Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1926, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Editlon. WABHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY. .December 1, 1928 . THEODORE W. NOYES. . . . Editor — T'he Evening Star Newspaper Company " ats e England e Evenine 8'ar. with the Sunday morn- Sition” g Gellcared by carriers, withn <ty at 60 cent the daily only. s..,... per month: Sundava. n days only. 20 cents &lephone Main £000." Collection is made by o at end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. m and Sunday only . « ay only . All Other States and Canad aily and s 2001 mo.. $1.00 E'"X oty nday.. L o 3R 0n. § mon 750 unday only . yr. $4.00:1mo. 35¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Aswor'ated Press in exclusively entitled ® the nse for republication of all news dis- atches cradited fo it or not otherwise cred- ted in" ¢ aper and alto the local news bljahad in_ All rights of publication #vecial dispatches herein are also reserved [ The Democratic Program. Due notice that the *scandals of 926" are to be a headliner in the Pemocratic program of activities at the Capitol this Winter has been given by Senator Robinson of Arkan- #as, Democratic leader of the Senate. This was to be expected. In-all prob. ability legislation seeking to limit or to control expenditures in primary ®loctions for Congress will be sought. Senator Borah of Idaho has laid the gTound for Republican support of such a proposal. Senator James A. Reed of Missourl, the Inqulsitor par excellence of the Senate, chairman of the slush fund committee, is expected to make his report during the com- 1ng session and it will in all probabil- ity contain recommendations for leg- islation designed to better the condl- tions which have been found in some of the States where senatorial pri- marles have been investigated. The Democratic program, put for- ward by Senator Robinson, however, 1s not confined to alleged corruption in elections. Tt includes farm relief, reduction of the tax rates and a re- vision downward of the protective tarift. This program becomes com- prehensive. It is noticeable that it makes no reference to the issue which has been causing more stir than all others, particularly in Dem- ocratic politics, the prohibition ques- tlon. There are Democrats in the Benate and House, however, who will not be so quiet in regard to prohibi- tion as the statement emanating from Senator Robinson. - Senators Bruce of Maryland, Edwards of New Jersey, Reed of Missourl, Walsh of Massachusetts and others are likely to inject it vigorously into the Sen- nte debate at this coming session. On the other hand, stalwart drys among the Democrats, llke Shepard of Texas, doubtless will strike back with vigor. The row in Congress will not De entirely between Democrats and Republicans. The Democrats have ®ome private party differences to set- tle and the liquor question is not the least of them. Much interest is manifested today in the attitude of the Southern Demo- erats, in Congress and out, toward the proposed McNary-Haugen bill. Benator Robinson's statement does not glve much hope to,the McNary- Haugenites, for he declares against Government machinery in any ten: devised to aid the farmers. belicves the farmers should them- selves set up and maintain any ma- chinery authorized by national legis- Iation. 1In the last Congress the Dem- Ho ocrats, under Senator Robinson’s lead, had a bill of their own for farm re- Uef, which differed from both the ad ministration measuge, better known as the Fess bill, and the McNary- Haugen bill. If the Democrats con- tinue to stand out for their own bill et the coming sesslon the chances ot legislation again appear to be very slim. But the Democrats are not much perturbed over the possibility of the faflure of farm relief legislation. Suc- wceasful solution of the farm problem, under Republican leadership, would scarcely be of help to them in 1928. On the other hand, a disgruntled farm element in the West might aid them considerably. r———— Ovatlons here to Queen Marie are followed by political cares in her own eountry. For royalty America has be- eome the playground of the world. —————— A $20,000,000 Failure. Yesterday marked the formal end- Ing of the Sesquicentennial at Phila- @elphia, held to commemorate the one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The gates, however, will not close un. til the 31st of this month, in order to permit vertain expenditures that are legally possible only while the show is In operation. The demolition of the structures will begin at once. Thus comes to a conclusion one of the most unfortunate misadventures this country has ever known in the way of & “world's fair.” The story of the Sesquicentennial has been one of mistakes, controver- sles, delays and heavy losses. It is estimated that the final cost of this big show to the city of Philadelphia will be approximately $20,000,000. The deficit at present is $17,000.000, and to this should be added $3,000,000 con- tributed by citizens through the pur- chase of participating certificates on which there will be no return. Bills aggregating $5,000,000 remain unpaid, and a bond issue already authorized will take care of this debit. There are two views of this failure. One !s that the exposition did not draw a supporting patronage because the day of the world fair has passed, and the people are no longer inter- ested in these great shows of indu: try. The other is that the lack of a tendance was due to the tardiness of preparatisn and the long delay in get- ting the bulldings erected and the ex- hfits installed. When the show was opemed on the first of June the were still in the making. Most of the bulldings were incomplete, ' some of the projected structures were not yet begun and a state of con- fusion prevailed. A large national gathering was held, drawing many thousands of people from all parts of the country, and these visitors went away to tell a story of unreadiness and unattractiveness that gave the Sesquicentennial a “black eye” at the outset. It was not until the first of September that the big fair really began to take shape, and even then work was in progress, and, in fact, yesterday, when the concluding exer- cises were held, there were many de- tails that