Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1927, Page 8

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The Associated Press s exclusively enntled 10T A ior SFenuiication of a1 news dis Watbhes redited 1o It or not Gtherwiss cred- Te ¥ {hia pAner and also the i e jied In this, paver tnd alae 08 Sublicaton of special dispatches herein are aleo resmrved, e A Picture of Prosperity. An expression of optimism regard- fng the prospect of continued pros- perity in this country coming from the President of the United States has much more weight than from any other source. The Chief Executive has no reason to make public declaration of faith in the persistence of good times other than the facts as they exist and as they are reported to him from all sources. He is interested not in any particular line of industry, b"l‘GlealPr New York, where the traffic ‘laancj' advised of its necessities, but in the general welfare of the people, | is heavy, on both highways and raii- | Perhaps thie is asking too much of and it is in his capacity as Chief of State that he now summarizes the economic conditions in terms that set | hearing on the proposed installation | Mate hecessities which call for dig- at rest the gloomy forecast of those |of automatic gongs at crossings. The |BiNg into a just completed street pav- who for no particular reason have of | general superintendent of the Long IM Job. If & main breaks, or a tele Island Railroad stated at this hearing | Phone conduit goes bad, there is| late been looking for a reaction from the high tide of prosperity. ! It is a natural consequence of past | experience with successive waves of “good” and ard” times that there | should be expectation of recession | from the high leveis that have pre- vailed for the past several years. There is, however, no economic law that governs such things and that brings about successive equalizing | movements. In the past economic de- pressions of severity have occcurred | in consequence of wars, of great dis- asters and of unsound business condi- tions. Such was that of the early seventies, which came sbout mainly | through the instability of the cur-| rency, and likewise twenty years later & very severe reaction occurred due | to the same cause. But the factors that led to those two economic dis- asters have been corrected with the establishment, doubtless for all time, of the sound-money principle and the inauguration of a system of bank con- trol preventing dangerous credit ex- pansion and unsound financing. Continuous bad weather seriously lessening the agricultural output of | the country, prolonged strikes in basic industries, disasters such as the Mis- sissippi flood of last Summer, may temporarily upset the economic bal- ance. But this season now closing has witnessed a combination of these three factors that have not together shaken the foundations of American pros- perity. This has not been in some parts of the country a good year for the farmers. The great floods have taken heavy toll of loss and damage. A coal strike has prevalled for many weeks. And yet the buying power of the people in the main has not been lessened and trade consequently is sood in all parts of the United States. | ‘Were there a feeling of apprehension, prevailing generally throughout the United States, with consequent con- traction of purchases, trade would be seriously affected, and with the de- pression of trade would come retrench- ment, unemployment and hard times. The President sees no such reac- tion. Specifically analyzing the situa- tion, he sees improvement in practi- cally all lines, including even agricul- ture and the textile industries, which have been for some time one of the devressing influences in American economics. Despite repeated state- ments that the country has heen “overbullt,” the President notes that by reports from all over the country up to October 8 the volume of new construction is only one-fourth of one per cent below that of last year, and that the much-discussed slackening is not appreciable. Upon the building activities depends in great degree the prosperity of the fundamental indus- tries, both as contributors to build- ing and as beneficiaries from the con- tinuous employment of great numbers | at good wages. This agreeable picture of the eco- ING STAR of one thoul.lnd pounds by a London by wet and dry Republicans on the newspaper. Now she admits that for eight of the thirteen hours she sat calmly in the boat while its crew killed time in order to make her swim appear authentic. Her ingenuous excuse is not likely to satisfy the public. The public does not care to be hoaxed, and will not tolerate a faker. There are too many good sportsmen in the world who per- form brilliantly in various lines for the public to bother about those who for publicity or pecuniary gain will place themseives in the category of cheaters. Callizo and logan would make an excellent team. She should either “swim” the Channel to France and join him there or he should get into his “world altitude-breaking” plane with its well trained barograph and fiy to England. They would at least be interesting as curiosities. ————a New York Grade Crossings to Go. According to a statement made re- cently by Gov. Smith at a public meet- ing there is a bright prospect that within the coming year agreement will be effected with the railroads in crossings. Plans for this great work bave been pending for some time, but their execution has been delayed be- cause of the desire of the railway cor- | porations to secure the best possible | terms from the commissions in charge. Gradually the differences are being ironed out and the prospect expressed by Gov. Smith is that the relief of i | be effected within a few seasons. Meanwhile efforts are being made | to lessen the peril at frequented cross- |ings, especially in the vicinity of {ways. The Rapid Transit Commission of that jurisdiction has just heid a that the more mechanical safety de. | POthing to-do but dig down to the | vices that are installed the more dan- | gerous a crossing becomes. With each | and his rellance on the new installa- tions increases with time. The cross- ing watchman, he declared, should be on the crossing at all times, alert and | reliable. | All expedients for the warning of highway users of the approach