Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1927, Page 3

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Call us up BYRON GSAAPBJ-\ PRINTING lN A HURRY it ot ik vriced. 11th St. N.W. an mysel 1i%o "Kotey casure at factory Stsw Tnterviewed by of all, let me say thi That while there probably never wasa more ill-advised, stupid, dumb and devastat- ing law put upon the statute books than the prohibi- tion law—a law which do2s not be- long in the Consti- tution and was put there by un- speakable methods —I do not blame the law for tho chaos society has fallen into. “I blame the hu- man beings whose guzzling instinct (1 can’t help using @ vulgar word,. for a vulgar practice) auses them to flout this law, to make beasts of themselves and to do nothing whatever about a danger- ous situation ve howl protests against the Government’s invasion of their ‘personal liber Thus Fannie Hurst, lovely lady and famous_novelist: Fannie Hurst, who cannot help “going up in the air” when she feels things deeply; Fannie Hu! stand against the wall and let v friends spear her with lances of disapproval, rather than pre- | tend a viewpoint she doesn't sincerely hold. I'm willing to be boiled in oil,” says Miss Fannie in that gorgeous ram- pageous way she has. flinging out shapely hands, and all but soaring off the sefa in emphasis, “but I do think there's a lot to be said for prohibition. “There are other laws, aren't there, that strike at personal liberty? Do people pay any attention to them? Look at the le ion that lets chil- dren work in places where they shouldn't work, doing terrible things that affect health, education, their | freedom, their future. Look at free speech: ngled! Look at men put behind bars because they had opinions and spoke them! “Hydrophobia,” She Say “Look at all these things! Who {cares? The Senate sleeps, or fuddles through. Laws against liberty, laws against women, laws against crimi- nals who are victims of poverty and neglect—laws, laws, laws everywhere which stifle and destroy! “Yet only when a law comes along that deprives us of sensuous pleasure do we raise all this hue and cry. Comes prohibition, and instantly we become highly vocal with resentment. Such awareness of oppression was never known before. We get hydro- phobia! “We resent the law in alcoholic orgies that leave us spent and inef- fectual. We run around in search of liquids with which to confound it. We befuddle ourselves with vicious con- coctions that we complain are forced upon us by a murderous statute. We hold wild wassail with an expenditure of energy that would reform the world if rightly used.” ‘We peeped—a small peep—the argu- ment about human nature craving what is forbidden. We chirped the suggestion that is made that a less drastic law might have been better. We mentioned the idea that is ad- vanced that human nature should not be expec: “Well, then it's a very terrible kind of hun’nn nature,” burst in Miss Fan- nie. It is a human nature that en- dures supinely other people’s suffer- ing and becomes a savage fury when itself is whacked across the head. Bray at Thwarted Appetite. “The . mighty minority,” continued our lady of letters, now hitting on all six, “does a definite thing. It enacts a law, maintains the law and fights its opponents. Its opponents use up their strength in merely braying— braying because their alcoholic appe- ;(tes are thwarted. Not so noble, that, s it?” ‘We reminded Miss Hurst of the wet argument that people could hardly be expected to leave their work and do battle with what they consider a mis- taken law. Miss Fannie would have none of it. “Why shouldn’t they be expected to? I expect human nature to be hu- man enough either to abide by the law and see what sort of race we could produce without the aid of alcohol, or to set about intelligently to deal with the law if it is unworkable, unwise and opposed to life, liberty and hap- piness. “What I do not expect people to do is say: ‘Now, since I don’t believe in this law I shall ignore it, find liquor to gratify my guzzling appetite, drink more than I ever did before, and if it plays havoc with' myself and my chil- dren. and their children, it's the law's fault’ Yet that is what they are doing.” In short, Miss Fannie thinks our own weakness and selfishness are to blame for any shortcomings prohibi- tion may have. Give It a Fair Trial. What are we made of? Can't we stand up under a test long enough to make sure of its results and then abol- ish or amend the law (if it should be abolished or amended) in sane fashion without all this ballyhoo? We go around lamenting the deca- dence of the younger generation. They drink, we say. They are immoral, we say. They have broken from control and heaven only knows what will hap- pen. Well, how in heaven's name, \Hss Fannie asks, could it be other- ? What example are we setting? Do we ahow any self-control? Do we show any high ideals or symptoms of courage and altruism? No! We make spectacles of our- selves, turning social parties into bac- | chanalian orgies, getting boozy and woozy and loose. Then we blame the youngsters for their naughtiness just as we blame prohibition for ours. Miss Fannie is not what in