Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1928, Page 8

EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7. 1928. ¥rH ! With : WASHINGTON, D.C. WEDNESDAY.....March 7, 1928 and the motorist who is foolish enough to try to beat a train over the inter- section must assume the sole responsi- bility for anything that may occur. Of course, the ideal situation would be the elimination, in all parts of the world, of the grade-crossing, and strenuous efforts are being made to reach this Utopian state. But it is an expensive proposition at best, and it will be many years before any considerable progress | can be made. In the meantime, it is | distinctly up to the motorjst to pro- | | tect his own life and that of his pas- | the City. ]s«\ngers by sane and cautious driving | | Sepermonth | ypere a road intersects with the steel | | EVENING STAR Sunday Morning Edition. THEODORE W. NOYES. = s g The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office 114 St and Pennavivania Ave. New York Oftice. 110 Fast 43nd St. Chicasy Office: Tower Building. Fucopean Office 14 Receat St.. Loidon. sland. «+Editor Rate by Carrier Within The Evenng Star W vening and Star ~. .60 per monih ! vails, § & e vaoe When a Standard Is Needed. The greatest danger confronting | logislation to regulate the practice of | drugless healing in the Distriet of | Columbia is that members of Congress may be led into the irrelevant field of discussion over the rights of drugless ! healers to practice and throw up their | | hands in despalr of ever settling such a | controversial question. ‘The tragie | death of a young girl from a broken | neck after receiving a “treatment” for) { a heacache has come while this legisla- ! tion is under consideration. But the incident must not be used as a whole- | | sale indictment against drugless healers. | Accidents, wrong judgment and faulty diagnosis are not confined to the drug- | less healers. They occur within the medieal profession and at the hands of men whose skill has been tested. But open at the Auditorium, and | this is the fact to be borne in mlnd‘: it is to be hoped that there will be a | If & medical doctor, who has spent six adance throughout the week, | ¥6aTs in college and more time in a hos- of this exposition is pri- | pital as an interne and who has pastod! ¢ to stimulate interest in the in-|® rigid examination before nbtalnmgkn al development of the Capital and | license to practice medicine, can make | o aid the expansion of the industries|® Mistake, what greater opportunities now located here. The Chamber of | nd chance for error must exist among | Commerce has chosen this particular | men who are required to l‘noet no form «f demonstration as a means of | Standard before being permitted to best serving to call attention to the | hang out shingles, open offices and need to broaden Washington's indus- | besin the treatment of ills of the human | 4 n i s {body? :ou : :cdpu(;:: i::;\fi::ny:;‘;‘,;: Congress must look upon the legisia- | dustry for Washington, which Is gen- | tion proposed to regulate the practice erallv viewed as undesirable, and the | Of drugless healing as a protection to Chamber of Commerce, which has the | the public. It must not consider this best interests of the city at heart, would | legislation as a protectionist measure be the last organization to urge such a for the medical profession or as & movement. It is, however, the belief of | Propaganda against drugless healing. the chamber that there are light in-| What the citizens of the District should dustries for which appropriate places | have is a strict law demanding that mav be found in the District, which | drugless healers pass an examination would not involve the introduction of | 10 Shew that their training and ex- the obnoxious and undesirable features | Perience fit them to undertake the cure usually associated With manufacturing, | Of human iliness. As it is S Industrial development along these who sweeps a street for a ll\}ng !od:y lines is desirable primarily as a method | M2Y open an office tomorrow and a % of assuring means of livelihood for | Vertise himself as a "drl:glcss healer. Washingtonians. While the Govern- No license is required. No standar?mls ment provides a large field of endeavor | S¢t o test his ability. The only ~h- 8t the Capital the number of District | Crimiration is against the Ehhobbe residents who can obtain employment | cannot meet the legal requirements for v ar ! (when § -85 per month | h dav St 5¢ per copy | ection made at (he end at each month Onlers may be sent in by mail or telephoue, | Nain 5000 Rate by Mail—1I! Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daiis ana Dais oni Sundas on 75 « of publication 2 are alto reserved Washington's Industries. er the auspice: ngton Chamber of Com: | right which the weak have, namely, the in the Federal service is limited. Under the apportionment of offices law, which lilogically remains the governing factor In selections for this service, Washing- ton’s share of appointments to Federal duties is very small. Unless the young people of this city are to go elsewhere to earn a living, failing of access to the Government service, and finding the professions crowded, they must be given chances to enter business or trades here. Having been educated and trained in Washington they should make their future homes in their native city. They cannot do this unless chances are of- fered for their occupation here. Steady advance has been made toward the development of a popula- tion-sustaining industrial establishment in the District. The most accurate figures available show that the output ©f privately owned plants within the Capital amounted in 1927 to $94,000,- 000, while with the products of the