had never been completed and exhibits that had never been in- stalled. Concelved on a big scale, the Ses- quicentennial would have been a great and notable show if it had been car- ried through according to plan. To accomplish that would have required many more months than were given for the actual work of preparation and construction. It would have been far better had the show been post- poned a year, as was done in the case of the world’s fair at Chicago, which was to have marked the four-hun- dredth anniversary of the discovery of America, but was carried over un- til the year following and proved a notable success, despite the fact that as an “anniversary’ observance it was a year late. There were other factors, however, in Philadelphia making for the finan- cial failure of the Sesquicentennial. Violent differences of opinion arose among the Philadelphians. Political influences were invoked. There was unpleasant talk of undue enterprise on the part of certain leaders in that city with a view to future profits. Then there was the difficulty over Sunday opening, a question which aroused intense feeling and caused the virtual boycott of the fair by a large section of the people of Penn- sylvania. In view of this combination of difficulties and handicaps it is no wonder that a deficit of $20,000,000 has occurred. ————————— Clear the Air! One of the first matters to come be- fore the new Congress when it con- venes will be the demand for general radio legislation to aid in clearing up the existing chaos in the air. Repre- sentative W. A. White, jr., of Maine, author of the bill bearing his name in the House, has announced that he will make a determined effort to secure passage of his measure and, failing in that, he will introduce a stop-gap reso- lution to prohibit the licensing of any new broadcasting stations until gen- eral radio legislation is enacted. Mr. ‘White emphasizes that he still hopes for a satisfactory agreement with the Senate on his bill, thus obviating the necessity of a resolution curbing fur- ther licensing, but he is convinced that Congress must act promptly on conditions in the radio industry if har- mony is to take the place of the pres- ent friction. For the many millions of radio lis- teners this is an important subject. Stations have “jumped” their regular- ly assigned wave lengths and have ruined all reception on the particular length they have adopted. This action was taken following a ruling by the court that the Department of Com- merce could not enforce the assign- ment of wave lengths. Until this decision broadcasting was proceeding in an orderly and progres- sive manner. Each station had its as- signment of both hours and waves and the listener could pick up the various programs without interference. When the ruling was announced, however, stations which were dissatisfied imme- diately changed over to other wave lengths and hours, and jumbles and screeches replaced the previous good reception. The Department of Com- merce confessed itself helpless and for the last few months little pleasure could be obtained by those who tuned in on programs in the air. It is apparent that the broadcasters themselves will not correct the situa- tion. They have been appealed to on the score of not only good sense and good business, but business ethics. So far there has been little response. The Government, therefore, should take control by means of the White or a similar bill. The Department of Commerce is ideally fitted to govern broadcasting in the United States and was doing a fine job of it until upset by the court ruling. Passage of an ef- fective bill will provide a remedy that will be eagerly welcomed by more than five million persons in this country. e The mystery of the Man in the Iron Mask has been regarded as solved. But there are questions which will always be asked. *““Who struck Billy Patterson?” “What became of Charley Ross?” ““Where did Dorsey Fultz go?” And ““Who is guilty in the Hall-Mills case?” Bergdoll to Return. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the war. time draft dodger, will return from Germany about Christmas time, to “take his medicine,” according to a statement made by his mother in Philadelphia. Her son, she says, had promised to be here for Thanksgiv- ing, but sh is confident he will keep his word to return by Christmas. He would have come back befors, she explains, but he has bewn deterred not for fear of a prison sentence, but by the apprehension of assault by angry ex-service men. Thus for the sake of clearing up this unpleasant case it s hoped that Bergdoll will come back and sur- render himself to the Federal au- thorities to complete his five-year term of imprisonment. He is de- cidedly in the class of the ‘unde- sirables,” although being of Ameri- can birth he is not to be rated as an alfen. Unfortunately, under the law he could not be excluded if he presented himself. That would perhaps be the proper punishment. He has not been particularly happy in exile and he is probably coming back now to work out his term in order to live hence- forth in the United States. It is a question whether he will ever find much happiness here. Perhaps Bergdoll exaggerates the feeling against him in this country. It ts doubtful whether there would be any viclent manifestations on his re- Most people think that he bas been pretty severely punished already for his wrongheadedness and his de- flance of the law and his escape. It would doubtless be a serious wound to his vanity if he were to slip back here and be taken to prison without arousing any excitement or especial interest. oo .A Fitting Testimonial. Responses !o the invitations issued by the committee in charge of the pro- posed testimonial dinner to Commis- sioner Cuno H. Rudolph, who is soon to retire from office, have been re- celved in such number that a very large attendance is assured. It is ap- propriate that this expression of pub- lic ssteem for & faithful and efficlent administrator should be complete and hearty. On two occasions Mr. Ru- dolph has, in sacrifice of his business interests and his comfort, responded to the call to duty and taken an office which exacts much of the incumbent and which involves heavy responsibil- itles, He has discharged that duty not merely capably, but