Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1928, Page 18

2 B AR it THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. SUNDAY........January 1, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11th St and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Office: st 4nd S Chicago Office: Tower Buildine European Office- 14 Rezent St.. iondon, England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. e Evening Star. 45¢ per manth he Eveming and Sunda {when 4 Sundaye! 0¢ per month The Evenine ani Sunday Star (when 5", S viers mav ho sent in by mail o Nain 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 1vr. 1erl telephone 1mo 1mo.* P1mo.$ 1mo imo. Member of the Associated Press. The Asso 0 the use 400 82 ted Press 15 excinsively entitlod republication of il news e °d 10 1t or not otherwise «ted per and also the lncal All rights of pubhication hes herain are also reseryad In what may be styled a New Year messege to the American people, the Secyetary of the Treasury predicts *hat the next twelve months will be marked by continued progress and by prosperity. Mr. Mellon is in close touch with all the | factors of business activity and knows the trend of economic conditions inti- | No one is better versed in the | 1. financial and trade situa- tion in the United States, and his ex- | pression of confidence i the mainte- | nance of the country's prosperity has | of authority which con- stitutes a ew Year greeting” that will be happily received by millions. In his analysis Secretary Mellon points out that while there has been some recession of business activity from the high levels of 1926, the growth of the country has proceeded along nor- mal Lines and great progress has been made even in the face of several ad- verse circumstances. Commodity prices continued to fall throughout the year, but a large volume of business was done notwithstanding, showing the ability of business to introduce economies in pro- duction ard to avoid the accumulation of excessive inventories. This adapta- b.lity is one of the greatest causes for | confidence in the future. | American business has been reduced to scientific principles. It is no longer 2 matter of haphazard production and marketing. Manufacturers and traders are in close communion and keep ac- curate count of the economic pulse. Capital is used to the best advantage. Overextension of credit is rare and bankruptey is, with relation to the vol- ume of business, becoming less fre- quent. Through a more judicious grant ©f credits both by the factors of produc- tion and distribution and by the banks, the country's financial structure is sub- Jected to less strain. Mr. Mellon in his enalysis notes that the banks have | &hown large ircreases in loans and in- | vyestments, and it is known that an enormous sum has been placed by the | public at large in sound securities, thus turning back to capital account a vast fortune in individual contributions. This mutuality of relationship be- tween the consuming public and the producing and distributing elements, through participation in ownership, is one of the strongest elements of eco- nomic health in the United States. The number of people who are merely con- sumers and who are not participants in any manner in the industrial and trade sctivities is steadily growing smaller. ‘The buying power of the public is | efter all the determining element in | national prosperity. Large reductions | ©f wages. a general closing down of in- | @ustrial establishments, a curtailment | ©of trade scope will lessen that buying ' power. There is nothing in sight to! indicate such a process. The shorten- ing of production is usually due to a fear of oversupply, which in turn is due 0 2 falling off in the ability to market goods. Fear of falling incomes leads t individual economies which, spread through large numbers, aggregate to the point of a stagnation of trade. The economic balance is maintained when fear is absent on the part of the public on the score of the loss of income and on the part of manufacturers and dis- tributors on the score of the public's buying power. Such a8 situation pre- | zents jtself now. Confidence has been estzhlished and there is nothing in view | 10 threaten a loss of that confidence. Hence the forecast by the Becretary of the Treasury of another year of prog- yess and prosperity is 1o be accepted as #n assurance that the “good times which this country has been enloying | for several years past will con! g 100 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, JANUARY 1, 1928—PART 2. structively it is to the future that on: now looks., demanding that the lives of the officers and men lost on the S-4 shall at least have purchased every possible safeguard for their brothers in this most hazardous branch of the national service, At least four precautionary measures —all absent in the case of the S-4— call for most thoroughgoing investiga- tion. There is the smoke bomb. a flare at night, fired from a special de- vice on the submarine while sub- merged in anticipation of emerging Such a device, had 1t been available to the S-4, would, through its warning to all surface shipping. have prevented the disaster. There is the placing of emer- gency air valves leading to each com- | partment of the submarine, to which | a diver may in a minimum of time at- tach a line so that the air. which is | iife, may be conveyed to the occupants | pending further rescue steps. Such equipment could have saved a portion of the crew of the S-4 had it been | | available to the divers in those few | | precious hours prior to the storm. There | is the carrying of all possible oxygen tanks in peace-time replacement of a full war-time ammunition supply. There are the proposed hooks or loops ex- terior to the hulls of all submarines to | which lifting chains or hawsers may be promptly attached and the ship rai without the