Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1926, Page 8

THE EVENING . STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C.° WEDNESDAY. .. .August 4, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office- 11th St an¢ Penneylvania Ave. New K ce: 110 t L Chicago Office: Tower Building. European Office: 14 Regent St.. London, England, The Evening Star. with the Sunday morn- g edition. is deiivered by carriers within the city at' 60 cents per month: daily only, 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cent’ per month. Orders may be sont by mail or telephone Main 5000, Collection is mae by carrier at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. “|the All Uther States and Canada. Paily and Sunday { vr.$12.00: 1 mo..§ Daily only 1 yrl S5.000 1 e Sunday only $4.00; 1 m Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusivaly entitled fo the use for renuhlication f all news dis- [patches credited to it or not otherwise cred- ted in thi« paper and alco the local news Dbublished herein. All richts of publication ©Of special dispatches herein are also reserved. States and Self-Government. President Coolidge has called a halt again to centralization of power in the Federal Government and to dis- regard of the responsibilities and duties of the individual States. In his address over the radio vesterday on the occasion of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Colorado’s admisgion to the Union as a State, the President said: “The Nation is" inclined to. disre- gard altogether too much both the functions and the duties of the States. They are much more than subdi- visions of the Federal Government. They are also endowed with sov- ereignty in their own right.” No man in the United States is _ better able to judge of the tendency toward centralization of the power of government in Washington. Dur- ing the three vears he has been in the White House and the two years and a half which Mr. Coolidge served as President of the Senate he has seen request after request made by influential citizens and groups of citi- zens that the Federal Government intervene in affairs that are primarily the business of the individual State. It is a favorite method of organized minorities to win their way. It has become a common practice to come wailing to the President or to the Congress for aid in matters with which the States themselves should be robust enough to deal. As the President yesterday pointed out, the States have full powers—in fact, have reserved to themselves powers which they did not confer upon the Federal Government when they adopt- | ed the Constitution. Local self-government has been the key to progress in this country since the days of the Pilgrim fathers and the pioneers. Americans were forced to stand upon their own feet. Indifference to local responsibilities and duties, if persisted in, will go further to undermine the great Re- public than any other single factor. Such disregard of local responsibili- ties and centralization of power make invariably for bureaucracy, cor- ruption, domination by the few. e Aviation Progress. Aviation holds a large place in world thought and there are thrills in following the advance that air travel is making. In Germany hydroplanes | are building for regular passenger traffic between Kurope and North Africa. African countries along the Mediterranean and countries in Eu- rope as far north as the Channel and the Baltic are to be brought within a few hours' travel of each other. The planes now huilding are to carry twenty persons, passengers and crew. A few days ago the chief research engineer of one of the large industrial ecorporations of America advanced the proposal of passenger air travel be- tween America and Europe with the ald of floating landing platforms an- chored along the course. The plan was shown to shipbuilders, architects and aviation engineers, who, it is re- ported, were impressed. The model of a seadrome was shown in water rough enough to toss a ship, and the deck of the anchored structure was steady enough for planes to land on, rest and take off. Aviation above the land is growing, and fiying is becoming so nearly com- monplace that many persons do not seem to follow the advance made in this country in air mall carriage and iIntercity air traffic. e e L The pace of events moves rapidly. matter. If these warrants are declared inoperative it is in order to question why the case was so slackly prepared. Are the police not conversant with the requirements of the law? It must be assumed that there is a genuine wish to break up these nefarious Joints. They are notorfous. They are flagrantly run in deflance of the law. Their location is known to great num- bers of people. Some of them are so obvious that the headquarters detec: tive or even the patrolman can spot them in passing on the street. It may be that the court will hold that the warrants were adequate and order the cases to trial. Bt the tech- for appeal and delay, just the course that has been followed so often in the .| past of blocking proceedings. In pursuing the clean-up program Police Department should be scrupulously careful to avold afford- ing any ground whatever for tech- nical evasion of prompt trial and, upon conviction, punishment that will discourage further operations. oo Perverting the Children. A wqrk of the most pernicious char- acter is being carried on at this time by organized Communists in this country who are seeking to pervert the children of America. They have formed an organization known as the Young Workers’ League, with head- quarters in Chicago. Children in in- dustrial centers are enrolled in this league, each child paying 10 cents a month in membership dues. A branch of this league is called the Young Pioneers of America. Meetings are held on Sunday afternoons. ~The “Ploneers” have an official organ, known as the “Young Comrade.” The purpose of the organization is stated as follows: 3 Our purpose is to unite all workers’ children to carry on the fight against the bosses. In the Young Pioneers the children learn the truth about the world they live in, about the workers and the bosses and what must be done to make the life of the worker worth living. The Young Pioneers