Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1928, Page 8

3 THE EVENING STAR, WASHT NGTON, D WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1928, —_——_— priation; how many school rooms could be provided and how many miles cf fine highways constructed. These sta- tistics mean nothing, but if they are | used on one side, they can be used on | the other side with as much, if not | more, effect. If the Navy bill is shot to pieces in . | committec and comes floating into the aper COMPARY | 4 ouse minus tts destroyer leaders, sub- marines and aircraft carriers, what will it mean? It will leave us with & su- perior tonnage in destrovers—329.153 | | tons for the United States, 224,150 tons for the British Empire and 134.270 tons for Japan. But the difference will be | %y found in the fact that our destroyers B¢ per montn | are already becoming out of date, and The SUNIAs St at 1l ehd of mal moniy | our destroyer squadrons have no de- lers may bo sent in by mail or telephone | stroyer leaders. while Great Britain has 2 {31,500 tons and Japan 40,800 tons in this type of naval craft. In aircraft | carriers we will be left with 78,700 tons ho!as against Great Britain's 107,550 tons 3¢ and Japan's 63.300 tons. Counted in v our afrcraft carrier tonnage is the | And Canada, | Langley, & converted collier and con- T3¢ | sidered by Navy men as of use for ex- perimental purposes only. In subma- rines we will be left with superior ton- THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D.C. ‘WEDNESDAY. . February 15, 1928 . Editor THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star News Rusiness Of L1th St oand Pennay ua Ave New York Offie 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Ofce Tower Butiding European Office 14 Rexent St.. London. Ensiand Rate by Carrier Within The Eveniig Star - The Evening and Sundas Star e City. th 45¢ per month 60c per montb | i Payable in Advance. J Virzinia. Ler. 01 mo ST S0 mo 1vr.$300: 1 mo.. All Other States Das ang Sondas . Daily oniv Suniay only 10 .. 00: 1 mo. 5¢ Member of the Associated Press. luervels entiting all news din red R ewn | of special di rein are also reserved —t—————— e erein A epatches he: Next Presidential Election Day. | Elsewhere in The Star today is re-| printed the black-bordered article of | last presidential election day. headed: nage—93.364 tons for the United States, | 67.688 tons for the British Empire, and | 76.407 tons for Japan. The thirty-five new submarines asked for in the Navy bill are to replace the seventy-five sub- | marmes now in our possession which | will reach their age limit at the end ot 1933. Our greatest need probably lies in the cruisers. If there must be compromise, The Day, Nowmber 4, 1924, it is probably wiser to sink destroyer To the Un-Americanized Americans leaders, aircraft carriers and sub- of the District a Day of Humiliation marines and save the cruisers. But and Mourning. why should there be compromise? Ard To Other Americans a Day of Na- why should there be resort to talk of | tional Enthusiasm and Patriotic Pride. | chewing gum and candy. when the only | In this article it is said: “After four | question under consideration is the ¥ears have passed Americans will again mamtenance of an adequate Navy for of patriotic pride in!the United States? highest privilege and! s towed upon the citizens of The Invitation to Secretary Hoover. the world's greatest Republic. Shall{ There is little likelihood of anything | ::“(‘"‘ d%‘e’ in ;995 {b? x;crmit;;d.hns politically important developing from | v, to a day of undeservi u- | v v o i o th peple of e DIECY | Lo e Senee commrts SommIEE 0 Three of the four years between|gonnection with the problem of flood plresxdenu‘u elections have p;ssed.‘!l_exlémmml. An invitation was ynsterdlyi November the people of the United|eyiended to the Secretary by a divided | States, the citizeas of the American yore, seven of the members voting in the | States, will thot_)se their agents to per-| gmrmative and six in the negative. The | form the executive and legisiative func- | ract that one of the seven was sennor! tions of the great representative Re- winis with whom Mr. Hoover is now | public. American sovereignty is not the possession of one man or of a Little group of men, but is distributed among the whole people. Every Amer- dcan is a sovereign in his own right| and on election day he exercises this sovereignty as he deposits his vote in the ballot box. The un-Americanized Americans of the District of Columbia alone are de- nied the opportunity to exercise now or in the future the sovereignty which belongs to them and attaches insepa- Fably to them as Americans. Not only have not the Washingto- pians the power to participate in the | National Government, but without a constitutional amendment Congress it- | self, it is held, cannot grant them that | power. i How is it that District Americans may not exercise this right and power, & vital part of their American heritage? The Constitution makers unintention- ally omitted to fix the political status ©f the future residents of the Ten Miles Bquare, constituting the seat of Govern- ent, and unintentionally failed to give Congress the power, analogous to that which they gave it in relation to the admission of territories to statehood, of granting representation in Congress and the electoral college to the popuiation | of the District when it became fit. Our amendment to the Constitution, | now pending in Congress and under | consideration by the House judiciary committee, corrects this umnvznwomll omission. | Without making a State of the Dis-| trict of Columbia, and without devrl\--l contesting for the Ohio delegation to | the Republican convention, may super- ficially appear as of some political sig- nificance, inasmuch as it has been | bruited that the Secretary of Commerce is not entirely in harmony with the po- i sition of the President on the flood con- trol question. But an announcement by Secretary Hoover that he gladly ac- cepts the invitation of the committee | Indicates that he has no apprehension on the score of possible embarrassment. | The flood control question is not a political one and should not become such. The only issue inwolved in the case