Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1926, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morninz Fdition. - WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. .. August 18, 1926 THEODORF W. NOYES. .. .Editor e Evening Star New wpaper Company Rosiness Oftee T1th St and Penneylv New York Ofce 110 Fast 42 Thicazn Offie Toee: Building ¢ Buropean Ofice’ 14 Resent Sy, London, £ Fngiand with the Sundas marn g edition. in diivered hv carriers o thin s ALY at A0 cents par month: dailv onlv 48 cents per month- Sunday only. 70 centa cr month Orders may be sent by mail or tlenhone Main 5000 ollsction 18 made by warrier at the end of sach month The Evaning Star “Rate hy. Mail—Payable In Advance. " Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunda; 1 v $0.00: 1 mo Iy only 1 wr SRO0 1 mo Sundar oniv 19r 83001 mo > Al Other States and Canada. £12.60 1mo_ %100 €200: 1 mo $4.00: 1 mo.. B liv a1 eiiinar Paie e N Bmdns anie tyr, i in exclugivele sntirled eation, of &1 news dis Paiches ~reditod tn it ar not ntherwise cred 1ted in this naner and also 1 Toea) news Rlished Nerain ATl ighte of publieation f apacial diepatrhes he - Permit Revocation. Three appeais from revocation of permite by the trafie director have hean denied by the Commissioners of the District. Under the amended traf fie act. passed by Congress at the last geasinn. the director is given the an therity to revoke permits hefore trial It the Aefendant is charged with a erime that insure automatic revocation on convietion. This sac tian of the naw law was insisted upon by the director. who cited numerous natances of delaved trials and re peated arrests while waiting for ap. pearance In order to pro tart defendants who might, ba dis eriminated against in the summary revacation. Cengress provided that the action of tha director should not take effect until days had heen given for an appeal on facts 10 the Commissioners. A further appeal to the Court of Appeals is also provided Wit the revocation Is effactive imme Aiately following aMrmative action hy the Commissioners wonld in conrt ten The Commissioners are fo he com mended their prempt the Persons who are ar rested driving while intoxicated Isaving the zcens of a collision with making identity known, third offense speeders and using A smoke ereen have no husiness on the strests the while waiting crowded conrt and jury ‘o action on new liw ot L ety for 10 get a 16 the settlement of their anentiy months elapse toeen trial in the meantime nsers of the streeis are suh. Jacted 10 the terrifving experiance of having with traffic of drivers of this type. The now stands provides safeguarde the innocent, but in snres punishment for the guilty. Prompi action on all appeals should bhe ziven v Commissioners, be. cance cannot become ef f have passed on the in procuring action may anuse the mo- ases. seversl arresi and and 1 cope the menace to law as it for the revacation tive nntil they Deiay in a result be torist arrestad for one of these major offenzes max repeat it while he sthil is I possession of his permit. Co.opera tion hv the Commissioners and the eourte with the trafic office on this on of the new taw will result in hetter iraffic conditions in the Na- tional Capitat tragedy. won ) — One of New York's monologue en tartainars paid $2,500 for steamship sccommodations from Europe back to America. He might have made the trip more cheaply, but the sensibili Hes of tha artim probably made him feel that during 1he present American nraindice abrad, too zreat no price was ) - ,A host of people are prepared to awim tha Fnglish Channel in imita- tian of Gertrude Kderie. A genuine arhisvement alwavs stimulates medi- eerity to axtraordinary activity. B ‘New York Republicans Split. An the date of the New York State Rapublican convention draws nearer the rift In the party ranks over the wat and drv iseue grows wider. Re. publican prospects In the Empire Stata this vear grow proportionately mare dark. Much hinges on whether tha party organization is sufciently stont to weathar this storm, with the wet Rapublicans under the leadership of Senator Wadsworth, President But- st of Columbla University, State Sanator Courtland Nicoll and others puling one way. and the Republican Arya. one of whom is Representative Hamilton Fish, pulling another. Un less one faction agrees in some meas. ure to go aleng with the other, a pelitical split of grave proportions fs Inevitable Gov. Al Smith, pride of the New Yark damacracy. ix to head the party Heket. No Republican. wet or dry, is Mialy to have much chance against the governor. With a party split. the Republicans will have chance fhan ever. While the Republicans have realizad their weakness against SmiMe, hev have by no means con cadad victory 1o the Demacrats in the manatorial contesr, or in contests for many af the State ofces. The re alactian of Senator Wadswaorth is par tienlarly to the Republican party nationally. which hones to re tain eontrol of the Senate in the next Congress. 1t 1= wall nnderstond that the Republican in Washington hopes for his re.election natwithstanding his views on the wet and Ary question and his demand that the eighteenth amendment re pealed Wadswarth stanch ad ministration Senator The wet and drv question. however takes lfttle haed of party or party ties A randidate is & wet or a dry, hefore he ia 2 Republican or a Demaocrat, in the ever of the prohibiticniats and of the anti prohibitioniats. In New York, the Rapubliean party has been lurgely in the hands of the drvs. the upstate Repuhlicans. The Democratic strength ham Jain in wet Greater New York. Wadswarth an upstater. hut an antiprohibitionist. has come ferward ax a wat champion The pro- hibitieniste are like 2 swarm f anger less assential administration be s a Neaw also THE bees. ready to sting in their wrath.