also learn about the lies that are told in the pub- lic schools in the interest of the bosses and against the workers and the Young Pioneers tell the other working class children about these lies and what the truth is. The Young Plo- neers also fight against child labor and against the misery that workers’ children suffer. They fight every bat- tle of the workers. According to a news article in the New York Herald-Tribune, this organ- ization has been recruited to a point of large membership in what has come to be known as the strike area of New Jersey, including Passaic and Paterson, where conflicts betwen tex- tile mill owners and operatives are almost continuous. A playground has been established by the United Front Committee, the organization of the Communist textile workers, and on this.playground games are conducted which train the children in class war- fare. Their sports are supervised by elders who teach them all the tricks of radicalism. Weisbord, the head of the United Front Committee, is the idol of the children, and the privilege of impersonating him in playground demonstrations and games is eagerly sought. Savage battles are fought by the youngsters. There are no statistics to show the membership of these juvenile organi- zations, but there is evidence to show that they are strong in the radical centers of industrial America. Ap- parently nothing is being done to stop them. Indeed, it would be difficult to find means of checking them. The children are, of course, innocent vic- tims of a wicked propaganda. In a few years they will be themselves leaders and participants in subver- sive strike movements. The elders who create the organizations and manage them and who issue the of- ficial organ are shrewd enough to keep just within the law. The poison they are brewing, however, is none the less evil in its influence. This is “boring from within” with a vengeance. It is a Bolshevik move- ment, probably directed from Moscow and designed to break down the American governmental system. Of course it will fail. Tt cannot succeed. But it will cause a great distress and perhaps lead to conflict. Some means should be' found to stop it. Strange controversies persist in a manner which makes it seem possible that remote posterity will designate the present era as a supplementary section of the Middle Ages. e The French taxpayer is the minority stockholder in government enterprise who is expected to meet assessments and ask no questions. e The Lake Denmark Disaster. Public expectation in the matter is Mention of Albert Fall in print mere- 1y recalls the fact that he is the man Wwho, as a Government officlal, got | into trouble some time ago in connee- | tion with Teapot Dome. “All the world’s a stage,” and the public can- not be expected to accord an unlimit- ed run to any one particular drama. — Technicalities and Gambling. Technicalities have already inter- vened in the proceedings against those who were arrested the other day in the course of a series of raids against the gambling establishments in this city. The legality of the war- rant issued for the arrest of one of the persons ‘taken into custody has heen challenged, and if the point raised against it is sustained it will probably be advanced in behalf of all the other defendants, thereby nullifying the whole procedure. The motion for dis- missal asserts that the warrant was predicated on an affidavit which failed to state facts constituting probable cause for its issuance, and also that it was not sworn to by the superin- tendent of police or before the presid- ing judge as the text states. In other words, it is claimed, the fundamental| basis for the raid was faulty. These ralds were carefully planned and were carried out with skill. Every establishment named on the list of accusations was taken by surprise. Evidently preparations had been care- fully made for the operation. And yet - there was, according to the motion made in defense, a lapse which may render it wholly ineffective. The public- will keenly watch fully met by the report of the naval court of inquiry which has investi- gated the explosion at Lake Den- mark, N. J., which caused the de- struction of the arsenal and magazine located there and the death of a large number of people. The court finds that the disaster was caused by a stroke of lightning, which ignited one of the magazines, the fire spreading thence to others owing to the explo- sion of shells. It was an unavoidable accident in- the conditions that ex- isted at the arsenal. In its detailed findings the court holds that the establishment at Lake Denmark was within an area in which electric storms occur with more than average severity; that light- ning constitutes a serious menace to surface buildings storing explosives, which cannot be made immune; that the area occupled in New Jersey is too small and too near inhabited land for safety; that varying types of ex- plosives should be segregated, inas- much as they act differently in differ- ent containers; that provision should be made for two ammunition depots, one to be located within a radius of 1,000 miles of the Pacific coast, and the other near the Eastern seaboard. At the time of the disaster it was pointed out that if the magazines had been buried there would have been no explosion. This conclusion is in- dicated, though not explicitly ex- pressed, in the court’s second “opin- ion”; “that there is at present no well tried out, generally approved system which can adequately guarantee the THE agalinst lightning, and that lightning, therefore, remains a serlous menace to surface buildings containing explo- sives.” The conclusion is plain that the line of real safety lies in the storage of high explosives in concrete structures below the surface of the ground. These, of course, would cost more than surface buildings. The loss at Lake Denmark is estimated by the naval court at $47,000,000. For that amount subsurface - magazines sufficient to accommoaate both Army and Navy could be constructed. In respect to the behavior of the personnel at the scene of the dis- aster, the court has nothing but the nicality remains as possible ground | highest praise. Every man did his duty and some did more. Indeed, the