Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1926, Page 46

o THE EVENING STAR ___With Sunday Morning Edition. _WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY.........August 1, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. 0 Building. St.. London, Chicago European O “Ensiand: Byt mm“"'i"' Star. with the Sunday tion, {8 delivered by carriers e city at 60 cen : dally only. 45 cents per mont! s por month Onjers may be sent phons Main 5000, Collection s made r at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Bailz tas, Sunduy -} Sunday only " 1358 All Other States and Canada. Das 2.6 Baliz a0, % SARGR: e a0 Sunday only $4.00; 1mo.; 38c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled 1o the use for republication of all news dis- Patches credited 10 it or not otherwise cred- ited in this paper and also the local newa published herein. = All rights of publieation ©f wpecial dispatches herein are also reserved. Coolidge and the Third Term. The renomination and re-election of President Calvin Coolidge 1is pre- dicted by Richard Washburn Child, former Ambassador to Italy. Mr. Child in an interview is re- ported to have said that the people want Coolidge because they like his pelicles and his administration. He added: “I don’t believe the people care & snap of their fingers about the third- term issue.” Right there Mr. Child put his finger on an issue which will doubtless be made by opponents of President Coolidge. In view of all the facts, however, the issue will be unjustly made if made at all. President Coolidge succeeded to the %eflc 1s now. the one company has built more cars than the total number of automobiles in Europe today. The Ford air filvver is admittedly an experiment. Although tests have {shown that it flies easily and grace- fully, there will be no immediate at- tempt to manufacture it in quantities The world, particularly the United States, 1s not prepared yet to accept air travel in preference to surface travel. Facilities for this new method of transportation on a large scale are be as great a problem as surface traf- If this comes about it is conceded that F-O-R-D will be the in- signia on the motors of a great ma- Jority of the ships flying in t‘l':: eky. ————— Time to Act.’ Revelations of huge expenditures of money in the Pennsylvania and Illinols primary elections have brought Con- gress and the State Legislatures face to face with the problem of putting a limitation upon the sums which may be used by and for candidates for nomination and election to the Senate and’ House. There is grave doubt whether Con- gress can tackle constitutionally the matter of limiting expenditures in a State nominating primary, particu larly in view of the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Truman H. Newberry, a Senator from Michi- gan. It may be that the House and Senate, which are the sole judges of the qualifications of their members, rust limit themselves to determining whether men and women for whom great sums of money have been ex- pended are entitied to be seated; that the only course open to the houses of Congress is to proceed by investi- gation to determine whether large presidency August 3, 1923, upon the death of the late President Harding. He held the high office for the nine- teen months which remained of the Harding term. President Coolldge then entered the four-year term for which he was elected in 1924. To claim that he will have served two terms when March 4, 1929, rolls round would be neither fair nor correct. A presidential term, under the fanguage of the Constitution, is four years. When President George Washington declined to serve more than two full terms as Chief Executive he set a precedent. This precedent has never been broken. Grant tried it, with disastrous results, nearly half a cen- tury ago. Theodore Roosevelt, after serving three and one-half' years of the McKinley unexpired term and a four-year term to which he himself was elected, sought, after a lapse of another four years, to enter the White House again. He, too, failed. To George Washington has often been attributed the statement that no man should sérve more than two terms as President. But nowhere in his papers is found that direct state- ment. In his farewell address, deliv- ered September 17, 1796, Washington announced to the tountry that he 'would decline to be a.candidate to succeed himself. After announcing his determination he used the follow- ing language, which has been vari- ously and widely interpreted and paraphrased: I beg you at the same time to do | me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken with- out a strict regard to all the consid- erations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country; and that in withdrawing the tender of service, which silence in my situation might imply, I am influ- enced by no diminution of zeal for your future interest, no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kind- ness, but am supported by a full con- viction that the ‘step is compatible with both. ‘Washington made it clear in his address that he wished to retire from office for personal reasons. He went so far as to say that he had prepared a statement toward the close of his first term declarfng that he would not be & candidate to succeed himself. The critical position of the foreign relations of the country and the ad- vice of his friends had caused him to withhold that statement. Had the farewell address been delivered at the «close of the