|ror and indignation of the American Republican or Democrat. They are bent on purging the Republican party | of ita wet leaders, even though It means the defeat of Wadaworth and other candidates for office and the election of Democrats. The : rgument of the wet Republi- cans, however, 1s that the people of New York as a whole are wet. They insist that the referendum which is to be taken in November will clearly in- dicate this to be the ease. They ask their dry colleagues what it will ava the Republican organization pract cully to he dry in a State which is Wet. They ask that the Republicans vote as Republicans and not ak wets or drys: that they support the party ticket and let the individual views of alone. It 18 loyalty can the party capdidates doubtful whether party stand this strain, however, . -—o— le Anniversary. Thirty vears ago today, within a month of the forty-fifth anniversary of itx establishment. Adolph Ochs as- snmed the management of the New York Times. That newspaper, estah lished by Henry J. Raymond, George lones and k. B. Wesley on the 18th of September, 1851 a littie more than A vear earlier than the establishment of The Star had through a series of misfortunes fallen to low estate after a period of considerable success. Mr. Ochs, with an extensive newspa- per experience nnessee, recog- the opportunity which the plight the Times afforded to rebuild it & successful publication. He formed a new organization and hought the paper at public sale on the 13th of August, 1886, and five davs later the property was formally transferred to the new company, with AMr. Ochs as publisher in unrestrictea control, In his “announcement’ printed that sday he declared his purpose publish a non-partisan newspaper devoted to “‘the « sound money and tariff reform, oppo sition to wastefulness and peculation in administering public affairs, and advocacy of the lowest tax consistent with good gzovernment, and no more government than is absolutely nec»: sary to protect society, maintain in- dividusl and vested rights, and assure the free exercise of a sound con- science.” K Upon that broad basis of conserva- tive and constructive journalism, Adolph Ochs has succeeded in devel- oping the New York Times into one of the greatest newspapers in the world. Its success has been remarka- ble. It is noted in toda announce- the nniversa in terms which the following compari- be instructively abstracted: lation 1891 70.000; in 270,000, emploves in 1896, 300; vears later, 3,000; in 1886 a income of $300,000, rising to % 100,000 tn 1926. These are the maierial figures. The growth of the ‘Times in influence, however, has been in proportion. It has become an ex- emplar of American journalism, an inspiring model of dignity and en- terprise, a powerful factor for mold- ing and leading public thought, in all respects a good newspaper, free of trammels of prejudice and partisan- ship, constantly developing in equip- ment and resources, a tvpe of Ameri- can progressive spirit. To Adoiph 8. Ochs, who has by his own devotion to the task which he assumed in 1896 made this grati- fyving record, go, not only the con- gratulations of his fellow journaliats in America’ upon the completion of the third decade of a remarkably suc- cessful work, but expressions of heart- felt gratitude for his maintenance of the highest principles of journalism to the point of great material triumph. — e A Notab! a in of into on to ause of ment of from sons may Daily 1926, thirt Bross in Reports of unpopularity of Ameri- can tourists in Europe lead to the terrible suspicion that accounts of ovations to United States motion pic- ture stars have been somewhat exag- | gerated. It ‘may vet be shown that Furope loves our art better than our Discussdons of his war inveatments have led Mr. G. B. aw to offer com- ments in a tone of whimsical but sin- cere indignation on the safety of his money. The romping genins of Mr Shaw may succeed in giving a comie turn even to governmental finance, s b = The Hall-Mills case as to details. Its general facts are plainly in evidence as demonstrations | of the ancient admonition, “The way of the transgressor is hard. [, The Mexican Filibusters. of Mexican fl- soil near the adds to the embarrassment now felt by the 'nited States (Government in its relations with the southern republic. e at present the question of the of American citizens against the Mexican government which the Amer! ure of 4 party American boundary Ibusiers on Internationat ran ambassador ha just from Mexico City to make There is likewise the Question of the propriety of represen tations by this Government to Mexico in protesi azatnst governmen: regarding religious organizations President as heid that there no warrant for such intervention, inas much as the matter is purely one of domestic roncern in Mexico. The ar- rest of the flibusters, however, in retnrned report 1 enforcement of its law: The is a mystery | There is | concerning | the course of that! { | i 1 | 1 execution of Federal laws forbidding the formation of milit: in this country for neighboring government with which this country is at peace, iz quite a matter within the jurisdiction of the United States. But there at once arises the question of the disposition of these men. They are, with two ex- ceptions. Mexican citizens. Shall they be turned over to the Mexican govern- ment, or heid hére and punished for infraction of the U'nited States law? It is quite hikely from past experience it these flibusters are rendered to Mexico they will be given short shrift on that side of the line. Not long ago Col. Demetrio Torres was arrested here in similar cireum- stance: nd was surrendered to Mex- ico on the assurance that he would be given a fair trial there. He was, howaver. exseitad by a firing squad te the hor expeditions that sur- within twenty four haurs action against a { | people, i These fillbusters, their arms seizsed, may be turned loose and deported from the United States, but not sent 1o Mexico. This Government has shown good faith toward the Mexican Rovernment by the arrest of the expe- dition, but it cannot in the light of experience honorably turn the would- be revolutionists over to Mexico, to certain death, without a chance for their lives. Refusal to do so may Aarouse feoling at Mexico City, but their surrender would arouse more in- tense feeling on this aide of the inter- national boundary. Of the two evils the former is preferable. v Lady Astor i a guest at the home of Mr. Gibson, proprietor of one of this country's leading satirical publi- cations. The Prince of Wales