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COOLIDGE VICTORY IN'1928 HELD SURE Enough Delegate Votes East of Mississippi to Renomi- nate Him Forecast. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. £pecial Dispatch to The Star. W YORK, August 21.—Presi- dent Coolidge, so far as his renomi- nation in 1928 is concerned, is not worried about the corn belt, the Mid- dle West or the Far West. All of these sections may vote against him in the next national Republican con- vention and the East and South still can sweep all before them. The President’s friends have been doing a little figurin of late be- cause of the reported “unrest” in Re- publican circles of the West and *re- gentment” against the domination of the East over the rest of the coun- try. The results of this figuring, are extremely interesting. Mr. Coolidge can yield to any op- ponents who may arise in all of the &o-called corn belt States and every State west of the Mississippi River und still win the nomination with something like 50 votes to spare. When you add Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas to the Coolldge column, where they are bound to rest if he wants them, the President on a showdown would have more than 100 votes to spare. President Coolidge does not need Ilinois to make his re- n certaln, but the chances are he would get both States in the Jong run, for while Senators Watson and Robinson of Indiana are talking the sort of farm relief opposed by Mr. Coolidge, they nevertheless are expressing themselves as devoted to him and to his administration. Tilinois is supposed to have voted against the Coolidge World Court policy when Senator McKinley was defeated at the primaries last April, hut subscquent events have proved there were many other considerations in that fight and there has been no outright anti-Coolidge expression. But Mr. Coolldge can win the nom ination so handily, if he wants it that he does not have to worry about Indiana or Illinols al them in the same class with Iowa and Nehraska and the Dakotas and still mnarch sercnely on to vietory. 1,109 Delegates Listed. next Republican convention de up of 1,109 delegates from the States and territories, in which latter group are included Alaska. Hawail, the Philippines, Porto Rico and, Jast but by no means least the poor old voteless District of Columbia 1 is only necessary to obtain b5 wvates to secure the nomination. Mr. +'wolidge, it is figured, can romp home with at least 607 votes without looking vt Indiana, Mlinois or any State West if the Mississippi, even in the South. 1t is conceded the President can get 111 the Southern States. That much always is conceded to the administra- tion candidate, for Southern Repub- licanism always is controlled by the office-holders, who, for some reason or other, seem to have a warm affec tion for the appointive power in the administration, which happens at this time to be Mr. Covlidge. It is also conceded that Mr. Cool- {%ge can have all the Eastern and WMiddle Atlantic States if he therely sives a nod, or if he chooses to indi- eate his acquiescence in another term ing the proverbial Cool- nominat The will be n ble by States. Yiere then is the Coolidge minimum 1abie, furnished by the men who feel he will be more than willing to stand for the additional term which would fve him practically 10 years in the Chite House Alabama, 16 votes; Connecticut, 1 Delaware, I"lorida, 10; Georgia, 18 Kenineky Maine, 1 Maryland, 19: Massachusetts Michigan, Mississippi inia, 19: : O the Philippine. of Columbia, ¢ 1, 807 votes. Add Texas. 14, and Loulsiana, 13, above and you have a total of 6 1y necessary toa choice. nted with these figures there the opponents of Mr. but “read ‘em and mfr hing for e to do 5 n Conl weep. ¥astern and futile to opnose also out With the hold he has on the Southern My votes, it is Coolldge. Tt i he would not sweep n into line on the fir of the convention. There is no w for the corn 1t or other dissatisfied sections of the country to defeat Mr. Cuvlidge if and when he decides to run The President would not have to make any sort of convention cam ign; the votes would be poured into his lap Longworth Gets Ready. It was reported a short time ago that C. Bascom Slemp. former sec. retary to the President and xrand expert-ceneral on Seuthern Republi can dele tes, was te the south land in the terest of Speaker Nicho las Longworth. Mr. Longworth even made part of the trip with the Vir | gintan. Rut tk reaker has no de signs on the nomination if Mr. Cool- | fdge wants it. Like many cther poten tlalities, he Is merely getting in posi tion to do a bit of running if Mr Coolidge doesn't s & Pras n stops. The | ace will making ©O. P. he Beer Keg Now Fiddle. ®r~ial Dispateh to The AND, Oreg.. August 21 0w a musical instrament Sta this ee fe ent th . Few Japanese Now Abroad. In 6 rs there have leen only 260,000 1 e who have emigrated o er lands. This ounts some. what for the steady id increase §n population on the . which is highly industrial, but ltke Engl faces a scarcity of raw material. fnz standards have