difficult and lengthy wi of passing chains beneath the hull. It is difficult for the lay mind to | comprehend what technical nb<(nrlr<‘ have prevented the adoption of any one of these devices. It is more than possible that the availability of any one of them would have saved the lives of those who survived the first crash | of the S-4. It is the imperative demand of the country as a whole that the tragic lesson of Christmas time shal: | serve to insure against the possibility of a similar horror in the future. That | demand will not cease to be uttered until the responsible authorities give | adequate assurance that their responsi- | bilities have been met. Hoover Against the Field. ‘The Hoover boom for the Republican presidential nomination grows apace. The latest convert to the Hoover canse, Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jerscy, is & welcome addition, causing much elation among the followers of the Sec- retary of Commerce. They rejoice par- ticularly because Mr. Edge's conversion brings into line another leader in the | East. The report has been going the | rounds that the Republican leaders in | the big. populous States of the East were disinclined to nominate Mr. Hoover. Senator Edge is a “wet,” and the candidacy of Mr. Hoover has been | given the approval of the Anti-Saloon | League. Senator Edge has opposition to his leadership in New Jersey, but on the whole he is firmly entrenched, and his declaration for Hoover can scarcely fail to give impetus to the latter's boom. The strategy of many of the Eastern leaders to date has been to urge the selection of “uninstructed” delegations to the Republican national convention. They have had two objects in mind First. to be ready and able to jump to President Coolidge if the demand for his renomination continues great. Sec- ond, if Mr. Coolidge is adamant ani | entirely out of the picture, to be in a | position to “look around” and make the | best deal possible before they select the winning candidate. That is politics, as many of the political leaders see it. Mr. Edge has been one of those who has favored an uninstructed delegation and the renomination of the President. Apparently, he has reached the con- clusion that the President has effectually eliminated himself. His declaration for Mr. Hoover may start a bandwagon movement in the Eastern part of the country. New Jersey will send to the national eonvention a drlezation larg- and effective when it romes to eolectine A nesgidantia]l naminas | Ornmaents of Me. Foaver fn the | Wast and there are Fagusr annanents n this section of the eountry, are| wacking desper-tely to find some mean< nf heading off the man who apnrars | tnday to be leading the field. Thev ook anxiously to Secretary Mellon of the Treasury Department. reputed to hold the Pennsylvania delegation in his pocket. They look to Charles D Hilles of New York, who has recently sought to bring about a “back-tn-Cool- idge” movement. But they realize that they cannot stop Mr. Hoover unless they have an effective candidate. More and more the belief grows that Presi- dent. Crolidge will not permit himself | o be drafted. The plan for unin- stricted delepations seems to be slip- ning. Mr. Mellon himself insists he is not to be considered a canddate althongh it is generally supposed that | the Pennsylvania delegation namerically only to that from York, will east its first ballot or two | for the Becretary of the Treas secord | New AR N e Narrow escapes have become 30 usual with Lincbergh that the public is be- | coming reconciled w his daring and is learning not ¥ be nerv A first- | class aviator refuses 1o take along any | trace of fear as & part of his equipment. | —_———e—— | The 8-4 Inquiries, Two inquiries into the Cark tragedy | of the einking of the submarine B-4 are announced s In process of prepara- uon The first of these 0 be con- Cucted by hgh-rancing Navy officers will concern itself with the facts reculy surrounging Derticular dis- P -4 cond. still in » w an ¢ these and w th ter 1 the it 1 probably wnd will ot delve into the whole subject adequate safety and sal- wae 8t the Ume of tise Uagedy svelable for United Bates sl ines, and i the finding be in e negalive, what supplied. The dste for the List of thew nvestigations ls scheduled fos “some Lme snortly atter the first of the yesr © N Gale hes as yet been set for the wes nor has the composi- Lon o the buard, o a5 se i Known, Loen Gecided upon There e no fwilure W press s second Inguiry; no willingness W wecept the Nevy lnvestigation into the smmediste tregedy us mdequate The Metion shocked tiom cosst W cosst by the prolonged horior of thie deye when & portion of the crew of the ill-fated B4 welted i vain for rescue, 18 in- eistent hat no eteps be neglected 1o prevent & repetition of that agony Properly the inquiry will establish whether tiere has been any past ne Jgence, Bul tundementally nfi con- whether e pIent st Cevices should b | more in compliment than in the belief | | that he can or will be nominated Mr. Hoover today appears to have strength in a'l parts of the country. with the possible exception of the corn | ar4 wheat belts of the Middle West | and Northwest, He is strong on the Pacific Coast, where California, his home, 15 planning to send a delegation instructed for him, and Washington | and Oregon are likely to fall in line He has strength in the intermountain | Btates, particularly Colorado and | h. In the Bouth Mr. Hoover is highly regardea becanse of his work | » In New New Hampsisre and A | the dead in the Ho and the Becretary Vermont, Ma A0 Rhode 1dand and Connectiout, Lead | g politiclans i Maryland have de- | clared for Hoover The task of the Huover ¢ position 1s growing constant- Iy more arduous. And more wnd more i wppesrs thai 1t iy Mo, ngainist | |the field n the race for the Repub- | | lican nomination | v ———— | The fact that it is the season for | turning over w new leaf exerts hittle ap- | parent influence over the Fall-Binclair 1:,.» which i& obviously prepared | carry 18 u1d wild pace right slong inu | 1928 in the | England, e ippl Tlood area i my trength taken ment, has in el | | | " .