gran'- ma’s day was called a teetotaler. She would not start in horror at a cock- tail, and she smokes a cigarette. vet to see proof,” she cohol is beneficial and FANNIE HURST. hend the rage of those to whom it is | inspiration and solace. We have never seen a country continuously free from its use. It would be an interesting experiment to try. or humanity’s sale, let us either respect the law or do something about it—besides letting it make us boozy tools and weaklings! RITES FOR MAJ. WATTS. Precede Burial in Arlington. Funeral services for Maj. W. O. Watts, who died in New York Thurs- day, were conducted in Gawler's chap- | el, 1730 _Penn: nia_avenue, this | afternoon at 1 o'clock. Rev. A. A. Me. Callum. officiated. Interment was in | Arlington Cemetery. Maj. Watts was stationed here in the Quartermaster Department follow- | ing_the World War. Later he was | employed in the Department of Jus- | tice and the Veterans Bureau. He was 48 years old. S Chicago, although called the Windy I City, 1s actually not as windy as New | York, points out an answered ques- tion in the Liberty magazine. New Yo wind velocity, 17 miles an ceds Chicago’'s average of 15 miles an hour; and New York's highest wind velocity, 96 miles an hour, also exceeds Chicago's 84 miles an hour, (Copyright, 1027, by North American Newspaper Alliance. I depend on it too little to compre- | Special Services This Afternoon | 'THE EVENING Speaking of Prohibition Prominent Women Discuss the Nation’s Most Debated Topic. ZOE BECKLEY. All rights reserved.) “It seems to me,” said Alice Wil- liamson, novelist, over the teacups which one suspects she enlists daily to remind her of England, where she has lived. mostly since girlhood, though American-born, “that this in- teresting American dry law has turn- ed everybody Into naughty school children. They have the same spirit that makes little boys blow putty at teacher, and little girls draw carica- tures of teacher on their slates. “If I were completely a prohibi- tionist myself I might take it more seriously. As it is, I watch the fun from the sidelines and have learned a lot. I find that in the big cities, where people are a bit bored, and welcome anything that adds to the gavety of nations, they treat pro- hibition as a beautiful joke and a priceless topic of conversation. They simply wouldn’t think of having it re- pealed.” Alice Williamson, who, with her husband, has written more travel and adventure stories than probably any other author alive—of her age—com- mutes among New York, London, Hollywood, Algiers and points north- by-east, observing as she goes. And, although it is harder to make her drink cocktails than for a Hindu to kill flies, Mistress Alice regards with an indulgent eye conspiracies against Mr. Volstead. Raising the Morale. “I am for his dry law,” she gayly insists, “if only because it makes life so exciting—evading it, you know, and all that. The British are sin- cerely interested, and talk of it con- stantly. They want to know its work- ings, its origin, its results. They feel that if the United States has seen fit to pass this statute there must be reason behind it, and great benefits to the people. They weigh the pos- sibilities of its being adopted by Great Britain. Even Australia is sitting on the edge of its chair looking and listening for American results.” “And they are likely to try a sim- ilar law?" :“},\e vivacious little lady shook her “I'm afraid not, yet. It's the cli- mate, you see. With such dampness and darkness and penetrating chill, they've simply got to find some means of raising the morale. How appall- ing an English Winter, how devastat- ing a Scotch mist (mostly a continu- ous performance!) without something to raise the bodily temperature! “Americans are different from the English. The English just loathe be- ing told what they can't do, and Americans rather enjoy it. Just look what they put up with in the subways and traffic crushes. How meekly they take snubs from salespeople and ‘sass’ from policemen. It seems to me they conform good naturedly to almost any- thing. Mrs. Williamson Pokes Fun. “‘And they do so adore efficiency! Tell them a certain breakfast food produces pep, -and they eat tons of it. Show them a new system for pro- ducing energy and industry in an of- fice, and they install it the next in- stant. If the drys can ‘sell' the idea that teetotalism makes ‘mass pro- duction’ more possible, I'm sure they will win. At all events, as a subject of con- versation,” goes on our sprightly writer-lady, “prohibition 1is invalu- able. It annihilates time and space. As a scurce of funny stories, as a laugh-raiser on the stage, as a prob- lem for debate, it is supreme, Even as a starter of fights it is stimulating. “It is so enjoyed and fills such a long felt want that the weather as a subject of talk has been quite ob- scured. The damns and hells that formerly drew mirth in the theater have been supplanted by flasks and cocktail-shakers, while the least refer- ence to bootleggery and hi-jackery is a cue for wild applause. “I was so interested in the profes- America after prohibition that I got myself a bootlegger, and found him even more entertaining than I had