Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1928, Page 8

8 TIHE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. WEDNESDAY . ..February 8, 1028 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor { | per month | por copy the City. Carrier Within Star 43¢ per manth B0¢ por month i i | i a1 mo 1o JUINE Y 3¢ | of s itle Grabbing. nd others mate. if op- of “ttle the he ti upon which unpat s trict is rich thousand dollars. The “title grabbers” re richer by at one per cent a month, or twelve per cent a year, of | this amount. e property owners ave | poorer by the amount of their unpaid o5 penalties and expenses 1 was in a turmoil ar mails by po | supposedly by was practically besicged widening the franchise a United States contain the records of several instances of this kind in which the relations between the two coun- tries have been severely strained. Mussolini's new Fascist constitution is in respect to the conduct of Italians liv- Ing abroad a reversal of the old ad- monition “When in Rome do as the Romans do.” Undoubtedly devised for the purpose of strengthening the Fascist cause in Italy. it confers a boon on all cking 1f not guaran- @ lawful conduct by Italian sub- Jects, wherever they may reside, in ac- cordance with the standards of their temporary homes. R A Flareback of Militancy. A decade and a half ago London eene of agitations by a group of women, crgan! se to their [of compelting the Brtish government | ment will Thoy | In 21l the circumstances this is a fair THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘and as & matter of fact is still awaiting permission to establish this important branch of, the Police Department in other quarters. 1t is, of course, desirable that the public building work in ‘Washington shonld proceed rapidly, but there is no ground for complaint thus far save on the score of lack of co-ordination. The present is the most trying stage of the whole operation. Condemnation pro- ceedings cannot be rushed through at high speed. The law governing this procedure needs revision, but pending amendment there is nothing to be done but to follow the prescribed course and hope for carly results. Assurances are given that work is about to begin on the Internal Revenue Building and that actual construction fzed for the purpose |OPerations on the Commerce Depart- art about the end of May. it tactics. besteged min- | PYOOPS ad their offices, houses of Pariia- homes paraded before the ment. chained themselves to the grills | the were ar- ne ca ries of o police. and in ke tact For a time London The government re- in the visitors' g defied ¢ atled str public sympathy. L The Saratoga at Panama. The Panama Canal has just under- two gone a severe test of its capacity in | giv ¢ passage to the glant afreraft fricr Saratoga, which fs on her way S to evoke |10 foln the Pacific flect. This great crafi. 888 feet in length and 106 feet In beam, a type of vessel not contem- fused to be driven into a course which ! plated when the cznal was designed contrary to precedent weers of the “militants” became m tates were b ¢ incendiaries. T . when the militancy of ists had abated somewhat, the | the Saratoga were, of course, known | vernment teok ‘up the problem of [to an inch before she arrived at Colon | i ut length|and the available space in the locks which | was likewise known, and on paper there not | was roem enough, reform m: re the vote to women, but road a basis as that enjoyed | assurance of smooth passage. the male subjects of the kingdom ament | feet clearance on the sides. jquite the tightest fit ever experienced | the |at Panama. | was, the airplane carrler scraped the The ma- | long ago, has reached the Pacific end o | safely. It was a tight squeeze. When They took to destroying the the ship went through the locks at ring acids Into the post | Gatun. Miraflores and Pedro Miguel cd. | there was only a little more than two | This w D. €, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 8, 1928 We are one 8f those old-fashioned codgers who believe tha’ therc are a number of subjects never discussed in print which might as well be written t. There is nothing that s com- mon to human nature, and at the same time which is within the realm of decency, which cannot become an in- teresting toplc for conversation or writing if the speaker or writer have in him sufficient humor and common sense to handle the matter adequately. Exaggeration in writing is like loud talking in conversation, it is unnecessary and boresome, and only tends in the end to tire even the person who greeted it with satisfaction at first owing to iis novelty. Maybe you have heard the comic colored team which makes large use of wild metaphors and similes. We laughed heartily the first’ time we heard them.. as no doubt you did, but when we found othér teams turning to the same sort of thing, we were unable to find any of them funny any longer. 50 it follows that even an unusutl subject ought to be discussed in a calm, sanc | way, without descent to mannerisms of style or a tricky use of unusual phrase- ology. | Porhaps no saner conversation 1s to be heard nowadays than at the 9 o'clock | breakfasts becoming more popular with | | | | | into evolutions. Oh, the horrible evolu- tions of the convolutions! Oh, the in- tense misery of the ebullitions!™ * kK K The problem of writing, the speaker continucd, .after a mild burst of laugh- ter had subsided, is much the same whether in novel, magazine, news- paper or what-not. He must, above all, interest his readers, He cannot choose his readers; they must choose him. They read of their own will, whether he would approve of them or not. In the great circle of readers one is on a par with another, in so far as he, the writer, can make any public statement upon the case. In private | he may feel and know that the eriti- cism of So-and-So weighs in the scale against 1,000 counter-criticisms, but he s not at liberty to say so. There are certaln things that cannot be said in_public in a civilized country. Equally, there arc certaln ways of writing that cannot be indulged in without bringing upon the head of the writer the reproach of exaggeration. He is said. by those who believe in re- straint, to have achieved merely the mawkish. They laush at what he has written, not because it is not