of trains are futile in a great many cases. No crossing at grade can be made safe for all. It cannot be made safe for the chance-taking driver, who, knowing that a train is ap- proaching, tries to get across ahead of it. It cannot he made safe for the driver who is unacquainted with local conditions and does not recognize the signs of danger, or who is inattentive and does not heed them. There are many such drivers on the roads to- day. Usually they have passengers in their cars, often their own families. Yet they continue to take chances, driving against the red lights of ‘watchmen's lanterns by night and red flags and targets by day, speed up to dart under descending gates, even in some cases crashing through lowered gates Sometimes the crossing is masked by buildings and trees. Again the roadside ‘warnings are obscured by foliage or by storm. The whisties of approaching trains cannot be heard in some conditions. Again there are many highly frequented crossings without any protection whatever by bell, light, gate or watchman. The foolproof grade crossing does not exist. The only way to prevent casualties is to run the highway over or under the tracks. Other States than New York must take up the problem of securing this reiief from a menace that is costing America dearly in lives, e Mexican affairs have never de- veloped much respect for the gentler philosophies that commend “conquer- ing by kindness.” ————eees Despite his desire to be a plain | rancher, Albert Fall has to hitch up| and come to town every once in a while. Berge:, & Wet Champion. Gov. Smith of New York, according to Victor Berger, will be elected Presi- dent of the United States by a com- bination of wets, radicals and Demo- crats. The veteran Socialist member |in the van of the country’s needs. To bring about this overthrow, however, Mr. Berger has picked a strange crew. Many of the so-called radicals are not wets, and very many of the wets are not radiéals. Millions of Democrats, | on the other hand, are neither wet nor radical. It will be an effective melting nomic situation which President Cool- idge painte is inspired by facts and not by faith alone, assuring in consequence, U Visitors find Mussolini most affable. The casual caller affords relief from the discussion of political plans. c.——— Fakers. Lieut. Jean Callizo, the French avia- tor, is evidently not as quick-witted as Dr. Dorothy Logan, the London phy- siclan who claimed to have swum the English Channel in faster time than Gertrude Ederle. When Callizo was discovered to have ‘“doctored” barograph in the plane which he as- serted had carried him to 2 new world- racord altftuds he merely broke down and wept, offering no excuses for his deed. But when Dr. Logan was charged with a fake in her Channel mwim she promptly “confessed,” re turned the money that she had won as A prize and said that her hoax was planned to impress the public with the necessity of having an inter- national swims. When.Dr. Logan body of umpires for all beaten Ederle's time, | RS It is the more re- | his | ollapsed” on the beach after her “terrific” ordeal, and on recovering announced that she had considerable skepticism was shown. But inasmuch as she was a physician of repute, and those accompanying her on her swim made afdavits to the effect that she had actually accomplished the feat,| With the object lesson set by wet and | dat can't be nul qo was given due credit and a prize dry Democrats t: the one hand and pang.” | pot, indeed, that can fuse all these | elements 1o bring a Smith victory. Mr. Berger naively suggests that | all radicals who do not think will vote | for Smith, and all those who do think | will vote the Socialist ticket. It seems | | quite clear that even Mr. Berger be- | lieves that most of the radicals “do | not think.” This is an amusing ad- mission from the leader of the Social- ist party, now that Eugene V. Debs has passed out of the picture. Many conservatives have long since suspect- ed it to be a fact. Mr. Berger, hailing from a city which beer made famous if the old boasts of the brewers can he believed, is an ardent wet. He believes, like Senator Borah of Idaho, that prohibi- tion should become a real issue in the national compaign of 1928 But, un- like the Idaho Senator, Mr. Berger be- lieves that prohibition should be ban- ished along with the bootlegger, and that the sale of alcoholic beverages should begin again under license by the Government. Mr. Berger is will- ing, however, that the individual States have the choice as to whether they shall be wet or dry. He feels fairly confident that Wiseonsin, hie own State by adoption, wiil not go dry. The Sociallst party, Mr. Berger as- serts, is against prohibition. Yet thera are many Socialists who believe in the dry law. Perhaps Mr. Berger will find the ranks of his own party torn with dissension qver the liquor question. that State for the abolition of grade | EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. ! 1 other, the warring Socialists will be in | the fashion. To date there is no political party that has nailed the booze flag to its staff. There are Democrats, Repub- licans and now Socialists who demand | their respective parties take such a step. There has been in the past a national prohibition party which raised the dry standard. But that party made little impression as a party. It was only when the drys | “bored from within” and gained as- cendancy in the twoe old political par- | ties that the prohibition amendment | bacame an accomplished fact. It seems clear that the American people, take them by and large, are more in- terested, aven today, in issues other than the satisfaction of an appetite | for liguor. THE ‘Winding roads and make an especial appeal temperaments. There is In them something that winds into the heart and mind of the heholder, so that the road or the path trodden seems to be an old friend. Even if it be the first {ime one has ever sat foot upon it, the curving road has a quality of familiarity not sessed by the finest straight road in the world. ‘The “straight road” has a moral | rather than an artistic appeal. One recalls pictures of such roads leading into futurity, it would seem, with a red setling sun at the end. Certainly, there is much charm in such a scene. A Winter piece, with { unbroken fields of