expected. It seems he was also a gunman, and he told me in the most naive way of his adventures. He took pride in his inventiveness. The luggage holders at the back of his car were receptacles for liquids and other cases were stowed beneath the chinchilla laprobe which protected his lady companion. The Conventional Bootlegger. “He was most conventional, how- ever, in his ideals of femininity. Dis- approved of women smoking. Wouldn’t allow wife or daughter to taste any in- toxicant. And his moral exactions from women were of the strictest. It seemed never to occur to him his trade was questionable. He regarded him- self as a benefactor of humanity. “It ‘gave me to think,’ as uor French friends say, for they are inclined to scoff at a law which specifies what one ;lmll drink or eat or wear or privately 0.” “Do you think the law makes u§ more temperate?”’ “I don’t doubt it does in some places—where they don’t care much for drinking anyhow. In Kansas, Ne- braska, Oklahoma—all through the Middle West, I think it does really work. People are more law-abiding in quiet places than in New York or Chi- cago. And in the cities they adore the law as an excuse to be naughty. ‘Most people don't actually care for the stuff bootleggers sell, but as long as it doesn’t leave them permanently blind and paralyzed, they love to thumb their noses at authority. It thrills them—but I wonder”—— Mrs. Alice's blue eyes gazed afar off medita- tively—"if they won't tire of their joke after a few years, when some new source of fun comes along.” JAIL WORK TO BEGIN. Prince Georges Commissioners Ap- prove Contractor's Bond. Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., June 29. i —Bond of the contractors who will build the new Prince Georges County fail here was approved at the regu- lar weekly meeting of the Prince Georges County commissioners here yesterday. Work of razing the pres- ent jail and erecting the new struc- !ture will begin July 1. i All prisoners will be transferred to ithe Charles County jail at La Plata except Thomas (“Jelly’) Davis, who some time ago confessed to the slay- ing of Daniel Kuhne, aged farmer, at his home near Rosaryville, and who is being held on a charge of first- degree murder for action of the grand jury at the Oc!ober term of court. POLICEMAN QUIETS STEER. Former Cowboy Halts Animal’s Charge Through Streets. CHICAGO, Jyne 29 P).—Sergt. An- thony Hubert of the Chicago police used to he a cowboy, and his training stood him in good stead yesterday. Riding in a police car, he saw a steer escape from the stock yards and charge down the street, thronged with pedestrians. He stood on the running board of the car until it drew abreast and then made a flying leap to the steer's back and subdued it. - Wornout mafl pouches can be turned into fine-grade writing paper, |a @evernment experiment reveals, STAR, WASHINGTON, U..VIEW OF “DRY” GANADA ASSAILED Judge J. W. Thompson Tells W. C. T. U. Session of “Actual” Conditions. America’s popular understanding of the operation of the Canadian liquor laws were branded “entirely false and mistaken” by Judge J. W. Thompson, formerly of Indiana, now of Washing- ton, in an address today before the quarterly convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, at the Lincoln Road Methodist Episcopal Church, First and U streets north- cast. Directing his remarks particularly at Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and former Senator Wadsworth, Judge Thompson declared that the contention that Sunday is bone-dry in Canada is incorrect because for four hours on that day Canadian laws permit the sale of intoxicants in restaurants and other places in which meals are serv- ed. The idea that “the abominable treating system has been abolished,” was condemned by the speaker, who sald “the law itself says a man may buy liquor for himself and his guests at these places.” Substitute For Saloons. Judgs Thompson declared also that while it is claimed by the supporters of the present Canadian liquor laws that the saloon is no more, “taverns” in which liquor is sold to persons who drink at the tables rather than at the old-fashioned bar, have been substituted. These taverns, he said, often are operated on the same site as the old saloons and generally by the old saloon keepers themselves. At the convention the reports of the various officers were given and Mrs. H. E. Rogers, corresponding secretary, reported that 330 new mem- bers had been enlisted in the union since its April convention. Mrs. N. M. Pollock, president, presided as chairman and other reports were given by Mrs. George A. Ross, treas- urer; Mrs. Isabella W. Parks, chair- man of the auditing committee, and Mrs. Theresa A. Williams, president of the board of trustees; who gave also the report of Mrs. Eva C. Cris- well, treasurer of the board, was was absent. Welcome to Convention. Rev. Clarence H. Corkran, pastor of the Lincoln Road M. E. Church, welctined the convention. He paid tribute to women as incentives to better accomplishments and urged them to carry on with their work of enlarging the field of temperance and prohibition. Miss Irene Umberger in her re- sponse to the address of welcome urged more fervent