Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1926, Page 8

THE —_— e Y D "THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . .. August 11, 1926 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Ne Business O . 11th St. and ?“rnl Y New York Office: 110 Ea Chicas Office. Tower Duilding. European Office: 14 Regent St. Londen, England. = th the Sunday mom by eartiers, within per month: daily only. Sui y only. 70 cents moath, * Orders m; aent by mail or telephione Main 5000, Coileciion is made by carnier at the cnd of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. - Dails and Sunday 00: 1 mo. Daily only * 0 1 mo.. B0c Sunday only 00: 1 mo.. 25¢ iz and Sunday.l v aily only . BES Sunday only Sl Member of the Associated Press. ta exclusively entitled 3 0f all news dis- 1 alsn the rizhts of publication e ulso reserved. fted in this paper n published herein of spacial dispat Ys There Need for Cost Housing? snce of deta the prop 1 for number of apartments nment employes and thelr families at a low rental remains & subject of speculation, and it is by no means a matter of surprise that the operatice builders of the city, who are immcdiately concerned, should be active in tielr opposition to the plan. For if the project is developed accord- ing to the outlines alrcady advanced the interests of these builders and of & large number of owners of securities will be gravely affected. Secretary Hoover's comment yesterday that the Aurry which the proposal has caused among real estate men of the Capital causes him to think that there is real need for it 1s not, however, convincing Mhe absence of any further partic- ulars regarding the plan. 1f there Is a “real meed” for the erection of cost-price apartments suf- ficlent to house 60,000 persons it is b cause there is a lack of housing ac- commodations in the District at pres- ent, or that the available accommoda- tions are held at extortionate rates of rental for purchase. No elaborate rurvey is needed to show that there is at present a surplus of housing ac- commodations in Washington. In only a few of the larger apartment houses are there no vacancles. Dwell- ings are for rent in every quarter of the city. The only question is wheth- er the rates at which they are aval able to home seekers are unreasonably high. To determine that question a survey might be had. Tt is stated that no survey cf the local conditions has been male by the housing division of the Department of Commerce for more than three vears. In that time conditions have changed considerably. Upon what is the assumption based that the rates of rental and purchase in Washington today re exorbitant, to the point of warranting Govern- ment promotion of or co-operation in a philanthropy providing housing facilities for 60,000 persons? 1¢ there is a combination among the realty operators keep up the rates of rental and pur chase bevond the point of fair return upon investiaents it should, of course, be broken. But such a combination has not Leen proved to exist, and if it should cxist the way to break it is not for the nent to co-operate in a cost-price philanthropy providin a Rousing for one« population. Government aided hous- ing is uniair competition 5 In the : #pecifications erection of a for housing Govi any cost-price Gov 1f rates are too high in Washington | at.present and there is a demand for housing st lower rates the field is | surely open for private enterprise sat- isfied with a moderate return ment. No philanthropy to break the corner in realty developments if such a corner exists Meanwhile, it 1s by no means re markable thit the owners of housing facilities should be concerned at the proposal that the Government should aid in a non-commercial competitive building program that if carried out on the scale proposed would spell ruin n to them and heavy loss to those who | have invested their funds with them. Beforo the realty operators of the Dis- trict are condemned for their ‘present onposition to this project, there should be a specific demonstration that they are charging too much for housing cilities in rental or in purchase and are co-operating in maintaining those rates in th> face of a diminishing de- mand for accommodations. Tt remained for France, beloved of tourists, to put real emphasis on the slogan, “See America first!” ———r e Convention vs. Primary. Demand for a return to the con: vention system of nominating Sena- tors appears to be gaining ground. It is traccable. of course, to the revela- tions of expenditures in the Pennsyivania and Ilineds primaries for Se this year. Some confusion seems to exist in the popular mind between nominating primaries popular elections of Nenators, now prescribed by the Con- stitution Tt is possible to have the convention system of nominating for the Senate. and at the same time to have the popular election of Sena tors. Indeed. at least seven of the States continue to neominate in con ventlon, and another, South Dakota has what is calle pre-primary con vention, where candi e select ed to be voted for in the nominating primary. & made for the Senat tion route in New necticut Trah and several oth ates. In some of the dved-in-the-wool Democratic States, the abandonment of the primary for the nomination of Senators would re sult practically in the selection and election of Senators by convention, for no Republican could be expected to win in the general election. The safhe condition would arise In rock-ribbed Republican States like Verment and Penpsylvania. The only course open 10 voters if they did not like the nomi- de In such States by rt; would be 1o enter ominations by the York. 1d: conv of Washington to| chth of the local | upo; 1pon | s | Southern States, | | baseless pendent” candidates for the general election. An independent candidacy, except on rare occaslons, is particu- larly futile in this country. Would the nominations of Senators. under a general colvention system, be cleaner and less open to corruption than under the primary system? It is doubtful, particularly in view of the fact that the convention system was abandoned in some of the States because of corruption under the con- vention method. One thing is certain: Interests or persons