apart from the question of m-‘I ginecring methods to be adopted for the | abatement of the menace to life and | property in the Mississippi Valley is that | of the allocation of the cost. Concern- ing that matter the Secretary of Com- merce has nothing whatever to do. Nor has he to do with the engineering ques- tions involved. The former is a matter for the Congress to decide and the latter is for the engineers of the Army to rec- ommend and for Congress eventually to determine. Mr. Hoover went into the flood area to conduct the relief works in the dev- astated regions. He did a great job there. He administered the relicf, funds in conjunction with the Red Cross in a manner to accomplish a maximum of | good. For that he was widely acclaimed in praise of his efficiency and abllity. His strength as a presidential aspirant at this time is in large measure due to the favor with which his services in this connection were viewed by not merely the stricken area, but other parts ing Congress of an atom of its constitu- | o¢ the country as well. | tional exclusive leglsistive control of | An guempt to embarrass Secretary the National Capital, it empowers Con- | yosver politically by eliciting views re- | gress to grant t the people of the Dis- | garding the economics of flood control trict vouing representation in Congress |t varfance with those of the President and the electoral college, whenever In ' i5 Jikely to react in his favor, rather| 115 jucgment they are fit 10 enjoy this | than to his injury, and it is to be hoped | right and to exercise the power. ‘Will not every red-biooded American, whether in or out of Congress, respond with enthusiasm to our 8 O 8 call and | for the sake of a sound settlement of | this question, which is of such vast im- portance to millions of American people, that upon his appearance before the Belp eSectively 1o win approval of our eonstitutional amendment and to Amer- | Acanize the Washingtonian? —— Weather forecasters are encouraged | t0 undertzake an optimistic attitude in | view of the fact th all for the traditional insuguration ———etee Abandoning Ships. Tre Constitution puts it down in black and white as a duty of the Con- gress o provide and maintain a Navy.” | Yet there seems 1o be nothing extraor- €inary or out of the way in the visit of Reprerentative Britten of lllinois, rank- ing Republican on the House naval af- fairs comm v the White House, where he wou resident on vnat W 4o shout the Navy bill. Inswead of echoing the famous words of Capt James Lawrence——"Don't give up tne fight ner till she sinke ! —the Presigent seerns W nave wid Ur. Britten that if the fieet of paper ehipe in the Navy bill was going w be runk, it would be g sualegy v save tne cruwers and et the subma- rinee, Gestroyer lezders and airplans carriers g5 V. the bLotwm. And Mr Brivten returned v the Capitol con- siderably encouraged znd quoted staLis- tice eoncerning the of money tue Americar people sené on chewing rum v e Navy i& not as expensy nt e, He may have borrowen Comparative s1aY Jden from Secretary Wi Just epoken un \he polie, quoting figures on Low much the ship; o the Navy t next March does | nie wise advice of the | Senate committee on commerce he will be regarded in the light of a consultant familiar with the situation, rather than as one who has been placed by his friends in the field for the Republican nomination for President S A motion picture star has her ap- pendix removed with great publicity, | despite the ’act that such an experi- ence represents neither comedy nor| romance. — - — | The early candidate exposes himself | as & fremk and sincere subject for the | practical political process of elimina- | tion. i The Unflagging Spirit. The 8pirft of St. Louls s not worn out public should not worry over what might zppear 1o be 1o much “use and | abuse” of both plane and engine. There is no one in the world better | abie 1 judge the condition of the | plane and power plant than Col. Chatles A Lindbergh himself, as he has been 1 sole master ever since 1 creation. Writing for The Btar aboard | the Bpirit of Bt Louls February 8, while 1 fiying W Havans over the Windward | the minds of s0 many people Lhat the, Passage, Col. Lindbergh declared him- self on this point es follows | The original mowr has never been | “a and has not s yet recelved a Jor overhatl Neither plane nor engine Lave had over Dve per cent re- placements and yet both sre in excel lent condition and entirely capable of Continiuing in swrvice for & much longer Ume than they have now been in use With proper care wnd maintensnce the modern plane and engine shoald have a minimum Iife of 150,000 miles. Yok on the prreos of Le sl ¥y “proper care wnd maintenance,” Sote pevy which from the hrst | Col. Linabergh means just what he has Bt bern emphasied e meetng the | given w o the world's best-known afr- sonimun reguirements of e Nevy. plane Fuet, he has flown it himselt For when there 1 thought or telk of |exclusively and thst slone plays & great iU means thisl the rats &l -lpnl i prolonging the lite of any me- quitting the Ehe Lee eprung @ |chanical object. Second, he is & pilot lesk somewhes the punps bave | above reproach, he knows how W get BLopped Working &nd somelning i go- | the most out of engine and plane with ng usder. My Briten end M. Wil | the lesst wear and tear. ‘Third, he 15 bur mignt Lave 1olowen & Wiser course I'n particalar ovew s mainenance as 30 forgelling W mention snything 8bout | he is over the upkeep of his heslth chewing gum end canoy. For this in- | Constant spplication of these three mieciately gves importance 1o statistics | rules for the operation of & plane, or of gnother sort Low many tenements | nutomobtie for thsl matier. cannot flm be DUl with Lhe navel sppro- bul bring the ssme result Lhat has been fanerican people spend on candy ALl o e mekes o1 & Guni compromis ! achieved with the Spirit of St. Louis— reliability. Despite their long flying time, which has been emphasized because the eyes |' ot the world arc on the ship constantly, the plane and engine have not estab- lished any unprecedented figures for duration without major attention. The engine and plane, when they came to a stop at St. Louis Monday night, com- pleted 484 