Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1928, Page 8

STAR, WASHINGTON, 0. WEDNESDAY, MAY 16/ 1978, W Politics at Large A THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Kdition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY......May 186, 1028 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Odwe: Within the City, ¢ per month ») .80¢ Ler month nd Sunday Star ndays) +88¢ per month . Se_per copy t each month on a Orders mas be sent in by mail or telephone, Main 5900, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | Maryland and Vieginia. | Datly and ¥ only s Sy Sunday Sunds AN Other States and Canada. Datly and 1 Daily oniy I Sunday only .11 ¥ Member of the Associated Press. ated Press s excinsively entitind republication of all news dis. DPhiches credited ta it Or not otherwise cond ited In this paper and also the local news punlished herein. Ali rights of publication ©f special dispatches nerein are also reserved. — Flood Control Assured. By his signature of the flood control | bill yesterday President Coolidge has put in the way of execution the greatest project of engineering ever undertaken In this country. This measure, as finally approved, is a compromise upon | various plans that were proposed to Con- gress at the beginning of the session. It represents an adjustment of views regarding costs and is probably the best sctheme that could be evolved in the | circumstances. It places the entire cost of construction of relief and pro- tective works upon the United States, save that the States will contribute the rights of way along the river banks for the strengthened levees. The estimated expense to the Government is $325,000.~ 000, and that to the States $500,000. The United States is relieved of all damages for losses entailed in last Sum- mer's floods. The local communities will contribute to the cost of the tribu- tary levees, while the Federal Govern- ment will purchase flowage rights, Tather than land, in the affected dis- 1 plan has been worked out with ‘care, after exhaustive investiga- tion by committees of Congress, before many representatives of the af- interests appeared, together with technical experts. At times the pros- pect of effective legislation at this ses- sion has appeared to be dim, owing to the complications involving the possi- bility of imposing upon the United States s financial burden for which the executive approval could not be se- cured. But as a result of adjustments ) Signals and lights on Washington via- | temporary expedients. | accepted as proper at the time of their | construction, the District would either have to pay half or probably all' the costs of replacement. It is perfectly apparent that a great many practices of street, bridge uud‘ raflroad construction were acceptable | before the days of the automobile. Roads that would not be tolerated to- day were commonplace. Streets with lines of trolley poles were considercd | the Iast word in convenience. Grade crossings were. no great menace and | tortuous winding tunnels, bridges and viaducts were considered perfectly adapted to meet the needs of the pub- lic. Gradually, however, the realizu | tion was born that different times te- 1 quired different ideas, and all of these things which were once considered proper are passing into oblivion. It has been expensive, of course Street paving is not cheap. Removal | of trolley poles requires a heavy ex- | penditure. Elimination of grade cross- ings has run up a heavy total. They are necessary. however..in the interests of public safety and the work will nat stop until every possible protection car be given to fast-moving transportation ducts should be considered merely as The steel-sup- | ported viaducts themselves, which are as obsolete as the dodo, should follow the other menaces to traffic into the Dusting Off an 0ld Cradle. One who seeks the real cradle of American democracy is confronted at | the outset with the task of choosing from many. For the infant was nur- tured to sturdy growth in more than one cradle. This very fact was its sal- | vation. If the delicate child seemed w0 pale and sicken in one locality, with | those keeping watch over it despairing | of ever rearing it, the pages of history | tell us now that elsewhere the infant was kicking nicely and testing its young lungs with tiny wails that soon would grow to commanding Troars. Thus, if we remember the famous Bos- | ton tea party of December 16, 1773, as | one of the first signs of the child's fu- ture leanings, we must not forget the | Annapolis tea party, eight months later, i as another. And if we look upon the | constitutional convention of 1787, in | Philadelphia, as a period of adolescence, we cannot forget that a few months previously the youth successfully passed through a critical stage of development in the Annapolis convention, when it | seemed for a time that oxygen and digi- talis were th. only things to save it. Annapolis, therefare, can rightly lay claim to having been one of the cradles, at least, which tenderly rdcked the tiny United States through some of its baby- hood and started it off to a healthy | and rapid growth. In Annapolis the first free school in America was estab- lished, the St. John's College of today bearing the name of its honorable an- cestor of 1696. It was in the old state- house, built in 1772, that George Wash- ington surrendered his commission, and it was in the Senate chamber of this same statehouse that the first treaty of peace with Mother England was signed. Old namies, old places, old dates and the reminders of old things go 0 make up the atmosphere of old An- napolis today, and the hurry and bustle of an up-to-date and progressive com- munity have not destroyed the sweet and redolent charm of its early days. ‘The celebration and pageant held in Annapolis yesterday and attended by the President serve to emphasize again ; | the real advantage and benefit derived | - {In its celebration yesterday commemo- 53"[?3!!E fiie, § Eaigg from pausing a minute in our hurried march forward to look over some of the ground we have covered. Our future in this land is so inextricably woven