im- mediately contiguous area added the total rises to more than $100,000,000. The census statistics for 1925 credit the District with 528 manufacturing estab- Lshments, employing 9,753 wage earn- ers, with & pay roll in that year of more than $15.000,000. With proper stimulation the indus- trial crganization of Washington will grow steadily. dustries by the local public will aid in this. The exposition about 1o be held should arouse a helpful interest on the part of the people of the District in this matter, Last year the exposition was nded by 80000 persons, and it would be an encouraging sign of in- Creasing public concern and a helptul Bpirit of deveiopment if the turnstiles thij year registered a larger number, ————tt—a ment. salaries are not high. But there is a consideration of patriotic dealism in the service that offers an element of compens on. v Professional eriminals cannot fall to “ @ stzte of affairs in which vield v an inclination ¢r action persist In ate W knock s tralns off the grade-crossings, Afver a In which an sutumoblie was driven st the forty-seventh car of a long rain with the naive excuse by that he had looked W right Bnd left ) see whether anything was coming had negleced W look direct ence stie who it B CrOssing gutekeeper wihose lovered gates were smashed on an aver- Bge of \nree Umes & week, 3t wes de- ciced ke an inensive survey of which that o The Shvestigation een compleed shows ¥ per cent of the secidents und hundred wnd entirely ot ing nearly w0 biame ix mishaps demon- thirty per cent cre n weiumlly drove or gates | Bni wileg, 2 ing sla- Usticn before 3t the rudiwsy now has | Duce werus the Austrians that “inter- s st dn the pext fla- 4 ca Liued 8 v Patronage of home in- | 5 front of him, and the experi- a doctor of medicine. Congress should act at once to remedy this ridiculous, uncivilized and dangerous condition. . An Anomalous Situation. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is striving desperately to rest and to keep out of the public eye. He has dodged photog- raphers consistently for the last few weeks and has been forced to make un- announced hops and deny interviews in order to keep his plans from being ! blazoned forth to an eager world. On Monday he flew from Washington to St. Louls, reaching their just as dusk was falling, but in order to avold publicity he hopped off again that night and completed the round trip by dawn the next morning. It seems a shame that America’s hero cannot have just what he wants, but it |is a fact that great deeds arouse great | interest, and when a man has once be- | come a public idol, especially in the graceful and heart-warming manner that Lindy has, it is an extremely dif- ficult matter to avold paying the price of herodom. Probably few persons in | the United States would refuse to grant | Lindy & favor, but when he asks only {the favor of being let alone to work {out his own destiny the public clamors | loudly for knowledge as to just how he |is going to do it. Lindy is tired of crowds, tired of pub- licity and probably tired of hero wor- Ismplnm It is a perfectly natural re- laction on the part of the youth who | has created aviation history. Unfortu- . | nately for him, however, it is not pos- |sible for him to stifie successfully the | manifestations of public interest in his | { welfare. The saying “As much privacy {as a goldfish” appiles in his case, but |it 15 hoped that he can view the sit- uation in a philosophical manner, IO ——— i It is & fortunate novel that can lve | up to the literary style of its publicity | promaoters { e Ttalo-Germanic Gunpowder. ! Current events in that inflammable | | corner of the world known as South- | castern Europe clearly Indicate that in |the Bouth Tyrol another Alsace-Lor- reine has been created. As was the | case s0 ‘long in the “lost provinces” | which were the bone of contention be- | tween France and Germany, it is the | eternal issue of language and educa- ilmn, involving the rights of a minority, | that Les at the root of the snarling controversy in the Trentino, | Italy, new overlord of the Bouth !"Tyrol by dint of her victory in the | World War, has fastened upon that {largely ‘Teutonized region a political and social regime which is irksome to Austris, the hapless and helpless shell | of the dusl monarchy, In particular, | Rome 15 enforcing drastic regulation of {the German lunguage - tantamount, the | viet contend, o suppression. By | compelhing the tene ¢ and use of the [ official tongue of Fascisimo, the proce {01 Itallanizing the Trenting is o pro- Lgress by forced marches The conqueror's decree is bitterly re- sented. Jusentment, Premier Musso- takes the furm of “in- und (he tempersmental | rulte” 10 1ta) ference” in “s purely domestic policy” grant cese of morist reciessness 31| Wil oL be Wlerated, The Fascist crar Vil take wotion w Increai) thew Wiey ere probaily quite mecurete recover Qumages, s w for & motorist v sllow his & 2 with & vhen he suddenly, on & strange wobe In eoliision figures sound, | The | langusge newspapers now eking oul | thunders that 3 1t persists, he will sum- [ marlly suppress the ffteen German fearsome existence Tyrol On in the Bouth & historie occasion Willlam 11, 2 comes upon sn unproteced snd | Uhen ehimmering in wll his glory as su- A yrade-cronsing B very probably teke Cent i Sibich mmutarists k. B el other Einds con be witsclied L raliway compuny whone Cronsings sre | Iabian wd eliier by getes and walohs b aiseresque figure of militent speech pro s type | preme war lod of G i the ! e smany, tireatened phace "I ebiniog wrmor” alangside Nis Aurttian slly if & neigh- Wkiiig anlined W defy first resonted Ly Lake hil slaly the by 0| Yienns, D 101 premier tie At W o monished Austria that she would “ac- celerate