court goes so far as to recommend ithat all magazine personnel be in- structed to avoid fighting heavy fires in high explosive magazines. e Suzanne a Professional. Announcement that Suzanne Len- glen has turned professional interests tennis followers in this country. She has signed a contract with an Amer- ican promoter for a tour in the United States at 4 guarantee which s under- stood to be $100,000, and arrangements are now being made for a series of matches this Summer. Explanations are not yet forthcoming as to the plan. There are no professional woman tennis players in the United States, and few man players of that class. The question of present in- terest is whether any of the woman amateurs of America will agree to meet Mlle! Suzanne for her own profit, when they have small chance of de- feating her. She is not particularly popular® Her exhibitions of tempera- ment on the courts, as elsewhere, have somewhat lessened her prestige. She is, withal, a marvelous tennis player. Perhaps she is the best woman performer at the net in the world. If somebody could be found to play against her who would offer her an opportunity to show her skill at its best there would be a heavy public patronage to justify the present ven- ture. But in tennis much depends upon the skill of the opponent. A contestant without an adequate serv- ice or ability to defend could not give the expert a chance to do her best. However this enterprise may turn out, Suzanne has at any rate taken the step which removes her from all future consideration as an amateur, and probably puts an end to a serles of unpleasant happenings on the courts. N The District of Columbia has a new Commissioner who has been promi- nently identifled with the elevator business. He is confidently expected by numerous admirers to transfer from mechanical to civic activities his interest in an uplift. D — Many New York men think that Gov. Al Smith will be the next Presi- dent of the United States. The New York citizen is always a wonderful booster for his own home town. e e A trip to “Yurrup” used to be the fondest hope of the culture-seeking American. Tt seems now to present only an opportunity for the study of bad manners which should be avoided. o Ma Ferguson was clearly handi- capped by the fact that when she sug- | gested herself as in accord with any policy the implication instantly arose, “So is your old mai S New Jersey is making an effort to round out her fame by becoming as prominent in the police news as she has been in politics. L Typewriters clatter and telegraph keys click. Jack Dempsey is prepar- ing for one of those literary climaxes, a prize fight. ———eee—. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, International Sarcasms. Now, let's restrain the impuise That leads to easy wit ,When a reply sarcastic ‘Would seem both fair and fit. They've called us “Uncle Shylock" And may repeat, anon. ‘We haven't yet retorted ‘With Uncle John Bull-con. ‘We cherish friendly seeming E'’en in an argument, For quarrels lead to combat ‘Which all must soon repent. “U. 8.” means “Uncle S8hylock"” To them. We'll still go on Without undue allusion To “Uncle John Bull-con.” Loosening a Hold. “It's not an easy matter to hold office.’ “True,” replied Senator Sorghum. “Letting go gracefully is often still more difficult.” Higher Standards. A thousand dollars ofice would claim Financial partnership. A million dollars in the game Today fs one white chip. Jud Tunkins says dancers don't step out like they used to. Some of the modern dances 'pear like they was invented for folks with a touch of rheumatiz. Studying the Advantage. “Can't you reform and get out of the underworld?"” » might,” replied Bill the Burg. “But it looks to me like de under- world was grabbin’ de coin an’ givin® some of de biggest parties.” Far Worse. Comparison sad The streets bid us nurse. The jay walker’s bad. The jay driver’s worse. Speechless. “What would you say if I were to ask you to marry me?” asked the young man with glassy hair. “Nothing,” answered Miss Cayenne. “One can’t laugh and talk at the same “De robber says ‘Yoh r\oney or yoh life,” " said Uncle Eben. “De bootleg- |against an able man, and both of the EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, WEDNESDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Tommy Tomkins, 11 years old, was supposed to be at “manual training,” but in reality was playing tennis on a court in the next block. Tom had no use whatever for the applied science of constructing tabo- rets, small chests and other supposed- ly useful objects, previous to which one had to make ‘“‘sawed blocks” and other articles. Tommy sawed his block every which way to Sunday, as the saying popular among his mates had it. In- stead of making one cut an inchsdeep, the next two inches, the next three ,inches deep, and so on, Tommy Tom- kins got the first cut a half inch, the second four inches and the third clear| through the block. The manual training instructor, however, was not pleased at having two blocks made where one grew be- fore. He labored strenuously to teach Tommy's saw the right way to go, but finally gave up both Tommy and the saw in despair. That was how it came about that Tom devoted most of his ‘“manual training” hours to the glorious sport of tennis on a passable court only a block away. from the school. If the instructor had come along, Tommy would have turned his back, and calmly continued his game. He knew that the instructor was glad to get rid of him, and he, cer- tainly, was happy to be rid of the teacher. “Guess I ain’t cut out to be no carpenter,” said Tom, with more truth than grammar. * ok K Kk The kindly manual training pro- fessor, agreeing with Tommy that the .latter would never make even the beginning of a carpenter, stead- fastly put a “Fair” on his report card each month, however, Let there be scored up a star on that teacher's crown for every mark of “F" he put on Tommy Tomkins’ report. He made Tom happy, his parents happy, and himself happy, too. Tom also got in his tennis, which is more to the point. Astute readers will realize that Tommy was 11 years old many years ago. Boys in manual training classes no longer make taborets and such things. They make bird-houses, neatly