- - | 1924 The year 1927 is now history, |one more wdded 1o the long $iing ol | dutes wccumulating since we began 1o leount Ume as we do. It 18 gone, and gone forever, Just as much as 1827, or 1727, It was not & bed year st Lhat for the United Etates and for the ma- fut jevery one of the other 365 | point of view: to real ,I(l:md‘ lives Casper Roe, ardent pro- ! Again we have pictured the merry old | We'll be obliged to shovel snow | L left problems to be solved and lessons to be assimilated and applied. A new year is somewhat like a ban- quet course. The china and silverware are changed, the damask is crumbed, the ashtrays are emptied, the glasses of mineral water are recharged and on comes something new to be en- | joved to the full or trifled with, as [ th> case may be with the feaster | Often with this change of setting of | viands and of condiments comes a | fresh appetite. a new outlook. There is absolutely no reason why 1928 should not prove to be the best vear that the United States, or this world, for that matter, has ever en- We are at peace and we have . We cven have an extra or 366 in all. which may be utilized matrimonially or otherwise. It is up to the individual and to the sum total of individus February 29 is clear velvet In fact. may be and no better 1 to take that ze that the wise Providence which put us here in the first place is permitting us to remain That ench and every one dc the bost he can to make it a banner year for his home, his comn: v and his coun- is nothing more than playing the me. The year just past seems to have gone in a flash. The one stretching | ahead seems very long. Many a ml)<" n hurled at New Year | ver mind: he who | makes them and breaks them later is a better man for his attempt. Whether the reader's head today be clear as a bell or aching infernally, The Star extends greetings of the scason and a hearty “Better luck next time!™ - viewed in the same light advice can be given th: Page Diogenes! | Page Diogenes and his lantern! The | superhonest man has been found. His | story is so remarkable that it needs | must be told. In Easthampton. Long hibitionist and respected charch mem- ber. Casper had earned a reputation as a law-abiding citizen and when srely tempted showed that the repu- | tation was not earned in vain. Casper, | when he went to his garage the other me ning. found what many would term buried treasure. Piled neatly alongside of his car were one hundred cases of | old liquor. Casper had not ordered | this cargo. Perish the thought! He | was in a quandary. But years of train- | ing unerringly steered him on the path of righteousness. Even then, however, culties. He called the office of the | prohibition director for that territory | and on inquiring what he should do with his find is said to have been told | by an unidentified person to “keep it, you boob!” Blit Casper was persistent, and fin: reached the head man and several trucks came to cart the liquor away. Casper does not know yet whether the wild waves which beat on the shore | human conditions. | baoks Bishop of Teat: I Peler, iii.1S. “Neverthe- less we, according to His promise, ook for new heavens and a new carth aherein dwelleth righteous- ness.” A Fresh Outlook. ‘To believe the best of life means to encourage it. To enter a new year with an overburdening sense of the liabilities of the old. means to handicap us in the new race. 1t would be a great thing for this old world if at this scason we could wipe the slate clean and begin all over again. If nations could forget (heir diplomatic controversies and quar- rels, if commerce and industry could for the while forget the bitternesses of competition, if soclety could overlook the divisions that create great cleavages between group and group, if churches could forget their rivalries as well as their conceits, if old feuds could be for aotten and we could begin the New r unembar d and unencumbered, v forecast it would present! have the unfortunate habit ing our burdens from one year to another. We are unwilling to forget wr strifes and our controversies, with the result that the accumulation of them well-nich burdens us to the clearly recognize the fact that we are living in a world of diverse types of men and women and this will always be so long as human nature re- same. While all this is quite consciousness, neverthe! we hold to the belief that the only way in the New Year is to begin it with the confidence and assurance that somehow out of all the old difficulties of the past wo are presently to emerge, and that before us lies a better future that promises a more hopeful and a more compensating situation. We con- tend that, whether we are dealing with roup. we cannot improve conditions by beolieving the worst of them, or by thinking that they are beyond botterment. Every now and again wc meet people who seem to think that we are fallen upon a time that is full of foreboding circumstances. They see no light on the cloud. no hope for a better tomorrow. To their mind the world is tobogganing swiftly to its doom. We cannot believe that these misguided people are the ones who are making any contribution to the betterment of They seem to be without God and without hope in the world. They are doleful prophets, Over against this group we set that The publishing business of the United States Government is one of he is reported to have mei with diffi- | the largest enterprises of its kind in| the world, although that fact is real- ized by comparatively few of the mil- | lions of people wha receive each year | various kinds of publications bearing the imprint of the Government Print- ing Office. Any one who has any doubt about it is invited to consider the statistics of just one average day's work in this establishment: Sheets ruled. 