Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1927, Page 8

8 HE EVEN With Sunday Morning Edition. |, ' )0 ter than three or a hundred, | tioned. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. . .August 17, 1927 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company - Business Office and Pennsylsania Ave Oite: 110° East 390 St N Oifien: Tower . Builing, European Office ¢ St.. London, 11th St i able in Ad! winia. 1. S000: 1 mo 137 Sh00: 1 mo 13t b 1 mo. All Other States and Canada. 200: 1 mo., $1.00 SKO0: 1 mos 750 $100: 1 mo., not oth viso th *ling the debate t Bombers and Their Prompters. Yeste the Supreme Court of Massichusetts, in full bench save for one member, who was ill, heard arguments upon a motion for co-Vanzetti case. news was 1a sitting a review of the S As the court convened flashed t the huilding partially wrecked family slightly injured. This unmistakably the work of the condemned men, an act of reprisal While the bombing will not affect the cowrse of the court, which served decision on the appeal, it can- hombe, and the outy was sympathizer of subject. The coincidence of the ex- plosion with the sitting of the court in extraordinary session to hear the case in what may be its final stage is significant. It indicates a purpose on the part of the radical partisans of Sacco and Vanzetti to terrorize those who are dealing or who have dealt with the matter. - It may have been a crude thr against the justices who are now sitting in judgment on the last appeal. Viewed as a challenge, this outrage 48 in the worst possible judgment. It cannot fail to prejudice the minds of the public. It lessens the force of the appeal itself. Gov. Fuller, in a letter to the jury- man whose home was bombed, ex- pressing his sympathy and his de- termination to exhaust the resources of the law to discover the perpe- trators, says: “It would be well for those who through ignorance or malice or sentimentality contribute to such dire results to be held jointly responsible.” Thus he puts his finger on the real issue. For weeks in the final stage of the case and for many months in earlier agitations speakers and writers for “proletariat” publica- _ tions have been denouncing the law in intemperate manner. They have been inciting the unthinking, ignorant * members of radical organizations and others who are not affiliated with such iZ bodies to deeds of violence. They % have spared no language to arouse a certain class of people to the point of actual revolution against the or- ganized system of government in this country. Some of them are profes- sional agitators, others are misguided persons who have gone wrong in their political thought. They are today responsible for whatever has occurred in the way of violence in Boston, in New York, in Philadelphia, in Balti- more and In other cities, and fo whatever may occur hereafter. The agitators who, for thefr own purposes or through a warped politi- cal sense, denounce the courts and the officials of government are as much to blame for these acts of diabolism as the miserable men, or women, who place the bombs. Tt is & misfortune that they cannot be held directly to account for the conse- quence of their words and influence. —— vt ‘After a “parlor socialist” has made & certain amount of money by smart writing, he acquires conservative ideas as to the proper protection of hard- earned wealth. +—ore. Congress and the Cruisers. President Coolidge, it ,is reported from the Black Hills, is chiding Con- gress for delay in the naval building program. It is doubtful, however, that Mr. Coolidge can convince the Ameri- can people, certainly that part of the people which is interested in the Navy, that the blame must fall on Congress rather than upon himself. Mr. Coolidge s represented in the press reports as asserting that fail- ure of Congress to adopt a suggestion made by him that ten 10,000-ton cruisers be “authorized” at the last session has been responsible for de- His argument appears to be that ation been made, he could include estimates of appropria- tion for these in his budget which he will send to Congress in De- cember. 1t is implied that he cannot now include such estimates in the budget. As a matter of fact, ther nothing the law which would have forced President to submit such estima in the hudget. 1s nothing in the law, moreover, which will prevent him from submitting esti- mates in the budget for ten cruisers whether Congress had previously au- thorized them or A review of the cruiser incident of the last Congress, in which t body ov ode the pro s of the President, #hows that C priation of three ships Is in the not v sress made an appro ctual construction cruisers, previously thorized. The President, it will noted, had omitted from the buds any estimate of appropriation for these cruisers, and had done so deliberately. Yet had no appropriation been made for the cruisers in the last sessjon, the authorization for their construction would have expired by terms of the law autherizing them. The President suggested first that the authorization for these cruisers be extended by Con- gress. When this did not appeal to for the au- be ¢ | cruiser prog | United | British. " | transferred to Congress. e |the power to submit such estimates not fail to affect public feeling on the | There | ~emt-. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D €, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 17, 192 |money for their construction, would [ wwhen ships were needed. In the end, therefore, a slender appropriation for ginning work on the three cruisers | 1lready authorized was made by Con- ross, over the opposition of the Presi nt Mr. Coolidge, in opposing the appro- tion for the three cruisers, had in mind the naval limitation conference |in Geneva, and believed that appro- | priations would be unwise until that | conference had been held. It is doubt- however, that the meager appro- | tion made by for the | three cruisers ha | upon the foreign powers taking part |in the conference. Indeed, as things | turned out, an appropriation by Con- | gress for the construction of ten or \ dozen new cruisers might have been | mueh mo.» effective in bringing the | British to terms. The contest in Congress over the | ram at the I |served the useful purpose of focusing {the attention of the American people |upon the lack of cruiser strength of | the United States for national defense. | It became increasingly apparent dur- at the Senate would | not ratify any treaty for further naval limitation which did mot accord the ates real equality with the This aroused sentiment for y made it all the more easy Congr t session the Na | for the administration, at the recent | Geneva conference, to stand firmly for | the home of one of the | jurors in the original trial had XIPPH: the Amerfcan viewpoint of naval equality It Mr. Coolidge really believes that ten additional 10,000-ton s hould he constructed for the Ameri- can Navy, he has only to send the estimates to Congress in his budget | He will have done his part. cru message. | Then the responsibility will have been lle has all that he would have had if his sugges- tion for the authorization had been made. The mere inclusion of the esti- mates in the budget would give a privileged status to these items and they could be included in the next naval appropriation bill, provided Con- gress would go that far. —————————— From Riches to Poverty. Twenty-five vears ago Philip D. Armour died, leaving a fortune esti- mated at one hundred million dollars. He was for the time one of the rich- ast men in the country. Yesterday his son, who succeeded to the estate of the packer magnate, died in Lon- don, worth, it is estimated, only ,000. The virtual disappearance of this great fortune is one of the trage- dies of American finance, and a tragedy, too, that involves no reflection upon the integrity or the character or behavior of the man who has just passed, broken-hearted over his fail- ure and undoubtedly hastened to his death by the mortification caused by it. The Armour failure was one of the great casualties of the post-war period. It was due primarily to the high in- flation of prices in 1920 followed by the sudden and severe deflation of 1921, During the former year hogs and cattle were at their highest price, fourteen cents a pound, whereas, in the slump of 1921 they reached their lowest price, seven cents. Previously there had been trouble in the Argen- tine owing to selzures of food supplies by one of the allied powers, settlements tor which were slow and, in fact, have not yet been completed. Following the slump of 1921 came the necessity for reorganization. The Armour Co. was virtually bankrupt. Banking interests took it over and ef- fected a readjustment in the course of which J. Ogden Armour sold all but a small amount of his personal prop- erty to aid in the rehabilitation. Ie sacrificed at heavy losses great vol- umes of securities. Iiis common stock in the packing company was sold to the public. Later came a scandal in the grain department of the corpora- tion, which was compelled to restore $3,000,000 obtained in the fraudulent grading of wheat. This was not in any sense attributable to the manage- ment of J. Ogden Armour, who was deeply humiliated by the affair and sold out that department. Through making an honorable et- fort to redeem the losses in which his company had been involved this man rendered himself . comparatively pen- nil He made no complaint. He hid his chagrin and tried to carry on, but the blow had been too severe and he succumbed eventually to the wreck- age of his fortunes. There have been many Instances of the dissipation of great estates through fast living, extravagance, impropriety and debauchery, and the public always feels that Nemesis has been just. In the case of J. Ogden Armour, how- ever, no blame attaches to him per- sonally for the loss of his fortune. He was the victim of clrcumstances, per- haps in part In consequence of an un- Aue extension of business and credit. That he died actually a poor man is no reflection upon him. e Boston has been humorously refer- red to as the “hub of the universe. Certain agitators imply an irrespon- sible assumption that the universe is liable to find itself in trouble up to its hub. B Commandeered Motorists. The unusual and tragic case which occurred In New York recently when a commandeered motorist was shot and killed has aroused widespread dis- on. A traffic policeman observed a stolen car being driven past his corner. Halling the following auto- | mobile he ordered the driver to “step !(vn it” to catch the thief. A few blocks of the chase had gone by with- | out an apparent gain on tho pursued | car when the policeman drew his re- | volver and began Sring. His bullets | | were prompt! answered and the citl- | zen who had lent himself to the law | slumped down in his seat, shot through the body. He died before he could be rushed to a hospital. The thiet and his woman companion were' caught later by other policemen who had joined in the chase. The fact that the motorist who gave his life was the sole support of his wife and family has nothing to do with the case outside of stressing the cus Congress, he suggested that a bill be put through authorizing the construc- _-gion of ten cruisers. responsibility of the city of New York to provide for them the same pension The Congrass, ! that it would for a policeman’s family, | heauty squad of policeme; however, declined to swaliow the Jait. but the right of a policeman arbl- u 15388 ke able to arvest - the slightest effect | ING STARITM cruisers “authorized,” with nngu-m fly to command a citizen to en- gage in dangerous work is being qu Of course, every citizen | wishes to uphold the law and to aid 1t in every possible way, but when it | comes to a defenseless motorist being | called upon to risk his life and prop- | erty without assurance of compensa- | tion for either to catch an automobile | thief the case assumes an entirely dif: | ferent aspect. | It is probably the natural impulse | of every motorist to comply when a an jumps on the running | board and orders a chase. Danger is I not considered, excitement s fore- | most in the mind. But suppose the