painted. so that birds will be afriad to build nests in them. When our friend Tommy was 11 years old, tennis was tennis (kindly put the accent on the “was"). Adaed to the merits of this great game was the thrill of stolen fruit. If “Old Man Holmes,"” the supervising principal of the division, had recog- nized Tommy playing tennis when he was supposed to have been taking manual training, there was no telling what might have happened. Prof. Holmes, of course, had no idea that every boy in the school called him “old man.” Maybe he would not have felt complimented at all. There was, indeed, something derogatory in the way of the average boy sald it. ““Old Lady Jones,” the principal of the school, would have liked hen popular designation even less, al- though there was much less calumny in the phrase. “Old Lady Jones” had the respect of her pupils, and the two preliminary words were added as marks of respect, more than anything else. ‘With Prof. Holmes, however, it was different. None of the boys could te ‘ just why he wanted to come poking Recent inquiry by the United States Tarlff Commission into the subject of the onion industry here and abroad has raised a great stir in { Spain, according to information reach- ing the commission. Other activities in tariff investigations are said also to have caused misapprehension and ill-will abroad. For the purpose of dispelling these false alarms and set- ting Europe right on the purposes and duties of the commission, Thomas O. Marvin, Massachusetts Republican protectionist, and Edward P. Costi- gan of Colorado «ill spend the next two months touring Europe on ofli- clal business. They describe their mis- sion as ‘“selling the Tariff Commlis- sion” to the world. They will sail from New York August 11 and will visit France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain. The travelers will assure the Spanish officials that no meddling with the Spanish onion industry is in- tended. * ¥ % % Senatorial primaries will follow thick and fast during the next eight weeks. Senator Curtis of Kansas, Re: publican, floor leader in the Senate; Williams, Republican, of Missouri, & newcomer in the Senate, and Harreld of Oklahoma led off the procession Tuesday of this week. Curtls has no worrles over his Senate seat, but the Democrats have high hopes of elect- ing a Senator in Missouri and Okla- homa, and those States will bear watching on election day. The Ohig primary comes next week with Sena- tor Frank B. Willis all set for the Republican nomination, but a_close contest on the Democratic end be- tween former Senator Pomerene and Judge Florence Allen—a wet and a dry fight, with a popular woman pitted legal profession. The two biggest nug:llmfllon battles on the Republican side both come next month. George Moses, Senator from New Haynpumre. and Irvine L. Lenroot, Wisconsin Senator, have stiff opposition. Both Moses and Lenroot are confident of pulling through, but Washington ob- servers are not giving odds on either. At this distance, however, Moses looks to be in a stronger position than Lenroot. * ok K K The President is rated a *'shy” man when it comes to promiscuous joining of clubs, lodges and orders, which are the happy hunting grounds of so many men in public life. Few of his associates in Washington know that Mr. Coolidge, long a member of the Middlesex Club, premier political or- ganization of the old guard Repub- licans in Massachusetts, was recently elected its senior vice president.. The other vice presidents are the' two Bay State Senators, Butler and Glllett, and John L. Bates, a’ predecessor of Mr. Coolidge as Governor of Massachu- setts. Col. Charles S. Proctor, who served with-the President as a mem- ber of the governor’s council when Mr. Coolidge was in the State Hous‘e at Boston, and one of the President’s intimate Massachusetts friends little seen or heard of in Washington, is the club’s president. The Middlesex WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS his rather long nose into the school, anyway. He had an office in another school building many blocks away, and why didn't he stay over there, huh? A fellow never could tell when “Old Man Holmes” was likely to put in appear- ance. How disagreeable, for instance, to be engaged in a hot set of tennis, and suddenly to hear some one pipe up, “Here comes Old Man Holmes!” It took a bold boy, indeed, to stare the supervising principal in the face, and g0 on serving. He might recognize you! No fellow could ever tell who Old Man Holmes might or might not recognize. As Mr. Thomas Tomkins vears later real- ized, Prof. Holmes had too much on his mind to recognize one small Boy out of the hundreds under his juris- diction—but how was Tommy Tom- kins, 11 years old, to know that? * ok k k Tommy was the young gentleman who pulled a piece of juvenile sar- casm on a learned legal light, who has since become a distinguished member of the legal division of the United States Army. ‘We will call the gentleman Mr. Smith, for short. An enthusiastic tennis player himself, Mr. Smith liked to see the youngsters play, too, and helped them in every way pos- sible. e Near his home was a court that was not in very good condition, so he in- veigled some of the boys of the neigh- borhood to help him put it into shape. It was not a clay court, but had a surface composed of ordinary dirt, hard packed, but given to throwing up gravel. Now any tennis player knows that there is nothing more disconcerting on a court than gravel. A small bit of stone no larger than a pea can cause a tennis ball to do some queer things. Mr. Smith was careful to instruct the boys to pick up every day the merest fragments of rock.. Tommy and his pals did what they thought was a good job. Boys are never over- careful about such things. Mr. Smith would maxch in, inspect the court, and point out several small stones still lying on the court. To Tommy the court looked clean, to Mr. Smith it held possibilities for trick balls. Finally the thing got to be more than Tommy could stand. Accord- ingly, he possessed himself of a small magnifying glass, and hied himself over to the court. He did not have long to walt. Here came Mr. Smith, ready for his evening inspection. The other