hours in the air, or well over 45,000 miles of flying without a major overhau!, according to the colonel. The same type aircraft engine as is used in the Spirit of St. Louls has ex- ceeded this flying time considerably, one having flown in the naval service for 618 hours and 9 minutes without & major overhaul. And this figure is all the more remarkable when it is considered that the engine was in a plane used by aviktion students and operated by a dozen different hands a day. Col. Lindbergh takes off with one | throttle setting and leaves it there un- til his heavy load of gasoline is reduced in weight and then he eases back to 2 lower revolution per minute, getting just the same speed as with fuil “gun” because his plane is lighter. Planes in the military service under~ g0 a major overhaul every 300 to 500 hours, depending upon the character of service they have been forced to give. The fabric is stripped, the metal parts, joints, fittings, etc., are inspected with microscopic care and before the framework is recovered the metal parts are given another coat-of anti-rust or anti-corrosive paint. What has been said for Col. Lindbergh's engine like- wise can be said for the plane. It has not been flown by a wide variety of both good and bad pilots and it has re- ceived constant good treatment since early in May, 1927. Hence it is not ready for the Smith- | sonian because of age. However, there are many who live in constant fear that some accident may befall it— something like the freak destruction of General de Pinedo's plane on Roosevelt Dam last vear—and deprive the Nation of such an historic object. Therefore, it is upon these grounds that the Nation would like t0 see the Spirit of St. Louis consigned to protection for posterity as soon as poesible. v Bullets and Their Billets. Every once in a while one is inclined to agree with the dictum of veteran soldiers that “if a bullet bears your | name you will get it: otherwise not.” ! One recalls the men he has heard of, or known of, who went through such hails of lead as occurred in the World War or during Pickett's charge and came through it all without a scratch, together with others who suffered death or wounds most unimaginably by a single stray builet. At Cotter, Ark. a day or two ago, a rolroad brakeman discovered his dwelling on fire. He and the members of his family not only escaped, but were able to remove the great part of their household goods. Suddenly he recalled that his automatic pistol had been overlooked. It was too late to go back and hunt it. As he stood. forty feet away, watching the demoli- tion of his home the fire reached the weapcn. a shot rang out and he feli dead with through his chest. Mathematically-minded persons figure out the chances of being dealt a royal flush “pat” in poker or an entire suit in whist. What intrepid calculator is willing to tackle the chances for and agairst such a chance shot? - Having gone fishing, Herbert Hoover leaves his reputation for truth and ve- racity as to details of sportsmanship in the hands of his friends. R T T Housing all the gifts showered on “Lindy"” becomes a problem. And yet there are persons who say there is no Santa Claus! —— Oil is a lubricant which may provide some of the slippery spots on which the iniquitous proverbially stand. e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Valentine. I had a little valentine Across the radio. ‘Twas from “an old mine"— A song of long ago. Its thought in simple rhythm told, Breathed sentiment so true, | As memory pictured scenes of old 'Mid splendors of the new! I loved you so, my little song, Prom affectation free, And feared that through the years so long You had forgotten me! 1 listened on from first to last, To every echoing line That brought reminder of the past— My cherished valentine. Wisdom in_ Oratory. “Which of your speeches do you re- gard as showing most wisdom?” “Beveral,” answered Senator Sor- I famous pilov says 80 and the | e gy 1 owas tempted to make | and didn't.” Perlls of a Hero. He was a hero. Courage stout and grim Has made us hold our breath. His lot was easy till we tempted him To eat himself to death Jud Tunkins says one of the draw- backs to human progress i the idea in only way to have fun Is to get foollsh Smiles, “A man should wlways show a smil- Ing face” | “Not always," answered Mr. Growcher | “You eant do 1t when a dentist hax | boths hands i your mouth * “Lhe departure of a friend o the U it sald Hi Ho, the sage of | Chinatown, “effaces wltercation. Our affections are sincere. Our hatreds are imeginary.” Change of Subject. With people getting In & rage About the Constitution, I'd like w0 turn back history's page Aund talk of evolution. ‘Though the gorilla has & way That's sltogether charmless, He is, In frankness we may say, Politically hdrmless “A man who hias & heap o' money,” said Uncle Eben. “is highly respected unless he falls under suspleion of hely & bootlegger.” “I would have a treasure that em- braces all—I would have Youth!” sang Dr. Faustus to the Devil. He got hix treasure, but what he did with it was a trifie disconcerting. ‘There is nothing surer than that every one of us is growing older day by di Youth, beautiful youth, fadey away and we make the most of what we have left. Faust, after all, is only a legend, a dream; old age is one of the realities. How to grow oid gracefully is the prob- lem. One of the most famous discussions of old age is Cicero’s “De Sencctute,” written in the form of a conversation, in which Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato Censorius) takes the leading part. Scipio, one of the speakers. compli- ments Cato upon his ability to find his age not grievous, “though to old men in general it is so hateful that the; account themsclves as bearing a bur- den heavier than Aetna.” Cato. with infinite wisdom, is made to declare immediately “You scem to admire what has been to me by no means difMcult. For those who have in themselves no resources for a good and happy life, every period . THIS AND THAT i § BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. any more than he desired the strength of a bull or an elephant when he was a young man. L Coming to the third charge, Cato says: “O admirable service