well writ- ten, for its kind, but becau.e it is not written to suit them. Upon the ve- free | business and professional men, where, | racity of their belief they rest their over coffee and cigarettes, men talk | case.” They realize, as well as any onc freely and frankly of whatever interests | and perhaps. better than most, them at the moment. Often enough, |they risk being called old-fashioned. this is what might be classed as a| This charge is the ageless cpithet trivial matter, the “kick” coming in the | hurled at the conservative. In reply way in which it is handled, in the per- | they point to the endless disputes in fect freedom of expression which marks | the lterary circles of all countries oves the thoughts of the speakers. the position of realism in writing. The g g as discussing an article | newspaper. | The table w which had appeared in a some thought it wonderful, others de- clared it to be “terrible” ‘Those in| favor potpted to the fact- that it had moved readers to contribute money, | and that 17 letters of commendation had been received, which, they said. represented 1,700 approvals, or 17.000 it was hard to tell which. While the dimensions of | yet there was not | As it] | | canons of good taste demand constdera- tion, they declare. « Literature, at pain of being branded silly, must take into account the thoughts of the best peo- ple. What the best persons think anc feel—this is indeed something. Every writer, cvery reader, cvery edi- tor constitutes himself the judge of any production; and in journalism this is made all the more difficult by the great speed of production and reading, and hence of judging. Who is there to place himself as the Infallible Critie, | Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. The threat of Sccretary Hoover's friends to put him In the race for the Ohio delegation to the Republican National Convention, voiced through Representative ‘Theodore Burton, 15 fairly indicative of the fact that they do not intend to have Scnator Frank B. Willls hand pick the del- egates and prevent them ever from turning to Mr. Hoover as second cholce. If Senator Willls is bent on such a plan, and the Hoover supporters ac- quiesced, the entire Omo delegation, 51 | strong, might be lost to Mr. Hoover for the entire convention, or at least until many ballots have been taken. Under such circumstances, Mr. Hoover would have nothing to lose and much to gain by entering the presidential primary in Ohio. He has a large popular following in the Buckeye State. If it goes to the polls in the primary it might wr}l take a good slice of delepates from Senator Willls, delegates who would support Mr. Hoover on the first ballot and not on the second or some time later in the convention. There are several districts which in all probability will not sup- port Mr. Willls in any event. * o % % Candidates for the presidential pref- crence in Ohio must file by February 24 and the primary is held April 24. It is well understood that Senator Wil- lis is intrenched in his State and that he 15 popular with a very large num- ber of the voters. There is a desire on the part of the Republicans to avoid a row. It is figured that this would be far better for the ticke( as a whole. But in his effort to sew up the delega- tlon Senator Willis must realize that he runs the danger of having the deie- gation split by the eniry of Mr. Hoover in the primary. Instead of going to the National Convention with the dele- gation practically solid behind him, he may find that a considerable percentage of the delegates are instructed, not for him as first cholce, but for Mr. Hoover. o As test of real popular strencth the entry of Mr. Hoover in the Ohio pri- mary in opposition to the favorite-son cendidacy of Senator Willis might be Gen. Robert E. Lee sald, “The thorough education of peopie is the most efficaclous means of promoting the prosperity of the Nation.” These words of the distinguished Southern general are none the less true now than when he spoke them. Our Wash- ington Information Bureau is one of the greatest agencles for the distribu- tion of free information and educational data in the world. Its services are free to readers of this paper. All you need to do s to send In your query together with 2 cents in stamps for return post- age. Address ‘The Evening Star In- formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. How long has contract bridge been played?—8. M. A. About. years. Americans who went abroad found that players were experimenting with a form of contract bridge. About 1915 the Whist Club of New York considered codifying the game, but decided that the time had not arrived to do so. Little more was heard of contract until the Summer of 1926, when it became very popular in Newport and Southampton. In the Fall 1ts popularity spread to New York It is now played in all parts of the country. Q. What are the properties that make a wood particularly suited for sounding boards for stringed instru- 8. ments?—E. M. A. They have never been fully de- termined. Q. Why named?—B, A. Tt was named from a rocky prom- was Little Rock, Ark., so e ¢ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. the tide is.generally not more than 1 or 2 feet, but around the continents the rise may be as much as 20 feet or more, In narrowing estuaries tides are often as high as 50 fect, as for in- stance at Bristol, England. In the Bay of Fundy tides sometimes reach a heigh® of 60 feet. These are supposed to bz the highest In the world. Q. Who was the first musician to be knighted?—F. R. B. A. Henry Bishop, an original mem- ber of the Philharmonic Society of London and for many years the leader at Covent Garden, was the first to be. knighted on account of his musical con- tributions. He wrote no less than 130 operas, farces. ballets and adaptations. “My Pretty Jane” and “Lo! Hear the Gentle Lark,” are still popular, the lat- ter being included in the repertoires of modern coloratura prima donnas, such as Melba, Alma Gluck and Galli-Curci. Q. Why is the oldest som of the King of England calied the “Prince of Wales’ W.A.C. A. When Edward I. King of England, annexed Wales in 12382, he conferred the title of “Prince of Wales” upon his son Edward, who happened to be born at Carnarvon, in Wales, during the period of occupation. It has since been customary to use this fitle for the King’s eldest son and heir to the throne. | .. Q Why are cow's ears not called paired appendages”?