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WEDNESDAY, ANUARY 26, "1921. | | Politics at Large | | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS THE EVEN AR, WASHINGTON, THIS AND THAT o THE EVENING STAR!hcre comes the complication: The Smi o fon of 2 ion. | Smith forces also favor’ abrogatl With Sunday Monudng Editlen. |, " two-thirds rule, though they in- WASHINGTON, D. C. | sist that the unit rule shall also be lects. Improvements are constantly being made In the service, and a high standard of safety and comfort is being attained. O 1 WEDNESDAY . .January 26, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bueiness Office: 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave, { New York Office Sast 42nd St | Chicago_Office European Office; 14 Regent St.. ! England. th the Sunday morn-| carricre, within daily only. e Ty, 20 cents | st by mail or | fon it made by | The Evening Star. e adition, ix deliver the city at 60 cents pe 45 cenis per_month: Sui per month. Or ielephone Main varrier at end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. 00: 1 mo. Daily only ... 00 1 mo. Sunday only ... §3.00: Lmo.. All Other States and Canada. { il and Sunday..] vr.$12.00: 1 mo., $1 00 inday only 1yr. $4.00:1mo.. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press e exc! 1y entitled of special disvatches herein are also rese 1§ A Gesture of Amity. In thé adoption unanimously of the Robinson resolution regarding arbitra- tion of the existing differences be tween the United States and Mexico, the Senate has merely reaffirmed the established policy of this Government with respect to the settlement of is-| sues arising with countrie he principle of arbitration is a part of the fundamental practice of the| United States. It has been consistent- | 1y followed in ¢ involved questions of national honor and integrity. It will be followed here- after. tement. In dealing with the Mexican situa tlon the administration has pursued the course laid down by the American Government in all cases involving the rights of American nationals in for- elgn countries. By the adoption of new laws Mexico has menaced the properties of Americans in that coun- iry. Confiscation is threatened. Im- mense values are put in jeopard The Government at Washington has notified that at Mexico City that it cannot tolerate such confiscation. From this statement of the American position has been deduced by some the conclusion that military measures would be invoked in case Mexico per- sisted in pursuit of the course to which the United States has objected. A has been developed, but without justification.’ There has been no single action by this Govern- ment indicating the purpose to apply force to Mexico at the present or any immediately following stage of the case. It could not with justice resort to arms before all possible means of settlement were exhausted without re- sults satisfactory to the national sense of equity and fairness. From Mexico have come suggestions of arbitration. From the Senate now comes a reitera- tlon of the established principle of arbitration. Thus the case moves to- ward adjudication. The unanimously adopted expres- slon of the Senate is by no means to be regarded as a mandate to the ad- ministration to yield to injustice rather than resort to war if only through war can the rights of Ameri- ean nationals in Mexico be protected. It starts with the statement that “by virtue of sovereignty the duty de- volves upon this Government to pro- | tect the lives and property of its na-| tlonals in foreign countries, which duty is not to be neglected or disre- garded.” A suggested amendment to the effect that “such protection should mot go to the cxtent of using the armed forces of the United States without the consent of Congress” was properiy ignored by the Senate. Arbitration of the issues with Mex- fco will not necessarily involve the submission of the principle which is stated in the first clause of the Sen- ate resolution just quoted. That prin- ciple cannot be submitted to arbitra- tion. But the interpretation of the national law of Mexico as it affects American rights to such an impartial and international judgment can be submitted, and that would naturally be the scope of the reference, Adoption of this resolution by Senate, though it may be mer statement of an established principle, will perhaps have its good effe demonstrating to the Mexican govern- ment that the United States stands | ready to deal with it fairly and upon | the basis of international equity. As | matter of fact, no such surance was 80 far as the intentions of this Government were concerned. But it the measure yesterday adopted has | a palliative effect upon the nerves of | alarmists, on either side of the Rio Grande, it will prove to have been justified as a gesture of amity. ———— foreign of It requires no re; r scare’ requisite If Mussolini desires to create anew the glories of Rome, he should avoid suggestions of war, which would only impede progres: S e Will the Two-Thirds Rule Go? Upon his arrival in New York, Wil- liam G. McAdoo, who is in that city on “legal business it q, hesieged v friends urg ing him tc andidate for the wa is st his hotel scome Democratic nomination for President. | There is no disclosure of their de of success. Mr. McAdoo dignifled and discreet subject, but the implication to be permitted that the C: s “receptive” and that forbid an active movement in his be- half. Now comes, however, de velopment. It is asserted that the first attack in the McAdoo campalgn, 1t he decides to become a candidate, will be upon the two-thirds rule, which, it has been claimed, prevented his nomination in 1924. An active Mc- Adoo worker in that year declares that sixty-four of the one hundred and elght members of the Democratic Na- tlonal committee have been lined up for such a change. If that is true a favorable recommendation for the can- maintains a the appears ifornian he does not silence on __|for the they discarded. If there should be straightout