Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1927, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON. D. C. WEDNESDAY . .February 16, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. . .. Editer The EveningsStar Newspaper Company Business Ofce nd Penneyliania Ave Shre T110 Eant 49nd S0 st Ruiding T4 Rex Tandon, England 11gp St ez York dfice \eagn O ce Puropean Office with the Sinday maen- | i carriers within Ay ant; | The Evening Star fnr edition. Is Aelivered by the Gty At 8 rants per month 45 centa mar manth &undave only v month rders mas te sent by ma Telephane Main AOND Collect,on 1+ mad carrer at and nf each manth Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. all ) and Sunnay anle Sunday onis All Other States an v and Sunday 1 vr $12.00 ity 2t R Surday onlr £3.00 1m0 $1 1 mo 1 mo Member of the Associated Press. The Associa‘ed Press 1s exiinsively sntifin? rration of all news dis: | 1 i R ored g 1 this naner and alva e incal new. oatihed he st AN enta 0T mimheatior SFAnerial Alunatches haran ave alsn reserved i Ruffianism and Legislation. With all due consideration for the affect of a cangested short session of Congress the of bers of can excuse for in the House District commitiee room where, in the co: e of a hearing a bill, a fracas ocenrred that have disgraced anv would in the usual relations of peo- | ple lead to action in court. A witness hafore the committee was heckled hy the memhers in a manner elicit protest from another member of the House, tn atiendance as an inter ested onlonker. His protest was in- effactive. One nf the committee mem- bers raferrad to him in slurring terms and accused him of having a financial interest in the defeat of the measure under consideration. He refued this euggestion and was forthwith as saulted. A melee foliowed, with com mitteemen and witnesses and others engaged in a brawl that weuld in other circumstances have led to ar- rests. There are two aspects to this affair, One is that of the treatment of wit- nesses hefore committees of Congress. The other is that of the hehavior of members of committees. It is not unusua! for those who appear hefore certain committers 10 he heckled and badgered in a manner that weuld not be tolerated in a court of law, their statements challenged, their motives tmpugned. They have no recours They are not given any protection They cannot hring into question in the efvil courts any ‘atatements made against ‘nem or regarding them he cause of the immunity which the Con- stitution grants to the Federal legis- latore. There is no code of courtesy or consideration, and no appeal to any authority, Members of Congress are, subject only to the rules of that hody in re- spect to their conduct in the Capitol They may be haled hefore the bar of the House op Senate and disciplined, but they may not he taken into any other tribunal. This immunity sup. posedly imposes a certain degree of restraint, but the supposition wunfor- tunately is fallacious. Misbehavior is distressingly frequent not only in committee rooms but in the chambers themselves. Quite recently there have been several instances of hot-tempered encounters hetween members in both houses. Fortunately no harm has been done save to the dignity of the members and of Congress. In yes. terday’s affair there were no physical injuries, but the episode, which nat- urally has gone to the country, can- not fail to evoke the feeling that Con- gressmen are more hot-tempered than Judicious, more belligerent than states- manlike. Out of this unseemly happening should come aome measure of reform that will grant protection to wit- nesses before congressional commit- tees and will insure, as far as penal- ties for violation can go, decency of conduct. between members of the leg- islative body themselves, N ‘Washington, D. C.,, I8 accustomed to nearly all the different kinds of ora- tory that pertain to public life, Aimee McPherson has managed to assert hereelf 8= a new kind of speaker who compels interest while men of higher position and far older reputation find their remarks comparatively neg lected. upon nerves mem that there the episnde of hody, he no vesterday on would assemhlage and e e France is sometimes profusely elo. quent, and at other times strangely silent. Everything depends on the topic that happens to be in attention. EE—— Lafayette Square Legislation. A favorable report has been ordered by the Senate District committee on a bill to protect Lafayette Square par- teularly and all parks and buildings in general from en croachment by excessively high struc tures interfering with the general as pect of the public equipment in this city. 1t provides that all buildings of more than forty feet or four stories located within two hundred feet of & Government huilding or park must be | approved hy the Commission of Fine | Arts respecting tectural design. Government exterior and archi- This has a special reference to the park north of the White House, which, it has been con- templated, will eventially he rounded by public and semi-public structures. A project for a tall com- | mereiz] building has been undertaken | on the north side of the square and | there is apprehension lest its com pletion in accordance with the adopted design will prevent the uniform treat ment which held in view. As The Star pointed out the other day, there ix need of speed in the def- inftion of the Government's inten- tions in this matter. At present there is nothing in the law that indicates the policy with respect to lLafayette Square, although it known *hat certain plans are favored for the de velopment of with publie =ur is that area 1o bids, with a single exception, an: construction under the appropriations autharized by it north of Pennsyl- vania avenue, this having the effect of concentrating - all under that law in the triangle. That proviso is not sub- stantive legislation. 