white to each side, with here and there a festive vahhil looking sagely at the beholder, strikes a most human not Far in the distance. to the side of the road. sits a little ho made | smaller by perspective. hoke s | pouring out the chimney. and reflect- ed sunbeams gleam ruddy in the win dows. Yet, for all that the artist can do, he cannot convinee us that straight road, as if laid out with a ruler, has abont it the humanity of the winding road i curved paths to certain Concrete Paving. The District government has a d | concerting habit, it is claimed by some | persons, of paving with beautitul and | solid concrete a street, or number of | streets, then sending in a gang of | men a week or so later to rip up, |2 section of the whole to put in a' sewer or something. “Why couldn't this latter have heen | the Winding road. ‘!houx_ht of first Is the pertinent axpected, and i?’i‘swlhnw::v’:e;‘nvflwl | auestion asked by those who see so|life as well as in art, that makes the | expensive a process indulged in, m;fii':"'-"h:'(’:)j"h“ i"l"’l"-fl» To have all | say nothing of the ruining of the | put 1o n;.x'l"'énx’:.el'}nfirnf;} T smooth surface, as it is extremely | serve is better. difficult to bind new concrete work * ok k% with old. in THIS AND pos- | his | the un- | In all large establishments a cer- the public from this grave peril will | tain lack of co.ordination between in- | various departments | evitable. is perhaps It might seem an easy m ter for the agency responsible f | water mains to keep the street pavi | human beings. There are, of course, certain legi seat of the trouble. Short of such a genuine emergenc; devics instalied, he said, the vigilance | however, it would seem only the part of the crossing watchman diminishes | Of common sene, as well as of econ- omy and the beautification of Wash- ington, to put all necessary improve- The winding road wins the heart of all those who believe that life is not S0 much a duty as a privilege. While not mitigating the duties of life, in so far as life itselt imposes them upon intelligent beings, we come to the realization that mankind has a twofold privilege—not. only to make {the most of himself, but also 1o achleve that result through the use of civilization. at- or ng »n’-tn. happiness better than misery, ,h'vnry(hlnx else heing equal, the ci | lized person prefers to he happy | rather than to put on a long fa Likewise, he rather fancies the beau- tiful, in preference to the ugly. A wider knowledge saves him from the | curse of utter paganism. while with- holding him at the me time from much of the sterility of a needless puritanism. ‘The winding road may he taken as a symbol of the lie which does not hurry, does not particularly imagine that the fate of mankind depends upon its own particular essence, but feels firm- ly that a certain ti- Thus beauty looms larger than ugli-| of Congress from Milwaukee places | the overthrow of national prohibition | little laziness is ments into a section before concrete streets are laid. The very nature of such paving | speaks of permanence. One recalls the great Roman ways, unbroken for miles | upon miles, when one views one of the latest concrete pavings in the District, Such streets by right ought. to be kept unmarred, and any one wanting to dig them up ought to be required to show good cause why it should be done. Any thoughtless extravagance in digging into such surfaces ought to he curbed, and surely the highest degree of co-ordination betwaen various bu- reaus of the municipal government should be exercised, in order that a finished product need not be unneces- Sertly marred shortly After completion. | yyiumn luadscape, with fia ceol wind R T | blowing, its rustling russet leaves, its The persistent practice of depicting | Mias Democracy in pantalettes is prob- ably one of the things that lead so many good citizens to turn from poli- tics and interest themselves in beauty | contest: Oil has become so important in in- ternational affairs that every filling station is contemplated with awe as having possibilities of more or les remote diplomatic relationships. e Bolshevists who deplore capitalism nevertheless show an active interest in the development to best advantages of natural resources involving oil. —— et Remus had many trusty lieutenants. His fate might have been different if he could have placed as much reliance in his home as in his business. —————— Members of royal families in some instances appear to have difficulty in making their political policies seem as important as their divorces. ] SHOOTING STARS. essential to true living. Some dawdling along the way—is not this the desire of the Supreme In telligence who made the worlds to balance each other so delicately in the heavens, who suspended the earth and the moon in fine relationship, who made the flowers to grow so easily and Imperceptibly that no man, by squinting at them, can at it? “The longest way ’round is the shortest way hom ves, and often the most beautiful and the most inspiring, the fullest of treasure, the largest and most comfortable, the longest remembered. % ko To come into a winding country road, after lcaving the best straight effort of city architects, is like step- ping from a superheated room, stuffy with steam, into the clear glor: One of the most significant straw votes of the budding pre-convention Republican campaign has just been announced by the Roosevelt Club of Boston, whose membership spreads through Massachusetts and New Eng- land. Of a possible total of 1,000, votes were cast by 544 members. Hoover, with 283, received more than the combined opposition ard over a jori “Hughes was a slow sec the “eluh bulletin “and Dawes a slow third. The result in detail was as follows: Hoover 5 Hughes Dawes Borah Coolidge .. Smith...... Longworth. Lowden. ... Scattering Another poll which brings solace to the Hoover camp was recently taken {in California among the newspapers |of his home State. Of 188 journals asked 1o express their preference for | the Republican nomination for_ Presi- dent, 144 voted for Hoover. Sixteen declared the Secretary of Commerce to be their second choice. Borah, Lowden, Hughes, Dawes, Longworth and Johnson had only 40 votes among | them all. Four newspapers were un- decided. proclaims, | | BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Sameness. Same old elephant! Same old mule Talk proceeds by the same old rule! Same old tariff with speech proliz— Just. 