the turning of the Fascista vise” if the South Tyroleans do not abandon their “insolent speeches, odious insinuations and vulgar slanders.” The Duce mentioned the 42,000,000 Italians” who are ready to defend their “safety,” an allusion not meant to be lost upon the puny Austrian nation of 6,500,000 souls. Austrian public opinion remains calm in the face of perils which, unassisted, the Viennese state could not remotely avert. “What mean you this time by the use of the words ‘next time, deeds, not words'? Why refuse us the only right to complain?” meckly asks the great Vienna liberal organ, the Neue Freie Presse. Mcantime the gunpowder in the Tren- tino situation is not to be looked for in impotent Austria. The far more powerful German Reich has promptly intimated its readiness to stand by Aus- tria in its dispute with Italy. Speaking at Geneva, the German foreign min- ister, Dr. Stresemann, registers undis- guised exasperation with Premier Mus- solini’s hectoring tone. It is plain that the day may come when Fascismo, in- stead of facing Austria alone, may con- ront a Teutonic phalanx less worthy of Mussolini's contempt. — vt Oil is the new standard of value, re- gardless of the permanent recognition commanded by gold, silver and indorsed paper. Wampum and tobacco have been used . in barter never to such an extent as bil is now employed. s oo It may vet be possible for Lindbergh to realize his cherished wish for a tour through Europe. But if he wishes to remain unmolested by reception com- mittees, he will have to wear a dis- guise. e e It is asserted that feminine ankles are not sufficiently protected from the Winter winds. It takes generations of inurement .to secure the immunity against cold of the hardy Scotch High- lander. t - As an offset to Al Smith's “Side- walks of New York” Herbert Hoover | might employ the song in one of thel musical successes and suggest to recol- lection his achievement in flood con- trol to the tune of “Old Man River. ———e—— ‘The practice of medicine must be regarded as a serious profession. It cannot share the respect shown by the world of sport to the person who pre- serves an amateur standing. r———— D'Annunzio has written much that met with protest. It is perhaps as well that he did most of his work before Mussolini established his right of cen- sorship. ——te— ‘There is no hope of co-ordinating the Weather Bureau with political events. There never has been a finer month of March for an inauguration. ——————— A registered lobbyist, whose inform- ing purposes are made clear to the public, should be able o0 economize a great deal on cigars and luncheons, —tes. A jazz orchestra is composed of hard- working men and should not be judged by the people who insist on dancing to its music in their own way. . ‘The highly critical Senator Borah may hope to be another of those men | who are loved for the enemies they have made. B ) SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Different—Yet the Same. We're telling 'em over and over, each year, ‘The stories of love and romance. The same quips and fancles evoke the same cheer When poetry gives them a chance, A Knight still does battle a Lady to win, A heroine rescues the Knight; The tales are alike as we gayly begin To read through the long Winter night. - Our Knight has an airplane. No horse he'll require. ‘The Lady will smoke cigarettes; | The bard strikes a banjo instead of a Iyre, Recounting Love's hopes or regrets But Jane still loves Jimmie, and Jimmie | loves Jane, And the home-makers all persevere ‘The honest romance and poetic refrain Remain with us year after year. In the Hands of Friends, “You will have to assert your per- sonality in the coming campaign.” “How can 17" inquired Senator Sor- ghum. “I have three secretarles, four publicity experts and an office boy who knows more 1 bout intimate details than all of us put together.” Victoriana, They tell of Mid-Victorfan junk And intimate that it's a bunk. “Ve long fo uthors strong enough “T'o bring some more Victorian stuff. Jud Tunkins says he knows a man whose friends would be happler if he put as much time in self-discipline as he gives to trainin’ & dog. Lasting & Lifetime, 5 “The eulesman suld my friend’s car | would Inst him w lifetime,” sald Mr. | Chuggin: “Was he misleading?” “L don't know for sure, My friend has Just had w pretty serious aceident.” “He who undertakes to tell the plain truth,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of China- ton, “uses his head, and al the same tme risks it Campaign Photography, The camera brings s digression Afar from your proper profession But don't be dejected; You muy get elected Becuuse of your facial expression “A big nolse,” sald Uncle Bhen, “don't mesn much mo' in an argument dan it does I & crap game " - — Fix Y Calendar, From (he Minneat We recogniee this year Monammedans call 10134, LoMl, Ui Japupese, 2087, und the Byrantine culendar s 7448 us 1626, the the Jews, B wen or by sdequate warning djgusls, Last Beturdey Bignor Mussohui ade 'had a family dinner The ch ods about I 1,000,000,000, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Comparatively warm days this Win. ter will lead many ardent garden “fans into attempting the impossible by starting work too soon. What is more intriguing than bright March day which is living up to all its lamblike possibilities? ‘Then the urge to put seed into the ground becomes almost irresistible. Those who like to dig in the earth want to get out and dig. It takes almost herole powers of re- sistance to refuse to do so, when the birds are singing and the sun is shining and the grass seems growing greencr and greener minute by minute. The wise gardener, however, will not Succumb to the lure of such a day, but will steadfastly pursue his