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8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY......July 13, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor ST L e S SR, The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Offce: ¢ 11th St and Pennavivania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Buildine. Eurovean Office: 14 Regent St. London England * The Evening tar with the Sunday morn- ing edition is delivered by carriers within telephone Main 5000 Collection is made by carrier at end of each month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Sunday....1 yr $9.00:1 mo. 75c 1vr, $600:1mo Joe 1vr. $300° 1 mo. 25¢ ates and Canada. 1vr. §12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 . $8.00: Imp. 75¢ $4.00° 1 mo.” 35 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitled 1o the use for renublication of all news dis- ited in this naper and also the local news published herein Al rights of publication of sne hes harein_are also reserved Running True to Form. The Northwestern Farm Conference has declared war on President Cool- idge because of his veto of the Me- Nary-Haugen farm-relief bill. This was expected. The conference has gone further and adopted resolutions urging the passage of the bill at the coming session of Congry It has charged the President with repudia- tion of the platform on which he was elected. This is unfair to the President. The Republican platform of 1924 pledged aid to the farmers. It promised to re- store an equitable balance between farm prices and those of industry. But it made no mention of the Mc- Nary-Haugen bill, although that bill had been before the Congress which closed its session just prior to the Re- publican national convention. It was known that the President opposed the bill at that time. It was largely be- cause he opposed the measure that no mention of it was made in the plat- form. In 1924, after the Republican na- tional convention and the nomination ot President Coolidge, supporters of the McNary-Haugen bill in Congress strongly opposed Mr. Coolidge's elec- tion. Some of them supported the candidacy of the late Senator La Fol- lette of Wisconsin, running on an in- dependent ticket for President. Nel- ther President Coolidge nor any of his supporters ever pledged his ac- ceptance of the McNary-Haugen bill. Indeed, his opposition to the measure was one of the particular arguments made against him by his opponents in that campaign. The action of the Northwest in 1924, when the ballots were cast, rather indicated that there was consid- erable difference of opinion among the farmers over the McNary-Haugen bill. With the exception of Wisconsin, the home State of Senator La Follette, all the rest cast their electoral votes for President Coolidge. Yet the farmers in 1924, soon after the deflation period where a youth—the would-be thief is described as such—Is probably con- gratulating himself upon his alacrity in evading arrest. Perhaps he is reconsidering his idea of becoming a taker of cash at the pistol point. Maybe he realizes that there is some- thing in psychology that works against the success of the modern brigand, something that cannot be measured from the sidewalk in survey of the premises. For it would take an unusually gifted character reader to know in advance what would be the reaction of a person suddenly faced with a demand for the delivery of precious goods at the pistol point. The game is after all not worth the candle. If the first venture succeeds the second may .be likewise profitable, but sooner or later something happens that queers the pitch of the bandit and Nemesis overtakes him. He is either shot down by one who is quicker than he “on the draw,” or he shoots the custodian and thus raises an alarm that leads to his capture. Then comes the court, and perhaps the gallows. This yoffng man, assum- ing that the unsuccessful attempt of the other day was his debut in crime, will do well to conclude that good wages earned by honest toil is really easier money than that which may be taken through No Emergency Funds. Complications have developed in the matter of Chain Bridge which illus- trate the difficulty under which the District government is operated, with dependence upon congressional appro- priations for not only the detailed mu- niefpal operations, but for unusual and unexpected works. It has become nec- ecsary to repair the bridge to make it safe for use for a period. The south abutment, which is most seriously de- terlorated, and upon which the whole structure depends, rests on Virginia soll. The District government is in a quandary as to its authority to do anything regarding it without special act of Congress. Virginia makes the point that the bridge is not its prop- erty, and it cannot make any con- tribution toward the repair or replace- ment of the structure. Furthermore, repairs, If they are feasible, will cost between $25,000 and $30,000, and there is no fund available for such an ex- penditure. The District has no emer- gency fund and the bridge must be closed for an indefinite period because there is no money to patch it. This is not the first time that the District has been caught in an emer- géncy for lack of extraordinary means of meeting unusual conditions. Again and again it has been faced with dilemma. For year after year it had, for example, inadequate snow removal funds, and if the Winter were un- usually severe, with much precipita- tion, its small allotment of money for this purpose was exhausted before the end of the season and the streets went uncleaned. Epidemic diseases have developed, requiring extensive and costly quarantine and sanitary opera- tions, for which no fiscal provision was available. On numerous occa- sions funds have been raised by pub- lic subscription. Quite recently an fllustration was | jected to seismic disturbances. THE EVENII‘;G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1927. ‘the will power to do his stint in that easiest of exercises, walking. Golf courses have added thousands of years of life to the men and women of America, if for no other reason than that this truly royal game in- trigues its devotees into walking some four miles or more a day. At this