Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1928, Page 8

T HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. MONDAY, JUNE - 18, 1928, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS “THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning um* WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. < THEODORE W. NOYES..., Editor R R D e TR The Evening Star Newspaper Company g in & lulgne- Office: and Pen, 3 New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. at {\lv'er Bullding. Chicago OB o O Regent St.. London, and. Europea: Rate by Carrier Within the City. ,-45¢ per month o fl\rc per month .65¢_per montn 5¢ per covy "ihe'end of each montu: n by mail or telephone Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. ally and Sunday...l yr. $10.00: 1 mo.. 85c | ily only 1yr. $600. 1 mo. 50c Sunday only 1 mo.. 40c 1yrl 8400 All Other States and Canada. Member of the Associated Press. | The Associated Press is exclusively entitlea | 1o the use for reputlication of all news dis atches credited (o it or not otherwise cred: ited in this paper and alsa the local news published herein. ~All rights of publication of Special dispatches herein are als0 reserved. | On to Houston! | The Republican elephant has been | put through his paces at Kansas City | and has performed successfully. The | Democratic donkey will next begin ca- | vorting in Houston. The donkey this | vear may wear the stripes of the Tam- many tiger. Indeed, there seems little doubt now that the Democratic na- | tional convention will nominate Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, and Gov. Smith is one of the best exhibits which Tammany, has produced in Years. It is claimed that the Tammany tiger, which in the past has fallen from the paths of rectitude, following the lead of the New York governor. has become s gentie as the lamb and as pure as the lily. The nomination of Gov. Smith at Kouston, however, will be a signal for an onslaught by the Republicans | against Tammany and all it works. Senator George H. Moses of New Hamp- shire, permdnent chairman of the Re- publican national convention, recently adjourned, delivered the first punch +vevv...June 18, 1928) fear lest the competition between them might cause a hastening of prepara- tions and the taking of an undue chance. The outcome is in favor of | the more experienced crew. This flight having been accomplished successfully, the sea-riding qualities of |the Friendship plane were not put to test by a forced landing on the surface. The Columbia, in which Miss Boll was to have flown, and in which she may yet take off, is & land plane, being, in- | deed, the same one in which Cham- berlin and Levine made their flight across to Germany last Summer. Comparison between the flight of the Friendship and those that made his- |tory last year is difficult because of the different routes followed. The | course from Trepassey to Wales is much | shorter than those taken by Lindbergh, | who flew from New York to Paris, or Chamberlin. who went from New York |to Germany, or Byrd, who traveled |from the same starting point to the { coast of France. It is practically the shortest possible route overseas. Miss Earhart's success follows the of fcur women to fly the At- lantic. Three of them were lost and the fourth was picked up at sea. There should be no more competitive flying inning and four in the fifth. The fourth strikeout in the fifth reached first base when the catcher muffed, but the strikeout counted for the pitcher, Vance himself struck out the first six men to face him in a game against Chicago In 1924, Most of the notable pitching perform- ances occurred in the earlier days of the game. The pitchers of today are probably just as skillful as were those of yore, but the batters are harder to fool. Moreover, the wise twirlers do not go out after extraordinary records | now as they formerly did. They know | that their arms last longer if they for- get “the book™” and simply try to win, ! regardless of history. o Official Incendiarism. While the results of the test made in this city vesterday morning as to the fire-resistant qualities of a number of safes submitted to the Bureau of Standards for examination will not be known for some time, the spectacular | burning of two buildings for the pur- pose of conducting this research stands as one of the most impressive demon- strations of that bureau's thoroughness. For a long while the opportunity to for priority. The Friendship flight was | undertaken as a scientific enterprise, to| test the ocean-going qualities of a| plane of a particular model. Its safe arrival proves that in proper condi- tions the heavier seaplane can cross the Atlantic. That fact, apart from | the sex of one of its _hree occupants, put these “strong boxes” to test under actual conflagration conditions has been awaited. It would not suffice to erect a flimsy structure for burning. Only by firing a substantial building containing the metal safes could there be a satisfactory study of their ability to withstand intense heat and the shock is the important contribution to avia- tion history. ———ete Chairman Moses. Senator George H. Moses of New | Hampshire, the permanent chairman of | | | the Repulilican national convention, told | some newspaper men during the con- | &s to permit the test to be made with- | vention that he was receiving tele- | grams from everybody in the United | States, and the only good thing about !south and west and the clearance of | some of the messages was that they were not sent collect. ‘The rldlni | brought his fine, clear voice into thou- | |sands of homes. The busy housewife, | with & towel around her head, paused | in the business of dusting the furni- | {ture to hear him in Kansas City call- | ing for the ayes and noes, while the . farmer, letting the corn take care of | |itself for one day, put his ear closer | sti {to the loud speaker to hear whether | American industry and to science. | stoutest of the structures of falling in the collapse of floors. At length the chance came