bent upon con- trolling nominations could control them by the expenditure of less money in conventions than in State. wide primaries. The States themselves could return to the convention system of nominat- ing Senators, if they desired. No ac- tion by Congress, no amendment to the Constitution, would be necessary To return to the election of Senators by State legislatures, which prevailed until the adoption of the seventeenth amendment to the Constitution, would require another amendment to the Constitution, ratified by three-fourths of the States. That is not likely. Eternal vigllance is the price of clean elections, primary or general. Under any system corruption may creep in if public officlals and the electorate become lax or indifferent. I ] The District Airport. The District Chapter, National Aero- nautic Assoclation, has proposed to the National Capital Park and Plan- set aside an area of land within the boundary of the District on which an afrport for the District could be con- structed in the near future or when the need arises. The chapter's airport committee suggested, in lleu of anything else, the rea south of Benning road, which is occupled by Lake Kingman. This Lias been found to be unsuitable for the purpose, as the Anacostla Park project had gone too far to make any radical changes. The District Chap- ter, however, has recetved great en- couragement from the United States engineer’s office for the District, and pessibilities now are open for the ac- quisition of one of three sites within the District boundary. Action on a site should be taken at this time before all available sites near the center of the city are utilized for other purposes. As it is recognized the District must have a municipal alrport in the future, there is no time lke the present to act for the proper location to avold it being situated far out in Maryland or Virginia when it is decided to establish an air terminal. It is necessary to have the port within a few minutes’ travel of the center of the city to avold losing much of the time gained by aircraft travel. The port would be the center of all but military flying, would serve to encourage private ownership and operation of aircraft, would be the base for aerial sightseelng tours, a stopping place for cross-country aerial tourists, headquarters for commercial projects, a stop on a mall or freight line and, by its cleanliness and ar- rangement, could take its place in the park system of the District of Colum- bia. r———t————— One Aqueduct Pier. The preservation of the north span of the Aqueduct Bridge is a public question in a large part of Washing- ton west of Rock Creek and is prob- ably of considerable interest through- out the city. The Georgetown Citi- | zens’ Association has made urgent re- quest that the span be converted into a recreation pier about one hundred | ana eighty feet long and forty wide. { Many citizens desire the span saved for sentimental reasons. It is a reltc of old Georgetown. The early Wash- {ington and Alexandria canal aqueduct, which was converted into 2 toll bridge !and then remodeled and opened as the | “Free Bridge,” is closely hound with | the history of the city. During all [ the years of the bridge many harsh | things were sald against but it | did its office as well as a bridge of its | strength and size could. It served { the public faithfully. As seen from ! the river it was not an evillooking | bridge. One may say that the gray. {tall plers were handsome. At any | rate, the bridge became a feature of | the landscape—one of Washington's | “views.” Elders remember the bridge | when they were hovs, and there are | few boys in Washington who have not some pleasant recollections of the | brtdge which will be brighter and pleasanter with the passing of time. There is a great deal of force in the feeling that the north pler, out of the jway of freshets and commerce, and | | which does not mar the westward | view from the Key Bridge, shall be | caved. As a recreation pier it would | have considerable use. It would give { excellent views of the river, the Po- jtom:w islands, the Virginfa bank and a long stretch of the Washington water front. It would also give rest to, |and be a happy lounging place for ! mothers and children in the close- | built part of the city near it. e I According to the press agents. the Amerlcans welcome at present are the motion pleturs |in Europe | stars. | e Russian Revolt Denied. Assoclated Press report from Moscow puts the quietus on the re- ports of a Russian revolt against the denies the exile of Zenovieff, the flight of Trotsky, the murder of Stalin and the mutiny of portions of the army and navy as| | [ an | Soviet government, Summer fictions. It describes the present situation in Russia as placid: “Moscow is as quiet as any American city on Sunday morning. half the pop- ulation is away in the country and the tide of life runs slugsishly through the old capital.” Who started the “Summer fictions™ pt the Russian revolution? They came from many sources. They were cir- cumstantial. They indicated a chaotic condition in Lentngrad and in certain of the southern citles, with Moscow confiiet. 1t is idle to hope for an explanation of this phenomenon of apparently cports of revolution in Rus- be traced to their o ning Commission that it allocate or [* tense and strained and prepared for | source. Thelr motive cannot be de- uirrnlned. If these stories of conflict between members of the Soviet organization, running to the extremes of assassina- tlon and mutiny, are wholly untrue as the Assoclated Press dispatch from Moscow indicates, with no basis what- ever for them, the suspicion arises that they have been put forth for a sinister purpose. Whose interest is it to spread belief that the Soviet organ- ization is at the point of dissolution? The royalist Russian refugees natural- Iy hope for a reaction, but .falsely proclaiming that one is occurring does not increase the chance of its hap- pening. The question arises whether a sur- vey of conditions at Moscow is an al- together satisfactory basis for the as- sertion‘that all is peaceful within the Russian boundary. Many visitors to Moscow have reported it to be uni- formly calm