contest Letween McAdoo and Smith rniomination year under the majority rule it is quite probable that one or the other will be nom inatel. The two-thirds rule is the chief weapon of the weaker candidate, It beay Champ Clark in 1912 and nom- nated Woodrow W, It beat Mc- Adoo in 1920 and nominated James M. ( It beat McAdoo Smith in 1 and nominated | Davis. In each of those case minority a next son. a candidate was chosen. It remains to be seen whether both the Smith and McAdoo forces will go out strongly and sincerely for the abrogation of the two-thirds rule. There are present indications that the McAdoo candidacy is designed to pre- vent the nomination of Smith, just the Smith candidacy was advanced in 1924 to prevent the nomination of McAdoo. There is no good feeling be tween the two camps. On the con- trary, there is sharp hostility. Can possibly unite upon a measure which if adopted for the government of the convention in 1828 would prob- ably lead to the nomination of one or the other of them? —rat—s The Bi-Centenary Stadium. Fess' proposal that a great adium be erected here as a feature | of the Nation's celebration of the bi- centennis of George Washington's birth is inspiration which should meet with the approval of Congress in the form of provision of funds. It is planned to commem- orate that occasion in a suitable man- ner. A commission has been formed to prepare a program and already pecific features for appropriate cele- bration in 1932 are being outlined. Tt seasonable, therefore, to consider at once the project for a national stadium that will be dedicated on that occasion and perhaps used for thel holding here of the world Olympic games, The need of a great stadium in Washington has been repeatedly dem- onstrated. The only place where a large audience for an outdoor spec- tacle can be assembled is the ball park, which is by no means a suitable setting for a ceremonial affair and is not big enough for contests such as should in all propriety be held in Washington. In the celebration of the bi-centen- nial of George Washington's birth there will doubtless be pageants and ceremonials. They should be so placed that they can be viewed by a great multitude of people. Americans will come here from all parts of the coun- try to attend and participate in this significant event. Unless provision is made for their accommodation by some such means as a proposed stadium they will be grievously dis- appointed on the score of their in- ability to witness any part of the proceedings. A stadium is not necessarily a sporting fleld alone. It may be used for all sorts of gatherings, for great meetings at which the modern means of voice amplification will per- mit vast numbers to hear the spoken words. It can be used for drills and demonstrations. It can be used, as suggested, for pageantry on a large scale, for spectacles of an inspiring character. Tt is, in short, an indis- enator an an early It only remains for the American public to become sufficiently inter- ested in this method of travel to start a similar movement on this side of the Atlantic. If commercial aviation | once gets a fair start in the United | States, those who are living today will see a gigantic industry built up to serve the alr needs of one hundred and twenty million people. . A Disgraceful Spectacle. ! A disgraceful exhibition of rowdy ism took place last night after the basket ball game between Central and Western High Schools. An uninten tional blow by one of the players, which was immediately returned, after the whistle blew ending a close | and hard-fought game, was the spark which ignited the pent-up feelings of players and spectators and resulted in a freeforall fight. More than three thousand spectators were endangered in the riotous affray which followed. Fists flew freely and the audi- torium was converted into a battle ground. Faculty members and cool- headed spectators finally quieted the combatants just before a squadron of police reached the scene. It is highly improper that students of the schools of Washington should participate in such a melee. There is no possible excuse for an incident of this kind. Granted ‘that the game may have been close and exciting, that both players and spectators were keyed up to a high pitch, that school spirit was overflowing and the will to win was strong in every heart, there can be no extenuating circumstances. Sports in the high schools cannot be | allowed to take such a prominent place in the minds of the students, who, after all, attend school to achieve real knowledge and not the kind of knowledge that was demonstrated last night. All sports are designed to aid the student in the formation of char- acter and to inculcate in him the es- sence of sportsmanship, but when they become instead the incentive to rowdy- ism, which has na place in the school life, they should be abandoned. A rigid investigation of this affair should be made by the school authori- ties. Those responsible for the out- break should be severely penalized, and the entlre student body should be impressed with ‘the fact that such in- cidents will not be tolerated. It does seem a pity that Washington high schools cannot conduct sportsmanlike contests without either the spectators or the players indulging in rowdy tactics. In previous games complaints have come to the schools about the breaking of chairs and the unruly character of some of the partisans in the audience. Last night's spectacle, however, weht further than this and it is high time that the school officials take drastic action to put an end to such behavior. ————— A film comedian makes people laugh until he has adventures which the camera cannot depict. The greatest and the humblest artist is dependent on the medium he selects for expres- slon. Films register the fictitious cus- tard ple as a missile, but not the genuine domestic rolling pin. ——————— After declaring himself as in favor of artists and poets as expressive of Ttalian genius, Mussolini discreetly re- frains from denying himself to the