with the con- demnation of land for the new Inter- nal Revenue Building, and two of the occupying the site were reserved for the trial, It was fortunate that the surround. ings of the two buildings were such out undue risk to other property. Ex- tensive spaces stretched forth on the the remainder of the site had left wide areas free on the other sides. By as- sembling a large force of fire-fighters With apparatus at the scene the chance of a spread of the flames or the injury of other buildings from the intense heat generated by the stimulated fizmes was reduced to a minimum. The Bureau of Standards is an in- itution of the greatest value to] It THIS AND THAT The ability of the people of Wash- ington to absorb into their gardens an almost unlimited quantity of rosebushes testifies to the love for the queen of flowers. No doubt every large city in the land and every small one, too, gets the “rose fever” every Spring. i be_called the “rose-planting fever.” This is a disease which attacks all flower lovers at least once a year. Some- times it is a steady fire, at other times it burns intermittently. Rose lovers may become disgusted with their favorite plants ;when some prize bush fafls to do whilt they ex- | pected of it. 3 ‘They may say to friends: “Oh, roses going to give them up!” ‘When they stand in front of a florist's window, however, and see some perfect | flowers, their interest immediately re- | vives; they go home again determined to “pep up” the old bush, to make it go through its paces. If one has ever loved the rose he will always love it. Surely it has not be- | come known as the “queen of flowers" for nothing. ‘There is something about its won- derful blossoms which make a lifelong appeal to those susceptible to such at- traction. Not every one is, of course, Some people do not like books or music. Others cry “Shame!” against such a good game as boxing. ‘There is nothing that one human being can admire that some other hu- man being, presumably equally intelli- gent, does not loathe, and vice versa. That comparatively few dislike the rose speaks volumes. oy One of the little considered charms of this incomparable plant is the plain fact that it challenges one's intelli- nce, or such intelligence as one has. The zinnia, for instance, is a flower | any ‘one_can’ grow. | to the petunia. About all the amateur | has to do is to put the seed into the | ground. There are any number of these “sure- | fire” plants, & joy both to the experi- {enced and inexperienced gardener, be- cause they not only enable the latter to have a garden that is beautiful, but | a0 permit the former to fill in with | surety the gaps between rarer plant- ings, ‘The last one to sneer at the easily grown annuals. let it be remarked in passing, is the seasoned gardener, the man or woman who has put time, money and love into the garden. He knows that the casier a thing is to | raise, the better it is from that stand- point, at least. He would be heartily glad if his roses were as easily grown as his petunias, but since they are not he accepts them for what they are, and rejoices in the Perhaps it should | are too much trouble to grow; I am | The same applies | BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. going on all around us every day, the world would have lost many of its best works. ok K K Exactly because roses are hard to raise they are delightful garden oc- cupants. It would not be well for the gardener if every old Tom, Dick and Harry were able to raise magnificent blooms on long straight stems. Something would be missing from rose culture if there were no diseases to fight, no insects to combat, no un- known factors to contend with. Even the most famous rosarian in the world problem s still | | will admit that many | a battle in the dark. § The mysterious wilt of blossoms just as they are about to open still in- | trigues the experts. Favorable advance | has been made in fighting the fungus diseases, | spot and the lesser but still fearsome | leaf spot. lnse':glcides and fungicides, both in | liquid and powder form, come to the aid of the ambitious rose grower in the | home garden. The problems here are somewhat different from those en- countered in the professional nursery. The amateur has so few bushes, com- paratively speaking, that he must make the most of every one he has. It is therefore more incumbent upon him, if he wishes to enjoy rose culture, to get a maximum return from every bush. He soon learns that this result can only be achieved by him who is willing to study the problems as they arise, and then put his knowledge into the form of work. It is astonishing how many amateurs never seem o anything from their experiments. They go on from year to year, making the same old mistakes, doing the same wrong things, for a variety of different reasons. It may be that they simply |are not of the observing type. They |may be fine men, brainy enough in {other lines, but when it comes to rose | culture they stop using They may be able to see that the pro- fessional gets his superior results by intensive fertilization. in part, but when |it comes to the bushes they set out themselves in the yard they forget the {plain truth so easily. i Hence little or no attention is paid by them to the prime necessity for giv- that their bushes do not bloom pro- fusely, and the flowers that do come to the surface are small and of a wrong color. |spraying. This necessary action is a {nuisance, no doubt of it at all. Roses | would be more fun if no grower ever I had to lift a sprayer. Spraying is hard | work, even in @ little garden. But it | must be done if first the aphids, and | were not for this wholesome imitation such as the dreaded black | iearn | their heads. | | ing the rose its dinner, with the result | PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK This is a {nnble of what happens to human sensitiveness and G ol in a civilization that grows incres gly impersonal. windows of my sleeping cham- ber look out upon two fine old oaks. In Summer their leafy loveliness is a screen