Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1926, Page 5

(CROPS B FACTOR" ¢ INPOLITAL A « Bumper Yield Would, Ease * Farmers’ Wrath Against Republicans, . BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. ‘Wind and weather, with attendant Bood crops in the Western agricul- tural country this Summer, will prove, m the judgment of farm leaders, to be of farreaching political effect. WASH.-VA. RAILWAY . MAY BE SOLD SOON ‘What they mean is that if the farm- | principall; ers are blessed with a satisfactory in the wheat and corn coun- try, and correspondingly favorable prices, much of the “grouch” will be Temoved from their radical demands for Government aid. Good crops, these leaders declare, will not entirely make the farmers forget their troubles. But they will take the “bile” out of the clamor with which these troubles were ven- tilated in Washington last Winter and Spring and put the ruralists’ spokes- men in humor to approach the solu- tion of farm troubles from the eco- nomic rather than the emotional standpoint. By the same process of reasoning the Weather Bureau has become an important ally of the Coolidge admin- istration and the Republican party. That is to say, if Mother Nature is kind to the Western farmer in 1926, he will vote his normally Republican | sympathies and not go to the congres- sional polls in November with blood in his eye as far as G. O. P. candi- dates are concerned. Bumper crops and high prices are certain to save many a nominee for House and Sen- ate now in danger of defeat because of farm discontent with Coolidge ag- ricultural policies. Axes to Be Resharpened. The meteorological aspect of the po- ltical situation has not dulled the edge of the ax the discomfited and disgruntled farm leaders are swing- ing. The ax, indeed, is to be resharp- ened during the Summer and Autumn, and If it happens that the farmer is in worse rather than better mood after the harvest, the corn belt crowd, which led its hosts to defeat on Cap- ftol Hill in May and June, will clear for action at Washington in Decem- ¥ ber in more determined spirit than be- { fore. This -writer can make that statement on high authority. comes from directly inside the Mec- Nary-Haugen high command's quarters. Three successive defeats for Mc- Nary-Haugenism in as many years have not taken tho fight out of its supporters. They were within half & dozen votes of victory.in the Senate in June. Their plans were at the eleventh hour by the refusal of. the cotton belt South to make com- mon cause with the corn belt Mid- west and the wheat belt Northwest. ‘When next they scale the enemy’s heights, the McNary-Haugenites be- ‘Heve they will have a working alll- ance between South and West in in- « vincible shape. New plans for a Washington cam- paign will be formulated at Reno, Nev., on July 26 and 28 at a regional oconference of farm States. It will in effect be a renewal of the famous Des Moines meeting in January, when the recent congressional drive for '‘the McNary-Haugen scheme was launched. ‘The star performer at Reno will be ‘| S8am H. Thompson of Illinois, the new president of the American Farm Bu- reau Federation and prime mover in recent developments at Washington. Before reaching Nevada, Thompson ‘will make speeches all the way across the country. He's going to dwell, in chapter-and-verse fashion, on the vot- ing records of Representatives and Senators when farm legislation was before Congress this past session. Ten or o dozen States in which these men are up for re-election will \De crossed by Thom and those who were not with the corn-belt bloc will be in for some -powerful castiga- tion at Thompson’s hands—and, of rse, their constituents will be asked g:;:.‘omh them without stint. re going to Reno, Thompsor will confer with other McNary- nites in Chicago and map out Summer and Autumn drive ‘mgainst their opponents. Their plans contemplate not only political puni- tive measures, but the widening of jon ameong grain-grow- farmers of all classes. The Mc- Nary-Haugen legislation fell afoul in ‘Washington of the feeling that it was oconcelved so largely in the interest of corn that raisers of other produce— wheat and cattle, for instance—were being unfairly discriminated against. It is now proposed to league all tillers of the Western soil for the purpose of making agriculture “safe for McNary- Haugenism."” Among the leaders to assembls in Chicago are Gov, Hamill of Iowa, & strong proponent of the corn-belt pro- gram, and George N. Peek of Moline, Ill, who was the fleld marshal of the McNary-Haugen forces at Wash- ington from March till July. The next drive of . the corn-belters and their hoped-for allies will be essentially a drive against the tariff. According to 1 ‘The point will be raised, not for the first time, but reaffirmed with fresh vigor, that industry has protec- tion through the customs.tariff; that labor has protection through the im- on law, and that banki ‘The difficulties first came to light on Nov- ember 5, 1923, when Mrs. Mattle M. ot several of the properti a degree of insolyency through “wrongful on, * waste and reckless, improvident and unlaw- ful financiering; abuse of its corporate powers and unlawful diversion of pro- Goutt.” 