of old age, if in- | deed it takes from us what in youth more harmful than all things else Later he says, “You do not miss what you do not wan The Roman vices of eating and drinking _to excess at banquets are scored. It is intcresting to note that the Roman feasts had their presiding officers (which we call “toastmasters” today). His custom was to announce rules for the speaking, and by custom he ended his discourse with the sentence, “Aut bibe, aut abi" (Eeither drink or go). This, it may be added. is the age-old Ty of such gatherings—today called parties.” “What immense worth it is for the soul to be with itself,” states Cicero, “to charged from the service of lust, am- mngn‘ strife, enmities, desires of every nd. “If one has some provision lald up, live, as the phrase is, with itself, dis- | Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. i ‘The answers to questions printed here each day are specimens picked from the mass of inquiries handled by our great information _bureau maintained In Washington, D. C. This valuable serv- ice 15 for the free use of the public. Ask any question of fact you may want to know and you will get an immediate reply. Write plainly, inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage, and addres: The time for open fighting in the pre-convention campaigns of both ma- jor political parties is at hand. The only two presidential possibilities prom- inently mentioned who have not now signalized in one way or another their personal intentions of getting into the | struggle are Gov. Al Smith of New York, on the Democratic side, and Vice President Charles G. Dawes,on the Re- publican. Hoover, Curtis, Lowden, Willis —Republicans—all are avowed can- didates, and so are Senator Jim Reed of Missourl, Senator George of Georgia, Gov. Ritchie of Maryland and other Democrats. But up to the present the New York governor, with no litsle po- litical acumen, has kept mum on the possibility of his candidacy. His friends have spread the Al Smith doctrine far and wide, have claimed that he alone of all the Democrats has any chance to win in 1928. But the governor has said no word which would preclude his announcement later that he was not | and has not been a candidate for the ! | nomination_this year. And there are still some Democrats who cling to the hope that such an_ announcement will be made, particularly in the South. P s | Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. Who succeeded Steinmetz in the General Electric Co.?—F. T. B. A There has been no successor to Dr. Steinmetz, although some of his former work is being carried on by his as- sistants. Q. Why do jockeys ride with such short stirrups?—A. C. A. A jockey rides in the position he does so as to take the weight off the horse’s back. He rides on the horse's shoulder so as to give with the horse. Q. How many life-termers are there at the Leavenworth Penitentiary?— A L G A. The prison pzper, the New Era, | | | The Evening Star Information Bureau, of life 15 burdensome; but' to those who | seek all good from within, nothing | which comes in the course of nature | can seem evil. Under this head a place | especially belongs to old age, which all| desire 1o attain, vet find fault with it wher. they reach it.” Cicero (for it must be remembered that it is he writing) thus puts himself squarely in line with the great and good men of all races and ages who have be- lieved in the things of the spirit. a8 it were, of study and learning, noth- ing is more enjoyable than the leisure of old age." Agriculture is one of the delights of clderly life. Cato is made to speak with delight of the various activities in deal- ing with the soil. He is charmed with the growth of seeds and the upshooting of the grapevines. “What can I tell you of irrigation, | and of the repeated digging of the soil | to make the ground more fertile?>” Even Vice President Dawes has said he is not a candidate, but favors the nomi- | natfon of his fellow statesman, Frank | 0. Lowden. It would be idle to say,| however, that the Vice President has| not a large army of followers who are | hoping he will succeed to the Lowden strength in the national convention {and also gather much strength of his { own. I * X k¥ | says that on December 31, 1927, there were 73 life-termers at Leavenworth. The total population of the prison is given as 3323. Dr. Frederick A. Cook is the editor of the New Era. Q. What ‘country has the largest bat- tleships at present’—G. C. A. The British battleships, the Rod- 1 ney and the Nelson, are the largest ba‘- | tleships in the world at the present time. a high-powered bullet | “Those who seck all good from within." * k% % Cicero points out that, in his belief. it is utterly improbable that Nature has so well arranged the other parts of life, only to fall down, like an unskilled poet in_the last act of the drama. Complaints that advancing age de- prives one of sensual gratifications are chargeable to character, not to old age, he savs. “Old men who are moderate in their desires. and are nelther testy or morose, find old age endurable: but | rudeness and incivility are offensive at any age." Laclius, one of the speakers, advances the theory that perhaps Cato finds age less burdensome on account of his wealth, his large resources, his high rank. “There is, indeed, something in this," admits the old fellow, whose surname was given him because of his shrewd- ness and cunning (Latin, “catus”; Eng- lish, “cat™). He believes, howewr, that the con- sciousness of a well spent life and a memory rich in good deeds affords the truest explanation of his happiness. Four reasons, he continues, are found | which seem to make old age wretched: 1. That it calls us away from the management of affairs. 2. That it impairs bodily vigor. 3. That it deprives one of sensuous gratifications. 