commandeered driver has fust learned how to operate an automobile. The havoe he could cause under forced speed would be far more than could | possibly have been accomplished by the pursued speeder, thief or over- time parker. And if the pursued was of a more dangerous type no citizen | should *he asked to engage in the fight unless he voluntarily indicated his desire to do so. The whole matter, of course, re- verts to the need of every police de- partment for an adequate equipment in automobiles and motor cycles. | Then there would be no occasion to call upon untrained citizens to engage in police work. Until communities awaken to this fact there will prob- ably bo other deaths and injuries to its citizens. It may be pointed out, however, that no man can be criti cized if he refuses to be commandeered for dangerous missions. He is his own master and thera is nothing in the law which provides a penalty for refusal. = When Gertrude Ederle swam the English Channel she called attention to the fact that what had been consid- ered impossible was in reality com- paratively cas; It is different with aviation. A man who makes a record tempts many others to undertake en- terprises which require peculiar per- sonal fitness, policen ————————— Boston is a belligerent old town. In early days it defled a king, and in later times it produced John L. Sulli- van, who, as a matter of personal en- terprise, would have delivered a knock- out to anybody who insinuated that he hit below the belt. controversy still finds vigorous expres- sion in the shadow of Bunker Hill. e Ideas are larffer now. time when the term “Billion-dollar legislation™ gave the public an idea of extraordinary extravagance. At pres- ent it is a question of how many bil- lions, There was a .~ One of the most useful achieve- ments of the late Elbert Gary Is the term “gentlemen’s agreement,” which suggested an era of extensive and high-class business previously , un- known. e The death of Judge Gary made little difference in the stock market. This fact is largely due to his own ability as a financial organizer on lines of sta- | bility. ——————— There are so many different kinds of murderers demanding attention that a card party or a church soclable may prove a {opic affording considerable literary relief. e e A tax reduction is always hoped for. The hope {llustrates in national terms the difficulty the average individual encounters in making his economies equal his good intentions, — e If motion picture salaries are to be reduced, it will be natural to expect a widespread movement for revision of alimonies. ———ee— After all it is a lucky air pilot who encounters his perils at departure in- stead of meeting them in midocean. ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Katydid, “Columnist.” ‘Why sound this lay, O Katydid, So oft of doubtful beauty; As if you were each evening bid +To heed a call of duty? Beneath the moon and stars you bring A loud, relentless rhythm; And cadences the breezes bring— You always keep right with 'em. You saw the same familiar straln ‘When golden rod is flaunting; Though commonplace is your refrain, ‘We'll say, at least, 'tis “haunting.” The answer came, “Beyond a_doubt My task is something solemn, The ‘Autumn Leaf’ is coming out, I must provide a "Kollum.’ " Willing to Take a Joke. “People are laughing at your little political band wagon.” “I don't care,” answered Senator Sorghum. “All T hope is that being made fun of for a little while will bring me as much luck as it brought Henry Ford.” What They Say. “What do the wild waves say,” As on the beach they play? “Twelve dollars board per day Is what you'll have to pay.” Jud Tunkins says nowadays when a cameraman says, “Please look pleas- ant,” it only serves to make his pa- tient all the more angry. Subtle Revenge. “Are you going to leave your for- tune to your favorite relatives “Haven't any favorite relatives,’ answered Mr. Dustin Stax. “I'm go- ing to leave it in such a way that they'll all get into a fight and be as miserable as possible.” “A perpetual smile 1s a valuable dis- guise,” said HI Ho, the sage of China- town; “but he who frequently laughs aloud shows that he Is too easily sur- prised.” Time Killer. My Radio! My Radio! You should provide a bouncer For the intruder, suave and slow, Who says, “I'm the announcer!” “Look trouble in de face,” sald Uncle Eben. *’Specially, don't git behind a mean mule.” L Can Catch Something. From the Baltimore Evening Sun. The spirit of | V' .|is 66 and Carter Glass of Virginia is Three days in bed with a cold might Dbe spent a great deal worse, Think | of this the next time you get ill. Lying variously upon one’s back or sides, with nothing much to do but 10, tests the temper and patience ny one. Perhaps patience is put most to the | test Patience is a virtue not so much in style us it used to be. Virtues have their days the same as little hats and bigg one; hions in virtues do not change quite so often as the length of skirts, but rather suffer eclipse in popular conversation. Nobody talks much about patience any more, largely because there are £o many agencies to m; o everything right again as quickly as possible. If one has some money and uses his common sense, he can find some one else glad and willing to assume the job for him. 1f the radio set gets out of fix, there is some one who will come—for a con- sideration—to patiently test the an- tenna, the ground, the batteries, the tub He will look for broken connec- tions, attempt to discover burned-out transformers. His patience will be huge. The set owner doesn't have to have any patience at all. He buys it ready-made, * ok X * The best galn in being ill—perhaps the only gain—is a lesson In pa- tiel No one wants to he sick. tly to the credit of the v jority of persons that when they have lost that inestimable boon—health— they try to “keep going.” as they say, Perhaps they are afraid of the cha lenge to their patience. Some pe sons know, from past experience, that their resources in this respect are short or even non-existent Such persons o to work simply compelled to quit. This, how ever, is cheating one’s