pensable part of the equipment of a modern city, even as in ancient times the arena was the scene of great pub- lic gatherings, sometimes, in those days, of shocking performances and sacrifices. The modern arena or stadium would never be put to base uses, but may be a means of stim- ulating the patriotic spirit of the peo- ple and of affording wholesome enter- tainment and instructive demonstra- tions to great multitudes, The Fess stadium bill should be given a chance for passage at this session, for time is running and if the proposed construction is to be ready for the Washington bi-centenary it should be started soon. ——————— Decision that Ban Johnson must take a vacation is regarded in some quarters as an indication that people whom he has been worrying need a rest. -t Commercial Aviation. A striking illustration of the strides being made in commercial aviation to was given vesterday when a cabined monoplane flew from New York to Washington and back with seven pas- sengers. The distance was approxi- mately five hundred miles, the time four hours and one-half, and the cost per passenger $13.88. For the corre- sponding railroad trip the time would be ten hours and the fare per passen- ger $16.28. To make this demonstra- tion all the more remarkable, the plane took off and landed on exceed- ingly rough, muddy and ice-coated fields, used only forty six gallons of oline, averaging eleven miles to | the gallon, and sustained an air speed of one hundred and eleven miles per hour. Jiuropeans discovered some years ago that the cost of airplane travel compared favorably with train travel. ! The Paris-London flight fare is only a little more expensive than the com- bined train and boat fare, while the air trip cuts the time in half. The longer European air lines are likewlse proportionate in their charges to the railroad. ¥ In the New York-Washington dem- onstration, however, the cost of air travel is shown to be $2.40 below that of the train fare. This feat lends | strength to the often-repeated asser- plain reporter in quest of an inter- view, r—em Political managers are displaying some studious concern as to how far the water wagon can be depended on to supersede the old political band of grimaces Serious people are the most accept- able in the long run. The eternal smiler proportion There is in this matter, as in most other a nice balance which many miss, I forever Jolly, others who are always gloomy Retween the two extremes the bal anced man steers the bark of his countenance h he holds steady in the course of seriousn ripples of merriment now nd aking the solemn surface of then the * be realized th the old grouch for that just proportion of and joy which makes for character. The serious dem perpetual compliment holder, for 1t says, seriously.’” The world is full of merrymakers who seem to regard others merely as Joks This is why the serious man or woman is so much appreciated. * ok ok Tt is surprising, in a world such ours, to realize how many thoughtles: persons there are, who commonly re gard life simply as a journe nd the rest of mankind as something to laugh at, merely The animals do n great deal hetter The soleran countenance of a e as it 1ooks at you, ought to put these mockers to shame. Go to the Zoo. and give the lions the once-over; visit the woods, and learn from the chip munk and the squir Laughter 1s a human ment, but we not that it is a good one, often used merely ridicule. Ther no plea s but rather solemnity the bette anor confer upon ever ‘I regard bol's accomplish always sure since it me: as a ns of are 999 persons who laugh at others to one who laughs with vou. There ‘e even whole families, the members of which are distinguished only by the wonderful ability to sneer at those they meet. The sneering laugh is not confined to the melodramas, although in real life perhaps 1t is not so outlandish i it was when given in its entirety or the boards of the old Academy of Music. In this sort of laugh one has por- trayed for him the foolishness of laughing, in general. Now, there has been a through the ages in favor of merri ment. The smile, peculiar to human beings, has been “played up” time out of memory as a most worthy thing. Man, with his tendency to laud and magnify anything and everything he possesses, has found the smile to be endearing. The lean and hungry Cassius was frowned upon by the great Caesar be cause he would not laugh. In the face of illness, misery and death, before the very doors of pov- erty, meanness and cruelty, men have combined together to laugh as much as possible. Laughter 15 fashionable. 1t is, like eating, something in which American naval forces in Chinese waters, upon which the burden of protecting Yankee life and property in the troubled Sbanghai area will fall, are small, but effective. Their commander-in-chief is Admiral Clar- ence S. Williams, whose flag has flown over our Asiatic fleet since Oc tober, 19 Admiral Williams, an Ohioan, was transferred to the Far Eastern command following his pre: dency of the Naval War College at Newport. He is considered one of the students and one of the diplomats of the sea service. Williams' squadron consists of the armored burgh (flagship), 21 de which 2 are minela marines, about a dozen river gunboats and a corresponding complement of auxiliary craft. The admiral's force numbers some 8,000 officers and men, including sailors and Marines. In an wagon. ————— ‘When a reigning film comedian gets into matrimonial difficulty, the ocean- going routes of the world mean noth- ing more than a De Russey’s lane. ————— A few people still go to Florida to rest. Others still go there and spend &leepless nights because of invest- ments. —————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Martyrdoms. A cheater is a curious elf. He seeks to glorify himself, And manages, with credit dwindled, To render famous those he swindled, Who cares for Torquemada now, With sanguine laurels on his brow? reduce the costs of air transportation | oy Borgia, forever quicker To snicker at