Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1928, Page 8

| THE EVENING STAR | With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. | WEDNESDAY.....April 11, 1828 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: 11th St and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 43nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Buiiding. European Office; 14 Regeot St., London, England. Rate by Carrier Within The Evening Star The Evening and Sunday Star mouth the City. 3¢ per twhon 4 Sundays) - - 60¢ per month The Evening and Sunday (when 5 Sundars) The Sundar Star.. 50 per month Main 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 1 7, $0.00; 1 mo., T8¢ LS80 Ayl S0 Sunday only 1mo. 33 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled %0 the use for republication of all news dia- dited 10 it or not otherwise cred- saper and also the local news Al rights of publication spatches herein are also reserved. piished P of special The Voice of the People. Periodically, the American voters| clean house. In Chicago, and indeed | in the whole State of Illinois, the brooms were used yesterday. Illinois politics—and, more particularly, Chicago politics—had become a stench in the nostrils, a challenge to government. The results in the primary elections yesterday restore faith in the Ameri- can system of government. The voice of the people has been heard once more. Blatant “Big Bill" Thompson, who as mayor ‘of Chicago has seen con- ditions exist, apparently with com- plaisance, that might have shocked earlier political bosses, has failed mis- erably. Not long ago he was quoted as saying that if his ticket were defeated he would resign. But that probably was mere bluff. The people will take care of his case later, in any event. Len Small, who as Governor of Tiinois and head of the “machine” in State politics has dominated the sit- uation for years, has gone by the board, snowed under an avalanche of adverse votes. And Prank L. Smith, whom the Senate twice Tejected because of al- leged corruption in the primary which pominated him, has been decisively de- feated. The greatest blow to Mayor Thomp- son, however, was the defeat of Crowe, the State's attorney in Chicago. Crowe's defeat also was probably the greatest gain to the law-abiding citizens of Chicago. Crime and Chicago have become synonymous under the present sdministration. Its defeat may not prevent all crime, for the millennium has not yet arrived. But if the prom- jses of the successful candidates can be relied upon, the crooks of Cook County had better be on the move. The law-abiding citizens of Chicago and the rest of Illinois have for several years appeared to be in a hopeless THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. now under consideration in the House | President Wilson has written a letter the salaries of & number of committee | to John B. Elliott of Los Angeles, an- clerks and other employes not only in the Capitol, but in the Government Printing Office and the Library of Con- gress, are increased. ‘The hearings before the House civil service committre brought out heart- rending stories °f low-paid Govern- ment workers, who are not getting a living wage and whose lives are a con- stant struggle and worry. The House committee is meeting today to redraft the Welch bill, which proposes a mini- mum wage of $1,500 and increases of $300 and $400 per person throughout the Federal service. 2 The time is short before the get- away rush of Congress, Prompt action should be taken. Food and clothing for the poor, especially when they de- vote their lives to the custody and cleanliness of Uncle Sam's workshops, should not be made a plaything of pol- itics. Delays with a direct purpose of postponing action so that these relief measures may fail should not be coun- tenanced. The House committee should decide how much salary increase is justified on the grounds of humani- tarianism and the services rendered—not how much can be squeezed out of these poor people to help pile up millions for experimental projects. The salary increase bill should be al- lowed to come up for a vote in both houses of Congress on its merits. Con- gress should be ashamed to adjourn until justice is done the underpaid workers. Real economy and efficiency in the | Government service demand this. H TR No Lump-Sum Payment Plan. The lump-sum payment plan should not be substituted as permanent sub- stantive law for the definite propor- tionate contribution plan: | 1. Because it destroys the relation between national anl local contribu- tions, the basic principle of the laws of 1878 and 1922 which causes an alien tax- mg body in taxing an unrepresented community in some measure to tax also itself. The existence of this relation is a safeguard against excessive taxa- tion of the unrepresented community. 2. Because it gives back to the Na- tion its pledge of proportionate con- tribution, which accompanied national seizure of the Capital's power of self- | taxation, without restoring to the Dis- trict this self-taxing power of which it had been deprived. 3. Because by destroying national ob- ligation to mnk&,:ny definite propor- tionate contribuf it imposed a loss of millions upon the District when the latter’s Treasury surplus, collected under the 50-50 law, came to be ap- propriated and spent. 4. Because it violates wantonly the peace settlement of the act of 1922, which’ levied taxes for five years to come, and thus promised stability on the 60-40 basis in the fiscal relations of the Capital for that period. It deprives the District of the only important offsetting benefit continued to it by this law, in order to make heavier the new tax burdens which the 1922 law imposed. 