and well administered. The Soviet is strongest there. in complete control. Visitors to Rus- sia have not absolutely free access to other parts of the country. There is a rigid censorship over news. This is not to suggest that the correspondent of the Associated Press at Moscow has been decelved by the conditions at the capital. But the fact remains that circumstantial reports of revolution gained wide circulation, with no evi- dent motive for their promulgation, and the mystery of their basis or the motive of a fiction remains unsolved by even this categorical denial. o Straits Settlements. A shipment of $125,000 in United States gold coin to the Straits Settle- ments is explained as due to the “marriage season” in that Far Bast British colony, which comprises Singa- pore, Penang, Malacca and several smaller possessions on and near the Malay Peninsula. It has nothing to do with forelgn exchange conditions and is not made in connection with ordinary commercial settlements, but is tho result of wedding customs that prevall in that part of the Orfent. In addition to a dowry, the father of the bride usually presents her with brace- lets, necklaces, rings and other orna- ments made of gold. Gold coin is bought in the United States and other countries, melted and made into orna- ments in the Far East. Singapore, the capital and largest city, has come to be called, because of the volume of its trade, the Liver- pool of the East. Kipling in a poem represented Singapore as one of the evil places of the world—perhaps the most immoral place on earth. The moving picture has extended that view of the city to millions of Ameri- cans. There was truth in Kipling's lines when written, but the British administrators of the Straits Settle- ments have carried on clean-up cam- paigns till the dive sections of Singa- pore have been immensely improved. Any visitor to Singapore who does not inquire the way to the quarters of least repute will get the impression that Singapore is well built and clean and a great city in the matters of trade, population and improvements. | Its modern docks stretch for six miles along one of the wortd's finest har- bors, and since the World War ex- tensive improvements have been made in the city. Its population must now be close to or quite 400,000, mostly Chinese, Malays and other Fast In- dians, a small but commanding num- Rer of whites, and with a large popu- lation of transients from every part of the world. JERER— The Hall homicide mystery is de- pendent for its solution on an abstract | sense of legal justice. None of the personal figures in the case claims any deep sympathy on lofty senti- mental ground. —aons. Providing less expensive homes for Government workers means a strug- | gle with theories more or less related to “paternalism.” Paying salaries suf- ficlent to meet current demand would be more prompt and efficacious. i The controversy about evolution is likely to subside as soon as it is gen- erally realized that it has nothing whatever to do with taxation and the cost of living. —_— et SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSQN. Color Scheme. I'm a gentle jay-walker, pursuing my way, And I think it exceedingly hard hen traffic officials so carelessly say They’ll hand me a pretty pink card. A neighbor will laugh as my plight he observes When i travel my pathway anew, For pink is a tint that distresses my nerves. My favorite color is blue. Alcoholic Mortality. ““Are you a wet or a dry?"’ “I'm a dry,” answered Senator Sorghum. “There's no chance for a wet candidate to succeed. According to the laboratory reports it won't be long before all the people inclined to {vote his way are polsoned.” { ) Wasted Treasure. “Where are the snows of yester year?" They've melted all, I vow. Oh, how we wish they might appear In our old ice box, now! Jud Tunkins says an obstinate man has his own way and then wakes up and wonders what he wanted with it. Sentiment Indorsed. | “See America first!” exclaimed the tourist.* “Especially,” added the European ‘frwnd. “when a loan is desired.” Crossing the Channel. Dear Gertrude, with applause we note How you the Channel tempests dare. We never crossed it in a boat Without a siege of mal-de-mer. ‘We hope that if again we ride ) Where those small steamboats reel ahd toot, y We'll be in shape to brave the tide With just a simple bathing suit. “When a man goes fishin',” said Uncle Eben, “he hopes to ketch a fish; but most times he'd h ketch de fourth ace” It is|” EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. Bang! What was that, Estella? Nothing much. Just the breaking of another- illu- sion, held for years by J. Henry Loomis, solid cltizen. Hokey-pokey, he maintained, was the finest form of frozen dainty in the world. It was, he sturdily declared, the zenith of “ice cream.” ‘When reminded that hokey-pokey is not made of cream at all, but merely of milk, he countered by ad- mitting the allegation, holding the fact as a merit, not a fault, however. ““Hokey-pokey!” he would say, with a smack of his lips and a rolling of his big round eyes. “I,can remember the first hokey-pokey I ever ate. I thought it was the best stuff I had ever eaten in my life, and I still think “Why, you haven't eaten any for 20 years! he was reminded. “Oh, is that so?” J. Henry would answer, with infinite scorn. “It has not been SO many years ago, Now, that I made some myself. We made it in Winter. Those were the years when boys indulged in other than noisy play. “Today boys seem to lack intellec- tual amusements. They throw balls, roar around on skates, run and holler, but never sit and talk over books, or play checkers, or go In for chess, or do any one of a score of things boys of my day and age found amusing. “Yes, we played games, too, but not all the time. We rather prided ourselves on having opinions. We could settle the affairs of nations as well as the statesmen, if not a' little bit better.” EREE -J. Henry Loomis went back into the realm of memory, over & long, long trail, and this is what he found there: “It was at the county fair that I first met hokey-pokey. It was served up under a tent. I can see the out- lines of the tent, but not the color. The rains of many years have wash- ed the tint away. “The taste of that hokey-pokey, however, lingers in my mouth yet! “It was handed to you for the sum of a nickel. It took the form of a flat cake, wrapped in paraffined pa- per. Ij was deliciously cold to the touch, as the gentleman in the white apron and big white hat handed it over into your small fingers, with an admonition ‘not to drop it.’ “You didn’t need any warning. There was just one place you intended to ‘drop it'—that was down your zullet. How cold the cake was! You pulled back the wrapper and exposed the white delicacy to view. “Around you the hundred activities of a country fair roared away. No noise of teeming city in later years could equal it, as it sounded in your small ears then. It was a big racket in little ears. Nearby was the stock exhibit, from which came the moo of glossy cows, the-squeal of pigs and the bellows, clucks and varied noises of other farm animals. “You could see the races going on, the dust flying. Over there was the peeriess Manahaton, the Man with the Iron Skull, who was about to allow a huge slab of rock to be knocked to bits as it reposed upon his dome. You thought you would go over and look at this spectacle, and so you took your preclous cake of hoke: pokey, now beginning to drip slightly, and wedged your way into a point of vantage.” WASHINGTON No President has ever told of the great quantity and variety of objects, animate and inanimate, which pour into the White House unsolicited, and ofttimes unwanted, from friends, well- wishing strangers and manufacturers of products which they are seeking to exploit. This habit of the great American public of sending a token or a sample to the President seems to be steadily growing. The accumu- lation of books donated in the course of a single four-year term \\:uuld f_ux‘- nish enough reading mater for a }lle- th Tt is printed that Mr. Coolidge carries a cane on his daily stroll and Within a few weeks a hundred canes more or less reached the White House. There have been received enough radio sets, some in the thousand- dollar class, to provide one for every room in the house; &lso dogs, cats and canary birds, tigers and bears, fur coats and fedoras. * ok Kk X The widespread publicity given to Mr. Coolidge's reputed fondness for dogs during his early days at the White House brought such a deluge of pups that the President was hard pressed to find homes for them, and a quiet hint was passed along to the newspaper correspondents to let up for a while on the dog stories. Not all of the dogs that arrived were pups with a,_pedigree, either. Two travel- wearied and somewhat sad-eved black and white fox terriers in a homemade crate were received during the height of the dog rush, and two days later came this letter of explanation from an unknown donor in a village in the Carolina mountains: “Dear Sir: 1 take pleasure in writing thess few lines, hoping you and your family are well and enjoying good health. I am sending you a pair of French fox terriers of which I hope you will be pleased. The mother and father of these dogs was picked up on the battlefields of France after being gassed by the boys of the brave and noble 8ist division of the State of South Carolina, brought here, of which T became the owner of the breed, and they are the only dogs with that record that I know of. Please give them a good home, for I only got a small vard and I got six more. But none to sell and they are all nice ones.” * %% Congressmen find many roads: to fame. Representative John B. Sos- nowski of Michigan is getting nation-{ wide publicity by the simple expedient of advertising the quantity and qual- ity of his wardrobe. It is reported that h. has 27 suits, which include 3 for golf and 3 for riding; 5 overcoats, 11 pairs of shoes, 95 cravats and 3 dozen shirts. The quantities of other accessories like socks and union suits are not revealed. His backers chal- lenge “Nick"” Longworth to beat this { record and declars that “Nick's” pre- | vious hold on the title to the “best- dressed congressman” is now _in jeopardy. Sosnowsk! hails from De- troit. N I A trio of Washington authors ha\P! magde thelr first appearances in the Summer fiction lists. Each of the three is well known in the Capital but quite unknown in the literary world, for in each case it is her first novel. Named in the order in which their books have been published, they are:| Mrs. Elmer Schlesinger, formerly the Countess Gizycka; Miss Nancy Hoyt, | still in the debutante ranks, and Lella Warren, a little older than Miss Hoyt | and recently married. Mrs. Schle- singer was Eleanor Patterson, the | Chicago heiress of a decade ago,! whose family, with the McCormicks, | TRACEWELL. J. Henry Loomis grinned at the recollection, i “You were just a little boy at a country fair, but you saw it all. The cool wonder of hokey-pokey slid down your throat, and nothing ever tasted so good to you. “You didn't miss a thing. Years later you wondered why. older people, the good mothers and fathers, fondly imagine children do not see half of what is going on. e “They see everytMing—and then some. You saw the peerles Mana- haton don his close-fitting cap. It was black, and made him look like a bald-headed eagle. Four men hefted a piece of rock onto the cap, and balanced it there. “It was the same blue-gray rock that lined the old spring. You knew it. You saw the man raise the great mallet and bring it down on the rock, while the muscles stood out in Manahaton’s neck to bear the im- pact. “'Twas a blow to kill an ox, but it did not worry the famous Mana- haton, the Man with the Iron Skull. He had not been named in vain, or to lose his life at a small country fair. j “If he were going to suffer a broken neck, it would be before a full house of intellectuals, not be- fore a group of rustics. Whang! e e s splif, a crash and a cheer, as the rock fell in fragments around him, and klanahaton bounded to his feet, doffed his cap and be- gan taking up the collection. + That was when you left. * ok kK “You had finished your cake of Hokey-pokey in a gulp. It was gone. You looked at your empty paper in hopeless longing. Would you ever know its like again? “Yes, you did, when you made some with snow in the