards committee, thought it fitting to pay tribute to Wiley’'s pioneer work. “Oscar,” famous chef of the Waldorf- Astoria Hotel, made birthday cake for the veteran, who has lived 80 vears and is still active in the fleld of sane edibles. Whole wheat bread is one of Wiley's hobbies nowadays, as it is of Calvin Coolidge. LS Maj. Gen. Hanson E. Ely, U. §. A commandant of the Army War Col. lege, wants officers of our military establishment to be good talkers, as well as capable fighters. At the recent college commencement exercises Gen. Ely pointed out that the Army be- longs to the country, and that it ought to contain men qualified to tell the country about it. To train them for that duty, the War College requires its students.now and then to take the platform and “let themselves go.” Pacifism is still abroad in the land. It is_well organized and strongly financed. Trained speakers are at its dispdsal. They lose no_opportunity to decry preparedness. It is not the business of Army and Navy officers to make propaganda for the military and naval establishments, but Gen. Ely properly. holds it to be within land cers | idor. | | their ;s\\ur»l which | He | | witnesses in the Pennsylvania primary | inquiry for the past three weeks have former | them senatorial |\ Nary so much. D. C., WEDNESDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. and Japanese; phlox, pansies, gladi- oli, peonies, bachelor's-buttons, chrys- anthemums, hydrangeas. It is not a formidable list, is it? Yet it is in keeping with the American spirit, at this veritable center of the national American life. Properly here there is no attempt at display, no aim to impress with an array of exotic plants, no striving for effect. Yet perfect effect is gained by the simplicity of the planting, the neat- ness of the hedges, the proper grow- Ing of the ordinary plants common to most gardens. The flowers In the White House formal garden may be duplicated in your garden or mine, dear reader, and perhaps are, but our gardens do not have the benefit of the expert culture glven this one. Therefore our gladioli are not 5 feet high, nor our Hydrangea paniculata granditiora (@ tremendous name for the ordinary hydrangea) graced with perfect blossoms of an exquisite pink. There is one clump of gladloli placed within several feet of u window, so that the sightscer interested in flowers v study them at leisure. In ordi- culture the great majority of these bulbs grow about 31; feet tall, or perhaps 4 feet. By the selection of some tall.grow- ing variety, however, and intensive tertilization skilled horticulturists, the gladiolus may be grown from 5 7 feet hizh, with'a flower spike long. *owow ok The pansies are the huge varletic featured by the Department of Agr culture in the annual bed displays in front of the main building of the de- purtment. They range from yellow, mahogany and purple to white, the latter being placed at strategic points to_enhance the varied colorings The German iris are, of course, through blooming. but the Japanese are now in flower, their flat white blos soms being effective beside the pool. It is interesting to note that this garden gets the full southern sun, as it is called, with protection from the north winds. We did not note any roses, The phlox is probably the variety Miss Lingard, the best early white. The bachelor's-buttons are effectiv against the hedge background. The lawn, while good. is duplicated American back yards all over the It simply shows what any one may do who loves the grass and is willing to care for ft. Where, in all the beauty of plant life, is there any effect more beautiful than that of a million grass plants in the assemblage which we eall a lawn? Many persons especially fancy the hydrangea, the one with the long name. These will be pleased with the grand fety zrown in the White House garden. It is of u glorious pink, the prettiest we have ever seen in_this flower. The lessons which this garden will teach the sightseer are those of neat ness, care, proper culture and simplic ity. He sees “messy” look, due to flower beds stuck here and there, but only deftly set plants, growing t proper peints, plenty of good gras: neat hedges and common and well-be: in But [loved flowers for the enough enaugh are good If these are White House, for us. good they WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. prerogative to explain to the national defense is. and He himself is a forceful keeping Uncle Sam's adequately sharp and his powder reasonably dry P people what why It is. ®xponent of Senators who have been examining i the utmos to give difficulty in getting straight answers to straight questiol Sume of the wit nesses occasionally failed to conceal their inclination to withheld informa- tion or to give only half-information. That isn't what bothered Senators Reed, King, La Follette, Goff and What got on their nerves is the apparent Insistence of the average witness to make a speech instead of answering a_question. Now and then the stream of loquacity has had to be forcibly dammed, and the witness none too gently led back to the subject in hand, with instructions to stick to it, and nothing but