an arsenic-er? The autocrat’s erratic pow'r, ‘While exercised for but an hour, Makes of his life a shabby story ‘While lending saints immortal glory. Noise Competition. “Nero flddled while Rome burned,” said the ready-made philosopher. “I don’t belleve it,” answered Sena- tor Sorghum. “No musician with any sort of artistic self-respect would at- tempt a violin solo while a fire depart- ment was performing in the streets.” Getting the Right Name. Of Bacon little do we know, Of Shakespeare we know less. ‘Who wrote those plays so long ago? A doubt some folks profess. The erudite assume to place On argument a muzzle; The problem seems to set a pace Worse than the cross-word puzzle. Jud Tunkins says a man who looks out for “number one’” is liable to for- get that there are a whole lot of num- bers much larger. Passing the Laugh. “I once made a prince laugh.” “Wonderful!” exclaimed Miss Cay- enne, “My experience was different. A prince once made me laugh.” tion that commercial aviation in, the United States will soon be an actual competitor of the raflroads. When five hundred miles can be covered with safety and comfort and speed at a lower cost than obtains in the fast- est and most luxurious land travel, the time has certainly arrived for serious notice to be taken of this new factor in the transportation fleld. Europe is far ahead of the United celing of the two-thirds rule is likely to g0 from the committes to the con- vention, which slone has the power to sdopt the rules o procedure, But{’ peachiog simest SRE point (hathe se"oettora® States in the development of commer- clal aviation. A network of air lines furnishes the traveler with means of “A lazy man,” satd Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “is useless as a slave. Therefore he always strives to become a master.” George and His Hatchet. George laid his hatchet to a tree. His father said, “That's pretty good. It surely should be far from me To spank & boy for chopping wood!” “If monkeys owned property,” said Unole Eben, “dar might be less indig- natlon ‘bout recognizin’ ‘em an- B emergency roundly 4,000 of them could be landed for service ashore. The American Asiatic fleet is based on Manila, but has been supplemented, on account of the Chinese troubles, by personnel from Guam. At Tientsin the United States Army has a gar- rison of 800, and at the legation in Peking there is a Marine guard of 300 men. So, all told, Uncle Sam has about 5,000 fellows in khaki and blue ready for a frolic or a fight in China. R Coolidge stories, like income tax and the poor, are with us alw 3 Here's one which is not of recent vintage, but has not yet made many rounds at Washington. It dates back to “Cal's” days in the Massachusetts State Senate. The President merely a promising young law from Northampton in those times, but fellow legislators were accustomed to put up to hio ish ques- tions for decision. Once upon a time Senator Coolidge was asked to arbi trate a grammatical controvers determine whether “sets.”. The sorrel- twanged this reply: “That doesn't seem to me to be as important as the question whether a hen has laid or lied when she cackles.” * ok % Wayne B. Wheeler, generalissimo of all the drys, winds up his letter nowadays on prohibition issues in new way. “Yours for the duration of the war,” signs the man who will go down in history as the one who put ‘America on the water wagon. Dry headquarters, where Wheeler reign: at the foot of Capitol Hill, is sleeple: ly active during these times of inc sant assault on the eighteenth amend- ment and the Volstead act. No wet meeting, demonstration, resolution, speech or movement anywhere, in or out of Congress, escapes the vigilant eye of the AntiSaloon League chief- taln. Almost before wet arguments are dry, as it were, Wheeler clears for action with his mimeograph batteries. * ¥ K James C. Davis of Towa, a former divector general of the United States raflroad administration, is reported on Capitol Hill to be under consideration for the Interstate Commerce commis- sionership. Mr. Davis was the able liquidator of the transportation sys tem controlled. by the Government during the World War. A lawyer by profession, he is one of the country’s acknowledged authorities on railroad economics. When he re: fice last year, after winding up a bil- lon-dollar transaction, President Cool- idge paid him a remarkable publi tribute. Davis, who happens to be in Washington on private business, as- sures this observer that the Interstate Commerce commissionership story s news to him. He is devoting himself exclusively, he avers, to his big law practice at Des Moines. * kX ok, is familiar with the corn belt, the wheat belt, the cotton belt and more or less with the oil belt. Now comes the swine belt, and deposes, through Senator Arthur Cap- per, Republican, of Kansas, that the most important of all farm relief bills now before Congress is the meas- ure to stop the packers from main- taining privately owned packer stock- Washington BY CHARLES E. TRAC has no sense of | snce we meet persons who are | with | vou | | this conspiracy | to | WELL. after all, are only species the whole world joins heartily, be-|Ame i 1 2 In | cently in Washington, was, “Is New | | cause it satisf human_ need. the home of the rich, as well as in the | home of the poor, there is laughte * * = Is this same good laughter, then, something to be deplored? Yes, when 1t degenerates into a per- | petual grimace | Viewed solely proposition, the | an “uplifting of | mouth So regarded, a smile is mere | museular action, no different, in . from that involved in the bend | ing of the knee or the crooking of a | finger. Only have the | the laugh, cance wh | The smil frown t of great ange | if one may so expre: | spirit | Happine: | to the downcast | within reason, is good for the soul {and body. No one would galnsay 1t is easy to laugh and be merry, we are built that way * as a physiologic <mile is nothing but the corners of the es | senc tmmemorial usage rin, the grimace, the smile, come to have