Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1927, Page 16

BRANDS MIDWEST DRAG ON PROGRESS Princeton Professor Assails Politicians There as “Parasites.” By the Associated Press. PRINCETON, N. J., December 5. The Daily Princetonian, undergrad- uate publication of Princeton Univer- | Si sity, in its current issue publishes an interview with Prof. Walter L. Whit- tlesey, associate professor of politics, ‘which assails the Midwest as “a liabil- A ity, deadweight and drag on the Na- tion's political leadership, effort and progress.” Criticizing the midlands in a spirit of friendly admiration, Prof. Whittle- sey designates the statesmen of the |§ section as “pumpkin busting Western- | Ma ers, who rise to dumb seniority to the chairmanship of important commit- tees” in Washington, where they “balk and lame and distort the policy of President and cabinet, in whom the Na- tion believes.” “Elaborates” on Epigr: ‘The introduction to the professor's interview states that he is elaborating on the recent epigram: “While gov- ernors of Eastern States are being mentioned for the White House, gov- ernors of Western States are being mentioned for the penitentiary, ap parently for cause in both instances.” “Despite its own self-esteem and self- advertising, despite the brag and hoom of the stump speakers, the Middle West is politically p sitic on the East today,” Prof. Whittlesey tinued. Views Effective Government. ‘The problem of effective government in Washington today is largely that of preventing “the political self-adver- tising of the West and Southwest from manipulating the conduct of national affairs for their own advantage,” he said, adding that this “is what I mean by _political parasiticism.” Coincident with” the decline of statesmanship that he saw in the sec- tion, the professor observes that the “journalism of the Middle West seems to have been dry-rotting for 30 years.” In a less severe strain he concludes his criticism, commending ‘‘the apos- tles of the flivver and silo” who are “building up a civilization where one is sorely needed.” — SESSION OF LITTLE CONGRESS IS CALLED Phe Little Congress, composed of secretaries and clerks to Senators and Representatives, following closely on the heels of Congress itself, will hold the first meeting for this session to- morrow night in _the caucus room of the House Office Building. The speak- er is A. O. Hearne, Texas, and the clerk, H. Wefald, Minnesota. The subject for debate is: “Resolved, That the Little Congress favors amendment of the Volstead act permitting an alcoholic content of 2.75 per cent in beverages, thus legaily au- thorizing the manufacture and sale of beer.” The principal speakers are: Affirma- tive—John Allen Thomas, North Caro- lina; Milton L. Williams, Arkansas. Negative—George E. Strong, Kansas; Ned Baldwin, Oregon. At the conclusion of the regular or- der the debate will be thrown open under the 5-minute rule, when any member may speak. All employes at the Capitol are es- pecially invited, as opportunity will be afforded those who are not members of this organization to become such. The public is invited to all sessions of the Little Congress. con- OW you can have an oil ‘burner that leaps 10 years ahead of the entire oil heate ing industry! SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at and Sailings From New York. ARRIVED Suftren—Havre Colombo—=Genoa S5 DUE TODAY. YESTERDAY. . November November 2. an, Ceiba—Kingston Cristoba i Clua—Limon ... . November 27 DUE TOMORROW. Baracoa—Puerto _Colombia i thampion v . ovember 25 - November 0 Decembe! ver ovember 27 December 4 R 8. ember 20 ovember 27 December 3 DUE THURSDAY. Zacapn—Santa_ Mart Roussillon—Bordeaux Silvia—St. John's . DUE FRIDAY. DECEMBER 9. Patria—Alexandria . ovember 21 DUE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10. Mexico—Tampico DUE SUNDAY. Belgenland—Antwerp Do _Grasse—Havre. .. . President. Roosevelt—Brémerbaven, DECEMBER 11. OUTGOING STEAMERS. SAILING TODAY. City of St. Joseph—Salonica. SAILING TOMORROW. Bergenstiord—Oslo_and Bergen. Buenaventura—Port au Prince and Cris- 1 Cleveland—Cherbourg, and Hamburg. Denis—Para Manuel Arnus—Cadiz and Barcelona. Giusepve Verdi—Naples and Genoa. Leviathan—Cherbourg and Southampton. SAILING WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 7. itania—Cherbourg and Southampton. A i Christiansand, Oslo and enenhagen. 3uffern—Hayre, Carabobo—San’ Juan, Puerto Cabello and Maracaibe SixaolaeaKingston, Cristobal, Puerto Colom- }ia and Santa Marta, SAILING THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8. Shipper—Plymouth and London Ao rosaCCristobal. lauique and Val- Preciient Wilson—Cristobal and Pacific Coast Taronnd the world). Brediionts Wilson™—ivles and Trieste. ho-—] ~Naples 3 R oo Galway. Cherbonrs and Bremen. M chen—Galway. § Coamo—San Juan and San Dominko City. SAILING FRIDAY., DECEMBER 9. (\}!ymviz&(‘})}rrbonrr and Southampton. Snrko—Havana. » ca—G \da, Trinidad and Demerara, flafiflrfi—&'flmnfi. Soathampton and [amburg. Wm‘;r:vr:ii\—-ll‘lurnmu(g.