—E. N. - A. We can find ro reason why cow's | ears are not called “paired appendages” | except that such a name is usually ap- | plied to invertebrates ars” is a per- | fectly well known English name, and ontory which rises on the south bank | custom has brought it ints u of the Arkansas River some 50 feet|speaking, we sfié‘pés.f"é; ,f"..”“,‘?.’ [above the river and now used as one | paired appendages. o rl;r “!hr abxll]v,m}r;nls of one :‘r the -}';:‘f,-: ridges which span the river. Q. Was the song, Ninety-seven,” rock i the first seen ascending the | based upon Tt . e-seven. river, and was called “Little Rock” in| A. R. W. Gordon of Cambridge, Mas= contradistinction to the bold precipice | one of the best authorities on “old about 10 times higher which rises some | songs that men have sung.” says that 3 miles, above upon_the opposite bank | it “seems pretty clear that the song was and is called “Big Rock.” This 18 now | composed on an actual event and that the site of an Army post. { 1t 15 the work of a single author. though limit was fixed. above that ap- | sides of the locks at several points, but | indecd. caused a stiv, which | o ot thitt touched up a bit by other ™ ¥ e s, bu |and to say that a thing s or is not How is imitatio | P i er hands. redeem and clear their titles and have suffered as w self-respect and the energy c 3 expressicn the and the “grabbe uent tax- ! roperty in the District Is picasing 10 no one oulside the so-called “ring” of purchasers who make it a business 1o invest money, &t a good rate | F cf interest, in the carelessness or the penuriousness of their fellow men. From | time to time there are movements to| “do something about” these rings. But what is there to do? One city tried the experim! of barring out-of-town customers at tax sales, and then im- piored them to return. Some cities 50 regularly anticipate revenue deficits from delinquent taxes that they borrow money in advance from the title grab- bers. The fact remains that taxes must | be paid, and the municipality cannot survive without them. Unpaid taxes in the District do not constitute a serious problem. But unless forceful measures | were resorted to in the collection of | taxes, they would constitute a serious | problem indeed. The best of good | citizens do not pay their taxes from patriotic motives alone. They pay taxes because they must. ‘There is a responsibility on the part ©f the municipality, however, to serve fts delinqueny taxpayers with due notice of their delinquency and to warn them of their peril. This has not always been done by the District. But this year it was. A list of some thirty thou~ sand delinquents was compiled, and notices were sent to cach resident whose eddress was available. There was an $mmediate response in the payment of some ten thousand overdue taxes. Dur- ing the month of December a list of twenty thousand delinguents was adver- tized in newspapers. But the reduction in this list was not great, as shown by tax sales just recorded. Although more | than nine thousand lots were sold, bhi tween six and eight thousand remain | unsold. ) There is pending before the Gibson subcommittes of House District eommittes a proposal, which has been advanced before, that the District be empowered v eblain, enurts, orders for forced sale of proper- ty which unpaid taxes have accumu- lated, the esle o carry with it clear| e. But this i not o be construed as relief from the le grabber” ring. It 1 a more drastic procedure than the presert system Undoubtedly there sre cases of in- ce under the cu method, where owners of property, sincere in belie? that their taxes have been nd thelr titles in slien hands But these are in the minority. Only careles: berate ‘tax dodzing s respons for majority. The easiest and est method of escaping rs” i W pa the Ir. order v be 3 the ol Dusiness & man must oecesional- | A Constitution for Fascists procsims A ne sutution, it I8 gl fxom Tu Ler euniries may swear allegiance e Pascist reyirne an€ receive mem- eretip CATEs Of e Tk 14 0 m onnsils ahroed s izt ad ¢ crunLries i them al of tie e CaL e LG OLCUOn Vi kurh B 1 e eminertly desirabie that % 10 ohher countries ehould Yeppeor, Ve Juwe of Uik Junds b which ey wie Aomiciied Much trouble has | Serrs cwOn 10 L Uty by Contrary produse ‘Tie courts of the United Buster heve hwd Vo denl with many comer of Malkns Vemparerily vesiging Fere who have bioken Ui stetutes | hisve o1 wrd Lietkiell bands, have st eritable relgne of wrror | Bk, Viounie Iiee bl been Encountered Vit de ik of rep L vrking men wie in Vmes Liave wGopte “@irect et by @) end \rede werfere (O sey erel done When Uhese Jevineseers | bisve hy | e government al Juome bk been dis PobeG s reise Vhe lesue of DEMGLEDLY, | and the aiplomely. srchives of e | beens elein by mobe or by police | cie oh to the men. This measure wa: pite t was not suffi- wes accepted and emurs that Iv inclusive. o agitations subsided. ime since then there have been efforts secure ative minist was established power it was made Yesterday when Parliament young women tried to force fullest possible enfran- | triumph of manipulation. ement. and when the present con-|mense bulk in motfon has a tremen- in|dous ramming »wn to be the | speed purpose to revise the franchise to grant ‘ rather than by feet in entering and | the suffrage to all women over twenty- leaving a lock. Nine electric mules, it one years of age l1s {no damage was done and she slipped rded as a substantial victory, and, through the great watercourse without | injury to herself or to the lock walls, ‘When the dimensions of the Saratoga From time to|are considered, the job of getting her through the canal is to be rated as a This im- at low inches power, even Progress must be by reported, furnished the motive opened | power, and this giant of the seas went there was a revival of the militant | through almost as smoothly as though tactics of fifteen and more years ag).'she were on rails Scme It is evident that the limit has been was something, e hey all admitted. Yet, argued the other t side. any untoward act | attracts attention. This in itself proves nothing. they went cn. Suppose. they said, one wants ta convey the