was conspicuously assoclated with one of | our most eminent cowboy revue enter- tainers, Britain will yet be seriously | credited with @ sense of humor. e It is now hinted that Gertrude Ederle took advantage in her swim of the protection of accompanying boats from heavy waves. If this is the case, other awimmers have the same privi- lege. None as vet have utilized it as well as she did. ——— President Coolidge’s fishing trip has been eminently successful. It has served to efface any resentment aris- ing from his alleged assertion that fishing is merely a pastime for small boys. e A Treasury surplus 1s lkely to en. courage fal: hopes in the bosom of the Government clerk that Uncle Sam may be persuaded to be lenient in his impulsive economies. o An admirable trait must be credited to Jack Dempssy. He never allows his temper to get the better of him and betray him Into striking a hasty blow. Pressure of serious business has been so great that /President Coolidge apparently has been persuaded to forego the pleasure of catching even the modest quota of one fish per day. r—oe s So many cases of capital punish- ment have been in evidence as to create the impression that Clarence Darrow has grown discouraged. e One of the lessons of the World War s that it is much easier to bor- row money then it is to pa oo The Summer of 1926 will bs mem- orable for hot waves and crime waves. et s SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, The Old Barber Shop. The barber shop quartet still sings, But in a different place. No longer a relief it brings As folks improve your face. You hear it in the bright cafe; You hear it in the air. No matter how you chance to atray, You get it everywhere, The picture paper that revealed The gay burlesquing queen Upon the newsstand lies concealed ‘Where stranger sights are sean. The girl with boyish bob draws near, The song comea to a stop; Lite now is busy and severe Tn our old barber shop. Economies. “Are vou in faver of dismissing Government clerks as a means of economy?"’ “Not exact answered Senator Sorghum. “But for some extraordi- reason, it séems posible to get more credit for economy by eliminat- ing & faw clarks than it would be by raving millions in other directions.” Evolution of Musical Taste. My radio is erratic With its saxophonic croon. T've learned to like the static Rather better than the tune. Jud Tunkins says he can’t help ad- mirin’ the oldtime humorous or pa- thetic temperance lecture more than he does the. prohibition enforcement agent who packs a gun. Hi Ho, the Chinese philosopher, says the reverence we pay to those who have departed this life is partly due to the fact that we no longer fear them. Dazrling the Traffic Cop. Hortense McGee, “my fliv,” says she, “Is something just to play with, I smile with joy; and then, oh, boy, ‘What T can get away wit Prediction, at what our grand. “We laugh mothers w “We do." answered Miss Carenne, “Later on people will no doubt be laughing at what their grandmothers didn’t wear."” Simplified Living. “Living is simplified.” “It 1s. Al & man needs to make a living is a fountain pen and all a woman needs to keep house is a can opener.” “When does a man a favor,” said Uncle Fban, “vou takes a chance on his lookir® on vou kind o sus picious as somehodv he owes sumpin’ to." o e True Backwoods. From the Fort Worth Record Telegram A hick town is a place where plus fours will produce the almost forgot- ten guffaw. e One_llundred Percenters. From the Detroit News Another highiy edifying spectacle is a 100 per cent American demanding a guarantee of some kind that the stuff is 100 per cent Scotch, Get Them Together. From the Lowell Evening leader Meanwhile, if all other pairings fail, there is still the expedient of match- ing Dempeey with Valentino. ey — The Stunning Query. Fiom the Canton Daily News One of the hardest of all questions te answer off-hand and in a quickas a-wink manner in the trafic rop's Where 4 vou think vou're going? " r EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. THIS AN .Certainly one of the rules of happy living is not to go out of your way to ridicule people. There is nothing that a person will remember longer, to your hurt, than the thoughtless things you say in_contempt. g ‘The more a person is deserving, per- haps, the more he resents it, the deeper the hurt, the less liable he 1s to forget it. Cast ridicule upon a handscms man for his “homely features,” he will laugh at you. Heap reproaches upon the extravagant fellow for his ‘“tight- wad ways,” certainly he will not mind it much. ' Touch but upon one featurs, how- ever, in which either gentleman is sensitive, and you will see the mouth tighten up, the features set, and there will be much more you will never see. There will be a portrait engraved in his mind. It will be a picture of You, and beneath it will be some such legend as this: “'A Disagreeable Fellow." You may be, of course, the most charming thap in the world, among those you think enough of not to poke fun at, but that will not save You in the present instance. Undoubtedly there is some justice to what you sald. Who said there was not? But what difference does that make? The more true it was the less you should have said it. This is & case in which silence is, indeed, golden. * ok % % Lord Chesterfield, a shrewd ob. server of human nature in his day and age, sald: “‘However frivolous a company may be, still. while you are among them do not show them by your {nattention that vou think them so: but rather take their tone, and conform in some degres to their weakness, instead of manifesting your contempt for them. There is nothing that people bear | more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt, and an injury is much sooner forgiven than an insul He wrote the above in 1746. Two years later he said, in one of his let- ters: “'Be convinced that there are no persons so insignificant and inconsid- erable but may some time or other, and in something or other, have ft in their power to be of use to you, which they certainly will not, if you have once shown them contempt.” gain Lord Chesterfield wrote: Vrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remem- bers it forever. It