5. If the lump-sum payment plan continues to exist on the basis 6f its insertion by the House into appropria- tion bills under the application of the | tor from Montana is one in which his They, like so many other Americans,| far as the House is concerned, be in- have been willing to let the political | vited and facilitated, while its increase Georges “do it.” Yesterday they were groused because of the increasingly awful conditions in their State. Under Two arrests for thefts of cherry blos- soms {rom the display in West Potomac Park show that the park police are on their job All efforts toward horticultural im- provement of the National Capital, either public or private, might as well be discontinued if breaking off bios- soms upon caprice is permitted. Those who thoughtiessly despoil blooming trees, shrubs or plants in the parks or private gardens may not re- gerd their offense as very grave, but if they were 1 stop to think what would result if others took 1o the same bad habits, they would soon see the futility of their course. A blossom, either in & public park or 0 4 home garden, is alike private prop- erty—in the one case, of the Govern- ment; in the other, of the owner. No other has any right to touch ii. There is coming 1o be more and more & feeling in this country that the most beautiful flower is the one that blooms where it is planted. There will always be two classes of plant growers, of course—those who plant % bloom “us is,” and those who plant for eutting. | It must be remembered by every | outsider, however, that as far as he, the | ontsider, 15 concerned, either legally or | morally, the right to touch or pluck | e flower that does not belong 1o him | 15 non-existent Unrestricied despoliation of wild Povers has brought this country face W face with & serious problem. Con- | servation is none the less o be applied | 10 the eultivated flowers of park snd garden A fortunaie fact is that those who will in effect be forbidden. Will the Senate sacrifice a wise, sound fiscal principle to which it is tradition- ally committed and in the defense of which it i1s impregnably intrenched in law and equity? —— The Stone Mountain Project. ‘The great monument ‘o Robert E. Lee and his comrades now being carved out of Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, and which was unvelled on Monday— the sixty-third anniversary of the Con- federate general's surrender at Appo- mattox—belongs now to the Nation. The gigantic proportions of the monu- mental work give it an assurance of permanency as lasting as the granite from which it is carved, and there is ® fine symbolism in the nature of its ownerskip. The memory of Lee and those who stood with him no longer belongs to the South alone. It is a cherished possession of the Nation. A few years ago the realization of the Btone Mountain project and what it represents would have been regarded as impossible. But a few days ago it seemed altogether fitting that Mayor Walker of New York, a Yankee from a Yankee town, should accept the me- morial on behalf of the Nation; that the Governor's Poot Guards of Connect- jeut should parade with the boys from the Georgia Military Academy and that the Atlants Old Guard should be en- | tertaining and hobnobbing with mem- bers of the Old Guard of New York, the Anclent and Honourable Artillery of Boston and the Amoskeag veterans of Peterboro, N, H. This 15 the day of the New South, but slso of a New America, The Na- tion has purged itself of the bitter polson of internecine hatred which Lee, as much as any man, dreaded and de- plored. 1t has outgrown those things which a half century ago appeared 50 immutable and fixed, For many years Lee’s monument was & torn and wasted countryside, & bleeding and embittered people. But these were crumbling re- minders of the cause he espoused rath- er than memorials to the man himself Now the darkness of a troubled time passes and s new light brings into re- lief the memory of Lee and of his com- | rades as brave gentlemen and gallant soldiers. ‘This memory s & common pluck such flowers are in the minority Most of the residents n Washinglon end are law-abiding in 1his regard s in others, willing t allow . thing W remain beautiful for the enjoyment of il itors W it Dewitif Poiiticians will now take thelr turn | (T using hard-holled wierisl only roliing - Pay Revision Time, As wes Lestified by Senator Ashurst 50 severs! oilier members of Congress Lotore the House eivil servioe commitiee Lize members of Congress voled & couple years ago W ralse thelr own pey eud never Lieprd & peep agsinst 3t from e constituents i the House on Mondsy, the pay of the park oo was passed without any gp incrense the e beglelslive MDA W LI WS GGr Vi M W e cub Kb land v -—— Base ball again thrills the American Lwind. In the course of time nations abroad who now ignore the game may | wearn 1o sppreciste it as an example of | expert co-ordination, Rl A Dry Hope, The eyes of the drys are turned 1o Calitornis. ‘There, it at all, it appesrs Gov. Alfred K. Bmith of New York must be stopped In his triumphal march toward the Democratic nomination for President. | Willlam Gibbs MeAdoo, Celifornin’s favorite son W the Madisgs Bquere Garden convention four years wgo, ¥ | throwing e political strength he pos- wewsess hehind Senslor Thomas J. Walsh of Montana and against Gy, Bmith In heritage of the | i other Wilson Democrat and & dry, ex- tolling Senator Walsh as the foremost Democrat of the day. But more par- ticularly does he promise that if Senator Walsh be elected President, he will “dry up” the United States. As report after report has come in from the “dry” West, Gov. Smith has chalked up victory after victory in the battle for delegates to the Democratic national convention. The latest Smith victory was in Towa, where former Sec- retary of Agriculture E. T. Meredith offered himself as a favorite son candi- date in a desperate effort to halt the Smith tide. In Wisconsin, the New York governor defeated decisively Sen- ator Walsh in the contest for delegates at large. In Arizona delegates favorable to Smith and not to Senator “Jim” Reed of Missouri were selected. Michigan, | Minnesota, and now Utah, have jumped on the Smith bandwagon. Mr. McAdoo, the bitter foe of Smith, who more than any other man pre-* vented the nomination of McAdoo in 1924, has for months cast around for a candidate to “stop” Smith in 1928. First, he issued a statement taking him- self out of the race, and finally he has picked Senator Walsh as the outstand- ing Democrat to win the presidential nomination over Gov. Smith. It may be that the effort of Mr. McAdoo for Senator Walsh comes too late. The Smith advance has gathered momentum, like an avalanche once started down the mountains. But in California, where the drys are stronger than the wets, the Iast-ditch fight.in the West against the New Yorker is to be staged on May 1. Senator Reed of Missouri is a third entrant in the primary, and he, too, is a wet. He is a Protestant, while both Gov. Smith and Senator Walsh are Catholics, making the situation still more complicated. But what the Walsh- McAdoo faction hopes is that Smith and Reed will divide the wet vote, and ‘Walsh will ride to victory. Mr. McAdoo, in his letter to Mr.