the signifi- h attaches to them today. common with the expression , is a natural ebullition < it, of the human through leads to an uplift, misery Hence laughter, simply because This natural expression, however is a far cry from that excessive gri macing which many indulge in This is human nature running wild. The seriousminded person is the one 1o tie to. The perpetual smiler | become boresome | the endless talker: We would not be always smiling, or talking, lest the one h less, and the other de mere flow. Variety is the spice of smiling. Let there be tong intervals in which no smile appears, then your smile will | be_radiant when it does come. The ceaseless smiling of the mem- bers of the chorus impresses no one, except, it may be, the gentleman who is struck by the “‘third from the end. We like a man to be serions, but not too darn serious, tatd | The serious man gives us a good im- pression of ourselves, as well as of | him " Look is likely to even as his cousin t the countenances of all | successful men and you will see there, | even in the comedians, certain | placidity of expression, which comes about fhrough applied seriousne | There is no easier way in the world to prove acceptable to others than to | treat them with hecoming dignity, | once pleasing them and helping your | selt | This good procedure is made all the | easier today m view of the countless numbers, resembling the mice Bakersfield, veritable hordes, of mirth- ful voung gentlemen and ladies, who have got off on the wrong foot in | life. With various forms of cheap enter- tainment as their ideal, and “a good | time” as thelr goal, tremendously | busy in showing the world how to | live, they malke it the easier for the |« remainder to apply true W WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | markets. Capper, erstwhile leader of | the farm bloc, declares that ‘“this | evasion of the packer and stockyards act is_costing swine-raisers not than $20,000,000 a, year, because of he breaking down of the public com- setitive market.” grower to sell his product in a com- | petitive market controlled entirely by supply and demand, Senator Capper and Representative Tincher, also of Kansas, have introduced an amend- ment to_the packer and stockyards act, abolishing the privateyard evil at all public central terminal markets %o designated by the Secretary of Agriculture. Capper says the situa- | tion is most acute at Kansas C where the Armours have a vast p vate yard known as the “Mistletoe.” Bishop Freeman of Washington, ac counted the Demosthenes of the air, broadeast a striking statement by radio in his most recent Sunday ser- mon from the National Cathedral. | “Americans,” he said, “have de- | throned the (God of their fathers and | set up in His stead an image called the god of comfort. It has become the governing ideal of the average | American to put a_comfortable baby | in a comfortable crib and in charge of a comfortable nurse; to send him to a comfortable school with comforta- bl teachers; then to a comfortable college where he won't have to work too hard; then to launch him in a comfortable profession until at the end of 20 or 30 comfortable vears he finds himself with a comfortable competence, and finally, after a few comfortable years of leisure, to land him in a comfortable grav ok oE K "ebruary 15 is the anniversary of the birth of Susan B. Anthony. | On that day a delegation of the Na- | tional Woman's Party is going to call |on President Coolidge to ask his sup- port of the party’s equal rights amend- ment. The President's stock among the “Pauline sisters” has been high ever since he appointed a National Woman's Party leader, Miss Jessie | Dell, @ member of the United States Civil Service Commission. Mr. Cool- idge does not rank as an aggressively ardent partisan of women’s participa- jtion in politics. On a memorable oc- on he ked to a. White House breakfast guest, just after Mrs. Cool- idge had left the President and the G. O. P. leader in question to them- selves and to their cigars, “My wife has always left the politics of the Coolidge family to me.” * ok ok ok | A South American resident writes Ito suy that readers of these observa- | tions might not unprofitably be re- minded that there is a “Drago Doc- trine” as well as a “Calvo Doctrine.” Dr. Luis M. Drago, Argentinian jurist and statesman, enunclated his “doc- trine” in 1903, when Venezuela was in conflict with Great Britain, Ger- many and Italy. It opposes enforced payment of debts owing to European nations anywhere on the American continent. is (Copsright. 1927.) ———— Job for Mussolini. From the Buffalo Courier-E: Mussolini has closed the night clubs in Rome. When he gets things ad- justed over there he might be lured to the United States to enforce pro- hibition. ——— Compensation for the Envious. From the Boston Transeript. Perhaps you can’t excel others, but there's a joy in beating your own record. ———————— PGets What’s Coming Toward Him From the Baltimore Sun. The pedestrian is said to have the right of way, but he generally gets left. v, Heflin on the Air. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Some of the radio listeners are com- laining because Tom Heflin won’t _© gardy elongeide the gentral Jivestools tune outy “liny of | less | To enable the hog- | By G. Gould Lincoln. The second question put him by Zealand wet?" This question, he said, ariably followed the query, lis New Zealand?” | Judging from recent addresses de- |- | livered in Congress, there seems to be | considerable doubt as to whethe America is wet or dry. Judging from- | those same | fulminations o | outside of Cong are being made by that the country generally speaking does not take a drink. and | strenuous efforts are being made by | the wets to prove that cocktails are | the national drink PR ss, strenuous efforts the drys to prove Williams Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury in the Wilson admin- | istration, who appears to have inherit- | ed some of both the Wilson and Bryan strength in the