implies a discov- ery of weakness, which we are much more careful to conceal than crimes. “Many a man will confess his crimes to a common friend, but I never knew 2 man who would tell his silly weak- nesses to his most Intimate ones. “‘As many a frlend will tell us our faults, without reserve, who will not S0 much as hint at our follies: that discovery s too mortifving to our self-love, either to tell another, or to be told of, one's self. "To attempt any amplification of the above would he to gild the lily. Philip Dormer Stanhope, Farl of Chester- field, knew jhuman nature from the ground up. He was cynical foi a rea- son. He was a finished product of Ictvilization. He knew the rules and | regulations of community living, and | ohserved them. Also he expected | others to observe them. | * ok ok ok | Living in civilized groups known {as cities, one must be polite, 1o the | best of his ability, at least. The man | who insists —nay, prides himself--on “telling you to vour face’ is an un. social boor, and deserves the dislike | he earns. ! Labor, official weekly newspaper {of the railroad labor organizations, published here, is doing valiant serv- ice in the afd of ft« political friends and in confounding its political ene- mies. In the recent lowa primary fight a special “lowa" edition of La- bor, boosting Brookhart and oppos ing the late Senator Cummins, was mailed to 70.000 lowa vote 'he same stunt was repeated in South Da. kota to aid In the renomination Of Senator Nye. Half a million copjes of 4. special Ohio_edition were rnalled 10 voters there. This issué carried a weven-column banner head, “'Send Judge Florence Allen o the linited States Senate-- Pomerene, candidate of big business, proved faithless in | Senate.” To date, therefore, Labor | has backed two winners and one loser. This publication is edifed by { former Representative Keating of Col- {orado. Mr. Keating was a facior in | the convention at Cleveland, which nominated the late Senator Robert M. La Folletie for the presidency in 1924 at the conference for Drogres- sive political action. He supported the Plumb plan of joint worker-operator contro! of the railroads when Senator Pomerene attacked the plan. EE The Senate taken collectively ix growing steadily vounger. With the passing of Cummins of Towa, there are now only five members of the Senate who are past 70. and there re at least three who are under 40. ome one has figured out that the average age of a Senator as that bodv is now constituted is 57. Warren of ! Wyoming, who first came fo the Sen | ate in 1880, is the oldest member both in age and in point of service. He is but his appearance and action belle advanced vears. Gillett of Massa ‘husetts, one of the voungest in {length of service, 1s next to Warren. Glllett is T5. Ferris of Michigan Is 74, {and Stmmons and Overman, the two | Senators from North Carolina, were both horn in 1854, which makes them 175" T Follette, the Senate “baby Nve of North Dakota and Bratton of { New Mexico are the three who have {not reached 40. Present-day Senators {run to large families, t0o. In this re- | | spect they are distinctly old-fashioned. | Frazier of North Dakota, King of Utah and Mayfleid of Texas each | | bonsts a set of twins. ladd, Frazier's colleague who died last vear, had two sets of twina EEE ! Afflicted children have alwayvs had | a sirong appeal to Mrs. Coolidge's | sympathy. This is perhaps because {of the experiences of her young | womanhood when she was a teacher |of deat mutes back in Northampton. For some vears now she has carried |on a personal correspondence with a le girl in an orphanage in Atlantic | City, who I1s a helpless cripple. The |ietter writing began soon after the | Cooliages first came to Washington and has heen continued ever since. | Mrs. Coolidge saw her little friend for | the first and only time when the Presi- | jdent was in Atlantic City four vears ago. Her visit was a thrilling experi- ence for the youngster. Mre. Cool idge's friends say she finds rea! in spiration in the letters from the lit tle cripple. which are alwavs cheerful, {And she treasures a verse the little girl sent her which well expresses Mrs. Coolidge’s own philosophy | here is a destiny that makes us brothers | None bears his cross alone. | What we put into the lives of others | Comes back into our own.” | * X * X ! i | | | A Confederate veteran. proud of | 84 vears of continual adherence to Jleffersonian Democracy, member of the Ku Klux Klan of the seventies, who violently disavows the present- k! K. K. K, in a letter tn the New York World makes out a good case BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. | their mouths, to gloss over the plots | words, but the trend is true. | juries, in great agony. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS | of silence. | ed. Vin | pating in the stereotyped convention | guage, | Republican State commitiee, happens | and Mr. Coolidge two vears hence. D THAT Refrain, then, from saying what leaps into yeur fertile mind, no matter how true it may be; in fact, the truer it is, the less you ought to say it! Save it for home session with the wife. Into those patient ears you may pour all your burning contempt and be sure it will never “‘get back.” The home is the only safe place in the world to “say what you think.” And even then you ought to go easy! Children, for instance, are very im- polite little creatures, as a rule, sim- ply because they are intensely natu- ral. They have yet to learn that living in huddles, as civilized bein, do. it is necessary to resirain one’s tongue as well as one's fists. Any child will tell vou what. ix the matter with vou in two shakes of a lamb’s tail. ““Your hair is funny.” “What's the matter with your leg “You smell.” Grown older, the frank, soclety. If all of us went around saying what we think, all the time, what a world this would be! If vou want to see to what ex- tremes soclety has gone to keep the peace by fair-spoken words, read any of the novels of the elder Dumas. He, too, was a shrewd observer of human nature, in the raw and re. fined states. Two stories from his novels are as ingtructive as any actual experiences. First, consider the great pains that