season of the year swim- ming, boating and other sports call insistently, so that the Nation as a whole is not so likely to suffer from ‘“‘cage paralysis.” But when Winter comes, and men sit in their cages— offices—the danger is increased. ‘When Winter comes, how many of us will get out and walk? It is too hot now, and it will be too cold then! B Sy The Quake in Palestine. ‘While the later reports from Pales- tine indicate that the casualties from the earthquake which occurred in that region Monday are less than at first reported, it is certain that a grievous damage has been done. The total number of dead is undetermined. Estimates range from three hundred to one thousand, with five hundred as the more probable figure, The diff- culty of counting the cost of the dis- turbance is serious, due to the lack of communications. Rescue work is being organized by the British authorities, and doubtless before the close of the week the whole tale will have been told. The quake appears to have been the severest felt there in a long perlod. The region has for centuries been sub- In an- cient times terrible damage was done by shocks, cities being engulfed. At Antioch there were no less than fifty within a period of two centuries, most of them severe. Archeologlsts excavat- ing for the ruins of old ecivillzations are continually finding evidences of shocks that destroyed entire com- munities. This present quake, though centered about three hundred miles distant, was felt in Egypt, where some dam- age was done, notably at the temple of Karnak, the walls of which were cracked in several places. It is stated that if the center had been within one hundred and fifty miles away some of the most cherished monuments of an- cient Egypt. would have been de- stroyed, and anxiety is now felt lest the Palestine temblor may be merely the forerunmer of other seismic changes which, following a suspected fault in the earth's crust toward the southwest, may give Egypt one of the severest shocks in history, with in- comparable damage to its treasures. Palestine's sufferings are severe and call for relief. The blow is especially heavy because the Zionist colonies there are just developing to the point of promising success in this important experiment. It remains to be seen how far the work has been set back by this visitation of nature, but with- out doubt if material aid is needed to re-establish the communities that have been set up since the war, now injured by the quake, it will be forthcoming. ——— e A good aviator says “We” and works In co-operation with his plane. A scientist would regard such a plan as afforded of this method of providing a highly intelligent adjustment of the which set in during the immediate|for the public necessities. When Col. | human element to mechanical condi- postwar period, were in worse state than they are today. Indeed, there has been a closing of the gap between the farmer and the industrialist in the | the United States, his home-coming form impression. Charles Lindbergh returned from France, coming direct to Washington at the invitation of the President of tions. ——rete—— Bathing suits create a rather uni- The winner of a last three years, a recovery on the | being made an occasion of celebration, | “beauty contest” seldom looks very part of the farmer. In Iowa, it is true, | there was no fund, either Federal or different from the other aspirants. land speculation during the war and immediately after it is responsible for many failures and hard times for many farmers and bankers who ill- advisedly advanced money for the purchase of lands at hitherto unheard- of prices. But, generally speaking, the agricultural States of the West have been “coming back,” aided by the increased credit facilities provided by the Government. Doubtless many of the farm or- ganization delegates to the North- western Farm Conference in St. Paul are sincere in their demand for the passage of the McNary-Haugen bill. But the unanimity with which the meeting has attacked President Cool- idge lends color to the suspicion that perhaps, after all, there is a desire on the part of Coolidge opponents to make political capital while the sun 1s shining. —_—ra————— The Japanese beetlé is being studied by the United States Department of Agriculture. It represents one of the many foreign problems that America 1s called upon to solve. —_—a——————— A patient public awaits Lindbergh's book, confident that it ‘will undertake to deal constructively with the future instead of being ‘“‘mirrors” of some- thing or other. —e. A naval conference calls attention to the clash that may occur between foreign policy and domestic economy. o The Foiled Villain. Success scored by a young woman in this city the other day in foiling a would-be robber by slamming shut the door of the office safe when he pre- sented a gun, whereupon the invader fled the premises, suggests that per- haps more of the maurauding fraternity might be stampeded by an exhibition of nerve. But it was a risky action. Nobody knows just what the bearer of a gun is going to do. He may, as in this case, be lacking in courage, or he may be desperately inclined. If this plucky young woman had been shot by the defeated thief she would still have been praised for her instinctive protection of the property ot her employers, but perhaps criti- cized for her rashness. Yet taking the robbers’ point of view, what else was there to do when the safe was shut but to depart as speedily as possible? The custodian of the office had im- mediately called for help, raising an alarm that would doubtless have sum- moned assistance in a few moments. He could not get into the safe, which probably contained all of the available valuables, Whether he was an amateur or a professional, a beginner or an experienced “bandit,” he did the wise thing in vamoosing instantly. There was nothing to gain from an exhibition of marksmanship and everything to lose. The net of the whole affair was a ] brief excitement and an und‘niahly good story for publication. District, for meeting the cost of the reception. All of the expense was borne by a comparatively few public- spirited citizens, who went into their own pockets for the money necessary for building