1t can he sup- plemented at any time by additional legislation which permits cartain public building emplacements upen Lafayette The bill which the Senate District committee vesterday approved is not to that ef fect, culated if enacted prevent excossively tall construetions, in ovder that the skyline may far as possible kept uniform and to render private architectural for locntion subject the approval the Commission of Fine Arts, In view of existing conditions act on this hill should be had at the pres- If Congress pre-empt Lafayvette Rquarve fr un vegulated private construction it should do so now. It should declare itself explicitly on this point in season 1o effect pending proj Postpone. ment of the matter to the next Con- gress will be tantamount to wuthori- private enterprise constructions Mall-Avenue or directx Square. 't he as designg proposed such a of m ont sesusic wishes m 1=, to to sation v engage in construction work on La vette Nquare without other restriction than that imposed by the zoning law of the District. —r——— France Vetoes the Coolidge Kellogg takes the view that refusal by France to accept President Coolidge's proposal on lim itation of naval armaments results from a lack of understanding of what the President had in mind. This may he the diplomatic way of looking at it, but the French are not an obtuse peaple and Mr. Coolidge made his meaning very clear. There no «uggestion in the American memoran dum that the preliminary confer 1t Geneva, under auspices of League of Nations, should be aban doned. On the contrary, plicitly proposed that the five nations which signed the Washington naval treaty should empower their repre sentatives at this preliminary confer- ence, while participating in its gen- Plan. Secretary polite was the selves for an agreement extending the Washington limitations to cruisers and other light naval craft. A reading of the French note leads to the conclu. | that there rather | than misunderstanding of this point. Aside from France's solicitude lest | the prestige of the League of Nations | should he impaired, which need not | he taken too seriously, there are two | items in the French reply which throw | light on the viewpoint of the Paris| zovernment. One is reiteration of the | well known French contention that | the question of limiting naval srm. | ments is inseparable from Hmiting armaments on land and in the air.| This is understandable in view of the | fact that aside from naval vesselx ¥France is preponderant in armaments | and she would be at a disadvantage | when it came to the game of tradin | the limitation of land and wir | forces, The other point, and an even more discouraging one, is & new doctrine that national tonnages in lighter ves. ( sels should he “en bloc™ instead of hy classes, with each nation privileged | to utilize its total tonnage allowance | for the types of vessels which it deem. | ed most suited to its needs. In other words, while Great Britain was build- | ing the cruisers necessary for the | protection of her overseas trade and colonial communicatiops, France couid | concentrate on submarines and be in | position In the event of war to put British shipping out of business. It | is not conceivable that Great Britain ever would agree to such a program. There is talk today of a four-power naval conference—the United States, Great Britain, Italy and Japan—to go ahead without French participation. | However, a dispatch from Rome states that Italy will follow the example of France and reject the Coolidge pro- posal. But even If this were not the Italian position it is dificult to see any chance of success from such an effort, for however the United States and Japan might feel about it, Great Brit- ain and Italy never would agree to cur- tail naval construction with France left free to build without limit. The French may not mean death to hope that naval armaments will be further | limited, hut it certainly makes that | hope one for the distant future. S sion was evasion to Some of the more superstitious peas- | ants in Italy may have suspected that the earthquake tremors were due to | the fact that Mussolini was putting | his foot down again. r——— A complicated piece of legislative | machinery may bring farm relief. And vet it may be so hard to start and so cumbersome to manage that it may prove little comfort, after all. — s Communism Waning Here. According to a survey conducted hy the Rand School of Social Science, in | New York, the results of which have | just been issued, on the wane in the United States. James Oneal, labor historian and editor, who conducted the survey and now writes | about it, declares that the Communist movement, which was #t its height | in 1919, with a membership of 35,000, | ix now at it lowest ebb, with between | 5000 and 7,000 members. | This ix Interesting, and some people who have been concerned lest may have been spread ing in the United States, it is reas suring. It is particularly interesting and to thoge who have been concerned it is particularly reassuring, of the fact that the institution through | which the survey was made has itself | been regarded as more or less favora- ble to radicalism. This belief may be unjustified, but there have been times when the Rand School has strongly suspected of a sympathetic concern for the spread of pernicious doctrines in this country. If there are no more than 7,000 or- ganized Communists in the United States, the movement cannot he re Communism is to Communism in view been and eami-public In the general public buildirgs law enacted structures, garded as a serious menace to Ameri can institutions. Even with the max- t voffr there 1z a clause which for- imum membership of 35,000 it could ' tive to to | ” | progress among the children of the it was ex-| eral work, to negotiate among them-| * [ EE T | e |its present pace, sometimes pauses in astonishment are to be found not in | the tombs, but in our own skyacrapers. castic hints that the efforts of many of our present civilization, terest in saving life. [to prevent * immortal distinction. still becomes strong that court procedure much idle gossip, in good pugilistic order. | things | filled in with jaz not be rated as a positive danger un- less it was growing. The contrary ap- { pears to he true. The movement has [ 108t in strength. This is probably due to the steadfast opposition of organ- | ed labor, particularly the American | Federation of Lahor. to the holshevik | | principles that the Communist groups | have underiaken to fmplant here. A most interesting story is told in connection with the research into the {condition of the Communist party illnfl country. 