with the full- est regard for the welfare of the Dis- trict, and now, on the eve of his re- lief from the burden, his fellow cit- izens are preparing to testify to their appreciation of his services. Partici- pation in this manifestation of esteem is a privilege which should be highly valued. There is no doubt that the o1 casion of December 17, when this din- ner takes place, will be memorable as an expression of sentiment which will assure the retiring Commissioner that the community which he has served so ably and devotedly fully values his sacrificing labors in its be- half during the years of his two terms of office, soon to close. ——e—— European stage celebrities con- tinue to come to America and not one of them has a word to say about “Uncle Shylock.” The U. S. A. has been liberal in the encouragement of art, though reticent in lending im- plied support to enterprises which subordinate idealism to anclent lines of political antagonism. —_————————— French people accuse Americans of making fun of the money they re- ceive in exchange. A sense of humor intelligently managed 1s a saving grace. Promiscuously indulged it is a public misfortune. ————— Balkan politics holds so many pos- sibilities that no ‘one can complain when a pleasure trip in the U. S. A. is interrupted in order to permit a queen to assert the home responsi- bility that her title implies. —_— e The Fall-Doheny case is not as in- teresting as when the Senate was handling it. The courts are valuable in eliminating the emotional and pic- turesque elements of a serious situa- tion. ———————— Maine holds its old position as a State to be studied for political sig- nificance. It has still to reassert the prestige that Thomas B. Reed gave it for wit and oratory. —————— As a figure in fishing Republicans refer to President Coolidge as a whale, while Democrats do not hesi- tate to cherish hope that he will prove a Jonah. ———————— It profit instead of patriotism had been an object, Philadelphia might have been inclined to neglect the Sesquicentennial sentiment and con- centrate on the prize fight. ———————— A reduction of regular working time by Henry Ford leaves it possible to devote more hours per day to keep- ing the old flivver in repair. ————— Mexico has enormous undeveloped resources and continues to afford a reminder of the fact that riches do not always bring happiness. o Books are written to show that modern young people are assuming dangerous liberties. So are the books. — e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Musical Reminiscence. My sausage “Liberty” was called. o My simple cabbage leaf As “Liberty” was bravely bawled In hours of war-time grief. And strains in novel forms drew near, As cowbells led the band— I must confess I'd like to hear Dot Leedle Cherman Bande Its melodies were from the heart, Most of them tried and true; They echoed a melodic art So old—yet always new. The players simple and sincere Went wandering through the land. I hope that I again may hear Dot Leedle Cherman Band. It sought no artificial praise . For {its delights of song. Its members simply went their way To cheer the passing throng And breathed the melodies of yore ‘Which all could understand. I'm waiting just to hear once more Dot Leedle Cherman Band. Responsibilities of a Statesman. “The United States Senate has a great mission to perform.” “It has,” answered Senator Sorghum. “You must lead the public into lines of serious thinkin, “Such is our duty. I am hopeful of being able to start something that will even take people’s attention from the Hall-Mills cawe! Suns. A star hangs in the distant sky. It is a sun, they say. I turn a reverent gaze on higlr Unto its constant ray. The Winter comes and Summer goes. 1 scorn celestial stuff. Our sun, for human cares, Lord knows, Is surely quite enough! Jud Tunkins says a fool friend is never as friendly as he is foolish. ‘“Ignorance,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “sometimes requires a certain amount of education for its full display.” “A mule,” sald Uncle Eben. “kicks. But has a certaln advantage over some of us humans. He always knows exactly what be is kickin' abeut.” WASH . Templeton Jones, having né rancor in his soul, is able to view his own faults and those of others in an amaz- ingly impartial manner. Jon in this regard, is a sort of Jove, sitting In what he fondly be- lieves to be solitary grandeur, look ing down upon mere mortals, strug- gling, erring human beings, striving for they know not what. Jones can only wonder at the sud- den angers of others, the quick re- sentments, the long-held spl-ens. He sees mature men acting like little children, and grown-up ladies “act- ing like babies,” as the song had fit. Is Jones, then, not human? Yes, he is intensely so, but a kindly Heaven has endowed him with the ability to regard'life as a spectacle and he as a spectator. Or, perhaps, it might be put the other way around that a Hell, kindly for once, had re fused to give him those traits of character which it seems te have so liberally accorded others. Jones might be thought indifferent, because he does not spring eagerly to the righting of humanity. He might be regarded as callous, be- cause he retuses to become heated over wrongs that are none of his busi- ness, and which his common sense tells him he cannot change. Poor Jones might even be sus- pected of being something of a cow- ard, when all the time his lack would simply be that of ferocity, or of meanness, or of any one of a num- ber of qualities which most men have in more profusion than he. Jones, having this sort of a disposi- tion, has amused himself from time to time by collecting cases showing the absurdity of anger. In his files he has many queer in- stances of angers, spleens, resent- ments, rancors, irrascibilities, at once instructive and sorrowful. Jones has often lamented that he is not a great moral teacher. Then he might spread his account before the victim, and say: “Well, don't you think it absurd? And what are you going to do about {t?" Yes, it really is too bad that the great moral teachers are no more. It is true that there is plenty of gen- eralization. The country is still go- ing to the dogs, as all countries do, and the state of mind of the younger generation is still most alarming, as the