'bout the same old politics! Bame old rhyming and same old tun Same old sunshine and same old moon! 8till we hear as we jog along, Just 'bout the same old poet song! Bame old hurry as wings draw nigh To shift the travel from earth to sky!| Wondrous changes the years will bring. And yet, 1 thin, T Dwight W. Morrow, now en route to the scene of his strenous ambas dorial activity in Mexico, has known | Calvin Coolidge for 36 years, or long- er than any other man in public life has enjoyed the President’s acqualnt- ance. Their comradeship began at Amherst in 1891. A couple of years ago the banker-diplomat was intro- duced at a luncheon in Washington as “the Col. House of the administra- tion.” When Morrow rose to speak, he denled that soft impeachment, add- ing that one of the things he was most asked about was whether the President aspired to succeed himseif in 1920, “As to that,” Morrow ex- plained to the Juncheon company, “if Calvin Coolidge has ever told any- hody what he's going to do. hefore he does it, that body knows him hetter ! s mostly the same old | | gl | Discreet Oration. “What do you intend to say when Congrees assembles?” “Haven't made up my mind,” an- swered Senator Sorghum. “I shall, of course, reflect the words of my in- catch them | of an | fluential constituents. But 1 shall than T do.” The ex-Morgan partner in it. D. C. WEDNESDAY. THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. first frost-bitten earth, with the edges of white against the brown, its disrep- utable but picturesque edging, with old houses that long ago outlived their usefulness, and now are but sheds or lese, yet manage to infuse into the pectator something of the ardor felt by connoisseurs as they view the in dubitably genuine Mona Lisa ‘There iy a beauty and a charm in | such a scene not felt by the sensiti |in streets of bathroom smugness. | where curb and trees have heen set out by hard-working surveyors, sight- ing from point to point, determined that the chief shall not come along later and detect the slightest error in their caleulatipns. Even I'Enfant, with his engineer's in, who promulgated a startlingly curate and fine plan for the Federal City, felt the need for some deviation from the straight lines of his bisect- inz streets, 3o cut the avenues in at ngles, and scattered round and square public parks at intervals. | City administration is best served by such parallelism. This is exactly | why, however, it is a relief to walk into the country and come upon roads that wind and dip, that seem plainly | upon their way, but leave one in doubt as (o exactly where they are | going. One is not conscious, npon such roads, of the firm guiding hand of a city council, but feels upon his own | resources, responsive to his own will and mind. | Winding roads give the pedestrian— |one would not say the automobilist— the feeling that something is left to his own finitiative. This may be a | false impression, it is true, since the curve may be a necessary part of the road and not just placed there to please him, but at the same time the impression’ left js that the makers were indifferent to the ending, that they rather relished the curves them- selves, and hoped that, in the fullness 'of time, you would come along thix way and enjoy it. too. o | br | Curving patha through the wood h one finds in Rock Creek | Park, or even in the Zoo, bring sophisticated persons down to the | level of the humble cow, whose brain is at the other remove from that of the modern intellectual. ‘They say that most of the winding paths of todav were originated by cows, givers of milk toonr forefathers. Colonlal cows that insisted on going {from place to place in their own | pecullar way. ow paths, according to those fa- miliar with the creatures, are made { by some occult abllity of the cow. | Once trampled: into being, such paths may be obliterated later, only to he | created anew by the cows in exactly the same path as before. Just how the cow achieves this un- | erring accuracy in its erratic path is | not explainable in terms of modern nce. Perhaps good Bossy is something of a philosopher, who be- lieves explicitly in the desirability of e curve, as opposed to the crass pediency of the straight line. “Let he lion,” says she, “run as straight |as an arrow to his prey: 1 will take |my time at my wandering and go | home by a path of my own.” This, after all, is a sublime philoso- phy, is it not? Man must get home by a path of his own, not so much through the ready-made cuts of | others. If the straight waya of others |lead not to the desired haven, the {only thing for a man to do is to sta |along a path of his own and stick to | until he comes out into the clearing at iast, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, |and defense, respectively, will conduct the trial. Maj. Peyton Gordon, suave | United States district attorney, made every jury candidate tell whether he or she nad against circnmstantial evidenc Un- mistakably the Government expects to rely extensively on proof of that kind. Counsel for the two defendants, on | | their” part, were at great pains to a: {certain from the jury panel whether this or that one has, or ever had, rela- | |tives, working for the Government. Then followed this interrogatior “Would the fact that the (Government |is a party to this case prevent you |from giving a verdict, on the facts |and the Jaw, without fear or favor?” One talesman was excused because he | | works for a lumber firm which occa- | sionally deals with the Government. | Another was let off because he once served in the Signal Corps of the Army, * ok ok Walter 8. Penfleld of Indiana, an international lawyer practicing in ;\\zshinglnn. is strongly backed by !the Hoosier delegation in Congress | for the American ambassadorship at | Havana. Penfield came warmly 1o ‘Theodore Roosevelt’'s rescue at the Williamstown Institute of Politics a | couple of years ago. The Latin Ameri- lean representative there was Zeballos, former Argentinian foreign secretary and minister to the Iinited | States. Zeballos was complaining bit- | terly of the ignorance of even cultured | Americans about Latin American at | fairs. Thereupon he produced a tim: | worn letter once sent him by Roose- | velt, when “T. R.” was a magazine editor after leaving the White House. | The letter was addressed, “Senator | Zeballos, Buenos Afres, Brazil.” Pen- field did his best to convince the South American statesman that “Teddy’s” stenographer was probably to blame, having been told to address Zeballos as_Senor, not Senator,and that Roose- velt doubtless dictated simply “Buenos Aires,” leaving the typing nymph to |add Argentina. But the irate Latin |would not have it that way, and {letter as prima facie evidence that he OCTOBER _19. 