against the glare of sun, In Winter they stand with a kind of barren beauty as if they were gaunt sentinels guarding the hours of sleep. But during these Spring nmmint! it is a little difficult to appreciate their poetry because a very lively colony of squirrels conducts a chattering parlia- ment, now angry and now gay, on their branches from about 5 to 7 each morning. And for one who is accus- tomed to retire after midnight, this is a bit early to be aroused. As a protective measure, 1 asked the gardener to trap these squirrels and to transfer them to a wild-life refuge on the outskirts of the city. I admit that this was a very matter-of-fact order on | my part, untouched by any sense of the sentiments and living problems of the squirrels. I was aware only of the fact that I was losing needed sleep. To me the squirrels were but an irritating chatter at 5 o'clock in the morning. The squirrels were duly trapped and transferred. Several days passed. And, then, this morning my son rushed breathlessly into the room to announce that he had rescued a baby squirrel that had been deserted by its mother and that was au weak from lack of food that it coflld not evade capture. All business in the household stopped until a wire-covered box was provided for the baby squirrel and a banquet of nuts, milk and lettuce spread before it. The tiny waif was promptly named Nico- demus by my son, presumably after lit- tle Nicodemus O'Malley of the comic strip. And throughout the day a wealth of interest and affection "has been heaped on this offspring of the chatter- ing parent squirrels we so ruthlessly g:})oned from the grounds some days ore. obvious weakness dramatizing its rights | to the animal equivalents of life, liberty | and the pursuit of happiness, is quite different from the annoying chatter of squirrels one hears, but does not see at 5 o'clock on a May morning. As American civilization grows yearly | more impersonal, yearly more intricate, | it becomes harder and harder to feel the personal issues that are involved in | even the most public problems. | In labor troubles, we act one way | when the troubles come to us as an im- | personal annoyance, but another when Much the same trouble exists in | the troubles come to us in terms of the | caca’>—B | hungers and hopes of individual men | and women and children. War, education, politics—in all the | level. and has an area of about 3,261 | fields of modern life, the most difficult | and the most necessary achievement is to keep alive the capacity to see all is- | | 150-watt, A baby squirrel in one’s hand, its| t: ’ BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Stop a minute and think about this fact. You can ask our Information Bureau any question of fact and get the answer back in a personal letter. 1t is a great educational idea introduced into the lives of the most intelligent people in the world—American news- paper readers. It is a part of that best &urpou of a newspaper, se ‘There no charge except 2 cents in coin or stam) for return postage. Get the hablit of asking questions. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. How does the revenue of all the motion picture houses compare | with that of the legitimate theaters?— | "A. The gross revenue for motion pic- ture theaters for 1927, $750,000,000, was 60 times that of legitimate theaters. Q. How is the Holland Vehicular | Tunnel lighted?>—T. W. D. | The illumination is obtained from | 115-volt, clear bulb lamps, spaced 20 feet apart and seéi with re- flectors in the white-tiled walls. Q. How many radio sets are there in the world>—A. S. S. A. The Department of Commerce re- cently estimated that there were 18,000, 000 radio receiving sets in the world. Q. Has Germany any colonial pos- sessions?—N. T. H. A. Germany has no colonies. All her possessions were awarded to the allies. Before the war the German col- onies aggregated 1.140,117 square miles and had a population estimated at 13,258,000. £ % What was merchandise money?— A. It was silver money, said to have been first coined in China about 2853 B.C., and bearing the inscription “Mer- chandise money (Ho) of the secon ;ne]t,l, circulating in the peaceful cap- al." fi A. This South American lak e has a elevation of 12,500 feet above . mean sea square miles. otq' ‘What desigy decorated the tops action of malt. (sprouted barley). Malt vinegar is fade from the sugary solu- tion or wort obtained by steeping crushed malt in warm water. Q. What is the name giyen to the upper left-hand corner of the editorial page of a newspaper or other similar publication, where the subscription rates appear?—0. C. C. It is known as the “masthead.” Q. Is Mrs. Laura Knight a member of the Royal Academy?—E. S. A. She is the first woman to be elected an A. R. A. Q. When was Bulwer’s “Last Days of Pompeii” issued?—E. M. C A. It was published in 1834 Q. What is citronella and from what is it made?—S. R. S. A. Citronella is the name of a fra- grant oil imported from Ceylon. the Malay Peninsula and Java. A group of closely allled grasses produce this oil. The name of the grass is Andro- pogen nardus. The inost important ingredients in this oil are geraniol and citronellal, which together make up as much as 93 per cent of the oil. Q. How much pewer does an elec- tric fan use?—S. M. F. A. The Bureau of Standards says that an electric fan uses from 20 to 50 kilowatt hours per month, running 24 hours a day. The variation is due to difference in size of fan and dif- ference in efficiency of the motors used. Q. What is the modern theory con- cerning the heat of the sun?—I. W. L. A. The N."t]ly Ohurvn(':;y says that a theory recently sugges to account for the sun’s heat is that it is due to some sub-atomic process, such as the mutual destruction of electrons by col- lision, resulting in the transformation of their mass into emergy, and thence into heat. Q. What State obtains the largest number of patents annually in relation to its population?