states ot minds of all younger generations have been alarming since time began. There are no Jeremiahs, however, going around specifically pointing out faults, and crying, “Woe! Woe unto you!” with a finger of righteous scorn pointed in one particular direc- tion. Public censuring is more in the form of a “Keep off the grass” sign, with no addition of that necessary admonition, “This Means You. As much as Jones had sometimes longed, in the secret recesses of his heart, to assume the flowing mantle of Jeremiah, and tell the world what was the matter with it, he had never found the role possible, nor had it promised to be finally pleasing. A thing must be finally pleasing, to be actually pleasing. Many per- sons do not know that, hence get themselves into much hot water, as the saying is. Yes, a_thing must be finally pleas- ing, and Jones knew that wearing the mantle of Jeremiah, while it might have {ts good points, also might result In cold feet, and the doc- tors had always told him to keep his feet warm. WASHINGT! Congress does the talking, but its committees do the work. Usually the committees go to work long before Congress begins talking, and the real business of the ensuing session is mapped out by them. One of the vital committees of the National Legisla- ture is the House committee on appro- tions. Under its_veteran chair- g’lrfi!. Representative Martin B. Mad- den of Illinois, it has been consider- ing the budgets of the Federal depart- ments for several weeks. By the time Congress is convened on December 6, Madden’s men will have comgle‘ed discussion of_the budgets of the Treas- ury, Navy, Interior, Agriculture and Post Office departments. Post Office appropriations are far and away the biggest item, except the money requi- sitioned by the Treasury for inzeyest on the public debt. Our postal service, which has become the largest busi- ness in the world, costs $750,000,000 & year. It employs 360,000 people. It grows so fast that personnel increases 10,000 or 12,000 annually. The Post Office is almost self-supporting—would be now except for the recent postal pay “raiser wCzar” Tom Reed, rebuking a Ho;‘sz: critic who lamented that the national budget had reached $1,000,- 000,000, drawled out the immo aphorism that “We have becom'e‘a billion-dollar country.” Today we're a four-billion-dollar country, roundly. We would probably be a five or six billion-dollar country, according to Chairman Madden, if the e)_{eculh'e departments always got anything near what they ask for. Since the Roman- esque Illinoisan became the head of the appropriations committee, dating roughly from the inauguration of the budget in 1921, he boasts that he has whittled down departmental estimates by the imposing total of $4,200,000,000. Madden's allies and accomplices In the dog-watch they maintain over the Treasury of the republic are Gen. Lord, director of the budget, and CD!_)- troller General McCarl, the world's greatest expense account expert. * k kK Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, general chairman of the “Conference on the e and Cure of War,” which 18 E::!?! to hoid forth in \\'ashinfi(on, thinks the Monroe Doctrine is “out- grown.” She puts forward that theory in the current number of the World Tomorrow, a radical Intgm - tionalist organ. Contending that *‘con- ditions have vastly changed in Latin America” since the doctrine was pro- claimed, and that “the growing, self- conscious states of the southern conti- nent resent it Mrs. Catt sides with South America’'s demand that the doctrine be ‘‘reinterpreted and be made a policy of the whole Western Hemisphere.” At the last Pan-Ameri- can conference in Chile, this country declined to abandon its traditional attitude that the doctrine is purely a United States policy. “The situation requires either a clear and complete definition of the Monroe Doctrine as a present-day policy,” says Mrs. Catt, ‘or its abolition. since it is so much THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Nor did Templeton Jones believe that it was ne: ry that he, of all men, actually should take up the du- ties of a modern Jeremiah. “So's your old man!" said Jones, to himself, with much modern flip- pancy, dismissing the pleasant theory forever. It enough for Jones to go over his files, now and then, and view quietly the instructive cases he had stowed away there. Sometimes he even consented to show them to friends, for Jones has an unusually large number of friends, although most of them have never even seen him. Three recent cases engaged his present attention. Each one was an instructive example of wrath gone wrong. Each person, he saw, ‘who sang the “Song of Hate,” harmed only himself. Yet each victim fondly imagined he was fulfilling his func- tion on earth by thus indulging in emotions inimical to the best inter- ests of humanity. .The first case involved a young writer chap, a good friend of Jones’, and another gentleman. The young writer chap had something of Jones own way of looking at life. He could use persons and happenings in a per- fectly impersonal way, at least in his own mind, although he sometimes found that others could not attain the same impersonal attitude. Having written an article dealing with a spe- cific case of snobbery, but treated in a perfectly general way, urbanely enough, he found to his amazeme'm that the gentleman in question was terribly angry. "Dldyyou call me a prig?” he asked, in accents heated. “Did I call you— what?” asked the writer chap. ‘You called me a prig in that blank-blank column of yours,” wrathfully said the other. Now, our hero, if he had been Jones, would have instantly declared, “Indeed, you do yourself too much honor,” but, not being Jones, he re- sponded, “No, I didn’t call you a prig —1I called you a snob.” * K Ok K Now, the angry gentleman was all wrong, Jones told himself. When one insists on wearing a shoe it gener- ally fits. But Jones turned to his second case. Here he had something entirely dif- ferent again, in outward aspects, yet the same at the core—hurtful spleen, ncor, call it what one will. T wo. friends, Mr. A. and Miss B. Mr. A., in a moment 0!