increased ceptibly in recent years, but #till comparatively low . Antiques Placed on Trial. of settling disputes ¢, age or the purpose 1 t of Justice been opened in t t End in | pdon. Leading experts on furni ture, pictures, china an. jects o art will act as judges and hear a eals. Dealers and pi are entitied to appeal at this court He can put | The | ner, old-time fiddler of | a fiddle made from h music square keg with two ing hoard, vate collectors | FACES DIVORCE AT 80. Wife Protests Bill of Husband After 50-Year Separation. SENATOBIA, Miss,, August 21 (). —DMrs. Elmire J. Wolfe, 80 vears old, has filed a protest in court here band, mark. The bill was filed several weeks azo by the husband, who alleges that he and his wife have not lived to- also beyond the fourscore know. He alleges that his wife de- serted him in Kentucky, where he took his young bride, egerved in the Union Army. Mrs. Wolfe contends that she was deserted by her husband. The di- vorce suit was precipitated by a dif- ference over pensions. Neither is able to attend court because of physical w AFTER LAKE STORM 17 Rescued by Ferry—Life- boat Found Upside Down by Ship. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, August 21.—Three members of the crew of the steam- ship Howard 8. Gerken were belleved tonight to b been drowned when the vessel suni 6 miles off Erle, Pa., early today after belng battered {n one of the worst storms on Lake Erie in | vears. The car ferry Maitland of Ashtabula, Ohio, rescued 16 men from two lifeboats, set adrift when the Gerken went down, and a fireman. tlerman Waggeman, later was found floating in mid-lake in an unconscious condition by Coast Guard Cutter No. 142, He was taken to Ashtabula here the 16 other survivors had re- ived treatment for minor Injuries. hile the Maitland was taking off the occupants of the small boats at the height of the storm, one of them, ontaining Waggeman and three com- i was torn from the side of cuing craft g Throughout the day the Coast Giuard crew and dozens of small craft ventured on the calming waters of the lake searching for the three men <till missing after Waggaman had teen found. The discovery by the steamer Uranus of the lifeboat, float- ing upside down, apparently told the fate of the missing trio, and silence from Canada rendered incredible the slim hope that the men had been washed, possibly alive, onto the Canadian shore. Those believed drowned are: George McMinn, mate; Richard Freeman, watchman, and William Logan, der- rick engineer, all of whose homes are aid to be in Buffalo, the craft’s port of registry. Aeong those rescued were Capt. John B. Gamble of the Gerken and Howard Gerken, owner. Gamble, when brought to Ashtabula with the other survivors, told a story of a despairing battle against what he termed “the worst storm in 20 years on Lake Erle,’ prefacing his tale with unstinted praise of T. H. Hey- man, acting captain of the Maitland. The day brought a stream of re- ports from citles situated at the east- “rn end of the lake telling of property Jdamage done by the gale and recount- ing narrow escapes of small craft which had been caught in the near hurricane. NEW WORLD LANDING BY LEIF IS PICTURED Viking Discovery of America Made Impressive in Details From { Two Great Sagas. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 21.—How the | Viking discoverer of America first set foot on the new continent is a freshly painted picture of American history Which an author will soon present. Two sagas offer nearly all that his- tory knows of the Norse discovery of 500 vears before Co- mbus—the Saga of Eric the Red \d the Saga of Thorfinn Karlsefni. Imagination therefore has a place here id to history, asserts arpe Hough. Conception of Landing. gives this conception of the landing for comparison with familiar debarkation of Co- she orse o more fi mhus: At sunset the Grey Gull took her htly through a surge of break- ers to the sandy shore of an island that lay bright with verdure and A after the cold smell of the Now the ld light was back in Letf lricsson’s blue eves, as in his damp ged heimet e swung up the : ‘where no shod foot in { had ever tracked before. i Ancestral Pacan. | was in the set of his i and the swing of his { A of his father and his and all those who had { gore before him sang a paean in his/ | veins. He had found the n | anoth ¢ land, as Red I | come on eenland in his ! Frik's father Thorwald had come on| |the rock-ribbed land beyond Britain. |'As earlier Vikings had found the 1 Hebr s and lceland He, Leif the | Lucky, w atest of them all. His { new land was farthest west. Turning to his followers, w! amped on damp and solid earth be nd him and bent eagereeves land Mexico's Mine Richest. The world's richest silver mine is i | | | located in Mexico. It is the Veta Ave mine, located at, Gu uato, 12 hours by rail from Mexico City. In historfeal time it has produced Inearly a billion dollars’ worth of | metal. The Comstock lode in Nevada | which was the richest mine in the ted tes, produced $340.000.000 e 30 years of its operation. The > mines