work of the union and said, “We can agitate, we can legislate, but we can also co-op- erate with this good pastor in the work we have undertaken.” This afternoon, followi vention luncheon, the s: tinue, with young people telling of their work. Several musical numbers will be on the program, including Miss Vesta Pollock, pianist; Mrs. T. J. MacSpeiden, vocalist, and Master Richard Carlton Davis. The program committee Mrs. W. H. Howard, Mrs, & Wrightsman, Mrs. R. T. Stout, Miss Rebecca Rhoades and Mrs, Alvin Day. BRITAIN TO ACCEDE TO U. S. OPPOSITION ON REVISING PACT (Continued from First Page.) included compromise between the divergent British and American viewpoints. The conference began work today, through its technical committee, on the question of destroyer limitation, slon of bootlegging when I came to|With the question of cruisers, which the committee took up yesterday, In abeyance. The British proposal to the commit- tee that cruisers be divided into two classes, one of 10,000 tons, with 8- inch guns, and the other of 7,500 tons, with 6-inch guns, finds the American representatives non-committal, which Is interpreted as meaning they are un- favorably disposed toward it. The Japanese, though indicating they might be willing to reduce the num- ber and size of cruisers in years to come, manifested reluctance to de- scend from 8 to 6 inch guns. In the opinion of American experts, it will require at least two days to thrash out the cruiser problem to the satisfaction of the United States. Meanwhile the technical committee Wll!ndlscuss other forms of auxiliary cra TOKIO EXPECTS AGREEMENT. still Optimism Expressed Despite Di- vergence of Viewpoints. TOKIO, June 29 (#).—Notwithstand- ing the present apparent differing views of the three delegations at the Geneva naval limitation conference, there is general optimism here thatan agreement among the powers will finally be reached. The reaction to the conference of the vernacular news- papers and the public, however, has been .somewhat apathetic. Both the foreig noffice and the navy department have expressed hope and belief that the differences will be ironed out, although it is expected to require some time. The Navy Depart- ment has reiterated its sincere desire for an agreement on auxillary war vessels, the primary object of the con- ference, and has indicated willingness ta discuss capital ships as a conces- sion through which such an agree- ment could be reached sooner. Not Opposed to Discussion. One spokesman of the department said he did not object to the confer- ence discussing capital ships when the question of auxiliary war vessels was disposed of. It also is understood there would be no objection to re- ducing the tonnage of capital ships. Admiral Saito, head of the Japanese delegation at Geneva, is known to be constantly in communication with the navy department; therefore, it is con- sidered likely that new instructions may be forthcoming at any time. Held Not Harmful. Some of the vernacular newspapers give it as their view that a discussion of capital ships after an agreement is reached on :uxiliary ships would not be harmful and might assist in clear- ing up the situation for settlement at a future conference. The Chuo says editorlally that the British proposal to reopen the ques- tion of capital ships surprised Japan and America, and that America ob- jects with good reason. But, it adds, “the proposed limitation of tonnage and gun caliber, even if the age limit is rejected, will prove beneficial to America and Japan.” STEAMER IN GAY ATTIRE. Boat Decorated With Modern Art. NEW YORK, June 29 (#).—The Ile do France of the French Line is deco- rated throughout in the somewhat bi- zarre manner of modern art. Vincent Astor, who arrived on It yesterday, reported that he never did get quite French accustomed to & group of monkeys painted on the bathroom wall of his suite, above the tub, 1927 7. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2. ; THE ACE OF THE PACIFIC Part One By Col. W. Jefferson Davis. N the matter of defense, the first thing to do is to consider those, whose interests may conflict with ours as potential enemies. They may be our best friends, and vet when the clash does come, as clashes will, it is invariably between those whose interests conflict. In preparing for defense, the firsl consideration is the possible strength that the enemy may exert. America does not have to search long to find the yardstick which should be ap- plied. Our interests are wide flung and there is the usual chance for dis- agreement and friction between us and uny one of 10 nations. But there is one in particular whose interests are so diametrically opposed to those of America that, without the slightest disposition toward jingoism, we may and should heed and scrutinize her present and potential air strength. On the far side of the Pacific is a small but very powerful nation—a people who embody all the fatalism, the stoicism and almost the fanaticism of other Oriental nations, and yet with a reaction that is distinctive, quick and Occidental. India has deep hates and grave lassitude; China has ances- tor worship and local prejudices; the Turk, the Arablan and