boys, apprised of the plot, stood at attention. When Smith came on the court, Tommy dropped to his knees, lowered the glass te within an inch or so of the ground, and gravely began to peer through it. Inch by inch he court, crawling /along, amazement of the Smith. “Tommy,” he inquired “what are you doing?" “Lookin’ for rocks,” replied Tommy, in a disgusted tone. His remark and actions struck the “funny bone” of the distinguished member of the bar, who burst into laughter, in which he was joined by the boys. Tommy, seeing that his pur- pose had been achieved, solemnly put up his glass. Nothing more was said about peb- oles on that court. inspected the much to the innocent Mr. at last, idea was given credit for the decision of the Post Office Department to henceforth pay the employes in the larger post offices of this country by check instead of in cash, as has been the custom heretofore. Pay checks replace the old-time pay envelopes on July 15 and the efficiency experts have figured out that Uncle Sam's savings on this score will make a tidy sum. Now comes Gen. Bartlett, the first assistant of the Post Office Department, and_the sponsor of the new plan, and offers quite a different and more compelling reason for the in- novation: “We are not adopting the pay check system in the interests of economy,” says the general. ‘I doubt if it will save very much. But it is in the interest of safety. On pay days at the New York post office we have had to handle more than a miilion dollars in currency. We have occasionally lost some by robbery, but, what is more im- portant, our employes who handle the money are constantly exposed to the danger of being shot by pay- roll bandits. In using checks in- stead of cash we are falling in line with the general practice in busi- ness and industry. Most large cor- porations pay their employes by check. The city of New York pays 90,000 employes weekly in this fashion.” 7 g * K % ok Sixteen of America’s most eligible bachelors, some sixteen years ago, founded a club in Washington. A club without a name, a club which logt every member, for marriage for- feited membership, and all have mar- ried. But the doors of No. 1711 H street, an unassuming brownstone house near the Metropolitan Club, still swing open for the accom- modation of the ex-members and their guests and friends, and inside, the lavish appointments and the perfect servitors are as of old. No club ever boasted a more distinguished member- ship, though none ever did less boast- ing or, in fact, less of any kind of talking about itself. “Who's Who" and the “Social Register carry the name of every member, but never a line about “1711,” which was the only designation the proud sixteen ever gave to their organization. This is the club roster: Col. Sherwood A. Cheney, military aide to President Coolidge; Maj. Gen. Frank R. McCoy of the Regular Arjny staff; Col. James A. Logan, jr., American observer at Geneva; Benjamin Strong, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Willlam Phillips of Boston, United States Minister to Belgium; Elliot H. Goodwin of.Boston, secre- tary of the United States Chamber of Commerce; Andrew J, Peters, Boston lawyer and former mayor; James F. Curtis, another Boston lawyer; Hugh Gibson, United States Minister to Switzerland; Maj. Gen. Clarence Wil- liams, chief of the Ordnance Depart- ment; Basil Miles, secretary of the International Chamber of Commerce at Paris; Henry P. Fletcher, Ambas- sador to Italy; Eliot Wadsworth, former Assistant Secretary of. the Treasury; Leland Harrison of New York; Frederick Sterling, counselor Club has a membership of about 80'0 and its roster is the real “Who's Who" in Bay State Republican poli- ties. * kK % The prospect of a new building soon to house the Supreme Court arouses interest in the subject of where the court has held its sessions during the 137 years of its history. Inquiry de- velops that it met first in New Yor! next in Independence Hall, in Phil- adelphia; then in the basement of the Capitol until the time of its burning by the British in 1814; then, until the Capitol was rebuilt, in the residence of the clerk of the court; n in its present chamber at the Capitol, until a small fire there in 1898 drove it out temporarily into Senate committee a5 .. P to the American Embassy at London; and Willard Straight, American diplo- mat, who died in 1918. < (Covyrizht. 1926.) o It Pays to Ad\;enise. From the Worcester Telegram. , Whatever else it may indicate, the Texas minister who shot a gentle- man in his church certainly, has shown his brother pastors how to get big congregations on Sunday. {7 R TR - Easy Counting. ¥rom the Canton Daily News. . «{tervene in such a matter. AUGUST 4; 1926. Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. As the time draws nearer for the primaries in the New England States, lines are being more tightly drawn where there are contests and senti- ment 1s crystallizing for various candi- dates. In New Hampshire, Where former Gov. Bass is seeking the Re- publican nomination for the Senate against Senator George Moses, a brisk campaign is under way, but with the trend setting decidedly in favor of Senator Moses, according to | Information received here from care- ful observers. Across the State line, in Vermont, the star of Semator Porter Dale is in the ascendency. The withdrawal of former Gov. Stickney from the race for the senatorial nomination has left the fleld practically to Sena- tor Dale. It is believed that the so- called administration group in the State has decided to accept Senator ale, at least not to fight him ac- tively. Stickney was heralded as the particular friend of President Cool- idge and Attorney General Sargent. But the administration leaders took no overt action in favor of the Stick- ney candidacy, and, indeed, the can- didacy of Mr. Stickney was not re- garded with any too friendly eyes in Republican National Committee head- quarters. Senator Butler of Massachu- setts, chairman of that committee, it is understood, has not at any time been active in the effort to get the political scalp of Senator Dale. * ok % Kk In gome quarters the votes of Sen- ator Dale against the President on the soldier bonus bill and the bill in- creasing the