1927. Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. | How far i the wet and dry issue to {play a part in the 1928 national politi cal campaign? Candidates for offic embody principles of government in | the eyes of the American voter. If| | hoth the major parties nominate for President men who are regarded as | drye, the fight of the wets for recogni. | {tion will be a secondary contest, waged !ir congressional, senatorial and guber- natorlal elections. But if one of the major parties nominates a wet and the other a dry, the issue will be joined in a national way. It is true| that a President of the United States cannot change the Constitution nor the eighteenth amendment or repeal the Volstead act. But if a wet can be elected President, it will be a tre- mendous encouragement to the erals (so called) to distingulsh them from the drys. It will be a signal to members of Congress that prohibition is not as popular as has been sup posed the country over. It may have » strong influenca upon the votes cast |in ongress upon prohibition legisla tion. P Kver since the eighteenth amend ment was placed in the Constitution and the Volstead law enacted the anti prohibitionists have been attacking 1t the enforcement of the prohibition law had heen practically perfect. if the hootlegging Industry had not become one of the greatest industries in the ccuntry in volume and in the amount of money fnvolved. the wet and dry issue would have faded from the pic ture. But only the willfully blind de. nies that Infraction of the prohibition Jaw is not conducted on a gigantic scale. | | the lowest part of the valley. 1ib- | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKI Q. Where is the Devil's Golf Course?| The Tle de France is the world's sixth A Jd. Jll!‘!ll i el. A. This scenlc feature is in Death lley. The name is given to part of | lake. that occupies | This | | plava ix composed of salt and clay heds, parts of which are quite smooth | land other parts very rough., with { jagged points. The smooth parts per- | hapse suggest the greens and the rough parts the hazards of a golf course. Q. What big ci | books_to school children?— | " A. The following cities of more than 100.000 inhabitants provide free text | books: Birmingham. Buffalo, Cincin- nati, Cleveland, elumbus, Denver, | Detroit, Minneapolis, New Ifaven, | New York, St. Louis, Syracuse and |y, | Toledo. Tn'Washington text books are | | provided in the grades, but not in high | | school. Q. Why is it not for chil Aren to correspond with their parents | in leper colonies?—A. B. 8 All_ mail coming from leper col onies is fumigated thoroughly before leaving the colonies Q. Has the R comple restored? expense’—F. A. W. . The reconstruction of the Rheims Cathedral is not compiere e ex pense of reconstruction is horne by John D. Rockefeller, § Q. Q. What other ruler was assasel- nated the same vear as President Garfield?—A. B. ) A. Alexander II. Czar of Russia, was assassinated on March 13, 1881, and President Garfield on July 3 ef the same year, v the playa. or dry Q. How many elephanis does take to supply the ivory that fs eavery year’—O. B. T. A. From 12.000 to 15,000 elephants are killed annually towfurnish the world's ivory suppi % Q; How long ‘has tin been in use?— A w The production of this metal known at Jeast in the time of Moses. Later, according to Jewish history, it was hrought by the ships | of Tarshish from the islands east of the Persian Gulf. The ancient Phoeni- clans, probably 2.000 years ago, are Known to have visited the mines of Cornwall for tin stone as an article of commerce, and these mines are still producing ore, are Pl imo ims Cathedral heen Egkimo men? Who bore the man fs short and not more than 5 fi heigh The average Japanese man is 5 feet usually 4 inches in height of the 2 inches. Q. How much do bears weigh when they are born?—L. 8. N. ! A. The average weight of a hear at birth is from 16 to 24 ounces. How many p {issiied in a year?—R. A. R | A. The total number of ordinar | stamps of all denominations issue Auring the fiscal vear ended June 30, tage A, amps are Q. How many fore Borah of | 1926, was 16,333.410,317. These figur. do not include the special delivery or special handling stam neither do they include embossed stamped en velopes. Q strokes?—(. F. B A. There ars estimates only. These A range from a few hundred thousand e 3 t several billion volts, depending upon 1t the Tdaho Senator has his way. | (p 2o eEt O O N nn making (he the Republican party will g0 on record | oiimytes. No measurements have in its platform as favering prohibi- [y W ER, tion and its enforcement. There is no | middle of the road for Mr. Borah in| Q. Does a this matter. The party must stand | weigh more than when deflated: for the dry law or against it. No one | W. D, belleves that the G. O. P. will he A, n the opinion of Senator Idaho, there must bhe a showdown at the polls next vear on the question of enforcing the prohibition law. He de- mands the election of a President and | the choice of all lesser officials who | are in sympathy with the prohibition law and ready to go the limit to en- | foree it. salloon filled with air —R. Since air has weight, an inflated ably not even Dr. Nicholas Murray | balloon. Butler, president of Columbia Univer- | sity, who has foretold Republican dis aster unless the party turned wet. But|daddy longlegs?—H. L. Senator Borah, nevertheless, is drag.