a reception stand and furnishing features of public jubila- tion in honor of the aerial conqueror of the Atlantic. In the Lindbergh case the expenses should have been borne by the Fed- eral Government. There should have been a fund at the disposal of the President, or perhaps the War Depart- ment, for such a use arising unexpect- edly during recess of Congress. It is preposterous that a Government as rich as this should have no hospitality fund, no emergency provision, and it is even more preposterous that the citizens of Washington who are con- stantly going into their pockets for public service expenses should have had to bear without aid this expense. Surely the District Commissioners are to be trusted to administer emer- gency appropriations wisely and hon- estly and to put them only to ex- traordinary uses developing when Con- gress is not in session for the public welfare. If they had a fund of, for example, $100,000 to be applied to any imperative purpose arising out of ses- sion, they could meet this critical case of Chain Bridge and perhaps pre- vent an indefinite closing of that structure, with its incalculable conse- quences, injurious to the local commu- nity and to Virginia. B According to reports, there is little néed of “padlocking” New York night clubs. The public is disposed to pass on its way to the straightforward restaurant that demands mno cover charges. —— Aviators are courageously prepared to test out the question of whether the Atlantic Ocean is to be regarded as a one-way thoroughfare. “Cage Paralysis.” Certzin animals at the Zoo suffer from what is known as *‘cage paraly- sis,” due to too little exercise. Many dogs and cats are afflicted with the same sort of disease, al- though their fond owners do not sus- pect it. Cats were made to be out all night. Dogs should have a good run of several miles every day. Yet how many dogs, confined in small ecity back yards, get onetenth of the exercise they should? As for the house-bound cat, his name is le- gion, and he must suffer, if not paral- sis of the hind quarters, then in pme other form. Many human beings evidently are suffering from a form of this same “cage paralysis.” Too niuch food, re- sulting in an accumulation of fat around the waist; too little exercise, resulting in flabby muscles or loss of tone throughout the system — thess It is to be hoped that a conciliation will be reached which will enable Mr. Sapiro and his co-operative plans to place large orders with Mr. Ford for farm tractors. ——.— Propaganda,.like any other literary specialization, is likely to persist un- til it becomes tiresome. ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Waitin', Waitin’ for the sunshine; waitin’ for the rain. ‘Waitin® for the laughter to drive away the pain. s Most of what we call a life, I'm statin’, Is waitin'—jes’ waitin’. Waitin' for the rainbow to end the threat of storm. Waitin’ for the night breeze. was long and warm. Life, in spite of all our celebratin’, Is waitin'—jes’ waitin’, Fickle. “Are you fond of music?” “No,” answered Senator Sorghum. “It's too fickle. A brass band will play ‘Hail to the Chief’ for anybody who hires it.” The day Machinery. Machinery each day we see, New thrills framed to deliver. A printing press may prove to be More fearsome than a flivver. Discordance. “You have a fine mint patch.” “Yes,” answered Uncle Bill Bottle- top. “And I've got a nice rye fleld. But there doesn’t seem to be any pres- ent way of getting the two to har- monize.” Jud Tunkins says an envious man inflicts his own penalty and becomes more envious as he grows more un- successful. 5 One-sided Enthusiasm. “I shall never forget the time I danced with the Prince of Wales.” “Wonderful!” answered Miss Cay- enne. “Do you think he ever-remem- bers it?” “An eminent leader,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “often thinks he is'a personal force, when he is only a creation of popular imagination.” Duet. ‘The mocking-bird sang to the moon in the sky A jubllant song and a delicate sigh. The bullfrog, out yonder, who dwells in the spring, Saluted the moon with a brave carol- ing. Soprano and basso in harmony set— What ear that has heard it shall ever forget? The Man and His Mind. spell 1! health and disaster. Even that sublime form of sitting, automobiling, will not save a man Some- from “cage paralysis,” if he have not wif a heavy load.” “De man dat has hisself on his mind,” said Uncle Eben, “is likely to “I have learned in the course of my life that it is often possible to create the opportunity, so I gathered up my courage—"" So runs a sentence in a recent letter to this column, one so replete with the wisdom of practical living that we print it here as a warning to all am- bitious young persons. To only a few does life hand happi- ness, or wealth, or love, or fame, or anything else desirable, upon a siiver platter, with a cordial invitation to help one's self. Dreams are excellent things, no one would say much against them, but the achiever is he who does. But how? This is the question of graduates of thousands of older persons, who yearn for something, but have not had enough experience to realize what our correspondent knows: “That it is often possible to create the opportuni To sit and wish is one thing, but it scarcely gets one anywhere until a step is taken. That comes next. The step must be taken. The hopeful thing is that it may be taken in more ways than one! It is not always necessary to boldly march west—sometimes one may find his_fair lady to the east! Nor does time play so important a part in achievement as some would like to pretend. To wait 10 years for success is often better than to achieve it instanter. Too much ,speed, like too much curiosity, has killed more than one fine effort. Besides, the older one is, the better able he is to appreciate success in almost any line. There is something about growing older that has its com- pensations. High school boys actually think they are the quintessence of intelligence, appearance, wisdom and “pep.” Perhaps in a dozen years or so they may approximate all those qualities. One must grow older to grow person- ally successful. * ok ok ok One way to create an opportunity 1s to get others to