_ thoughtless- ness, makes a slight criticism of Miss which a kind friend (there is al- ways one in every office, as \\ehslel‘" says) immediately ran to the lady with. ‘hereupon Miss fu:‘é;eto sgeak or even look at I\lr.v ? The latter thought that the lovely Miss B. was pretty severe upon him but the lovely Miss B. thought she was not half severe enough, and so hinking. rem‘b‘\;r;egntd for Miss B.' said Jones, musingly, as he closed his ledger upon both Miss B. and Mr. A. alike. Jones' third case was a strange one Three men were involved, Messrs. X. Y. and Z. Mr. X. and Mr. Y. had been great friends, but suddenly Mr. X, dropped Mr. Y. like the proverbial hot cake. Then he became friend to Mr. Z. Thé innocent Mr. Z. was pleased, and showed it. ‘Then, appar- ently, Mr. X. was up to his old ‘ricks, for all of a sudden he dropped Mr. Z. as quickly as he had }\[r.’\. “Too bad for poor Mr. X." sald Templeton Jones. B. froze up, re- New's blind-address sleuths deciphered the address with ease and delivered Dr. Morley's letter without delay, even though the latter’s correspondent had heard of the American capital only by ear. Dr. Morley has just lectured at the Carnegle Institution on his recent explorations in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. One of the discoverles of his expedition was an old empire city, Macanxoc, in the heart of the new empire. It is the most _important _fleld _contribution made to Mayc. archaeological research in the past five years. * Kk X X Philadelphians who esteem highly his fervent, though futile, effort to “dry up” the City of Brotherly Love, have launched a scheme to immortal- ize Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, United States Marine Corps. They plan to erect at Marine headquarters in Washington a bronze tablet in ap- preciation of Butler's work as director of public safety in Philadelphia in 1924 and 1925. A committee has been formed, a tablet has been designed, and $1 subscriptions are now being asked from the public. The tablet is emblazoned with this legend: ‘“He en- forced the law impartially. He de- fended it courageously. He proved incorruptible.” * ok kK A natfonally known member of Congress hopes the next Army-Navy foot ball game will not be played within a thousand miles of his con- stituency. It cost him, he claims, around $6,000, representing 600 tickets supplied to devoted and determined supporters at $10 per pasteboard. * %k ok % Prsident Coolidge confesses he Is not a radio fan and leaves listening in mainly to his wife, who finds it an agreeable companion pastime to knit- ting. The squire of the White House is keener cn the sending than on the recelving end of the broadcasting game. He has come to realize that he has a first-class “radlo voice"—one, in the language of the profession, that “cuts through”—and his friends say that the President is genuinely fond of delivering addresses to the invisible audience. On a certain occasion in Washington, not so long ago, some- thing went wrong when Mr. Coolidge was on the air. That's a rare hap- pening that the broadcaster never knows about till he finds out that his voice falled to reach the wave length. The White House moved promptly to learn just what cut the President off. |1t was nothing more serious than a mechanical mishap. * ok ok % Latin American quarters in Wash- ington don’t take very seriously the Mexico City newspaper charge that Woodrow Wilson invented article 27 of the present Mexican constitution, with a view to setting up a socialistic state beyond the Rio Grande. Another story, much more reliably vouched for, is that Lincoln Steffens, first of the muck-rakers, was the patentee of the confiscatory article. The same yarn Nelther is likely, shas it that Steffens in 1917 took ar- easier to drift. But jticle 27 to Russia and “sold” the un- drifting is a menace to the ‘peace and rderlying idea to the bolshevists. This safety’ of the country.” Doctrine row, December 2. * k¥ K The Monroe [observer’s authority for the diverting will be 128 years old tomor- |information 1s that Mexicans now- adays bitterly resent the suggestion that Soviet Russia taught them the doctrine of state supremacy over land. Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, distin- They claim, on the contrary, to be guished authority on Middle Amerl- |precursors and not imitators, and that can archaeology and associate of the |Steffens can prove it. Carnegie Institution at Washington, received a letter from Mexico the other day addressed as follows: Dr. S'lvano G. Morley, Carnegie Institution, D. C., Huachinton, Estados Unidos. “Huachinton” is excellent phonetic|along a road. If the: hav- | ence now between a meral ° road (Copyright. 1926.) The Safer Path. From the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. A locomotive engineer off duty was killed by an automobile as he walked and e rail- track, it is in faves of the track. Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. Politics and hot cakes rather than “pisiols and coffee” is the early morn- ing diversion these eariy December days at the White House. President Coolidge has begun again his break- fasts with Senators. Members of the House are not to be overlooked at these informal entertainments, which are perhdps unique. They President is an early riser. When a Senator is in- vited to breakfast at the White House he is expected to be on hand at § a.m., with military punctuality. He and his ieliow Senators foriunate enough to have been included in the invitation gather in a reception room at the White House. There the President meets them and gives each a quick shakoe of the hand, and before the gucsts realize it they are seated at the breakfast table ready to engage tho enemy. Fhese White House breakfasts are no skimpy affairs. Breakfast is a A1 meal. It begins with fruit, some- times a baked apple, which is fol- lowed up with hot cereal, coffee. ba con and eggs, hot biscuits, Wheat cakes, country sausage and sirup. After such a breakfast a legislator may reasonably be expected to leave the White House in a fairly pleasant frame of mind. The President himself is a good trencherman at breakfast. He has a special kind of cereal for himself, whole wheat of the chewy kind, which he does not inflict upon his guests. But the rest of the menu the Presi- dent gives serious attention. * Kk K ¥ According to authoritative reports, o Coarly morning breakfasts are really for the