place of ice, when you had grown to be a larger boy, and knew about all there was to know the world—or at least it so seemed to you. J. Henry Loomis opped, and smiled at his wife. “How about making some hokey-pokey?” “You won't like {t.” “Sure I will. Let's go!” So the freezer was gotten out, the ice cracked, the salt poured in, the mixture prepared ready for the can. Just milk, sugar and vanilla, that was all, Into the can it went. Around went the grinding, the ice melted, the mixture was frozen. “Ah!" breathed J. Henry, looking into the can at last. His mouth fairly watered. “Guess we had bet- ter let it ripen for an hour,” he said. When the hour was up Mrs. Loomis called. B, “Shall 1 serve the hokey-pokey®” “Sure,” said J. Henry—but there was a strange lack of enthysiasm in his tone. His eyes gleamed, though, when the saucer of heaped frozen milk was set before him. He dipped in his spoon with avidity, nearly froze ‘his forehead with the size of his bite, tgned down his desires, ate more eas- 1?/‘ from then on. “How do you like it?” inquired Mrs. Loomis, at last. “Fine!” said J. Henry. “Is it as good as vou thought it would be?” “Of course not,” grinned J. Henry Loomis, “As a matter of fact, it is awful. It's the same old hokey- pokey, but two factors. are lacking— my old appetite and my old lack of discrimination.” OBSERVATIONS years the Countess Gizycka flitted from Washington to European capi- tals, always a notable figure, feted anfi’ admired, but unattached. Her marriage to Elmer Schlesinger, Chi- cago lawyer and an old friend, is of recent making. It is the “Countess Gizycka” who on the title page as author of “Glass Houses,” which was broad- Iy heralded as an audacious novel of Washington society. She wrote the book, 50 she says, “ns a new adven- ture,” but sl will not repeat the ad- venture. Miss Hoyt's book, entitled “Roundabout,” also has its settings in the National Capital. It has met with such enthusiastic reception that she is already laying plans to write another and has recently gone to Europe to get her material. Elinor Whylie, who now lives in Italy and wha has achieved considerable fame as a novelist, is Nancy Hoyt's elder sister. Lella Warren's book, like the other two, has for its principal char- ung girl whose experiences e happened in any present- day American_city. Washington is not named. It is titled “Growing Pains.” All thyee authors have quite evidently drawn many of thelr inci- dents from real life, which by thelr fidelity have startled none so much as those who find themselves in the ple- ture. 34 ol The crop of fish stories, always plentiful, is unusually heavy this year by reason of the wide advertising giv- . Coolidge's sudden penchant for s ancient *pastime. This observer submits tne following yarn brought to Washington this week from Veront as a splendld example of the super- fish story. A Vermont golfer of re- nown, while trout .fishing in a Ver- mont stream on a Summer day ten years ago, lost a gold golf medal. Just why he took his medal on a fishing ex- pedition is 1ot known, but anyhow he did. Now the trophy has just been returned to him by a fellow Vermont sportsman, who landed a four-and-a- half-pound trout recently, and upon splitting it for grilling over his camp- fire found the medal inside. Who can tell a better one than that? * (Copyright. 1926.) ——— Georgia Watermelons Lead in Shipping Lists From the Atianta Journal. Of the 28 different fruits and vege- tables which scored so remarkable a shipping record in the week ended July 17, watermelons led the list with a total of 7,600 cars, or enough to make up a train 60 miles long. More than 7,000,000 melons, it is computed, were shipped in the course of the week—and imdgine the delight they spread around millions of dinner tables! There has been a large increase in America’s consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, and evidently will continue to be as their importance to health is more widely understood. Six times as much lettuce goes to market now as was shipped a decade ago. The annual return from the crop, ac- cording to the National Department of Agriculture, is around $20,000,000. Only three other vegetables—white po- tatoes, sweet potatoes and tomatoes— exceed it in value. Other products of the truck farm and the orchard are gaining in favor with the public and in profitableness to the grower. All this signifies much for Georgia, whose climate and soil are excellently suited to such crops. Happily, too, these resources are being turned to rich account by an increasingly large number of native farmers and by in- vestors from other regions of the coun- try. Georgia supplies a major part of the peaches and melons néw mov- ing by thousands of carloads to the owned the Chicago Tribune. In her girlhood she married a Russian. Count cka This internationa)l ali:rce not long endure and for nw great markets of the East, the North and the West. The time is not far Aistont when she will 'supply also 8 dly portivn of their ;\egelabbs. 11, 1928, | Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. Preparatory to taking charge of the speakers’ bureau In New York for the Republican _ congressional and sen- atorlal campaign commlttees, Repre- cut, majority floor leader of the House, is in Washington, talking with such party leaders as remain. He will g0 to New York almost immediately to select the headquarters for the speakers’ bureau, and then to Maine next week, where he will meet local Republican leaders and lay befére them just what the national congres- sional committee is prepared to do to help them re-clect the four Republican representatives of that State. The Maine speaking campaign will begin August 30 and will continue actively until the election is held, September 13. The old saying that as Maine goes, so goes the Nation, has not al- ways proved true. Maine is prover- bially strongly Republican. But the vote cast in the early election in this State has always been regarded as a straw to show which way the wind is blowing. The Republicans express great confidence they will carry the State this year. * ok ok ok Mr. Tilson expresses entire confi- dence that the Republicans will hold control of the House after