idea that J. Henry Gearshift is alone in a great city without sufficient money to buy | | food. o T good? There has been no great novelist in the world who has not, at some time |or other, suffered from a wrong fndg- {ment by some one who seemed In a | position to judee. How much more im- ossible is it, therefore, the speaker t on, that every one who reads a spaper “storv.” as fact news ar- | ticles are called in the profassion. shall Ibe in a position to pronounce judgment {upon such a production, especially if it be out of the ordinary? The criterion, it was agreed, must re- {main a fifty-fifty proposition. one-half | based solidly upon the policy of the | fournal and the other half upon the !opinion of readers. If the “story” vio- | lates the policy of the paper. it cannot I b~ considered a good story from that | standpoint. If. after violating that policy, it wins reader approval. it must be held to b a good storv from the | viewpoint of those readers that approve of it. Just what the is 1s tragedy, all admitted, espe- cinlly in the Winter. Well, went on the speaker, does the average reader prefer a calm statement of that fact, hout flubdub—or docs i he like flubdub? Who s to be the judge of flubdub? This was the pertinent counter question Eut it was not answered, at the time being, for the speaker went on to ask { whether the reader would better like the plain statement, or somcthing along | the following lines “Super-demons of Hunger were play- ing leapfrog through the intcrior of J Henry Gearshift no real test any more than the entry of Senator Willis into the California primary, where Mr. Hoover is the fa- in the presidential primaries in Michi- gan or Massachusetts, where neither however, but what Mr. Hoover's candi- dacy would guin appreciably if he en- ters the Ohio primary and polls a large vote, despite the Willis candidacy. x % K % Seventeen States are to hold presi- dential preferential primaries this year, now that the Iliinois Supreme Court has finally determined that the Illinois primary law is constitutional. The first State to sound off in the primary race will be New Hampshire, where Mr Hoover is very strong. Mr. Willis, Mr. Lowden and other candidates for the nomination might try their hands in New Hampshire if they desire, though vorite son. A better test would be the | entry of Mr. Hoover and Senator Willis | n ivory made from skim milk?>—T. K. A. In regard to the product made from skim milk and used as imitation | wvory. the Bureau of Standards says | that skim milk is acidified to precipi- | tate the curd, or casein. This is mixed is a favorite son. There is no doubt, | with coloring matter. if desired. 1is| treateG with formaldehyde and then molded under strong pressure. The mixture must be aged for a considerable | time. under suitable conditions of tem- perature and humidity. The material was first made by the Germans., who called it “galalith,” from two Greek werds meaning “milk” and “stone.” simtlar French product is called “laitol (French “leit, milk”). According to Thorpe's Dictionary of Applied Chem- fstry. erinoid is the same as galalith. Presumably this is the name of the Eng- lish product. ! How many feet will the sea rise themselves to the royal coach and pre- | reached In respect to the beam of! sent a petition. They were prevented | ships using the canal. A two-‘oot from this by straightforward police | clearance is the lowest possible allow- procedure. Meanwhile the same petl-i{ance. If anything bigger than the {tion had been delivered at the prime ' Saratoga and the Lexington, her sister minister's office. It was clearly undcr«;‘hm should ever be designed, it can- stood that a promise would be given not pass from the Atlantic to the Pa- for the extension of the franchise, but | cific by the Panama route. Recon- this fact did not cause any remission | struction of the canal to permit larger of the efforts to stage a spectacular | craft is out of the question® unless an- demand. Almost the first words of the | other canal is construeted, the use of | |ferred to this matter. and it was for-| shrough the | the @:- | | ateponen of | the King ir his address to Parliament re- | which would permit revisions at Pan- maily stated to be the purpose of the! government to extend the age limit| for woman voters to coincide with that | of the men. There is something rather pathetic es well ag amusing, in this recrudes- cence of militancy in Londom The fight was won, brt the occasion could not be allowed to pass without a dem- | onstration. The participating genera- | tion had no part in the disturbances | of the earlier campaign. The young women “who tried to force themselves | 6 the King's coach were mere toddlers when Mrs. Pankhurst's cohorts of dev- otees raged around Westminster. Per- haps they were out for a lark. In the| old days the demonstrating militants | engaged in the crusade rather as a| sport. It may be that there was dis- appointment at the prompt announce- | ment of government purpose to extend the franchise Gone is the occasion for sacrificial ventures. There will be | no hunger strikes. no self-inmurement, no martyrdom. The business will be attended ‘1o in order and as a matter | of pariiamentary routine, and the seek- | ers for sensation will be denfed a| chance to pose as sufferers for a cause. | | Which 15 quite sattstactory to all but| ;Xh» flappers who have been denfed Il’ | chance for nowriety, { .. | | A member of the Russian royal fam- | | iy arouses deep interest. Royalty ftself | | may be modest and self-eftacing. The | | admiring ses force it into promi- | nence, | | | | | The public 15 described as fickle, It | has long been loyal W Lindbergh and | { there 15 every indication that it will | T eontin w e w0, B i Public Building Delays. Bome ence with the of new building program | been manifested by | House committee on | cording to 1he reports on the Trewsury Depart- ment widch has just been sub- e 1o the Mouse. An inguiry the chatrman directed t the suj ing architect of the ‘Ireasiry ¢ the reply that the delay on the Internnl | Reverve Buiding s caused by con- | }Gemnation proceedings and the block- | de tucident. 