purpose of eating and informal conversation rather than for the fixing of administration pol- icies. However, there are times when a word is properly placed here and another there, looking to the advance ment of a cause which may b close he Chief Executive's heart. . . ihe fact that Senator Shipstead of Minnesota, the sole Farmer-Labor member of the Senate, was a guest of the President a day or two ago at one of these senatorial breakfasts was hailed as a move to win the Senator over to the Republican side in the contest for the organization of the Senate in the next Congress. But it is not on record that the President or any of the other Senators present at the breakfast alluded to such a matter at breakfast. Nevertheless, the presidential breakfast is considered a distinet asset here in Washington. * K K K The present movement, proposal or what not, whose aim is to get the in- surgent Republicans of the House back into the regular party organization of that body is not without its signifi- cance. Nearly all of this group, which caucus in vas left out of the party the present Congress, consin. Things have been happening in the Badger State politically in the last few months. The people are still progressiyely minded, but the death of the late Senator La Follette, who led them successfully for more than a quarter century, left in the field a number of ambitious followers, or former followers, of the La Kollette standard, among them Gov. J. J. Blaine, Senator-elect to the seat now held by Senator Lenroot, and Fred Zimmerman, governor-clect, who will | succeed Gov. Blaine. While these men | were successful in the primaries and elegtions this year, they have been bitter enemics. The Progressives | split over the governorship, and the, stalwarts” threw their strength to Zimmerman and against Herman L. Ekern, the La Follette-Blaine can- didate. It is scarcely astonishing tha members of the House from Wisc sin who have been devoted followers of the elder Senator La Follette for vears should begin to wonder just what the leadership in Wisconsin is uiunately to be, or that they | should look with some degree of interest to a return to more regu lar Republicanism so far party organization is concerned. The Tib- eral party, which some of them hoped would result from the La Fol- lette for President candi in 1924 is moribund. They have lost their old leader. Senator Robert M. La Follette, jr., has made an excellent record in the Senate and has increased his hold on the people of Wisconsin. Unfor- tunately he is compelled to be a from the Senate at present and from politics generally, because of illness. He may not get into harness for Weeks or even months. Gov. Blaine is not popular with many of the Pro- gressives of the State. That he will ever succeed to the leadership of the equipment in 1888, master general, Washington, D. C. ify, and fort interference trains of light waves. the variety of colors. Q. Are automobile accidents in- creasing?—N. S. A. The National Safety Council says that the toll of life from auto- mobile accidents is higher than ever Last month 84 persons were before. Of these 77 killed daily. were pedestrians. Unites of glass. use comment on under the Q. What country has the best schoolhouses?—B. N, In school buildings, Q. When was the hump system of ‘swléchmg cars in railroad yards first | used? A. Records show that hump yards were maintained at many, in 1876, and also on the Paris, Lyon and Mediterranean in France The first summit yard in America, as far as can be learned, was constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1882 at Huffs Station, 2 miles south of Greenbush, Va. L. 8. B. Q. How can I get a job as care- taker in a national cemetery?—F. M. In order to obtain & position as caretaker in a national cemetery it Is necessary that you make appli- cation at the office of the quarter- War Department, In order to qual- one must be a former service man and must have been disabled In line of duty. Q. How old is King Ferdinand?— A. ‘A He was born August 24, 1865, and is therefore 61 years of age. Q. Why Is a soap bubble round? How many surfaces has it? t causes the play of colors?—J. D. F. S. A. A llquid surface by virtue of the surface tension tends to become as small as conditions will permit, and a sphere has a smaller surface than any other solid of equal volume. This explains why a soap bubble is round. A soap bubble has two sur- faces, one inside and one out. A soap bubble has many mirror surfaces and light falling on it is reflected back om them, o that there is various This produces amdng Q. On which syllable is the world A, conversant accented?—M. D. = A. The accent is on the first sylla- ble. Q. Have more Canadlans come to the United States from the French provinces or from English ones?— J. G. H. A. Q. Is there any special kind of glass required for thermometers>—G. A. L. that in ther- mometers that are to be used for accu- rate scientific work the bulbs should always be made of one of three kinds The first type of glass is a French glass which has been demon- strated to be peculiarly adapted for in thermometer bulbs by elaborate experiments made by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures at Paris. known as “verre dui two are made at and are known as ‘“Jena 16" “Jena 59”.” This type of glass has similarly proved to be adapted for use in accurate thermometers by the experiments made at the Reighsanstalt in Berlin. A. Authorities say Jena, and pedagogical ments America leads the world. the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Speldort, Ger- W per cent According to the 1920 census, there were 848,309 residents of the States who had come from the French provinces of Cgnada and 1,765,519 who had come from other Vi parts of Canada. This glass: is The other Germany, and material experi- the Q. Was Houdini, the handcuff king, ever a flyer?- A. He was awarded a prise by the Australlan Aeronautic Leagus fn 1910 as being the first successful fiyer in Australia. Q. What kind of fur is sealine™— W. W, A. Sealine fur is clipped rabbit fur dyed black and resembles seal. Q. Where do the swans of the eastern part of North America spend their Winters?