—N. S. G. | . A. Patent Office statistics for anv | given year show that more patents p~ | thzusand inhabitants are issued to resi- dents of Connecticut than to residen:s of any other State. | Q. In early English what was the | word for an arrowmaker?—A. P. | A. The term was “fletcher.” | i | Q. Where are the midshipmen of ti | Naval Academy to go on their annu cruise this Summer?—J. E. | _A. They will spend their annual cruise off the New England coast. i Q. What is the American Institu'e of Banking?—J. E. H. A. The American Institute of Bank- Q. Who was the chaplain of the rst Continental Congress>—N. T. A. Jacob Duche was its chaplain. He later abandoned the Whig cause and went to England. Q. How many people with college education become criminals?—S. D. A. Out of a survey of 19,080 con- victed criminals only 610 were reported to have had any college education. Q. At ‘;}ut elevation is Lake Titi- ing is the e _educational section of the Banke: sues in terms of their meaning to in- | — | American s’ Association. This the pillars of Solomon's temple> |the Senator was going to decide with lis engaged in a far-reaching series of | fact that they can be raised at all. later the leaf-eating insects, and above | |R. C. D, 2 In his address to the delegates. The Democratic hosts may as well make | up their minds that if the New York | governor is to be their standard be:reri they will be compelled to meet such attacks from the date of nomlnntkm! until the polls ciose next November. | Once Tammany, always Tammany, will be the gist of the Republican ll-: tack. Tammany, doubtless, is an asset | | Both the Republicans and the Dem- | ocrats this year pitched their national | conventions west of the Mississippi| River. ' The Democrats, furthermore, | have gone into the “solid South” for | . their convention city. The South has not been friendly to the Governor of | New York in the pre-convention cam- paign, although it has not used the governor nearly as roughly as some of ‘his opponents would like to have it. If can be nominated in the South. event will be ‘That | City was under the constant watch of | ponderous machinery, which sings so|est value. the ayes or with the noes. | experiments and tests, covering the en- Thus the presiding officer at Kansas | tire fleld of the country’s manufactur- !mg and industrial research. Its name | signifies its great utility. The endeavor | he used steam roller is to standardize all products of the Some of them sat down and |shops and mills and laboratories in | hed him what they thought|the United States and on the highest | plane of quality. These products, made | As a matter of fact, Senator Moses, |to meet all the conditions of use, must | accqrding to those who were there. | pass through the severest trials. Only! the best possible will withstand them. | came through a difficult task wearing 'The consequence is that the American laurel on his brow. It was no easy standard of industrial and manufac- | Job. A moment's hesitation, a second's | turing products is supremely high. The lapse, and the big convention might |certificate granted by the Bureau of become unwieldy in a trice and the | Standards to any article is of the high- millions. Some of them undoubtedly believed that methods. telegrap! of him. | Their challenge to his intelligence in- terests him, as all challenges made to the brain interest mankind. thing and must have an appropriate answer, which may be either physical or mental, although in most cases it is {xernups more the former than the latter. The plain challenge to the brain comes in gardening as in many other activities of life. It comes to the busi- ness world when a rival puts out a suc- cessful product that the bright minds of one's own firm simply overlooked. ‘The challenge comes to the art world when some artist,. whether he be musician, painter or writer, achieves a work of authentic originality. Once the thing is produced, the world ap- plauds. Even he who is envious—and how many is his number!—admits the Deflance to physical powers is one | lall the black spot and the unsightly | mildew, are to be kept in check. Ehee | These are but a few of the prob- |lems facing the home grower of roses. | From year to year, if he goes at the | work in the way he tackles his daily | job, he will find new problems arising. These will demand new solutions, more work, more expense. From it all, however, he will get better and bigger roses and experience the thrill which |comes with success. After all. what is | there in life for the average person ! more to be desired than the feeling of success? Whether it is an automobile |race or a flower contest. to come out | first is the wish, admitted or not, of | mankind. : The satisfactions of success in the | rose garden are no less than the happi- ness to be galned in any legitimate sweetly under skilled hands, become out of whack and run amuck. What | may have seemed, from a distance to have been ruthless methods on the | part of Senator Moses, were only com- | mon sense measures. Onme time, and one time only, he used poor judgment. That was when he attempted to dis- pose of a motion by some irascible Georgian to have the Georgla delega- tion polled by calling for a viva voce vote and deciding that the noes had it. The Georgian immediately obtained | the seconds of six State delegations, as | required, and demanded a call of the roll of the States on the matter of | { having his delegation polled. That vote | | was decided against the Georgian, but | the call of the roll of the States con- {sumed a good fifteen minutes, while » | poll of the Georgia delegates would | have taken only about two. At other |times, however, Senator Moses was | alert, positive and quick. He was y";hxrd-bofledf‘ but the job called for! | being hard-boiled. he | Southern leaders who privately express | one word of the fwAr:du:l‘. “1::’ xf the opinion and the hope that Smith | tjon is, etc., those in favor say ‘Aye, Will be the party nominee. To fail 10 | those opposed ‘No, the ayes have it Bominate the man who has gone Into | and the yesolution is adopted,” he did primary after primary and has emerged it to