create it for you. Just as a business is usually the lengthened shadow of some one man (some one has said), so most individual successes may be traced back to help given at the right time by some help- ful person who has already “arrived.” Thus it comes about that, under modern business conditions, it becomes absolutely necessary for a young man to swim with the current of his firm. ‘This does not mean that he must be either a_“yes-yes” man or a “back slapper.” It does mean that no man can get anywhere if he cannot get along. Strutters, loud-mouth braggarts, grouches, those who are imperious with nothing to be imperious about— such are the fellows who drift from place to place. i ‘They lose their opportunity not only because they fail to make it them- selves, but also because they are not able to get any one else to create it for them. WASHINGTON ‘Washington gets its Midsummer politics and political rumors by round- about routes, and thus there’s wafted hither, by way of the Black Hills, the story that Everett Sanders is quit- ting the right hand of President Coolidge. On August 1, it appears, Mr. Sanders is to be given a well earned vacation, and:®the gossip is that when he returns to work it will be elsewhere than to the Whi‘e House at Washington. No inkling of a breach between the President and his secretary has ever been heard. Indeed, everything has indicated that the former Indiana Congressman was proving himself exactly the kind of unobtrusive, effective adjutant that Mr. Coolidge likes. Sanders left a lifetime job as the Terre Haute dis- trict’s Representative in a spirit of party devotion. He had served at the head of the Western Speakers’ Bu- reau during the 1924 campaign and won the high regard of Chairman Butler. President Coolidge, embark- ing upon his own four years, felt the need of a secretary with “con- tacts” on Capitol Hill. Sanders’ equip- ment in that respect has stood his executive chief in good stead on in- numerable occasions. The yarns sift- ing eastward from the corn belt al- lege that the voung Hoosler states- man has designs upon next year’s Republican senatorial nomination in his home State. * ok %k About the time Col. Lindbergh's “We" will be on the market—prospec- tively, next month—Edward P. War- ner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, for Aeronautics, will burst forth with a new book on airplane design. War- ner, like his assistant_secretarial col- league of the War Department, F. Trubee Davison, is & practical flying man. To his credit are approximately 7,000 miles flown since he went to the Navy Department last year. Alto- gether Warner has reeled off some 25,000 flying miles, many of his air cruises having been made on the vari- ous European commercial lines. Just before he was made Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy, Warner was pro- fessor of aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- o0ES: 'EE R J. Hampton Moore, one-time mem- ber of Congress and former mayor of Philadelphia, was in Washington this week in the interest of what he calls his now all-absorbing hobby—the At. lantic Deeper Waterways Association. At Baltimore in_ September the asso- ciation will hold its annual conven- tion, and Mr. Moore induced the War and Navy departments to give it their blessing. He hopes also to persuade President Coolidge to deliver an ad- dress at the convention. Admiral Eberle, chief of operations, promises that the Navy will send a couple of battleships and some other craft into Baltimore harbor for the occasion. A special caravan of Philadelphians will Journey thither by way of the new Chesapeake and Delaware sea-level waterway. * ok Kk and the White House, is en route to Germany as a guest of the Berlin gov- ernment on business connected with German war claims and proberty in the United States. Mr. Slemp, now a practicing lawyer in Washington, has been representing German official in- terests before Congress and the Gov- ernment departments, ahd expects to hold important consultations in Ber- lin, Hamburg and Bremen. The Ger- man commissioner on the German- American Mixed Claims Commission at Washington, Wilhelm Kiesselbach, is now in Germdny and Mr. Slemp will confer with him there. The Govern- ment bill for final disposal of the Ger, man assets still held by the United States was wrecked in Congress last Winter, but it is sure to be brought up again at the coming session. * Notwithstanding what the Anti- Cigarette League thinks about it, cig- arettes have become a powerful factor in the affairs of the United States Treasury. North Carolina leads all the other States of the Union in con- tribution of miscellaneous tax pay- ments because she is the principal center of the American cigarette in- dustry. Her quota of $186,443,511 for the fiscal year just ended outstrips find dat he has burdened f small mule C. Bascom Slemp, late of Virginia ( tels. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “So T gathered up my courage—" It does take courage. This Is the sticking point for many, this the stumbling block of life. Most often it is not physical courage at all. The valor that took Lindbergh across the occan was more mental than physical. We will continue to believe until the end of time, without the slightest prejudice, that he had more courage than others. He created his_opportunity by goin He “stepped out” across the vast Atlantic, thereby creating the oppor- tunity which materialized into more fame and prestige than any other single feat in the history of the world. Is not confidence, after all, the back- hone of courage? And is not confl- dence largely self-confidence? And is not confidence the result of early training? * ok ok K Wherefore it follows that, within reason, modern methods of bringing up children are more correct than those of the elder days, when you and I were kids, dear reader. Then little Johnny was told to be seen, not heard, and to be seen sitting primly in a chair, if he must be seen at all. He was ordered to take one piece of cake only, and to refrain from various other normal actions which harmed ne one in particular. In other words, he was given too much of a good thing. Mankind, in the mass, never seems to be able to do