—D. S. A. They concentrate on Chesaj . Bay, Md; Back Bay, Va., and - tuck Sound, N. C., and nearby waters. Thesé birds have become bolder under the 10-year protection given them. ‘They now number about 15,000. Q. How does the caterpillar of the morning clock butterfly hear?~=D. F. 8. A. Dr. Munnich of the University of Minnesota discovered that this caterpillar hears through its whiskers. He found that by carefully singeing the hairs of one of these creatures, or by otherwise putting them out of com- mission, the caterpillar falled to re- ond to sound stimuli. He also noted that these caterpillars responded to sound when their heads were cut off and _that relatively small sections of a dismembered caterpillar showed that they could still recognize a sound stimulus. Q. Who was the first artist to rep- resent a scene taken from Dante's “Divine Comedy”?—R. E. T. A. The English painter, Sir Joshua Reynolds, was the first artist to rep- resent a scene from the “Divine Comedy” in his picture of Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, whose hor- rible death is recorded in the twenty- third canto of “The Inferno.” How can I wash quilts and com- forts so that the padding will not be- come lumpy and uneven?—B. M. A. If quilts and comforts are washed by Immersing them in gaso- line instead of water the padding will remain undisturbed. Gasoline cleans- ing has the added advantage of killing all moth life and germs, but it is a dangerous home practice. Q. When was the gyroscope first used by railroads?—C. W. M. During the year 1926 the gyro- scope was first used in this fleld. It is now used by rallroads to bring about more comfortable riding over the rails, it being explained that in this application it “functions as the heart of an extensive recording de- vice to measure and locate uneven spots and other irregularities in the track.” Q. How much blood is contained in the human body?—R. L. G. Experiments have shown that the total blood volume of a serfes of healthy men averaged 4.9 per cent, or approximately one-twentieth of the - | body weight. There were individual variations of from 4.2 per cent to 5.9 per cent. Find out whatever you want to know. There is no room for ignorance in this busy world. The person who loses out is the one who guesses. The person who gets on is always the one who acts upon reliable information. This paper employs Frederio J. Has- kin to conduct an information bdu- reau in Washington for the fres use of the public. There is no charge ex- cept 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Write to him today for any facts you desire. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Bu- reaw, IFrederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. “Double Jeopardy” Decision of Supreme Court Is Debated Sharp differences of opinion mark the Supreme Court's “double jeopardy" decision, in which it is held that a person prosecuted | Federal Volstead law for illegal liquor making also can be tried for the same act under State statutes. | To many editors the decision appears | to be clearly in conflict with the guar- | antees of the bill of rights. see only a logical development in the ! American dual system of government, through which a single act becomes two offenses when both State and Fed- eral laws are violated. The legal profession was not_sur- Federal Others | imagine a prosecution for fraud by S:ate officlals where the identical act complained of would give grounds for prosecution for using the malils with intent to defraud. Any act which is an offense against both a law of the United States and a law of a State constitutes two offenses. That seems to be the view of the Supreme Court. Tt is a view In which most persons will see coincidence between the law and common sense.”” Recos- nizing that “for law-enforcing pur. poses the State and the Federal Gov- ernment are two separate soversign- Progressives that was held by the | prised, according to the Chicago Daily 6 G ¥ senior Senator La Follette is improb- | News. o double jeopardy Is in- L‘: 2 "l:‘a' kot R{'P‘ds Press sug- volved In such a case in the legal|fean R A & fongs able. So the House memhers appar- ently are wondering what is to become of them. i * % B % Two statements have been put for- ward regarding their return to the regular Republican organization of the House, one by Representative Frear and the other by Representa- tive_John M. Nelson, who managed the La Follette campaign in 1824. Mr. Frear apparently is for coercing the regular Republican organization of the House Into taking the insurgents back, with the aid of progressives of the Senate. He has suggested that the progressive Senators, including Norris of Nebraska, decline to vote with the Republicans to organize the Senate in the seventieth Congress un- less the House Republicans first agree to restore the insurgents to their old places in the Republican organization of_that body. Representative Nelson, on the other hand, deplores any attempt to coerce the House Republican leadership, sa: ing in effect that the Insurgents could have expected expulsion from the caucus after they left the party to follow La Follette in 1924. but that he has reason to believe that many of the regular Republicans are now anxious to have the insurgents reéturn to_the fold. Representative Tilson of Connecti- cut, majority leader of the House, who has just returned to Washing- ton, does not intend to be ‘“‘coerced” in this matter. So far as the House organization in the Seventieth Con- gress s concerned, the regular Re- publicans have a working majority over and above the so-called Repub- lican insurgents plus the Democrats and other party members. However, if the Senate Is to restore contends. cannot be tried by ply concurrent law. ment. ter Union views it, the case of the arrested person found to be not double jeopardy, but the commission of a double offense. The man who elects to break the laws of the Nation and the State must be prepared to suffer the penalties im- And the Flint Dally Journal declares that “although boot- leggers and their friends will decry the decision which lays the offender liable to prosecution from two sources, the reasonableness of the position out- lined by the Supreme Court Is appar- It is not analogous to any other The States posed by both.” ent. situation in the country. retained their power to punish for in- fractions of