| A Tn America the names “daddy ging the issue into the open. He will ' longlegs” and “granddaddy longlegs’ have no little support from other ar-|are applied to the harvest spider. a dent drys. Indeed, nearly all of the barmless insect having legs contain What is the real name of the | ing more than 50 joints each. In Eng- What is the voltage of lightning | found espousing_the wet cause, prob- halloon weighs more than a deflated | ! gners were there in China in 19 K. A. According (o an estimate of the customs authorities, in 1925 the total number was 336,841, Q. at Robert G. Inge soli recanted his atheistic views before his death?—8. M A. This has heen vigoronsly denied hy his family. In a recent biography of Ingersoll is a copy of a letter writ- ten by him July 13, 1899, only a few day! fore his death, in which he ays, “You are right in thinking I have not changed. I still believe that all religions are hased on falsehoods and mistakes. 1 still deny the exist- ence of the supernatural, and I still say that real religion is usefulnes: Q. Ts it true Who is the “Gentleman with a Duster”? -D. W. A. This is a Harold RBeghie, Journalist. Q. Were pen mame nsed by English author and the Greal Lakes al | time a_single body of water:—S. N. A. The Smithsonian Institution « one it, no matter how winding it may bhe, | “any bias or prejudice | Senor | | pointed to “T. R.’s” signature to the | apparently didn’t see anything wrong | Progressives, with whom he has allied himself, are drys. They hail from dry States of the West, with the exception of La Follette and Blaine of Wiscon sin. Norris of Nebraska, Nye and Frazier of North Dakota, Brookhart of Towa, McMaster of South Dakota all are drys. If Mr. Borah is to the Progressives in the Senate, and perhaps in the pre-convention cam paign for the presidential nomination. he will not suffer by the stand he has taken on the dry question. | * K oK K | Dry Democrats are hattling in the | meantime desperately to eliminate | Gov. Al Smith of New York as the possible standard bearer of their party next year. When the Democratic na- tional committee assembles here next January 12 to pick ths convention city and fix a time for the convention. there is likely to be far more interest | in candidacies than in cities. Chair man Clem Shaver of the Democratic national committee is seeking to bring harmony to the party. in which har- mony has for three years been a minus quantity. But Mr. Shaver's idea of harmony does not contemplate the nomination of Gov. Smith. The people | ot West Virginia, Mr. Shaver's home | State, are politically dry. They are anti-Catholie. This is true of the peo- ple of other “border” States, including Kentucky and Tennessee. The nomi- nation of Al Smith would, it is said, 1ose these States to the Democracy in all probability, not to mention many others. * Kk k ¥ The advoca Judge Charles Evans Hughes of New York for President by Secretary Mel- lon of the Treasury Department is puzzling some of the most astute poli ticians. They do not know whether Mr. Mellon is more anxious to have | Mr. Hughes nominated or more anx- | ious to prevent the nomination of See- | retary Hoover of the Department of Commerce. They do not know, too. whether Mr. Mellon would swing the Pennsylvania delegation in the Repub- lecan national convention from M Hughes if he could not he nominaied |to Vice President Dawes rather than ! to Mr. Hoover. These are points they | would like to have cleared up. What they fear, at least those of them who favor Mr. Hoover, is that Mr. Mellon on friendly terms with some of the so called international bankers who are not so friendly with Mr. Hoover, may in the end prefer Gen. Dawes, who is | looked upon more favorably by the international bankers. During the 1924 | convention, when the G. P. was | searching assiduously for a vice presi- dential nominee, word was passed oul that President Coolidge, at t | friends in the convention, would well satisfled with the nomination of Mr. Hoove) Meilon_throw the Pennsylvania delegation to Mr. Hoover? He did not. He voted the delegation solidly for Gen. Dawes. | Now the politicians are asking them- selves whethar Mr. Mellon may come | around to the support of the Vice President for President in the next national convention. * ¥ Xx ¥ 1 Tt begins to look as though the Re- publican leaders are hent upon mdk- ing prosperity the issue in the next campalgn_if they can do so. And it the conditions in the country next year are favorable they are likely to do 0 effectively. There is every rea- son to expect a further tax reduction by Congress on the eve of the cam- paign. Wages are high, even higher |in some cases than they were during | the war. There is no real unemploy- ~ | married couple, to whom should it | d v of the nomination of | ; | Evening News (independent Republi- | { will the use of Federal property be land, however, daddy longlegs is ap-|that at a remote time the State of lled to the crane fly, a true fly having | Michigan and the adjacent Great | legs. Lakes were a vast inland sea. | Q. In writing a “thank-vou™ note to| This is @ special department de- voted solely to the handling of querics. This_paper puts at your disposal the services of an cxtensive organization in Washington to serve yow in any capacity that relates to_information. | This service is free. Failure to make Q. Please tell how large the Tle de | use of it deprives you of benefits to | France is—F. D. | which you are entitled. Your oblige- A. The Ile de France is 790 feet in |tion is only 2 cents in stamps inclosed length, 98! feet beam. She has a|wilh your inquiry for dircct reply. gross tonnage of 43,000 tons. The tur-| Address The Evenimg Star Informa- Dbines develop 52.000 horsepower, and | tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Di- drive the vessel at 2313 knots an hour. rector. Washington, D. C. Teapot Dome Decisions Win Supreme Court High Praise be addressed?