it. * ¥ Kk ¥ Tardy justice has just been done to George Horton, American consul general at Smyrna in September, 1922, when that city was practically de- stroyed, amid scenes of almost un- paralleled savagery and suffering. Horton was fortunate in having been United States consul general at Athens when Senator Moses of New Hampshire was Amer- ican Minister to Greece. It is Moses who has been championing the bill whereby Congress a few days ago granted Horton §11,300 in compensa- tion for the I of his entire personal property during the Smyrna horror. The State Department tried for a long time fo secure remuneration for Horton, but not until Congress was interested in his case did action ensue. Uncle Sam moves slowly in these mat ters. The American consul general's British and French colleagues, who suffered similar losses, were in- demnified by their governments within a few days. Horton h#s had to walit four vears. His new book, “The Blight of Asia,” is attracting wide attention among Americans interested in Oriental developments. * ok ok k& Miss Jessie M. Dell, Civil Service Commissioner, is back from the International Suffrage Al- liance meeting in Paris, bubbling with enthusiasm over what was achieved there. She says the outstanding achievement was “lifting up the ques- tion of equal rights for women before the eyes of the world.” Miss Dell is one of the pillars of the National Woman's Party Chutch. * ok % ok What is it the myriads of patriotic oungsters who visit the United States Capitol long most to see? Dawes? Borah? “Nick" Longworth? The dome? The statues of celebrated Americans? The Supreme Court? None of these things. The prize sight is the underground monorail railway that runs between the lower depths of the Senate wing of the Capitol and the Senate Office Bullding. To that shuttle line, which gives about the only free ride available in the. United States, the boys and girls flock. It's the coolest place in- Washington these days and traffic is heavy. (Copyright. 1926.) o Supernormal. From the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. State normal schools have 'gradu- ated 3,100 teachers this year. As this is the largest list on record, their efforts may be described as above mormal. - v 'Finnish Feet. - From the Christian Science Monitor. Twenty-five thousand pairs of wom- en's shoes of American make, recently reported as too large for sale in Russia, afe to be shipped to Finland. t“l'l’lhelt do the Finnish ladies make of s United States JUNE 30, 1926. Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. Congress Is on the verge of ad- journing again without having passed the farm relief legislation demanded by the corn belt and the wheat farm- ers, nor even the bill to which Presi dent (%oolidge was prepared to give his approval, the Fess bill. The politics of this failure to enact ‘m_relief legislation is somewhat complicated. Opponents of the ad- ministration insist that the Coolidg: prestige has suffered thereby, both be cause of aroused resentment of the agricultural communities of the West and Middle West and becaase of the defeat which was administered Fess bill in the Senate, President had publicly c Congress to put that through. On “the other hand, if President Coolidge has lost some friends in the agricultural communities, his firm stand against the McNary-Haugen bill, which clearly w designed to put up and keep up the prices of food- stufts in this country, has not lost him friends among the people in the industrial centers who have to buy these foodstuffs at prices which they ady consider excessive. s e The President is not personally in the campaign this year, nor has he given any indleation as to whether he will be o candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 192 There is a growing feeling in so quarters, however, that the Preside will not care to be a candidate te ceed himself, in view particulirly the fact that if he were nominated and elected President in 1 and served through the new term, he would have been Chief Executive for & period of approximately 10 vears No other President has ever served longer than 8 years. But irre spective of the fact that the Pres dent has no direct personal interest in the congressional campaign, the result cannot fail to be of importance to his administration. The electio of a Democrat enate or House, ¢ both, would hamstring his-efforts for legislation during the last two years of his term. upon measure * K ok x The faflure of farm legislation may help to bring about the nomination and election of more ul Republi cans from the West Brookh already has been nominated for Senate by the Republicans in Ir Senator Nve is likely to be elected for the short term and nominated for the long term in the North Dakota elec tion and primary today. The Democrats in the West Middle West, on the other hand little chance of gaining from the fail ure to enact farm legislation. They would support neither the MeNary Haugen bill, which the farm organiza tions wanted, nor the Fess bill, which the President and his Secretary of Agriculture wanted. They left in the position of obstructionists * ok ok x the are One thing Democrats