70.000: cased-in. 4.000: sheets folded. 71°.000; forms put to press, 500; value near his home left him the little pres- ent or whether it was simply a i of a mistaken address on the | A bootlegger. In any event, Diogenes' | search 15 ended because Casper Roe has | set an example of honesty to the world | hat will probably never be duplicated Three cheers for Casper! e toof | ‘The rcpentant sinner has become less prominent in crime annals than | the notoriety seeker who shamr]nssl)‘ endeavors to point out every detail of | atrocity. ) SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANT The S. C. Mood. R JOHNSON, Saiut, Whose nature s ki ance is quaint ‘Happy Year!” resounds. life's way becomes rude, We arc bidding farewell to the Santa Claus mood. We paint him as one of the jolliest clves, appear- | Then All rosy and white—not a bit like our- selves. On kindness and cheer stern require- ments intrude. We weaken too soon on the Santa Claus mood. Some hristmas will see us 50 good and refined That hell gladly remain with us com-+ mon mankind, say. “Why go north, chilly and crude, these parts are Santa Claus mood!" And where it's When full of the Cheerfaln ou leave politics cheerfully?” answered Senator Sorghum “When these dear people de-ide to sur render the services so faithful and re- liable as mine I shall grin broadly in | a. endeavor to make It sppuient that the joke is on them.” oo Snow Shoveling. The Bpringtime showers will draw near ‘The birds and blossoms will appear, But in the meantime, Friend, what ho' | And so the same old storles run The cloudy sky precedes e Hefore the pleasares gayly glow We've got o it shovel i, ) now Jud i Lunkn who 25 e and then do deuce to do with you often see ot what HEeLane know Bagacious Siloy “What did you say 1o the traffic cop | ho wrrested you?” Notuing,” answered My, Chuggins “What did you say Lo the judge?” “Nothing. I you try to put up defense you get the worst of iU for be tng a time-waster” 1 “We who reverence daid M Ho, the sage Chinatown | should strive s to conduet st W anceslors we may be reverenced | IR our ancestors,’ aurselves | A Shnple Standird, | You need not fear the rolenn dey | Which eal’ you to your enrthly end 118 you in simple wuth can sy “1 never duuble-crossed w friend.” “De radio has brought happiness in du home,” said Uncle Eben, "by settiin’ of output, $38.000: ems of type set, 0.000; signatures gathered, 420,000 3 wirc-stitched, 1500000 number of jobs completed, 250; compensation emplove: 27.000; money order anks printed. 700.000° half tones and line et ‘ngs made, 300; pages of book W nted, 12.600.000: copies of pub- delivered, 315,000, square 1 5 of electrotypes and stereotypes, 45,000. Perhaps even more ures are those of the materials and supplies used in one year’s operation, which included 43,000,000 pounds of EVERYDAY RELIGION BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., LL. D., an individual case or with the lerger | GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. impressive fig- | W ashington more appealing and attractive one that, with & more Intimate knowledge of hu- man nature, believes that we are on an ascending scale. With the shoemaker Evangelist their motto is, “Expect great things from God; dare great things for God.” By their consistent optimism set on foot movements that make for human betterment and for the en- richment of the race. According to the divine promise of Christ, they look for a new heaven and a new carth wherein dwelleth righteousness. ~ We rannot belicve that these folk are blind nptimists, nor can we believe that they are visionaries who are vainly chasing a forlorn hope. In all the experiences we have had with men and women who have been broken on the wheel of fortune, or who have fallen by the way by reason of their own weaknesses, we have ever found that the only incentive that can bring them back again to normal ways of living is belief in the survival of their better natures. No one of whom we have knowledge believes more firm- ly in the saving good in human nature than Jesus of Nazareth. One reason why His power persists in the face of all opposition is that, knowing what was in man, He persisted in the belief that he possessed latent qualities of mind and heart that once called into action would lift him above defeat and disaster and bring him to the higher lovels whereon his divine character might be made manifest. Christ's method has never been adequately tried in the course of human perient The whole record of His ministry among men might very properly be described as “Great Expectations.” Today we cross the threshold of a r. Three hundred and sixty-six days of unknown and unexplorcd ways | lie before us. How shall we enter upon these new paths? Shall we enter them looking at life microscopically, secking the while for defects in human nature. or shall we enter them with the deep- ened conviction that somehow, some way, the good is to triumph and this old world emerge more and more from the shadows of the past, to enter upon that new day when righteousness shall cover the earth, even as the waters cover the sea? Let us believe in a more’ wholesame | wocial life, purer and better homes, an industry in which “square dealing” shall be the great maxim: a broader and finer charity among men and wom- en of every class and kind; and believ- ing these things, let us dare to encour- age them. pages. were printed, folded, gathered, stitched and_trimmed. Get your local printer to give your | estimates on a few jobs like those Approximately 50 dated publications —that is. those that are issued regu- larly every day, every week or every month—are published by the Govern- lm?nl Printing Office. Most important of these in many respects, is the Con- gressional Record, which is issued on | the morning of each legislative day of ! Congress. It consists of from 8 to 220 | pages, averaging about 80 ‘mg!