1 the fatlire 1o remove s Farmers’ Murkel in seabon from the 1 ue degree the alum- |Uon prevatls wt the site of the Com- | merce Departuent Building - two strue- Lures are tanding there, theDis et Mouse of Detention and one of the wroporary” bulldings erected durlng war me i oeeupled Unbl very secent 11y by 8wt of the Internnl Kevenue | turenu 1 both of these chsen the construr Von delny wiies from fatiure 1o make proper provision W wAVRLCe for oo pante of the pre-empted et ratter of the grens had sn opportanity last i | | | tmpat ot igs bill, by | site L stili yeur wer Ve site cleared In season, bt fatled | W gresp 1L Han this mater been then ama. Poesibly if the Nicaragua route is ever utilized. larger lock dimensions | will be provided. for there is no AsSur- | ance against further increases in the | size of sca fighters and auxilinri —o— — One way to abolish capital punish- | ment would be to convert the criminals; a long, slow process, yet one concern- ing which philosophy and religion have long entertained hopes. et Apparently the Hoover bandwagon has all the devices for speed and com- fort befitting a 1928 model. ) Camera men look forward to a long | political season. Seldom have candi- | dates been so frankly conspicuous in | carly February. L swered Senator Sorghum. { ways hav lon & whole lot more beforehand Smmnd ‘There will be resentment if the usual | expression of sentiment for favorite | sons I8 ignored in the face of strong, feeling for State's rights GAlEEED v SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Penance, 1f one can make himself 5o good, As teachers all agree A well intending person should— How lonely he will be? How can he know his fellowmen, In moods both grave and gay, Who goes to sleep at half past ten And wakes at break of day? A friend austere is often met, From merry impulse free, We duly honor him—and yet How lonesome he must bel Call of Duty. | “Your constituents say you will have | 16 run again. “I have heard the call of duty,” an- “In fact, be- s 1 am the one who first | mentioned 1t Into the microphone in my ecampalgn backer'’s private office | What you hear now s the loud| speaker.” tween oursely Idealized Portralthre. He didn't scem 8o handsomelike When first he struck the place, But now manuging Lo strike The politician’s pace, 8o, ull the camera boys who hike With him from place to place Balute him all nlong the pike And call him “angel face!” Jud Tunkins says & woman can al- the last word, but insiats Political Relation In party loyalty he's strong Of patriotism he 16 full He knows thet 1 he gets In wrong His brother-ln-law may lose his pull “He who never forgives,” suld 1) Mo, the sage of Chinatown, "drifts nto the (78 In the | ast wnd neglects the hopes of the Puvmers' Murket, Cop- | future Improved Pughism, The pughhet tuvites the bard A dninty ballad 1o Indite, Lo delsy would he cased extept for the procedire of con Aemning privately owned propestics Which was beguni Be B s possible atver e eite bad been selectea There woe wple Wme b effoct tie vecation ot e ncome tis Department hut A Ling wae done Voward finding olher quastere Tor 30 until eIer tie vk of Clewiing the land wis sterted. As o now Corineres Elte Although the Bitting's not so hard, The Hrature 1 more polite CWhen a s shonaff gits religlon,” [sald Uncls khen, Che's Dable to he so Dby Db’ hout 10 dat he won't. talk anit an ek | - o o 5 Not Bad for Washington, Faomn W Boston Hevald Opentig The 1028 base bil) season on House of Detention, the District vk gIVen B0 suthonity tor e removel [ EUoBwithin s day was o bad sdvey - tsement for Washinglon us s Winter 1eaoil, ! throughout | Worcester Evening Gazette (independ- | ent) a pubsidy, and woship subsidy 15 ) I “He had 10 cents, and the price of a sandwich and cofTee was 15 cenis. “My God. what was he to do? “He stood on the brink of a palliq nothing, face to fice with a auivering ‘Tomorrow, and after that a vivid pr cession of Days stretching into the Hereafter. “All this time the Demons of Hungr kapt running up and down his nesoph- agus. Here a little Demon persched it- s°lf on a nerve gangia. while a ultra-Demon kent uttering the at a fearful pace *¢Ten. cenl moanrd Gearshift, wringing his red, raw hands redder and | rawer. Rawer and redder he wru | them, and then he began, in fearful abandon, to ring changes upon them, and to toss them, and to ve them | into convolutions and to evolve them Unti- Senate Vete to The passage by the Senate of the| Jones shipping bill, which would pro- vide for retention of the Governmunt- | owned fleet and for replacements, fs accepted os important by the Ameri- can public, but the controversy over public ownership continues to be s bitter as in the past. Both sides in| the debate which has developed the country belleve that the subject will continue to be & mul("r} of friction. | In its appraisal of the matter the | says: “Overwhelming support in| the Senate for the Jones merchant ma- rine hill on its final passage seems | pretty well to commit the United| States to the policy of & Government- owned and operated merchant marine, if it 18 to have any at all. The size of the Senate majority makes It scem likely that no measure originating in the House can pass that body if it docs not conform. And, even'if pussage of the Jones bill or a similar bill over « veto proved impossible, there seem to be enough firm friends of Gove mmv\nH‘ operation in the Senate to ausu hat 1o other bill could be approved.” “With greater complexity of = eco- nomic life” according to the 8t. Paul Ploneer P (ndependent), “the e between strictly public and private business becomes more difficult to draw. It is not enough to say that the Gov- rmment should keep out of business. ch case TRISES NOW QUEAtONS, New complications that must be considered on merits, In any given situation it must be decided whether the well known disadvantages of Government operation are outwelghed by the need for some otherwise unobtainable public service o rétection Assuming that “Senator Jones and the entire commerce committee of the | Benate take the position that those who want a privately owned merchant fleet for use in forelgn trade are sim- ply erying for the moon.” and that | they belleve “private capital will not | butld Americon-flug ships unless it gets | Heally @ dead sue” the Rocheste 1me vemarks “That ne b concluston, “The cholee | les between w Government-owned | merchant marine and none at all” LR “Ihe opentig of