the Senate un to do du consideration of the farm bi sought to revive interest in as a major polit They have tried to lay the ground for an appeal to the f: % of the West to j with them to lower the Republican protective tariff, on the theory that if the tariff were lowered on the things the farmer has to huy he would be so much the better off the farmers know that if the ta were lowered and the industrial work ers, who must after all be the con sumers of the farmers' produce, are s able to buy foodstuffs, the ma of the farmer in this country will scarcely be helped. The tariff has been the issue many times in the past between the Re publicans and the Demoerats, nd the Republicans have henefited for th most by this issue. It is true that after the passage of the Payne-Aldr tariff act, in 1909, the country reall took fire over this issue and returned a Democratic Congress. But that the shining example of Democrs success on the tariff issue. It hap- pened. too, immediately after the adoption of ‘the Republican tariff. To day the Fordney-McCumber tariff act has heen in effect for several yea and the Republicans won a great vic tory at the polls since its enactment. X ok % % The Democrats in New York State have, it is believed, about accom- plished their purpose of drafting Gov. Al Smith as_their candidate for gov- ernor next November. Thev fi that this will be the better plan both for the party in New York and for Gov. Smith's chances for the presi- dential nomination in 1928, Gov. Smith, it is reported. is anxious to have Franklin D. Roosevelt as hi running mate on the Democratic ticket in November, Roosevelt seeking elec- tion to the Senate seat now held. and held so well for a long time, by Sena- tor James W. Wadsworth, Republican Roosevelt would he a formidable can didate for the Senate, particularly in view of the defection of some of the dry Republicans because of Wads- worth's bold announcement that he fa- vored repeal of the eighteenth amend ment to the Constitution. This an- nouncement, it is expected, will gain Senator Wadsworth many votes in New York City. RBut Mr. Roosevelt is personally popular in New York. He bears a name with which to conjure in that State. He was Gov. AL Smith’s floor manager in the last Democratic national convention and he would re- ceive a great percentage of the Smith strength. Mr. Roosevelt, however, has so far side-stepped the proposal that he be a candidate for the Senate. His health, while greatly improved over what it was a couple of years ago, would scarcely permit him to make a very active campaign. A campaign might also set back his m- provement in health. ' * ok ko in ng 1 issue. ey In Ohio. the race for the Democratic nomination for the Senate has finally narrowed down to former Senator Atlee Pomerene and Judge Florence E. Allen of the Ohio Supreme Court. Miss Allen and her friends are secking to rally the Democratic women, and Republican, too, partly because she is a woman and partly because she is a dry, while Senator Pomerene is rec! oned a wet. It is on the cards, how- ever, that Pomerene will win the nomination. Should Miss Allen then elect to make the race for the Sena as an independent candidate agai Pomerene the Democrat and Senator Willis the Republican, it would re- main to be seen whether she would injure Pomerene or Willis. Senator Willls is a dry and Miss Allen might draw many woman votes from him. On the other hand, she might draw dry Democratic votes from Pomerene. Senator Willis' friends insist that her candidacy as an independent would be of assistance to Senator Willis. * ok ok Having drawn a great deal of politi- cal poison from its investigation of the Republican senatorial in Pensylvania, the Senate investigat- ing committee, headed by Senator “Jim” Reed of Missourl, Democrat, is soon to transfer its activities to Illi- nois. Stories of huge expenditures for the nomination of Col. Frank L. Smith, chairman of the Illinois Com- merce Commission, have been given wide circulation. The charge is made that a number of the traction com- panies in the State, or their officers, contributed largely to the Smith cam- paign fund, which has been estimated anywhere from $700,000 to $2,000,000 or $3,000,000. Senator William B. Me- Kinley, who was defeated for the momination, is believed to have ex- ® { their mother primaries i ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. Are brothers and blood relation to each and_fathe A. 