anything exactly correctly, but must go too far one way or the other. In order to subdue egotism, that bane of mankind, children of yester- year were made timid. The humanity of Webster's “Timid Soul” cartoon proves it. And the parents of today, those children grown up, are deter- mined that their little ones shall in no_sense be timid. Well, they have succeeded! Perhaps they have gone too far in the other direction. It is yet too early to say. Sometimes they appear immensely conceited, disregardful of property and other rights, selfishly self-centered. The point, it seems to us, is that they will not have to spend part of their time, and some of their energy, fighting themselves, but will go more directly to their objectives, as Lind- bergh did. * ok %k ok This seems to presuppose that the objective is the main thing. Well, isn't it? Success takes a thousand forms, and every one of them that deserves the name heautiful, healthful, inspiring. The other sort are failures, no matter what their creators call them. Success brings the blood to the cheeks, and the blood is the life. And nothing succeeds like success, either, as the old saying goes. To these aphorisms—bromides, if you choose— let us add another: “It is often possible to create the opportunity.” 'OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Kentucky combined. New York State, despite its tremendous wealth and in- dustries, turned in only something like $110,000,000 of - miscellaneous taxes. Virginia, which is a consid- erable cigarette commonwealth, too, paid Secretary Mellon $58,381,614 in that category. * Kk % It was a little like Greek meeting Greek at the recent reunion of the class of 1897 at Amherst the other day. when F. Stuart Crawford, one of President Coolidge’s executive staff in Washington, brushed shoulders with Raymond V, Ingersoll of New York. Ingersoll is an Al Smith man of high degree and triumphantly managed the governor's 1924 cam- paign. Their comrades of '97 were agreeably impressed by the fervor with which the respective pals of “Cal” and “Al"” buried their differ- ences in the spirit of Amherst ueber Alles. Tt appears that the President’s alma mater has not graduated Re- publicans exclusively. In addition to Ingersoll, at least two prominent Democrats are sons of Amherst— Representative Henry T. Rainey of Illinois and former Secretary of State Robert Iflnsln:. ! " Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic - Society, visited M. Jules Jusserand, former French Ambassador at Washington, in Paris recently and found the vet- eran diplomat still active in politics. Jusserand is dedicating himself with vigor and energy to the fight against Communism. No man in France, Dr. Grosvenor reports, was more keenly interested in Lindbergh than Jusse- rand, who went to Belgium to par- ticipate in the honors that country heaped upon the young American fiyer. The Frenchman, who spent nearly a quarter of a century at his country’s diplomatic post in the United States, plans to come here for a visit next year. : (Copyright. 1027.) o A Cash-Basis War. From the Waterloo Tribune. One good thing about such a war as they are pulling off in China is that they won’t owe anything. They col- lect as they go. —— o The Bettor’s Limitation. From the Muncie Morning Star. Tt is now legal to bet in Illinois, but still dangerous to let the wife know you lost. e The Great Conflict. From the Saginaw News-Courler, It looks as though it was going to take a real World Court to pass upon the respective abilities of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig as home run clouters. UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Yen—r: dgo Today American escapes from German prison camp after two and a half years’ incarceration, and tells thrilling tale of his adventures, * * * Gen. Pershing issues proclamation to American troops in France to observe July 14, the French national holiday. Flotilla of 150 French battle s)lanes to take part in big celebration. * * * Ad- ditional war appropriation of $3,000,- 000,000 will be asked of Congress next week, bringing total of appropria- tions by the present Congress, includ- ing loans to Allies, up to nearly ten billions. * * * Representative charges food gouging in Washington ho- * * * Government apportions draft by State quotas and plans to put 1,152,985 men in arms the first year, 687,000 by first draft selec- tions. * * * Eleven neutral steamers, loaded with grains and other cargo, leave American ports to attempt run- ning of Allied blockade, rather than risk President’'s embargo proclama- tion, which becomes -effective July 15. * * * Goethals will establish two big Government shipyards to produce steel tonnage of 2,500,000, * ¢ ¢ Hol- land gets rumor that Kaiser has ab- dicated. Report unconfirmed. Wash- ington views German political crisis the contributions of miscellaneous]as evidence of internal strain, but Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. The embattled McNary-Haugenites in St. Paul, meeting at the call of the Amerlean Council of Agriculture, in‘ sist upon the repassage by Congress of the farm-relief bill which bears the names of Senator McNary of Oregon and Representative Haugen of Iowa. It is not unnatural they should. Both houses of Congress passed the bill at the last session of Congress, after the administration had allowed the matter of surplus crop legislation go by de- fault. Only the veto by President Coolidge prevented the bill from be- coming law. The administration forces called merely for a defeat of the McNary-Haugen bill on the ground that it was unworkable and unsound economically. The administration of- fered no measure of its own. It under- took to back no bill which was intro- duced. The President had indicated in his message to Congress at the opening of the last session that he would et that body frame a bill. It did. But the bill was not ome he could sign, * ok ok If the farm problem is to be solved and taken out of politics, it is clear that some measure must be put through the new Congress which will satisfy the farmers. There have been indications that the administration would put forward a plan somewhat similar to the Curtis bill of the last Congress, which puts