‘s daily, and each issue runs to about 35.000 |copies. In one vear it made 12 vol- | umes of over 1,000 pages each and cost {almos* half a million dollars. The | Record carries no advertising, of course. { but it is not the kind of a medium that | advertisers would favor anvhow, for the great bulk of its circulation is free. It! }h:n only about 500 paid subscribers. & | Ee {ord, all bills. resolutions, reports. he ings, documents, etc.. presented in Con. | kress, are printed on the day of their | presentation. and this zlone would keep |a big printing shop busy. For the Post Office Department, aside from the vast number of postal | cards already mentioned. the G. P. O prints each vear 320,000.000 money | { departments, | here to try his hand at the | mill. addition to getting out the Rec- ! Capital Sidelights Boon after their return from the holl- day recess the Senators will consider the question of providing an appropri- ation of about $185,000 for a ventilating and alr-conditioning system which will purify the atmosphere in the Senate chamber. For years it has been known that such an improvement, needed but action has been delayed, at times because there was recurrent agitation for enlarging the Scnate chamber ana extending it to outside windows 5o that a !lx'v‘lf)‘lt current of fresh air might be available. he President through the Budget Bureau transmitted to the House propriations committee a recommen tion of the architect of the Capitol an estimate of $185.000 for inclusion in the deficieney appropriation bill for Senate ventilation. The reason for early tion was so that the contract might be promptly let and the materials col- lected here, ready for immediately starting the job as soon as Congress adjourned. The House did not inciude the estimate in the deficiency bill, leaving it for the Senate to do wha ever saw fit. The Senate appropr ations committee is awaiting an exact estimate, which will be presented when Congress meets this month, and it 15 expected that the appropriation will be carried in the legislative appropriation bill, s0 that the work can be done after Congress adjourns in June, P Statuary Hall--the old House cham- | ber—in the Capitol is becoming so crowded with the memorial statues t the States are placing there to out standing sons, and the weight of those statues is so far in exe in mind when the chamber was erected. | that the architect of the Capitol is having engineering studies made of what should be done to relieve the | situation. There are some five or six States now planning to itional statues—California, Tenness Missis- sippl and Wisconsin among them—that those in charge of the Capitol feel it is time to provide a more suitable place for these statues. Among suggestions made have been that the rotunda might be used. or the “Hall of Column: on the first floor running through the center of the building north and sou This subject will probably receiv careful atiention during the present | session of Congress, because Statuary Hall in the Capitol is one most con- spicuous gathering place for people from every State in the Union. Leaders in Congress irom each of the States are eager to help solve the problem where to place these memorial statues that are the gifts of the States. wrie e One of the new members of the | House is a veritable “jack of all trades,” and has made his way in the world | through a route of hard knocks—Rep- resentative Louis Monast of Pawtucket, | R. 1. He was brought as an immigran® | from Canada when ke was only 2 years | old. and was a textile worker in cotton mills at the age of 9. working in all becoming mule spinner and fancy weaver. Then at 19 he | thought he'd try a new line of employ- ment and tried his hand as a baker, confectioner, packer of fruits and vege- tables. meat cutter and became general manager of a department store, in the | course of 10 years. At the age of 29 he took another industrial shift and labored in the building line as stone mason. bricklaver and carpenter. and became engineer and draftsman and in charge of all construction. Later he capitalized all this ex ence by founding a realty corpor a warp company of converters and dyers of yarns, and a baking company. Now at the age of 64 he LR = | volve around | heart extreme | that in 1928, as | either Men vs. Measures in 1928 BY WILLIAM HARD. What are the great national ques- tions and issues that the politicians | and statesmen of the National Capital think they sce before them as they | strive to gaze into the prospect of the new year, 1928? } ‘The welcoming of the new year is | accompanicd by a widespread political | perplexity about this. Many politicians here assert that in 1928 there will simply be “no issues at | all " They mean that they see no one great issue that will lead two great con- tend deeinly 1. ““hey rchearse the slogans of bygone presidential years and they say: Bilver.' 1900 2 1904: “Bust the T . Clear the Des] 1912: “The 1916: “He Kept Us 1920: “The League of “Economy and Pros- 1a 1908 New Freedom.” Out of War.” Nations." 