pay of postal employes, both in the last Congress, were held to be treason. But Senator Dale has been as regular as a clock on Rl other questions in which the admin- istration has been interested. Inci- dentally, Senator Dale has much strength among tHe voters of the Green Mountain State, and it was realized that he might win handily, no matter what the opposition. A de- feat for Mr. Stickney would have been heralded as a defeat for the President, in some quarters, largely because of the impression, rightly or wrongly, that the administration was out to shelve Mr. Dale, who had gained ground. * ¥ Kk So far as Senator Butler himself is concerned in the Massachusetts sena- torial race, he is entirely sure of the nomination, and his chances for elec- tion appear to be brightening all the time. He has a strong organization back of him, while there s some divi- slon among the Democrats, whose can- | M didate in all_probability will be for- mer Senator David I. Walsh. Further- more, Gov. Ritchie of Maryland and former Senator Stanley of Kéntucky, in making addresses in Massachusetis or Mr. Walsh, let thelr enthusiasm against President Coolidge run away with their political judgment. They urged the voters to defeat Butler be- cause his defeat would be a blow at President Coolidge, whose campaign manager Senator Butler had been in 1924. It has become all too evident that Mr. Walsh has to defeat not only Senator Butler, but also President Coolidge, in a State where the Presi- dent is idolized. It is another case of a candidate’s friends having said what had better been left unsaid. The Democrats have raised the Coolidge is- sue in Massachusetts, and not Senator Butler or his friends. Nothing could have fallen out better for the sitting Senator. * x % ¥ To return for a moment to the senatorial primary in New Hampshire. Mr. Bass has raised the issue of party loyalty, of loyalty to President Coolidge, as against the loyalty of Senator Moses. He has referred to the vote of Senator Moses against American adherence to the World Court. His friends-have sought to capitalize the attitude of Senator Moses two years ago, when he insisted that if he were to be a delegate at large at the Republican national convention he would not go instructed for President Coolidge, but uninstructed. Senator Moses failed to be chosen a delegate. The Moses forces have replied by calling attention to the record of Mr. Bass, who was a Bull Mooser in 1912, deserting the Republican party. They insist that it was because of Mr. Bass that the State went Democratic in the election of a United States Sena- tor, former Senator Hollis, when no Democrat had been elected senator for half a century. They point to the fact that Senator Moses has voted the straight Republican ticket since he has been in politics, and that he has given strong support to many administra- tion measures put forward by Presi- dent Coolidge, even though he was op- posed to the World Court. The contest for the Republican nom- ination for Governor of New Hamp- shire is.complicated somewhat with the senatorial race. Mr. Bass and Gov. Winant are declared to be work- ing together, though both deny this openly. Huntley N. Spaulding is the candidate against Gov. Winant and has the support of Senator Moses, though Spaulding has not declared openly for any senatorial candidate. He is known to prefer Moses to Bass, however. Representatives Wasson and Hale have no opposition for the Republican nominations for the House in New Hampshire. * * % % If the friends of Representative Vare of Pennsylvania and of Col. Frank L. Smith of Illinois, both of whom have been nominated for the Senate, are hoping to stall off possible rejection by the Senate itself of these candidates, provided, of course, they are elected next November, on the ground that it requires a two-thirds vote to oust a Senator, they are walking on very thin ice. It is true that the Constitution provides a Sen- ator may be expelled, after he has be- come a Senator, by a two-thirds vote of the Senate and not by a majority vote. But the question of a Senator’s right to a seat, if the charge of cor- ruption or other irregularity in his nomination and the election is raised against him, has always been settled by a majority vote of the Senate. The charges of excessive expenditures of money in the primaries and corrup- tion have already heen made in some quarters against those candidates, in view of the facts turned up by the Senate campaign _investigating com- mittee. Senator Lorrimer of Illinois was ousted because of alleged corrup- tion by a majority vote, 55 to 28. This vote fell short of a two-thirds vote by one. When charges of excessive ex- penditures in primary and election were made against Senator Newberry of Michigan more recently, no sugges- tion was made that it required a two- thirds vote to oust him. Both New- berry and Lorrimer were seated in the Senate, too, before the investigations of their elections ‘were made. The Senate, under the Constitution, is the sole judge of the qualifications of its members. There seems no doubt but what it can consider expenditures and corruption in primary elctions if it elects to do So in connection with Vare and Smith. Who is to deny the Senate this right? No court can in- * ok ok % Evans Woollen, Demacratic nomi- nee for the Senate against Senator “Jim” Watson, is seeking to make the tariff an issue in his cam It is not on record that the issue will dis-y| please Senator Watson. Mr. Wool- len’s definition of the tariff issue, how- ever, is calculated not to alarm the manufacturers and workers any more one is pmpo-lwn: free tud-.n' i L we " says '00l- . nowa- Junn is necessary. He says that no ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. Q. Please advise the speed per hour made by the fastest trains in the New York subway.—C. W. 8. A. The American Electric Railway Association says that the average speed made by the fastest express train in the New York subway is 24 miles per hour. Q. Are tobacco, pepper or hellebore goon preventives for clothes moths?