with our past that to destroy the tiniest threads'is to endanger the whole fabric. rating the first constitutional conven- tion of 1786 those in charge saw fit to make use of pageantry as an attractive method of drawing back the curtain and exposing some of the dusty mark- ers of days gone by. The result was a tribute to their skill, good taste and knowledge of the subjects. It is only in the recent past that the march of time has carried us far enough forward to make the treatment of history, through pageantry, instructive and interesting. The crinoline days were yesterdays un- til not long ago. Let us hope that sweet old Annapolis, in turning back the pages for a day to revive memories, will set an example, and that other citles and towns will go up into the attic and rummage around a bit to bring to light their own cradles and nursery imple- ments that recall the early days of this | prodigious infant—the United States. s s b There Is Interested Inquiry as to many trips that Lindbergh has been making through the air. His exact pur- pose is not known, But it is reasonably assumed that Lindbergh always has an objective point in view, and invarlably | reaches it. The future of aviation will ! have an important story to tell of pres- | ent researches. ——— The New Air-Rail Service, New York to Los Angeles in forty- elght hours through the combination .f vy Y air and rell transport is the alm of & Railroad Viaducts. company which has just been organ- ‘With the recent large number of fafal | ized. Cutling more than two days off sccidents o mind, the Commissioners | the fastest traln Lime, the new service, have determined to install red lights | which is 1o be Insugurated within the and reflectors 1o warn motorists of tie | next few months, will utilize conven- bridge plers st viaducts in the city, The | Uonal rallroad facilities for night travel reilrosd bridge which crosses Rhode | and the modern airplane for day flying. 3sland svenue will have not only the | A passenger will be enabled to leave new signals, but & greater amount of | New York on the Pennsylvanis Rail- thumination, so that it will stend out | rosd in the evening, change 0 an air- #8 & place of danger 10 the spproech- | plane after breakfast at a point ln ing motorist. Orders have already been | Ohlo, stop for luncheon st BL. Louls placed 1o dncresse the number of elec- {und arrive in Wichita, Kans, In the tric Mghts st this point so that the | wflernoon, There he will transfer to visibility will be practically doubled the Atchison, ‘Topeka & Santa Fe Ralls While the red lights, reflectors snd | road wnd after another night on the sdditionsl iBumination will undoubled- | rain change again W sn wirplane, ar- Iy draw especisl atbention 1o the necd | Hving at the Western terminal that of csutlon in the underpusssge, it 15 | wlternoon, ‘Tickets will be sold by the Just sbout es fullle & remedy as 10 in- | rullrond companies wnd the rate for stall & warning signel ot & grade cross- | the trip will be spproximately two and ing. ‘The motorist using .the viaduct | one-half times the present fare will And the same menace in the stee This s an smbitious plan and ap- supports that he does in & rallroad- | pears to be thoroughly fessible, In no highway crossing on the same level | sense b5 it 1o be considered s anything The only solution i the complete re- | but & practical method o speed up moval of a)l obstructions o traffic. transportation, Straight day fying in The Commissioners, of course, ere |the Jarge, luxurious alr liners now being fully cognizant of this fact, but, ws | bmfM bs just as safe s any comparable stated by Col. Ladue, it is felt thit the | form of transportation, and with the expense would be 100 grest (6 remodel | facllities st the disposal of the new the visducts 50 thel & spen would re- | compmny every modern device for com« place the pyesent bridges. ‘The Enginewr | fort and safety will doubtless be in- Gommissioner has further siated that'sialled. The only feature of the plan Snasmuct A the rallrosd viaducts were which may not sppesl to soms 1 the b o g | A sty systam I8 numerous changes that will be neces- sary from train' to auto, to plane, but fiving high in the heavens on a hot, stuffy day instead of erawling across the counury In a stifiing rallroad car should be more than compensation for the transfers, ¥ Some of the biggest names in avia- tion and railroad circles are connected with the enterprise, and that in itself will give the public confidence in alr- rail transport. There will be no skimp- ing or short cuts to procure equipment. The best pilots and the best machines available will undoubtedly be utilized. Fhis is & project which should and will receive wholehearted support from a traveling public eager to Seize upon a quicker method of transportation and gratitied beyond measure to live in an era In which speed is the slogan. 4 JR - A Useful Uniform Accessory. Those who have occasion to pass cor- ners near school buildings just before 9 oclock in the morning and see the juvenile volunteer traflic aids in their white belts will be enthusiastic over the idea of simil equipping Washing- ton’s traffic policemen, Traflic Director | William H. Harland, possessed of the conviction that such officers should wear distinctive uniforms, has made the proposal for issuing white “Sam Browne” belts to the men whose post of duty makes it necessary that they |be easily and instantly visible. Nothing catches the eye so quickly as | white crossed or diagonal belts, con- trasted with, uniforms of a solid color, . perhaps it be the useful and sive white helmets worn by po- lice officers in certain Canadian cities The garb of the present-day “cop” is less ornate and less visible than it was some decades ago, when a shiny black or gray helmet, with bright badge, and long rows of brass buttons made such a man discernible at a considerable distance. As the need for eye-striking qualities in his clothing has Increased such qualities have decreased. Baltimore equips its traffic policemen with white cross-belts, which are a great comfort to the visiting motorist, espe- cially in the darkness. Such