—D. F. | "A. It is correct to address the wife | [and to include thanks which are of- | i fered to the hushand. i i | The decision of the United States|like Walsh and Wheeler were vilified Supreme Court restoring the Teapot | and traduced because of their brave Dome oil reserve to the Government | fight to unearth. the teeming corrup- for the use of the Navy is made the|tion ot the Government, but they occasion for striking tributes to. that | kept doggedly at their, task until time tribunal from the press of the country. |and lsaden-footed justice brought Emphasis is placed upon the unani- | their complete vindication mous utterance of the court charging| Krom another point of view, t unfaithtulness in office on the part of | Casper Tribune declares: “Had Sin. former Secretary Fall and cnrrupnon]clnir been victorious, it was stated {in the.transactions with Harry F. Sin- | that development would go on at a clair. The plainness of the court's|rapid pace, which would have meant !language is a subject of comment. additional activity in Casper and in “Since it was created by the framers | the field itself. ~Tn the opinion of Constitution,” says the Toledo | many Casper and Wyoming people. it Blade (independent Republican), “the |is regrettable that the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court apparently preclud as commanded the confidence of the | possibility of such development. people in its ability and absolute in-| Tulsa Evening World points out that | tegrity, and the Fall-Doheny-Sinclair | “the Teapot Dome never did spout the | decis’ons prove the wisdom of the|cil it was expected to spout, and we words of an old French publicist, ‘l”"lv? not 1he !“lh{flll‘dfluhl lh_at t has no guards. palaces or treasures. | Sinclair Company, which exploited if. no armies but truth and wisdom, and | would have been glad long ago to ha ! no splendor but the justice and pub- | voluntarily canceled the lease if it licity of its judgment. The Albany | could have had some assurance of re covering even a small part of l?u will find | money invested in the development.” * ¥k ¥ ¥ The decisive nature of the court’'s can) adds that nclair eventually that neither he nor any | man ix higger than the Government of | the Tnited States.” decision is emphasized by the Savan- “Their culpable acts were denounced | yah Press (Democratic), Santa Bar- in almost the language of judicial|jara Daily News (Democratic), Pori- wrath,” according to the Fort Wayne | Jand (Oreg.) 'Journal (independent), Journal-Gazette (Democratic), and the | New York Sun (independent) and T Providence Journal (independent) ex- | qianapolis Néws (independent). The presses the hope that “never again|j\fanchester Union (independent Re- | publican) sees in the matter econ- demned “a public dishonor, for which 2 all good Americans are ashamed, and The Kansas | ig gratifying to all to know that the c t) comments: | ighest court of the land has inter ‘The American people have become | preted it for what it is and has made emely cynical about their system | ¢ ch amends as are possible. of iustice, it often being charged that | "It s of course. » happy only the poor criminal goes to jail. | gyriing feeling to Know' that Here is an excellent opportunity 10| gitions no longer prevail.” s disprove such contentions.” The Mil-| atjanta Journal (Democratic), “yvet the ukee .Journal (independent) asks:| people very generally feel that the ‘Were there ever plainer words of | cleansing of the Interior Department """"-em"a“f’m* hasn’t fully served the ends of jus- e | tice.” The Dayton Daily News (i “It is a matter of pride,” states the | derdent Democratic) asserts: Hartford Times (independent Demo- Dears under our jurisprudence to he cratic), “that the Supreme Court did | about 17 times as easy to scotch a hig not mince matters in calling these de- | fraud as to touch the flesh of tne hig ceptions and frauds by their right|defrauder.” But the Schenectady Ga names,” and the Little Rock Arkansas | zette (independent Democratic) be Democrat (Democratic) remarks: “Of | lieves that *notice has been served course, the highest court didn't in-| upon other officials that if they at- dulge in such worldy adjectives asitempt anything of a corrupt nature ‘rotten,’ but it did use expressions like there are men aggressive enough and ‘transactions arose for no legitimate | interested enough in the count purpose.’ ‘persuasive evidence of such | fare who will camp on their a conspiracy,’ ‘faithless public officer | mtil they are brought to justice. signed away in the circumstances that the Supreme Court says surrounded the first transaction.” City Post (indepen and eom uch con es the will he forced to disgorge remains fo omit the profanity.” Admired Utility. The porker does not please the e Yet he commands respect complete, Because we know that by and by He will be first-rate sausage meat. And 8o we strive to tolerate Unlovely things, from day to day, | Bacause of usefulness so great ‘Which, later on, they will display. Jud Tunkins says if everybody had to know exactly what he was talking about there would be fewer mono- logues and more research work. Empty Assurance. “He says he would willingly lay the | world at my feet,” said the confiding girl. “Why should he trouble?” said Miss Cayenne, “That's where you already have it.” “Forgive the man who does you an injury,” said Hi Ho, the sage of China. town, “but not in a way that will en. courage him to repeat it." Climatic Complaint. And so it goes throughout the year— October days are damp and drear! Each month that comes along we view As just a source of troubles new. “Old Satan,” said Uncle Eben, “looks to me like he was runnin’ a pretty big hoardin’ house foh guests | on his one publi | America fin' but poor com- | * o ok K Thix writer has received an inquiry from a radio constituent asking when said scribe’s hroadcasting activities |are to be renewed. “All of us out this * Kk !way.” the radio fan says, “would like Vice Admiral Sir Walter Cowan,|[to hear you talk about this Teapot commander of the British cruiser |Zone business.” squadron now anchored in Washing- R N d, is a mite of a man 3 ;’:&»fi:}’lz ‘:i:;pm'hls brilliant career| A Baltimore & Ohio passenger train Y ighting wea-dog. Like his fa-|conductor, Zach M. Biddison, re- mous commander-in-chief in theimarked to a party of Washingtonians Vi ellicoe, ‘owan (at the Fair of the Iron Horse that World War, Al e 5 feet 4 {he'd had the honor of “carrying Presi- inches in height, is slender as a rail|dent Coolidge out to the Black Hills and as soft-spoken as a schoolgirl. He |last Summer.” Then Biddison added has an exquisite sense of humor and that his grandfather—who was a Bal- appearance in Wash- | timore & Ohlo conductor, too—had ington revealed it to the astonishment |often carried” President Abraham of an audience educated, like all|Lincoln. Biddison's father before him o believe that British was a Baltimore & Ohio man, and his humor—as Mark Twain once re-!son is following in the ancestral fpot- marked—is heavily disguised. Every-|steps—four generations all told. body is struck by the youthfulness | (Conyright. 