have not been worked {0 any extent by machinery and pro- .l duction has been slow on that ac- count. Caterer's Idea Takes. + Finchley., England an enter- prising firm of caterers has come to | the rescue of tenants of apartment | houses that are not equipped to pre- ! pare meals in and of those who do |not care to cook. Orders for meals taken over the telephone and vered within an hour to 5000 families. The food of charcoal burn- n of eacl tainer, ing placed in pans one upon the other fn a Later the fam collects the against the divorce bill of her hus- | gether in 50 years and that he is the | father of two sons whom he does not | because he | on his | d, he flung an arm toward the land ek water yvonder,” he directed briefly. Thus the fi Spe made by the discoverer of the New World.” more | is | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, ENGINEERS T0 GET- -~ EXTRA CLOTHING ures When Inadequate Equipment Is. Shown. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. Staff Correspondent of The Star. FORT HUMPHREYS, Va., August 21.—Criticism of the condition of the clothing and shoes worn by the 121st Regiment Engineers, District National Guard, voiced by officers following a brought remedial orders from Col. John W. Oehmann, commanding the regiment, who directed company com- manders to see that their men were adequately and properly protected against the inclement weather. The inspection, ordered by Col. Oeh- mann, was made by Lieut. Col. Harry E. Gladman, executive officer of the -ommanding the Medical Detachment. and chief surgeon. Many of the troops were sent into the field for the annual trafning possessing only one change of clothing, the officers found. Although the afternoon was to be free, Col. Oehmann ordered all company com- manders to stay in camp, make a thor- ough inspection of their.men and send in requisitions for sufficient shoes and clothing. ‘Wants Men Protected. to his company commanders that he wanted the health of the tected first, and admonished them that they should have given attention to this important detall before they left Washington. The quartermaster de- partment of the District Guard was for filllng them would be well fitted to begin their econd week of training. Capt. F. F. Bernsdorff, quartermas. ter, informed the regimental officers that the organization’s supply of shoes was stored in a commercial rehouse and that it would be im- possible to them before Mond: but sald that he had some shoes in the armory at Washington. It was disclosed, however, that the matter termaster department, when It was learned that many of the company commanders had sufficient shoes in thelr respective store rooms at the armory, but they were not issued. Col. Oehmann announced also he would make a_recommendation that woolen socks instead of cotton be made a part of the Natlonal Guard ssue. Leaks In Barracks Roofs. The barracks buildings, which were supposed to have been made habitable for the District troops at a cost of §2,000, have developed leaks in the roofs, sending streams of water into the sieeping quarters of the men. This fact has been called to the attention of the Regular officers of the post, as the local troops are not permit to make any repairs to these buildings. To check up on the results of the disclosures made today and the sten being taken to correct them, Gladman announced that he would make an inspection when the troops report for duty again at 3 o'clock to- morrow afternoon. Atter the check-up of the shoe and clothing equipment was made the en- isted personnel were given passes which allow them to remain out of camp over night and until 3 o'clock tomorrow, when they will report back for_duty. There will be little going on In camp tomorrow during the day, but if the weather permits the troops will show up in their finest and march in a dress parade at the post tomorrow afternoon. A regimental parade and review is on the program, and it is expected that there will he a large number of visitors from Washington to witness this ceremony. The troops, it was indicated, will bring many of their friends back to camp with them on their return to duty. Rain Prevents Marching. The officers and men have chalked up the past week as nil, viewed from a fleld-training standpoint. They had only one march into the nearby terri- tory to engage in their engineering work when the rain set in, and it has been a continual downpour ever since, with the result that the men were kept in thelr barracks to be glven the same instruction as they have been recelving at the armory during the year, but which they are supposed to put to a practical use during the encampment perliod. They have had enough of Army barracks life, the troops say, and they want to get out on the march, and though the first ralny day seemed to Le welcomed, as a day of partial rest, the continued wet spell has put them In a fretful mood and they are craving to get out and work. The week s to be a big one for the troops, provided the weather changes. There are many practical | enxineering problems to be tried out, and