first term of Washington, might not a “single-term” precedent have been established Instead of the two-term precedent? The feeling has developed in the course of time that If two terms were enough for Washington they should be enough for any man. The per- petuation of a President in office for en unduly long period is undesirable in the United States. But it is no more so than the perpetuation of any political party in control of the Gov- ernment. The form of government d the control exercised by the peo- e themselves through the ballot box #sake such perpetuation so remote =8 to be practically an impossibility. ‘With difficulty could the American peopls be led to believe that President Coolldge should not be re-elected in 1928 because he served nineteen months of the unexpired term of Presilent Harding. His right to a second elective term will be deter- miined by the people solely upon the record which he has made as Chief Executive and the record of the Re- publican party of which he is the gitular head. ———————— Mexico has had & number of dicta- Rors, but has not found one of the Mussolini type. ——— e The First Air Flivver. Henry Forg has really bullt an air Rivver. He showed it to correspond- ents “Friday on his sixty-third birthday with great pride. Twenty: two feet wing span, fifteen feet long and = three-cylindered French engine, the tiny craft is capable of an air speed of eighty-five miles an Kour. ‘Waighing three hundred and . fifty pounds with the French engine, but only three hundred and ten when the new Ford motor is installed, the little airship can almost be put in the fam- 11y garage. ! ‘With the building of his first air filvver Mr. Ford celebrated the con- struction of the fourteenth million Ford motor car, which is rather a amounts’ of money have been ex- pended, and expended improperly. The States themselves are in an entirely different situation. They can deal with their own primaries effec: tively, provided, of course, that the people themselves are awakened to the need. A disheartening phase of the testimony -adduced during the Senate investigation of the Pennsyl- vania primary was the apparent fndif- ference of the voters of that State toward the “system’ which has pre- vailed there in the conduct of political elections. Witnesses admitted that there seemed to be little chance of amending the State election laws or even of enforcing those which are now on the statute books. ‘“‘Corrupt and content” is the picture presented. Some expenditures of money in po- litical campaigns are entirely justified. Theso legitimate expenditures may even run into high figures, depending entirely upon the size of the elec- torate which the condidates for office are seeking to convince. It would be idle and unfair .to limit the ex- penditures which may be made by and for a candidate for the Senate in New York or Pennsylvania to those which might properly be made for a candidate for the Senate In Wyoming or Delaware. But the expenditures made in Penn- sylvania and Illinois, runming into hundreds of thousands and even mil- lions of dollars, in the senatorial pri- maries are disgusting. They smack of corruption. The payment of “watchers” in Pennsylvania and “workers” in Illinois has brought about a systematic purchasing of votes. In Allegheny County, Pa., it ‘was developed, nearly omne-third of all the men and women who supported two of the candidates for the Republi- can senatofial nomination were paid $5 or $10 aplece. The payment of the small fry in these political contests is no blacker than the contributions by great inter- ests which seek by their thousands to control the electorate and the officials elected. The parts played by Joseph R. Grundy, president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Assocl- ation, and by Samuel Insull, Illinois utility magnate, in the primaries of thelr respective States should arouse the people to & realization that drastic measures are needed to protect the sanctity of elections. Grundy frankly admitted that he was the “angel” of the Pepper-Fisher ticket to the tune of $300,000 and that the interest of the manufacturers was to stall off a tax on the capital stock of manufac- turing corporations. Mr. Insull, who contributed thore than $125,000 to the campaign of Frank L. Smith, head of the Utilities Commission of Illinois, insists that he was perfectly innocent in thé matter. He contributed smaller sums to the campaigns of Senator Mc- Kinley, Smith's opponent, and even to the campalgn of George E. Bren- nan, . the Democratic nominee for Senator. He who runs may read that Mr. Insull was seeking to maintain the friendship of any candidate who might prove successful. 