1t reads like tales of the {ota in Russia, when and counter.espionage prevailed. It A< that, in 19 the “nnder {around Communist movement select- led ax an American representative at in meeting of the Third Inter I nationale in Amsterdam one Joseph oxovitaky, who later proved to he a secret agent of the Uniied States Gov- arnment of Scotiand Yard. A | second delegate chosen for the mission Fraina, secretary of the American Communist party, who sail- ied for Europe with a false passport after he had heen secretly tried by Ludwig €. A, K. Martens, who was known as the “Soviet ambassador” to | | the United States. Fraina was accused {0f heing in the pay of the Department {of Justice, but was acaulited on evi {dence furnished by Nosovitsky, who acted as his counsel. A year or two later Fraina. who had heen [the most conspicuous organizers of | American Communism, left Moscow with money for use in propaganda {and dropped out of sight. It is be lieved that he ix now in Mexico and | American Communists are uncertain | whether he is a traitor to the cause | in! days espionage | Ap ) secret i Il | and was Lonis € one of t | i for not. It be that |1 may | nists in this country there are Commu who are not en- rolled as members of a or a i group. Perhaps there are more than 25,000 of them. But there is no reason to believe they are increasing in num | bers unless the propaganda that is in party 1 certain industrial | is making a in country working people centers of this |new generation of potential radicals. | At all events, this latest summary | of the situation ix measurahly encour- laging. Yet, while it should allay fears | |on the score of the spread of the rad lical poison in American life, it should slackening of efforts is evil altogether. r——— to stamp out thi Buried cities and ancient mauso- leums never reveal a radio set, or & phonograph, or & telephone or even a telegraph key. Interesting as the deco- rations are, and beautiful as the re- covered jewels may be, the real mar- vels hefore which the world, even at i | e Reports that Henry Ford is bored by his money may be somewhat sar- hostile financiers to make his exper ences particularly interesting have been ineffectual. When a twelve-vear-old boy turns gunman the infant prodigy asserts himself on new linex well worth watch- ing in the swift and complicated rush Insurance experts display great in- Those who seek nother war” will, it suc- cesaful, contribute to this cause with R Aimee McPherson finds her public Joyal. The popular impression has heen the means of circulating o Some of the gentlemen in Congress should be persuaded to agree on a referee, and conduct their encounters B SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Pet Germ. O tiny germ, 1 ask anew Why people make a pet of With each condition that we meet Designed to bring you joy complete, You revel in the atmosphere; When damp and cloudy da near And ‘mongst the musicloving throng You float ahout on every song. So far your perfidy extends, To foes you turn eur cherished friends And travel fast and far at will Upon a good oid doliar bill. Your total score reveals the fdct You never did a kindly act— Yet nearly everything we do Seems meant to make & pet of you! draw Clawsics Not Needed. When vou went to school did you Greek?"” said Senator Norghum. “arly in life I decided on a political career and 1 observed that English is all the language any one needs to say that are hard for others to understand.” study ent and Inertia, ment house they suy Annoyance very seidom sieeps. The rent keeps going up each day, The elevator stops for keeps, | Jud Tunkins says people who pro- test that they | the old* songs usually want “Swanee River” ahout once a week with the rest of the time Perils of Lelsure, “Dolan,” said Mr. Rafferty, “what would vou think of a four-day wor in’ week 2" “I dunno. With all that extra time off for debatin’ and recreation I'm wonderin’ whether 1 mightn't risk los- in’ me temper an’ spoll the peace an’ quietude 1'd be supposed to enjoy.” Uses of Advertising. Though rumors rough are not en- Jjoyed, They show results surprising; And gossip, skillfully employed, May prove great advertising! “A man dat always tells de truth, sald Uncle Ehen, “deserves to be ad- mired unleas he gits too fool talka- S W fanew every day,” i with saying. | eternal |parting fr and the friendship is over ter of xad fact, it does not take even | ia {dling 1 |par th even [versities and colleges is not much het- ter. {life men, ; whom for. | sec solved, x{.-am than one can find in the light | ol ! necessarily. {best friend is in another br thing eternal certainly is a beautiful {one. famous friendships make up the en- tire list. many & quarrel they would have had, as personal gain, or the urge to power, {drew them tarther and farther apart |auired always sensed | deed- self a friend.” must work to hold the place he has {won in the affection of a friend. { ment is to indulge in rum running, hi- ‘FEBRUARY 16, 1927 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D C! WEDNESDAY, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES F. “A cat's friendship must be won some one ix credited Is that not human heings, too? Despite our fine friendship. observatiol more or less true of protestations i= it not common that quarrels are forever nds simple of Such a a word-- | Af A mat- | thing word from efther party. the med- | nterference of the famous third Y is often enongh fe said so and so ahout you,” he said that vou - so it goes in all walks of life. The friendships of children are notoriously uncertain, | uarreling one moment, “making up” next he life of high school atudents and of undergraduates in our uni-| Here the complexity introduces & whole ‘friends” and “enemies."” One joins a Greek letter and swears eternal of student new list of fraternity, friendship to 20 of whom he likes, 5 mare of he is extremely doubtful, and 10 whom he knows he will never care To know a trick handclasp and the el meaning of letters which, once do not stand for anything duy