the trade routes to Amertean shipping,” in_the opinton of | thie Charleston Eventng Post (indspend- ent Demoeraticr, “1s as much the busi- | ness of the Government as was the cat- | tug of the Panama Canal, ‘This view | of the shipping question 15, we helleve eradually making s wiry into the con Lseionsness of the Amerlean poople Tl Omahin World-Herald — dndependent s moks, "Why did tie Middle Weal wint { 1he bl passed when 1t was opposed by the industriul East?” and replies to its awn question, “Because the Middle West belleves that the Government are keeplng down ocenn transporta rates, and lower sen frefghts help dis tribute Middle Western wheat and meat | o the markots of the world.” “ e Benntors who voted agatint the | Mentdent's ndvice,” decluros the Waler [ “Tribime dndependent Progressiver | Swantonomerchant marine o cavey the | fruede of the Unitod Btates and ave fa 1o Government ownership and Loperation 30w canipete mariie can he hnd I no other way 1 apposttion w1l Views ts (hit L whileh hiolds thit eMctency 1s tmposst Ble under Government owneralip “Phere have heen intinntions of a velo A Uit message sl vench the Kxecn Ove desk” staten the Phladelphin v Wi Bullethn dndependent Republi cany, und 1018 G be hoped that theve will b win dina ol 13 Hono which has iston of w ChaiePment feet cxeept an KL whevicoe necusally of willt o Lue {should be drafted that Lmous Action of the board In case Lare o be U aver Ultimate Criticism will hold it remains to be seen. These traver in well known circles, getting back to the thought ch a production as that under on did, indeed, attract atten- tion. This is where the real writer shines. He will attract attention. He mav be held down for a time, hut he will pop forth at last. He has some- thing in_him which must be expressed, | cven 1f h» has to become theatrical to do it It may be realized that the consensus at the end of the discussion was abont that at the beginnir it, some did not. Some thrilled at al- leged violation of policies, others stuck to their avowal of “maudlin" Like most such discussions, it “got no- where”—but just where does thought K—cc P SAI;?])S Revives Debates in Press Providence Bulletin (independent) con- tends that “the majority of the Senate acted contrary to the best intercsts of the Nation,as a whole. Their action Is defensible only on the theory that po- P! Is a finer virtue than hving at the subsidy,” contends the Louisville Courter-Journal «ndepend- ent), “the Senate also has shied at amending the seamen’s act under which. the cost of operating American ships puts them at a hopeless disad- vantage in competing with vessels of other countries. This would alienate the lahor vote, so ‘the greatest deliber- ative body in the world’ has followed the easiest way.” The Baltimore Sun (ndependent Democratic) holds that “the taxpayer will assent to it only after being shown conelusively that the alter- native to the procedure is no merchant marine.” ook Whiie the measure had® votes to re there were not enough to insure its passnge over Mr. Coolidge’s veto, should the latter disapprove the meas- asserts the Scranton ¥ locratic), and the Duluth He sendent. Republican) suege the vote “may have a bearing on the vole In some of the States when the Benators who voted come up for re- clection, it does not settle the question what we are going to do with ovr merchant marine.” “The inland vote, Republican and the Jones bill Democtatic, that put through the Senute” according to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle cndependenty “registered the inveterate belief of hu- man nature that it can attend to that of which it knows least,” that paper pointing out that “of the 42 senators from marftime States, 18 voted ngainst | the DIl or took the adverse side i pair- ‘The hiteany 1ors never Buffalo Kvening News (f feel that “the prairie Sena- could admit that the sea- hoard may know a little more nbout shipt than the nterlor,” and the Bangor Commierelal (Republicany em- phnsizes the same division in the votr. A dound and practienl measure would aid 1 bullding up an eficient merehant ma ine by privite enterprise” states the Chicago Dally News (Independent), and the Albany Fvening News cindependent Republican) warna: Qo ment oper ation huas not been & suceess 1t will not be w success, The Government Should not continue to be engaged i an enterprise thut ¥hould be earvied on by privitte business interests. ‘The Gov - ermment should get out of that busi- ness ‘Che provision o the bl for unant- tips doen not My encipe comment The Oakland ‘Tribune i dependent Republican ) maintains that I the DL passes the Hotse also and 15 ot vets there will be a demand i the personnel of the Donved ™ That paper expresses the bellef it “partisan polities played a pat” the passage of the bill, “ihe tntent g 10 ke cumpalgn capltal 1f the Prealdent exerctsen his veto” Unantmons consent 1o sales, i the ndument of the Han Antonio Expross dndependent Democratie), “might con« sttute hoth a fronblesome precedent for other Goverfunent agencles and s forimtdable obstacle to the disponal of and Cofieial disagresment methods st not be earied o S lengthn an to thieaten npaiiment o the shipping aeryvice " s .o« o Time, Nohow, il sueh ships Nowheve, Vi P the Thne wan when Amertean politiciang fonght duets, hut when Benafor Blease of Bunth Cavoline challonged Reed of Ponnsylvantn and Walsh of Montana to meel him “w aAher any thne, any- Bow' WHAL (1 mennn theae days 1s s where, no thine and nohow, the cards seem stacked against them | there. The primary States have a total of 502 delegates in the Republican Nn-‘ i 1 conven- | oceans and the obstructing d masse: tional Convention out of total con | Hisithe operitccsaminairmeandrtall o8 tion strength of 1.089. The Republic- | WASHINGTON Q in each tide?—A. P. A. The height of tides varies, owing to the frregular shape and depth of the s nominate by a majority, which is 5. Any candidate who could carry all the primary States would, of rnu:s'.i‘ win in a walk. But no candidate is going to carry them all. But if Mr Hoover or Mr. Lowden or Senator Willis or another could win an avpre- s | Q. How fast do el their wild state?—W. A. We find no s:atement as to the highest speed of an elephant in its wild state. Under ordinary conditions an elephant will travel 3 miles an hour. Q* Does a porcupine actually throw its quills from its body when men- aced?