“gharboflm and Bremen. e thoim—Gothenhure. in—Plymonth, Cherbourg and Breten. B meoTaagua. Port au Prince and Mars- Bogeta—Port au Prince, Cartagens and "Pucrto Colombia. SAILING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10. —Queenstown and Liverpool. B aekandecePiymouth. Boulogne and Lon- Devonian—Plymouth, Cherbourg and Ant- werp. Transylvania—Moville and Glasgow. Ascania—Piymouth. Havre and London, Huron—sSanto Domingo City and Sanches. Andania—Queenstown and Liverpool, Tlua—Havana, Cristobal and Port Limon. Manaqui—Santiago, Kingston and Puerto Col bia. Cag-nfi'n“l-smnm. Kingston and Puerto rrios. Rnu:fli“lfil‘u——vllfl and Bordeau: Conte Rosso—Naples and Genoa. ndam— Plymouth, Boulogne and Rotter- am. Siboney—Havana. Ponce—San Juan. Silvia—Halifax and St. Johns. Fort_Victoria—Bermuda. Voltaire—Barbadoes, Rio de Janelro, Mon- tevideo and Buenos Ayres. - e . Southampton Miss Helen Heffernan, former com- missioner of elementary education, will hereafter supervise education in schools outside the incorporated cities of California. NEW QUIET Impr N. & W. RAILROAD WINNER OF MEDAL Awarded Harriman Prize for “Most Conspicuous Accident Preven- tion Work” in 1926. By the Associated Prees. NEW YORK, December 5.—The E. H. Harriman gold medal, awarded an- nually to the railroad which accom- plishes the most conspicuous accident prevention work, has been won by the Norfolk & Western Rallroad for the year 1926, Arthur Williams, president 4|of the American Museum of Safety, announced yesterday:. The Norfolk & stern showed a fl‘ reduction during 1926 of more than 28 per cent in passenger fatalitles.and a reduction of more than 14 per cent in non-fatal accidents, he said. Silver medals were awarded the Du- luth, Missabe & Northern Railway, g | representing the best safety record in the second group of railroads, and to the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railroad, winner in the third group. The roads are classified according to the‘number of locomotive miles oper- ated. The Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railway, winner in the second group for the second consecutive year, re- ported not one person had been killed and only three passengers had been injured during 1925 and 1926. On the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Rail- road no passengers were killed or in- jured in 1926. In addition to the awards a special certificate of merit was voted the Union Pacific Railroad as “special ac- knowledgement of great accomplish- ments in the safety fleld.” For two consecutive years, 1924 and 1925, the Harriman gold medal was awarded the Union Pacific system. A Enthused over his first flight in an airplane, the Marquis of Townsend of England recently declared that as soon as he was of age he would turn the 20,000 acres of his estate into an aero- drome. In the Rain l — All day the rain’s been pouring down, and streams are rushing through the town, and mud is every- where; it is a day to make one smile if he can rest in easy style in his large rocking chair. But some must do their divers chores, must do their duty out of doors, regardless of the rain; I look out through the window glass and see them all, bedraggled, pass, on errands sane or vain. The grocer’s man delivers eggs, and he has mud all up his legs, and more upon his feet; the water sloshes down his neck; he sadly breathes the name of Heck, and also Mike and Pete. But when I greet him at the door he's just as pleasant as of yore, when he was nice and dry; it he is full of wrath and woe he doesn’t let such feclings show or raise a mournful cry. The postman comes and brings a dun from someone who demands the mon that I have owed so long; all day he's traveled through the mud, all day he's faced the storm and flood, and still he's going strong. I wouldn’t blame him if he shook his fist in wrath, and cried, “Gadzook, this is a job for slaves!” But he looks cheerful as he comes, a merry bit of song he hums, he neither rants nor raves. It is a cheerful world, by jings, whereln men do unpleasant things without a sign of ire; they do their tasks ’'neath weeping skies, while I look on and moralize, before a glowing fire. WALT MASON. (Coyright. 1027.) 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MOVIES AELD MENACE °|T0 MORAL SALVATION Representative Lankford Asks Re- form Group to Preserve Child Ideals. By the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH, December 5.—Mo- tion pletures and higher educational institutions were declared a menace to the moral salvation of America, by Representative Willlam C. Lankford of Georgia, yesterday at the sixty- Gruen reinforced oold case. $33 WAL Gruen 14-kt. 8ol Precision Movement. @ 14 designs 850 t0 $500 DI mn Cartouche G 24-kt. solid, gold case. $i0 GRUEN Gruen Cartouche @old_reinforced. $35 Inlaid with enamel Somebody Wants a Bookcase-- a Chair---or a Lamp Attractive Christmas Prices Cartouche ruen Cartouche -kt. cas fourth annual conference of the National Reform Association. Addressing the opening session of the conference, Representative Lank- ford urged the association to extend its efforts to preserve ideals for the American children. He said that the motion pictures were holding up to ridicule the most sacred teachings ol the Bible, and that motion picture interests were spending thousands o dollars to destroy the Sabbath laws in order to encourage Sunday movies. The Bible, he said, is being rejected. “We send our Christian children to higher institutions of learning and they send them back infidels,” he declared. “They are making criminals out of our children ‘who forget the teachings of the Bible.” There is less crime in cities that have Bible reading in the public schools than in cities where such is not the practice, according to Rev. Dr. W. S. Fleming of Chicago, who addressed the conference tonight. “Bibles in the hands of schocl teachers,” he sald, “will do more in bringing this Nation back to correct moral ideals than ropes in the hands of hangmen or clubs in the hands of policemen.” — Disabled Ship Reaches Port. 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