these things, whi i '3 hile filling sphere, do not mean friendship, As likely as not vour herhood! * ook ok The idea that friendship is some Vet it n practice Damon and has always been so rare | that David and Jonathan, Pythias and a few such Perhaps if David and Jonathan had both lived (o’ become old together The idea that friendship is a force n itself is in a sense an unfortunate one, since it tends to make men be- leve that nothing partfcular is re on their part. Mankind has th hence we have the practical maxim, “A friend in need is a friend indeed,” or ‘in either way makes high good sense. “'He who ig a friend must show him- In other words, he It Will not do to rest on the assumption that friendship is an eternal bond, never to be broken. It is very easily hroken, ax every one knows. It can be broken by lack of action, on your part, as easily as by w false or untrue action. Te pro- | test friendship and never- show it makes a mockery of a wonderful re- lationship. Surely the common ground of friendship is similarity of pursuits. Thus children ordinarily begin to make friends when they go to school, schogl being the business of each and all of them, = Those in the same “set” are friends | because they have the same topics of conversation, etc. In business one commonly has most of his friends in his own business, the similarity of in- | thei | there will have to be some . TRACEWELL.. terest cementing the honds of friend. hip. Try as hard as one may, when a friend takes up another line of work, and one does not see him for a good while, he finde him difficult to talk to. The old “lingo” that never failed fails now: the zood old jokes have lost “relish. jendship must he worked for RN Lend vour friend mone want to test his friendship. Or, rather, if you really value his friendship. do not lend him a cent If you are inclined to be sentimental about human nature and friendship. contrive to do anything but lend him it you is s the strangest thing in the world, that the sure way o get 2 man on the “outs” with you is to henefit him by the loan of a sum of money. There are few friendships that will stand thix crucial test. At first it is difficult to believe it. How can the helping another make him less a friend? Here out: If loaning is the way the thing works vou lean him money, vou are to a man-and all men are alike when it comes to borrowed money. Once let a man get his clutches on money he has not worked for, somehow he feels that It helongs to him, and when it comes to paving it back he Honestly feels that he is simply giving away money which he now undoubtedly has worked for, If to this innate feeling is added | the intent not to pay the money hac | or only enough xuffer. one xo? Well. then, suppose a (rue friend intends to pay it back. He is Just ax honest as vourself! Granted. The Kink in human natures that causes the difficulty lies in the sense of pride of every human being. To be one of a pair, each one of whom has pre- viously regarded the othe: as on a perfect level--so frierdship works and then suddenly to place yourself in a slightly Inferior position by hegging for a loan——that ix when human na- ture suffers. Both friends are put in curious psychological positida, and eal mis- work put in here if the friend- high it made (o do so, It is easy to see where friend hip vill But no real friend would treat stonary ship is to be held to itx former standard. ok oKk Real friendship—we speak not of the backslapping sort—is like the cat’s friendship, It must be won anew every day. Friendship is not a marble statue, » be created and then left standing. He who thinks it is may come back some day and discover thit some wag has toppled it over into the dust. Yet how many persons do you know who claim to be frienis, but who never exert themselves one particu- lar to show themselves so, or go out, of their way so much as a block 1o be friendly? In certain moods one nlmost forced to believe that the fine cld art of friendship is zoing out, long with certain other zracefu’ customs which had a charm all their cwn. 3 He who would be a friend must show himself a friend. and he must do it every day, nor bank too much on that good deed done xome yeurs «go. “Undercover” Men Engaged In Entrapment Hit by Press “Undercover men” connected with the liquor law enforcement branch of the Government who were found to have heen officially engaged in boot- legging operations have heen subjected to denunciation of a vigorous nature in the newspapers, although their oc- casional defenders are equally positive. In general, the attitude of the critics | is that the Government should not encourage law violations in the in- terest of entorcement, and should not resort to “‘entrapment.” is not good practice,” in the opinion of the Buffalo Kvening News, “for prohibition agents to open A ‘speakeasy,’ sell out to a customer and then raid him. Nor is it good practice tor prohibition agents to indulge in wi ping. The law frowns on such practices, and, so far as the statute books show, the law applies to prohi- bition agents as well as to other citi- #ens. Besides, who is going to claim the profits when prohibition agents run ‘speakeasies’?’ The Hunting- ton Advertiser takes the same posi- tion and adds that “these Govern- ment agents, in charge of speukeasies, are nothing more than common law- breakers, and deserve to he dealt with as the courtx and prosecutors would deal with the ordinary whisky vender.” ‘Some regular dime novel stuff, ap- pealing particularly to readers of ‘Nick Carter’ and ‘Old Sleuth,’ should de- velop,” suggests the Loulsville Times. “Rut the public will wonder as to the value of identifying Government serv- ants with lawbreakers.” The Times raises the question: “If the Govern- jacking, moonshining, bootlegging, why should it not identify itselt with coun- terfeiters and ‘make’ enough money to pay the expenses of its lawbreak- ing department?” That paper is con- vinced that the Government ‘“needs the services of persons decidedly un- willing to be identified as proprietors of speakeasies operated at a lows by the Government.” PR 1t was by accident that the truth came out,” says the New York Waorld; “it has been most