the members of the various Krench courts took in order to promote har- mony among members of the royal families. Dumas devotes page after page, hundreds of them, in detailing the in- trigues of those families, but always the characters have fair words in child is not so to the mutual betterment of and counterplots that ferment in those unhappy minds. Perhaps Anne of Austria’ did not use exactly such It so | impresses one. She would have, she must have, talked so. ‘Then there is that striking atory (in which novel we have forgotten) of the way the executioner never forgot the contempt of De la Mole. De la Mole and another chap came to town the same day, on the eve of the massacre. The former was & stand-offish fellow, the latter a hearty “‘glad-hander,” as he would be called today. ‘They had occasion to visit the exe. cutioner-—not on an “official” visit, of course—the terrible slayer of men. De la. Mole, at the end of the visit made out he did not see the o stretched hand of the blood-taker. The other chap. despite an inward repug- nance, heartily shook the hand prof- tered him. The tale moves forward, and we see De la Mole and his “buddy” in the Bastille for the tortures. The “boots’ are to be administered. The execu- tioner—their old friend—gets ready to torture the polite fellow. He whis pers in his ear, “I am going fo use ! leather wedges instead of wood, bus holler just the same, as loud as vou can.” "The soft leather wedges are | driven between his leg and the iron. | He screams with pain—most of it faked. i The turn of poor De la Mole comes. | The executioner uses the regulation | wood wedges and cripples the vietim | beyond repair, he dving of his in.| “Why did you save me?” asked the | other, later. | “Do vou remember that day you 1wo came to see me7" asked the exe- cutioner. “Yes- “You shook hands with me." 1o support his contention that the South ix not %0 narrow and preju- | diced in matter of race and religion as some Southern statesmen now in the public eve would have it ap- pear. He citern some interesting bits of past and forgotien history. He writes: In Florida, with but & handful of Jews in the State, the Democ- racy elected David L. Yulee United States Senator. Florida also elected two Catholics United States Senators —one, Senator Jones. was a native of Ireland: and the other, Senator Stephen Mallory. of Pensacola, whose father was alao a Catholic, was ecretary of the Navy under the onfederate Government. Louisi- ana, a majority of whose popula- tion was, prior 1o the Civil War, of the Catholic faith, elected Judah P. Benjamin, a Jew, and also of foreign hirth, United tates Senator, and also elected Protestants 1o numerous State, Federal and municipal offices. What afterward was derisivel described as the ‘Southern aris- tocracy’ was noted for its broad and liberal views on politica and religion.” *oxox ok Picture a hotel lobby crowded with well dressed girls and young men, g8y of countenance. animated In expression, gesturing and gesticu- lating as in intense conversation, but Wwith never a spoken word, not even a “paging” bell hop to break the pall ‘The onlooker is astonish- Here are throngs of people, yet it is as quiet as in an empty hall. The badges which proclaim the con- vention delegates explain the phe- | nomenon. They read, ifteenth T'riennial Convention of the National Association of the Deaf.” ‘The crowd are all deaf mutes. Two thousand of them, with those of high school and college age predominating, were Washington last week partici- program of meetings, reports and addresses delivered in the sign lan- and in sightseeing and bangueting. It was stated that there are 45000 deaf mutes in the United Btates, of which 98 per cent are self- supporting. * X F % ‘When it is told that Francis Pres- cott, chairman of the Massachusetts to be the son-in-law of Frank W. Stearns, the President's faithfui friend, and bevond dispute his great- | est admirer, it will he seen that there | is no occasion to fear that the | Republican machinery in the Bay | State wil] be lacking in zeal in its support of Senator Butler this vear. | It is right in the family. | (Coprright. 1926.) | [ Abbe Gabriel, Take Notice! } From the Charleston Daily Mall. If any one ever again dares to pre- dict a year without a Summer, let's drown him. | prize. | control AUGUST 18, 1926. Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. The proposat advanced by Clyde Herripg. Democratic nationel com- mitteeman from Iowa, for the abro- gation of the two-thirds rule by which his party's national conventions select presidential nominees, is meeting op- position of considerable proportions. It was recently announced that a great preponderance of the members of the national committee who had replied to Mr. Herring's question- naire regarding the two-thirds rule favored its relegation to the discard and the adoption of majority rule. But it now appears that less than a majority of the 108 members of the committes have replied in favor of the abrogation, and that a very consider- able number of the committee men and women have not answered at all. ‘This does not look so hopeful for abrogation. * ok K X As a matter of fact, there are many members of the Democratic national committee who do not wish to see either Gov. Al Smith or Willlam Gibbs McAdoo nominated in 1928. They fear that the nomination of either of these candidates—for it is well understood today they are candidates—would re- sult in disrupting the party along racial and religious lines, the plung- ing of the old party into an abyss far deeper even than that in which it fell during and after the Democratic na- tional convention in 1924. ‘With the two-thirds rule in opera- | | tion, these Democratic committeemen | Agure they can stop the nomination of either Smith or McAdoo. Thev look upon the rule as the possible | mvior of the party—just as it was held to be responsible for its disrup- tion two years ago. In the list of the committeemen who favor the abrogation of the two- thirds rule are both Smith and McAdoo | supporters. Indeed, Mr. Herring was a strong McAdoo man, and he started the movement Jast Winter for the ab- rogation of the two-thirds rule, and Norman