3 Mrs. Neéwcomer's allegations cov- ered a period since 1908, when the Falls Church and Mount Vernon lines were merged into one system, with King later also preside the Washington Raflway and Electric ‘0. The petition of Mrs. Newcomer re- ferred to this consolidation and as- serted that “the Washington Utilities Co. was created under the laws of Virginia by Clarence P. King as part of a scheme of accomplishing a huge consolidation of streei railway inter- ests in and about the District of Co- ku‘:lbh &Y;;l adjoining States.” This scheme, was alleged, psed, b‘r'i:‘{in‘ about the state of insolvency . . Court Finally Takes Action. The company, in reply, told the court that Mrs. Newcomer’s charge ‘were ‘‘misstatements of fact,” and en- tered a demurrer. Judge Brent on November 15, 1923, denied Mra. New- comer’s petition, but shortly there- after other creditors of the company Joined in seeking a receivership, and upon the company’s admission of dire financial straits, involving the' defaul- ture of interest on its bonds for three years, the court appointed Mr. Rey: nolds as receiver. Since going into the hands of the receivership the company has made several bids for bigger and better profits, first by the institution of a “parlor car” service to Mount and then by establishment of line between Fairfax, Falls 8 ‘Vernon a bus ed | Church and Washington. In spite of these efforts to keep its footing, the ly;’t:cm ;“n‘vpmnuy has n a discou: struggle, and the decision to terminate the‘n' celvership as soon as possible is be- lieved to be the outcome. Definite statements from the com- pany regarding detalls of its plans for the future were not available last night. Mr. Reynolds, it was said, is in Florida, and Mr. Woodcock returned to Chicago shortly. after the meeting in Alexandria. John W. Rich, general superintendent of the road, disclaimed knowledge of the activities of the re- ceivers, beyond the fact that Mr. ‘Woodcock held a conference with the committee in Alexandria yesterday. CROP FUMIGATION ~ URGED FOR FARMERS Small Producers Can Save Much by Early Action to Combat Insect Pests. Immediate fumigation to rid the 1926 wheat, corn and other cereal crops of insect pests immediately upon harvesting is urged by Drs. E. A. Black and R. T. Colton, entomologists of the United States Department of Agriculture, as a means of saving American farmers millions of dollars this year. Ignorance of control meth- ods, it is claimed, costs farmers a large share of their profits each yéar by causing them to sell their newly harvested grain as soon as possible to avold loss from insect attack. frey ‘Soula ‘hold thelr “grain longer 'y coul 0] ir In r and realize later turns. 2 “What the farmer or corporation with financial has found prof- itable the farmer vm.l\ limited means will .also find profitabl :.‘" ‘Dr. Black. e Department of Agriculture has made a study of the various chem- fumigants and ing has | B protection through the Federal Re.(FW e act. ¢ Agriculture Held Unguarded. DOnly agriculture, “the basic indus- try,” ‘is: left without protection, ac- carding o the - McNary-Haugenites' atgument. They do not admit that the tariff on cereals, which gives the ican farmer absolute control of home market, is protection in any sense, because the United States luces so much of its own food- 's that importations do not enter the picture at all. Whe American Farm Bureau Fed- lon has issued a circular letter ng the defeat of the McNary- ugen bills upon “‘pressure from the o administration” and upon the ustrial POLICE CHIEF KILLED.; the | Second Officer’ Wounded in Gun Fight With Negroes. CHICAGO, July 10 (#).