| Elliott, has given Senator Walsh high | praise, as a legisiator, a statesman and a man. The record made by the Sena- party may well take pride. Whether he wins to the presidential nomination or not, his place in the political history of the country is assured. ——— Cynical observers say that any man's place can be filled. The world must go on. But when a genial and intelligent influence like that of Chauncey Depew departs, the quest of a successor is dis- appointing. There are many clowns. There are but few broad-minded and sympathetic humorists. ———— Chicago frequently succeeds in dem- onstrating that it has a heart; only it finds' difficulty in deciding among con- flicting infiluences. It is not easy to keep a heart in the right place. —————————— There have been moments in history (85 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. “Have you been to Florida?” we asked the tanned man whose hand we shook. “No,” he answered. “Where on earth did you get that sunburn?” we asked, enviously. He seemed to think it demanded an explanation. “Right here,” he said. “When you were seen last” we re- minded him suspiciously, “you were thin and ?lle and threatened with disease. Now look at you!” He was indeed a triumph of sunshine. His face was tanned, his hair bleached, even his eyes seemed several shades paler. His skin beneath his clothes, he mmred us, was not so much skin as de. ‘We expressed the natural wonder that one could work up such a “tan” in the District of Columbia during March and the first few days of April, as sunshiny as the latter month has been to date in the main. “It's artificial” he explained. “I got it all in the doctor’s office. He started me off with three minutes at a time, and now I have worked up to nine minutes. A minute is worth an hour in the sunshine.” * ok Kk He was not the first one who had sung | the praise of this “artificial sunshine” | during the past few months. It seems| that such things break upon the indi- vidual in floods. Use of these “sun lamps” is compara- tively recent, but “the man on the| street” has heard little of them until) the past few years. The use of sun- light as a curative agent runs back to the beginnings of medicine; indeed, far- ther than that—to the ancient sun wor- shipers—but for many centuries the | lore was forgotten or frowned upon in | one way or another, ‘The difficulties encountered in expos- ing the whole body to the benificent rays helped keep the knowledge back from the mass of the people, aithough at the same time “light-cure” sanita- riums arose in various parts of Europe, notably in the Alpine countries. It must be remembered that it is the light itself, its various rays—not the | heat—of the sun which is so beneficial | to mankind. The burning of the skin | through exposure is not beneficial on account of the burn, but solely through the, fact that the pigmentation of the | epidermis builds up certain health re- sistant qualities in blood and tissue. A healthy “tan"” of the face and arms | is better than none at all, and is to be | secured in many activities, such as golf | and tennis, But there can be little| doubt that the more complete sunburn- | ing experienced in the modern one-piece | bathing suit is more beneficial, espe- | cially when coupled with the wholesome action of fresh air and clean water, and varticularly if the latter is salt. R | Sunlight, whether the real thing or | its scientific cousin, as applied in a doc- | tor's office, must be undertaken cau- tiously. Many persons fail to get the benefit | which they should from sunshine sim- ply because they will not realize that the sun is mighty and that unwise ex- posure is worse—for many persons— than no sunshine at all. | Not only should the average person | who walks out uncovered in the sun-| shine of Springtime realize the need for some sort of head covering, but also he | should get an even firmer grip on the | idea that he must not recklessly expose | himself unless he has been previously | when delicate diplomacy was required | to permit discussions of peace which would not involve new temptations to War, . ‘The word of President Coolidge might be influential, but so far as support for any particular candidate is concerned his attitude remains that of one who does not choose. ——tre Italy has far more than the ordinary measure of national cares in trying to regulate its poets, its tenor singers and its politicians. e The cherry blooms bring a message of friendship which makes the silent beauty of flowers more eloquent than words, Al Smith has managed to popularize himself on the sidewalks of a large number of towns as well as those of New York. ———————— In order to outlaw war it may be necessary to revise mythology so as to make old Mars appear like something less of a hero. —eate—s “Gold diggers” have been looking for ofl instead of for metal. oo SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDE! Forsythia. The blossomings that April brings Again in loveliness appear To set the scene. The mock bird sings In greeting to the wakening year. The sunlight Jshow'r comes with the flow'r ‘That first its beauties here unfold. We gaze on it through many an hour, A glorious cascade of gold. Leadershi I suppose you have had your troubles with your constituents.” “No,” answered Senator Borghtdm. “They will do anything I say. However, the wituation creates a fearful responsi- bility. I am afraid to say anything.” JOHNSON, Changing Attitudes, ‘The politiclan gayly greets a friend ' And calls him “Brother:” And maybe, ere the interchanges end, Bays, “You're another.” Jud Tunkins says a rider is now sup- posed to take his tumbles. The hero of the race course is the horse that can ! stay under his man, Beeking Service, “Our car will soon land us at