Mack, New York's commit- teeman, joined with him immediately. Probably the Smith men and the Me- Adoo men realize, too, that unless the two-thirds rule goes by the boérd. their candidates have little show of being nominated in 1928. Democratic leaders are saying Httle about _presidential candidates Smith and McAdoo. One thing Is cer- tain, thoss who wish to eliminate the New York Governor and the former Secretary of the Treasury—once call; ed the Wilson crown prince—are not planning to support the abrogation of the two-thirds rule. * ok ok % Out in California, McAdoo's State by adoption, the McAdoo forces are already moving. They see in the selac- tion of Isidore B. Dockweiler as the| Democratic candidate for the Senate by some of the party leaders of the State an effort to foreatall McAdoo, | and to wring control of the party and the State delegation to the next na-| McAdoo and | tional convention from his friends. Dockweiler is the Demo- | cratic national committeeman for Cali- fornia. ‘The AcAdoo supporters, to checkmate this move by the anti McAdoo forces in the State, have put forward John B. Elliott of Los An- geles. collector of customs in that city during the Wilson administration, in opposition to Dockweller for the sena torial nomination. The primaries are August 3. Elliott in a statement soon after his candidacy was announced charged that the Al Smith forces and Tam-| mAany were seeking to invade Califor. nia and galn control of the Demo- cratic organization. Whether Dock- weiler is really & Smith man is still A matter of conjecture. But at least he Is not regarded now as friendly to McAdoo. His selection came when it became evident that former Senator James D. Phelan, regarded as a Smith man, did not wish to be a candidate for the nomination. Phelan was re- garded as the Democrats’ best bet in the race to defeat Senator Shortridge, or whomever the Republicans nomi- nate, at the election next November. The "chances for Republican success in the Senate race in California still appear to be very good. L I is a real contest There in bhoth | parties for the senatorial nomination | |in Colorado this year. |are set for September 14. The primaries The seat of Senator Means, Republican, is the At A convention or assembly of the Democrats, held within the last few days, four men were designated to run in the primaries. Paul Prosser, an attorney of Denver, received. the highest vote in the assembly, 5694 votes. FKFormer Gov. Sweet was sec ond, with 2791; votes: Ha L. lubers was third, with 133 votes, and Frank J. Hayes, former president of the United Mine Workers of America, fourth, with 121 votes. The vote of the assembly does not settle the Demo- cratic race for the senatorlal nomina- tion. But it is a straw to tell which wayv the wind blows. Prosser is re- garded as a strong candidate and the likely selection of the party at the primary. On the Republican side of the fence, two candidates will enter the sena torial primaries, Senator Rice W. Means, who is seeking to succeed him- | self, and Charles 1. Waterman. Sen- ator Means has been active during his service in Washington. As a member of the Senate judiciary committes he has had plenty of, work to do. He was selected chairman of the subcommittee which conducted the wet and dry hear. ings last Winter. The Ku Klux Klan is playing its part in the senatorlal contests in Colo rado—in both parties, but particularly in the Republican. Senator Means was recognized as the Klan candidate two years ago. There have been claims that the organization is not so ' strong politically as it was then. and there have been dissensions among the kiansmen themselves. RBut Sen- ator Means, at this time, looks to be a candidate both for renomination and re-election. The Democrats. insist they have an excellent chance to pick | up a seat In the Colorado fight, how ever. * ok Xk On September 7 the political fate of Senator Irvine I..Lenroot will be set- tled in Wisconsin. The senior Senator from the Badger State is facing al- most_desperate odda in his effort to obtain renomination. Against him is ranged the strength of the old La Fol lette organization. Gov. John Blaine, A la Follette man. is seeking the nomination against him. Any candi date who has to face the organization bullt up by a governor of a State dur- ing his administration has a difficuit task on his hands. There are some ,000 jobs in Wisconsin which come under the governor and his assistants. More than the fate of Senator Len- root is bound up in the primaries in Wisconsin next month. The stal- warts, or regular Republicans, are planning a desperate effort to break through the Ia Follette progressive of the State. If they can Just | now. But thev are exercised in their | minds as to how they are fo sidetrack | iJews were forbidden by ‘yand Q. How do jellyfish travel? How reproduce?—B. D. . They swim by alternate dllata- tion and contraction of the disk or umbrella and progress mostly by drifting with the rface currents. reproduce by eggs. Q. 1= the use of the iceless refrig- erator increasing?—L. M. A. About 80.000 electric refrigera- tors were sold in this country in 1925, and they are now being installed in homes at the rate of 240,000 a year. Q. Why are Welsbach manties so called?—1". S. R. A. They aye named for their in- ventor, Auer von Welsbach. Q. When was Sunday firat con- sidered the first day of the week?” D, V. A. In 321 the Roman Fmperor Constantine. who had been converted to Christianity, issued an edict pro- tecting the Christians and aiso chang- ing the observance of the Sabbath as a legal day of rest from the Sab- bath, which had formerly been ob- served on the seventh day of the week, to the first dav of the week, commemorating the resurrection of Christ from the dead. Since this time, the Sabbath. or Sunday, has been reckoned as the first day by the majority of Christians. Q. In what sort of place should leather bags be kepi?—T. K. W. A. In storing leather goods it is best 1o keep them from the light and air as much as possile. This seems to be the important factor. rather than temperature and humidity. Q. How and when were glee club: first organized?