plans of the moment, sure in the knowledge that s day will come when Spring actually will be here, Then there will be plenty of time for raking the grass and putting in seed. and getting the Winter stiffness out of the good clay which forms so large & part of the earth in the Dis- trict of Columbia. R Clay receives some hard cracks from gardeners, gummy, sticky sort that tends to cement its particles to- gether doces, indeed, deserve such con- demnation. Almost nothing will BTOW properly in it except those wonderful survivals, the weed: The good clay, however, is much more common, and in it one may grow anything well, with a little pains and attention to his plants, Especlally 1 red clay good for roses. There is noth- ing that a rosebush scems to like bet. ter than good red clay as the basic foundation for its life, Servings oi well rotted manure and other fertilizers ;‘}22 serr.xsnry. otl course, but clay i asic material for t) ving 3"‘1’2 el e growing of t the new gardener, in his home, keep this in mind. If he \;:‘l.(‘: some of the nurseries, he will discover that the growers by preference lant their stock in clay. It will be lound necessary to lighten most clay soils to some extent, especially if there fs any tendency toward gumminess, There is nothing more tenacious than what we call bad clay. Even it, however, can be made into good clay by the agd. mixture of humus sand or manure, It will take time, however. : ¢ average clay bed found in a vard needs only to be spndcdnupb:fig let lie dyring the Winter, and the in- corporation of some sand or humus in the Spring, to put it into fine condi- Uon for the growth of almost any- thing in the plant line, Sand s good and is easier to obtain than humus, The latter seems to be a stumbling block to most amateur gardeners, but there is nothing very mysterious about it. The word is Latin for “earth, ground, sofl. s used today, the word humus means the organic portion of soil, the part broken down by decomposition from vegetable and animal matter, The improvement of ground usually comprises two endeavors, the one o better its physical texture, d the sec- ond. to increase its fertility. It is be- cause well rotted cow manure does both that it is such a perfect ingredient for the gardener. Old woods dirt is mostly pure humus. Some firms make a speclalty of digging it up from the bottoms of old lakes and selling it at $o much a hundred-pound bag. If one is really interested in a garden, it is worth it. It looks for all the world like the grounds of coffee out of the percolator. It is clean and easy to handle, and improves the appearances of red clay by making it darker in color. ' Its” use breaks up the clay particles and makes the soil easily workable, It must be kept in mind that humus is not fertilizer, its action being mostly mechanical. It simply works its way into the soll, breaking up the closely adhering particles, and allowing what food value there is present in the clay to be utilized by the growing plant. Humus in a sense unlocks what food is stored in the ground. That is its main function. Some folks use ashes for this purpose, but their use is dirty and un- pleasant, and spolls the appedrance of the earth. The “looks” of a garden bed or border is worth considering. There will be a number of wecks, even after Spring con when the bare dirt wiil stare at the world, uncovered by any soft green of vegetation or bright beauty of flowers. Especially unpleasant to some is the ugly red of clay solls, Humus shines in amelforating this condition. Its dark quality blends nicely with the clay, making a pretty soil. Why not a pretty sofl? If one wants pretty flowers, ail that goes to make a garden should pos- sess similar aspects of beauty. Some gardeners are more finicky, of course, about such things, but certainly no one can admire an expanse of red clay from the standpoint of beauty. * k% K Another thing the gardener should keep in mind at this season is the place of annuals in a well regulated garden. While the perennials and shrubs must form the background of the planting, the annuals also have a large part to play. It is possible, no doubt, to do without them. Success- ful and beautiful gardens composed solely of perennials are to be found, wherein every other factor has been made secondary to permanence. ‘The fast-growing annuals, however, have blossoms and habits which cannot be found in any other plants, and the garden without some of them is the poorer for it. What is surer and more beautiful for the average home yard than the petunia, the zinnia, the sweet pea, the portulaca, the cosmos? The new gardener especially, the man or woman who hesitatingly plans to g0 forth this Spring for the first time, will do well to stick to annuals almost entirely. Not only will this plan give the home and its grounds far more flowers than it could possibly have from any other plantings, but it will help get the soil into good condition for more intensive work next year. There are many house- holders who feel, after many years, that the best garden they ever had, all in all, was that first one in the new home, when the zinnias and the asters and the marigolds worked their magic along cement walk and fence. Because the annuals must do a great deal in a little while, they do it with a vengeance. This is why the latest recruit to the ancient art of gardening may have as fine a yard as his neighborhood boasts. He must select annuals, how- ever, to do it. Any seed catalogue will glve him a long list of them. Any gar- | den. friend will be delighted to tell him | about the good ones. We have given a | very short selection of some of the very best here, For the older hand the annuals have a charm that cannot be resisted, and it is that of experimentation. Trying