1924: D Where,” they say, “is the slogan of 1928 8o they pity a poor little rich New Year, which {5 born without a slogan in its mouth. * % x % Other politicians take a view that 15 rather different. They think that the presidential campaign of 1928 will re- n issue that will be at defini*e. They think no oth.r presidential vear since the times of George Wash- ington, the .ingle central 13sue wiil be he sheer eharacter and sheer capacity of individual cand.dats They make their argument more c less as follow Demands for funcamental change, political or economic, have faded away. The political cries of “Di- rect Popular Government” and “Let the People Rule” are stilled. The economic cries of “Communism” and “Socialism” |t [tion of nume 5 al groups into a fiery and | et and “Farmer-Laborism” and “Re- tribution of Wealth by Law” have their loudness. On the political side it is noted that even the “Presidential preference primary” is recording losses instead of gains. ~ The idea that “the people” should directly nominate dential candidates is today rapidly be coming a sere and yellow leaf on a dead | tree. In 1912 the contests between Theo- | dore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft and between Champ Clark and Woodrow Wilson in the 1 preference primaries” were intense and dramatic. Such primaries were then novel and were heid to be the pu: salvation of presidential politic: ated in Wisconsin in 1905, they seemed | sure to spread their conquering influ- ence through all 48 of our States. By 1916 there were, indeed. 22 States w iad passed “Presidential preference pr ¥" laws, however, the number of 9—Montana and North Caro ve now backslidden from the In 1928 the number of “Presi- dential preference primary” es will be only 17. * x % x ‘There is no escape from the conclu: sion that the year 1928 will mark de. isively the end of the period during | which, by means of the initiative and the referendum and the recall and the direct pri . an effort was made to introduce “direct popular Government” into the American national political system. There is a similar retreat. it is noted. the econamic field. No conservative 1928. it is here though*. wiil be able to make cal cap: its spi pre House and Even ted nprecedented islation. the dy grind, no es in a ligh er “Jack™ T der of the Democratic m y ir the tax reduction fight. had | in overriding the President's recom- mendations, those of Secretary Mellon the Budget Bureau and the Republi-| can majority on the w and means zeal ake | on 5 s | | paper, 12,000,000 yards of wire, 118,000 | orders, each having a potential value | committee, pounds of ink and 4,000 rollers, both made in the Government Printing Of- fice; 3,000,000 containers for postal cards. 60.000 pounds of glue. 200.000 vards of binding cloth, sewing thread., 100,000 square feet of leather, and 13,000,000 feet of mono- type Feyboard paper re are more than e @ 2 the annual operation exce $12.000,000 iding and the value e more than 4,000 employes of cost of the by f the equipmen 37.000,000 and the s s and wages »aid yearly amount to $8.250.000 (han 160,000 forms of type and plates are sent to press each year and more than 10,060 octavo pages of proofs in many languages are read and revised each day. How many printed pages are turned out by the establishment in the course of a year has not been computed, but it may be mentioned that 1.600,000,000 postal cards are printed annually and delivered direct to postal agencies and that a single printed job turned out requires 323,000,000 coples made up into 646,000 tablets, while in six months of one year 11,000,000 farmers’ bulle- tins, varying in size from 16 to 100 Economists Survey The Coming Year ' HARDEN COLFAX. to it the American business industry and agriculture to peer through the 186 days of 1928 -and farther into the uture ~were made by economists and ither scholars who gathered in Wash- neton last week Conclusions reached by prominent speakers, who nppeared before the vari- ous organizations included in the Amer- iean Council of Learned Socleties which he. thus No important changes in price levels £ veil and | muy be expected fmmediately: Competition will beeome increasing! keen Wifting methods in merehandising will become necentuated, then gradually rystallize with more oF leas starting resnlts Agvicnlture will overcome caps and will onthilanes n of - purchsing within & deead Focal ventions will advinee, bringing ¥ co-operation of lubor und caph manutacture Lern power ot tat Dnductriatism will tend o coneen ay Lo capind and manngement but to decentralize as Lo pro rate control duetion Miss production methods of manu- | lems of the latter will tell the story of | haotts and how to form tem I ancrense, canying with means o sustain factuie W them new views of constmer demand; Statistios will play s larger part in churiing courses, “The church, lstory, and, to a small- er degree, ) gistation, will influence the channels of trade and production. DR Oune stetking note ran throughout the slons of a half dozen oiganieations fvated Lo vatious pises of economie and social problems the upon the ldentity of the nltimate consumer na the eapitalist, the wage earn er and the farmck, @ clicle of which no o AtgIent eAn mjured without dming the whole Fome of the theottes advanced may be viewed as the ereatuies of individ und opinion not all were accepted and few ped without some oriticism bul, for the most part, the pa- perh and diseusslons wers sup- poited by hard facts and conclusions were offored only after painstaking b Jority of npations, s dmperfections while msny, weie not Loy grest, It de eompetition ‘hout who's gineter be 1 gogniked as de luud speaker,” v analysis Eome forecasts wera made 1 obvigusly extreme form with Intent More | sessions here, may be summarized | ita handi- | |of $100. Not a single money order | | blank has been lost or stolen during the ]20 years this work has been done in | | the Government's own printshop. Postal | dreds of small jobs. | The Department of Agriculture, in | addition to its almost tnnumerable bul- | leting and pamphlsts, has one major publication, the Agricultural Year Book that runs to 1.200 pages and of which ' | 400,000 copies are issued anunuall i bound in buckram or cloth. All the | exceutive depariments, bureaus and commissions have annual repotts to be | published that vary .n size from 16 to | 11,000 pages each and that have edi- | tions ranging from 2,500 to 5.000 copies. briefs must be printed for all the cou: and other legal agencies in Washing- ton, and specifications and a gazette must