—James Yéo- fef of police of Hazel FOR “SCRAP VALUE”| on good market re- | P ‘HOW THE S EET CAPITOL PARKWAY DEVELOPING WILL BE STARTED IMMEDIATELY (Continued from First Page.) tion of the old city walls and moats of Manila as public parks, and estab- and Rock Island, ; Gary, % Paul, Buffalo, Phoenix, Pasadena and ‘was an adviser on the plans for New York and environs. He was also en- gaged on the plans for Ottawa, es- pecially the extension of the Parlia- ment and other government build- ings. He planned the artillery can- tonment at Camp Knox, Ky. Long Was Congres Aim. An indication of the long-standing determination of Congress that this section should be treated with supe- rior taste and care, s shown in the report of Senator Wetmore of Rhode Island in May, 1910, as chairman of blic buildings ‘heretofore a or in the future criticisé, except fav- orably, - the = expenditure . of .| money uwnythe surroundings of the Capitol building, though involving large sums, it made on broad and liberal lines, and in accordance with well consid- ered plans. “The Union Station is the gateway of the Nation through which the peo- ple of all parts of our country pass, and get their first view and impres- sion of the Capital City of the Nation. In view of this, no site in the Dis- velopment, mmmment of the area between the Union Station and the Capitol group should be permitted. This area is not only a vista for the Capitol, but it is a p] for the entire ¢ building ich, with their Sites har Tore. than $40,000,000, 199 and the fact that some dozen years ago the Government acquired 189,467 square feet in the plaza for 1,414,306, while for the remaining 5,737 square feet it has just paid $8,130,000. 2| the Union Station line of said avenue to be located on the axis of the Peace, it and gite of the ‘which was at one time occupied as a Senate Office Bullding and later by certain members of the House, is now occupied by the Federal Board of Vocational Education. This building will be razed as soon as the Public Buildings Commission can find other quarters for that activity. However, this cleaning up of the Capitol plaza stretching to Union Sta- tion, though of prime importance, is but one part of the whole program to tremendously improve the Capitol setting. Other features include: 1. Location of a new home for the Supreme Court of the United States, facing the Capitol and on a line with the Library of Congress, with which it is to harmonize, on the land be- tween East Capitol street, Maryland avenue, First and Second streets northeast. 7 New Office Building. 2. New House Office Butiding, be- tween New Jersey avenue and Dela- ware avenue, B and C streets, south of the Capitol. 3. Acquisition of the site just west of the proposed new office building, between B and C strects, First street and Delaware averie/' Thelnew La- bor Bullding and a new apartment house are on this square, as are also a number of old dwellin This s the one large square needed to com- plete Government ownership entirely surrounding the Capitol grounds. 4. Relocation of the National Bo- tanic Garden, which has already been approved by the Senate and on which the House will take action during the next session. The plan is to locate the main exhibition conservatory on the square bounded by First and Sec- ond streets, Maryland avenue and B street southwest, and with the tri- angle just south of that, between First and B and Canal streets, utilized for the famous Bartholdi fountain. The acquisition of the square where the Labor Bullding now is located would afford a frontage and outlook on the Capitol grounds for the entire Botanic Garden, which would have its propagating gardens along the site of the old James Creek Canal, down Canal street, which has been occupied by the District bureaus of public works and which was recently turned over to the Botanic Garden. Streets To Be Relocated. (5) In connection with the authorized new broad avenue from Union Sta- to the Peace Monument, and with authorized development of B street from Lincoln Memorial, across lvania avenue and along the 4 location of suitable focus attention on the Mall develop- ment, which has long been neglected and which Congress intends to act upon In the next session. (6) If this new arrangement of streets is approved, it is proposed to match®™ff with the new Botanic Gar- den Conservatory on the south of The Mall entrance with an aquarium on the north corner, at First street and Pennsylvania avenue. The Botanic Garden with a museum of plant life and the aq um would be of great educational value as well as of in- terest to all tourists who enjoy such exhibitions near the Capitol, which is always the center of their sight-see- ing. (T) This new arrangement would give greater prominence to one of the most important statuary groups in the entire country, the Grant Me- morial, which now is hidden in Botanic Garden shrubbery, It is proposed that this hereafter shall be virtually in the Capitol Grounds and that to the west will be constructed