their old laws; the Fed- eral courts concerned themselves only | with violations reported by their owni New conditions which have witnessed a great increase in lawness- ness have brought with them new checks with which changed situation.” * X agents. Federal laws, by one authority “In this instance,” to * % “In law,” says the Worcester Ga- zette, “it would not be impossible to meaning of the term,” the Daily News “The offender has violated two distinct laws, but, of course, he the same authority. The Federal courts interpret and ap- the State courts apply State etatutes. The logic of the decislon 18 flawless. liability of double punishment which led many voters in New York to de- mand and obtain repeal of that State's prohibition enforcement Under a dual form of govern- ment a person cannot plead punish- as a bar against punishment by another au- thority for the identical offense.” s the Manches- “the real point in Yet it was the meet. the been subject to punishment by each for the same act, which constitutes two arate offenses. There 18 a inction,” continues the Press, “between ‘act’ and ‘offense.” Of course, in practice, this privilege of double punishment is seldom applied—per- haps not applied enough. At any rate, whether any great use of the ‘double jeopardy’ power is contemplated qr not, it is a good thing to have it standing ready for emergencles.” Voicing a very different opinfon widely held, the St. Paul Pioneer Press declares that *plainly Amerioa was changing more things than it was aware when it adopted the eighteenth amendment. The probibition amend- ment has put a certain degrees of doubt on all the bill of rights, espe- clally the guaranty against,unlawful searches and selzures,” continues the Pioneer Press. “It was not intended when the Constitution was framed that the Federal Government would take responsibility for preserving peace and public order locally, which was left to the States.” The New York Times advises that “the wets in the next Congress should press legislation prohibiting Federal prosecution for any act for which pun- ishment has been imposed under State prohibition laws. Meanwhile,” adds ithe Times, “each fresh reminder of ‘ow much liberty has been thrown «way in an attempt to repeal custom and to enact the morality of the Anti- Saloon League is helpful for the re turn of common sense and something “at least of earlier freedom." is * kK % “The jurisdiction of State and N tion, which so often has resulted in farce, appears in this case to result in an iniquity,” asserts the Milwaukee to party regularity all the insurgents, it would appear to be the wise thing to restore also the House {nsurgents. Certainly it would make far greater party harmony in 1928. E The senatorial boom of Representa. tive Thomas L. Blanton of Texas has been launched. Resolutions adopted by the Democratic convention of the seventeenth congressional district, in dorsing Mr. Blanton for the nomina- tien for the Senate in 1928, have been circulated not only in Texas, but in ‘Washington, where Mr. Blanton is widely known, not only because of his activities in the House, but because of his interest in the affairs of the District of Columbia. In 1928 Sen- ator Mayfield, who came to Wash- ington labeled as the candidate of the Ku Klux Klan, {2 up for renomina- tion and re-election. It is his seat that it is now proposed to fill with Mr. Blanton. The resolutions adopted by the district convention state that Senator Mayfield “has been a luxury,” Representaiives to $10,000, Parker raiiroad labor b I son. Catholic. Here is one of the latest suggestions for the Democratic national ticket in 1928—Senator James A. Reed of Ml souri for President, and Senator David ‘Walsh, Massachusetts, President. hooking up the Middle West and New England. The proponents of ( project of punishing citizens twice for this ticket, however, do not take into consideration perhaps the antipathy of the old Woodrow Wilson followers to both thess Senators. President Wilson wrote a letter at one time urging that Walsh be not re- elected in Massachusetts. bitter an_enemy of Senator Reed as Senator Reed was of President Wil- Both Reed and Walsh are-wet; one is a Protestant and the other a Walsh's run against Sen- ator Butler in Massachusetts has en- couraged some of the Democrats to belleve he might be strong enough td swllng the State to the Democratlc column in 1928 if he were inclu and attack him because he voted fo| in the national e increase the salaries of “enators and| Democrats are optimistic, to say the for the | leasts which was| Waish will be found in the race for |holds that while “the courts may not ticket. In all indorsed by rallroad labor. and for| the Senate again in 1928, the McNary-Haugen farm r;l.lhf the senatorial nemination in 1928, the bill. for| of the late Seaator March 8, 1! probability, —_—————————— probable platform on which he will stand is indicated ln‘n;a resolutions. * * The late He was as But these for Vice Senator Journal, while the view held by the St. Louls Post-Dispatch s that “the people have only one defense against such an outrage, and that is to repeal one of the laws placing them in double Jeopardy. ‘The Chattanocoga Times remarks that “one wonders what the old-time patriots who refused to acoept the Constitution until these guaran ties in the bill of rights were adonted would be saying to this latter-day the same offense—the offense that in their day was not an offense but per- haps a virtue.” Quoting from the reasoning in favor of the two prosecutions, the Trenton Evening Times feels that “this to the layman appears to be hair-split- ting,” while the Asheville Times sug: gests that “in effect this must strike the convicted defendant as double jeopardy with a vengeance, resmrd- less of the distinctions drawn by the courts.” ‘The Roanoke World-News, admitting that “it may be good law, insists that “it is not a practice in accordance with fundamental princi- ples, with the intention of the framers of the Constitution or the bill of rights or with sound public polie; ‘The Philadelphia Public Ledger He has just | see any ‘double jeopardy’ in a double been elected for the unexpired term |prosecution, the public may, and the ends ' elimination of State laws will be the simplest way of preventing it.’