self and onc’ employer, if one has such. A stitch in time saves nine, it is true, and a ) in bed, in many cases, wil illness. to your beds, friends, when vou feel a cold comingz on and stay there until you are well. It is better to stay in bed for three days than to totter around for a week and then be forced there at last, A day in bed sometimes saves nine weeks in the hospital. * ok kK The necessity for the recumbent po- itlon, of course, will vary with the i istance of the patient. Children in good health often enough are able to play arownd the same as usual, if the w mother keeps them out of water and what- not. The rebound of the little ones ever, is not possessed by many of their elders, who have lost the pre- cious matural rubber in their systems. It is because of this Ia that rest in bed is coming more and more to be resorted to as the best sort of cure for the so-called common cold. Especially in the increasing number of cases in which a disturbance of the WASHINGTON Behind the bare announcement of the designation of Chauncey D. Snow to be “assistant to the president” of the United States Chamber of Com- | merce is the fact that this appoint- | ment poses of the question of a | suce or to Elliot H. Goodwin, who retired last ar from the post of “resident Vi president” af long and distinguished service as a sort of general manager of the chambe manifold_activities. With Mr. Good- | win's resignation it was reported that henceforth the chamber would func- ticn without any one in similar ca- pacity and authority. There has been much gossip, however, that sooner or later a permanent exccutive head will be selected in view pf the fact that the policy of the chamber is to elect its presidents from the ranks of big business, men who cannot devote their entire time to the job and who hold office for only brief terms. Mr. Snow, who has been head of the for- eign commerce department of the chamber since 1920, has mnow been elevated to the general manager role. He has moved into the suite of offices formerly occupied by Mr. Goodwin, | and has taken over most of the| duties which formerly fell to the lot | of the resident vice president. It brings to an end a controversy as to whether the post should be filled from within the permanent organization staff here or by appointment of some one from the outside. Before joining the organization seven years ago, Mr. Snow was commercial attache at Paris for the Department of Com- merce. And it is t ma- nntil | how- al * ok Kk Budget Director Lord, in his apnual report published this week, presents a formidable list of petty economies inaugurated under his direction, which contributed their individual mites to- ward the grand total of $91,000,000, which, he states, was the total econ- omy “savings” of the year. Many bu- reaus used hoth sides of their letter paper and memo pads. Shorter pen- | cil stubs were used. Typewriter rib- bons were turned end for end to pro- long their life. Pay envelopes were veturned to be used a second time. Garbage in the public health hospitals was sold instead of being given away. Fodder for work animals was grown on Federal farms, and the monkeys and other animals in the Zoo were ted second-grade rations. The War Department substituted $5 bombs for 370 bombs for target practice, and for every nickel telephone call from pay stations in the Federal buildings the Treasury Department collected 2 cents from the telephone company. * ok X % Gov. Ritchie of Maryland, Demo- cratic presidential possibility, is the youngest man in either the Demo- cratic or Republican camp in the list of those who have to date loomed as serious contenders in 1928. (}fl\'.l Ritchie's present age is 51. Al Smith and Gov. Vic Donahey of Ohio are both 54. McAdoo is 64, “Jim” Reed 69. The Republicans, ranked from | youngest to_ oldest, are Hoover, Tongworth, 58; Dawes and Borah, Hughes, 65; Lowden, 66, and Mellon, 72. 21t s obvious that it will prove a | bit embarrassing to some of the other | asplrants it Hughes stands by his pre- vious statement that he is now “too; old to run for President.” Those Re-| ns who preparing to | Mr. Coolldge next vear will act that he , with pro- probabilities of portionately greater i than his oldv;‘r living four years more would-be successors. | * ok kX John Bull, the oldest complete lo-| comotive now in exlstence in Amer- ica, after 34 years of unbroken rest in the Smithsontan Institution, is going under steam again as a feature of the centenary celebration of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad next month. The lo- comotive was built in England for the Camden & Amboy Rallroad, one of the units of the present Pennsylvania system, It was in continuous service from 1831 to 1865. In 1885 John Bull was presented to the Smith- sonian. Seven years later it proceeded on its own steam from Washington to Chicago to appear in the World's Fair —a_so-called last appearance. The Baltimore & Ohio has constructed a nile circular track at Halethorpe, and on that the old locomotive il take its place with other curi- osities, anclent and modern, assem- bled for the exposition. Atlantic City is to have a boardwalk who will ution, * K KK The Coolidge household pets are an ever-increasing and variegated assort- [1arg, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL ymach takes place, resulting in ex- treme and protracted nausea, is rest a necessity Some persons never catch a cold but what nausea accompanies it. This is a new sort of cold, evidently, having appeared since the epidemic of in- fluenza in 1918, when every symptom in the medical calendar n its ap- pearance. Often is the single eding the t f 'a_cold in importance, ¥ be issued to all per- 1ffect in this manner rest in bed is the one essential the nausea : symptom, supe ditional signs A warning <ons whom colds tha step. It is a step from the vertical to the horizontal position, if you will. It is in i's best sense, however, a step up- ward toward health. * X ok ok One has to be mighty ill to be able to read. This benefits of such a sickne Most persons have some particular sort of reading they