save time and not to smother Wictorious in the presidential preferen- | opposition. The opposition was there, tial vote would be a terrible mistake. | perhaps, but it amounted to nothing. they say. | 'mocral Houst Houston is prepared to welcome the | i g8t paikave a @ent and Vice President. They insist that the South and the States of the with favorite son candidates Farmers are at least to be congratu- ted on having made their demands for in the Houston convention. The South | 5 in line 0 show New York how a| national convention should be handled, and the courtesy which is due even | % opponents. The Democratic party is on trial | Another such convention as that which ,was staged in 1924 might well wreek | the party for years to come. On the | other hand, the more or less peaceful | nomination of Gov. Smith, while ap- parently cementing the Democrats, may lead ¥ a political campaign of such | bitterness as the country has not seen for years. The party is in the lap of the gods, and that lap is temporarily lJocated in Houston ——— Bome of the Indians who presented fine specimens of their art to distin- guished visitors are likely to feel that #0 far as the convention was concerned, the war bonnets were wasted ——— The First Woman to Cross, For the first time a woman has flown over the Atlantic. This morning Amelia Earhart, in a seaplane, accom- panied by Wimer Bwitz and Louis Gordon, landed in Burry Estuary, Wales, twenty hours and forty-nine minutes after hopping off from Tre- passey, Newfoundland. The flight was accompiished in difficult conditions, A hesyy wind was blowing when the plane 0ok off —almost a gale—but the aviators, after a long wail at Trepassey, ook & chance on finding better weath- er at sea Evidently their judgment was justified, for they made & remark- sbiy fast flight considering the unfa- vorable situation at the start. This successful flight ends the “race between the two women who have been preparing for some time for an east- ward ocean flight. One of them, Miss Farhart, is an sccomplished air piiot; the other, Miss Boll, has had no ex- pgrience in the sir. There was some the game. i A fast-working convention cut down hotel bills and is a little bit of a help in keeping down campaign expenses, e e—e— Great Pitching. Memories of the days when Walter | Johnson was the greatest of base ball | pitchers are revived by the performance | vesterday in Brooklyn of Arthur—bet- !ter known as Dazzy—Vance, star | twirler of the National League club of that city. Pacing the Chicago “Cubs,” Vance not only held them to four hits !and shut them out without a run, but iu the course of the nine innings he struck out fifteen men. In three dif- ferent innings he “struck out the side.” It was a masterful exhibition of pitch- |ing. But it did not make base ball | history. For Vance has himself on four other occasions “fanned” fifteen men in & game, and even that figure does not constitute a record. Accord- ing to the book of notable diamond events, the highest number of strike- outs in a single nine-inning game is | nineteen. The record was made by Charles Sweeney of the Providence Na- | tional League team against Boston, in | 1884. Two years later, when the four- | strike rule was in effect, Thomas Ram- |sey of the Louisville, American Associa- | tion, team struck out seventeen men. A ‘\rgmnrknle record was that of Prank Bhaw of the Boston Union Association | team, who in 1884 struck eut eighteen {men of the St. Louls team and yet lost the game. | Vaoce's performance of yesterday of twice *fanning” five men in succession does not equal the highest performance in this respect of consecutive strike- outs, for George Wiltae of the New York o Pennsylvania has in Secretary Mellon & man whose manner is the quietest Ppossible, yet extraordinarily influential. Oratory has been less esteemed as the public learns to concentrate on the sub- stance of a speech. ———— ‘There is one‘economic rule that seems to work out with reliable simplicity in the stock market. The supply of young lambs is always equal to the demands of old market managers, —————— If there was any filibuster talent on hand at the Kansas City convention, it was inferentially advised to save itself up for the next meeting of Congress. R SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. One Thing After Another. ‘The evil life sends 1s deserved for our sins; One task scarcely ends ‘When another begins. The hours of repose Are 50 swift and so few— Just where the time goes None on earth ever knew! When midnight draws near, We shall learn with a shock ‘That tomorrow is here At the tick of a clock. And statesmen anew ‘Will appeal to each heart. One convention’s just through When another will start, Advice. “There are many momentous ques- {50 far as to make them wish to quit | tions before the people.” “There are,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “What do you think is the most im- portant advice to be given?” “For a starter, the most important | advice would be, ‘Don't everybody try to talk at once.’ " For a Change. The candidate again is met, Of gratitude he bids us tell, He makes us for a day forget ‘The picture stars we know so well, Jud Tunkins says maybe theyll ar- | range dates so that a circus, two con- ventions and the Fourth of July fire- | works don’t come so close together, Exigencles of Art. “It seems to me,” said the man who d returned after a long absence, “that Crimson Guich is clinging to the old lawless traditions to a remarkable extent.” “Yes," answered Cactus Joe, “and it's | Bettin’ terrible tiresome. But we've got | our business interests to protect. When we ought to be Jivin’ luxurious we have |10 keep up appearances necessary (o | prestige as location for picture dramas of the untrammeled West." “Far happler might my birthland have been,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “could we have remained content with firecrackers instead of be- Ing compelled to experiment with ma- chine guns.” We talk of “good old days”; Yet rugged were their joys. And, 'mid convivial ways, There were some bad old boys. “Bome men shows a terrible lack of National League team made seven men ‘whiff” in & row, three in the fourth versatility,” said Uncle Eben. “Dey jes’ learns one kind o' trouble an’ keeps gettin’ into dat over a | sphere of activity, since the essentials greatness of the work, and then, if it of success are basically the same every- be great enough, goes on to try his where. The products of rosebushes are hand at the same sort of thing. He | inspiring and beautiful and to that ex- does not call it imitation, but of course | tent are worthy of every effort and that is more or less what it is. If it | aspiration. CONVENTION OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Kansas City may go down in history | Curtis' campaigning abilities. The Sen- as the Forgive-and-Forget mnvenlim.