—I. V. A. . A. The glee club, which originated in some meetings at the house of Mr. Robert Smith in St. Paul's church- yard (England), commenced in 1783, at which motets, madrigals. gilees, canons and catches weare sung aftar dinner. The meetings were subse quently held at Dr. Beavers’ and other houses until, fn 1787, it was resolved to establish a society to he called the Glee Club, the first public meeting of which took place at the Newcastle Coffee Ho on Saturday, December 22, 1787, Q. What was meant by usury in the Bible?—R. L. A. The word ne modern English to mean excessive in- terest upon money loaned, either illegal or at least oppressive. In the Scriptures, however, the word did not bear this sense, but meant simply in terest of any kind upon money. The the law of interest from their permitted to take (it from foreigners. The practice of | mortgaging land, sometimes at ex | orbitant interest. grew up among the Jews during the captivity, in direct violation of the law. Q. What is the title of the school for baby Congressmen?—G. C. R. A. Symposium is the name given to the Baby Congress. It Is a school for beginners, whers the new mem- bers receive instruction in the rudi- | ments of being national legislators. There were more than a hundred novitiates in the last Hot v har come in Moses to take brethren, but wer i Gertrude the Through plaudits for iderle which echo throughout country run suggestions that swimming of the English Channel by a woman proves that even in physicai prowess and endurance the female of the species may develop equality with the male. In fact, the St. Paul Pio ness-Press, in the light of this feat, finds something “'patronizing and con descending in the present practice of special classification - of women in sport,” and the Willlamsport Sun flatly declares that Miss Ederle has “‘effectively demonstrated that under {equal conditions woman may become {the equal of man in physical strength in the mental stamina which plays an equally it not more impor- itant part In tests of endurance.” | "It was the will to win." according to the Albany Evening News, “that carrfed Gertrude Ederle through the roughest waves. It was because she did not know when she was beaten. water wings that upbore h of body. It was not merely brawn and skill that won. It wag will power. v story has come true and all i« _glad and proud.” The gh Sun also savs Miss Ederle {“and a host of other women are poign- antly demonstrating that {within the feminine nature lies that {dominant human trait which seeks a i difficult and thrilling adventure and { whioh ultimately surmounts the most | hazardous barrier: | *ox ok X i | “She has developed a powerful. strong hody and grown into health: intelligent womanhood from her man: contacts brought about by her swim ming prowess,” observes the Tulsa World, which concludes that “‘in other she probably will be. some day. {a stronger. more intelligent mother than she would have heen had she re. mained in her father's shop.” The Savannah Press declares that “there will be few improvements on Gertrude | Ederle. Such courage and skill and {endurance,” adds the Pre | products of machinery. The airplane has been perfected into a safety ma chine, but the gualities which enabled a girl to brave the fogs and tides of the English Channel are God-give This was a miracle of human energy. “Miss Ederle is a living. breathing roof.” vemarks the Fort \Wayne ews-Sentinel, “thai the untainted physical ese that actuated the Grecian youth of old is not vet ex- tinet, and we are, indeed. proud that bore on her breast on her historic swim was the Star Spangied Bann The Seattle Daily Times expresses the world’s admiration for ‘the pluck and perseverance which kept her to the task until_she had accomplished it. Last vear,” recalls that paper, “she was taken from the water within sight of her goal. It was a bitter disap pointment, but it did not alter her de | termination to succead. She realized that she must attain superb phvaical condition and become inured to the {chilly waters of the Channel. She {worked and tralned with the sole oh |ject of succeeding where she {failed.” | * ¥ * ¥ “Fhe courage, the staying powers and the determination,” it is pointed out by the Portland Oregon Journal, “had to be perfection in the last and highest notch. The muscular strength, the heart and lung strength.and the personal vitality had to be perfect to the last degree. The sxiil in knowing how These fiaudits for *Miss Ederle Echo Throughout Country the | Her splendid courage served as the | - strength | wrapped | “are not | once | get the propulsion for the long | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. |are members who have net served in previous Congresses and who, pre. sumptively, are not thoroughiv in- |formed as to what is expected of them |in their new jobs. They could learn all this experience in the coursa of a few weeks or months. but Willlam Tyler Page. clerk of the Hou . fered them a short cnt to knowledge, Q. How much monev does the naturalization of immigrants bring into the National Treasury?—¥. 0. B. A. Last year the sum of $710.37% was deposited with the Treasurer of the United States. Other receipis of the Naturalization Bureau brough* the total up to $743.836.54. while the expense of administration was $78%. 852, which made an excess of $43, 015.57 in expenditures over revennsa Q. Whers were the wirsless mes. sages that told of the Titanic disaster received?