3 Are these revelations to be only a nine duys’ wonder, or will there be an earnest effort in Congress and the State Legislatures to remedy condi- tions? —ate—. Apparently there have been a few people in New Jersey who could not understand why the newspapers and the police should take & little thing like & murder mystery so seriously. e s not avellable at the present time, and the public mind is not ready to em- brace individual planes. * It may be, though, that before the present generation passes on, air fiiv- vers be humming over cities and country, and the traffic in the air will The Peach in England. A carload of Georgia peaches has Dbeen landed at Liverpool, and the re- port is that they sold well. There are calls for a second helping. In some ways the English have good taste. They are quick to see, or taste, the virtue and the splendor of the Virginia apple. England eats more Virginia apples than Washington. Some of our citizens are so lacking in discretion, o dumb to the fine art of apples, that Queen Victoria. - One notable feat when it Is eonsidered that Japples in London, Birmingham, 3 coln and Derby which do not uphold the honor of the Old Dominion and are not exemplars of the glory of the United States. It is with apples as it 1s with tourists. Now the Georgia peach has invaded England. England is to be conquered again. And it is to be.one of the Joyous conquests of the world. . It the Georgla peach exerts such authority on the English, what must happen when we send e carload of peaches from the highlands of Virginia and Maryland or from the plains of South Jersey and Delaware? The exploit of ‘William the Congueror will seem as notliing! The Georgia peach has its merits, though one is loath to admit it, but the peach that blossoms and turns rosy ‘in the Blue Ridge and South Mountain countries, along the upper Potomac, Shenandoah, Monocacy and Antletam, is the fairest beauty of the tribe, “ Thrill Seekers. Youth's search for thrills leads to some strange doings. A young man at Steubenville, Ohio, thought he would imitate Martin Durkin, Chi- cago's “shelk bandit,” and wrote a letter to a wealthy retired manu- facturer, demanding $16,000 under penalty of death, The letter was quickly traced to him and he was ai- rested. “I would have returned the money,” he told the police; “I only wanted to see if I could get it.’ Giving this yotng man—who at the age of 20 is married and has two children—full credit for the purpose that he has stated, the chse illus- trates the instability of a certain type of the younger generation. He wanted a “kick.” He wanted to fiirt with crime. He sought an ad- venture. He got it. This young chap evidently had no thought for his family when he took a chance of blackmail. Fe will prob- ably spend ‘a couple of years in prison unless the object of his threat shows mercy on him and refuses to prosecute. Then his wife and chil- dren will have the adventure, and the sorriest one that can befall. And the pity of it all is that there are many such as he who have lost their moral balance and are delib- erately questing for experiences. The Chicago boys who killed a little fel- low for a thrill were of this type. They are now in prison for life, hav- ing barely escaped the gallows. The news accounts are tull of such hap- penings, Is'the law the only correc- tive that can be applied to check this unwholesome morbid tendency that aficts e0 many of the rising generation? ——mt——— Before permitting the air to be fill- ed with privately driven monoplanes it might be as well to cali in & number of traffic experts in advance and avold learning by sad experience the best rules for safety in an unfamiliar form of travel. Collisions in the air would cause even more terrible disaster than collisions on the highway. B George Bernard Shaw is indignant with efforts to prevent radio from be- ing free to all speakers, claiming that the “in’s,” being in control of the alr, will not give the “‘out's” a chance to broadcast their arguments. As in the case of all satirists, Mr. Shaw's esti- ‘mate of human nature in many of its aspects is rather low. The magnificent development going on in this country may yet suffice to make America more attractive than Europe to American tourists, especial- 1y as our own standards of hospitality continue to Hold something of the old and wholesome native charm. ——— et Every New York Democrat firmly believes that Gov. Al Smith will be nominated for the presidency in 1928. They will need ¢. better rehearsed con- vention than the one in, Madison Square Garden. ————e—e—— The Méxican government is embark- ing on far more serious business than it had on hand when it was merely engaged in deciding from time to time ‘when a brigand ceases to be a brigand and becomes & revolutionist. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Polar Discovery. The North Pole is an open sea. This makes me sad, because It shows as plain as plain can be, “There ain’t no Santa Claus.” ‘We pictured & good-natured elf ‘Who loved a child’s applause, Toy tinkering on a frosty shelf— There ain’t no Santa Claus. And so the cost of tires and gas Goes up, with scarce a pause, Just like the cost of food—alas, There ain't no Santa Claus! Gloomy Possibilities. “What do you think of these crime waves?” “I think they are becoming formi- dable,” sald Senator Sorghum. “The first thing we know these gunmen and bootleggers will become 50 numerous and influential that when an election draws near we'll have to show 'em some respect.” Jud Tunkins says it's & good thing to get a boy & Job in & jazz band. His home folks can listen in on the radio and know where he is nights, The Rapid Pace. ““What has become of the ‘gold cure’ for inebriety?” It's no use now,” declared Uncle Bill Bottletop. “When a man gets hilarious on wood alcohol, he doesn’t last long enough to get to a sani- tarium.” ! Ostentation to Be Avolded. There is & happiness immense . In things involving groat expense; But if you get & place and pay Large sums to, bring the votes your way, Unto & modest manner cling Though great your prize, remembering That it is not considered nice A For one to brag abeut the price. “A dat loves flattery,” said Unéle Eben, “is cultivatin’ a taste foh one of de most expensive of luifuries." EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D, THE OPEN VISION. II Kings, vi.17: “Open his eyes that he may see.” Seeing and essarily related. If there are things that “lle too deep for sound or foam, there are realities all about us that the phynical eye is incapable of seeing and that are only understood by ‘what Bishop Brent calls ‘“the sixth sense’ —namely, the spiritual. 