‘:p‘g:k: x:uc":::::flin %&mm That will be its name if both Hoover- | rouser. ' On the threshold of the con- ites and certain late anti-Hooverites vention there was a pretty settled view can have their way. What they mean | is that a whole lot of things said and done in the heat of battle must be sent to the scrap-heap of oblivion, if party harmony is to be restored and Republican success assured. For a while it was thought that Senator Curtis' remark, on the eve of the con- vention, that the G. O. P. could not nominate for President “a man whom it would have to defend till the hour the polls closed,” would s the Kan- san, as far as any second-place aspira- tions were concerned. Curtis did not mention Hoover by name, but every- body knew at whom “Charley” was tilt- iny " ‘The Senate leader's indirect allusfon to the Californian was tame compared to the excesses in which other anti- Hoover “allies” indulged. Senator Goff of West Virginia went the extreme end of the limit. In his public address at Kansas City, the night before the con- vention opened, Goff ran the entire gamut of stock innuendoes about Hoo- ver—his “un-Americanism,” his ‘“un- Republicanism,” his “ruin of the farm- ers” and all the rest of it. Hoover's people are not going to rake any of these things up in a spirit of reprisal, now they're on top. Whether the Dem- ocrats will be so magnanimous—well, that remains to be seen. R People addicted to a fondness for al- literative effects have nothing to com- plain of in the 1928 G. O. P. ticket, with an “H. H." at the top and a “C. C." at the other end. Senator Borah handed Curtis an unintentional middle initial when he placed the Kansan in nomina- tion for Vice President. Borah called him “The Honorable Charles L. Curtis.” Microphone fright probably had some- thing to do with it. A few minutes later, Representative Dyer of Missourl, referring to the Chief Justice of the United States, spoke of “Henry Howard Taft.” The convention's. E‘flle " break was Temporary Chairman Fess' slip in omitting Theodore Roosevelt from the roster of Republican Presi- dents from Lincoln to Coolidge. The keynoter took five minutes of the con- vention’s time next day to deliver an amende honorable and an apology. * ok ok & West Branch, Iowa, which isn't far from Kansas City, had a grand jam- boree Friday night in honor of the nomination of “Bert” Hoover, home- [town boy, for President. ‘There's a have a mighty pull with a Hoover ad- ministration. He's already postmaster and was Hoover's boyhood chum. Newt Butler is his name. His present claim to fame is that he once licked Hoover in a fist fight. West Branch confi- dently expects its illustrious son to re- visit his birthplace during the cam- ign. Hoover was last there in 1923 %r a while there was some thought of having him deliver his speech of ac- ceptance on the ancestral heath -k ok ¢ Curtls' nomination for Vice President is essentially a gesture to the agricul- tural West, but was not dictated wholly by Corn Belt consideration. If there's to be a Hoover administration, the Kansan will be a tower of strength at the legislative end of Pennsylvania avenue. No man knows the game on Capitol Hill more thoroughly, and none is “more beloved there. When ad- ministration duty's to be done, to b> done—to 1t with Gilbert and Sulllvan in “The Pirates of Penzance"—Charles Curtis’ lot will be a useful one, useful one. Hoover captains consider that prospect a more vital one, from the presidential nominee's standpoint, than | certain West Brancher who should | that Hoover's teammate should be a skillful platform artist in order to rival | " that | on the stump the “human a| | Al Smith is expected to 3 * K R X It Hoover prevails in the matter, the | Republicans will sedulously “la) I | any attempt to capitalize the rel issue this Summer and Autumn. This observer long ago asked the Californian | about that—about his attitude gener- | ally toward the big question sure to be | raised by a Smith nomination. Hoover | said, in his abrupt, straight-to-the- point manner, “I'm a Quaker, and you know the Quakers' record for toler~ ance." * ¥ ox o A national Republican leader asked a fellow G. O. P. stalwart if he could “the biggest man in the conven- and then answered his own ques- He said it was Al Smith. The underlying theory, of course, is that Republicans at Kansas City had their eyes and thoughts turned pretty ex- clusively when cogitating over the main business one of the main arguments against | Hoover was that he couldn't carry New York against Smith. Senator Moses struck the Smith keynote frank. ly in uklnf the permanent chairm gavel. He left little doubt that the Re- publicans—if “Al" is victor at Hous- fon —are going to concentrate their fire on him, to the practical exclusion of anything the Democratic party stands for in the impending unpleas- antness. | ok ok X Among reasons alleged for Hoover' inability to take New York into the Re- })ub“cm electoral column is his dis- avor with Wall Street. When one in- quires why Wall Street doesn't like Hoover two explanations usually are forthcoming. One is that the railroad | barons have never forgiven him for i functioning, as President Harding's | emissary, in the 1922 shopmen’s