the poorhouse,” complained Mrs, Chuggins. “All right!” said the patient steers- man. "It probably has a good filling plant and & repuir service.” “A germ,” said 111 Ho, the sage of Chinatown, "resembles many bad - fluences In being able to work so long before he 1s detected,” Dynamic Folly, The Fool once wore & cap and bells And left no one forlorn, No jest or Jingle now he tells, He sounds & motor horn, “De higgest step In disarmament dat 11 knows of,” sald Uncle Eben, “was de | vention of de safety razor,” i e O ¢ e Lindbergh the Greatest, From the B, Luwis Vost Dispatoh mgred to the direct rays of the lreui orb. . TRACEWELL. One should not stay too long in the sun in the beginning of each season, and he should take especial care to shade his eyes and the back of his neck. Sunlight is not particularly beneficlal to the eyes. When the physician ad- ministers his doses of sun rays he makes the patient wear goggles. The spine comes very near to the surface in the human neck, and this spot, commonly called the nape, should receive protection during Spring and Summer through the wearing of some sort of hat that will cover it. What is jusually called & “sport hat,” made of white linem, with a brim all around, is declared to be the best sort for the aver- age person. Failure to cover the head often re- sults in an oppressed feeling. When this sense of oppression is felt one should get out of the sun for a time. Nature has set up a balance of light and shade for our instruction. After the sunlight comes the dark. We are the creatures of the sun, but we must have shade, too. EE I One who loves the sunshine and loses no opportunity to be in it may be for- given for wondering if the artificial rays really adequately take the place of the genuine article. Just as there were found to be certain obscure “vitamins” in foodstuffs., with- out which food was not as benéficial to human beings as the untreated article, so there may be certain gualities in sun- light from the sun itself which do not exist in the rays via the electric-light socket. It may be that the far greater dura- tion of exposure required in real sun- shine is more in harmony with the leis- urely nature of man. Our labor-saving devices, our quick cuts to fame, fortune and health, are inspiring and breagh- | taking, but it may be guestioned whetfer they possess everything given to our ancestors by the more leisurely methods of past ages. Our dartings to and fro in the path of automobiles, for instance, can scarce- Iy be of benefit to the nervous system. A man, as an animal, any more than a dog, was not made by Nature to calcu- late speeds from 30 to 70 miles an hour. We do it today only with great diffi- culty, and simply by the use of brain tissue, rather than through any par- ticular co-ordination of eye and leg muscles. If we see a huge truck lum- bering down the street at 30 miles an hour, our experience with other huge trucks in the past and our unconscious memory of accidents as reported in the papers cause us to double up our legs and unlimber them again in triple- quick time—just in time to allow us to escape from the wheels of the jugger- naut and its hog of a driver. Similarly, although praising the arti- ficfal “sunshine” which gives a man a Florida tan at home, one may feel that the real sunshine of the open air, if one can get enough of it, is likely to be more beneficial to the average human being. ‘The difficulty, of course, comes in getting enough of it. Most persons have neither the time nor the patience to lie 9 or 10 hours in the sunshine, first on one side and then on the other. It is just here that the artificial “sunlight” shines. “The most useful purpose of the artificial lamps,” said Dr. C. W. Saleeby, eminent London physician, “of whatever kind, s to guide our footsteps back to the light of day.” So take your cholce, remember- ing always that it is the light, not the heat, that counts. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. We have with us now the qu-dren-[ nial pre-convention season of tall claims | and smiling confidence, It is the glad- some Springtime of presidential politics, | when all is over but the shouting. Nefther party and no candidate has a ly electing Smith delegations or indi- cating unmistakably Smith leanings. * ok ok« An interested bystander on the Chi- cago battlefront yesterday was Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, who made a spe- clal 24-hour journey to the theater of monopoly of the rose-strewn path. Mid- war from Washington. “Princess Alice" April finds both Herbert Hooverites and Al Smithites treading it. The Reptbli- | can convention at Kansas City is nine | weeks away; the Democratic conclave | at Houston is eleven weeks off. But chickens are being counted in_both | henneries with gay abandon. Dr. Work, | chief optimist of the Hoover camp, now has 574 delegates safely tucked away | for the Secretary of Commerce, which is 20 more than the majority of 545/ necessary to nominate. Hence Work sees Hoover victor on Ballot No. 1. Al Smith's star-gazers haven't as vet | nominated the governor on the first| ballot, but they claim there will be no more than three ballots—if that many— before the 734 two-thirds vote is rolled up for the idol of Manhattan. D As the storm before the battle grows in intensity, two eminent names figure prominently in Republican calculations —Coolidge and Mellon. Though there isn't & fragment of evidence to support it (unless it be that the President has resumed handshaking with children at noonday reception, to the proletariat), | draft-Coolidge talk is again rife and irrepressible. Perhaps Senator Fess' selection as Kansas City keynoter started it. At any rate, it's going on | once more. The rising tide of pre-con- vention Smith favor is undoubtedly contributing its share to the draft-Cool- | idge recrudescence. Republicans recog- nize the indispensability of New York in their November electoral column. Coolidge-drafters have always used as their most potent argument the con- tention that the President is the only | Republican who can unquestionably “stop” Smith in his own State. ook Becretary Mellon has bounded into the pre-Kansas City picture as the deus ex machina who is t0 name the Repub- lican