the elec- tions this Fall. He does not believe the present Republican majority in the House will be cut materially, if at all. In fact, he is counting on picking up a few seats now held by the Demo- crats here and there. Representative Walter H. Newton of Minnesota is to have charge of the Western Republican speakers’ bureau in thie congressional campalgn. “We dre ready to meet all comers on the record which the Republican Congress and the Republican admin- istration has made,” declared Mr. Til- son. He regards reduction of the taxes, which hinged upon the economy practiced by the adninistration, as the great issue of the Republicans. If the Democrats wish to raise the tariff issue they are perfectly welcome to do 80, Mr. Tilson says. As for the Re- publicans, they are out to wage an aggressive campaign. They can af- ford to say, “Continue American prosperity!” and expect that slogan to have results. Even the farmers are in much better case than they have been, according to reports reaching Mr. Tilson, and in his opinion the Re- publicans have little to fear in the West. * ok Kk Kk Mr. Tilson recently visited Presi- dent Coolidge while the latter was at his old home in Plymouth, Vt. The Republican leader of the House drove- to Plymouth with his family party, in- cluding Mrs. Tilson, his children and the servants. The President had just come in from a fishing expedition. Ie invited Mr. Tilson and his party to spread their picnic luncheon under the trees near the Coolidge house. All were_introduced to the President by Mr. Tilson. The colored chauffeur was the last of the line. He had been working on the Tilson machine. The President thrust out his hand, but the chauffeur drew back, saying, “'deed, Mr. President, my hand is dirty. T been working on the car.” “You have nothing on me,” repiied Mr. Coolidge, “I've been fishing,” and he grasped the chauffeur’s hand and gave it a shake, much to the latter's gratification. * ok ok ok Out in Missouri the Republicans are taking considerable satisfaction out of the fact that in the recent primaries there' the vote in the Republican pri- mares was about 50,000 In excess of the vote cast in the Democratic pri- marles. This s sald to be the first time in history that such has been the case in a primary electfon. Al- ways the Democrats have cast more votes than the Republicans on these occasions. The Republicans, however, have been winning in Missourl with considerable frequency and continuity in recent years, and they believe that the State is now actually Republican normally. They are predicting the election of Senator Williams over his Democratic opponent, Representative Harry Hawes, in November. Willlams’ sweeping victory over his opponents for the Republican nomination, lead- ing them by more than 100,000, is re- garded as a slgn of unusual strength and of co-operation on the part of the State organization. Hawes did nct win as_impressively over his opposi- tion. While he has sought above all things harmony in the Democratic party, it does not appear that the old wounds are entirely healed. g * ok ok % Although the Kentucky primaries took place a day or two ago, neither the Republican candidate for the Sen- ate, Senator Ernst, nor the Demo- cratic candidate, Representative Bark- ley, had any opposition, and will go on the tickets in November as a mat- ter of course. It is likely to be a hard fight, though at present Mr. Barkley may be sald to have the edge. New- berryism and the gross expenditures of money in Republican primaries in Pennsylvania._and Illinois are to be issues stressed against Senator Ernst, who voted agalnst the Reed resolution for investigation of the senatorial campaign expenditures this year. Both Ernst and Barkley are drys, so the liquor question will not enter this senatorial contest. Barkley is one of the members of the House who received “honorarfums’ from the Anti-Saloon League when he went out to make dry speeches. This may lose him some votes in the State. But former Senator Stanley has re- cently announced his support of Barkley in a letter which was made public. Harmony in the Democratic ranks and the Republican ranks, too, seems to reign. Indeed, it is almost unprecedented for senatorial aspir- ants to obtain nominations without Lopposluon in Kentucky. * koK % It is woman'’s prerogative to change her mind. Gov. “Ma” Ferguson of Texas is about to take advantage of this, according to dispatches from Texas. Attorney General Dan Moody, who beat her in the primaries for the gubernatorial nomination, has failed by some 1,770 votes to obtain a clear majority of the votes cast and under the State law there must be a run-off primary for the two leading candi- dates. Gov. Ferguson originally agreed to withdraw from the gover- norship if she were defeated by so much as one vote in the primary. Now it appears, however, she is going into the run-off primary. Further- more, a petition has been filed on be- half of Ma Ferguson, charging irreg- ularities in the matter of contribu- tions mads to the Moody campaign. * % %ok Mrs. John W. Langley, recentl: nominated by the Republieans of the tenth Kentucky congressional district for membership in the House, regards her victory as vindlcation of her hus- band, who served seven terms in the House and i now serving a term in the Atlanta penitentiary after being convicted of conspiracy to violate the dry laws. Mr. Langley may be re leased from prison this Fall, if he is given all allowance for being a. good prisoner. In any event he will be re- leased next Spring. Mrs. Langley is likely to win the election and to come to the House. Mr. Langley, there- fore, will be on hand to aid her in her congressional duties when the new Congress convenes in 1927. * % ¥ ¥ Organized labor, having abandoned its excursion into third party politics, which proved disastrous in 1924, is battiing along bipartisan lines for men and women who are to sentative John Q. Tilson of Connecti-; . ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. Why, when a glowing cigarette is carrfed in a rapid circular motion at night, is the entire circle of light visible?