the burden of loss upon the Federal Government to the tune of $250,000,000, if there be such a loss, in dealing with the sur- plus crops, and ignores the equa tion fee principle, which would im- pose that burden upon the farmers themselves. Both the President and the Secretary of Agriculture are now in the West. It is to be supposed that before Congress opens they will have reached some conclusion re- sarding legislation. It is perfectly clear from what is happening in /St. Paul that the same organizations which favored the McNary-Haugen bill are prepared to go_the limit for a similar measure next Winter. The failure of the McNary-Haugen bill and any other surplus crop legisla- tion is to be used as the vehicle of at- tack upon President Coolidge and his renomination next year. Addresses de- livered at St. Paul in the last two days have been attacks upon Mr. Coolidge as well as defense of the principle of the McNary-Haugen bill. One of the significant " utterances was that in which the farm organizations were urged to keep up the fight for the bill until “some President” signs the measure. The next step, of course, would be to find a President who would sign it. * K ok K The Democrats may take satisfac- tion because of the attitude of these farm organizations and their repre- sentatives in opposition to President Coolidge. But they can scarcely take great credit to themselves for support of the McNary-Haugen bill. Indeed, some of the leading Democrats in both House and Senate opposed that meas- ure as strenuously as did the President himself. One of them, by the way was Senator “Jim” Reed of Missouri, who is likely to be a real contender for the Democratic nomination for President next year. The St. Paul meeting, at which delegates of farm organizations of the Northwestern States are gathered, is the first organized effort to align the farmers once again in support of the McNary-Haugen bill since its veto by the President. Lowden of Illinois and Dawes of Illinois, both sympathetic with the bill, are being talked about at the conference as possible candi- dates for the presidential nomination on the Republican ticket. No promi- nent Democrat, a candidate for the presidential nomination, has yet come out whole-heartedly for the bill, though both Smith of New York and Ritchie of Maryland have indicated they might be for it. * ok % % William Randolph Hearst has dug up the war hatchet again. He is out to beat Gov. Al Smith, his old and particular enemy, for the Democratic nomination for President. Rather Mr. Hearst prefers Senator Reed of Mis- souri. This is not surprising, for Mr. Hearst's admiration for the fighting Missouri Senator has been demon- strated in the past. It remains to be seen, however, whether the Hearst support will help or hinger Senator Reed. ~ Hearst candidates’ have not been particularly fortunate in the past, notably Senator Hiram Johnson, when he was struggling for the Republican nomination for President in 1920, and John F. Hylan in his fight for renomi- nation for mayor of New York two years ago. * ok x % Mr. Hearst has given his views not alone on the candidates for the Democratic nomination for President, but has also picked his “best bet” for the Republican nomination. It is not President Coolidge, but Secretary Mellon of the Treasury Department. Mr, Mellon doubtless “would please many others in this country as a presidential nominee. He has made a great record as Secretary of the Trousur}p But one may suspect that in mentioning Mr. Mellon for the Re- publican nomination Mr, Hearst has at heart the interests of his friend Senator Reed, who may head the Demgcratic ticket. It is easy to imagine the outery that would be raised against Mr. Mellon if he were a candidate: for President, based on the fact that he is one of the coun- try's wealthiest men. He has been charged, too, by many bone-dry Re- publicans with being too friendly with the anti-prohibition forces, al- though as Secretary of the Treasury prohibition enforcement has come under his jurisdiction. Mr. Mellon, it appears at this writing, will ‘have a good-sized job cut out for him when it comes ' to dealing with the political situation in Pennsylvania. His friend. Senator David A. Reed, comes up for re-elec- tion next year. Furthermore, it is expected that for harmony’s sake the Mellons will join with the Vare forces to seat William S. Vare in the Sen- ate. Indeed, this was forecast a week ago when Senator David A. Reed de- livered an address, regarded as the opening of his campaign for renomi. nation, indicating that he would make the fight for Vare in the Senate when Congress opens. * ok ok ok The decision of the Federal court for the eastern district of Penn vania, in which it was declared that the court had no jurisdiction in the case involving the seizure by the Reed slush fund committee of ballot boxes in the Vare-Wilson senatorial election in 1926, puts the matter up to the Senate itself. For the Senate will meet and take up the matter long hefore an appeal could be had and a decision rendered in the higher courts. The effort of the Reed committee, headed by Senator Reed of Missour, to obtain the ballot boxes in Deiawa County since the adjournment of Con- gress—an effort which was withstood by the county officials on the ground that the committee had died with the Cofgress—has so far been in vain. The ballot boxes are still in the ecus- tody of the State and county officials. The failure of the court to pass upon the continuance of a Senate special committee passes the buck to the Sen- ate. When that body reconvenes it will without doubt vote to continue the Reed committee, even though Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, Sena- tor Moses of New Hampshire and other Republicans may seek again to flibuster against a resolution giving added life to the slush fund commit- tee. As soon as the Reed committee has been revived, if it is, the opposi- tion of the county officials to yielding taxes paid by -Pennsylvania, Ohio, warns country noffgo hope for break \the ballot boxes to the Senate must Michigan, Illinois, California and now. tall to the ground. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Q. What is the meaning of the in- scription on English coins made in e reign of King George V?