rank and file ad well | as the leadership of the Democratic party, is to make a dry address at the | Midwinter meeting of the Ohio Bar | Association in Toledo on Friday. The title of his address is “Prohibition | Nullification and Lawlessness.” He | will appear as the great dry leader of | the Democrac eeding to the po- { sition held for So long by William Jen- | nings Bryan, who was | voted to the cause of prohibition. | will be regarded as come out of the West to carry Democracy off on his saddle bow if he | can. Whether he actually | hat in the ring for the presidential nomination or not at the Ohio meet- ing, his entrance arew into the fight will be regarded sufficient notice o what is to happen. Mr. McAdoo will have as diffi job, 2 more difficult job, in i wet Democ it a turn worth of New York is meeting in his effort to convince the dry Republicans of the Empire State that they should vote wet. But Mr. McAdoo and his | supporters are still shouting for a union of the West and South to elect a President and control the Gov- ernment. The one great difficulty, however, lies in the fact that the | Democratic party in the States of the West is flat_on its back. The one issue which the Democrats might have seized with some prospect of gaining | strength in the agricultural States— | farm relief—they have muffed so far. | Perhaps they may make an attempt 1o g | when the MeNary-Haugen bill comes | before Senate and House again at this | | session. | * * is not the candidate of Thomas J. Heflin of Alabama for _lhe | Democratic presidential mnomination. | Mr. Heftin has made this reasonably | clear in his recent speeches in the | s For one thing, Mr. Reed is | usually regarded as a wet and Mr. | Heflin is bone dry. Furthes re, Mr. Reed raised his voice in eriticism of | Mr. THeflin’s interjection of _the | Knights of Columbus into the debate over the Mexican sftuation. Speaking in the Senate yesterday, Mr. "eflln_ re- ferred to Mr. Reed and his possible presidential _ambitions with some measure of levity. “Another Senator,” sald Mr. Heflin, “told me the Senafor from Missouri | had made the same speech over at New York when he spoke over there, n what some thought was the launch- ng of his boom for President.” The Alabama, Senator was referring to the Reed speech demanding religious toler- ance. He continued: i A Reed shaken by the wind, a presidential wind. It will blow mighty cold on him before he gets the nomina- tion.” Mr. Reed, it appears, will have aiffi- culty obtaining the support of the | Alabama. delegation at the next Demo- | cratic national convention, unless, in- deed, Mr. Heflin should happen to be | mistaken. The “24 votes for Oscar W. Underwood,” which rolled out over Madison Square Garden in 1924, were cast for a wet and also for a_Senator who attacked the Klu Kiux Klan. * % ¥k X ‘While the headliners in the Demo- cratic party are planning their cam- paigns for the big prize of 1928, the party machinery some success in the last congressional campalgn is being olled up again. Representative William A. Oldfield of Arkansas, indefatigable worker for the party cause, has been again elect- ed chairman of the Democratic na- tional congressional committee. The committee made its selection of ¢ man at its annual meeting Monday pight and re-elected Ralph Roberts of Indiana as executive secretary. Mr. Oldfield will have a real job on his hands to elect a Democratic House in 1928, particularly if the wet and dry tides in his party continue to run so swiftly, not to mention the religious issue. For many vears the Republi- cans have been reckoned stronger in a presidential year than in the “off” year elections. ~ A split in the Republi- can party in 1912 and the war cloud in 1916 were responsible for the Demo- cratic victories in these presidential campaigns, rather than any ov whelming strength of the Democrat doctrines. Kk K The appointment of Lincoln Dixon of Indiana, Democrat, and former member of the House, to be a member of the United States Tariff Commis- sion furnishes a relief from the at- tacks which have been made in the last year or two on appointees to the semi-judicial and policy-forming in- dependent agencies of the Govern- ment. Dr. Dixon was & member of the ways and means committee of the House and is famillar with the tariff. It is understood that the movement in avor of his appointment to the Tariff Commission, in place of a Democrat, Mr. Glassle, whose term of office had run out, was initiated by the Demo- cratic members of the ways and means committee, and that it was looked upon with favor by Republicans in the House and Senate as well. Mr. Dixon’s nomination was ordered fa- vorably reported by the Senate finance committee today. Mr. Dixon was in charge of the Democratic campaign headquarters in Chicago during the 1924 campaign. He has been a leader in his party in his State. The approval with which the ap- pointment of Mr. Dixon to the Tariff Commission was received on Capitol Hill may suggest to the White Ho | that the path of the President, in making appointments to these inde- | pendent, semi-judicial commissions, could be made more easy by the nomination of former members or sitting members of the House and Senate. * Kok ok Each week brings some new decla- ration in favor of the renomination and re-election of President Coolidge. Senator Weller of Maryland is the latest Republican of prominence to declare his belief that President Cool- idge would be re-elected in 1928. In fact, Mr. Weller insists that Mary- land will welcome his nomination and cast its electoral vote for him again. What would happen in Maryland, however, if Gov. Ritchie were the Democratic nominee, or another distinctly wet Democrat, is somewhat of a problem. ————————— That Sweeter Music. From the Phthfinder Magazine. Fred—Dil your girl come down when yod serenaded her with your ans, sald a New Zealander re- | manager | - | the secre addresses and from the | y men in the public eve | has the |E qually | has b passionately de- | He | dry Lochinvar | Miss | |a blizzard 1s a very cold, strong to | casts his | n the good graces of the farmers | chich still continues | to operate and which operated with | f { | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. How cities have the city of government? many plar F. A A had I By the adopted 3 mans cities plan end of the city T Where | in the United Stat Q. Is there L. The Biological Survey says that ¥ birs the road-run ner eat snakes and lizards a bird that eats snakes? A ane miles Florida a result of the ilf Stream come the st of e te i In, general, nothing of the kind ppened. It may be that in plac breakwaters, sandba T have been altered, with corresponding slight local changes in the movement of the water. In however the Gulf Stream a and where probably ages Q nearer P A it has been fo! When was Unter den Linden built>—R. €. A. Unter den in the reign of (1640-1688), the founder of the Prus sian State. The forest once on the site of the avenue was removed and double row of linden trees was planted, on each side of which gradu- ally sprang up the modern street Q. What is the difference between nowstorm and a. Wyoming blizzard? AL K A. The Weather Bureau says that begun William | vioient wind filled with driving snow The snow may or may not be falling from clouds above. A snowstorm. i velocity and temperature, during which an appreciable amount of snow alls, mething about the “Mona P it was painted by rdo da Vinci. The subject of the portrait belonged to a distinguished family, who lived for some time in exile in Naples. The background of the portrait includes the rocks and Leon; tic of the backgrounds painted by the foremost painter of the Milanese school. “Mona. Lisa” now hangs in the Louvre Gallery, Paris Q. Where is the China?—J. W. M. A. The Grand Canal {reaches from Hangchowfu, in the Province of Chehkiang, to Tientsin. It is composed largely of canalized rivers and is approximately 650 miles long. The depth varies, ranging from 7 to 11 feet, occasionally reaching a depth of 13 feet at high water. Be- { tween Suchow and Chinkiang irand Canal of it Senator James A. Reed of Missouri | often g hundred feet wide. Senator | e Q. Is Maud Powell living?—A. B. B. A. The famous violinist died in 1920, grow and mature?—A. C. L. A. Under average conditions the days after planting, though this period may vary from 70 to 100 days, accord- ing to the season. dry weather will shorten the growing period, while cool, damp weather tends to lengthen it. Q. Is oxygen a fuel”—C. R. A. Oxygen is not a fuel, but is used {to burn fuels, such as acetylene or hydrogen. A hotter flame is obtained by the use of oxygen than can be ob- tained by burning the same fuels with | air, but the total amount of heat pro- duced is no greater. Q. Which State fis “Stubtoe” State?—J. M. A. Montana. nicknamed Q. Has an estimate been made of the number of animals in national parks?—D. C. A. At the time of a recent report there were 25,000 elk, 18,000 deer, 500 sheep, 5,000 caribou, 1,010 buf- faloes, 600 black bears, 440 antelopes, 540 moose and 120 grizzly bears. Q. When and where were Norma just any storm, regardless of the wind | running stream which are characteris- | of China | is | Q. How long does it take flax to | harvesting time for flax is about 80 | Extremely hot and | and D. R A. 2 Falls 194 N. X Brooklyn, N Q. When do the wedding anr A. The silver ed in the twes famond in t 1d diamond s occur?—B. T, is cele. year and 1e seventy-fifth year the world's coal, timber United' States per does’ the D. B e United States is producing N the world’s automobiles, 66 per « of the world's steel, 61 per cent of the world's copper, 48 per cent of the world's coal, 52 per cent of the world's timber and 55 per cent of the world's cottc | Q. How muc during t weigh? F.J. L. A. Unofficially we have been ad vised that an avera {zed torpedo ed in the World War would weigh about 2,000 pounds and cost about 98 per did a torpedo used e war by the American Nav. How much did ¢ | | Q. What city is the largest shos | manufacturing center>—c. H. J | "A. Brockton, Mass, | Q. What do the Ru: | “vodaboyazn"?—W. W A. It is a groundless fear of The term means s mean by f water “water ht."” Q. When was St | pital established in C.J Elizabeth’'s Hos Washington? s hospital was established in Q. What the alute for Che | United States?—J. ¥ A. The Chief Justice, t of the House of Repr & committee of Congress salute of 17 guns. The | the Senate, being the Vice of the United States, is g 19 guns, i sentati reted with Q. When did the floor of the Boston dance hall collapse that caused the | death of many of the d s?—G. B. | It was in the early morning of 4, 1925, About 200 people were | pitated Into the w k of the burning building. Almost 50 lost their liv Q. Is snow-blindn ?—) A. According to n, the ex- plorer, the Eskimo seems far more susceptible to snow-blindness than the white man. He does not think it a racial question howev The reason is that a man who has never had snow-blindness does not easily it. but when he has had it one gets it more easily the next time. Men who have heen exposed to it from childhood are very prone to the afilic- tion. Stefansson thinks that in Arctle regions it s of great importance to protect the eyes in the davtime by wearing goggles. He also considers it important in preventing this affliction to sleep in a dark place at night. A tent of such material as white balloon silk was found to be trying to the leyes. When the tent is covered with blankets and skins to make it dark the snow-blindness is cured. Q. What does the postal “nixie” indicate?