would like to do, hut somehow nevi to be able to get around to it in health. Well, try it the next time you have sense enough to go to bed when you have a bad cold. Perl one. Th and magazi They mov one for worst cold. ssing away the time is, indeed, the one hig necessity of the sick per- son. Especially do the hou tween 6 am. and 9 pm. drag. This period s endless to most persons laid up 1 day it out in reading. * ok K After an enforced bhack to work feeling much better with @ quickened interest in life “This eutlook may wear off quiekly indeed, not s one of the ve fiction intrigues e any number of books filled with such sto wiftly enough to 1 . ke for the time being, the e one goes | but usually some sense of it is gotten by the most obiuse Even after so litt s in bed the living er than it did befo for vacation, s, usually comment, on thelr re- turn, upon how well the house looks. “I’ thought this stuff was about ready to be thrown away,” said one housewife, “but the room’ really looks quite nice, doesn’t it? iliarity does breed contempt, for persons, but for things sociation, day and day, gives one a disregard for the total picture, with too much emphasis on the worn places. Come back again, after an absence, and one looks upon one’s own things something as a stranger do has not vet had time to note that the davenport has been clawed by the cat or the dining-room paper smeared up by the children. These are a few of the little gains of illness. The greatest, of course, is a return to health. The rest in bed, however, has done something else, It has allowed the system to wind itself up a bit, through rest, always needed, in the majority sex, in this truly high-pre Too many pretty girls tired eyes. person. two or three m looks bet- hose who go even for two OBSERVATIONS l ment. If the President brings them all back to Washington from the Black Hills, a special animal car will have to be added to his train. Rob Roy, the famous white collie, and the new col- lie sent to Mrs. Coolidge from Michi- zan after the death of Prudence Prim; Tiny Tim, the chow pup, a birthday present last month: Rebecea, the pet raccoon; the canary birds and the parrot are now but a small part of the live stogk. Rapid City dispatches re- port that two baby burros have been tendered and accepted, as well as a dozen baby chicks, and a young coyote 3 months ~ old, raised _in captivity and very tame. Besides Kit, the heautiful bay mare presented to Mr. Coolidge by the Boy Scouts, there is a bay gelding, Mistletoe, which en- joys equal favor in the presidential stable: Tk ok ok % The Department of Commerce, in its annual report of American foreign trade, just published, estimates the value of smuggled liquors imported from abroad in 1926 as $40,000,000. This was the wholesale value at the -mile limit. It was computed on an 1 volume of 30,000,000 quar 1 experts who' profess to be nt with the intricacies of the hootleg liquor business figure that 30, 000,000 quarts of real imported liquor increase to 100,000,000 quarts via the water and industrial alcohol process hefore finding their way into the « nels of “retail trade.” If $5 is taken as the per bottle price, this repre- sents half a billion dollars that the bootleggers collected from the ultimate consumer. 1f the figure is put at $10 a bottle, it represents a billion dollars. On any basis of figuring, it discloses in striking fashion the extent of the bootleg “industry” if the Commerce Department is correct in its original estimate, (Covyright. 1027.) i S Triumphs of Science Increase Life’s Span From the Los An, s Times No\\" the claim is made that our scientists are about to fight the germ that causes consumption with a rem- edy furnished by the bacillus itself. In other words, from the poison it puts into the blood, which the scientists at Berkeley say they have overed and isolated, they hope a serum that will repeat the friumphs won in other fields. This that the span of life beyond the threescore and ten for- merly allotted us. Indeed, we arc told that the meager few who reach *he century mark are but the advance guard of the multitude to reach and pass far beyond that record in the near future. To the triumphs al- ready won, in case the first redoubt has been carricd by some invading disease, must be added the greater triumphs of preventive medicine. The réport of the Rockefeller Foundation acquaints us with a wonderful work they have accomplished in that di- rection, not only in this country, but all over the world. The dry pages of the usual report turn out to be an in- spiring booklet of great deeds accom- plished. Here as elsewhere an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. All workers engaged in mak- ing broad the pathway of health and longevity—and they are to be found everywhere now—insist that optim- ism, cheerfulness, throwing off worr and fear as you would a discarded gai ment, and the cultivation of the right mental attitude toward discase is of the utmost importance. Where disease ms one victim, worry and fear aim a score. We are living in a_wonderful age— in fact, we are just beginning to live as the Creator intended us to. 1t has required untold centuries for man o gain his present vantage ground. He is just beginning to assume his right- ful authority over the many ills to which flesh is heir. We will learn to grow old gracefully when double our present tale of years has run_ its course. And we will need these added years to gain even a passable knowl- edge of the wonders and beauties and mysteries; the, at present, little-known forces of the universe in which we have been placed. ———— One Way to Cross. From the Boston Evening Transeript, Balloon jumping is the latest sport, and it suggests a ible way for a pedestrian to cross w‘fl. Y " Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. { If President Coolidge does not “choose” to run for President, it fol- lows that he does not choose to be | President after Mar: then does he “choose” to do date? A clear thinker and a student American political history, James Morgan of the Boston Globe, suggests r Coolidge may stick to rather