5 The incident from which the above fon are not nec- the city in which the prophet dwelt, had compassed it about with “a great host” and the capture of the prophet seemed inevitabl servant of young iny the morning, had gone forth to view the situation and returned in haste to his master, saying, “Alas, my master! How shall'we do?’ To his vis- ion there seemed nothing but impend- ing disaster; there was no way out of the <diMculty. The answer of the prophet was characterized by perfect assurance: “Fear not; for they that be with us are more than they that be with !hw.md.:'x And !‘:‘thl nl'l.;":d and pray thee, open his eyes that he may see,” and the g:;rd opened the eyes of the young man and he saw and, behold, “the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.” To the vision of the prophet his life was ned and protected by forces that far exceeded those of the enemy. God is not always on the side of th ‘heaviest battalions. Repeatedly in hu- man history men with limited forces and poor equipment have resisted and They pos- of a leadership that was able to see beyond present difficulties. As a mat- ter of , our own country had its birth because men dared to do the impossible. Discount him as we may, the man with vision has ever been th pioneer in all the forward movements of the race. He has seen that which to other minds was obscure. He has relied on forces that to others were unknown or unheeded. The best gifts we have come from those whom the world regarded as dreamers, men of ‘Tu § him, said: t! you : n he farsi p{ o5 | ot Hi superimagination. one day at his easel painting a land- scape when an lmums ob- servin A : cannot th u are painting.” Continuing at his task, the artist quietly re. marked: Dop't you wish you could .What the youth lacked, the artist had; in fine, he was seeing that which was invisible to' the untrained and un- skilled eye. John R. Mott once made the observation that we needed to substitute the penetrative vision for our so-called broad outlook. Most of us see but the surface of things. Few of us seem to have the faculty to dis- cover the beauty and mystery that lie behind. We are n ighted rath- 'er_than ighted. t was written of Christ that *“He knew what was in man'’; in fine, He ted beneath the surface and ered elements that commanded is deepest affection. He reckoned with latent and, reckoning with them, He called them into ac- son. It was this gift of penetrative vision that made Him the master of men. To the man with spiritual in- sight this world and life itself takes on a new meaning. He sees behind events, understands their significance and import and calculates their re- sults. To him every new age is a fresh revelation and every new ex- perience a confirmation of his faith, “Faith 1s the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” And in another place we read: “The things that are seen are tem- poral, but the things that are not seen are eternal. Christ's supreme effort was to open the eyes of men to understand the real and deep significance of life; to make them understand that behind all the seeming incongruities of it resides & definite plan and purpose. He sought to rrve life a new meaning and to interpret it in terme of its highest d dispel the shadows an the possibilities of its highest and eternal fulSlment. He saw the end from the beginning and illuminated those dark mysteries that through the ages have confused and bewilder- ed the children of men. No greater er may we offer for one who i ife's serious prol pray struggling wit] ‘Open his eyes that lems than he may see. his: BIG GAME INCREASING BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Correcting the general bellef that big game is becoming extinct in the United States, the United States For- est Service has just published its an- nual census of the big game of the National forests and finds that many varieties are on the increase. While this increase may not offset losses out- side the forest reserves, the forest rs believe that most varieties covered in their reports are pretty well holding their own everywhere. Many States in the West have set aside large game refuges and on the whole there is evidence that our game supplies are holding up. ‘Will C. Barnes, assistant forester, who compiled the annual census from fleld reports, believes that it is a very fair estimate of the game in the Na- tional forests. Of course, wild animals will not stand still and be counted, but the forest rangers covering the big timber and game country year after year come to know pretty accu- rately what amount of life there is in e_woods. "'m increase in numbers among cer- tain animals is such as to require some means of using them to pre- vent their dying of starvation, ac- cording to the Forest Service data. Thus the elk in the Jackson Hole country of Wyoming and the deer in the Kaibab forest in Arizona have multiplied until the Government men feel it would be better to let hunters have a few more than to let them starve. Some of the game clubs and conservation associations want to let the increase go on and to turn over all of the National forests to the game. Cattie