out perennials is a more laborious and often much more expensive process. | Usually they are more difficult to grow. Seed of annuals, however, and how they do grow! They allow the average home owner to experiment to his heart’s content. And what garden Joy 1s there greater than to discover for one’s self a flower that very few other zardeners seem to know anything about! If one has a big enough lot, he might purchase several ounces of what arc usually described in the catalogues as “California wild flowers.” They might be planted behind a garage, or in some out-of-the-way place, and their develop- ment watched with something of the i Joy that the astronomer knows when he |Sces a mnew star swim into his ken. | Whatever you do this Spring, do not for- get the annuals, are cheap— WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Bids for Southern support continue to be the order of the day in the Al Smith camp. Washington has just heard that the New York governor's friends are making overtures to Repre- sentative Cordell Hull of Tennessee with & view to his acceptance of second place on a Smith Judge Hull, who used to be chairman of the Democratic national committee, is a Protestant and a dry, besides being a son of Dixle, and that would be a help from the Smith standpoint. Ten- nessee, 100, is one of the border States that have come to be exceedingly.! doubtful in presidential elections. Hard- ing carried it in 1920 for the Republi- can ticket and Davis won it in 1924 for the Democrats. Incidentally, Tennes- see is the seat of some of the most tenaclous anti-Smith sentiment in the South—the element for which George F. Milton, Chattanooga editor, Is so vigorous a spokesman. Milton is a for- mer McAdoo lleutenant. He retails persuasive facts and figures designed to show how Smith would smash the solid South into smithereens, as it were, were he to head the Democratic ticket in 1928. . *H x o Senator “Dave” Reed, Republican, of Pennsylvania, is prepared to admit the existence of a jinx as far as he and the Interstate Commerce Commission are concerned. The Senate interstate com- merce committee’s rejection of John J. Esch of Wisconsin for reappointment to the “I. C. C.” s a slap at Reed be- cause the Pittsburgher ~was one of wsch's principal supporters, It was only A year or two ngo that the Senate threw down another Reed candidate for the Interstate Commerce Commission— Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania, for- mer Ambassador to Jupan, Esch's only hope of confirmation now lles in action by the Senate itself, overruling the veto of the Watson committee. This s im- probable. The feud between Pennsyl- vania and Ohlo, on the one hand, and the border bituminous States, on the other, 5 the thing that unhorsed Esch. ‘The Great Lakes conl eargo rates are the bone of contention. Esch voted to reduce them in favor of Pennsylvania a5 agalnst West Virginla, Kentucky and Tennessee, W The other night the officlals and staff of the Burcau of Internal Revenue party in honor o popular member of the unit, Among he stints on the entertalnment pro- performance by a pyeudo soothsyer was a fake crystal-gazer, The anawered all sorts - of - slde-splitting stions. One of them was, “Does See- ctury Mellon belleve in putting rela- ‘The veply was, Y but not Couzens.” .o One of the morsels of gossip now making the antmated rounds of Henate clokrooms 1 that Vice President Dawes would Jke nothing better than a letter from Henator Borah seeking the gen- aln views on o prohibitlon, Diwes doesn’t wint to be cross-examined for the purpose of taking n vigorous stand on the lquor laws. He's constdered s dry, What he's sald to be hankering for f5 an opportunity to dsse a blast on the broad subject of prohibition as an_ elgibility test for the presidency If e gets the chance, Dawes is reputed ready to Burn up more pieturesque Kng- sk thin Do has ever sent sizaling acrons the country 1o date, ‘Thisl 1a covering wolot of territory, becauss it compre- hends the “Hell and Maria" barrage hie let down on the Houso “smelling committee’ an war 5 i 1019 and i Hend viles exploslon on Match 4102 sald that the Vice Presl- dent crnves @ chance o rivet national attention with a pronouncement that Will be dn ghttering contiast (o certain straddling SUCEes o probibit LRI Nobady ever talks of Dawes nowadays withoui stressing the stranglehold he's Acqulied on the affections of the Sennte, eram presidential ticket, | Men go 5o far as to say that not in co- temporary times has a more popular presiding officer occupled the rostrum | than the Illinoisan. Senators began by | hating Dawes and have wound up by | loving him. His popularity extends to | both sides of the aisle. The Brookharts jand the La Follettes esteem him as genuinely as standpat Republicans and the most partisan Democrats, Even though the Vice Prestdent makes no secret of his habit of deserting the i chair somewhat ostentatiously nearly every time the Senate's prize windbag | usurps the floor, that erupting geyser | himself yields to none in his admira- Uon for Dawes. In conclusion, let it be sald that the number of those who ex- pect the neck-and-neck race at Kansas City to narrow down to Hoover and Dawes is an increasing community, . x ek Spokesmen for the American Indian at Washington brand the Pueblo con- servancy bill, just passed by both houses of Congress. as a cruel “betrayal” of the red man. The bill authorizes 81,643,000 to be spent nominally to benefit the lands of the six Pueblo tribes in New Mexico. ‘The entire sum is made a debt against the Indians, to be repald from the yield of their lands. Adjacent “white acreage,” receiving identical benefits from the reclamation project, will be indebted $76.12 an acre. The average Indian