actessories are inexpensive, are highly distinctive and are snappy in appearance. Further- more, they would make even more safe the lives and limbs of the alert officers who stand for hours in the midst of traf- fic maelstroms. If it were put to a popular vote it is lizely that every citizen, mo- torist or non-motorist, who has ever glimpsed an officer thus outfitted would vote ‘promptly for Director Harland's proposal. PSSO DALt Picturesqueness in politics is at a| discount. Any effort to stampede a convention with a burst of oratory would be inevitably regarded as “old- The season for drownings opens in advance of the time for canoe parties Reckless disregard of safety becomes more and more evident in the pursuit of pleasure. e e As conditions change, a question comes up as to whether May is to be classed as a month of Spring or a ‘Winter hang-over. e It takes nerve to be an airplane hero, and it must be observed that in all the Bhotographic excitement Huenefeld has never once dropped his monocle. RN G AT L Many old-time poets of the theater are stll in demand despite the fact that they had no facllity whatever in man- aging modern profanity, e e Discussion of proper pay for Govern- ment workers at least contributes some- thing to the incomes of stenographers and typists. —ate. *Huenefeld is admired as a determined character. He never once relaxes his 8rip on his monocle, — et SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Expression. I looked 'Into & scrapbok old, Where Youth his frank impressions told | How many things, since time has fled, I wish that I had left unsaid! A heavy debt, perchance, we pay When brain and heart from day to day, By exigency oversped, May say what best were left unsaid. Yet man must think, since thought is life; And strive, though danggr haunts the strife. It's better to say on, instead Of wishing things could be unsaid, No Blissful Dream. “Don't you sometimes dream of re- tiring restfully to private life?” “That isn't & dream,” answered Sen- ator Sorghum. “That’s a nightmare.” Beauty Nearer Home, 1 seek no trip across the sea, O'er many & weary mile, In Winchester I long to be, Where apple blossoms smile. Jud Tunkins says there s nothing free any more, Even clrcuses have quit giving street parades, Aspirations, The fisherman now turns aside From the pursuits of wealth or pride, Life seems worthwhile, beyond a doubt, If he brings home & string of {rout, Fire Prevention. “Do you remember skirts swept the sidewalk “Yes," answered Miss Cayenne, “But that was before ladies threw cigarette stubs wround and were liable o cateh n & lady's | on nre” “Men seek power for the sake of se~ curity,” suld 1 Ho, the suge of Chinag- town, “Yet there s nothing more - secure thun power,” Start and Finish, Bome one wanis 1o start a fight, His weal you can’t diminish. And next the question looms in sight, How 18 he going to finish? “Bome of dix here music,” sald Uncle Eben, “sounds like it was made up foh folks dat would rather have sny kind of w nolse vather dan silence.” - R ] ~ An Enthusiant, From the Tolabo Wade ¥ nq advocste of the primary he candidate who has just WoR. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. “Greens on you!" This enigmatical cry, shrilled from one end of the block to the other by a clear soprano boy voice, suddenly plunged us into the past. With a transition quicker than that of the famous Jack Robinson we were a boy again with cther boys, in a long- lost Springtime,, in this same City of Washington, D, C It was a different National Cabital then, and yet the same, too. There were far fewer automobiles and more trees, but it was the same fine, leisurely town. Au year, went in for the “Greens-on-you” business. LR “Greens on you!" is pronounced today exactly as it was then-——in two surges, with the accent decidedly on the first and most important word, “Greens.” The second impulse was blurted out | usually as “on yu!" This boy game, if it may be called a game, may be a mystery to feminine readers, so it must be explained. As far as we can recall, the girls never played it - Just why the male sex had and has & monopoly of this contest of prepared- ness is difficult to say, but the fact was and is that boys alone engage in this diversion, One small boy sees another coming along the sidewalk. Fugltively he fecls in his coat pocket. Ah, it is there! “Greens on you!" he screams. “What did you say?” replies the other, You heard me. “Heard you what eens on you!'"” L 1t produces a bit of dried grass, perhaps not more than a blade, but a blade still and indubitably true to the glorious color which nature gave it. “Greens on you!" It is with triumpl ity, that the boy g He rubs it in. The other begins to fumble feebly in his various pockets. handkerchief, marbles, maybe a top, an almost of superior- s it. He repeats it. | endless assortment, but nowhere in the collection is anything green in color. “Aw. I got you this time!” says the first boy, still clutching his “greens.” “I got some, some place,” says the other, loath to admit defeat. Still he. scrambles through his cloth- | ng. He may even go into the band of his cap, but all is in vain. He forgot his “gree “You got to give m announces the victor. ok % x Just what the “something good™ con- sists of we do not know: probably a cookle or & piece of candy, or the like. As we recall, anything green will save a boy from defeat in this curious pr gram. It may be a necktie or even a piece of green string. On second thought, however, we belicve we are in error on this point— mething 2, surely the “greens” must be real greens | of nature’s own brewing. No doubt it should be grass or leaves. Boys still can do all sorts of tricks with & blade of grass. The chief. of course, is the inexplicable whistling stunt. Not every boy can make a grass blade perform in such fashion. all the kids, about this time of | He brings forth| It takes an exceptionable youth. In the old days usually he was one of those overgrown, bullying sort of kids who could do all sorts of things which his companions could not. same today. One of his chief distinctions was this of making the welkin ring with a