1927.) of Admiral Cowan’s officers, compared to their American comrades. In the e British service, officers attain rank much earlier than in the United States Navy. The average age of A British lieutenant commander, on h achieving that grade, is 30; in our |gas, the hit-and-run driver can never Navy it is 34. Commander’s rank |run away from the condemnation of in Britain usually is given at d | his own conscience. with us_ at 40: a captain’s rank in : Hi ty’ i A ven o is Majesty’s navy is normally & Olice Ugon A Time. rom the Denver Post. at 42, and here at 52, while a Brit All presidential candidates were first ish officer becomes a rear admiral lt|l the average age of 52, compared to| { nominated by national conventions in | the campaign of 1832. 56 in the case of an American. Cow- o an's staff is a trim, handsome, work- e i Good Congressional Timber manlike outfit. Questions asked during the exam- From the Boston Transcript. ination of talesmen (and taleswomen)| A New York man has held his for the Fall-Sinclair jury indicated the 'breath six minutes. By all means, major lines along which prosecutiga elect him to CW goer to Mexico City conscious of the | thorny path he has to tread, but in a | spirit of devoted service to his oldest | friend, the President of the United| States, ! Conscience Inactive. om the Fort Wayne News. | Fro | No matter how hard he steps on the ment problem and none now in sight. * ok Kk The “draft Coolidge” talk. which | has ebbed and flowed ever since the President issued his “I do not choose" statement in the Black Hills, is again on the increase. It begins to look as though the President in the end would be forced to tell either the entire coin- try, or at least his intimates in the party, that he positively does not in- tend to be drafted, or else be co fronted with the decision of accepting or rejecting the nomination after the convention has met. Republicans who are most favorable to his nomination expect this consideration from him if he will not run. It Mr. Coolidge should again be nominated for President and elected, the next four years would eliminate | pretty successtully a number of men now prominently mentioned for the | presidential nomination. Age would | do the joh. ¥or example, Lowden would be 71 in 1932; Dawes. 66; Long. worth, 62: Hughes, 70; Borah, 66, and | i Norris, 70. But Mr. Hoov on the | other hand, would be only 57. [It| would be like plain sailing for the | Californian in 1932, x 1 L Speaker Nicholas Longworth faces rather a difficult position when it comes to being a presidential candl- date. If he goes out for the Ohio dele- gation next year in the presidential primaries, some ambitious young man may make up his mind to run for Mr. Longworth’s congressional seat. There are one or two who might easily un- dertake the venture. Mr. Longworth would have to fil. for Congress while the Republican national convention was still on, in all probability. He must decide, it appears, whether h is to be & candidate for the presiden- tial nomination, with a rather alim |it is said, that he will enter the Ohi and others of appropriate dignit “How much the Sinclair interests Ihe seen.” says the: Roanoke World | The Charleston Evening Post (indepen- dent Democratic) observes: “A truly amazing record of official corruption News (independent Democratic). with and complacency and of public indif-| the added comment that “the fact that terence, compensated for only by judi- | their lease was secured by fraud and cial integrity | corruption is now finally determine “In_his first public pronouncement : The Chicago Tribune (Republican) as President.” it is recalled by the lrands the transactions as sho Birmingham News (Democratic), “Mr. | “aimost unparalleled political corrup- Coolidge advocated prompt, unflinch- | tion.” and the Wichita Beacon (inde- ing prosecution of persons rightly sus. | pendent Republican) holds that “Al- pected of guilt. This promise has been | bert Fall will go down in history in measurably redeemed, even though the i company with Benedict Arnold and President has failed to drive the prose. ' Aaron Burr.” cution home in a fashion that would | have restored the moral fervor of his | " The success of the Govern- unsel. Roberts and Pomerene, ! is a subject of comment by the Pitts. | burgh Post-Gazette (independent) and Springfield Union (Republican). * debt of gratitude to the little group of | men who stuck relentlessly to the task | of dragging these transactions out| into the open” is recognized by the, German 1l-hoat sinks American Newark Evening News (independent), | {ransport _Antilles returning from and the Omaha World-Herald Surope. Sinks in 5 minutes and 70 dependent) remembers that men perish, including. 16 soldiers. The first of our transports to he sunk. Safeguards provided by the Navy De- UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today —_— | . ! 4 il v . chance Gf winning. or of auccesding | Do "o My or inan o' hott rescue of 167 of those on board himself in the House. Tt is doubtful, | Neither torpedo nor submarine was 0 | pr * o ¢ Gen presidential preference primary at all, ,',’;:;’,"',‘,':;’y,,,';‘,':"’:‘l',ry Am-rlcunulufl- * ok ok ok dier in France to subscribe jo the From far North Dakota comes word | Liberty loan. * * * United States that Gov. A. G. Sorlie may be a can-{to give immediate relief to France didate for the Senate next year if the|by diverting from 270,000 to 280.- people insist upon drafting him. Sen-} 000 dead-weight tons of shipping ator Frazier is up for re-election at|into commerce between the two that time. Both are Progressives, and | nations. * Advances of $25. have had the support of the Non-Par-| 000,000 to Great Britain and $20.- tisan League. Gov. Sorlie has been 000,000 to France, made today, bring twice elected Governor. He says he| total thus far advanced to allies up does not wish to stand for re-election | to $2,756,400,000. *. * * . Hoover as Governor, but that the senatorship | urges people to cut down still further is a different thing. If he decides to]on sugar in order to help iur allies. enter the lists with Senator Frazier,| People rushing to buy find there umbshnmmm