— = T, C. A. The following substances often recommended for clothes moth con- trol are worthless: Tobacco extracts, lavender flowers, cayenne pepper, all- spice, angelica root, black pepper, py- rethum stems, air-slaked lime, pow- dered sulphur, salt, quassia chips, bo- rax, colocynth pulp, eucalyptus leaves, white hellebore, formaldehyde, sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, lead carbonate, lead oxid, red cedar leaves. Q. Is there a monument to Maj. L'Enfant, who planned the city of ‘Washington?—C. G. H. A. An old-fashioned type of tomb- stone marks the grave of L’Enfant. E)u}-’e‘r than this, we have no memorial o him. Q. Is the axis of the sur inclined with respect to the plane the sun makes with the earth?—P. H. A. The Naval Observatory says the axis of the sun is inclined 7 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. . How would a young man be classified who was born in this coun- try, but whose parents were Canadians and grandparents French?—H. H. W. A. Beginning with 1890, the cen- sus reports have classified all white persons whose parents (or one of whose parents) were born in foreign countries according to the country of birth of the parents. The most impor- tant use made of the information with regard to the country of birth of the parents is in connection with the classification of what we term the for- eign white stock by country of origin. This classification extends only to the second generation of the descendants of the foreign stock. The person men- tioned would, therefore, be classified in the census returns as native with parents born in Canada. In the case of Canada alone in the tables classi- fying the foreign white stock by coun- try of origin, a separation is made ac- cording to language; that is, persons born in Canada are shown &% either ‘“‘Canada-French” or “Canada-Other.” The man dbout whom you inquire would, therefore, have his French ari- gin indicated in this manner. Q. Where is . Lee buried?— . D. . A. The body of Gen. Lee lies in a sarcophagus at Lexington, Va. Q. For what purpose were the stone houses in Mammoth Cave built? @. C. A These houses were built almost a century ago by sufferers from tuber- culosis who believed llving in the cave would cure them. Another story i3 to the effect that miners who took salt- peter from the cave for powder mak- ing during the war of 1812 built the houses, but while such mining did take place it is probable the miners lived outside the cave. The fallacy of the underground cure theory for tu- berculosis was soon demonstrated, and some of the stone huts remain un- finished. Q. Who was the first layman to be appointed chancellor in England?— T. G. D. A." In 1529, when Wolsey fell, Sir Thomas More succeeded him. The latter was the first layman to enjoy this honor. Q. Are people more apt to be over- come by heat on a dry day or on a damp day?—C. H. M. A. At the same temperature moist air is more productive of heat prostra- tion than is dry ai Q. What "is “blind advertise- ment”?—C. M. A. In most cases this variety of advertisement discloses neither the name of the firm advertising nor much of the nature of its business. a Q. Why is the Committes of Forty- eight 8o called?—A. C. M. . It is composed of representa- tives from the forty-eight States, and from this derives its name. Q. What {s the depth of the drain- age canal at Chicago, and how much water flows through it?—0. B. A. The following are the dimen- sions of the Chicago drainage and ship canal: To length, 38.60 miles; canal length, 32.35 miles; th, 226 feet; depth, 22 feet. Flow through the drainage canal at Chicago is gov- erned by a permit issued by the War Department March 3, 1925. It limits the flow “not to exceed an annual average of 8,500 cubic feet per second, the instantaneous maximum not to exceed 11,000 cubic feet per second.” Q. Is it correct to use both “Mr."” and “Jr.” with a man’s name?—A. L. A. The fact that the title “Jr.” is used as a man's name in no way af- !e(‘t;;! the title “Mr.” It must also be used. Did you ever write a letter to Frederic J. Haskin? You can ask him any question of fact and get the answer in a personal letter. Here is a great educational idea introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the worll—American news- paper readers. It is a part of that best purpose of a newspaper—service. There is no charge except 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Address Frederic J. Haskin, Director, The Evening Star Information Bureau, Washington, D. C. Parisian Attacks on Americans Blamed on Untactful Tourists American opinion is inclined to place much of the blame for anti- American outbursts in Paris upon the behavior of comparatively small groups of ill-bred tourists plus the natural irritability of a people beset with difficulties. ‘The Seattle Daily Times feels that “it is worthy of note that some of the cooler heads among Kuropean statesmen deplore the trend of Old World opinion,” while the Uniontown Herald says: “We in this country know enough about mob psycholog: to appreciate how noisy a demonstra- tion may be made over an idea which not one person in a thousand takes seriously.” Upon the question of the conduct of American _tourists, the Syracuse Herald warns that “international re- lations are serious enough in the pres- ent course of affairs without being complicated by the boorish behavior of a few Americans who go to Europe for a ‘play spell’ in the Summer and act as if they belonged to a kinder- garten.” The Providence Journal is sure that “basically the ill will of France is due to misunderstanding and false reasoning, but the anti- American feeling has been intensified by the arrogance and insolence of American vulgarians who, when they are abroad, aggressively misrepresent their country and its people. They are obnoxious at home,’ adds the Journal, “and even more so when they travel.” “The more enlightened men and women in France,” in the opinion of the Kalamazoo Gazette, ‘“‘undoubtedly know that these boorish visitors in no way represent the country from which they come. If any Americans are unacquainted with those rules of common courtesy which govern the relations between L it they have no person: duct themselves as ladies and.gentle- men, the least they can do is remem ber that their own country suffers the most from the brazen effrontery of its nationals abroad.” The