blade of grass held in his two fists, the whole applied to his mouth in a concealed and_ businesslike ‘manner. “Aw, Bill, show me how to do it!" For reply Bill squeezed his fists tighter together, then blew vigorously. evoking litting noise that carried for nay, miles. * “Fens on you!” was another of the curious expressions of a boyhood pas- time. To “go fens” with a comrade meant | that each party to the agreement would divide “eals” on a strictly half-and-half | basis. If you went “fens” with a feller, it meant that if you had an apple he w liable to get half of it, or If he had a pocketful of cookies you might sccure it. * % is agreement was a solemn thing, signalized by the locking of little fin- | gers. After that all one had to do was | cry “Fens on you!" when he saw the other eating. . Once you had locked little fingers with your buddy it meant that you were | “fens.” Just what this word meant we cannot recall—if, indeed, we ever knew. Maybe it was spelled “fins.” That at least might offer an explanation of its | derivation—from “tins,” the handles of |a fish. But our recollection is that it | was pronounced “fen: | Boys didn’t know or care what it meant or what it was all about. It was |one of the traditions which come down { through the public school system. The | thingwas ageless. Boys had always |done it: therefore boys still were doing {1t—and are doing it today. LRI These juvenile rites cropped up any time, and each newcomer was initiated with much gusto. Boys like nothing better than to show off their knowledge. It makes no particular difference whether the knowledge has any meaning or not; it is something which one knows which some one else does not know. Lest any one think that this is mere boyish absurdity, let him think over his own adult life and confess the knowledge which he “knows,” but which is exactly in the same class with the “greens” and “fens” business. ‘The boy that found a smaller com- rade not yet wise as to the meaning of “Greens on you!" took intense delight | in putting him “hep” to the game, “Greens on you!" he would shout. eens—what' “Aw, you know—I get a plece of grass an' you get a plece of grass, an’ the next time I see you I say ‘Greens I an’ if you can't show me your 1 you got to give me something good. The next time they met the larger boy yelled the timeless formula. Triumphantly the other hauled forth a faded bit of Jeaf. ‘The time was sure to come, however, | when one or the other scored a victory, because no boy knew the hour when he would hear the cry “Greens on you! Greens on you!” WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC No mechanical counting machine has been invented that could tabulate on a single strip of paper all the yarns and rumors which the Mellon musings over Hoover and Coolidge nave set in motion. Every politician you meet in Washington has a different version of what the Secretary of the Treasury has | at the back of his canny old head. Mr. Mellon may have intended to clarify the situation. He has, In fact, mysti- fied it. He leaves matters, as far as his all-potent position 15 concerned, where the Irishman in the story once sald they were left—"Just where they were before, only more so.” The very newest construction put upon the Mel- lon cryptogram fs that the draft-Cool- idge forces are “being held intact” for none other than Dwight W. Morrow. That precious story, which bears the veracious hallmark of Wall Street origin, has it that when Hoover has been “stopped” at Kansas City, and the con- vention deadlocked, Mr. Mellon him- self, having done his best to nominat the Secretary of Commerce, will place the name of the Ambassador to Mexico before the delegates. That is to be the signal for a stampede in the di- rection of President Cooildge's Amherst chum!" * k%% A distinguished Washingtonian who met in Rome a year or iwo ago the vernor of the Eternal City, Prince gu‘nfllnl, now in America, tells a good story about him. Rome, under Mus- solini's aggressive leadership, is under- going *a civic reconstruction scheme, with a view to restoring some of its an- clent splendor, In pursuance of the program mapped out for a certain region, a well known street was sudden- ly denuded of its trees—a specles of spoliation with which Washington itself is unpleasantly familiar, Mussolini hnprened to be driving through the treeless highway a day or two later. He noticed its barren state. “What's be- come of those trees?” he thundered to an alde, The aide inquired and later reported to the Duce. ‘“Prince Poten- ziani ordered them cut down, your ex- cellency,” the dictator was informed “Tell Prince Potenziani to replant them!” was Mussolini's imperious in- struction, He , did. *oxox Mid-May finds droves of touring patriots mobilized ut the White House offices each noon for handshaking bees with the President, He continues (0 submit to the ordeals gracefully. But the other day a horny-handed West- erner, evidently a farmer, gave expres- slon to his enthusfasm by grasping Mr. Coolidge's right hand with the sort of p the bucolic visitor 1s accustomed to ake on the handle of a plow, The President was observed to wince per- ceptibly, He bimself has a hearty, but not effusively ironlike, clasp. LR ‘The United States Chamber of Com- merc - hasn't endeared sell to the corn belt by electng Willlam Butter- worth s Its new presids Mr. But- terworth halls from Moline, 1ll, which i5 the spiritual home of the McNary- Haugen cult, because it 1s the residence of the high priest of the equalization fee brigade, George N, Peek, Like Butter- worth, Peck s agricultural lnple~ ment manufucturer in private life, They have been business rivals for many %, and, since Peck put himself at the head of the farm-re novement, he and Butterworth have be gers drawn over the MeNar) business, ‘The Chamber of € tavors w squire deal for Ui wints it extended on Coolidge- o Mellon, vather than on corn belt, lnes. CRE Both houses of Congress have & new clonkroom pastime- betting on the date when the session will adjourn Odds are belng offered al either end of the Capitol that adjournment under no clreumstances will - come before June 1, Even