debt, for 11,000 acres to be newly reclaimed, is fixed, according to Indian representatives, at $149.66 per acre. Senator La Follette, Republican | Progressive, of Wisconsin, assalls the bill as “an enactment of future peon- age.” ‘The Indi say that national politics, with both partles playing it ruthlessly and with New Mexico's elec- loral vote In 1928 as the stake, Is what brought about the passage of the ob- noxious legislation. Their only hope s @ veto by the Great White Father. LR Lindbergh, during & recent “fiying" Visit to Washington-take that any way you please-~called on Postmaster Gen- eral New, who was his first big chief, the mantelpiece of New's office “Lindy” spied a bust of himself, that was presented to the master of the matls by the sculptor who chiseled it Col. Lindbergh surveyed it and shook his head in manifest displeasure, “Don't ko 1t!" he ejnculated. “Makes me look too much like & high school debater.” (Convriaht, 1028 ) v oo 0. Henry Memorial ; At Juil Is Urged From the Albany Evening Newa. A movement to turn the Travis County Jail at Austin, Tex, into an O. Henry memortal Hbrary is espoused by Bunker's Monthly, a magagine of ‘Texas. It was in this jail that wil crward ki to the world Y, ShOTE-slory Wrlter) was confined after a jury had found him Bullty of trregulurity In s bank in which he had been employed. O. Henry matntatned his innocence and there general opinton now that he was wrongly convieted. orld owes him much, Tt would be most fit- g I the jall where he was confined Id be turned Into & lbrary fn his emory, It would be well i all jalls vould be turned Into librardes, for that matter, The thousands who have ens Joyed O, Henry's great stories will sym« pathize with this movement and hope that 1t may be carveled thiough, " - Coolness Between ' 1 e Fliladelihie Recard Fhe Bews that leeland wants to sever its wnlon with Denmark will ocoasion | Politics at Large By G. Gould L‘in—cnln. Jockeying with the presidential pref- erential _primaries, in the seventeen States which hold such primaries, has become merely another job for the cam- palgn managers of candidates for the presidential nomination. The primaries are intended, or so it was believed when the primary system was set up in varlous States, Dr;lgtlvc Ll;er::‘l:rslu? chance to express their preferenc presidential cgndldntes. 1If all 48 States had primary laws, uniform in charac- ter, and the delegates to the national conventions lived up to the Instructions given in the primaries, the selection of presidential candidates might be made by the voters in the States instead of the delegates in the national conven- tions. But they do not. Even the seven- teen States which have primaries to ex- press a preference for presidential can- didates do not have uniform laws. * ok kK So the presidential primary has be- come mcn-‘l’y another straw to show how the wind may be blowing. If a candi- date runs well in some of the primary States, he is sald to be “stron And the campaign managers of jresidential candidates undertake o yick the States in which to enter their candidates, go- ing into those only in which they ke- lieve their candida have a chance to make a good showing. 1t would ke a far more sporting proposition, and also give a far better indicatici of real popu- larity of candidates, if they all were en- tered fir all the primary Stat:s. Fur- thermore, if a candidate for 1he presi- dential nomination announced that he intended to go into all the primary States, it would put an end to falk that he was discriminating against this cr that “favorite son” candidate. 1t might also do away with many favorite Son candidacles, which have little back of them but State pride, and which serve merely to make possible boss-controlled conventions, with certain party leaders picking and choosing and sometimes | disregarding entirely the desires of the voters when it comes to making a nom- ination. * K % The presidential preferential primary situation this year presents a strange picture. Secretary Hoover of the De- partment of Commerce, on the Repub- lican side, is entering more primary States than any of the other candi- dates. He has determined to go into the primary in Ohlo, challenging benator Frank B. Willls, a favorite son, for the delegation there. He is considering en- tering the primary in Indiana, wkhere Senator “Jim" Watson, like Senator Willis in Ohlo, is a favorite son. He has filed in Maryland and Michigaa and will in California, his own State, and Oregon and New Jersey, and may @ some of the other States. | But we find no contest in Iliinols be- tween Mr. Hoover and Frank O. Low- den, former governor of that State, nor in California, Mr. Hoover's State, be- tween Lowden nnd‘vHom'er, Scxlmel:r illis and Senator Watson are no = gflng the primaries in California against Mr. Hoover. Mr. Lowden is staying out of the primaries ta Michigan and Oregon because his managers be- lieve that he would be defeated by Mr. Hoover in those States and thercby injure his prestige with the country. * xoxx This effort to play safe in playing the presidential preferential primary game may be good strategy, but it does | not appeal particularly to the voters T A little more courage in facing the issues squarely in the primary Sulei. even those presenting “favorite sons, would be acceptable. The great difficulty for the manager of the presidential candidate lies in the | fact that the primaries do not really settle anything. Too few of the States hold primaries to make their results really effective in the national conven- tion—efTective to an extent that winning primary preference means winning a presidential nomination. Here and there a candidate may pick up a ;ood block of delegates by entering a primary, and thereby help