Richmond News-Leader, calling attention to the fact that “some young English-speaking tourists have considered it fine sport to plaster over their suit cases with 6-franc notes,” exclaims, “Imagine the feelings of a French laborer who sees that luggage at a time when he and his wife have to agonize over every sou that they spend.” * k% % . “There is a great similarity,” says the Schenectady Gazette, ‘“between such Americans and Queen Marie An- toinette, who said, when informed the French people were starving because of lack of bread, ‘They should eat cake.' " * In an-analysis of the situation, the Manitoba. Free Press explains: “It has been necessary to assimilate mil- lions of people from many lands into one national citizenship, and for this purpose to insist upon uniformity in language, education, customs and manners of thought. Every point of difference has been branded as a badge of inferiority. This national at- titude has been reflected in both the foreign and colonial policy of the United States. It has bred a su- periority complex which exasperates other nations. That it does mnot to the same extent irritate Britons may be due in part to the fact that Britain. herself has often been subjected to upreasoning suspicion and resentment from many countries of continental Europe.” The chances are, in the judgment of the Pittsburgh Sun, “that if the tourist does not make ostentatious vaunt of his prosperity, or proclaim that the United States won the war, or disparage France, 'he will meet with courteous treatment.” “But France, the France of noble history and consummate art, not of opportunists and political flatterers,” declares the Atlanta Journal, “is as dear to America today as in the time —_— TR 3% first the jmmediate substitution of a |moderate tariff act and -thereafter slowly progressive reduction of tariff for revenue only.” Mr. Woolen also declares that, while he believes the principle of protection is unsound, “it is established in this country, vested interests are involved, and no one thinks we can get rid of it in one election.” Some of the Demo- crats in Congress do not think so, either, and, furthermore, they realize that their constituents do not want to get rid of protection. s many a schedule in the Republican ‘Democratic. b2 There is | of Lafayette and Rochambeau. Nor do we doubt that as the years drift these sisters in democracy, will find the heart ties between them ever deep- ening.” The Omaha World-Herald expresses the further thought that “‘America alw: from the beginning. has been the helping, not the punish ing, hand,” and “never in history has any nation had so great and unselfish and generous a benefactor as the al lied powers found in the United States. Perhaps that is the reason,” adds the Omaha paper, “that their oppressed and deluded peoples are being led to hate us now.” * % ok * “Our unpardonable offense was the favor we conferred,” according to the hile the New Or- s that “the Amer- ican people should not become frri tated because they are not liked; it is a rare thing for debtors to like cred itors.” Satire from the Springfield Union emphasizes that “European governments are beset with difficul ties, there is widely prevalent appre hension among their peoples, and some one or some thing must be made the goat. The easiest way,” continues that paper, “is to follow the lead of Soviet Russia and blame every ill upon America. The Charleston Evening Post holds that it is “the kind of childish gesture to be expected from anybody in de- spair, and to be overlooked and for- given for the sake of the circum- stances of distress out of which it pro. ceeds.” The Santa Rosa Press-Demo- crat believes that the demonstrations “are significant but not vital.” “France is declared to be the richest country in Europe,” says the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat, which sees no reason for talk of debt cancella- tion, and the Reno Evening Gazette calls attention to the ot that “France has never paid a_centime of her debt to this country.¥ But the Boston Transcript concludes that “it is not to be hoped that large numbers of people of two different countries can come into contact with each other without encountering innumerable points of difference, and these, in the present feverei and overburdened state of the French people, easily lead to friction.” THINK IT OVER Hundred Minds. By William Mather Lewis, President Georze Washington University. Do you naturally think in terms of units, tens or hundreds? There are these various types of minds. It is difficult for the unit man to think in terms of tens or the hundred man to think in terms of units. We all know men whose natural financial measure is one dollar; others whose unit is one hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, one million dollars. The latter are the ones who have built the transcon- tinental railroads, developed the steel industry, operated the mines and ofl wells. ‘We have a great traffic problem in America today. It will never he solved by the man with the unit mind He thinks of a street as a glorified cowpath. It must be a one-level street for the man with a unit mind. But the future city street in Amer- fca is to have at least four levels. There will be the underground level where subway trains bring into the business section the mass of the peo- ple. The second level will be the pe- destrian level, and above this will be two one-way streets, on one of which the automobile traffic will flow north or east and on the other south or west. As the street levels multiply busi- ness buildings will be better utilized. Instead of one row of shop windows and ground floors there will be four. “Ah, but how dark it will be,” you say. |Not as long as electric light plants are running. Most of the great city stores use artificial light all day now. Why * not use it in the streets as well? After all, we don’t seek sunlight and daisles in the shopping district. Chicago already is developing a plan for multi-level streets. “Routes of circulation” are to be secured by dou- ble-decking. Perhaps- in future years we will have as many street levels as our sky- scrapers have stories. America has many men with.hundred minds. 5 * (Gongright. 1936.)°