and sheep are now permitted to graze in the forests under Govern ment authority, but wherever the feed for natural game runs low the Forest Service eut‘l oft 1“"1;’""'"" for graz- mestic animal B szhd: Jackson Hole elk herd, for ‘ex- ample, now numbers some 25,000 head and cannot find enough Winter feed in the areas not under fence. The Biological Survey of the Depart- ment of Agriculture has a ranch in the area and feeds l:ily to th':; hergé wveral thousand acres more ::; 3“: be raised if the herd is to be preserved at its present number. In some Winters it has been cut nearly in half by cold d hunger, which destroys the calves especially. : t The Forest Service suggests thal enough feeding be arranged to keep the herd up to about present size, and that additional hunting be permitted to use the increase, which would be 4,000 or 5,000 elk a year. At present. only about 1,000 are taken by hunters. The Kaibab deer have eontinued to increase until there is not enoug Winter feed for them, and private cat- tle gnd sheep grazing is being steadily cut down in the area. Last year the Government allowed some hunting and about 600 deer were killed. More hunting will be allowed this year. An interesting evidence of changing times in Arizona ocourred in this forest when the Indians were given 8 pormiesion to 60000 L0S ein: whicn e buc! 3 e e ource of clothing n, ml.‘l lu\d buc{ddn means little or no%zlln"l!fi them. game e S r i Toraeta, T timate shows survey reveals that tain and mountain sheep are deer are not all in the Far West by any means. The White Mountain Na- tional Forest in New Hampshire has about 7,000 deer in a relatively small area, and there are deer in National forests in 26 States, besides the num- bers outside Federal areas. California has more than 200,000 and all of the Western States have large supplies. Grizzlies Near Extinction. Grizzly bears are on the decrease, and are nearing extinction except in Alaska. Aside from about 400 in Montana, there are very few in the States. The dangerous character of the grizzly to man and beast has caused him to be hunted out, and it is doubtful whether the species will be preserved except in captitity. Caribou are not numerous, but never were found in numbers in the States, being a more northern species. A few small herds in Montana, Idaho and Washington seem to be holding their own. About 6,000 moose are lucomld, nrzr’llnm of ntl“moat 1,000 n & year. ey are carefully guard- ed by law. i Game laws are a matter of State enactment, and the Forest Service merely advises with State authorities about conditions in the forest reserve areas. Forestry officlals believe the States could regulate their game stock to better advantage If their laws were more elastic. The foresters are often in position to forecast a bad Winter for certain forms of game by knowing that the numbers exceed probable feeding material. In such condition an increase in Fall hunting could well be allowed, but game laws are usually too rigid to admit such a thing. The Forest Service does not advo- cate any general loosening of game laws and protection, but the trend of Mr. Barnes' report is to indicate that game is not belng wiped out and will not be so long as there remains the present amount of forest land. Alaska remains a great game country, the total of its big game life being roughly estimated by the for- esters, but with no pretense that they have more than a good guess at the life of the great northern ‘woods. In “As You Like It Shakespeare pictures life as divided into seven ages. In the realm of education there are also seven ages, the pre-school age, the kindergarten age, the elementary | C: school age, the janior school age, the senior high school age, the college age and the professional or graduate .cgvoolh:"'bun x ‘e have more concerned with giving the child some knowledge each of these than o ages in directin; and aiding his transition 3 another. We have neglected the peri- ods of adjustment, and the periods of adjustment are the most important wfi M.d ful peri i ‘We have our attention to preparing our students to enter a more |d::nmd t | grade or a higher school rather than directing them how to meet life. We have been remiss in every one of the also practically holding to even num- exige bers. The current census LG el B reans ot sbott forests, an :1” over 1924, and 12,062 mountain sheep, & decrease of about 300. - clal care {s being taken by the Service to prevent ing by domes- tic in areas which would our- tail the supply of these wild spe- cles. , There are some 30,000 antelopes in the country, of which 7,500 are in the “om. and the be- leve i, ds to which they have been drh;‘.g as their native plains were set- tled by farmers and stockmen. ‘The numbers {n National forests increased almost 60 per cent last year. State game refugees have helped perpetuate the antelopes, which vity. mmfudbnwnbunlflflkm many ‘where 550,000 were earlier. This increase was the i Trom foot aod moisth %lpidll is flourishing in the |7 do not thrive 1n | from one to | the ket, some 125 years ago, was a swamp, which was a favorite gunning place for boys. It was a notable group that started the erection of the market house on the south side of Pennsyivania ave- nue between Seventh ~and Ninth streets: Dr. Willlam Thornton, archi- tect of the United Stafes Capitol; Wil t, afterward clerk of tI Circuit Court; James Hoban, archi- tect of tlie White House, and Clot. worthy Stephenson, then a captain of the Grenadiers. ‘The Center Market site cost a little d adopt a of persons to repre- of the city in com- James Hoban was chairman of that meeting. Pioneer Sunday observance reform- ers were busy even in those far-gone days. One Thomas Thmo. by trade an auctioneer, was penalized for re- moving earth from Center Market Square on the Sabbath. But on Sep- tember 26, 1808, there was a remission of the fine imposed upon Thorpe by act of the councils of the city of ‘Washington. The first headquarters of the Metro- politan Police Department was in the scale house of Center Market. The Perseverence Engine. Company also was nearby, at Pennsylvania avenue and l;:lch'th“nzm. Lfi its curfew bell was run o'cl each evening. On March 20,-1830, “a grand circus of .