there will be two davs of a mimic battle, during which this divisional { engtueer regiment will try to show |its ability to build roads and bridges under all kinds of conditions to make it possible for a divisioni of troops jto move with ease. Dinner in Alexandria. Tomorrow night the sioned officers of the regiment will | &ive a dinner at the Mason Hotel, in Alexandria, for the purpose of launch- ing the Non.commisstoned Officers’ Association of the 121st Engineers, an organization designed to work for the | building up of the regiment to one of { the largest organizations which has ever existed in the militia of the Na- al Capital. | Thursday the troops, weather, permitting, will show th selves off to officlal and civie W incton in a_grand parade and review ch will be tendered to Lieut. Col. of Frankiin Beil, Engineer Commis Sioner of the District of Columbia Maj. Gen. Kdgar Jadwin, chief of es Army, nd other officials of the Federal and strict Governments, as well as lead- »{ civie hodies, have been invited to be present g to participate in a » be given at Harris Hall, the quarters at the post, by the | regimental following which Lieut. Col. Thomas J. Dickson, former chief chaplain of the Army. liver his lecture on America tun. While the troops have been receiv- ing three fine meals each day, pre- pared under the best conditions, it was pointed out that those being served by the 2d Battalion, under the | direction of Mess Sergt. William H. Green, have topped those served in any of the messes. Sergt. Green has | done this by carefully watching to check wastes, and has saved up a good sum which wi next week to serve a greater variety in order to use up the funds. He is assisted_in the Kitchen by Sergt. | Engineers of the United | and < of an automo- inst it has been | Officers Take Prompt Meas-| sudden inspection of the outfit today, | regiment and Maj. George J. Allen, | Col. Ochmann has let it be known | men pro- | informed that requisitions would be! forthcoming for the shoes, and that| prompt preparations should be made ; so that the troops | vas not wholly the fault of the quar- | non-commis- | will de-| 1 permit the outfit | Joseph E. Hollis and Cooks William | n. J. C. Brown, William V. i1 and Herndon Pringle. SR e Salmon produce 1,000 eggs for | every pound of their ‘weight. | Adevice that will open garage | D. C. AUGUST 22, !COST OF PERMANENT BUILDINGS | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CAMP HUMPHREY, Va. August 21.—Army officers stationed at this post, the headquarters of the Army’s engineering activities and training | camp of the 121st Engineers, District | Natfonal Guard, estimate that approx- imately $2,000,000 will- be required to place on the grounds the necessary | permanent buildings to create a mili- | tary establishment, ' Word recefved from the War De- partment that $500,000 has been al- !lotted to build new barracks for two attalions of troops, the 13th and the 29th 1. . Engineers, now stationed here. has been hailed with satistac- on. While these harracks are badly needed, the officers say, they will be only a’beginning. ; Camp Humphreys is an important post in the chain of National defense. 'Here is carried on the training and { preparation for whatever construction work is to be accomplished by the troops in the theater of the next war. Here Regular Army, Reserve and Na- , tional Guard engineer officers are sent for training. { But, almost in the shadow of Wash- ington, conditions at the post are poor. 7,000 Acres in Camp. Over the 7,000 acres, troops are quartered in the familiar frame struc- i tures of war days which have been little improved during the 10 years which have elapsed since they were {constructed hurriedly fn « time of Na- tional emergency. Time and the elements have done | thelr work. The bharracks are un- hearably hot in Summer and some times uncomfortably cold in Winter. since they are heated. for the most ipert, only by ponderous ron stoves | set in the center of great dormitories. | There are several hundred butldings, of one sort or another, still standing. Buflt in 1917, the camp was designed to accommodate 60,000 troops. Some of the structures have been torn down to_provide material for repairing the others. Much Repair Work Needed. The buildings are kept in repair by the troops themselves. Labor of this sort has taken a good deal of time from the alloted drill periods. The underpinnings rot and give way. The roofs leak. There 1s continually something to be done to make the habitations even endurable. But, the officers claim, a permanent post should be a different establish ment than a war post with troops con- tinually passing in and out and ex- pecting the discomforts incident to active service. It should not only be comfortable but should be a place of respectable homes. There 18 not a bullding of masonry on the post. The quarters of the non- commissioned officers are miseral.ie hoveis. accommodations, and the enlisted men the familiar barracks of war time. Fire Hazard Great. The camp is in continual danger of a devastating fire. Only