—F. C. A. The abbreviations stand fer “George V, by the grace of God, King of all Britain, defender of the faith and Emperor of India.” Q. How did the custom of raising the flag at sunrise and lowering it at sunset originate?—L. B. R. A. The origin of the custom is ob- scure. Such practice has been fol- lowed since such emblems have been used. Pirate ships seem to have ob- served the custom, showing the be- ginning and closing of their “work- ing” day. | Q. Is it true that a large amount | of Russian soil has been received in (hlul country for examination?—M. P. H. A. The Bureau of Soils says there were received in Washington, D. C., on June 28 60 large boxes of rep- resentative soil types of Russia. They were sent over to be exhibited auring the international congress of soil science, which was held in the District in the latter part of June. The soil did not arrive on time and has not yet been examined by the Bureau of Soils. This will be done at an early date. Q. Why is dried some baking powders’—W The Bureau of Chemistry sa manufacturers claim that a that haking powder so that their agents can make what is known as the cold-water test to sce how high the foam rises in the glass. This tests the gas strength of the baking powder and determines whether or not the baking powder is old and deteriorated or is fresh. The egg helps trap the gas. Q. What are the equivalents of the English measures, line and stone? W. B. A. The line is a measurement of length corresponding to one one- thousandth inch. The stone is an English measure of 14 pounds, used in calculating human weight. into molds for such articles as elec- tric terminal plugs?—J. H. A. The Bureau of Standards says that rubber is not poured into mokls in a molten condition, but is molded in steam-heated presses, the temper- ature of the molds being high enough to cause the rubber to become plastic and assume the shape of the mold. Hard rubber contains at least 21 per cent of combined sulphur. Vulcani- zation must therefore be prolonged and the rubber compound must con- tain sufficient sulphur to produce the &g white put in e | small amount of egg white is put in | Q. How is rubber melted to pour | BY FREDERIC J. HASKI siderable heat develops during the combination of the’ rubber and sul- phur and blisters may result. Q. Is it true that there were more negro déserters than white deserters during the World War?—T. F. T. A. According to the report of the provost marshal general, the total white registrants between the dates of June 5, 1917, and September 11, 1918, was 9,562 the total colored registrants, 1,078,331. The reported white desertions numbered 369,030, or 3.86 per cent of the total white registration. The reportad colored desertions numbered 105,831, or 9.81 per cent of the total colored regis- trants. Q. Can_pheasants be hatched and raised_with white Leghorn hens?— J. A G. A. The Biological Survey says that pheasants have been hatched and orn hens, but better results heavily feather- ams are better using one of th ed bantams. Ban brooders. Q. Would honey collected from the nectar of poisonous plants be poison? —N. A. L. A. The bees in the country Trebizond, in Asiatic T honey from pol result the honey i | Great care is used to wi ainst its use. world over know a honey of Trebiz 1 eats the most for Q. What_anin ?—W. J. H. its siz A. Smithsonian Tnstitution says that the shrew, for its size, eats a greater amount of concentrated foods than any other mammal. If deprived will die of starvation within Q. How many people went to the World Fair on Chicago day J. W. E. & A. Chicago day was Sunday, Oc- tober 9, 1893, at the World Columbian Exposition at Chicago. The total number of paid admissions was 716, 881, the free admissions numbered 45061 and the total admissions 761,942 E What do you need to knou Is there some point about your business or personal life that puzzles you? Is there something you want to know {without delay? Submit your question to Frederic J. Haskin, dircctor of our Washington Information Bureau. He is employed to help Address your inquiry to The E: formation Bureau, Fred director, Washington, D. C., close 2 cents in stamps for return grade of hard rubber desired. Con- THE LARGER President of University of Wisconsin and ‘We have already heard much, and we shall hear more as the 1928 cam- pagn draws nearer, of the urgent issue of farm relief. ‘We must remember that there are two phases of the agricultural issue— the short-time phase and the long- time phase. After all, it does not matter greatly what is done respecting the short- time phase, if the long-time phase is handled in a far-sighted manner. We can stand a touch of farm relief here and there that is economically un- sound, if*we frankly face it as a sort of first aid to the injured while ade- quate provision is being made for real convalescence and the stimulation of creative energy in the patient. But in the long run the agricultural issue cannot be met by legislation— the hope of ‘the farmer must, as I see it, rest in three mnon-political forces. One of my earliest boyhood recol- lections is of going into a Missouri barnyard to watch ' an old farmer’| milk as he sat on a three-legged stool. I suggest that stool as a symbol of the present agricultural situation. Permanent farm prosperity must finally rest on a stool supported by these three legs: The factory. ‘The market place. The school. . The future of farm prosperity Is dependent upon the factory in two ways: First, we are likely to see in the next 50 years a great decentraliza- tion of factories out of the great cities; little factories will spring up Mexican Presid In Mexico, as well as in the United States, the presidential campaign is getting under way early. A year in advance Gen. Alvaro Obregon, former President, has announced his candi- dacy to succeed President Calles, and while it is no surprise, the American press is discussing the development and what it portends with great in- terest. “Events of the last dozen years make it impossible for Americans to be indifferent to whom the Mexicans choose for President,” says the Los Angeles Express. “With new railroad