nominee. The “machina” is the Pennsylvania maghine, which “Uncle Andy” bestrids Ik is persistent that the Keystone “god” will at & psychologi- moment_step out of his machine and bestow Pennsy’s 79 votes for this or | that candidate, whereupon a deadlock | convention will proceed to choose as | standard-bearer the man of Mellon cholce, . As to all this, the Treasury | « out-Sphinxes the Brhlnx He has | a reference,” but, though Hoover leaders, Lowden leaders, Dawes leaders, Watson leaders and Goff leaders would give thelr respective shirts to know who it i, the secret cannot be pried | loose. Bome say Mellon is for Hoover; others allege he has long been ¥jealous” of his cabinet l'.olle‘g\lf and resented Hoover's alleged poaching on other de- partmental preserves. Still others de- clare Mellon s incurably anti-Lowden. and anti-Dawes on the McNary-Haugen heresy. Be these things as they may, gonsip of the moment wssigns him the | omnipotent fole at Kansas Olty, Tt was wat other Pennsylvania “boss,” Boles Penvose, who decided the fssue as Chis | cago In 1920 R Al Bmith's royal proy s through the dry, Protestant, anti-Tammany, antis urban West 1s the Washington Monu- ment of the political situation, Within # week the New Yorker bowled over a dry Catholle native son (Walsh) in the Wisconsin primaries and & dry Protes- tant favorite son (Meredith) In lowa, The impressiveness of these victories is not underestimated bzflllmlth'n Dem- ouratio rivals, ‘Their hellef all -hma has been that while the governor wouls easily win the wet East and North, espe- clally where the Catholle element Is strong, his troubles would set in out where the West beging, "Wall tll you hear from the corn belt, the alfalfa | | | helt, the wheat belt and the other rural |y, belts remote from the sopping sidewalks crooned the anti- ‘The students of Yale have voted | ind- ihe California presidential primary cam- paign The former Secretary of the bergh the greatest living man, ‘There was Do vole taken on the greghest Hving woan, each student huvlnwul min s —— “and we shall see what we What they have seen 15 tes Ike Minnesnta, Wiscansin, Towa, th and Bouth Dakota, Michigan, Ar- hnl Kl N is seldom missing from any scene, near or“hr, when political excitement pre- valls, thing that appeals to the brilliant daughter of “T. R." She is & deep stu- dent of politics in all its aspects, and looks upon the conditions which Chi- cago personifies as both a serious and sinister development in American public life. Of course, the Speaker's wife had a special interest in the Illinois primary, because of the candidacy of her bosom friend, Ruth Hanna McCormick, for one of the representatives at large. Mark Hanna and lore Roosevelt cordially disliked each other, but their daughters refused to inherit the feud. * ko ow Now that the base ball season is open, it's appropriate to recall what friends |and foes allke often say of Senator Borah. The Idahoan is described as the man who knocks more home-runs which don't get him past first other man in public life. the object of that comment in Washing- ton just now, as the result of his collec- tion of $7,500 for repayment of Harry F. Sinclair's $160,000 contribution to the Republican campaign fund. ok ok x A woman, writing to the editor of the New York Times, suggests the organiza- tion of a “Leave Lindbergh Alone League.” She says she's constityted herself a committee of one to form it, There will be no dues, and the duties are negative. | ‘They consist merely of a promise never to try to interview or shake hands with Lindbergh. to ask him for no autographs, to write him no let- lers, and to send him no poems. “There will be nothing to give except one's word of honor,” declares this public benefac- tress, “and even then that one will be u)l(pected to keep. Let us leave ‘Lindy’ alone.” base than an “Big Bill" is (Convrizght. 1028 ————— Peace W th Less Honor. From the New York Sun In view of the latest news from Chi- cago Frank L. Smith may feel that there s more peace, if less honor, in being the non-Senator from Illinols, e e Knows What's Planted, Anyhow, Fram the 8t Louls Post-Dispateh However, it can be argued that when & man uses those little labels on the things he plants in his garden he at least knows what he planted. UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today The famous Ralnbow Division, the first of the Natlonal Guard Army com- mands o oross the ocean, has again en uctlon, Thix fact, disclosed by cistilly lists, also indicates that New York and Wisconsin contingents suf- fered most. * %+ After an artilery bombardment lasting 72 hours German forces attempted an attack against the American positions northwest of Toul before sunrise and were complotely re- ulped, Entire German forve, includ- ng the shock troops, are caught in n heavy barrage and suffer heavil %% Reported that United States have been landed In Viadivostok. Additional Fronch oficers will be sont to this country to traln our men and hasten their departure overseas, * * ¢ All day long the Germans hurl great masses of troops at the British lines on the northern battle front, southeast of An B result of heavy assaulta Hritish are pushed back at several poluts. Polson gas forces the evacus atlon of Armentieres, At Holleboke wave upon wave of German troops dosh furle olisly against the British front. but ave driven off, Praoti no fghting on g ” la It isn't the mere thrill of the | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1928 Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. Ever since the death of the late Sen- in 1926 that State has had but a single representative in the Senate of the United States. Charles S. Deneen. In yesterday's primary elections in Illinois, the Deneen ticket recorded a sweeping triumph, snowing under the Small- ‘Thompson-Smith-Crowe faction. It was a remarkable triumph forthe forces of law and order. It places Senator Deneen in a dominant position in the State. It presages the ousting later of Mayor “Big Bill” Thompson of Chicago. Senator Deneen, formerly Governor of Illinols, has been aligned generally with the so-called reform forces in the State. He has stood for good government. His ticket was defeated in the Chicago elec- tions in 