be printed for the Patent Office that add up to a bill of more than $800,000 each year. And just to ring in one of those “end- to-end” comparisons it may be stated | that, set in equivalent ems of standard | newspaper type, the yearly product of the G. P. O's typesetting machines would preduce 7.000 8-columu all-read- Lin tter news) s of 12 pages each. | to shock attention to a subject regarded as_important. Inasmuch as distribution of mer- | chandise affects the largest number be- | cause it comes directly mto touch with the consumets, considerable emphasis was laid this subject ant acknowledged on of ue | of national scope, to combine gnized advantages of the pres- | ent chain systems of specialty stores with the equally well known advan- tages of many departments under a single roof and management. e ‘ ~he unit store owner was not with. out his champions. although the con- sensus was that he can survive, as a whale, only by changing methods for which he must have assistance Group | buying of independent merchants is | increasing to meet the volume pur- | chuses of the chain systems on & com- [ mon ground. but, beyond this, prob- leins of management must be solved 1t [ the unit specialty store 18 to continue [ w strong factor i modern merchandis g, several speakers pointed ont | And at this point the unrest among the wholealers properly enters, for Feconomizts from many scctions appeat | o mgree that wholesle dealers [ W are facing their greatest to antnue ms RN Important ok the economic fabile of the countiy Not Lonly the sale of goods, but the serviee Lwholesalers are prepared to render ve- | tatlers I meeting the separate prob test n {the future fate of the group between | the producer and the final distributor Smull orders vather than large may be expecied to be the custom. unless some economic inflation strikes the ountry and forees prices upward stead- ily, other speakers predicted. And this “hand-to-mouth” buying found almost universal defense i holding down in ventories. More speedy transportation in fact. has made heavy stooks of goods | much less necessary for merchants than | formerly, this pieture showed At the same time, this system of small arders has placed an added bue- | den upon manufacturers and ot | this problem 1 tending to turn pro- | Aucers neveastngly toward trade-marked | goods, Whi 1 they can advertive and thus stimulate a falily constant con surier demand Advertised merehandise 18 expected o dnerease, With more brands con stantly held before the publio eve newspaper apace and other medin 1 may be concluded from the tone af wt dresses At some half h difteren | seaslons of varlous socletl All In all, the picture diawn at the | | | sideration of this bill, and the rules of 22,000,000 | guides, averaging about 1,100 pages and | the House requiring the iquare inches of gold leaf and other | to the number of about 80,000, are also ' have a major: st mping materials, 28,000,000 yardsof | published each year, as well as hun- | carry out the w A Boston | * ted aa era of ehain departmend | |, pm?clmdrd this parliamentary query: “In view of the fact that the mi- nority has predominated in the con- of ees to 1 of the House. I want | to ask the Speaker whether or not nai will consider the question of appoi in, as a majority of the c those who are in accord Wi af the House as expro The . he t would N PHILOSOPHIE! BY GLENN FRANK There is no s efint- tion of an educa . There are no particular sets of facts or fields of Kknowledge the knowing of which makes an cducated man. I have known very wise men who were singularly un- lettered and grammy I have known very who were erudite, me heads stored with the owledge We cannot define nn educate beeause education a b3 d a thowsand varied forms best we can do is to descr ated © Rifted hawve tr mar and us varied & | ing “the red menace.” 124, 1 | He, tal in the United S! There is none to attack The Workers’ (Communist) party among us has declined to a membershio of some 12.000. daily newspaper in | it is argued. 1 | ple have the fnc New York, the Daily Worker, has a national circuiation of only approxi- mately 25,000. The railroad trade unions have lost their enthusiasm for Government own- ership and “employe” operation of rail- roads. In 1920 they were earnestly in favor of taking the railroads away from their present managements and of erating them thr boards of di- rectors chosen by the Government and by the railroad workers. They called this project the “Plumb plan” and in heir support of it they were the vital ¢ffective force that praduced the elec- “Progressives” to the nited States Senate in the upssttin ar 1922, Today the railroad-trad union weekly newspaper. Labor, is v tually continuously totally silent on the “Plumb plan." *Biin In the meantime, the membership of en that highly conservative labor in- ution, American Pederation of Labor. has fallen. Its leaders, more- OVer, except in the one matter of the excessive use of | by courts of law durinz strikes, 7ing not toward a keener contest with eapital, but toward a eloser co-operatinn with it. The year 1928, in the opinion of most political observers here, will accordingly mark a return to an acceptance of th capitalistic economie svstem as cl as it will mark a return to a ance of the representativ tem. The ground is thoroughly cleared, it is accordingly thought and claimed, for a presidential elec simple bt m: nz personal question candidate 13 indi z e wheels €xisting systems faster and better? It is this q . it s contended, that will ultimat %ay the decisions of delegates next June and of of voters next November. It is noted that ually all of the outstanding _ presi candidates have high and w tions as administrato: rector of the Budget. Hoover as director of Beigian relief and food administra- tor and Secretary of Com Low- den as Govern Governor of New York. andsoon. Itis | ties of demon: perience and ‘Those who t parison W strative serv- ces as Governor of New York. They hold that no amount of “wetness” coul have given him ational standing f it were not for the masterly way ed he has handled of his Presiden: not be bacause pen- dea that a wet light wines and but because r. Smith and chauffeur isting national If he sh wi President can beers back | enac D our e ‘Tre demand of mar ears has been. draw pictures of new care. The demand of this next ye: t is intai: will be for can- didates who can the spark and ad- just the carburetor and make the ex- ca the safest prophaey about the cter of the presidential campaign relatively Fifty Years Ago In The Star In the ea: . the United States sloop of war Huron was wrecked off the Wreckers coast of Cape Hatteras in Scored. ® storm. with & heavy loss COTed. of life.' In The Star o December 27. 