4. That it brings one to the verge of death. In answer to the first objection, h~ points to the difference between youth &nd maturity, between athletic feats and mature occupations, and declares, succinctly: “The old man does not do what the young men do: but he does greater and better things. Great things are accom- plished, not by strength, or swiftness. or suppleness of body. but by counscl. in- fluence. deliberate opinion.” He answers the charge that memory is impaired, and fAnally gets around to the following classic s°ntence expect to live a year longer.” Cato is made to say that he does not now desire the bodily strength of youth, nounced Purey-don—the Argentinian Ambassador to the United States, has| become the chief. and almost the only. | stumbling block to the success of the; Pan-American Conference. He is recog- nized at Washington as a vigorous, pa | triotic Argentinian, but his unyieldin as a surprise. Senor Pueyrredon leads | the conference forces seeking to outla | intervention in the “internal affairs {of the American republics He is also | in the forefront of the fight to place | the Pen-American Unfon on record “No one is so old that he doss not | Senor Honorlo Pueyrredon — pro- anti-American attitude at Havana comes | tleaners, 2,000 years ago they understood what | many amateur gardeners of 1928 do not | comprehend—mulching, cultivation. “What shall I say of the efficacy of manuring. of which I have written in | my book on ‘Farm Life’>" Prof An- ! drew P. Peabody, whose translation we | follow, says: “The Cato who has such an acsthetic appreciation of the charms of rural life is a myth of Cicero. Cato’s own book (“De Re Rustica”) is a manual of hard. stern, sometimes brutal | economy. advising the sale of wornout | cattle and of old or sick slaves. * * + But Cicero is right in representing Cato as wise on the subject of manure. on | which, if I am not mistaken, he was in ! advance, not only of his own age, but even of ours.” * x ox % | Cicero concludes his treatise with an | academic consideration of death, which | waits at the end of the road for all and sundry. “To me no life seems long that has any end. For when the | end comes. then that which has passed has flowed away: that alone remains which you have won by virtue and by | a good life. ! “Hours, indeed, and days. and months, and years, glide by, nor does | the past ever return, nor yet can it be known what is to come. Each one - should be content with such time as it is allotted to him to live. “In order to give pleasure to the audiance. the actor nced not finish the play: he may win approval in what- ever act he takes part in: nor need the wise man remain on the stage till | the closing plaudit. “A brief time is long eneugh to live well and honorably. * ¢ Spring typifies Youth and shows the fruit that will be: the rest of life is fitted for reaping and gathering the fruit. “As I draw near to death I seem to see land, and. after a long voyage. to be on the point of entering the har- bor. 1 depart from life, as from an inn. not as from a home. for nature has given us here a lodging for a sojourn. not a place of habitation. ~O glorious day. when I shall go to | that divine company and assembly of | souls, and when I shall depart from | this crowd and tumul! WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. address before the “business organi- zation of the Government” made a special appeal for more economical use of paper clips in Federal offices. He suggested that if they are limited | to their intended purpose, instead of serving as bobbed-hair holders, pipe ' watch chains, ear reamers. shirt-sleeve adjusters, Ford repa.r parts and toothpicks, the annual saving would un into real money. Over in one of the big Government departments they've | Just reared a monument to the budget boss' glorification of the humble clip. They've constructed a fairly good sized The principal opposition to Gov. | Smith's nomination lies in_the dry and | | Protestant States of lz}w S't:’u(::}.] ‘r‘: [ true that the opposition e New . York governor is g‘l);:mn. too, in Indlana: A. Since the polar diameter of the and one or two other dry States of the | *arth is 261, miles less than the equato- | West. But what the South does in |rial diameter. the earth being a sphere the national convention in Houston flattened at both ends. it is evident that will make a tremendous difference to | the weight of a body will vary with lat- ‘the Smith fortunes, provided he re-|itude as well as with elevation above | mains ‘n the race. A recent canvass sea level The weight of a body carried | of sentiment in eight States of the from either Pole toward the Equator is South—Virginia. North Carolina. South decreased by the increase in its distance | Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana. from the center. Weight. it must be Mississippi and Tennessee—showed ' remembered. is merely the measure of ‘Ss"n‘l'l’z‘ op})o:.xiignl‘t‘o the lnommarmm of | the mutual attraction that exists be- | Smith. In uisiana alone o ese tween the earth and ti y. | States was there real beliel that Smith | ekt \anbocy delegates would be sent to the conven- Q. When was Hawaili discovered? tion. and even in the case of Louisiana | H. W.S ill is expected the delegation will be A. The first white men in Hawaii were uninstructed. Much depends upon the | the survivors of the crews of two Span- intensity of the opposition among the | ish vessels which were wrecked on the | delegates chosen from the Southern | islands as early, possibly. as 1527. Gae- | States. If they are opposed to Smith. | tano in 1555 made a landfall here. but | but are also opposed to another Madi- ' Capt. James Cook on his third voyage | son Square Garden struggle, they may | in the Pacific definitely discovered the | yet permit the nomination of the New | group In 1778. Cook named the group | York governor. If they go to the con- | Sandwich Islands after John Montagu. vention resolved to “die in the ditch” | the fourth Earl of Sandwich. Q. Does a body weigh more at the North Pole than it does at the Equa- r?