than take a position great law firm, if such were offered him, “Politics has been his erand passion,” says Mr. Morgan, adding that the President is likely to turn up somewhere in the political field, “perhaps in the Senate.” This suggestion gives food for thought. Another President from Massachu- setts, the sixth in order, John Quincy Adams, after leaving the White House, was elected to and ed in the House of Representa- in a measure, a Massachusetts precedent for Mr. Coolidge. —John {Quincy Adams had served in the Senate prior to his becoming Presi- dent. * Kk ok Ok chusetts will hold 1 Senate in 1928, when vid 1. Walsh, Democrat, comes up for re-election.” Two years later, Senator Gillett, Republican, comes up also for re-election, if he should determine to be a candidate succeed himself. It scarcely seems likely that the President would per- mit himself to be nominated next vear for the Senate while he would Still be President. But if Senator Gillett should decide not to be a can- [didate in 1930, as it has been sug- gested in some quarters he would do, what would prevent the Presi- dent from obtaining the nomination and the election? His “passion for politics” would have full sway in the | Senate. Besldes, he is familiar with |that body and its procedure, for he | presided over it as Vice President {and President of the Se and a ars before Chiet Executive. But “just suppo Ma tion for Senator L " that Mr. Cool- idge should chouvse to run for the Senate in 1928 He and Senator W h might stage a never-to-be-for- gotten senatorial campaign—a cam- paign that would almost rival in in- terest the presidential campaign itself. enator Walsh is immensely popular in Massachusetts, where he, like Mr. Coolidge, has heen governor in the past. If Mr. Coolidge should eventually become Senator, he would be in a position to bait a Chief Executive of the future, just as Senators have undertaken’ to bait him. * K K K They are still attempting to inter- pret the President’s 10-word announce- ment that he did not choose to run for President in 1928, Here and there is found an expression of opinion that the President might prefer to make the race in 1932, when there would be no question of a third consecutive term, just as Roosevelt preferred to make the race in 1912 rather than in 1908. But that is mere conjecture. Mr. Morgan, with ample knowledge of * glish as she is spoke” in New England, and particularly in Vermont, L “Than that quaint little Saxon word ‘choose,” as the President used it, there is none more stubborn in the Vermontese vocabular; Vermonter says, ‘L do not chewse’ to do a thing, he has drawled a mouth- ful, closed the debate and arrived at a final conclusion, where he is as ‘sot’ as his Green Mountains themselves.” Mr. Morgan gives President Roose- velt credit for having been entirely honest when he declared that he would under no circumstances be a candidate or accept another nomination after his election in 1904, He credits the same honesty to Mr. Coolidge. Yet he points out that Roosevelt did again become a candidate, and adds, “So. too, Mr. Coolidge will run if there should arise circumstances like those that constrained Mr. Roosevelt. 1t nominated he would have to run.” * ok ok ok Senator Capper of Kansas, who, too, 18 a newspaper man of long stand- ing, as well as a politiclan, was pres- ent when the President handed to the newspaper correspondents his an- nouncement that he did not choose to run for President next year. Writing in his own Capper's WeekKly, Senator Capper says: Personally I do not consider the President’s terse 10-word sentence say- ing that he does not ‘choose to run for President in 1928’ a valedictory, although, quite probably, it will be the last word which he will have to vy on this subject.” Senator Capper says he finds no hidden meaning in the President’s an- nouncement, but a sincere and honest message, showing that he has no per- sonal ambition to serve another term. “In other words,” continues Sena- tor Capper, “the President puts his candidacy squarely up to the entire Republican party. If the Republicans should draft him I believe this will make him all the stronger as a can- didate.” * ok ok Xk Such s the judgment of the junior Senator from the Sunflower State. Senator Charles Curtis, senior Sena- tor from Kansas, Republican leader of the Senate, also seems unable to get it out of his head that President Coolidge will be the nominee of the G. O. . next year. He is one of those who look for a deadlock in the conven- tion with the leaders in the balloting killing off one another and staging a setting for the convention to demand Coolidge. The Republicans of Kokomo, Ind.. have circulated a petition requesting President Coolidge to accept the nomi- nation for President, so “‘four years of Coolid, prosperity and ‘Mellonwise financing’ may be assured.” The pe- tition erts that the American peo- ple will under no consideration accept “no” for an answer. Senator Capper, after he had left the Black Hills and returned to Kan- sas, in a newspaper interview, id that he had remarked to the Presi- dent that he had given the newspaper men a big surprise when he handed them his announcement. “The Presi- dent laughed,” the newspaper Story continued, and said to Senator Capper, “Four years ago today I became Presi- dent, and I thought it would be a good thing to let the people know exactly how I felt about thing: Then Sena- tor Capper ventured the remark that the people might have something to say in that matter, and “nothing more was said.” * Kk oK X The Republican national committee, continuing its program of issuing a series of “fact-pamphlets,” has put out the second, entitled “Lifting the Burden From the Taxpayer.” It is a review of the economy and business methods in the operation of the Fed- eral Government under the present administration. In many quarters this pamphlet is regarded as the real and most promising Republican docu- ment of the next presidential cam- paign. The administration will stand or fall by its fiscal policy, its economy program and its reduction of the taxes and the public debt. It