(‘:lh?.ll. th:.ltld the town and set up their tents on the n space in (n:)nt of fl]:; Center mm." n a cold Sun morning in the Winter of 1870 tlld:'mlrkot burned to the ground. This was haifled by the public as a beneficial disaster. It was rebuilt within two years. * % %2 “Phantom” spesches by members of Congress, not one word of which was ul!ell'ed in ‘the legislative chamber, continue to crowd the Congressional Record weeks after Congress has re- cessed, with a consequent cost of more than $2,000 a day to the taxpayers. These speeches, printed as ‘“exte: sion of remarks,” have not influenced legislative action at all. It costs 348 a page or $24 a column to print the Record. One of the big space bills was run up by Representa- tive “Billy” Oldfleld, chairman of the Democratic cor nal committee, consisting principally of a. roster of roll calls in Congress, which cost Uncle Sam $1,248 One of the scantlest speeches was by Representative Rich- ard Yates of nois, which cost only $10, but the same prolific member in- serted flve other silent speeches with an aggregate cost of $498. Not to be outdone by Mr. Oldfield— and showing that Republicans as well as Democrats are thus running up the printing bills—Representative Will R. ‘Wood of Indiana, chairman of the Re- publican congressional committee, in an unspoken speech which touched on everything from ropes to oleomarga- rine, ran up a cost of $571. It cost the taxpayers $76.50 to have Representative Strother of West Vir- ginia have printed an undelivered speech of what a great country the fifth district of West Virginia is. A tally of the offenders who packed the Record and ran up the printing bill shows 49 RepubMcans, 46 Demo- crats, 2 Farm-Labor and 1 a member of the Philippine National Party. The so-called ‘“‘speeches” ranged all the way from agricultural relief, the tariff and the Mammoth Cave, trees and coal to prohibitions the boll weevil and Sunday blue laws for the District of Columhia and personal views regard- ing the impeachability of a District Commissioner. In one speech by Representative Yates it cost $40 alone to set up the poetic quotations it contained. The women members were guilty of following the example set by male members. It cost $41 to print a report of her stewardship by Mrs. Mary T. Norton, Democrat, of New Jersey, who notified her constituents that she “kept regular office hours.” A similar modest recital of her activities as a member of Congress by Mrs. Florence Kahn of California resulted in a space bill of §226. iate Suppose you had to depend on rain- fall for your water supply—what a difference that would make in your life! Suppose you became a victim of lead poison, because your rain- water supply came through painted conductors. There you have the nu- cleus of some of the hardships suffer- ed by unsung heroes in Uncle Sam's service. For 74 years, or since light stations were first established ' on submarine sites along the Florida reefs, the only regular supply of water for drinking, cooking and other domestic purposes n ol from rain- fall, which is caught on a painted me structure and flows by grav- ity through painted metal eave troughs and galvanized iron conduc- tors into containers. Wonder what the unsung herces who drank it think of the Volstead ? The lighthouse service of the De- partment of Commerce indulges in no speculation as to that, but the rest of the rather dramatic story of the fight for water as follows: “The storage tanks or cisterns are of metal, cement-washed inside, or of ypress, usually having a total capac- ity of 6,000 to 8,000 galions. Very lit- difficulty is experienced in filling tanks in the rainy sea- in May and early in June, and none whatever during the hurri- cane season in September and Octo- ber. - At other seasons of the year if any, rain at stations. - “These towers alo: the Florida fs located in luvldzfl MEN AND AFFAIRS BY ROBERT T. SMALL. . Times change, and men and morals change with them. During the recent inquiry into the Pennsyl- vania senatorial primaries it was dis- closed that sums of $40,000 and $50,- 000 had been completely lost track of. No one knew from whom they came or just where they went. A recalcitrant witness from Pennsyl- vania at Chicago on Thursday re- fused absolutely to say where he got $60,000 which he cortributed to the Vare campalgn fund in ces] The witnéss holde a public offic in Philadelphia which pays $8,000 a year, Coming to the Illinois primary. it has been shown that no formal or complete accounts were kept as 1o receipta and expenditures. Henry 1. Green, manager of Senator Mc- Kinley's costly and unsuccessful campalgn for renomination, showed expenditures which were $61,000 short of the sum which Mr. Mec- Kinley himself had put up. Co Green