—G. M. Gen. Herbert M. Lord's recent budget | | against “tariff barriers.” Ambassador Pueyrredon is a candidate for the presi- dency of Argentina at its forthcoming election. Politics and his aspirations | may have something to do with his| vendetta against the “Colossus of the | North" as the conference. Stalwart of | Frank B. Kellogg's friends say the build, still in the early fifties, an ac- Secretary of State is anxious, with the complished linguist. a former foreign | new arbitration treatics he's by way of | make-believe dog out of clips. mounted | him on a pedestal and christened hinr— | with an appropriate placard attached —Savyerclip, the budget hound.” S efecting with world powers, to perpetu- | sweetheart of | minister of Argentina, and one of its richest hereditary landlords. Senor Pueyrredon is a potent personage in Latin American affairs. He seems deter- mined to emerge from the Pan-Ameri. ! can Conference with a fighting reputa- tion. * o “Young Bob" La Follette is credited acquitted himself nobly in the anu-| third-term fight. The Wisconsin Re. publican Progressive Initiated the con- | test entirely off his own bat and fought | it through to victory amid conditions | which at one time looked far from| promising. La Follette has been in the ! thick of other Senate frays since he inherited his father's seat in Septem- | ber. 1925. But the third-term episode | is the first major action in which he has played the lead. For a while some of | “Young Bob's” moves were thought to be inspired by men like Norris, who | were working comrades of his father but the son long ago found his feet Late events entitle the baby solon to| feel that he at length has won his | spurs. | | v | Not long ago an autograph collector | | wrote Prestdent Coolidge that only a | letter from the present incumbent u(: | the White House was necessary to com- | plete the collector's batch of letters | from Chief Executives of the United| | Btates. Mr. Coolidge was asked to sup- | | ply the missing link. He did so in| | thewe terse terms “Your letter has been | [ recelved. “and your request 15 hereby | | | | granted Yours very truly, < | (Bigned) CALVIN COOLIDGE" | | v ox oy | Within the present month this ob- | server, adding a posteript to a letter | nddressed to one of the most dis- | tinguished public men in the United | States, remarked, “Down here almost everybody thinks it's going to be Hoover vi Bmith” The assertion provoked | the following rejoinder from the Man- | huttan Islund notability “Thit postseript of yours Hlustyates once ugain how far Washington 1s | ate his name, just as Elthu Root did in | connection with the pacts now expiring. | | Henceforward, the treaties should be | known as the “Kellogg treatles.” The ! one recently signed with ce 1s to | serve as a model for the rest. Great | Britain and Japan are next on the list We've had no arbitration treaty with Germany. Kellogg plans to negotiate Twelve are still In force, of which five must be renewed within the next year or else automatically expire. The French pact expires February 27; the British, June 23; the Norwegian, June 24; the Japanese, August 24, and the Portu- guese, November 14. Seven treaties come up for renewal in 1929. The arbitra- tion treaty with Italy, which was one of the most important of the 1908-09 Root treatics, was allowed to lapse when ¢ | 1t expired in 1924, through failure to re- new it | . Representative Martin B. Madden of | Hlunols, snow-haired but virile chair- man of the House appropriations com- mittee, says the most obliging man he ever knew is a Democratic congressman from New England. “Once I went into Repressntative — —'s office,” says Mad- den, “with some friends who wanted his support for a bill. ‘What's the number of the bill” the New Englander asked I thought I'd better tell him what the bill was about, but he wouldn't have it. Miss Margaret,” he ejaculated. turning to his secretary, ‘take down the number of this bill, and make a memorandum that I'm for (ComviiEht 10N Y P Houston Posting Up. From the Houston Post- Dispiateh Publications of the Democratic party have been recelved by the public library. 1 material 1s avallable for imme- dinte use and includes “Democratic Book of Facts™” for didates and speakers for the campaign of 1926, “Democratic Text Hooks for 1920 and 1924 and “OMcial Reports of the Pro- ceedings of the Democratic National Conventlon for 1020 and 1924." | rather than allow Smith to be nomi- nated, a very different situation arises. | ! ST | | | The great difficulty which the South- | | ern States face in their opposition to| Smith is the failure of any dry and| | Protestant candidate to develop suffi- | clent strength to make him a real con- tender with the New Yorker. I found |that many of the Democratic leaders. while strongly opposed to Smith. ha !; about reached the conclusion that he | i to be the party nominee. If he is' the party nominee. the solid South is| still likely to vote the Democratic ticket. A break to the Republica may be expected in Tennessee, which | went Republican in 1920. But the rest of the States I visited are probably to, {80 for Smith, although there will be ! | strong opposition in North Carolina and | Virginia. The Democratic habit, the | Democratic organizations and the race | question are likely to prevent a swing | to the Republicans. e Senator George of Georgia. presented by his State as the candidate of the ! South for the Democratic nomination, | has the respect of Democrats in other | States of the South. He may yet be- | come their rallging post in the Houston convention. But so far the leaders in States outside his own have not come’ round to that tion. Many of them think it would be ill advised to soek | the nomination of a Southerner this year. They are hoping that in a few | years a Southern man may be noml-' nated for President. with a real chance | of election. But they are convinced | that if Smith is turned down this year. | no Democrat will have a chance to win | So Southern leaders in various sumi are talking of Owen D. Young of New York and Newton D. Baker of Ohio and Meredith of Iowa, but without a great ceal of conviction. All the time they have in the back of their heads that they may yet be compelled to support Al Smith, and most of them are saving little about the New Yorker for publica- tion. TIndeed. there are a few who de- clare for his nomination. believing that it would be the wisest move on the part !nf the Democrats and prevent a great desertion of the party by Northern and Eastern Democrats. But this last groun |'is comparatively small | . x To date, the Republicans of the South | i appear to favor the nomination of Sec- | retary Herbert Hoover of the Depart- | ment of Commerce. if they cannot have | | President Coolidge