money is wagered that House and Senate will be held -with thelr legislative noses to the grindstone until the eve of the Republican national convention—4, e, Baturday, June 9, Benate fltbusters are in prospect on at lenst two major propositions—the Boul- der Dam bill and the 1H-crulser pro- 'mn, Money s freely offered on the JIE that President Coolldge will ‘velo the MeNary-Faugen bill, but there wre fow takers, - LR Clatencs W, Barron, Bostoh and New York editor and publiaher, has besn WILLIAM WILE. Washington pleading the cause of the Clarke School for Deaf at North- ampton, Mass, It was while Grace Goodhue was teaching in that institu- tion 23 years ago that a young attorney named Calvin Coolidge wooed and won her. Mr. Barron has placed his indom- itable energies at’the head of a drive to raise a $2,000.000 national endow- ment for the Clarke Sciool, the pioneer in the teaching of speech to the deaf and dumb. President Coolidge is a trustee of the school, as is also Gilbert H. Grosvenor of Washington, president of the National Geographic Society. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, who was induced to devote mission because of his interest in deaf, was one of the Clarke School carlisst patrons. The American Tele- phone & Telegraph Co.—the world's biggest corporation—is now numbered among its benefactors, in tribute to Bell's memory. *xox X ‘The Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia announces a novelty for its second season this Sum- mer. It's to be a round table devoted exclusively to the experiences of women in public affairs. r. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, president of Mills College, Culif., is to preside. She is a formier |- president of the American Assoclation | of University Women. The newly en- | franchised sex now numbers members | who have been in the Seénate, in the | House of Representatives, in State gov- ernorships, in State Legislatures, on State Supreme Court benches, and. of course, in & varfety of important Fed- eral offices at Washington. It is hoped in particular to hear from the quartet of gentlewomen who at present adorn the lower branch of Congress—Mrs. Kahn, Mrs. Rogers, Mrs. Norton and Mrs, Langley. Thinks b;‘(l. Needs 5-Cent Carnation To the Editor of The Star: Sunday was Mother's day, and the florists evidently had given it thought- ful consideration. It begins Jo look as if, besides a good 5-cent clga®, one of the things this untry needs badly Is a good S-cent carnation. Few of us would mind pay- ing 10 cents. 1In fact, it may be that they could not be sold with pront for Jess than that. But it makes a person a little restive, or something of the sort, to be held up for 20 cents aplece for these flowers. . CHARLES W. GILLUM. UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. Publication today of the first Ameri- can “official communique” prepared at expeditionary headquarters in France inaugurates what Is expected to be a dally report to the American people on what thelr soldiers abroad are doing. * * * Announcement is made today in Premler Clemenceaw's paper that the Uniwd Stales has promised to have 1,500,000 fighting men in France by the end of 1018, Official Washinglon hope- ful but cautlous in commenting upon it ¢ 0 ¢ President informs White House conferes that ha 15 now vpposed to any wir Inquiry, Senate is surprised at his change of “attitude toward alroraft in- vestigation after having named Charles Evans Hughes for the tusk, * * * Delay in German attack on western front is accepted as proof of thelr heavy losses, Herles of small strokes, it is thought, may be prelude to next great effort * 4 ¢ French newspaper estimates the density of Cerman concentration on Franco-Belglan front to be six Germans to puch yard of front. * * * American batleries start soveral fives in Montdidier and behind the Cerman lines, and enemy communications are continually battered by the Ameriean heavy artils m'!, No infantry engagements todn * 50 Perahing veports 91 onsualties in today's 1ist, Including 7 commbssioned offlers, * ¢ ¢ "Preasury report shows that 81,240,000,000 was paid out in war expenses during umh.; \ Maybe it is the | himself to the science of sound trans- | and by G. Gould Lincoln. More and more the indications are that Gov. Al Smith of New York is to be the presidential nominee of the Democrats. Already the delegates in- structed, pledged and claimed by the Smith followers have gone beyond the 600 mark, and the necessary two-thirds of the national convention strength to nominate s 733}, votes. With the Smith nomination looming before them the Republicans have a measure of choice as to where the battle for the | presidential election is to be waged. ‘The Democrats are planning to nomi- nate Gov. Smith, not because of the strength he has in the South or the West, but because of the strength he 15 believed to have in the North and East. Without the backing of the dele- gates to the Democratic national con- vention representing New York, Penn- sylvania and New England, Al Smith would have no chance whatever for the Democratic nomination. Without the electoral votes of many of those States, he will have little chance of being elected President, if he be the party nominee, It seems clear, there- fore, that the Republicans must make their fight, their principal battle in the North and East. ERE It seems pretly clear that the “solid South” is to swallow Gov. Smith. Talk of revolts in the South against the Democratic nominee have simmered down largely to Senator Hefln of Ala- bama. Tne 10 States of the solid South have a total of 126 electoral votes; the so-called border States, Tennessee and Kentucky, 12 and 13, 1espectively. Ok- lahoma, which usually goes Democratic. has 10 and Arizona 3. ‘There is a total of 164 votes, giving Smith the border States. Bul it requires 266 electoral voles to elect, making it necessary for the Democrats to win more than 100 electoral votes elsewhere. If Gov. Smith can win in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecti- cut, Rhode Island, Maryland and Mis- souri, it means 115 more electoral votes, or more than enough to elect