1926 at the same time that Frank L. Smith was nominated to the Senate over the late Senator McKinley. ‘The uprising of the voters in Chicago and the entire State yesterday against the forces of crime and corruption was to be expected. The American people will stand just so much and no more. LR ‘The defeat of Frank L. Smith for the senatorial nomination by Otis Glenn re- considering the Smith case again. Twice the Senate has declined to seat Smith because of alleged corruption in his primary campalign in 1926, when he accepted upward of $125,000 from Samuel Insull for his campalgn ex- penses, although he was chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Iili- nois and Insull is a public utility mag- nate. After his second rejection, earlier this year, Smith announced he would resign and go to the voters for vindi- cation. He has failed utterly to win such @& vindication. When he was elected to the Senate in 1926 over his Democratic opponent, George Brennan, the Democratic boss of the State, he had the support of the Anti-Saloon | League and of many citizens who pre- ferred Smith to Brennan. * k ok x ‘The results in Illinois, and partic- {ularly in wet Chicago, yesterday, can | scarcely give hope to those Democrats who believe that with Gov. Al Smith of New York, or some other wet candidate, they can carry the State against the Republican nominee mext Fall. The State is overwhelmingly Republican. With Smith in the race, the probabili- ties ar. that it will continue to be over- whelmingly Republican. Brennan, thé wet Democrat and Smith lieutenant, failed to carry the State in the Senate election in 1926, running against Prank L. Smith, after the charges of corrup- |tion had been made against his Repub- lican opponent. The chances of Gov. Al Smith in Illinois appear no greater than were those of Brennan in 1926, and not as great. In the Illinois primary, however, Gov. Smith will pick up probably 47 district delegates, and later will have the dele- gates at large, according to the re- ports. Brennan dominates the situa- tion and is for Smith for President first. last and all the time. This gain of delegates in Tilinois still further in- creases the lead of Gov. Smith in the race for the Democratic nomination. ‘There was no entry in the presidential preferential primary on the Democratic | side, but some of the voters wrote in the names of their favorites. It was n iceable that the name of Reed of | Missouri appeared on nearly as many of the ballots as did that of Gov. Smith of .iew York. There is a large Lutheran group 'in the State, many of them strongly opposed to the nomination of | Smith. L o8 T On the Republican side of the fence, former Gov. Prank O. Lowden of Ili-| nois is assured of at least 30 district He may have more, depend- ing upon the final returns in Cook County, Chicago, where Mayor Thomp- son placed a delegate slate in the field against Lowden, with President Cool- idge as their candidate for the Republi- can nomination. There are 10 con- gressional districts in Chicago, éach with two delegates. If Lowden wins in some of those districts, he will be so much the gainer. in ..me of those districts, just so much doc; his plea for the renomination of Pre ident Coolidge suffer. One thing the primary yesterday apparently has | settled, and that is the supposed presi- | dential aspirations of “Big Bill” Themp- | son himself. « It has been hinted more | than once that he would like himself | to receive the vote of the Illinois dele- gation in the Republican national con- vention. * ok ox o ‘The defeat of Smith in the Illinois primary yesterday for the senatorial nomination is not calculated to give any great hope to William S. Vare of Pennsylvania, who, like Smith, has been barred at the door of the Senate because of alleged corruption in his nomination in 1926. However, it must be sald for Mr. Vare that his case dif- fers from that of the Ilinois man, since he received no contributions from public utility magnates while in office as public utility commissioner. Mr. Vare was a member of the House when he sought the senatorial nomination. Mr. Vare's case is still hanging fire, while the ballots in the senatorial election are being counted by the Senate com- | mittee, under a contest brought against | him by William B. Wilson, former Sec- | retary of Labor m the Wilson admin- | Istration. LR Senator Brookhart of Towa, Progres- | sive Republican, is not satisfled with | Frank O. Lowden of lilincis, nor Vice | President Dawes, for the Republican rruldonull nominacion, nothwithstand- ! ing their support of the principles ot the McNary-Haugen bill. In the Sen- | ate yesterday he charged that supporters | of that bill were praventing farm Ye- | lief legislation this session of Con- | gress for the purpose of keeping the is- | sue alive and a'ling the candiducy of | either Lowden or Dawes, or both. Sen- | ator Norris of Nebraska is the choice | of Senator Brookhart fur the nomina- | tion. The Towa delegation to the Re ublican national convention is favor ng Lowden, except two district dele-! gates chosen from the district in which Secretary Herbert Hoover was born, ‘ LR | Southern Democrats are making much | of the fact that colored employes of the | Department of Commerce are working | alongside white employes, attacking Secretary Hoover for falling to keep them segregated. It was & foregone con- clusion that sooner or later the color | question would be interjected into the presidential campaign in the South Ir, Hoover, who seemingly now has the lead for the Republican presidential nomination, has many friends in the States of the Mississippl Valley because of his flood rellef work there, It has been claimed that if he were nominated on the Republican ticket and Al Smith Of New York on the Democratio ticket, Hoover might break into the “Solid South™ As a matter of fact, ‘he race | Issue 13 sUll the dominant issue i the | South. and there has been litle chance | that a Republican candidate for Presi- dent would be able to win the .jectoral | vote of any of the Southern States. from | the start of the preconvention campaign. If Smith be the party nominee, he will either carry the States of the Solld | Houth or some of those States will vote ";;rlv‘" Tlll\m;wl.l‘ldnmt Democratio candi- . They will nof o can nominee, Vi s | - S Good Roads Lauded. r.:;- ;;. ‘A.muu- Canstitution lorida 1s recelving more th - Hon dollars & month from n:“l:xm;'nln wasoling. That's $148 per mile income on each of it 7,000 wiles of paved ronds, or 81740 & year. Qood roads ATe AN Investment, not an expense, .