nimself. Mr Hoover is popular in the States of the Missis- | | sippi Valley and has made many pe: | sonal contacts there during his flood re- | . | by his elders in the Senate with having one. Elthu Root negotiated 25 in all. | lief work. His greatest asset perhaps | |1s the belief among the Republicans | that he is the most likely candidate to be nominated. The Southern States Re- publicans are just as willing to be “on the band wagon"” as the Republicans of | Northern and Western Sta and per- | haps a little more so. In Virginia and South Carolina the Republican situation is dominated by two men, Bascom Slemp in Virginia and Joseph W Tol- bert in South Carolina Both are na- tional committeemen. If they jump fo | Hoover, and there have been signs re- ’rcn!ly they are inclined to favor him the State delegations will be for Hoover In North Carolina the sentiment s pretty well divided between Hoover and | Lowden, and in Alabama, Qeorgt | Louistana, Mississippt and Tenne: sentiment is strongly for Hoover Ten- | nessee also has many Lowden support- | ers and a sprinkling of Curtis followers o oe e The Senate did the expected and put | through the La Fallette anti-third-term | resolution. Whether it will have any | {effect on the “draft-Coolidge” move- | | ment, now under way in New York and | {other States, rematns to be seen. But | it 18 quite clear that most of the Re-| publican leaders are convinced that| | President Coolidge meant exactly what he satd when he told the Republican | national committee he had eliminated | himself and it was time for them to pick another candidate. In the Senate vote, It was noticeable that an amend- | ment to limit “elective” terms whelmingly the resolution to two was defeated - . | | | | | Republicans of New York State looms | ‘The old wet and dry fight among the German alrplanes in large n Q Please give some information in regard to the Vieux Carre of New Or- leans.—E. M. A The Vieux Carre of New Orleans is that section of the town whose lim- its correspond with those of the origi- nal city as laid out by La Tour and Panger in 1720. It was destroyed by fires in 1788 and 1794. and rebuilt mainly in the Spanish style. A In the United States the college Q what s a college. 2nd what s ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. is primarily an institution of higher learning having but a single faculty and curriculum, usually Jead to the degree of bachelor of arts. ‘ There is, | however, no clear line of demarcation, 1 institutions have retained the name “college” while extending their instruc- | tion to university scope. A university |15 often made up of a number of col- leges. as in the case of Oxford and Cambridge Primarily & university is an insttution organized for teachinz and study in the higher branches of !learning and empowered to confer grees in special departments. | Q. What year before the Civil War did a great comet appedr that had a ul‘{xre‘:chlm from horizon to horizon A. The Naval Observatory says tha* Donati's comet in 1858 was a very con- i spicuous object, with a tail sald o b at one time 60 degrees long. Tebutt's comet of 1861 was another grea’ comet, seen in June of that year. with a tail 100 degrees I Q. Should the faded flowers of tulips and daffodils be removed?—T. H lture the removal ol seems to be a diffe: this case. of opinion in Q. How much of the butte: is creamery butter>—W. S. A. Three-fourths of the butter now made in creameries. They now% produce about 1500000000 pounds of butter annually. while farm butter amounts to about 500,000,000 pounds. Q. What is an agonic line>—C.P.T. A. It iseone of several lines earth’s surface on which the d of the magnetic needie is and south. It is a line of ne declination. Q. What is the be: in America?—A. W. A. The Mexican doubi is probably the bes American parr equal to the African grar. the Old World favor Pa be taught to talk wi birds learn little and Q. Who wrote “For way dark and tricks that ar heathen Chinee is peculiar™ 3 A It is from “Plain Language from Truthful James,” by Bret Harte. What kind of jewels ars in th° crown of the Czarsof Russia’—W.J. M. A. It is composed of diamon to- taling 32.800 carats in weight. W 3 rows of pearls in the middle. T produced D | magn 1 t talking parre: Q. When was a steam-propelied ves- sel first tried on the ocean’—H. E. G. of the Potomac to have been the first S the power of a steam-propelied vessel on the ocean. ng the trip to the Capital from New York City six vears after the tryout of the Clermont. Q. When Asbury reached America how many Methodist meeting houses were about 300. President Coolidge’s Press Club Speech Evokes Wide Newspaper Comment Two sentences of a speech delivered by President Coolidge at the dedicaticn of the National Press Club have been sharply resented by many of the news- papers of the country as unnmnfi 1! after | sketching the history of the club and | and insulting reflections on whole press. The President. newspaper work in Washington. turned to general remarks on the development ; of the press, «ts opportunities and re- spons:bilities, in the course of which this statement occurred: “It (journmalism of the United States’ ought to undertake to recapture the | dominant position it formerly held as | a distributor of current information and a director of public opinion.” Most of the newspapers did not like at all this implication of decadence. but far more serious cause for offense was found in the following sent | from the President's references to attitude of the press toward the foreign relations of tse Government: “Whenever any of the press of our country undertake to exert their in- fluence in behalf of foreign interests. the candor of the situation would b greatly increased if their foreign con- nections were publicly disclosed.