a mirror pool similar to the one near the Lin- ‘coln Memorial. That pool would be in The Mall, between Second and Third streets. (8) With the development of the Capitol-Union Station Plaza Park must come an architectural front on whet is now the unfinished back of the Senate Office Building, along C| Th street, between Delaware avenue and First street northeast. There now is a dip in the grade of Delaware ave- nue at C street and the plaza im- provement means & ing of that street on a gradual elevation. g Entrance Never Completed. Because it was foreseen that eventually there would be such a need regarding the entrance to the Senate Office Building at Delaware avenue and C street it was never completed and thére are only old wooden steps. The C street side, or north front, of the Senate Office Building always has been hiddenand is of the plainest design. With the development of the vista from Union Station ‘to the Capitol this side of the office building will be very coi uous. - For that reason it will be re- built to conform: to the more monu- mental style on the Delaware avenue side. It ‘readily can be seen from the above that the development of the Capitol grounds leads into the Mall development and the long-de- sired improvement of the south side of Pennsylvania avenue, on which the Government laid a -dead hand nearly a quarter of a cuntlrry"-g;', ’ that Buildings Commiissfon for a long time has advocated just such e pro- gram of steady and co-ordinated de- yelopment, The famous report of 1916 recommends as follows regard- Ing the surroundings of the Capitol, the Botanic Garden, the Mall develop- ment and the area south of the Capi- tol to the river: 3 “Measures should be taken to poses of public gardens certain Gov- ernmentsowned squares on the north of the Capitol Grounds, and also cer- tain squares on the south, when the latter shall be.purchased for the pur- pose of extending those grounds. The greenhouses now in.the Botanic Gar- be transferred to the Jlmz‘fir..k Canal area and there maintained until Congress provides for a national botanic garden and arboretum, adequate . in size and scope. “South Capitol street, Delaware avenue south, and those James Creek Canal spaces not occupied for public purposes should be developed in the same manner and to the same extent | o that other streets and reservations in the ecity of Washington are im- proved. The aim is to make suitablo connections between the Capitol and the Army War College and Potomac River front, and also to provide an area for the sanitary housing of the mechanics called for by the increase in the Navy Yard and of industrial workers generally. “The park connecting the Capitol and White House, known as the Mall, now contains the Smithonian Insti- tution, the Nationa] Museum, the Freer Gallery, the Army Medical Museum, the aquarium of the Bureau of Fisheries, a!l buildings in which ly is interested. thus set should be proposed extension of Museum, and the rebullding of Fisheries and the Army Medical Museum. Aree should be reserved for a National Gallery of Art to house the collections of paintings and statuary now crowding the other exhibits in the new National standards set by the newer Mall bufldings should be maintained.” HUMBUG HAS VANISHED IN COURTING, ONE VIEW now made in automobiles and the old- |' fashiongd idea that they are made in a ball room and that young women ago. Only the really beautiful unchanged, and still privilege of being dumb, says uhoun, ‘who believes that e “nonsensical humbug” in lations between boys and girls has disappeared. o|RECORD FLYERS IN CRASH Treasury, should be toned up by .the public buildings along its entire length, and all lands ' facing the Capitol grounds should ultimately be used either as or as the location is | Congress gardens for public buildings having relation ‘monument 4 ¢ | morial ‘westerly fountain in | to the legislative branch of the Gov- ernment. Park Development Urged. “The. Botanic ‘Garden area should ‘be developed into a public park, giv~ ing an_appropriate setting to the Grant Memorial now approaching completion and to the Meade Me- soon to be erected by the State of Pennsylvania. The - intendent of the .Botanic Garden should be authorized to use for pur- Automatic Gas Water Heaters PARIS, July 10 UP).—Capt. Ludovic Arrachart his MM-“M. who Sae . from. the -EADPRTERE i Ing Paris, to Basra, on the have met with a mishap on thelir re- turn. ‘When 60 miles south of. , near Persian Gulf, | - FORTRIAL FRIDAY Amgfican in Foreign Legion in, Syria Charged With ‘Abandoning His Post. - TITLE TO HIS LIST By the Associated Press. DAMASCUS, Syria, July 10.