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P;'ess Upholds Attitude ican press ¢ of the plebiscite dra the cause n has suff “Dlessed ar | they are more ble | upon earth 1 | th tates th: wias and seek 1o make ment of the San which eriticizes Chilean politicians that come trine it conflict with b and protected by As for the iterference, roy " does 1 ed Monroe do of ‘eternal comes s ) jtive of the hat United Tacna-Arica o in The Willia { that “Chile fore the w News-Courier holds that set by Chile is one,” for that } “what the Chileans have ¢ matter is no he cause upon which the nations gen erally are spending so much eff 2 The resolution by plel cite commissio the New York Sun as ch with the knowledge and the Chilean authorities terrorism has been empl purpose of intimidating Peruvi voters and thus making certa the verdict at the polls would Chile. spen and blunt.” ¢ sport Sun's L ba the ‘the ¢ s and Sas adopted or to do with internat Americanopinion other informe tries not by blind por will plac me for the breakdown of this interested to relieve the South Ameri ntinent of a fes. | tering sore. squ where it longs. upon th And doubtless in is a e reference.” * % ind that el shoulders many chanceller stubborn attitude,” Acuse » than a repetition of the methods practiced by ambitiou tions in their temporar: of territory provisionally’ intr them by pence treaties penc final decision of the question of own ership.” The Fort Waorth Record Telegram sums_up the situation follows: heavil “Chile’s toward a square deal. is particularly true in a case we were serving as umpire. could have gone into Tacna-Arica engineered the most plebiscite that the wor nessed. Gen. Pershing ready for the ballots. 1 has ever wit had one But the con deal.” as “a retrogre of international av Philadelphin Evening the judgment that ve step in tration, ulletin ‘Chile's to permit such a fair and free elec tion as President Coolidge and as Gens. Pershing and La were determined to insure if was to he any voting at ail.” /These two provinces, however, ac “are of value simpl nitrates, and it is a question, not that American _ dispute. The Tribune, describing the disputed ritory as “‘waste lands which s no more than 35,000 inhabitants,” clares that ‘“only when the of Chile and Peru realize the ter- priz pended some $300,000 or more, all h own money. It happens in Illinois in Pennsylvania, that the candidate for the Democratic nomina tion had to expend practicall money, George I candidates of no politi Tllinois, there is no law to penditures, nor is there any law compel the candidates mittees to file expen: may make it somew! 1 for the Senate investigating commit. tee to dig out the truth in Illinvis than it was in Pennsylvania. A senta- invited the the An accusation of bad faith so ntinues the Sun, n nts having al | swayed the be- Chile. fact which will be filed for *cupancy sted to ing the as The American nature leans comprehensive | weak gene all L tending natlons did not want a square | 00K the The Pittsburgh Sun views the result the field and_the offers whole course indicates that it never intended |it. ! ture stipulated, ssiter there | ) tains cording to the Reno Evening Gazette, because of their of people or nationality. but of property, ctually is involved in the South Oakland | i port de- people is not worth the effort and can forget those animosities born in politically as successful no Brennan having been opposed in Illinois by two other | 4l strength. In compel | the filing of primary campaign ex-| to| nd their com- | es of the pri- mary campaign in Washington. This more difficult American on Tacna- Arica ceontpanied b ¥ rtun Tt ve Leen unt again 1tions \meric: again?’ should Lynel Disy such to think e prestige wot ile the callin in the ex advises s of i asis." d Little Rock the of Demioc question ction by t} results wh 1 to the le ary than real, espec time,” when Europe need W g rhe Ut not ririse that “'serious low an appe more_ima t this 1y in while the Governmer spe nosing into this hemispl everything is hashed now Lurope niy get into the controversy THINK IT OVER An Important Lesson is By William Mather Lewis, President George Washington University An undisciplined generation ation. Many of those who arguing tor and against military ining in our schools tend to over- nost essential constderation ected with it N Those who are its advocates point out the physical Lenefits derived from Clearly, military drill benefits pos- and has otlier advantages in physical conditioning. But if the same amount of time were used for individual corrective exercises and fe mass activities where the game ele- ment stirs the youth's interest, great er results would be obtained. The opponent of military drill main that it breeds a militaristic spirit, and is, therefore, detrimental to the cause of universal peace. This s an assertion that would be hard to substitntiate. We have had military ining ever since this country wis founded, and the rarest trait in Amer. iean today is that of militarism. The conversation and ideals of students in militaryschools and colleges _differ very little from those in non-military con | institutions, The most essential consideration in connection with military training is its disciplinary value. As Elbert Hub- bard says, “The thing that our youns men need most is a_ stiffening of the vertebrae, which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the { thing, That system of education which overlooks the element of discipline is Many of our present-day prob lems may be traced to a lack of disci- pline; the unwillingness of youth to do anything which does not suit thefr the refusal of adults to observe aw that runs counter to selfish Military training, where or ders must be executed promptly and accurately and without argument, has a distinct and useful value in the field of education. (Copyright. 1086.)