recites the efforts of the Republicans for economy beginning in 1919, when the Democrats were still in power; describes the adop- tion of the budget system through Re- publican efforts, then gives in detail the huge slices in tax rates since the Republicans came into power and the data to show that the public debt has in the same period been reduced by more than $6,000,000,000, with a great saving to the people. * K k% The pamphlet goes out under the signature of Chairman William M. Butler. It may be remarked that the belief is growing here that Mr. Butler will continue as chairman of the na- tional committee probably wup until the next national convention, notwith- an elec- | Q. How much money is invested in the railroads of the United States R. P. A. The tetal accounts of the Ci the United State: property investment ass 1 railways in including their in- vestment in road and equipment, cash and materlal and supplies, amounted to $23,759,000,000 at the end of 1926 Q. What is the name of the syn- thetic glass that is being made abroad?—M. G. A. Pollopas, invented in Vienna by Dr. Fritz Pollak and Dr. Kurt Ripper, is a synthetic organic compound formed from urea and formaldehyde. It is said to be indistinguish glass in appearance. Cleveland, Ohio?—C. N. A. Chandler, Jordan, Stearns-Knight and White. Pecriess, Q. What is meant by the expression “a K three feet long”?—T. R. A. This expression probably refers to the number of feet of film used while the kiss is being portrayed in a motion pictur Q. How long has gold fringe been “official” on regimental color: E. P. G. A. In 1895 fringe was officially added to the Stars and Stripes for all regiments. Q. When Is Church Rally Sunday?— H. R. T. A. The first Sunday in October has been selected upon which to empha- size family church attendance. Q. How did our Army compare with foreign armies at the close of the Civil A. At the close of the Civil War the armies of the principal Europe: countries were as follows: I Italy, 196.100; ¥ . e 138,11 January Regular and Volunteer Army United States comprised officers and men. Q. What is a moron?—J. M. A. The term moron is applied to an individual with arrested intellectual NEW GADFLIES BY GLEN: P For generations we spent most of our time thinking about what should or should not b: included in the course of study in our schools. ‘We were the docile slaves of sub- Jject matter. The question that everywhere buzzed through the corridors of edu- cational conventions was—what shal we teach? And then one day we began to think that maybe the most important thing was not what we were teach- ing, but how we were teaching it, and as a result of this new question the concern of educators began to shift a bit from the content of the curriculum to methods of teaching. This new interest in the methods of teaching ushered in an era of ex- periment in education. We found new and better ways of teaching reading, spelling, arithmetic, and so on. The presses were kept busy turn: ing out a lush crop of text books of the new methodology. The methodizers were riding high and the world was theirs. The methodize played gadfly to the old-timers who seemed content to be merely retail merchants of canned information. - But lately—as happens too sellom—a still newer group of educators arose to play gadfly to the methodizers. The significance of this newer group lies not so much in their il- luminating criticisms of the old-time blo from | Q. 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The Weather Bureau says that it means the down-slope flow of relative- Iy cool It is well illustrated by the flow of air over glaciers, called acier wind”; by the flow of air on rally still zhts down many called n breeze,” and ir down many canyons, known s nyon wind.” There is mo other agency in the world that can answer as many legiti- mate questions as our free Informa- tion Bureaw in Washington, D. C. T highly organized institution has been built up and is under the personal di- rection of Frederic J. Haskin. By | keeping in constant towch with Federal bhurcaus and other educational enter- prises it is in a position to pass on to wow authoritative information of the order. Submit your queries to the staff of exper whose services | are put at your free disposal. There |is “no charge except tico cents in | stamps for return_ postage. ~Address | The Evening Star Information Burcav, Prederic J. Haskin, Director, Washing- ton, D. € FOR SCHOOLS N FRANK. ent of University of Wisconsin and Former Editor of the Century Magazine. education as in their deliberate at- tempts to reform the reformers. We are beginning to see that a lot | of the educational reform of the last 25 while it has greatly im- proved the merchandizing methods of the old education, has left education still a task of conveying organized information to students in neat pack- ages. | “The Ilatest educational reformers | boldly shift the emphasis from sub- ject matter to student. They see education as a process by which' the student discovers and de- velops himself. They recognize the differences that exist between students, but they do not fall into the sterile and sinister basiness of herding students into bar- ricaded pens of inferior and superlor in a way that makes the one crest- fallen and the other cocksure. They see the fallacy of recogniz- ing_differences by sorting out the students and then, after sorting them out, ignoring differences by subject- ing’ good and bad, quick and slow, alike to standardized and crystallized lessons. They do one thing that lies at the heart of real education—they make the teaching process take its cue from the learning process. The old teaching often made docile slaves and discontented rebel: (Copyright. 