the vigilance of the guards and the efficlency of The officers have little better | AT HUMPHREYS IS SET AT $2,000,000 éHuge Sum Needed for Proper Development of En- | gineer Camp, Experts Estimate—Work - vented such a blaze several times in the past. Here are brought annually officers from the Army to perfect their edu- cation in military engineering. Not only are the Regular United States Army Engineer Officers trained here, but each class has naval officer: : cers from foreign governments cers of the Reserve Corps and tional Guard and the Citizens Military Training Camp personnel In the present class at Humphreys will be officers from the armies of Mexico, Bolivia and Cuba. The United States Board on Engineering Equipment also is located here. It is the board charged with the duty of developing new equipment for this branch of the service, and one of its most important and recent developments is that of a powerful mobile searchlight which promises to revolutionize surveying anti-aircraft fighting. School for Enlisted Men. The Engineer School Detachment also is here, composed of enlisted men for surveying and drafting work and lithographing. For them, there ars courses in trigonometry and mathe- matics to fit them to handle these jobs, and also there is a school for litho- graphing and map reproduction, as well as machinists’ courses. 4 The 13th Engineer Regiment is a general service regiment and assists (_ll handling the demonstrations given for the benefit of those attending the s, and the 20th Engineer Regi- ment, a_topographical regiment, han dling surveys and producing military maps, one of the functions cha ‘o the engineering corps. Altogether, there are about 850 offi cers and men permanently attached to the post. The engineeri: > each vear consists of from egular officers of the Army ates maval officers and officers of foreign governments. There is a_spe- cial three-month course for National Guard and reserve officers, and these usually bring about 20 officers a year. From 250 to 300 National Guard and reserve officers also are sent here during the year for two weeks of training. Lord Fairfax Home Included. The camp also includes Belvoir Point, formerly the home of Lord Fairfax, and it is interesting to note that the Engincers of the Army are recelving their training on substan- tially the site where Cieorge \Wash- {ington obtained much of learning from the library of Lord Fairfa As closely as it can be figured, using troops for labor, it costs the (Government about $1,800 to renew the underpinning under one building, and, as this is a continuous operation, it might be figured that the cost of | the Government is heavy and much more expensive in the long run, it was pointed out, than would be the o of erecting permanent buildings. And in this is not figured the amount purpose for which they were enlisted, to develop the finest standing army in the world. By the Associated Preas. NEW YORK, August 21 “La-deez and gen-tlemen to your left—" and thirty heads turn in unison. We are sightseeing, or “rubber-necking,” in the world’s greatest city. We are visiting New York, two of us from Chicago, three from Johns town, a_handful from the suburb: We are from everywhere except New York, and in three hours each of us will know more of downtown New York than those who have lived here 50 years. First the roof of the bus is rolied back to permit a view of the skyscrapes Kid McCoy's One Hotel. “—to your left the Hotel Nor- mandy, once owned and operated by the one and only Kid McCoy,” The stout man across the aisle marks his map of New York at Thirty-ninth and Broadway. There's something to show the folks back home. “and to your right (a few blocks farther) the heart of the she-opping district of New York. Directly right you see the largest department store in the wurr-1d.” Heads right. The three ladies from Johnstown crane their necks to see the latest Paristan frocks in the window. “Papa,” says a little girl, “I'm thirsty. It's awful hot.” “You musn't mind that,” says pap “forget it.” And he stands up to re move his coat. It feels like 100 de- grees under the afternoon sun, and it was near that—it being New York's hottest day of the season. Widest Cross-Town Street. “_and now we are on Fourteenth street, the widest cross-town street, and once the center of business.” The barker meanwhile has won his crowd. Some of his jokes were on the vaudeville stage 20 years ago, but his repartee usually goes over. Refore the trip is completed he will have established himself as a rare humorist with the visitors. “—and now, Ladeez and Gentlemen behold Fifth avenue, the old aristo- cratic street, the home of the near- millionaires, where apartments have nine rooms and seven baths.” There are audible gasps as he { names the fabulous rentals asked for places, and the bus passes the house once occupied by Samuel Clemens anad { turns into Washington Square— “RBee-u-ti-ful” Girls Parade. “—where the greatest artists main- tain their studios and where the most bee-u-ti-ful girls parade at evening.” And in a confidential tone “I've seen | ‘em myself.” ! “Then through the wholesale dis- tricts, with each business segregated in its own quarter, and into the financfal district. “Trinity Church, my friends, second oldest in New York, at the head of Wall street: see it, that canyon there hetween the skyscrapers, the street h a church at one end and a river the other.” But that joke went over their heads. “—-and this is the Battery. The Cus- jtom House is the large, old building with the four statues representing the | four races, and there Ladeezz and Gentlemen, is the Battery with the Aquarium in the middle. here 15 minutes s0 you may look at | Hotel Inn 604-610 9th St. N.W. Daily, $1.00, $1.50, $2.0 §7 Joome. $6 weekly! $10.80 rooms, § §i4 with gliet. an and lavatory. 