him, if he wins the solid South and the other States already mentioned. And it is in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, etc., that the Democrats are hoping to win, and where apparently they have a better chance to win than in other debatable States. * ok K ¥ ‘The Republicans under such condi- tions must, it appears, put forward their candidate who is strongest in these States of the North and East. New Jersey, Island and Maryland have already lined up strongly for Herbert Hoover. In New York a majority of the delegation to the national convention is claimed for Hoover. In Missouri Lowden has the advantage over Hoover in delegates. In none of the rest of these States is there any demand among the rank and file for Lowden, Dawes, Curtis or any of the other candidates, as indicated | Lowden, | D. in primaries and conventions. Dawes and Curtis all have friends in these States, but the demand appar- ently has been for Hoover. Lowden, Dawes and Curtis are strong because of their appeal to the farmers of the corn t:n llm:.htgh! wl;‘en belt. But their support o Mc! -Haugen farm bill does not make :;yapped to the voters of the East. *x o The claim 8 made by the supporters of the Midwest group of candidates for the Republican nomination that a man representing the Midwest must be chosen to keep the agricultural States in line for the party next November. They are insisting that Mr. Hoover cannot carry these farm States against Al Smith, because farmers are T Smith. They may be forgetting many of the voters in ghese West- “for” that ern States will vote “against” Al Smith | of Tammany Hall, wet a; But when the situation s canocied thoroughly, it appears that Smith is not going to defeat the. Republicans th: a coalition of the South and West. If he wins, it is going to be in the North East, with the aid of the solid South, which is dry, but which wil support the New York governor be cause of the race issue, just as it would support any other Democratic nominee. The Republicans must, under these cir- cumstances, pick the man who will stand the best show of carrying the big States of the North and East against the New Yorker. If Smith wins them, it matters little what the States of the West do. Besides, the claim that Smith is likely to carry these Western States is based on prejudice against Hoover | and takes into consideration none of the Massachusetts, Rhode | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. 2 Stop a minute and think about this| act: bureau any question of fact and get the answer back in a personal letter. It is a great educational idea, intro. duced into the lives of the most intelli- gent people in the world—American newspaper readers, It is a part of that best purpose of a newspaper—service. ‘There Is no charge except 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Get the habit of asking questions. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin director, ‘Washington, D. C. Q. Are there more baritones, tenors or bassos in this country?—A. H. A. At the present time the number of trained baritones and tenors is about the same. There are fewer bass singers. Q. Please give date of Philipping in- surrection—G. R. O. A. The treaty between the United States and Spain concerning the Philip- pine Islands was signed on December 10, 1898, but not confirmed by the Sen- ate until February 6, 1899. During this period the Filipino army remained in arms. February 4 hostilities broke out and continued for several years. After the capture of Aguinaldo, March 23, 1901, the revolt slowly subsided. July 4, 1902, President Roosevelt issued a proc- lamation of amnesty and officially the WAr Was over, Q. What is the principle of the spiral gas lighter which uses neither friction nor matches?—I. F. M. A. There is a small mass of black material at the center of the spiral which appears to contain a littie finely divided platinum. In the stream of gas this glows and lights the flame. The burning of gas is an example of oxida- tion. Platinum has the property of starting oxidation even at ordinary tem perature. The oxidation produs which soon raises the temperature of the platinum until it glows and lights the gas. Q. We are bothered with ecrickets, which eat clothes. What will extermi- nate them?—G. V. A. To exterminate crickets scatter snuff about their haunts, pour boiling water into cracks and crevices from which they emerge, and put ginger cor- dial in open saucers where they can | partake of it. Q. When was the Epworth League evmnlzd? Why is it so called?>—E. A. This society of the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized at Cleveland, Ohio, in May, 1889. It is named for the birthplace of John Wesley. Q. Is it improper to ask a married !glg ‘Zo be best man at a wedding?- | A. A man usually asks his best friend to be best man, even though he is mat- ried. Should any entertaining be done for the bridal party, the wife of the best man should be included. Q. What was the total number of egToes brought to America as slaves?— A. The exact number will never be known. It is estimated that in all less than 15,000,000 were brought over dur- ing the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Canary Islands?—F. L. S. ancestors of all our birds of this kind. You can ask our information|The serin finch of Middle and Southern Europe is so similar that it may often have been captured and accepted as a canary and interbred until all distin- | guishable differences were lost, |, Q What city has a of hot water?—H. S. ? A. Boise, Idaho, is believed to be the | only city in the world having a natural { hot-water system | W | Q. Why are no flowers used at Jew- | ish funerals?—H. A, H. |, A. Because the Jewish law requires that a funeral be as simple and demo- cratic as possible. Jews use plain pine | boxes and plain linen shrouds. They have no music and no flowers. There must be no distinction between the rich man and poor ma Q. On what ballot nominated in the | tion of 19247—F. |, A. He was nominated on the 103d { baliot. | Q How far did Peary travel in his dash to the North Pole?