himsel!. But he may offset this gain by antagonizing another set of delegates in a State which he| does not win, and making the oppo- sitlon of the latter delegation more de- termined in the national convention. For the last reason, it has become a| kind of tradition not to enter States| which are presenting favorite sons. It is not considered either kind or polite. To do so may stir up trouble for the party organizations in the States, and '\hnl is held not to be clubby, either. Mr. Hoover has raised for himself| some bitter enmity by his entry inlug Ohio, a favorite son State, and doubt- less would raise more by going into In- {diana. But at least "he cannot be | charged with lack of courage to face | the fssue. It seems ridiculous that candidate for the presidential nomina. { {tion should be debarred from seeking | {the preference of any State merely be- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]J. IIASkIN. 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Fire experts say | €¥ening star the r that 86 per cent of the fires were pre be a morn ventable and were due to some fo: EIHE of carelessmess. Fire losses in United States are higher than pri tically all European countries. SEbevane s Q. What by “certified | 6, evening st hens"?—M. H. | morning e A. “Certified hens” are those that|Each planet is always eit have come from a specified floek, ones | ing star or an evening s Virginia in 1847, the | year. Juj ac- | April 6. morning {and evening star th is meant 1. Reed’s Speaking Tour Reminds Press of Old-Time Campaign Senator James A. Reed of Missour, rev in his vigorous speaking campaign Democrat (Democratic) suggests. around the country, preliminary to en- | haps the Reed chance is remo tering the Democratic national conven- | desperate, but in the event of e tion as a candidate for President, re- | deadlock who will say that Reed's case minds many citizens of old-time politi- | is more hope! than was that of Cox, cal contests. | with only part of his own delegation to “Reed Missouri, @ man of strong | begin with, or John W. Davis, backed virtues and strong defects,” as viewed | only by West Virginia, or Warren G. by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (in- | Harding, about whom the countrv in dependent Democratic), “has this among | 1920.only knew that he had been elected his virtues—he is a persistent opponent of bureaucracy. Among the pnnc!pall planks in his platform. as defined in his_speeches, is one calling for ‘the | abolition of government by boards and | bureaus.’ Boards and bureaus at Wash- | ington, whether they are independent | or whether they are parts of Govern- | arms farther and farther into local and personal matters.” “Senator Reed is really guite refresh- | Ing.” afirms the Hartford Courant (in- dependent Republican), with the com- | ment: “His revival of the old “Turn the | rascals out!" cry brings recollections of | days when campaigns were campgigns. We could almost wish to see this old- school politiclan nominated: we have visions of the return of the old-fash. ioned methods. of brass bands, torch- | light processions, campaign banners with their caricatures of the candidates and all that. Jim' would give the American people one of the old-time thAllers. reminiscent of the days when | Grant and Greeley. Hayes and Tilden. | Garfield and Hancock and Blaine and | Cleveland were the contenders.” | * xox % “On this issue of honesty in publi life,” declares the Birmingham Ne (Democratic), “Mr. Reed, if nominated, would sweep the South and the border— even against Hoover. indeed. it might | be said, particularly against Hoover, or against any other member of the Fed- Dawes or Coolidge himself. Owen D. | Young would sweep the South and bor- | der on this issue as impressively as would Reed.” The Lincoln State Jour- {cause a native or a resident of that | State Wishes to put himself forward as a candidate also. | X% ¥ Pennsylvania, the second most popu j lous State in the Union, holds a pre: dential preference primary on April 24 The last day for filing, though voter: petition, to enter this primary w March 5. No Republican candidate has filed. It is generally understood that the unsettled political situation in the Keystone State, with the Mellons and Vare dividing control, would not have been atded by the entry of Mr. Hoover, for example, into the primary. ‘There was talk of an uninstructed dele- | gation by the Pennsylvania Republican | lenders. And so no one entered the {primary. This makes the primary Iaw tn one of the greatest States little more than a far But it also serves to emphasize the fact that presidential primaries bave become little more than A fleld for jockeving--a fleld in which to gain a little publicity for the can- didates and perhaps a few votes. o ow o ‘The decision of Senator Thomas J Walsh of Montana, & dry Democrat and one of the most widely known mem- bers of his party, to permit the entry of his name in the Californta prestden- tial prima has “stirred up the ani- mals.” Here was a delegation that had been reckoned practically sure for Gov, Alfred E. Smith of New York. It is true that Senator Reed of Missourt also has announced his intention of entering the California primary. But Smith was belleved to have a ‘long start. And now in a day, almost, the situation has been feopardized for Smith. It is a dry, with the McAdoo backing, battling Aganst two wets. If Senator Reed should pull out of the contest now and | leave it up to Smith to fight it out with Scnator Walah, there would be charges of collusion Reed 18 senrcely fNght, Furthermore, nator & man to back out of a Democratio drys have been greatly heartened by the declston of Senator Walsh to permit his friends to make & fight for him & number of