'S; 3'in room. 50% mors, Rooms like Mother Il MT. VERNON STEAMER Charles Macalester Leaves Tth St. Whart Daily ] 10A.M. and 2:30 P.M. Round Trip, 85¢ Admission, 25¢ Cafe and Lanch Counter on Steamer ‘ernon not open on Sundarye ‘We will stop | 'RUBBER-NECK” NEW YORK TOUR KEEPS OUTSIDERS ENTHRALLED the wonderful fish.” All out, while the guide lights a cigarette. He does not visit the Aquarium, He has been doing this 18 year: The Aquarium can be “done” in flve minutes if we walk fast; we have our pictures taken on the ‘sidewalk, buy 25 views of New York for 25 cents and the lean gentle- man who has never cracked a smile throws a handful of pennies to a group of ragged urchins. The 15 minutes have passed. Chinatown; Small and All “—this is South street running along the Fast River and at those docks just this side of Manhattan Pridge boats night and day, believe it or not, unload nothing but green hananas.” Several trucks attest the truth of this statement. “_and as we are ahead of time we'll visit Chinatown. usually veserved for a_special night trip. Chinatown with all its mysteries, at no extra cost to vou. It is hard to determine whether the visitors are more amused at the sight of the natives, or vice versa. Curios are purchased, the smells of the quar- ter are distinctive, although nelghborhood is similar in other re- spects to the remainder of the lower st Side. Then uptown again, the announcer is getting hoarse and the bus glides through traffic At Forty-second street and we emerge and stretch. bave seen downtown New York. Broad We Dog Teams Valuable. In_ Alaska o good team of “huskies” now brings $500 to $700, depending upon thelr strength and the efficiency of their training. One of the most desirable traits in a dog used for teamwork is his training to halt immediately upon command. Prompt halting Is necessary because the great danger of sled travel s the air holes in the ice. To teach them they are often allowed to plunge into an ice hold trap so that the chilly bath may be remembered “Where Security Isa Surety” Mortgages Guaranteed by an Outstanding Surety Co. the camp fire department has pre.! lost in the time of the troops for the | the | | i i i | | | 1926—PART 1. W.C.1.U. DEFENDS YOUTH AS MORAL Union to Fight Insinuations That Prohibition Has Corrupted Morals. By Consolidated Press. EVANSTON, Ill.. August 21.—Wet leaders who have been vociferously bewailing the fate of modern youth under the prohibition regime have stirred up a hornet’s nest. The flaming youngsters of this mod- ern age are not leading such wild careers as some anti-prohibitionists ad- vertise, and those that are cutting the most capers aren’t doing it because of the Volstead act, according to the Women's Christian Temperance Union, which now announces that it is jumping back into the liquor fight with the same sort of active program it had before the eighteenth amend. ment went into the Constitution. Since it essayed to defend the youth of today against the charges of the wets, the W. C. T. U. says, it has re- ceived such a widespread response that it is sure the right chord has been struck. Seek to Arouse Nation. Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president of the organization, In explaining further to- day just what it is that the women temperance advocates are aiming at, d: 'We are going to arouse the United States to a sense of indignation against professional wet politiclans who are attempting to defame the character of our youth and draw at- tention to the many similarly untruth- ful arguments the wyls are using, to- tally ignoring the actual proved facts of the case.” What riles the women particularly is the statement being used by wet politicians in many States in their literature which says: “Volsteadism nong the youth of the land—girls well as boys—is producing condi- tions that make fathers tremble and mothers weep in agony “There has been no cheaper trick. in all American politics,” says Mrs. Boole, “than this false picturing of vouth. No meaner political slander | has ever been invented than this] business of rubbing smut on the boys and girls by the liquor Interests and! their friends. Horace Taft Denles Charge. “We had no tears or pity from; these gentlemen in the days when we were fighting the open saloon, with its grip on the political machinery: none of these crusaders against pro- hibition came to our help in the day when dance hall keepers were al- lowed by law to sell liquor all night long; nor when the brewer-owned saloon, with its sordid back room and surreptitious side entrance, was an aid to the commercialized vice which has real cause to make parents tremble. We have never heard a word from most of these men until the liquor interests were cramped.” That observation brought this re- sponse from Horace D. Taft, brother of Justice Taft, and headmaster of * school at Watertown, Conn. s groans about the doings of voung people began long before pro- hibition, Troubles of society set, a small circle, are not due to prohibi- tion, hecause trouble of that sort was growing before we had any prohibi- tion at all. As to the general effect ot prohibition among young people, T have no doubt on the whole it heen very beneficial.” The W, C. T. U. said that before is- suing fts first statement attacking wets for using thefr argument con- cerning drinking among young peo- ple, a careful investigation was made in several hundred communities. Schoolmasters Laugh at Idea. “The all,” Mrs. Boole s: who drank were situation the same in “Young people re in 1918 and are even rer todu Nearly all the schoolmasters laughed at the idea that drinking is on the increase or that it is a problem among youths. The only places where drinking ever showed fts effect on the voung v in the oldtime laboring class neighborhood, where beer was a part a child’s diet, and where today, milk is the accepted drink. The W. €. T. U.. with its 22,000 local unions in nearly every commu- nity of the country, was an_ impor tant factor In the old prohibition figh Its officlals say that from now on it's going to be heard from again. Quakes Remain Mystery. Little is kpn\\'n about the cause of earthquakes, asserts the geology department of the University of Illinois. would feel a If vou lived in Japan you a quake four timg day, on an average: in the last 500 vears 230 have heen severe enough to kill thousands of people. These severe - quakes are attributed to "“the rising shore line off the coast of Japan.” An earthquake s hlamed for the tremendous waves which came ashore at Lisbon and drowned 60,000 people. The earthquake of 1899 in south: ern Alaska is called the “largest earthquake that the world has ever known.” While no lives are known to haye been lost. a complete de- formation of the shore line resulted, lifting the coast 47 feet. Whole mountains were swept away and forests several miles back were buried. This quake was registered b all over the world KING TO RECEIVE ENVOY. H. Percival Dodge to Present Cre- dentials in Copenha~en. By Cable to The Star and New York World. COPENHAGEN, August 21.—A statement was issued today that the King will receive H. Percival Dodge, the new American Minister to Copen- hagen, next Tuesday. Mr. Dodge was first expected to arrive July 2, to deliver an address at a Fourth of July celebration of Dan- ish-Americans. For this reason the King broke several engagements and stayed in town to receive him. On July 1, however, the charge d'affaires at the American legation said he re- ceived a telegram from Mr. Dodge, saying that he was delayed and the King waited in vain for him to pre- sent his credentials. In retaliation the King kept him walting for three weeks. ENGINE PROGRESS SINCE 1862 SHOWN “Texas” of Civil War Fame Contrasted With Latest Steel Monster. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga. August 21.—The evolution of the American locomotive from its towering smoke stack, wooden cab and strange appur tenances to the present-day ponderous mass of bright colored steel is strik ingly presented here “Texas,” one of the few remaining pioneer ‘ocomotives and one of the engines that participated in the chase of the famous Andrews raiders during the Civil War, has survived the advent of successors not only two or three times Its size and speed but also of different hue. Brighter Colors Used. Displacing the somber black uni- versal garb for locomotives on Amer- ican railways in recent vears, the Southern Rallway system has adopted a color scheme of Virginia green, gold and burnished steel for twenty-three new heavy Pacific type passenger engines now belng put Into service on Southern lines. The Civil War relic preserved here in Grant Park was never so bedecked, hut the “grand parent” of the modern locomotive has a history as colorful as the paint on its “flapper grand- The locomotive is stationed on a high knoll in the park under a shed surrounded by harbed wire, a short distance from where James Andrews and seven of his companions were hanged after being tried as spies. Planned to Burn Bridges. Andrews had been given permission by Gen. O. M. Mitchell, commanding a division of Buell's army near Shel. byville, Tenn., to conduct a party of voluntéers into Georgia, seize an en- gine on the Western and Atlantic tracks and run northward, burning hridges and destroying tracks behind them. The raiders, 15 in all, carried out their scheme on April 11, 