™ Those who defend Mr Coolidge in- sist that he had in mind certain spe- | | ! a slur on the press as a whole. For | instance. the Oakland Tridune indc- . pendent Republican) says: | raguan situation is one in paint represent Sandino as a_patriot and martyr and charge the United States | cific cases and did not mean to cast ' all people in the hinterland ‘bocbs. The Morgantown ) Dominion «m- dependent Democratic) remarks: “It is quite possible, the President’s assumo- tion to the contrary notwithsianding. that criticism of our foreign policy may be primarily in behalf of our o¥n interests regardiess of its effect on foreign inteTests, and it is extremelv improbable that any newspaper of - fluence and standing in this country has any ‘foreign connections.” mn the sense that the President used theee words.” “Is Mr. Coolidge merely parroting the mayor of Chicago. or does he really be- lieve that American newspapers are t their mffu- Italy's—whase? Or are SO A interests insinuating themselves % the public opinion of this country? The likelthood is that the President will have to explain this reference.” = w “We suspect he had in mind that type of newspaper wi. determines its policy by ‘phodm’ 3 the Norfolk Daily x while the Seranton Times (Demovratic) | offers the opinion: "\ incansistent in his address with making unwarranted warfare upon | 15 him, is to pui above the ward of Col Stimeon thet of the opponents of “ur Government. and to ignore completely the agreement which Sandino made and broke.” . x o & different vie Assuming that Mr. Coolidge mean that “there are newspapers in t vhich are in the pay of forer interests.” the New York World «in- dependent) declares: “This ts the most serious charge which can be brought AFAINST A NEWSPAPEr. ANy newspaper which is guilty of it would de as fa less as a pul official who accep! bribe, ¢ * He makes the charee in the form of an insinuation which di- recls SUSPICION ASAINST eVery newspaper which hapaens to differ with the poli- cles of the Stake rtment.” The Detroit News ndependent) savs: “Un- less President Coolidge was merelv making & general statement. he had particular publications in mind. It here are such NEWSPapers in America subsidized in the interests of foreign governments, it s news. The people titlad to know which they are ™ fticism 1s not all sound.” he Fargo Forum (Repubdlican) the discrimination the Presi- It is just as foolish as the type of social criticism which de- clares that all Rotartans are Babutts Others take g UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Yows dpo American forces defeat a Qerman gas shell attack. Qas shells in consideraots over- | number, from German guns, fell within | ot the American sector early this morn- g, MAKING 1t necessaty 10 wear masks for more “than three ho A Ders at- tempted repeatedly to cross the Ame: removed either from public opinion or from what Is really going on duties and avocations have recently taken me through some 20 States, where 1 have had the pleasure of meeting large audiences of thor- oughly representative men and wom- en. The one thing which makes them laugh is the mention of Wash- ington and the people there.: The trouble wjth Washington 1s that public opiitlen never reaches there save at rare intervals, and by nta and starts, There s habit ¢ cynicism, sarcasni and ‘well, now ness,” which nes With small men I amall places on small salaries doing small things, As to Washing- ton, the whole country 1s in & atate of antmated disgust, not so mugh at any one thing s at the whol® ex- hibition of incompetence, lnok of ors ack of vision and lack Some publications of the Republican national committee also have been re- celved, My . aoms Stuck Without Licki Fiom the Frovidenca Journal Representative Hoffman of New Jersey wants the Government to issue # special serles of stam n com- memoration of the battle of Monmouth, at which Molly Pitcher won undying fame. Well, there's one thing to be suid about Molly that can't satd about some of our present-day stamps she stuck .- Sometimes a Getaway. From the Visginian Piiot American hold-up men seem (o get about everything except what Is coming to them, B ' ARAIN. The drys are protesting agaiist can lines, but were driven off by ant! ob- | opaion. devea and the powe nents o uselu newspaper o variadly o exer same fre and adility display the same counage may decome dndual ex: drappearcd worth as a delegate to the Republican | natlonal convention. Senator' Wads- worth was defeated for re-election i 1926 by the oppusition of Republican drys, some of whom voted for an inde- pendent Republican, Cristman, and_a less number of whom did not vote. Dr | Edgar 8 Nicholson, aasoctate State su- rintendent of the Aunti-Saloon League. written to Republican State Chair- man Qeorge K. Morrla opposing not only the selection of Senator Wadsworth as delegate, but also the selection of | Mrs. Oharles H. Sabin and Miss Flor- | ence Wardwell. Mra. Sabin 18 Repud- | lleAn national committeewoman from New York The drys inaist that it w delegates are sent to the conventin they may oause the same kind of trou- ble for the national party as they did ! for the party W the 8 in 1926, | the selection of former Senator Wads- | airoraft guns and the alr squadin | o ¢ Germans are making every ef- fort to conceal their submarme lwses C3pCiAlly from thelr own Bavy, decause O mereased dificulty in mustering crews. Estimated that Germany last 0 POr cent of s submarines W 10 manths * ¢ v A raiding flotilla of German de- strayers aink efght Rrittah craft i the SUralts of Dover. Make awift nght at- tack lasting 43 minutes and fiee rapuily northward — after striking sudkienty * ¢ ¢ Senatar Weeks, i Senate speech. declares that the Untted States has only g‘r cent of the troops nee 4 crefary Haker an (vto ber 1 o\mfi and predicted would be there February 18 ¢ ¢ ¢ Rusua cubs ‘oase fram the entente. Teutons plan o take Petrgrad Conterence At Katser's haadquarters @ oo on actihe OPerationg In concert with the lans. the opinn ecand- Telegram (v ek Of B S AP ¢ obligaian Plad BY pudlie se The greater avil would d the suds LIn of propaganda for hews--wb woulld be the case if the news gatherens Werw T0 ACt (i the thawry ‘the admink- trathn, Tght or wrong N Bditor and Publisher and the Fourth Bvtate declates (hat “nathog Mr. o H Aid have Said could de mave @ fsulting ar caleulated o do more hamm Amang thoughiless people. and adas We are 4 poaiion & gam hianate ‘:‘n\m):« of et el M O RNOWS af ARY P L newspaper that accepis foregn &hn 3:!«- clrcumstance i remarkadle. decause we have never heard af it Mr Coalidee awes 11 1 the peopie of this country o make Ny charge W specid foem.