Western States, ncluding Wisconson and South Dakota. ‘They belleve that nator Walsh, & Western man, will make sttong appeal (0 the voters of (he W and they 1ook to see him with & co slderable block of delegates at his back when the HOUston convention opens They are striving hard (0 see that Qov Hmih does not g0 into the convention WIth a majority of the delegates, and (hat he never passes the mafority mark, muen lexs the necessary two-thivds. Henator Walsh s a Catholio, like Qov, Smith, and the drys feel that' they cans not b accused of opposing Smith on religlous grounds, 1f they favor Senas tor Walsh, The divs of the South, n the Democvatio party, will vote tor Walsh where they would appose Simith, aome of thelr Teaders say CECRCE In St Petersburg, Fla, the Auti-Sa- loon Leagio 15 conduciing w confereice Oof diys trom nine Suuthienm Btates, seoks nal independent Republican) states: | “Reed has been a striking leader 1 Senate and he represents most ment departments under a member of | ;i the cabinet, are constantly tending to |, increase their power by stretching their | eral administration. not excepting even | . a Senator in Ohio after having been defeated for the governorship *0% - - ‘The Charleston Evening Post (inde- pendent Democrat ato! mount issue “will be honesty and in the public administration, which, says truly. have not bee: f says it is, there is need of c evidence ® '+ o to the average a ripple on the sur public. Senator Reed ought them on prohibition and note ference in reactions.” “Senator Reed bars prohibition from consideration.” says th 3 Times (independent). “I his con- sistent wet record is embarrassing him in dry States whose delegat seeks. O it it they pe of at ing support from both sides. The brief- est survey of the headlines in American newspaper publ news disposes of all this. that Mr. Reed urges t hasizing as possible. points of disagreem Kansas Cuy states; “Obviou: which would be strain in a cam to stand up. deal with a As to differences of op Joseph News-Press quotes George Br the eft hat | Smith's principles, yet he does not bear | | | the Tammany taint. That's one reason | | | why Reed was the choice of the Demo- crats in his home State." “Senator Reed is a favorite son, n for trading purposes. but because his upporters firmly belleve. not without reason. that he has a good change for the nomination. They believe,” accord- {ing to the Kansas City Post (ind | pendent), “he will be the logical con 1 bromise candidate in the fight betwee | Gov. Smith and the latter's ene The Manchester Union «indepe | Republican) states: “The long lead of Gov. Smith contines to exist, of cou It is not gravely threatened by any- thing developing to date, so far as early balloting in the convention is con- | cerned. But the fact that Reed is afield and busy all the time, with re- {sults beginntng to show for X {deavars, s something that cannot | wholly disregarded.” It s 1ot settled | Post-Dispateh. “where the p campatgn will be fought. If it jon a hundred scattered flelds, non | tirely cleared of underbrush, the I crats might nominate Smith. 1t moved to Armageddon, Where the people | ci faced their oppressars and neither s asked quarter, the Democrats wo | almost certatnly nominate Reed {18 his ght™ The Port Arthur tndependent Democratic) remarks “Reed was a political outcast efght years | He was a political outcast f, y ago. Now he is the idol of N | barty i Missourt at least, and & solid | | delegation will be instructed to vote for | | him as Jong as his name 18 before the | | Houston convention i “Reed's tndorsement by his State now | IS a great personal triumph, but 1| A0S an extraordinary example of the | { volatility of Democratte thought,™” o the {opiaton of the Buftalo Rventng i (Republican) — The Providence Journal | i tindependent) feels that “he has reason | for a good deal of satisfaction m noting | 00 St how thne's whirligig brought his | requireme satisfacta Ofttesat $ | the teports that the league might unders | matead of take o pat up a diy independent Dem- | Peete ocratie teket tn the event of the nomt- |+ nAton of Gov. Smith. That, he not the business of the Anti-Satoo League. Indeed, there has been tea to believe that the Southern Democrats MIKIE resent such tacties on thw pare | of the dry league, even though ey ave SONEY opjposed to Smith. The dev, however, are bent on an active came | PAIEN against (he nambnation of & wet | for Prestdent: and their campatgn is | st getting wnder way ) fully the rom savs the St I Yeurs dgo Today oW | e — W * N for 3000 ween now and M 30000 the nurses W the eded during o * ¢ ¢ Now naval & IO 10 Tl and calls for Q00000 Iy 198 tine Corps of 30,000 W seneral * ¢ % el esumed at Verdun as Frene? tar Chatles Cuartis of Kansas, | an guns become active, and Republican leader of the Senate, has | ans make manerons taids with b the abvolute wid complete backing of [ siecess ¢ % 0 War flnance his own Biate as indicated at u\c\t.-. | passed by Senate, Tt 8 bul B medis bublivan State convention i Wichita | fed I many reapets bet h vesterday. His enthie list of deloguies | adopted. * Load R Wan chosen, and stongly indarsed Sen- | sh hsh o atar Curtis for the prestdential noings | audieny euroll be- ates that ot wea i lered q more NHitle surprise. A8 matter of faot, there has long been g good deal of ool ness between the countries, 10K WaYS il Imeans of combating the NominRtion of Hmith or any ather wet Demoorat. ¥, Heolt MeBiide, general Muperintendent of the league, has denied Kansas TN Senator Curtis will go ko the nas tvely 1o \ war than ihe tonal canvention with a very constders | Enowledes of ihe peparathns which Able NUWBEE af delegates oltside the F AWiica & ARG Md WAL continue to ton, his followers predics, | make, « D