said it was next to impossib! to keep track of all the demands made upon him. “They would come in.and ask for a thousand or two thousand or four thousand, he explained, “and I would give it to them.” The point of all this is that six years ago_a check for the measly sum of $2,600 kept a good man from being nominated and elected Presi- dent of the United check was sent by onu'o! ug‘n. :::- ers of the ~conven e .p'dtn of Go %k 0. Lowden of Illinois, to a Republican leader in issourl. It was charged the check The G. O. shocked. Although Gov. Lowden was himself innocent of any connection with the check incident, he was cast into the discard and Warren Gama- liel Harding was selected as the Re- publican standard bearer—later to be made President. Nowadays for a mere senatorial toga vast fortunes are spent and it 1s impossinle for an official commit tee of ingi\iry to get anything more than the #ketchiest sort of picture of how the money was raised, to say nothing of how it was spent. ‘The gene impression is growing that & great many of the primary “workers” weve working merely to line their own pockets with the easy coin. It seems strange that six short years should make such a difference in political morals and Gov. Lowden himself must smile at the irony of i s g - % * % It is confidently belleved in \lh'llh~ ington that Senator McKinley's {ll- starred n for renomination must have cost him, first and last, in the neighborhood of half a million dollars. The Btl\mrmml.dd .cucpe(;l: paying his own way and woul no ::nmwuom It had generally been supposed in Washington that €ol. Frank L. Smith, who defeated Senator McKinley, was paying most of his own expenses, t0o, for, like Sen- ator McKinley, he is a weaithy man. It has been disclosed, however, that the successful nominee contributed but comparatively small amounts to his cam| Managers. Not so many years ago the Senate was called a “millionaire’s club.” It was said that only the wealthy could hope to be chosen by the State Le; latures. It was said the primary sy Fifty Years Ago In The Star ritics of & certain type of motion ph(::ture have ° protested that lurld melodramas of the screen Stage and are promotive of criminal Crime conduct on the part of * young people. This cha::e against the stage is by Nno means new. n“'lvu brought in earlier days, when thrilling scenes were enacted on the boards. In The Star of July 25, 1876, he following: ""‘w'hon Augustin Daly’s ‘Under the Gaslight,” with its startling ‘railroad ecene’ was brought out, and the lat- ter was subsequently cribbed by imi- tative playwrights, including Bouci- cault, (Ro particular scene alluded to was rej as an exaggeration, as {llustrating something without a parallel in real life. And yet. since the production of the play, several parallel cases have occurred. One took place in a Western' State a few years -ago, where a man who was bound and tied to a rallroad track ha an arm crushed, he having partially worked himself off the track before the train passed. Yesterday the tele- graph brought the fact that a man who had previously placed on the Central Pacific track, near Truckee, was run over and crushed to death by n. The last recorded at at this manner of diabolism t place in New Jersey, where an Itallan named Pizzano was drugged and robbed and subsequently tled to a railroad track. Fortunately his perilous position was discovered by persons living near, who rescued him just before an express train came thundering by. The query that occurs is, Had the iIntroduction of the ‘rallroad scene’ on the stage anything to do with suggesting to our criminal classes an effectual way of disposing of their victims? Several years ago two youths were arraigned in New York for playing the role of hig! ‘When arraigned the L they stated that on the might on which they hed made a traveler ‘stand and deliver' they had been to one of the East Side theaters and witnessed the play of ‘Dick Turpin,’ ‘Claude Duvall’ or something similar; that they. a mired the and dash of ‘the hero and that on leaving the theater to go on the outskirts of demand the money or 1fite of the first » mot ‘be- atten. passerby, e cause they were actually in need of the | money, but because of the romance of mark to the top of the dome. “The exterior of thess stru £ : i i the act. judge, who seems to have been otl a-very li\;nromnm!!c mr;:, Ve properly gave iem a term In t::’ponmnum. Here is at least one instance where a perniclous play e: ercised a pernicious influence and in- duced two young men to take their first step in crime.” * \ * % Rutherford B, Hayes, the presiden- tial nomines of the Republican party , was being i :’M w.z'l lh:’ style Costume.” or his sty] “ of attire. The Star of July 26, 1876, says: ““Watterson of g 'tES = H I : i it : &% £ i %n 25 § ég E i £ i tem and the direct election of Sena-* tors by the people. would give the poor man his chance. What a swell chance the poor man would have in States like Illinois and Pennsylvanial Of course it but no one ever ot spending half a million dollars of his own money to be chosen by a State Legislature. He could not have spent such a sum legitimately in the old days. Under the primary system all expenditures are explained as legiti- mate. The primary is a catch-all. Ap- parently there is no limit to the sum that may legitimately be spent. Sec- retary -Mellon himseif has defended the millions poured into the primary hopper in Pennsylvania. Money by the thousands and tens of thousands of