—Ben- pett P. Doty of Memphis, Tenn., young member of the French Foreign Legion in Syria, will face a court-mar- tial on charges of desertion on July 16. The young American enlisted in the legion as Gilbert Clare and has been in the citadel of Damascus since June 5. The formal charge against him accuses him of abandoning his post. “before armed rebels.” James M. Harvey, an English mem- ber of the legion, who is accused of leaving his post at.the same time as Doty, will be tried on the same date. The French judge advocate, Capt. Pugney, has conducted an exhaustive investigation Into the affair because of what he terms the “wild reports’ sent to the United States by so ‘American correspondents during the first week in June, when Doty was re- ported as having been already tried and executed. It is expected that Doty will not suffer anything' more serious than a brief prison senten In a recent interview with a corre- spondent for the Associated Press at the citadel prison in Damascus young Doty said that it was home- sickness which caused him to.leave his company while actively engaged the Druses. He pointed vig- orously to the citation which he had received in battle as proof that he was no coward and told the corre- 10 | gpondent that he hoped to serve out his enlistment and recover his hona as a soldler. Although admitting that he had left the company, Doty said that he surrendered vojuntarily as soon as he realized his breach of mili- tary rules. CZAR SENDS “MESSAGE.” Psychic Congress Report, How- ever, Omits Any Details. PARIS, July 10 (#).—The recent session of the International Psychic Congress in Paris produced a message from the “unknown” the Grand Duke Alexander of Russia being the me- dium, according to currenf{ report. The message, presumably late Czar, was delivered at a secret session and was stated to be “very in- teresting.” Nothing more definite than that was announced. The public meetings abounded in lengthy treatises on how to transform lead into gold or how to Thd water by means of divining rods. the session was held in Fontainbleau, where. diviners pointed out hot springs by means of their wands. The Paris press was inclined to snick- er at the “discoveries,” since the springs have been known since the days of the Romans and are described in all guide the i 1 8% g i in a tie for sixteenth place ‘vas Jim- my Thompson of Richmond, Va., who is only 17 years old. In spite of a poor 82 Friday, young Thompson got a total of 306, scoring 73 and 74 to- day. He shared that score with no less Mike Brady, Worcester last year only after a dou- ble tie, slumped to an 81 on the last round for a total of 307. He started with a par 72, but got 79 on y falr with a 75 ti af- ‘There were no particular upsets, ex- cept the elimination of some stars in the first two rounds. Bobby Cruick- shank, who also once tied with Jones for this title, was to do bet- which was his worst spot on the course, for he took three 48 and a 5 on it, always by falling short: in a trap. ¢ Recovers en. Last Lap. Jones found his cunning again as he enl the last lap, scoring’ seven 4s in a row, one of them’a birdie. In fact, he virfes ‘this score on each of the last nine holes only by taking a par § on the baby seventeenth. The gallery Jones had to work harder for this victory, probably, than for any of his confessed he was stale from too much competition. - He had gone through a hard struggle in Great had been traveling for with a well hit iron. ‘The pellet came to rest 25 feet from the pin, and Bobby all but holed the homeward putt for an eagle 3. He got down his marvelous ability displayed itselc] 05, the Jesired hirdie and then sat for he scored par or better on a num- down to watch what his trailing com- He ressed st petitors would do. going out. in 39, he took 49 for the trip. Even in this' round Leaves 7th St. Whart Dally 10 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. romance of : big business was again strikingly exempli- fied on June 29th when ‘ Jeremiah Smith, the Amer- ican ‘economist from Boston, who had been delegated by the League of Nations as Commissioner for Hungary, de- clined to accept the $100,000 salary due him for his two years’ work, declaring that he could not accept this money from a nation. y i;kh@lyuwmmwrudofmeh " a display of altrunism on the part of one who is not wealthy. - To be able to indulge . in some of our higher impulses necessi- tates the prerequisite of independence, at il pendent is to save a part of your income. | sTs.mli-'thlmtmm' in the singi nti manitesto by the Ilinols Ag: Bank which pays 5% interest e i i compounded .