1927.) Reactions to the speech of Vice President Dawes at the dedication of the Peace Bridge between the United States and Canada represent a wide range of opinion. The nature of the occasion causes some newspapers to object to his direct and pointed criti- cism of the Geneva naval limitation conference. Others, however, com- mend the Vice President for courage and common sense and feel that it was a timely utterance. “Mr. Keliogg seemed unimpressed, Mr. Baldwin kept his eyes on the printed program. But Mr. Dawes had the spotlight,” remarks the Detroit News (independent), with the com- ment that Mr. Dawes spoke “not the language of diplomacy, but that of plain common sense.” The Decatur Review (independent Democratic) also feels that “Dawes thinks as do most of the common-sense people,” and the Trenton Times (independent) holds that “he never evades, but usually he does a lot of thinking before he leaps.” “If good sense is bad diplomacy, no wonder that the diplomatists find it so difficult to accomplish anything— at Geneva or elsewhere,” says the Baltimore Sun (independent Demo- cratic), and the Pasadena Star-News (Republican) contends that “the words of Vice President Dawes, striking to| the very heart of the subject, should have wholesome influence throughout the United States and the British Em- pire.” The Roanoke Times (independ- ful reference had in it nothing that could possibly’ be embarrassing to either the British or American govern- ments.” The Rock Island Argus (in dependent) sees ‘*no impropriety in the selection of the bridge dedication ceremony for the utterance of such sentiments.” * oK ok K Disagreeing with the Vice President's criticism that there was not adequate preparation for the Geneva conference, the New York Herald Tribune (Repub. lican) states: “Vice President Dawes might have done better not to discuss at the gara peace celebration the failure of the Geneva naval armament limitations conference. The deadlock at Geneva was not in harmony with the spirit of underlying friendship evoked on our undefended interna- tional border. But if he was going to say anything, he should certainly have avoided echoing the empty state- ment that the conference failed tech- 2nt Democratic) believes that “his tact- | I Dawes’ Peace Bridge Speech Arouses Variety of Comment As the Chicago Tribune (Republl- can) views the incident: ‘“Secretary Kellogg represented the United States to play opposite Mr. Baldwin, the Brit- ish prime minister. Vice President Dawes was the American official re- sponse to the presence of the Prince of Wales. * * * Mr. Dawes made a speech in which he contemplated larger prospects of the British-Ameri- can concord. He did not think that the Geneva conference had reflected pub- lic sentiment as well as it might hav if it had been prepared for in a truer spirit. Some of us think that it came to its logical end so far as the British were concerned and to an unexpect- edly_good end for the United States, but Mr. Dawes was less impressive in what he said than in what he was there to do.” “It was meither the time nor the on of such sul» says the Huntington Adver- tiser (Democratic), and the Louisville Courier-Journal (independent), express- ing the hope that the Vice President 5 s not seeking to strengthen his political chances,” suggests that “it is the charitable view that the Peace Bridge address s the result of con- viction and frankness, however inop- portune it m have been. But the Charleston Evening Post (independent Democratic) avers that the speech 'S 'S to increase the belief that Mr. Dawes is seriously and, it might be ively a candidate for ths * ok K ok The utterance appears to have been “the right kind in the right piace” to the Cincinnati Times-Star (Republi- can). It was one that “the taxpayers both of this country and Sritain, we believe, will applaud, the opinion of the St. Louis Po: patch (independent). Tt was produc- tive of no harm, in the judgment of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (inde- pendent Democratic), “other than a slight damage to the pride of the State Department, which had charge of the preparation,” and the Worcester Eve- ning Gazette (independent) concludes that “plain speaking is a trait which dese ves encouragement in our public courage E according to the (Democratic). which adds, “His opinion is shared by many who now feel that had the conference been preceded by a diplo- nically because it was not properly prepared for.” “Performances of this kind, on oc- casions of a formal character, in which other nations are participating.” ac- cording to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (independent). “cheapen Mr. Dawes, embarrass the Secretary of State, who is at least entitled to public respect. and do not increase the prestige of an administration of which Mr. Dawes seems to be an frresponsible part.” standing the announcement of Presi- dent Coolidge virtually taking himself out of the presidential race. Mr. But- ler became chairman at the request of the President after the latter had been nominated in 1924. Furthermore, there is a growing belief here that Mr. Butler will seek the Republican nomination again against Senator ‘Walsh next year, in an effort to wipe out the defeat which he sustained at the hands of Mr. Walsh last year. It has been suggested that he may be at greater liberty to make the fight for the Se: in his own way fif the President in the campaign. . matic exchange the failure would not have been such a total one.” The Springfield Republican (independent) declares that “the occasion would not have been fully taken advantage of had not the Vice President, in spite of the presence of both Secretary Kel- logg and Prime Minister Baldwin, had the frankness to tell them, as well as the rest of the world, what were some of the causes for the Geneva failure.” The South Bend Tribune (independent Republican) also holds that “he chose an auspicious moment to tell the world that collapse of the Geneva negotia- tions should not and does not augur ill will between English-speaking peo- ples. Recognizing that the Vice Presi- dent’s one-time speech on the Senate rules “at least set Mr. Dawes outside the pale of the strong silence, then at its peak,” the Dayton Daily News (in- dependent Democratic) continues: *“‘And now, on the international bridge, when_everybody else is whispering, Mr. Dawes emits a yell. That i3 his bet that str~ng silence is now in the discard and that the next nominee of eu mny will be a ?n fi \d‘:a:ll;