- P. J. H. A. The Wanamaker Station in Naw York City received the first message of the Titanic disaster from the Olympic. President Taft ordered all radio stations in the vicinity of Wana- maker’s to close down so that thers might be no interference with ofcial news. Q. How much of our papulatian is overweight’—C. M A. Dr. Lulii Peters says that three fourths of the population of this {country is overweight. Q. Axa country do we import many valnable objects of art? - H. H. D A. It is estimated that we impors about $40,000,000 worth of art treas ures annually. Q. What dried weeds, leaves or herbe can he used for smoking thar will have a flavor and aroma Ike tobacco but contain no nicotine” | H. R. McW | A There is ho dried wead. leaf or |herb that ecan he smoked that wil | take the place of tabacco in any =ense It e possible to smoke any of the . weeds or plants. but they will nar | hava a flavor or aroma similar to 1o | bacea. | Q. What s meant hy a maving Wag A. R | A. Saecretary of Labor Davie in re cent wage discussions has distin guished a saving wage from a living | wage by stating that It is a wage which assures the worker a margin | over and above the amount required |for his and his family's mibsistence in health and reasonable comfort Our Washington Information Ru rean does wot take a vacation It e on the job every day during the year, answering questions for our readers Its special service is to ansiwer any question of fact en any subiect for any reader at any time. 1t is imp aidble to make a complete enumeration lof subjects giving an adequate iden tof the scope and range in which the bureau can serve you Its activitiea can only be summed up in the phrase | “Whatever you want to know.” Send in your question Address The Erve ning Star Information Bureau. Fred eric J. Haskin, Director. Twenty-firat and C streeta northwest, Washington, TR | ousl And for this the Champaign News-Gazette agrees that “world wide tame will be bestowed npon her." The Providence Bulletin notes that the triumph is notable because 1t came at a time when she was heing pressed for the world's swimming honors by another American girl, Miss Clare Belle Barrett.”" The Duluth Herald adds the comment. “It s a fina thing that an American girl did it. and those who would inquire why anybody should want to swim ths Channel when it is so easy 1o cross it in a boat or an airplane should bha re ! fused a hearing.” * ok o w | w that she hax won. the glam | our has gone from the effort,” says the Akron Beacon-Journal, which af- firms that “swimming the Channel now will be like rediscovering the | North Pole, or crossing it in an air- plane, after the adventures of Byrd and Amundsen.” Miss Ederls “un- doubtedly enjoyed the adventur savs the Nashville Banner. which re- calls that “‘for several vears she swam for the pure jov of it and for the thrill that comes trom compet! tion.” The Lynchburg Advance cen gratulates her on bringing “to the 'nited States another athlstic honor.” and the Davenport Democrat hails | “one of the most popular victories of endurance and pluck over natural oh stacles that the year has brought forth.” ‘The Little Rock Arkansas Democrat asserts that it was “such courage that produced the America of today.” Of the lure of the Channel. the Omaka World-Herald thinks “it is the almost but not quite fnsuperabla diff culty of the feat that attracts men and women. It is the hernic spirit adds this paper. “and those who ar cept the challenge smerge from the water herges and heroines. whethe: they manage to croas the goal line « .not." As & practical proposition. howeve; | the Charlotte Observer ventures the suggestion that “the girl who puta up the largest amount of canned fruiis | and vegetablex may not get her name | in the papers. but she hasx rendered her State a service far more nate | worthv than the mere swimming of | the Channel or the going over Xi | agara.’ [THINK IT OVER| the emblem which the game swimmer | | Sing It AN, | = By William Mather lewis, President George Washington Tiniva, “Let us unite in singing the four hundred and third hymn, omitiing the second verse.” Thus speaks the clergyman. Now why omit the sec ond verse. or the third verse, as the | case mav he? The wrlter of thar I hymn doubtless put much thought | into developing It as a whole, In | Rlving It well rounded wunitv. To | drop a verse is to restrict its mean Ing_and sometimes to ruin ita sense We have quite a habit of “omitting {a verse” In other places than church | services. Wae earnestly proclaim our love for the Constitution and then | omit that part of fe which does mot suit us. In speaking of a friend. we say. “He is a fine fellow, but—" We omit admitting that he is all that he should he. We go to college with the hope that we may omit the hard {land their man for governor, or at all | avents an opponent of the La Fol. | lette-Blaine-Ekern combination, they | belleve they will hava driven a wedge |into the Progressive organization that "Tribune. | would ultimately split it wide open. men in Illinois. po- | Blaine is a candidate for Senator are what might be Atty. Gen. Herman L. Ekern is the patriots. Progressive candidate for the guberna e | torial nomination. Senator Robert M. ” 2 | La Follette is supporting both of Try Us a them. Fred Zimmerman, secretary of t Qur Own Game State, formerly a Progressive and a From the Liacoln State Journal. An La Follette man, however, is out after American girl has conquered |the gubernatorial nomination, and the English Channel. Now it is up to | causing some concern. He has a fol- some Briton to vindicate his counwry |lowing and is a good campaigner. He hy eoming over and heating us at bull- {and Gov. Blaine had a violent clash a dogging a eteer. year or two ago. While the stalwaris - Friends of All From tha Sioux Oitr The big utility litically speaking termed bipartisan . 1 e g o et o | THe aww ‘of Gauaiie ‘ALS ey by The Wichita Reacon re.| Y important things. The Roy | Calin that “there had Almast come a | SCOUC with his daily good deed cer- | convietion that no woman could swim | 1alnly raises the general average of | the Channel. but Mise Fderle not only | altrulatic activity considerably. Why | swam the Channel. she broke every |not have i a.l-m:: '*h.oy‘; ":ert | record made by man swimmers previ- r"v".o:_'";"':m"":n m:" ""u' :f rrosd hymn, support the entire Constitu- tion, praise our friends unreservedly, dodge no difficult tasks, remember the loat of bread or spool of thread which we promised to purchase on our way home from the office. And on the night following that day we would not lie awake worrying over something we should have done and didn’t. (Copyright. 1926.) !rournon. have a candidate of their own for the gubernatorial nomination, State Sen- ator Charles B. Perry, it is understood they would not be averse to seeing Zimmerman win, fguring that he could not train with the La Follette- Blaine-Ekern organization, and would have 1o fall in with the reguiars even- ntally.