embarrassing. Ev- erybody in authority now feels con- strained to deplove such ‘illegal prac tices' and to protest that they are neither necessary nor desirable; but heartily favor the use of secret ce funds and methods and under- ver agents—a svstem that has di rectly ' contributed to these illegal practices.” The 1x Falls Argus- Leader holds that “the best interesis of prohibition can never be served b employing parasites of this type, that paper argues: “It will seem to most people that there are pleniy of actual hootleggers operating to keep prohibition officers husy, without its becoming necessary to ‘frame’ people into violations. The men who do thix ‘framing’ do not have the interests of prohibition enforcement at heart. All they care about is the pay (sup- plemented by liberal ‘expenses’s which they get for causing the law to be violated.” “he almost solid objection to them on the part of everybody was," accord- ing to the Worcester Gazette, “not that they were engaged in anti-rum activities, but that they were engaged in these activities in a most objec- tionable and un-American way.” Ex- plaining this point of view, the James- town Journal remarks: “One of the most consplcuous Instances of un- dercover work was afforded many vears ago, when the Mollle Maguires created a relgn of terror in the coal region of Pennsylvania. A detective wormed himself into their confidence, participated in their plans to murder those who had incurred their enmity, and eventually secured evidence vhich broke up the organization and assured the punishment of the ring- leade This detective, however, did not_participate in any of the crimes. In fact, he blocked contemplated mur-. der: ““The entrapment policy,” asserts Yakima Daily Republic, “has been. condemned as viclous and demoruli ing, even by the prohibition investiga- tor 'who operated the New York speak- easy. For such tactics there is no defense in law or morals.” The Dan- ville Register feels that the Govern ment “made a false step.’ and the Racine Journel-News expresses the hope that “the scandalous practices will cease.” The Columbus Ohlo State Journal contends that ‘“experience. as well as common sense, shows that the prohibition cause cannot be strengthened by resort to means which offend straightforward, fair- minded and disinterested people. ok ox ok Secretary Andrews tells the Sen- ate.” as quoted by the New Orleans Tribune, “‘that undercover Federal prohibition agents are forbidden to entrap citizens deliberately. He says that they are employed chiefly in de- tecting smuggling along the Canadian border. He adds that Government- operated ‘speakeasies’ were used to obtain_information on large bootleg- Bing rings, but have been discon- tinued. Remember the sad story of the Orleans motorist who saw a man lying by the road, apparently injured, gave him a drink from a flask to re. vive him, and was promptly arrested by the ‘injured man,” who was a pro- hibition agen In support of the undercover prac- tices, the Richmond Times-Dispatch bes them as “merely a variation ) n State, municipal and rural policeman in the world, who is worth his salt as a policeman.” v makes the has accused detectives of committing murder or robbing homes, banks or men, or otherwise deliherately violat- Ing the criminal law, as a means of gelting evidence against the worst types of lawbreakers. ¢ * * * Neither the prohibition law nor any other law Is sacred enough to justify agents provocateur in the United States.” The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch sup- borts the News with the statement We cannot believe that such® methods are necessary for the enforeement of any law. they are, such a law should not remain on the statute books." Yet the' Philadelphia Evening Bul- letin points out that “'a detective does not treat a criminal as he would a law-ablding fellow gentleman. ‘Spotter evidence’ has been the point of at- tack for the opponents of liquor law enforcement ever since there were 1aws for the restraint of the liquor traffic, and that antedates Federal prohibition by scores of years. But there Is no reason,” continues the Bulletin. “why the detective work ne essary. for the enforcement of the pro- hibition law should nqt have resort to every means that Is consideyed legitimate in such aid to the enfor ment of any criminal law on the books, he New Bedford Standard, taking a mm position, cites the Ae of a trooper in the Pennaylvania constabulary who, “in an effort te solve a dlamond robbery, joined = s&ng of bandite," then rned of a plan 10 rob a bank and helped to v It out.” The Standard says he took part in the planning of a crime With a view to clinching the case against thé criminals—did, In short, the things that make the wets fly into a rage when they are done to a rum- runner, ana we have no doubt that he will be heartily commended for his success 1r R Co-operation Available. From the Terre Haute Star. . Other States might be willing to help Texas get its prisons filled up again, e The Big Incen From the Rachester Times-Union. An to the great migrations, perhaps the fit were trying g get away from, Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. | 1 1 ! How strong a hold has the McNary-| Haugen farm velief bill, with its| equalization principle, on the affec-| tions and imagination of the ru voters of the country” No one know exactly. Certain farm organizations | are back of it. That is ahout all that s certain. Rut, unless all signs | fail. the country will be given a dem-| onstration in the 1928 national and! congressional campaigns which will show whether this measure—or, to put it _more generally. the agricultural auestion—has any real political wig- nificance. The wheels are all greased | o put the farm bill through the House and send it to the President. Right there, say those who should know, the | bl will strike a snag. It will be vetoed. and it is well understood that it_cannot pass over the President's veto. The bill. then, is going to fail. Some of its opponents, probably the ma jority of them. look for the agitation for this particular measure to die out. There are those from the Middle Weat. however. who believe that its fallure now will have no little effect | on the elections next vear. linless there is a real agrarian revolt, this does not seem likely. oo o Are the Republican protectionists, who hold up their hands in holy hor- ! ror at the so-called economic iniquities | of the McNary-Haugen bill, merely hypocritical? Senator Reed of Mis- | jsourt. Democrat, and an opponent of the McNary hill, says they are. He contends that it is idle for any one | i who supports the protective tariff to throw mud at the MeNary : that the protective tariff interferes with the law of supply and demand ! to an extent even greater than the pro.