1877, ted the fol- lowing relative to the report on the wreek. which reflected e inhaditants he coast of N v morning of November 0 was ord reu ances connected wreek of the Huro ife-saving § Nass van O'Neil. who W eck, at hall past g. He was out h ng saw the vessel He nd was compar tivel ) ) nformation tanee was only how e akfast and dd ul not had the m opel station No. 1y tf rot all 7 received tim on board | could have been saved his ha efore. educat which ¢ a4 mar a Justly, sail and magnanime all the off.cos, public and private, both | of pe Woodrow It A bibe Milton tried rd 1 oeall Tous with | com- plete and Wilson tried his hand at| 1 education, he thought, s that which “enables the mind to com- prehend and make proper use of the | modern world and all ity opportunities Albert Edward Wiggam, the ver satide publ who can make a Vers mont farmer understand & Vienna | contist ed 10 things that, i s | lyment X an educate b, Vi First, an cducated man Keeps his nind open on evely question until the evidence is 1 Seeond, he 1o, thind drcains Fowth Who knows Filth, he knows Plays it Sixth i m never laughs at new s day he alwayvs hatens to the wan | his strong point and he knows the value of good | Seventh, he Anows when not to think | and when (o call i an expert (o ik for him Eghih, he cannot Ninth, he lhes & outgolng lite Tenth, he cultivates the love of the beautifyl Willlam James (hought the purpase of an education 15 0 edable vou W Ko W & good man when you see one that (s to say, a setae of valygs and A Capacity for acouiate udgmess Those and the hundrad and one athe definitions of an educated man taat have been dratted are valuable moas aring vods With which o measiie o it on be sold magic forward-looaing o awer Syt Al seaslons last week werd those af 1 oa happy New Year, with dation - of bustness and g oblems seen more clearly, and o a dirly even keel of prospenity, s s Wiy disverned, 1 the degade bey oo all marked by ehanges In praciioes, [T TR A | againat prevate | vatue Froom thase who perished w were washe Y tives, and over ase wha Walton savs tha At & stim inhabitants residing o the be e whole coast fram Cape Henry ape Hatieras” HA A contmty ago the sclence of bacieriology was not advanesd and the nature and cause of dis Disease Chse were ot v Wi as oAy Warnings. ¥ tanding v LrRnsmisato 1857, 8 th ans ug. always ot as long as the fadure (o ob serve the stionad of many evils WOt be oo o vepented A paper tead tevently betore | the New Haven Board of Health co detses he. precautions Against dinh therta, but the sugpestions apply with almast equal faree (0 many other dan- | gerons diseases. The unobatructed ravs M the sun, diy apariments, cleantiness A sarroundings and abundance of pare A ATe the HUS pARACOAS. Cantagious nd infections diseases ate produced or | ntensitied by damp and dict Arm self Agamst them with sunbghi & \ at o Whew canfagions disease has gained a foot DL & NEW SEL Of PICARTIANS come it ay. Patienis should be isotated and | Dould be nuised As TAr s possible by single person The gieatest car oW e aken @ pievent the e ad £ contagion tiroigh members of the ALY Visiors, Ehe fUmiiare or super oy wrticles e room, e patients | LHIR, O ireetly thaugh the patient skl BY RIS IInglng Wit others relore his complete recovery, o before A PIOPE Interval has elapsed The sick should be disinfected Walls voting, Thar, woodwark, elothing and and, = dut 1 unde This and That By Jack Spras. My two-legged friend. Charles B Tracewell. who has been writing about me here for three years. has asied me to take a turn at readers Well smug ook me to ind order 1e caper of ante up here ders. cep, what I ea hat ¢ the fleas, Wy vanis S AT sOMe Mmore o “w rhe D Dost treatment. Rand it o me d have seen that slad or my Christmas din 1t was an ineh thick and a oot g. about 3 pounds 1 X e, 1 do not RRe 1 in ane e 1 have the ready writer tramed. Al cul up for me. e He knows t my veal and deefsteak v ceL - This reduces Qe lade Say, you s 1 got ner oo <4 At 1 would grab a mouse on A i were | want to tate nity w0 thaok all my t have sen Cheiximas and New and prave o a s cands the 38 catnp wice ¢ salmon and e § sepanate Deelsteak, 1 ou @ wing appart 1 dollar B tow . Person 1 oant see what good maoney s tand At i has sume 8 e relatonslip o Deelsieak, £1Ve 1L Y hearty commendation he refvigerator. duwer and money these o te one of UNee magi os A5 Charlie would say, which keey the warld turning Tound. o saneihing Uke that. (See tomarrow's Star ) Ay friends will de giad 1o kwew Tth A Al {1hat 1 am i detter health than 1 was { A the Doginning Of the vear st N oNat e fal and am able o rw faster Ehan my voung friend Nupper WD TUST DOTRRRN B 18 something of ® SAwe Woll folks, 1 wish vou, oa dedal M omysell and my secretarv. & Nape New Vear and seund vou sl owr bes wishay for 1R Thank Vou very mueh W - e TT—————— heiling st be tharnaghty cleansed Enpecal care ahaakl be taken o prevead the fwierab of ihase whe bave dind from @phEheria, soatiet fever ete. from Polng made ihe xonsion of contagion 1