—C. S. A. It docs not. The ofdinary post- tion of the spines is flat, with the points directed backward: but when the ani- mal is excited. they are erected. giving the beast a bristling appearance. It | can roll ftself like a hedgehog. The | spines or quills at the tip of the tail | are of very singular structure, being | open thin-sided tubes, about 2 inches ! long. supported upon slender flexible | pedicles, and they make a sound by ]nmmx together wherr the tail is | shaken. : | s | . Q. Why is so much teakwood used in | houses in Hongkong?—A. L. T. A. In fthat city teakwood is used to ithstand the ravages of the white ant, OBSERVATIONS | ephants travel in | N. B. | wi Coal. ofl and power are the head-|it is worth recalling that in the closing Some still liked | - | painted by th clable number of delegates through the primary route, it might be very helpful, particularly as an indication of po lar strength. o % In the past. the candidate who has shown the greatest strength in the pres {dential preferential primaries has not always been the selection of the Na- tional Convention, however. In 1920, for example, Senator Hiram Johnson of California carried his own State, Michi- gan, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska and Oregon and ren second in Indiana, Maryland and New Jersey. The late Gen. Leonard Wood carried Jgdiana, Maryland, New Jersey, South Dakota and Vermont and ran second in Illinols, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohlo and Oregon The late President Harding contested in only two primary States, carrying Ohio and running fourth in Indiana. Yet Mr. Harding was finally the nominee of the party in the deadlocked Chicago con- vention that Senator Willls and other favorite- son candidates are now playing. They have scen the resuits fn 1920 and are asking themselves “why bother with go- ing into a lot of primary States where they might make a poor showing.” They are content to sit back and let the more prominent candidates kilf each other off in the primaries and later in the con- vention, hoping to be the compromise chofee. x hox o The achlevements of Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, most prominent of all the Democratic presidentinl possibili- ties today, are interestingly set forth in an article in the Review of Reviews by Ray T. Tucker, Washington correspond- ent. Mr. Tucker says, however, “Un- fortunately for Smith, his achievements as an executive and administrator have been overshadowed by the leading roll he has occupled in the assault upon pro- hibition. For his actual accomplish exgeutive ‘of the greatest Unlon there are bably five who know him as the aggressive champlon of the wets." Mr. Tucker Insists that Gov. Smith has only himself to blame, for this, that it was the governor who induced the State Legislature to pass a 2.75 per cent beer bill; that he sponsored the repeal f the State prohibition enforcement law and referendum which won in the 1026 election, favoring determination by the individual State what constitutes an Intoxicating bevernge But, says Mr, Tucker, * drys’ conception of the gov nulifieationtst, he is not the ety fnhabitants of the Btble [ et Never hus he advoeated 1o the dry laws; he has merely ur itiention of the Volstead net w Hmits of the elghteenth In fact, his delny i sipning the bl repenling the State entorcement act caused constderable concern in Tam- muny Hall. Adopting his beat judicial manner, he took the whole month al- lowed by law to consider Dis deetston, gave the darys thetr day i his court and then found that ‘though (he sa- loon 18 and ought to be a defunct in- stitution, the definttion of an intoxi- cuting beverage m the Volstead act is not an honeat or common-sense one.’ M Tucker finds thei this langunge and these acts scarcely make (he gov- ernor w “nullificationtst * Hut whether they do or not, the drys regard him as auch und as such will vote agatuat Smith 1t they have the opportunity e owow Willlam Gibbs McAdoo, who lead the dry cohorta to Madisan Square Qarden in 1024 and fought (heir bat- tle through move than a hundred bal- 1ots, han lost much of the following he had In the South If he were a ¢ane didate again for the presidential nomi- nation, It 18 doubtful he would have a number of the State delegations from that section which he contiolled four %-rnu ago. But an an antagonist of Jov. Bmlth, preaching the diy doctiine, Ar. MoAdoo will have consideranle in- fMuenoe, chiet CRCE The Houth s vapldly becoming wealth Industiles ave springing up wll over the Houthland They have e oveaned groatly during the Coolldee ad- minitration, and meny Hnl\!hmu hust- ness Men wre saying today that 1t theve must he s Republioan Preaident they wonld ke to see A Coolidge continue I (hat oflee. But for one issue wline the Republioan party would fn w ahoit time And taell fn a position (o vontest vigorously with the Democrats in the Houth ‘\n\ today many of the hig huainess men of the Bouth ave votly (he Hepublioan ticket 1 national elec- tlona, It is for just such a deadlock | who knows of | e (lu‘l mist | o land to retire enth liners in the frenzy of investigation days of the last session the Senate which 1s now engulfing the Senate. bated the subject briefly but decisively. i But these three investigations, large a8 ! Senator Park Trammell of Flor 5!)1'}_\' are, are only part of the picture. a resolution to rescind the ufltc’r‘afl;:’;;g | There are now pending. and backed by Senate in voting adherence to the Court real pressure in varylng degree. reso- with reservauons. He professed to be | lutions seeking Senate investigation of fearful lest. after all. we get into the | the movies. the telephone companies. Court in spite of the barriers we had i the I fc service, Indian affairs raised. The foreign relations committee and Nicaragua. The Reed slush fund pigeonholed the resolution, and Tram- investigating committee has secured a mell offered a motion to discharge the new lease of life and the Hearst Mex- |.commit The tenor of the ensuing ican documents committee is still delv- | debate that it was a dead issue, that ing into the origins of the forgeries. | the other powers had decisively rejected Investigation of the S-4 disaster