—P, J. W. A. This is defined as mail lacking sufficient address to permit of for- arding. susceptible to he term Find out whatever youw 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 Frederic J. Has- kin_to conduct an information bureau in Washington for the free use of the public. There is no charge ezcept 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Write to him. today for any facts you desire. Address The Evening Star In- formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. of the beloved poet’s own inspiration is reflected in the warm and tender tributes of the press to Frank L. Stanton, the dead poet laureate of Georgia. There {s almost universal this_singer, whose philosophy was typified by the lines: This world that we're a-livin' _Is mighty hard to_beat. You it a thorn in every rose. But ain't the roses sweet | As clear, as true, as friendly as the voice of towered bells were the songs of Frank Stanton, calling courage to the lowliest and lopeliest on earth and losing themselves at last in the eter- nal melody,” says the Atlanta Journal. “Bard of the South and Georgia's po laureate, he was, above all, humanit. friend. A heart like his would have soared, a soul like his would hav sung, wherever in the wide world might have been its birthland and dwelling.”” “It i3 a tribute to any man's genius,” observes the Providence Bul- letin, “when the public is more fa- miliar with his work than with his name. Of the thousands who sing Stanton’s songs not half know who wrote them. * * ¢ There is a ten- derness in Stanton’s interpretation of life and understanding of the common ties of home and the intimate solici- tude of close friends. This was his special gift.” The Rock Island Argus appraises him as “a man of heart, a lover of his kind, who used his great gifts for good. We shall think of him as walking in some beautiful garden of Paradise surrounded by the roses of which he sang so sweetly,” con- cludes the Argus. “Destiny has a way of serving,” suggests the Fort Worth Record-Tele- gram. “It gives just enough of Frank L. Stantons. More would be too many. About one in a generation will leaven the sordidness of existence and give us a new love song or two. And that is about all the world will appreciate.” * ok ok ok Of Mr. Stanton’s personal qualities, his own paper, the Atlanta Constitu- tion, in which his famous column ap- peared for a. long generation, writes: “He fllustrated in verse and prose and in his dally life the most profound hu- man sympathy—the binding tie of the ‘fellowship of man.’ He lived the spirit of human democracy. He died loved with an almost sacred devotion by his colleagues and those who knew him best. He was loved for what he was, as well as for what he did. Good-by, dear friend and colleague! On the othexr shore the roses will be as sweet. And there will be no thorns. Mr. Stanton “was no ordinary writer,” states the Christlan Science Monitor, which adds that “in many instances his stanzas touched the heights of the finest poetry.” The Omaha World-Herald points to lines which “stand out with a beauty and lingering pathos or humor likely to make them long endure.” In that list the World-Herald places some verses of “Mighty Lak’ a Rose.” The Nash- ville Banner agrees that “some of the notes he sounded will live in human hearts and linger on human lips for in many and many a year to come.” e out| S ST el 2 Stanton Eiflogized as Singer Who Lightened Life Burdens Something of the human sweetness appreciation, too, of the real genius of | appealing in humor.” The Winston- Salem Journal belteves that the Mighty Lak’ a Rose” and “Just a-Wearyin' for You” would alone en- title him to permanent fame. “Georgia’s poet didn't bother about copyrights and syndicates,” remarks the Toledo Blade. “He wrote as a bird | sings—for all who might care to hear his song.” The Savannah Press, re- calling that Mr. Stanton’s career be- gan in its own city, avers ths he loved to write, not for its returns, but | for its inspiration.” The Asheville | Times predicts that “the message of singer who kept his faith to the last will go singing down the vears on the lips of thousands in all its swcetness, hope and love.” The Charlotte Ob- server suggests that “it will be a long time before Constitut wders will outgrow the feeling ‘something missing’ from i To_the Birmingham standing fact is that beauty in the little, | of life and he made thous: their beauty.” The Cincinnatl quirer views him as der through the smiling the heights, plucking now a some flower of rare beauty and tive perfume.” The Bultimor says that “he planted sce shine in Georgia that two r: +burn where only one burned before and much of his sunshine has so be- come a habit of heart and mind in the lives of his numerous followers that even in his death they will be warmed by loving memories of his skill, his | grace and his modest geni * Xk ¥ X _The Albany Evening News sees in | him “something both of Stephen ! ter and of Eugene Field,” while “his | passing removes a living tradition: his greater poems will live just as ‘Swa- nee River’ and ‘Little Boy Blue' will remain in the cherished possession of posterity.” Recalling that Stanton was an esteemed friend of James Whit comb Riley, the Indianapolis Star re- marks that “the poems of both found place in scrap-books and fnner pockets of readers—one of the strongest proofs of appreciation.” The Philadelphia Public Ledger's tribute is that “in an age when jazz makes millionaires Stanton held fast to his ideals and wrote the philosophy of life rather than its absurdities. Quoting the statement from “Uncle Remus” that his associate’s “snatches, of song ring true to the ear because they come straight from the heart, the New York Herald Tribune finds that “that was kind nature’s gift to Frank L. Stanton, and that was his enduring gift to the world.” Typical of the many epigrammatic tributes are the following: ‘“He con- tributed toward making life more tol- erable for his fellow voyagers. He gave more than he took."—Little Rock Arkansas Democrat. ‘“Real contribu- tions to the poetic literature of Amer- ica.”—Dallas Journal. “He opened shuttered souls that sunshine wmighe filter in."—Richmond Times-Dispatch. “Is not he that brings good cheer and Joy greater than he that taketh & city?"—Raleigh News and Observer. “‘His verses will live long in Seutdern literature.”—Anniston Star. more than 40 years Frank L. ‘whom the children of Georgla. mswmuum below then