—M. C. B. A. Psychologists explain the phe- nomenon which you mention in your letter by the fact that the sory nerves, although sfow to respond to the stimulus of light, continue to re- spond long after the response is once set up. Q. Is the astromomical clock, ex- hibited over the country in 1878, still in existence?—A. S. J. A. The estronomical clock, which was Invented and constructed by Stephen D. Engle, is still in existence. The clock {8 now in the possession of H. Bugene Smith of Skaneateles, N. Y. Mr. Smith has owned the clock for 40 years, having purchased it June 18, Q. When was Rush Medical School established?—0. C. D. ‘A. Rush Medical College was char- tered by a special act of the Legisla- ture of the State of Illinois in Febru- ary, 1837. It was founded by the late Daniel Brainerd, who was its first president. The first course of lectures was delivered in the second story of & frame building on Clark street near Randolph in 1843. . What part of the Jewish popu- l.AtQion of thémsworld is in New York City?—W. G. 8. A). About one-tenth. The Jewish population of New York City is 1,643,000. The Jewish population of the world has been estimated at 15,550,000. Q. Why is Fall River, Mass., 8o called?—A. D. . ‘A. Fall River takes its name from a river so called because it is only about 2 miles in length and falls about 140 feet in a half-mile. Q. When ‘were the 8th and 10th Cavalry organized?—J. H. N. A. The 9th Cavalry was organized in November, 1866. The 10th Cavalry was organized in February, 1867 These are negro regiments. Q. Which State leads in the vehicle- for-hire business?—N. M. K. A. New York State leads with 17, 956 concerns, and Nevada has the least, having 104 concerns. Q. What kind of material is felt? How long has it been made?—R. N. A. Felt is a fabric formed without weaving, by taking advantage of the natural tendency of the fibers of hair and wodl to interlace with and cling to one another. As to the knowledge of felt making, its beginnings ante- date by many centuries the Christian era and the fabric is mentioned by the earllest writers. In fact, St. Clement is the patron saint of felt makers, since he was sald to have put carded wool between his feet and the soles of his sandals at the begin- ning of a journey and found it trans- formed into cloth at its end. On ac- count of greater simplicity of its structure, it is probable that felt was made long before the art of produ:- ing cloth by spinning and weavinu had been discovered. Q. Who is president of Howard University and what is his salary? A A. Dr. Mordecal W. Johnston i< president of Howard University and recelves a salary $7,000 a year in addition to housin® facilities. Q. Did the Shenandoah carry mascot when it was wrecked?—S. A. A. It did not. Q. Why will a straw twirl when lald across a ripe watermelon end remain stationary when placed on an unripe one?—M. P. V. A. The Bureau of Plant Industry says that it has never experimented with a straw for testing the ripeness of watermelons, but it is of the opin fon that the straw would not remain stationary when tho melon is green any more than when the melon is ripe. Q. What people wrote the first his -N. tory?- . 8. A. The first historical narrative of considerable scope was produced by the Hebrews of ancient Palestine. The | Babylonians and Assyrians had earller historical writings, but they were not collected. These date back to the third miilennium B.C. Q. Why isn't the Titanic raised” L. P. Y. A. Salvage experts have stated that it would be impossible to raise the Titanic. This is largely because the exact location is unknown. The ves sel sank in one of the deepest part: of the Atlantic. Q. When was the Atlantic first crossed by hydroplane?—A. M. A. In 1919, when the NC-4 (Ameri can) departed from Trepassey, New foundland, May 16, and arrived ir Lisbon, Portugal, May 17. The flying time was 26 hours 47 minutes. Q. When will the G. A. R. encamj ment be held>—T. C. A. It will be held in Des Moines Jowa, the week beginning Septem ber 19. There is no other agency in the world that can answer as many legiti- mate questions as our Free Informa tion Bureau in Washington, D. € This highly organized institution has been built up and is under the per sonal direction of Frederic J. Haskin By keeping in constant touch with Federal bureaus and other educational enterprises it s in a position to pass on to you authoritative information of the highest order. Submit your querles to the staff of erperts whose services are put at your free disposal There is mo charge ercept 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Address The Evening Star Information Bu- reaw, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Twenty-first and C streets northwest, Washington, D. C. Comment on the situation in Texas arising from the acts of ‘the governor, Mrs. Ferguson, puts the woman execu- tive on the defensive. Expenditures for highway purposes are assailed in public comment, and the pardoning power is declared to have been used too extensively. Mrs. Ferguson is accused of permitting her husband to rule the State. “The Ferguson administration,” re- marks the Charlotte Observer (Demo- cratic), “is not panning out very hap- pily—that is, for the woman governor. There are resignations under way, two members of the State Highway Com- mission having already quit under fire, with indications of a general re- vision of the board personnel. Graft in operation of highway affairs seems to have developed, and the blame goes_back to the administration of Mr. Ferguson. It i3 an unfair situa- tion for the woman governor, and of course she is to bear the brunt of the blame. Paternalism, such as is said to have existed in Texas guberna- torfal affairs, is'bound to undo any administration.” Uncertainty as to the facts, how- ever, is indicated by the Brooklyn Fagle (independent Democratic), with the comment: “In our opinion, out- siders should suspend judgment on the condition of things in the State of Texas until the data on which to base judgment are much fuller than they are. Of one thing we feel con- fident—that the chivalry of the Lone Star State will prevent any baseless assault on a woman governor. Texas chose her after a falr fight and no favor. If she has made mistake weakness is common to human she