by & our offer. that there was not the slighte | special congressional committee has.est Possibility that they would take us bren demanded by the Senate. The‘lnw the Court on our terms. that the Vare-Wilson election contest and its | Trammell resolution was a needless ges- | attendant investigation of Pennsylvania | ture and a of time. and his mo- | politics 1s in full swing. “All in all.'tion was tabled by a roll-call vote of |the Senate has its hands full” says 59 to 10. | the free-speaking George Mos Sen- jator from New Hampshire, in sarcastic vein “As a grand jury, the Senate prepares the indictments: as oroses cutors. it presents its case: as jury, it brings in its verdict, and as judge. it | pronounces sentence. and then. if thers be an appeal, it disposes of that. too. o The Sinclair-Burns contempt case in | the local courts. now In its ninth week with the end not vet in sight, affords some indication of what may happen it Col. Robert W. Stewart. recalcitrant ofl witness, succeeds in his efforts to/ transfer from the forum of the Senate to the courts the question of whether| or not he ought to go to jail for refus-| ing to answer questions propounded b"'i the Walsh committee. _Although the Sinclair-Burns case presented what | | seemed to be a very simple issue, tes| i timony ~nd argument at the rate of {45000 words per day has been going| » the record for two months. and| defense is barely started and has wcoras of witnesses ready. The steno- graphic record alone is costng the | Government more than $130 per day and to date comprises 1.€00.000 words, covering more than 6.000 pages The cost of the record is a minor ftem. however The Government kept two dozen Burns detectives, the entire jury | of the prior trial and many other per- tons under witness subpoena in daily | attendance for weeks. Thousands of | dollars were paid out in witness fees land for subsistence and travel The, dQefense has 13 lawyers giving dally | battle. % ox An amusing story ts cireulat relating to Mr. Coolidge Jackknive: Pirs josh paragraph got into print that the President on his retirement proposed to resume a boyhood occupa- ton of whittling. This prompted gifts ot jackknives from admirers in all quar- ters of the land. Then followed an an- nauncement that Mr. Coolidze had an embarrassment of riches the matter of knives. that he was mildly protesting Aagainst receiving proper: L pretenses. and that he reall N Paragra ) With Knives.” Now the r rouble has started. Schoolboys from far and near have written to the Presids & pocketknife. il told, M received about a doren k has Jetters from several h boys who want a Coolidgs » oW has o th o operated to stiffe Bostor As & port. Since exisung ra. outside the control of eithe: Board or the conference. the o tion can only be effected by restoring the ocean freight rate differential which Boston enjoved prior to the war B: more, Philadelphia and Norfolk a terly opposing any rate ::;:dl h\;\n‘r rail rate than 1 on the fact that The report whtch has eropped up [adf SR BT several thmes recently that Willtam M. 08 T 00 TL futler, chatrman of the Republican na- (ol Se (5o fional conunitiee, intended to rrlu\‘]um““ are equa uish his membership on the committee | g™yl fare Iy from poltties after | qfon G [the June conventlon, is dented by My pyaceo, Butler's close friends and assoctates W g ng® gy Washington, who sav they have his eny sentiment in favor phatic assurances that all such teports | nnined rait and water are unfounded. He will retire from his | JGeG ey Sy Commanding post after the convention | giane™ i e to give way to & new chatrman pleked [ ayca® Najther stde dares by the nominee, but he proposes 1o con= e Guie be th tinue n the commitiee vanks and | gruagion with w conncls and as titular political leader and business v In Massachusetts, are deeply conee e 1o meeting this week to deal wy The World Court resolution offered tn | ¢! the Senate Monday by Senator Freder- ek Ho Ofllett of Massachusetts sur- [PPSO N ALY ASSOCIALes and was cal- culated G be bIL embarrassing (o (e triends of Secretary Hoover, within ! whose nwmber Gillett himwelf (s ins Cluded The Hoover board of strategy s o dostre 1o see a World Court dis- cusston profected nto the political pio ture at this time 10 the words of e “Iwo Black Crows,” “Why bring that aptt Grllett 18 sometimes reforved o s n Henate spokeaman for the White House. Mo s perfectly sincere tn his owll falth that it may Yot be possible CEEEE | | ut it s & | UNITED IN WORLD WA Lo Todey, the markamanshiy of Amerian Artillerymen on the wesiern ot is espectally effective AcQerman dattery Posttion fs struck by A shell fram one of our heavy guns and & heavy explo- Mon of ammuniton llows. Amertoan i Len Years for the United States (o abtain niembey - ship i the Court without any modifica- ton 10 the reservations which the Sen- ate tmposed. This is the thied time in [ (he space of (wo weeka (hat the Rav Htate Senator has sprung & surprise. He dectaved whole-heartedly for - Hoover for the Republican nuimination at the veEY mament that all the ather Massa- ehtselts Republionin leaders weve ahout« o for an unplodged and neatial cons vention delogation. Gillett tallowed this up Wi Al outspoken declaration for Mases for Vice Prestdent, in the face of the tactt arvangement in his home State for all handa (o get behind oy Fuller for scoond plave o the ket Ho stivred thinga up at home. and now ho has stivved things up 1 Washington e As ndioative of the present tempar of the Senate on the Warld Court subjeet, machine guns continue W havass (he Qermans wherever they expose them- selves * ¢ * The it tsue of The Stars and Stripes. oMeial weekly pub- Heattn of the A ¥ F . appeared fo. AAY AR CONTATNS A CONgY ulatory mes- | sage fram CGen Pershing. * * ¢ Nearly P10 Amertcan aviaios, expertenced W | Freneh squadion flying are impatientiy WALIE 0 Paris (o theit ranster to AMerican fuves. © ¢ Appasinately AN DULORS of war visk insurance has | beent DOught By men at vay campa s tar O A LlermAn spy, taken (@ DR stoamer Tanding at New | VoI admitts e came hete 0 fuviiahy Dother splas with & seeret ooxte ¢ & ¢ [riy e LW W' are indicted at HACTAIANIO 01 COspIing 1 obatruet ln'\ ‘llll b “" .\|Il'IIA‘A\; sharpsh x ters Ave Killed O mAy Slerman snipers And have destrayed ¢! ahelvers. | I