connections, Mexico City hereafter will he closer to Los Angeles than many American cities. Hence the hope on this side of the border that the choice will be of a man who stands for law and order in his-own land, and the cultivation of friendly international re- lations is only natural.” The Express credits Gen. Obregon with having pur- sued such policies when he was Pres| dent. and adds, concerning his cam- paign pronouncement, “While he vields nothing of the rights of Mex- icans to make laws and govern their own country in the manner they con- ceive to be the best interest of them- selves, yet he freely recognizes and promises protection to the rights of legitimate American interests in Mex- ico. That is all Americans should ask.” The Sacramento Union believes that “the better understanding Americans have of conditions in Mexico and the more knowledge they have of just what the policles of Obregon and Calles are, the more they see them as the salvation of Mexico.” Concerning the previous election of Obregon to office in 1920 and his administration, the Tulsa Daily World says: “Faced with the task of rehabilitating a dev astated nation, he organized it Anances and maintained a compara- tively clean administration, which be- came so popular that in 1924 he was with little difficulty able to bring about the election of his henchman, Calles, as his successor. It was the first peaceful election and assumption of ' office that Mexico had known in more than 50 years.” rx It has been reported that now Calles | will endeavor to return the favor by suéz:ortlng Obregon in his present can- die Of this political co-operation the Charleston Daily Mail states: “Obregon enters the race to succeed Calles, and in turn probably Calles will enter the race to succeed Obregon. This is rotation in office.” The situa- tion. as the Springfield (Ohio) Daily | News sees it, is that of “two men ap- | parently taking turns at the presi- dency, using the influences of their Public fundam offices to put each other in,” a process which the Daily News thinks “is not :: deg_sy-working a dictatorship as Diaz In the opinion of the Philadelphia ger, “With regard * Obregon and postage. FARM RELIEF BY GLENN FRA, Former Editor of the Century Magazine. on rural streams for the making of the standardized parts of machines; farm labor will spend its spare time in these little factories. Second, we are likely to see in the next 25 years the rise of a whole series of new industries that will use the waste products and the main products of the farm as their raw materials. Every month chemical re- search is finding new w: of using farm products for industrial produc- tion. It is only a question of time until the prgblem of farm surplus will be soived by the industrial chem- ist. The factories will take all of the farm out-put that the the stomachs of the country cannot. The future of farm prosperity is de- pendent upon the market place in the sense that farmers must somehow manage to take the distribution as well as the production of their prod- ucts into their own hands. Sound and successful system of co-operative marketing must be evolved. Other- wise the farmer will cease to be a farmer and become in effect a farm hand. The future of farm prosperity is dependent upon the school, because we shall never achieve sound and suc- cessful co-operative marketing organ- izations until we have devised a new kind of rural adult education that will bring to the rural mind a breadth of vision and disciplined outlook thdy will fully fit- it for managing such enterprises. These three non-political forces, nay this or that bill in legislatures, wiF finally free the farmer. (Covyright. 1927.) ential Year Draws U. S. Press Comments are in precisely the same boat. It is not safe to expect any substantial easing of the Mexican situation in the mere substitution of one for the other,” says the Ledger, which con- cludes that “barring revolution, the Obregon-Calles regime seems likely to continue for some years to come. And whether there is a revolution or not, the United States will have the Mexican issue on its hands for an indefinite future. It will vary only in intensity.” The Davenport Democrat considers the bark of Obregon and Calles “is worse than their bite, and they understand the value to Mexico of co-operation with their powerful wherever it is politically 3 The Springfield Union s that “the intentions of Obregon and Calles regarding Mexico and its people are far better than their methods. Because of their good in- tentions and because of their ability to preserve domestic peace, their con- tinuance in power might in the end prove better than their defeat, for ultimately they must shape their methods for the economic welfare of the country and adjust them to the requirements of international law and comity.” * K Kok +In discussing the personal qualities Obregon, the Asheville Times says “he is a forceful character, vastly more vigorous than any of s adversaries’ and the Asbury Park Evening Press calls him “a plain, blunt man, easier to understand than Calles.” The New York World, however, thinks that the important thing is “not o wins, but how he and describes the coming year 1928 as a “very critical one in the history of the Mexican people. She must show,” adds the World, “t she can perform the elementary act of sovereignty, which is to change her rulers without violence.” Concerning G Obregon's men- tion of Wall Street in his opening statement, the Duluth Herald ob- erves: ‘“He thinks poorly of Wall Street and promises that, if he is elected, he will see to it that Wall Street does not run Mexico. That ounds strangely familiar. Surely we have heard it somewhere before. And often. But not in Mexico. Nor in Spanish. The Kansas City Star adds that “it is apparent that Mex- ico's political leaders, after long groping, have discovered what it is that is holding Mexico down. It is Wall Street. We are glad,” says the Star, “Gen. Obregon has had his eyes opened. It would have been so easy for him to go off on a wrong trail, to discover perhaps that the trouble with Mexico is lack of popu- lar education or something like that. The Wall Street issue is bound to be popular, because people fike to