dollars was scattered far and wide. Yet six years ago a stray check for $2,500—the merest sort of chicken feed—was considered sufficlent to keep a man out of the White House. The question naturally arises as to how much {8 necessary to keep a man out of the Fenate? * % k% A visit to the McKinley mausoleum on Monument Hill at Canton, Ohio, revives memories of a period which already has been forgotten by most of the modern generation. The Mauso- leum has been forgotten by most of the modern generation. "The mauso- leum is a gloomy affair. It contrast sharply to the Lincoln Memorial, which stands by the Potomac. The Lincoln shrine seems to live. It has none of the finality of death which seems to linger about the Canton The Harding Memorial under con- struction at Marion, Ohio, will par- take of the spirit of the Lincoln Me- morial. The plans also are suggestive of the general circular style of ti amphitheater _at Arlington Natfonal Cemetery. Twenty-five years have brought about their radical changes in architecture for the dead as well as for the living. ‘Within the McKinley tomb there still remains some of the everlasting wreaths which marked the passing of the martyred man. One of them bears the simple card “The President.” It ‘was sent by Theodore Rooseveit. An- other bears the card “Mr. Cortelyou. It s the tribute of George B. Cor- telyou to his old chief—the Cortelyou whom Roosevelt ated to the cabi net, and who today is one of the big corporation geniuses of New York City. Ayllhoulh the Harding Memorial is well under way, there are no memo rials, as yet, for Roosevelt and Wil son. * % * * Colloquy between Senator Reed and a colored ward leader in Chicago: Senator Reed—Who is the chair- man-of your organization? Ward Leader—I am. “Who is the treasurer of your or- ganization?” ot 1 X Who Is the secretary of your or- ganization?” “Secretary, why, Lord, Senator Reed, that don't make no difference whatsomever." “Then you make all the arrange- ments “No, sir, ] don't make what you call arrangements. I tells ‘em what to do and they does it, that's all.¥ “T guess you are right,” drawled the Senator from Missouri, “that's all.” (Copyright. 1026.) This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. The affections of the cat are 80 wound up with its comfort that even its best friends cannot surely extri- cate one from the other. The -cat Jack Spratt, well known resident of Esstee alley, is an affec tionate little fellow in his way, which is more or less the way of all cats. During the recent hot weather Jack preferred to sleep on the floor, a favorite position being with legs up along the baseboard, thus elevating his white stomach td what breezes might blow. When the weather cooled, however, Jack found it more comfortable on the bed, where he could snuggle down in a most affectionate manner closs to _his human friend. This was greeted by the latter with evident appreciation, for he knew that one has to take cats at their face * value. A cat has no ulterior motives. If you attribute deep affection to your pet because he sleeps by vour side, you are forgetting the cat nature. Comfort is the motive of his life. The cat is the greatest comfort con noisseur in the world. When it comes to luxuriant living, he easlly takes the cake, bears off the palm, winsthe medal and the loving cup, too. Everything that he does is done ‘with this end in view. When he hops’ into your lap, and reclines with every" evidence of satisfaction, be sure he does {t because at tHe time it is more comfortable for him. ‘When he becomes a bit too warm, he will spring down, and seek a place under a table with just as much pleasure. e ok xx Jack Is never happy when another cat comes into the neighborhood. t | Stray kittens, in particular, are his pet aversion. Evidently he feels that they have come to usurp his place in the affection of his friends. At such times he becomes very cross, and assumes a mournful, ex- pression, looking very sullen. Al though he will for a time play with the kitten, he soon grows tired of the sport, and either spits at it, or makes a few passes at it with a deft right forepaw. Some months recently a stray black cat took up his abode in the alley, and was fed by friends of cats.. It finally took up a position on the back porch, from which Jack proceeded to chase it every morning. . Finally, however, the black cat took 3 to standing its ground, whereupon Spratt was not so brave, evidently ballevlnf in the old maxim. that dis- , cretion is the better part of valor. One very rainy Sunday morning old Blackle, as he was called, was invited into the kitchen. The stray cat took up its position on a chair, pushed back under a table, so that he was practically invigible, only his yellow Finally room, and took a seat on the softest cushion on the davenport, where he he | sat glaring into space. Shortly after this Blackle disap- peared, and has never been heard from since. To this day Jack Spratt sniffs at the chalr in the kitchen. % ¥ * ¥ & Having allowed bis disconsolate fea- tures to clear up, 4nd Smlle again in. cat , Jack got the corners of his mouth turned down once more when a small black and white kitten turned up. \ I ?flfi got cross. It was during ot weather, but we knew it was the kitten, not the heat, that was to blame for Jack's unhappy He resented every mouthful of food given the kitten and finally gréw so irritable that we.were glad when it bt ight (the - kitten being gone), » en | ), and. the weather -turning cool, Jack