- Risky at That, From the New Orleans Times Pieayune. If & wife Is entitled to a divores hes eanse hor hushand ca's her “dumb™ ought't hubby to secure his W he Rivis b . ator Willlam B. McKinley of ITilinois| lleves the Senate of the necessity of | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ‘There is no other agency in the world | that can answer as many legitimate | questions as our free information bu- reau, Washington, D. C. This highly organized institution has been built up | and is under the personal direction of Frederic J. Haskin. By keeping in con- | stant touch with Federal bureaus and | other educational enterprises, it is in a ' mmman to pass on to you authoritative formation of the highest order. Sub- | mit your queries to the staff of experts whose services are put at your free dis- | posal. There is no charge except 2| cents in stamps for return postage. Ad- dress The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin director, | Washington, D. C. | Q. At what age is an elephant con- sidered full grown?—D., P. A. An elephant does not mature until | it reaches the age of 25 years. 1 Q. Can you tell me if McIntyre and | Heath are both living?—G. A. G. | A. Yes. They are playing vaudeville | dates this .season. | Q. Were old Latin manuscripts punc- | tuated, egecnl]y Caesar’s “Commen- | tarles”?—R. C. N. A. The oldest Latin manuscripts have no punctuation, since punctuation | was not used until after 364 B. C., when | marks of separation were introduced. { Caesas’s “Commentaries” were written a | great many years after the introduction | of punctuation. Q. What part of the present city of Oslo occupies the site of the ancient city of the same name?—F. L. A. The suburb Oslo of the city until recently known as Christiania repre- sents the original city which was! | founded on this site under the name of Oslo or Opslo by Harold Sigurdsson in 1048. Six hundred years later the city was destroyed and a new one founded by King Christian, which was then called Christiania. The decision to re- sume the ancient name was made by the Norwegian Parliament. i Q. Are uniforms furnished to men entering the merchant marine?—K. M A. The United States Shipping Board says that no clothing or equipment is furnished to seamen in the United States merchant marine. | Q Why is the opal regarded as a stone of ill omen?—H. C. H. A. The opal has not always been re- garded as an unlucky stone. The super- stition regarding its bad luck began in the fourteenth century at the time of the Black Death, particularly in Venice. At that time the opal was a favorite of the Italian jewelers, but it was said that opals worn by those stricken with | the disease became suddenly brilliant | and that their luster departed upon the death of the owner. Thus the opal be- came associated with death and an ob- ject of dread. i Q. Is electricity made?—M. J. K. | A. Strictly speaking, electricity can- | not be made. Electricity is a form of .motion, and the phenomenon of elec- tricity only can be made. Q. Of what is jewelers’ oil made?— C. H. G. A. Jewelers' oil is whale oil. manu- | | ginia ceded the territory northwes feet,u.ev'pr:i wn}r a diving suit on. The greatest depth attempted by divers is about 308 feet. i = Q. Are any of the German life insur- ance companies doing business in the United States before the war engaged in business here now?—0, W. A. Alfred M. Best, insurance econ- omist, says that no life companies from abroad have re-entered the States since the war, nor are any expected to do so in the immediate future. The Ameri- can companies reinsured their foreign business and all foreign business in this country—it was largely reinsurance— was taken over by American interests, Of course, the Guardian Life used to be known as the Germania, and still holds considerable investments abroad. but all of its insurance is in this country, Q. What Emperor of Arabian by birth?—E. M. F. A[.) Marcus Julius Philippus (244-249 ). Q. How did it happen that Yerba Buena, an island located in San Pran- cisco Bay, received the nickname of “Goat Island"?—A. L. J. A. The Spanish name of the island Yerba Buena is due to the former prev- alence of the fragrant herb. The alter- native name of Goat Island Is explained by the story that some goats w brought from the Sandwich Island: 1835 and turn where they multiplied so rapidiy by 1850 they numbered more than 1,000, Q. When delegates to a convention are instructed for a certain candidate, how long do they have to vote for him? -F. G R A. The instructions may be specific. The general rule, however, is th: structed delegates vote for their candi- date until his name is withdrawn, or until the candidate or his managers release them from the obligation. Q. What does it cost to have soil analyzed?’—R. T. A.” Samples of soil are analyzed free of charge by the various State agricul- tural experiment stations. Q. Does Kentucky own the Ohio River>—C. B A. Kentucky has jurisdiction over the Ohio to the low-water line on the Ohio side. In other words, the southern boundary of Ohio is the low-water mark on the north bank of the river. This resulted from the fact that when Vir- Rome was an ¥ A the Ohio to the United States in 1734 the north bank of the river was made the dividing line. The same situation exists in respect to West Virginia and Ohio, the former State having bee: originally part of Virginia. Q. How many United States fiyers have met death in service A. The Air Mail Service of the Post Office Department informs us that dur- {ing the time the Government operated ir mail routes there were 32 pilots killed while flying mail. b Q. When was the Larnaudian epoch? Why was it so called>—M. E. R. A. The Larnaudian epoch is the name applied to an epoch in European prehistoric archeology at the close of the Bronze Age, and so called from the | station of Larnaud, in the Jura Moun- 1 factured under various trade names. Q. Could a human being be lowered _— to a depth of 600 feet under water with- Q. Is there a kind of fish that will out a diving suit and come up without ' keep mosquitoes out of pools?