—K. B. L. A. In his description of the journey to the North Pole Admiral Peary stated that the entire last dash from Cape Columbia to the Pole and back c sisted of 43 m s, each march ave aging 15 miles. _natural supply was John W. Davls HDemucrarrlc conven- | | _Q Why isn't Kentucks Statuary Hall?—A | ATt is the privilege of eve {in the Union to be represented in § uary Hall, United States Capitol Build- | ing. by two statues. At the pres {only 25 States have placed stat: Kentucky has yet | privilege. 4 | When did L H dbergh’s father die? A. His death oceurred May Q. What tree is called “American W S.E. W. A. The ground hem Q. Did Indians live in tepees made of skin or of cloth>—P. G. e | _A. Originally these conical lodaes | were made of skins. They are mow | made of cloth. | $0 known. Q. What kind of flowers will grow | where the soil is poor?. L. S A. Such flowers as the following are suggested: Love lies bleeding. prince’s | feather, Joseph's coat, Cape marigold, | godetia, dwarf nasturtium, portulaca, Scotch pink. sweet alyssum, garden bal- sam and calliopsis. | Q. Is Greenly Island considered a | part of the North American continent? —H. P. P. | A. Greenly Island. the landing place jof the transatlantic fiyers, is a part of the North American continent. The | island is located in the Straits of Belle }sled between Labrador and Newfound- land. | ST { Q. Which horse of Richard III was his favorite?>—G. C. C. A. White Surrey was so regarded. | Q The Chinese government had an | organization called the Board of For- eign Affairs. known as the Tsung-Li- | Yamen = What is the literal transia- | tion of these Chinese words?—T. W. B. A. The Chinese legation says that sung-Li-Yamen is abbreviated from | Tsung-li-ko-kuo-shi-wu-ya-men by tak- A. The Biological Survey says that ing the first two and last tw - the actual origin of the canary as l‘ug of the name. A literal l;’xnc?l‘n?:n cage bird is obscure. It seems probable | of .the full name is an “office for the that captive canaries were first secured | general administration of affairs relat- from the Canary Islands, but it is ing to different countries.” This bu- doubtful that this stock has furnished | reau was abolished in 1901. American Press Speculates On Result of Far East Clash What will be the attitude of other| third combatant in the very act of join- powers if the recent clash between sol-|ing the melce proving an effective | diers of the victorious Nationalist u‘my] peace-maker. But this is hardly likely,” {of China and the soldiers sent to guard | concludes the Savannah | Japanese and their property in Shan- rough | tung develops into war between China and Japan? “Because it Is a signatery of the so- called nine-power treaty of 1922 the Detrolt Free Press points out, the United tates is interested in any eventuality | resulting from the Sino-Japanese situa- tion. “Under that treaty.” the Free Press explains, “the powers agreed. | among other things, to respect the sov- | ereign China, and to maintain the principle of equal opportunity for the commerce and industry of all nations in China.” The State Department, it is pointed out. “has indicated that the United States can act as mediator between the Japa- , the independence and the ter- ritorial and administrative integrity of | objections lodged in those States against | nese and the Nationalists only in case it Smith. The Democratic party has been | is invited to do so by both sides. But flat on its batk in these Western States | whether it may be obliged eventua paper. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle declares | that “Japan’s attack upon Nationalist | troops which captured Tsinanfu has already brought Chinese unity nearer than it has been since the civil war 1 " as it sees “the peaple of north China at one with the people of south {China in their resentment against ;hp‘l}"s arrogant intervention in Shans s xx x % Finding some extenuating o stances in the actions of the Japanesé, | the Oakland Tribune says: “Japan been furnished with ample reason send troops to China. It remains to be seen whether or not it will be fu: with cause to do more than protect nationals” Expressing quite a contrary opinion, the Lincoln State Journal de= y | clares that “Japan deserves little sym- for years. It was not difficult to see, as | long ago as last Fall, that Smith would | get most of the delegates from these | Western States. But getting delegates | and getting electoral votes are two very | different affairs, | L | “They’ll give Al Smith a base on balls | in Houston and throw him out at the | home plate next November,” was the | comment of a Democrat—anti-Smith, | to be sure, but with a decided opinion | as to what will be the result of the election this year. EEE R With Mr. Hoover out in the lead for the Republican nomination, having some 467 delegates lined up for him, exclusive of Pennsylvania's delegation of 79 which may swing to him, and additional delegutes for Bim to be chosen in Oregon and elsewhere this week, the unti-Hoover group is bending ail its energles to make it appear that Hooves cannot win against Smith in the agri- cultural States. It seems fo be their only hope in their effort to halt the Secretary of Commerce. The statement recently made by Secretary Mellon that he considered Mr. Hoover the best fitted of all the candidutes has been a real blow to the anti-Hoover group, though they insist that Mr. Mellon has made more of an appeal for the drafting of President Coolidge than for the nomi- natlon of Mr. Hoover. The President has not for several weeks—-in fact, not since the primary In Massachusctts—made any further statement regurding his own position toward the nomination. But there are those who believe that between today and the Ume of the opening of the Republican national convention, Presi- dent Coolidge will speak in terms that will leave no chance for dopbt in any quarter that he will not have the nomi . Ouce the legislative program has been disposed of und Congress has folded 1ts tents and gone from Wash- ington, it is belleved, the President will give attention to this matter, 1f he takes himself finally ous of the race by a statement that he will have the nomination unde: cireumstances, the of any te-up In the Republican sueh s oceurred bty remote, dndeed A 18 regardod now by many persons as remote, LRI “Houston and Harmony!" 