strike. That conflict was settled, largely in the shopmen’s favor, just about the time the carrlers felt they had the strike won. Another reason why Wall Street refuses to Hooverize is the California; attitude on forelgn loans. He believes j these should be rigidly scrutinized by the United States Government, in the interest of the small American investor, | Instead of being marketed indiscrimi- nately for the benefit of “international bankers,” whose main concern is fat | commissions at the time of flotation. | | s bt Down to Fine Print. From the Topeka Capital President Coolidge isn't the greatest economizer at Washington, though it Is & New Englander who is. Since Senator Moses of New Hampshire has had charge of the Con, jonal Rec- {ord 1t is no longer a joke that nobody reads it. The print is so fine that no- body can. S — Drinks on the House. From the Atlanta’ Constitution, A drunken ‘uul of & New York hotel had to pay $2,300 for damaging two suites of rooms with water when he fell asleep in a bathtub, This was un- ;‘emnlbe. The drinks were on the ouse, e One Always Successful. From the Richmond Times-Digpateh There are times when the motorist who attempts to beat the train at the crossing fails, but the fellow who strikes a match to discover the gas leak usually succeeds. pros in the governor's direction | that sent them there. Till the last| dividual human beings. As clvilization grows more we must struggle to keep our spirits more sensitive to personal values. | (Cobyright. MeClure paver Svadicate ) e [Stewart Jury Foreman Defends Verdict Given To the Editor of The Star: The writer was foreman of the jury | which rendered a verdict of acquittal last Thursday in the Robert W. Stewart case. The jury was composed of four women and eight men. residents of this District. I do not believé it possible to sons than were these men and women. Careful attention was given to the case all during the trial. | From the time we retired until the | time we returned with our verdict the |and with the utmost consideration for ithe views expressed by each one. Not once was the slightest reference made |to Col. Stewart's wealth and the sug- | gestion made by Senator Norris of Ne- braska that this had any influence is hesitate to resent. The jurors in this case judged the facts in evidence and not the defendant'’s station in life. It may interest Senator Norris to know, however, that we did give consid- erable attention to the unbelievable methods practiced by him and his col- leagues on Capitol Hill as shown up in this case. It was made clear to us that while a few Senators wished to impose the penalties of the law on one who did not do just as they wished, on their own part they paid no attention to what | their own laws required. It was aston with a membership of 15 undertook to rrfonn its duties with only three or four members present and that Senator Norris himself did not hesitate to tes- tify that in Senate committees, and even in the Senate, the necessity of having R quorum present was given very little { attention. ‘The jury in the Stewart case did not believe that there was a properly con- | ducted session of the Senate committee | when Mr. Stewart appeared before it {and they did not believe that regula: | minutes were kept of that committee’s | proceedings. We stand by our verdict. CHARLES 'ECK. | R, . | Foreman of the jury in case of United States vs. Stewart. e Plea for Armory Wins Thanks of General To the Editor of The Star: I have read with much interest and & feeling of gratitude the editorial which peared in Wednesday night's Star re- arding the proposal to have $100,000 provided in the District of Columbia | appraopriation bill each year for the next five years to provide a National Guard | armory within the city of Washi L | The service which The Star has and | is rendering the National Guard of the | District of Columbia is of untold value | | to us and is one of the things which keep our hopes up with the bellef that eventually an armory will be provided. The faithfulness with which The Star has backed an armory project for the great number of years which intervene between the original proposal and the present day is deserving of the highest praise and commendation. Please accept my thanks and the thanks of the other officers and enlisted men composing the local National Guard for your efforts and assistance in our behalf. ANTON STEPHAN, Major General, Commanding. PO MR 5 s S ot | -Tempered Elephant Had Heart Disease BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. ‘The mystery of why one of the male African elephants in the London Zoo was always bad-tempered and had never submitted, as did his companion elephants, to be trained for riding, s solved recently by facts surgical - post-mortem. One morning this bad-tempered elephant was found | dead In his inclosure. | . Sclentists of the Royal Veterinary Col- lege were sent for immediately and de- cided upon a post-mortem to determine the cause of death, the loss of so valu- able an animal being a matter of im- | portance and it being even more im- portant to learn whether any danger- | ous contagious disease was present and might spread to other animals. | No such disease was found, but it was | discovered that the unfortunate ele- hant had been suffering for years, per- Kn’m for his entire life, from a form of organic heart trouble not unlike one of m heart diseases that affect human n The uncertain temper and occasional rages which keepers had ascribed t mere “temperament” on the animal’ part were undoubtedly due, the experts pain which the poor beast's defictent heart had made him endure. Unable to tell anybody his sym only walt for death to his human friends the secret of his 1l temper, | impersonal., | get together 12 more conscientious per- | : Widely Differing case was discussed by the jurors calmly | an insult to the jurors, which I do not | ishing to find that a Senate committee | discovered at a ! concluded, to the distress and possible z ]. | A" Carved figures of the pomgranate | | adorned the tops of the pillars, e | Q. Of what nationality were most of the foreign brides of American World | War soldiers>—S. A. H. | A There were the most French brides. Many, however, were English, with a few from practically all the 0w ¥ e European | Qa [ in making vinegar? | | A Grains—chiefly corn barley, rye jand oats—are largely utilized for the | ,produatol;' of hx’r.l’m and malt vin e starch which thoy ‘contain is converted i=dp wmzar. usually by | | re grains use C. rst the | organization is maintained for the pur- pose of giving instruction to bank em- ployes. There are about 160 chapters in various cities throughout the coun- try. Q. How long a mon-stop bicycle ride was made last Summer?