has done wrong, her accountability is the same as a man’s, no more and no less.”” Further developments. how- ever, according to the Bristol Herald- Courfer (independent Democratic), “will be watched with some interest, and that paper admits ““Mrs, Fergu- son's opponents may be able to hang something on her, as they say on the curb.” * %ok ok The situation impresses the Hunt- ington Advertiser (Democratic) as an “illustration of what can and fre- quently does happen when an electo- rate votes its sentiment instead of its intelligence.” The Advertiser also de- clares: “It is an unhappy plight in which the Ferguson family finds it- self. ‘Ma’ Ferguson had every op- portunity to make good. The sym- pathy of the public was her. She could have erased much of the disgrace brought upon the family by the dismissal of her husband from office. But the wife has been a mere figurehead and the husband has been the real governor.” As to the result the Quincy Whig Journal (independ- ent) believes that a tolerant and in- dulgent Texas citizenry will not be long in guessing where to place the blame, and the woman who serves as a figurehead will probably be ab- solved.” | ‘Naturally the Texas expertment with a woman governor,” the Man- | chester Union (independent Republi- | can) states, “has aroused natfonwide attention. In all falrfess, though, it is to be set down that the troubles of her administration are to be traced to the influence of a man, and that a similar situation would have been created had one of ‘Jim' Ferguson's male leutenants instead of his wife been chosen Governor of Texas and been disposed to follow the Ferguson advice. Subservience to a boss is no novelty in strictly masculine State ad- ministrations in thi# Republic.” That husband and wife, it is pointed |1ts cause in the present cangressional campalgn. Col. Brookhart in Towa and Senator Nyt Nort ta | Nye in North Dakold | . i1y would not appeal to him for | both had the ald of labor, and of Labor, the officlal organ of the rail- road brotherhoods, in their campaigns for nomination to the Senate. Thou- sands upon thousands of copies of Labor were sent into these States to help the candidates. Labor will be used to help defeat former Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohlo in his race for the Senate against Senator Willis, it is expected. Indeed. it was used for Judge Florence E. Allen, who was Pomerene’s opponent in the primaries yesterday. Organized labor {s plan- ning to go to the aid of Gov. Blaine, the Progressive candidiate against Senator Lenspot. in the Wisconsin senatorial u:?pslsn. Texas Developments Put - Mr Ferguéon on Defensive out by the Charleston Evening Post (independent Democratic), “‘should both have served in the office of gov- ernor of a great State is a rare dis tinction, yet, remarkable as is the record. it 1s not unique. If, however. ‘Ma’ Ferguson is ousted from office by impeachment, as ‘Jim' was, there will be a record which ought to stand in political annals for a long time un matched. In event of Mrs. Ferguson's being deposed, it might be in order for her daughter to run for gover nor."” * % % % “It remained for Texas,” says the Reno Evening Gazette (Republican) “to be the first State of the Union in which scandal should arise about the expenditure of the funds for Fed eral road projects. But what else can be expected? There is no one who loves his native State more sincerely and loyally than a Texan, but he will have to admit that the conditions at Austin are shocking. Information from papers in the South shows that Mrs. Ferguson scarcely acts as gover. nor at all. Her husband is declared to be an unofficial member of the highway commission. The pardoning of convicts from the Texas prison has become outrageous, but ‘Ma’ Fergu son continues to sln on the dotted ne. She has not been a good gover decl#res the Albany Evening (independent Republican), with tements: “She has pardoned convicts in large numbers. The State has recovered $600,000 from one high way contracting firm.” Charges by Representative Irwin of Dallas are declared by the Springfield Illinots State Journal (Republican) to I« “astounding indictments ot official in capacity and neglec! Attackine “Fergusonism in Texas,” the (' tanooga News (Democratic) sa that “an opportunity is apparently developing for Attorney Generul Dar Moody to_duplicate the record of Joe Folk in St. Louis 20-odd year: P and adds that “Moody ¥ being heralded as the next governor. which doubtless should stitute o very smail part of the housecleaning program.” The Ralelgh News and Observer (Democratic) exelaims “Watch Dan Moody!" and declare< hat “every State in the Union need- such’ prosecuting officers.” THINK IT OVER A Peculiar Thrill nor, By William Mather Lewis, President Georze Washington University. In recent crime news more than one reference has been made to robberies committed “for a thrill.” Some one is held up, «ome house s entered. We learn that the act is committed by wealthy youth who seeks loot not so much as he seeks excitemato Among all the excuses for outiawry this is among the weakest. Wa are asked to belleve that a normad young man becomes so bored with thw tame. ness of everything else in lif§ that he must needs turn minal. Has the “thrill burglar” exhausted the possibilities in the following acts from the accomplishment of which most people get. a pleasant sensation’ A hole in one.s A home run with three on. Landing a 40-pound muskie. Shooting a meuntain goat. Sticking to a,_bucking broncho. Looping the loop in an airplane. Aquaplaning behind a real speed boat. He has not. And most of these the simple reason that he is ab normal. He doesn't have the sport- ing tendency, but the criminal tend ency. There are still plenty of legitimate thrills to be experienced by youth of physical stamina and mental nerve and there are still plausible alibis to bé invented by ingenious crooks. Whether a person is a thief or & “thrill burglar’” doesn’t interest us when we are held up on the street and made to surrender our property. Our interest therr and thereafter is that steps shall be taken to restrain the criminally inclined, no matter what thelr classification. (Copsriaht. 1026.)