—H. H. H. e ot i R T L, T ; g could not - | the to ui stand the pressure at a depth of 600 pools. T e Amount of Federal Tax Relief Subject of Continuing Debate Revised figures as to the adminis-, Democratic) as to the difference be- tration's idea of what the reduction in | tWeen the administration figures and | Pederal taxes this year should be have | ™ Democrats may think is & hat practical reduction. The Sun argues: | produced a continuing debate in the ‘The Democratic Senators would be Il If Thompson loses | press. There is a tendency in some advised to drag out the controversy rters to vie party | OVer tax revision. There is too littie e View the' matter 88 & y | reduction at stake.” continues that pa- issue, but most of the newspaper com-|per “tg justify such a course. It is ment favors careful consideration of the | folly to expect the public to become prospects and & cut in taxes which will ' excited over whether the cut shall be not be likely to result In a deficit. 200,000,000 or $350,000006, or some “It was agreed some time ago,” ac- Congress could be persuaded to go. And cording to the Albany Evening News Senator Simmons' motion that ‘a dem- | Mr. Coolidge stands at the side of his | (independent Republican), “that befor acting on tax reduction the Senate! {should wait until it was known what ! | a tions would be. Secretary | Mellon finds the revision of tax-cut | figures necessary because of increased | Government expenditures, rather than because of any decrease in revenues, which are expected to equal those of last year. Naturally, the country de- sires a tax reduction, as large a tax | reduction as possible, but it does not | uesg: a reduction larger than should be | | “We shall have to reduce reduction by about $100,000.000 below the opt! ’muuc House proposal of $289,000,000." | says the Grand Rapids Press (indepen- | | dent) g “for if we don't we simply are | robbing another year's taxpayers at the | expense of this. A deficit means the | po;t)]\nnemem of taxation.” s and argues | ‘the Treasury Department's estimates have erred, they have erred on | the safe side | “In the poker game of elections,” says | the Richmond News-Leader (indepen- | dent Democratic), “Congressmen love | to play with big stakes—ef other peo- | ple’s providing. * * * Being a canny | gentleman of long experience with freak | hands, it is probable that Mr. Mellon wishes to keep at least $100,000,000 more in reserve than there is any probability he will need. But in that, obviously, it is better to play on the side of safety | than to gamble with deficits.”” i DR | Taking lssue with the Mellon sup- porters, the Charleston Evening h\»tl (Independent Democratic) states: “Sen- ator Simmons of North Carolina, lead- | ing the Democratic movement for larger | reductions, has been much more accus- rate in his calculations than the Secre- tary of the Treasury. His estimates and those of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, representing the Judgment of business men of the coun=~ 'y, are that taxes may be safely re- uced this year by between three and | four hundred million dollars, and it is | more likely that these figures will be! found to have been correct than those | advanced by Secretary Mellon " The Charleston Daily Mail (indepen- | dent Republican) predicts that the | probable result of the fight in Congress | over tax reduction will be “that the | amount of the reductions will be some- | where between the figures set by the | Republicans and the Democrats, re- | spectively, of the Senate finance com- | mittee The Charlotte Observer (Independent Democratio) remarks: “Senator Sim- | mons is leading i the movement, and 15 marshaling his forces In combat with the President, lull Secretary, Meantime, all the taxpayers of the country can do is to hope for the best, On one prayer the people will be gonerally united, however, and that i that the reduction forces will get ‘as much as they can' e oa Discussing spectfic taxes and the in. terests of 1ts own State, the Fiint Daily Journal dndependent) declaves: “The logle advanced for the retention of the Automoblle tax 18 noy convinelng even {fl 1o the ear owners of the country, or these citisens of the rank and know full well that this is not & tax on big business or on the manufacturers. The automoblle tax is passed on to the consumer, and {t oonstitutes about the most diveet levy the Government could ! place on the country at lavge. ™ “Not woLLhgiehiing over” s the ve onstration of sentiment’ can be had for larger reduction than is nmow in pros- pect may appeal to certain special in- terests which would like to be taken care of, but he would become very lone- some while awaiting demonstration of wirespread popular concern in the matter.” “On this issue.” in the opinion of the Spokesman-Review (Republi- can), “the administration is pruder and consistent, while the House majo! ity is imprudent and inconsistent. It is | trying to burn the candle at both ends— to cut down the Government revenues by nearly $300.000,000 a year while it is preparing to vote gigantic and extraordinary expenditures, including several hundrad million dollars for Mississippt flood relief.” ——e—saebe. K. C. Is Used to It. From the New York Herald-Tribane The delegates and visitors will able to get into_the Kansas City con- vention hall. The town is used to packing houses. The Capitol at Washington L PO&<!L‘\<SD of me since ear- liest conscious sight, For near it lifc began with- in my heart. Of all' I know of splendor it part; And greatest. rising in the morn« ing light: Still when 1 see its statued spive of white Against the sky i purity of art, Proud thoughts within me surge, lke those that start When some loved face is seen, With beauty bright, 1 love its ma h e e rhle, all its glass and To such sublime ense: \LN.‘;\:‘.."“. mble no- My heart turns child l\m»h(-'k\" gV And I must love it 4ll 1 cease to s ) :: longer see the sun Qlittering man wh\d\)‘rg & » i But this I8 more than marble, glass and steel, 3 ™ m fashioned by the eye