| posed McNary bill. Senator Reed, at least, is consistent. He is oppos the protective tariff and the farnd re- lief bill. | Mellon, the “old man™ of Treasury, has come forward at| the time of the final engagement in | Congress over the McNary-Haugen bill with a blast intended to blow it out | of the water. He did the same thing | a year ago, and the bill was defeated | then. He may change a few votes now. But, for one reason or another, the majority of the House is now ex- pected to vote for the’passage of the bill. Some of them because they be- lleve the President will veto the bill and it will get him into trouble; others hecause they helieve the President will veto the bill and they may make them. | selves solld with the farm voters in their districts and still not have the measure on the statute hooks. Still others will vote the bill because I they really helieve in it, and the prin- clple it contains, * ox ok % Within the week Lincoln's birthday | has been celebrated in many parts of the country. Representative Wil | Wood of Indiana. chairman of the Re- publican national congressional com- mittee, in an address before a Repub- lican club in Passale, N. J., undertook to draw from the life of Abraham Lin- coln some wholesome political pre- cepts. Lincoln, he said, was a party man and believed in party rule in the Government of the United States. He warned againat “blocs '—though they were not called blocs in those days. Lincoln, he insisted, would not have taken much stock in the initiative, referendum and recall. or in the direct primary. Mr. Wood holds the last ible In part for the growth of ** He quoted Lincoln's first speech, when, In 1832, at the | age of 23, he ran for election to the Niinois Legislature. Lincoln said: llow citizens, 1 presume you all | know who I am. I am humble Abra- | ham Lincoln. I have been solicited hy many friends to hecome a candidate for the Legislature. My politica are short and sweet. I am in favor of a national bank. 1 am in favor of the | internal improvement system and a ! high protective tariff. If elected. 1 shall be thankful: if not, it will be all the same." This Lincoln address is quoted not because it is new, but because it might be copled with advantage by some of the latter-day politicians. Some poli- tics today are neither sweet nor short. X ok X The so-called “third-time issue raised by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, in connection with the possible candidacy of Preaident Coolidge in 1928, has faii- ed to turn the country upside down. In the first place, the country is by no means convinced that President Cool- idge. if elected for another four vears in 1928, can be justly sald to have a third term. In the second place, Mr Coolidge is regarded by the people gen- erally as a safe, sound and at the same time frm Chief Executive, but ! not as a “man on horseback.” They do not visualize him in the role of a dictator, selzing power which does not properly belong to him. An effort has heen made to stir up the third-term matter in Congress. and a resolution has been offered in the House by Representative Beck of Wisconsin which would put that body on record as opposing _the re-election of the President. But so far it has not “‘caught on.” One Democratic Renator hax considered offering a similar reso- Tution in the upper house. Rut many of his colleagnes thought it bad poli- ties. At any rate, the resolution has | not yet been forthcoming. L R N Many Vice Preeidents have had presidential aspirations. and some of them have become President. In nearly every case, however, the Vice Preeident who has attained the presi- dency has done %o through the death of the Preeident. This is true in the case of Coolidge. Roosevelt, -Arthur and on back to the days of Van Buren, who was elected Prosident after he had occupied the office of Vice President. Vice President Charles G. es has been a more colorful Vice President than man: who have gone before him. . He began his service with a violent attack on the rules of the Senate. He has espoused the cause of the McNar) ugen farm bill, although his chief has been opposed to it—or I8 reputed to have opposed it. At the same time that the Vice President, who hails from Illinols. has been making him- self solid with many of the farmers, he has lost few friends among the bankers. He Is himself one of the big bankers of the country—or was before he entered office. He is the author of the Dawes plan. He has triends smong the industrialists of the Fast. If President Coolidge is not a candidate to succeed himself Gen. Dawes may vet loom large on the horizon in 1928, * ook % Senator Pat Harrison of Missis- sippi fathered a proposal for an in surance system to aid the farmers in handling their crops, which was in- cluded in the McNary bill as it passed the Senate. He believes that it is far more workable than the equaliza- tion fee and that while he designed it particularly to apply to cotton, it can apply equally well to other crops. Senator McNary, author of the farm bill on the Senate side of the*Capitol, accepted Senator Harrison's insurance plan and on his motion it was Insert od in the bill. Senator Harrison be- lieved that it should be substituted for the equalization fee. But to that proposal, or even to the postponement of the operation of the equalization tee for a or two, Senator McNar and other’advocates of the measure would notiagree. So in the end Sen- qur Haur! voted nuhnthen:ltr ary b arty lines were - ] in the vots-on In-that speech l Lorder of the Grand Encampment | hibition forces has granted permission ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. What is the plural form of the name of the organization commeonly known as “the Knight Templar'> Is there an “s” on the first word only, or on hoth parts of the name> Did | this organization pass a resolution stating that the plural form of th name should he “Knights Templar A, The Grand Commandery of the Knights Templar says that the plural form of the name of the organiza- tion known as “Knights Templar" is “Knights Templar,” an “=" on the first word oniv. © The organization, by o of the United passed a reso- that the plural hall be “Knights k. Knights States Templar of Ameri lution to the effect form of the name Templar.” Q. urali 192 A How many allens were nat- | d in_the United States during | E RS K | The naturalization records for | the fiscal year 1925 are as follow Declarations (first papers), 277.218; certificates (second papers granted), 1524 Q. Will you please tell me if each awimmer that entered the Catalina | Channel swim had a hoat to con- voy them. or did one boat look out | for several swimme A in the Catalina we are informed that had a separate hoat him. Q S Channel swim each swimmer to accompany When apd whe did th e ““reat 'em rough" originate?— .M. W, A. During the war. It was origi- nally the slogan of the United States Tank Corps, Q. Please tell me how to remove | from the top of a dining room table | white spots caused by placing hot | dishes_there A. In order to remove the white staing from a dining room table, rub | with a cloth moistened with cam- | phorated ofl. | Q. In what vear was the survey of the coastal waters of the United | States begun? { A. The recor United | States Coast and Geodetic Survey show that an act authorizing such a survey was approved by Congress on February 10, 1807, but that actual field work was not started until 1316, when a survey of the bay and harbor of New.York was hegun. | Q. I it permissible, under the Fed- eral prohibition laws, for Jews to im- port wine to be used for religious purposes’—G. A. J A. The Federal branch of the pro- import from Palestine kosher wine | sacramental purposes. This may he distributed to members of various congregations _through recognized rabbis. The United States custom house bonded warehouse in New York has a stock of Palestine kosher wine for this purpese. All wines must be | obtained by a rabbi. direct from the | wine manufacturer or importer. Each | rabbi may procure not more than 1 !(uHm\ per vear for each adult mem- 1 ber of his congregation. Q. Where have the international ski | tournaments been held for the last | three years?—M. T. J. A. International ski tournaments have been held for the past three vears at St. Moritz, Switzerland. Q. What was the record drive of “Cannon Ball Baker” when he drove from_Sioux City, lowa, to Mobile, Towa? o3 A Cannon Ball Baker drove from Sioux Ci | that Towa, to Mobile, Towa. dnd | ?;lflmu and 2% seconds in the year Q. What is meant by the “unequal treaties” in reference to China D. M. 0. A. These are treaties which grant rights without reciprocity. Q. Several days ago 1 read in a pa per that in Central Africa there grows A tree that draws and crushes anv ene accidentally touehing it. Can vou tell me anything of this>—A. E. G. A. Tt is possible that you have refer ence to the man-eating tree of Mada gascar. whick is described by Chase Osborne. former Governor of Mich igan. in his book on Madagascar. Al though he states that he has never seen this tree, the patives helieve in its existence and other travelers claim to have seen it. Thix tree ix somawhat imilar to a pineappl normous and contains an amber liquid which when drunk affects the brain of the individual. The natives are ac customed to sacrifice Individuals to the tree. Q. How many miles of railroad has Argentina’—R. A. R. A. The Argentine railvoad _system includes 23,560 miles. Most of these n be considered as trunk or main ines. Q. What watt electric light gives the same amount of light ax a 300 candlepower gasoline lamp?—M. 6. A. The Bureau of Standards smys a 200-watt electric lamp is ap proximately a 300.candlepower lamp. Q. Do many ng men nowadays study to become veterinariana?—R. M A. The Bureau of Animal Industry says that the number of veterinary colleges and the number of applicants for Federal v nary positions h: fallen off in recent years: the total enroliment of students in the 13 ac credited veterinary colleges in the United States and the one in Canada was only 582 t vear: that the num ber of students who completed the re quired four-year course and were graduated from the various collegen in 1926 was only 132, or 11 less than the number in 1925, and the combined freshman enroliment in all the vet. erinary colleges in 1926 was only twe §l’r‘or than the total enroliment in Q. Who was the V in 1621”—A. R. C. A. The Viceroy of Mexico in 1621 was Don Diego Carrillo Mendoza, Marques de Gelves. - ceroy of Mezleo Q. How long did it take a vessel to come from London to Quebec in 18127—A. T. P. A. The transatlantic vevage from London to Quebec in 1812 consumed approximately three weeks, depend- ing upon weather conditions. Sailing ships were in use at this period. Six miles an hour was considered a good average speed for these vessels on long voyages: nine miles was excellent time. The fastest trip made across the Atlantic by a clipper ship was 12 days. Find out whatever you want to know. There is no reom for igna- rance in this busy world. The persom who loses out is the one who gueases, The person 1ho gets on is always the one who acts upen reliable. informa- tion. This paper employs Frederic J. Haskin to comduct san information bureau in Washington for the. free use of the public. There is ne charge except ® cents in stamps for return postage. Write to him today for any facts you desire. Address The Evening Star Information Rureau, rederic J. Haskin, Director, Washs back, a distance of 33.4 miles, in 36 President Coolidge’s attitude toward naval powers reluctant to confer with the United States on further limita- tion of armament hegins to look as if he were determined and content to place the United States on record, and let it go at that. If in advance