18 a slogan of the Democrats these days. There Iy @ third “H" which s hopefully avolded when the Demooratic national econven- ton is in mind-—Heat. Now the mavor of Houston, Oscar F. Holoombe, has come forward with a promise of pleas- ant weather, He says that Houston's weather has been much maligned. He produces Weather Bureau statiatios to prove that he is rlfm ‘The mean tom- perature for Hous the last week in June and the first week in July was "n durrn-n. during the last five years, he points out, The minlmum temperas (ure during this period was 07 dogroes and the maximum 93, In any event, it does not appear that the weather duving the Houston convention Wwill be much Warmer than it wis at M CGarden, Now York, In 193 to act in concert with the other sign tories of the nine-power treaty and si in judgment on the conduct of Japan, either to uphold or condemn it, is & different matter.¥ “The prospect of a Sino-Japanese war, which might easily read to in- volve the entire Orient, is not one upon which this country can look with equa- nimity,” declares the Waterbury Repub- lican, since, “as the one powerfu which has no cessions in China and which can therefore approach the situa- tion in & spirit of detachment, we Nation | pathy for her part in the recent ditw turbances in China." The Youngstowd Daily Vindicator emphaticail®, “We cannot accept it as a matter of course that the Japanese should take nce Journal considers that “so far as the United States is eon- { cerned, we can ask no more nor no less |of Japan in China than Japan can ask |of the United States in Nieai Each nation had specifically and offie cially declared that its only motive in ts use of troops overseas is to protect e and property. As the record fow nds, neither nation is guilty of a ¥t lation of its promise. that | The Chicago Daily News, caili - there | tention to the fact that “both CHiba he u;‘dh Japan are members of the ‘e ~ +| of Nations,” wants that organizatiof use of good offices by this country In the |31, [0S0 7 Dartian investigation ofsfte { “interesti * cular time | Situation, demand a cessation of hosti¥- eresting that at this particular | b - % Rear Admiral Bristol, most tactful ties and endeavor to prevent a calami- diplomat, as well as most able naval| !ous conflict between the two great Oris officer, should be in Japan, the recipient | €ial Dations.” The Houston Chrouicle of marked honor from both court and blaces lis hope in Tthe same leaders of government.” {Japan” who know “that Japan's future prosperity depends on {riendship with China. Her market is at her door. It “The world cannot fail to feel a deep ' is in China. But the Chinese can't be concern over what is happening it | forced to buy. and they have already China. It is fraught with danger | demonstrated that they can close their peace and the infiltrution of the Chinese | markets effectively against Japanese people with Russian Communism,” Says | goods ™ the Springfield Illinois State Journal, | Alteady tn China the boveott' & while the Cleveland Plain Dealer de-|spreading anew against the Ji ese clares that “with actual fighting in | action in Shantung.” points out the La progress and further mobilization under | Crosse Tribune, which suggests that “it way, the most serious Chinese situation | may prove again that it is better than | since the Boxer uprisings appears at!bayonets for prederving China from her hand Krabby nefghbor” while the San An- It s the opinion of the Little Rock | supio Express remarks fn similar veim, Arkansas Democrat that “the situation | “Japan may be compelled to choose be- assumes & gravity which s certain 1 | tween evacuating Shantung and losing attract the serious attention of the re- | s business with China.” maining great powers.” The Belolt Dally News considers that “it is“time for the other powers to exert their best concillatory efforts.” It the powers find it necessary tof ntervene, just treatment will be ae-| corded, in the bellet of the vn-rlrflun! Daily Mall, which points out that “there has come into existence among ihe | great powers in thelr dealings with | | China and the Chinese & tolerance un- | | KNown 1ot 50 many years ago. Onee it | Was the practice to welcome any excuse | for the grabbing of territory." recalls | this paper, "but no longer is this the case. Kstablishment of & stable govern- ment In China would be welcomed by the wotld at large, and there apparently | is latent n universal desive to co-operate with and assist the Chinese in further- g theiv national welfare, once they have arvived ag the point where this can be done through the ordinary channels of government. But until there is & unitied government in China commands ihg popular support orderly outside ass sistance will be lmpewsible ™ Will the present embroliment with Jupan provide the fmpetus for this unts fieatlon? O this point the Savannah | Morming News vemarks: “If the en- anee of Jupan--evon in a twhtiog poso—should brlng the north and the south iy China to their senses, so that after ‘su »n.--n- l:l’\\'\‘ would listen 1o yeas son and got together as & united nation, the cle would be presented of & ideally suited for the part of mediator.’ Noting that “the Nationalists talk of | | League intervention or American medi { tion as possible ways out.” the Philadel | phia Evening Bulletin remarks “outside of formal mediation might, of course, be a chance for t ERE Potomac Park at Night. s roadway by the river Unnumbered moving lights of moving ears. And on the vater sway JOWy spars s at anchor, rockhng where they vide, The river ripples At the seawall's Side, And falnt, uneasy, from the channel bars, Where in the water daace res flected stars, The bell buoy's gong I8 heard across the tide, the Lights in the darkness; thery abave the hills The rim of the comes inte sight, Wa'lh‘ on the velygt blackness swrllrll million stars, with ight that The uu:‘;r. il the frmament of night, Shinumeringly mirrored, the water Mes B. J. QUINN,