1862. The Federals were forced to change engines three times In chasing the raiders due to the torn up tracks. “Texas,” the third locomotive used, was headed southward when the Federals hoarded it and. careening wildly in reverse, overtook Andrews and his men as they were attempting to_burn the Chickamauga Bridge. The raiders fled to the woods but were captured and imprisoned at Chattanooga. Andrews and seven others were convicted as spies and hanged in Atlanta. Their seven com panions escaped to Union lines hefore their trials. Dogs Now Have Nurses. Four voung women who are study ing the care and cure of sick dogs at an animal hospital in Totteridge, Herts, England, intend to take up the ling as a professional one and work in different parts of the coun- try. Miss Irene Bradshaw fs - pioneer in the new profession he says that dog fanciers will p: 1s much for professional care of thej dogs as they will for themselves, She proposes to have “district nurses =0 the dogs will not have to be sent too far away from home. Island Worry to England. Tristan de Cunba, an island lying hetween the Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan, is a great trfal and worry to the British gov- ernment, They would willingly abandon the island, but the inhabit- tants will not have it. The reason is that famine strikes the island so frequently. Some vears ago the islanders” grew corn which thrived there, but due to a shipwreck on the coast rats left the ship and took up their abode on land, with the re. sult that the island is infested with « and corn cannot he stored. 'here is mno written law on the jsland. The population is less than 100, Approves Train Control. ‘The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion yesterday approved the instal- lation of automatic train control de- i the lowa division of the SAFETY PLUS You insure your lifg, vour house, your automobile, why not snsure your snvestments? self. Therc ¢s no added cost to your- You can obtain the full 6% interest on your money through conservative first mortgage real estate bonds, protected by every possible safequard. 12 | ADDITION, the mortgages xrrun‘nf{/ these bonds are guaranteed against loss of either prencspal or interest by either the Maryland Casualty Company, with sts more than $32,000.000 assets, or by the ‘nited States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, with its $40.000,000 assets. Denomi. nations $100, $500, $1,000. If desired, bonds may be purchased on Morris Plan of de- ferred payments and 5% snterest wwill be allowed on snstall- ments. You will be interested to learn about our “Safety Plus” Plan. 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Douglass, director of the Steward Observatc here and profes- sor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, years ago began a study of the rings found in tree trunks partly with a view to determining the age of the kivas. To date he found recorded in the trees’ “annual rings a history of climatic changes over a period of five centuries. This chron icle tallies with astronomical observa tions of solar activity for the period His studies have taken him during the last twenty vears to Engl Norway, Sweden, Prus Austria, Bavaria and the St Oregon. California and A His interest in pi aroused by observaton of the climatic jconditions under which the vellow common in the western Rockies, growing. | Drouth Rings. zon: - ruins was Much of Dr. Douglass’ work been done in his vieinity hecause t limited 22 inghes of rainfall assured many clear nights and superh skies for astronomi observations 2 forest furnished a wealth of mate for botanical studi The problem of the tree was to periods of drouth rather than to coi pete with other species of plant lifi in the struggle for existence, and the wax and wane of tree growth i< chronicled in the size of the tree trunk rings. Kivas Beams Secret. test drouth in this region. finds, was from 1513 to 6, and the tree rings held the record for more than three centurles before man discovered it. However, the biggest drouth in the entire sou survive ving the rvinged beams in f the old Indian ruins of Dr. Douglass believes he will ascertain climatic conditios t the time they were built. Comparison of such data with the records Arizona trees and of the hig of California will reve: actual years in which the chambers” were constructed. COIN COLLECTORS HERE FOR ANNUAL CONVENTION American Numismatic Association Has Display of Money in Hotel Open to Public. The American Numismatic ciation opened its annual convention terday at the Washington Hotel with a program which will continu» through until Thursday noon. The members, students and col lectors of coins have gathered from many States for the meeting, a fea ture of which is the exhibit of coins medals and paper money placed or display on the ninth floor of the ho tel. The exhibit is open to the public At a smoker for the men last night discussion revolved around old Greek and Roman cof A theater was given for the women of th ciation. 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