of a conference, or at a conference, agre ment seems imposaible, this country will at least have done its level best to banish the specter of ruinous and ominous competition in sea defenses. There's considerable undercover spec- ulation as to the strategy that led up to Mr. Coolldge's recent, proposal. Some authorities suggest that he acted without the usual diplomatic soundings abroad because the Presi- dent intended merely to bring pres- sure to bear on Congress at an hour when House and Senate are dead- locked in conference over the cruiser program. A cynical thought finding expression is that the White House moved, with accystomed celerity, to divert public attention from the third- term talk which erupted ahout the same moment. Mr. Coolidge is no mean tactician when the slinga and arrows of outrageous politics are coming his way. Last November within 24 hours after the congres slonal elections pere causing the comment that the administration had heen “rebuked,” the President hacked that news off the front pages with a proposal for a rebate in taxes. * % % Prospective demands that a bigger American Navy should be Uncle Sam's reply. if Europe and Asia refuse to talk limitation, recall the famous dog- gerel rampant 50 vears ago, when war between Great Britain and Russia was threatened. The verse typified the Lion's capacity and readiness to make things warm for the Bear if the Rus- sians Insisted upon looking for trouble. It ran like this: We don't want to fight, But, by Jingo! if we do, W, e got the men, We've got the ships, And we’ve got the money, too! Fver afterward, throunghout the world, the word “jingo” became a synonym for a blustering superpatriot with a penchant for saber-rattling. o ox % Latterly a good many complaints have heen reaching the Post Office De- partment ‘about the alleged lack of sufficient mucilage on postage stamps. Now and then some kicker suggests that the Coolidge economy program may be to blame for their poor stick- ing qualities. Robert S. Regar, Third tant Postmaster Generai, who charge of the production at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the 20,000,000,000 stamps a year made there, declares they are well and truly gummed. The other day a big Chifago concern remonstrated aboug undergummed stamps. Mr. Regar rushed inspectors out there and found that the trouble was not with the stamps, but with the process by which they were applied. The Third Assist. ant Postmaster General personifies the’| possibilities of the United States Civil Service. He began as a stenographer in the postal organization, rose to the post of its chief personnel officer, was then promoted te be chief clerk, and the passage of tha farm bill that it would be dificult to say to which party helongs the credit for ita pas- sage. But as the majority party in | Congresa is held almost invariabl sponsible for legis's gn, so the Re- vublicans are Ilkely” to obtain the fl:flttnm porters of farm. re- | g mgton, D. C. WASHINGTON OBSERVATION BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Y 0 attained his executive rank. s Senator Borah was indulging fn one of his morning constitutionals on horseback in Rock Creek Park not long ago, when a lady who had lost her bearings approached him and asked the out. “The Idahoan. hat- less and in plainsman's kit, as is his habit. said he wasn't sure; but thought—pointing to a path 50 vards away—that if the lady went in that direction she’d eventually reach the open spaces. ‘““Aren’'t you sure that's " she persisted. ) present ; ‘Well, aren't yeu a guide?”” The chairman of the Senate committee on foreign relations rejoined, ““There are some- persons who don’t seem to think so. * o ox % A Washington colored high schoal boy has achieved the distinction of smployment as an extra cloakroom at- tendant at White House receptions. He first functioned in that capacity at one of the recent parties which the President and the First Lady gav “Weren't vou awfully proud?” the lad was asked. “T should think T was.™ he replied. “I checked the coat and hat of Walter Johnson!" o ow Gifford Pinchot. militant statesman out of a joh. wil make his pest.gu bernatorial oratorical debut in Wash ington on February 21. That avenink he is to address the cultured Cosmor Club and its guests on the thrilling subject of .‘“Pennsylvania Politics. ‘The former Governor of the Keystone Commonwealth is living at the Na tional Capital in the massive mansion on Rhode Island avenue that was built by his parents many vears ago and in which “the .Forester” spent many of his younger vears. It dis- tinguishing interior feature is a high ceiling library plled with books on =helves that range around all of its spacious sides. It is the den in which Pinchot is planning his campaign against “the interests”” which he he- lieves are In league to throttle prohi- bition and the people’'s rights in nat ural resources. * ok ko While Congress is milling over radio control one of the Twin Citles-Mir neapolis-—has taken a practical lead in that direction. A few dayms age the city couneil of the flour mill metropolis enacted laws wherehy licensing and regulation of broadcast ing stations are henceforward to Fe by municipal ordinance. It i said o be the first legislation of its kind In the United States. All stations aper- ating within the city or within ¢ miles of the eity limits must keep thelr antenna output within 00 watts. Beyond the 4-mile limit “step rates” of power are provided, based on the distance from the city line. Programs are restricted to 12 eve ning hours of broadcasting a week for stations within the city or less than 2 miles from the city limits. There are no reetrictions of any kind beyond 2 miles. No two local s\ tions may be on the air simuitaneous- ly. The city building inspector is made the radio czar in Minneapolis. * ok ok ok A heartless Democrat deposes and says that the proposal to change the name of New Mexico to Coolidg: brings naught but cheer to the Demo- cratic party of that State. He recalls that in the presidential election of 1924 all four New Mexico counties | named after Rapublican Presidents Ldncoln, Grant. Roosevelt and Hard. Democratic by big ma- (Covyricht. 1927.)