largely the Slav respond to new things merely with curses and hate; Japan, on_the other hand, leaps toward comprehen- sion of the new and races toward its accomplishment. Japan is A combined unit, a worshiper of their Emperor, of his ancestors, of the government’s traditions, and yet Japan is one of the quickest of all nations to seize the momentary advantage. Visit to Training Ship. A Japanese tralning ship was in San Diego harbor last Summer. The writer visited with the friendly and keen students on that ship. He asked one of them to see his text books on navigation and mathematics. They were all in English! Made that way purposely so they had to learn English. A skilled navigator on one of our own largest battleships ex- amined one of these text books and found it an exceedingly clever and comprehensive collection of the best from the texts of American, German and French works on the subject. It is said the Japanese are imitative. They are, but they are more than imi- tative. They are so skilled in gather- ing the most effective points of every practical argument that their ability and adaptation is almost genius. It is interesting to note Japanese reaction to new methods and new machines and new ideas during the last 30 or 40 years. Whereas most nations require generations to change their national policy, Japan appar- ently can swing her people into a new stride within half a decade. When the Wright brothers made the first successful flight in the air the world had ever known—only two years later the Japanese flew success- fully in his own country. Aviation Is Furthered. Up to 1914 Japan had had few opportunities of close observation of the new art of flying, but in June of 1914 a civilian air circus was held near Mount Fuji. It attracted wide attention and created a tremendous impression. Almost immediately the Imperial Aviation Association was or- ganized, which soon had a member- ship of 5,000, and raised a million and one-half to further aviation in Japan. In the next year an aviation corps of the Japanese army took part in the world combat, and successfully aided in capturing a German garrison with- out the loss of a single pllot or observer. During the years that fol- lowed, British aviators visited Japan and opened a school. American stunt fiyers stirred the populace with wonder and admiration. French and German pilots instructed army flyers. A mail route was established, and funds were appropriated to stimulate civilian in- terest in commercial aircraft. But the big interest in the stirring call to aviation reached Japan when the American round-the-world fiyers landed on the sacred island in May, 1924. The arrival of these flyers had been widely heralded. Permission had been asked of the Japanese govern- ment that they might land. At first the permission was diplomatically de- clined; later it was suggested by the imperial government that the planes be manned by Japanese aviators while flying over Japan, but finally permission was given to the aviators to land when and how they pleased. The news of the world was filled with the exploits of these daring airmen, and their coming was keenly awaited by all Japan. Significant Incidents. Two incidents of this flight which are very significant are mentioned by Kennedy Young in the Aero Digest, the first, showing Japan's military turn of mind: “These Yankee flyers came after long delays and heralded by the stories of their heroic exploits in crossing the Bering Sea in May, 1924. “They were welcomed much as the Norsemen of 1,000 years ago crossing the Atlantic might have been received if a modern American had awalited them. To the first little town on the main island where they were scheduled to land, the people came from miles about and the local gov- ernment officials prepared big feasts in their honor. The mayor of the town presented a testimonial to one of the American officers stationed there in advance of the flight, declar- ing that the people considered the arrival of the flyers tantamount to the advent of Commodore Perry to Japan in 1851 and asking that the town should be recommended by the air- men as the future air center of Japan. “Shortly after the planes had come to rest near the shore at the airport, one of a swarm of press photog- raphers that greeted the American aviators had the temerity to venture out in a boat and approached within a few hundred feet of one of the Yankee planes to focus his camera on it. He was detected by the Jap- anese officers, who were at that mo- ment talking to Iieut. Nelson on the pier. They motioned immediately to the police to throw the man into the sea, but to their great astonishment Nelson told them that he was per- fectly welcome to come as close as he wished. The officers had . simply taken it for granted that the Ameri- can plangs were to be kept secret. “‘Do you mean to say you would let us examine your machine?’ one of them asked. * ‘Certainly.’ said Nelson. “And shortly afterward the Japa- nese were clambering about the wings taking measurements of the planes. - ‘“‘ ‘Here,” said Lieut. Nelson, “you don’t need to go to all that trouble. I'll give you a blueprint of the plane containing all its dimensions.” And he did, to their further amazement. “Since then the Japanese have drop- ped a number of their restrictions de- signed to keep their military prepara- tions secret. They had learned. a great deal in this regard even before the fiyers arrived.” Responsiveness Shown. The second, having to do with the same perception, indicates the Jap- anese quick responsiveness to ex- ample: “Five weary men, American and Japanese officers, drenched with rain and tired of straining their syes throu(h a gray pall of clouds, were Everyth ruclngu tor thelr eonlnx"m weather, superhuman naon. ":!.l mlg“ ks mldn!torln.'d it yellow buoys been towed ouf anchpred in the bay. The dest 1’° w3s nearby with drums e for pluul- A W r Semple McPherson, of Japanese newspaper men waited to flash the story. ‘“About it all was a typical color- print version of a small Japanese coast town. Mountains tumbling into the sea straddied by grotesque, dwarfed evergreens: a complete tea-set group of toylike houses among the rocks; a pebbly heach. Ashen, dripping skies curtained in this corner of the coast. The name of the place was Kushi- moto, and, like many another isolated station on the world flight, it was on the front pages of the home papers for a few days and then forgotten by every one except its 300 inhabitants. Tt seemed picturesque, perhaps. to the two or three tourists who had walked over the mountains from the raliway 50 miles inland, but not to the men who waited on the beach that rainy June day when the flyers were mak- ing the hop down the coast from' Kasumigaura, the naval airport of Tokio. “They were to stop overnight at this desolate spot and refuel for the next dash to the southeastern tip of Japan. "?‘Thoy can't possibly fly today., said one of the Japanese. Two planes which had been planning to come up from Osaka had been prevented by the treacherous weather. But They Did Come. “But they did come, popping sud- denly out of the leaden sky seaward. the sound of their motors drowned by the storm. Unerringly they had hit the designated rendezvous after a flight down an irregular coastline, with poor visibility all the way and rain during the last hundred miles. The three ships twice circled around the edge of the bay, then alighted singly, plowing up a great curtain of spray. After a tussle to prevent them from being driven on the beach, they were moored safely in the most sheltered part of the bay. It amazed the Japanese naval officers. To the ‘American flyers, who had conquered a dozen greater dangers in crossing the Bering Sea a few weeks earlier, it was only another obstacle overcome; to the Japanese airmen, who had believed such an attempt fatal under such con- ditions, it was a miracle. “But just a year after the Amerl- can world flight reached Kushimoto, June 2, 1924, one of the Japanese offi- cers who had been so amazed per- formed a similar feat himselt when he led a non-stop flight of two imperial navy planes from Tokio to Hokkaido, about 700 miles, under approximate conditions.” Aviation Fervor Fanned. This visit of American flyers did more to fan Japanese air conscious- ness into a fervor of enthusiasm than any and all things that had happened before. They asked the question, ‘What if these planes had come laden with bombs instead of in a spirit of friendliness? And what was the an- swer? The planes that could come out of the storms of seas thousands of miles away might come from any di- rection, and might come with deadly missiles and poison gas, more destruc- tive than earthquake and volcano, From that date Japan has sprung feverishly to the development of air- craft. (Copyright. 1027.) Editor's note—Tho next section of Col, Davis' discussion of “The Ace of the Pacific.' @ part of the general serics on American de: fences. “will appear in The Evening Star of tomorrow. LIBERTY BOYSMAY BECOME A PARTY Organization’s Supporters Include Representative Hill of Maryland. The “Liberty Boys of '27.” organized here for the announce purpose of combatting the Citizent rvice As- sociation for Law and Order, may re- solve itself into a new avowedly “wet” political group, to be known as the “Liberty Party,” it was declared to- day by C. C. Lowe, founder and first president of the “Liberty Boys.” He declared the so-called . “anti- snoopers” group had “gone over” in Washington with marked success and saild that more than 500 members were enrolled yesterday at 35 recruit- ing stations set up in various parts of the city. One of the most ardent supporters of the new orgnization, Lowe said, is former Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland, who was the first member to sign a card placing him on record as “opposed to all manner and form of unofficial snooping, smell- ing, spying or squealing under guise of local law enforcement.” Lowe added that Hill is assisting in enroll- ing_members. “The drys have their own party,” Lowe stated, and added that the move- ment for formation of a wet partisan group already is under way and indi- cated that the Liberty Boys might form the nucleus for it. Lowe, who is a magazine editor, has established headquarters of his group in the Albee Building. 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