—O. J. D. A. ne - Pish, 15-year-old mes- senger boy. rode a bicycle 289.3 miles without stopping at Potomac Pa Washington. D. C. August 22, 19: The time was 25 hours. Q. Are people who come here from England called “foreigners”>—W. S. V. A. All aliens, whether they are Eng- lish-speaking or not, are called “foreign- ers.” “idely diff opinions on . the sub- Jject_have beegfl:‘l‘redpm the é would l:lt mt:: bill n—d‘ not sign for operation and develop- ment of the great Government-owned power project at Muscle Shoals. Replying to an attack on the Presi- dent by Senator Norris, author of the :g: -hg m?'lucln& the Executive for | ot send A veto message in which +it would have been necessary to state | |the reasons therefor,” the New York | |Sun (independent) argues: “The Presi- | dent has given his reasons. He has| 'lven‘ l‘m:-il 3:' nki)esutu to Congress. > *-w. Ty debate | Shoals in ent which indicated that the President had changed his mind: not one which could convince di te judgment that ke ought to change his mind. The re- sult proves he did not change his mind, and that is all there is to it." The idea that “it is hard to%xplain his action on grounds of political ex- | pediency” is advanced by the Chatta- nooga News (independent Democratic) which makes the further statement: He alienates the friends of the meas- |ure just as much by his silent veto as he would by the most severe attack on the bill. Yet he does not particularly gain the support of opponents of the act. They would expect some indorse- | ment of their stand, some support for the vigorous fight they have made. | They want his moral backing. And he says nothing at all.” - x oo The contention of Senator Norris that has not adjourned, but that it really orly In recess, and that therefor- : “.as become la (18 widely disc: | Evening Bulles: cratic) express. constitutional warranc for the Norris contention seems absurdly little, The Constitution required Congress to a: semble at least once & year, on the first | Monday in December. Several laws have been passed providing for sessions to begin on other dates. Neither house can adjourn for more than three days )exeept by consent of the other. But! the President can call Congress into special session. and he also possesses authority to declare it adjourned should , the houses disagree. There does not |seem any valid justification for con- sidering that in any interval between | two sesslons Congress is in recess, un- | less it specifically so declares.” “The only way to prove the conten- tion,” says the Charleston Evening Post (Independent Democratic), “would be by tak! the question to the Su- &r;me Court and by fthe time an opin- | [fon was obtained, the Seventieth Con- | |gress and Mr. Coolidge as well, in all | probability, will be gone and nearly | | forgotten. The fight over Muscle | Shoals development and utilization will | |have to be started all over again.” | The Manchester Union (independent | | Republican), accenting the view that! “the disposition to be made of the plant remains a national problem.” also con- cludes that “the diffictlt situation will | | have to be tackled again." i % owox “We feel confiden: that the Supreme Court will be called upon to decide | When and under what circumstances a | pocket veto is a pocket veto," says the | | Great Falls Tribune (Democratic), and | the Dayton Dafly News (independent | Democratic) sees “rcom for an inter- |esting lawsult, with the chances, we | should guess, rather strongly against| |the Norris interpretation.” The Lin./ |coln State Journal (independent Re-| blican) comments: “One of the | incipal Interpreters of the Constitu- | n, Coaley. makes no”distinc- | tion between adjournment and the re- cess between sessions. He belleves that | | | “The pri t this provision was made to relieve the from nt the of bills, many of which he might not be able to consider sufficlently in 10! houses, in the the rmnu plant, whether mpnm“m not, and to the sale of the product N the Anniston Sta 'mnunmum of the old last-minute crush | an slonally idealism, days to decide whether to sign or veto ' bee them.* | Opinions on Pocket Veto of Muscle Shoals cost for fertilizer. in direct competition with heavily taxed fertilizer companies In this bill the nl;“ m‘n dange trend coun! Tous to Government ownership and tion of power developments for which cer- mn" noisy minorities are barnstorm- * % % % “Sound scientific opinion.” declares he Birmingham News (Democratic), seems to hold that the Norris-Morin bill, rather than being a serious attempt to solve the Muscle Shoals problems, was actually at grass-roots a political calculated to awaken in i | be through labyrinthian proc- | esses of Federal red tape.” | .. On the other hand, the Topeka Dal Capital (Republican) avers: e never has been any objection to t Government use of the Muscle Shoals investment except from the power terests, who have attacked it as ‘soci * ‘bolshevistic’ and so on. me: because it is & public and not a private enterprise, none of these interests, how- | ever, ever having come forward with | offer to take on the plant for nitrat | or fertilizer. They desire it exclusively for the development and sale of po ¥ tly . into competition Vi are indorsed by the Hartford Times | dependent Democratic) and Provide: | Journal (independent). | cinna | and | Santa Barbara Daily News (Demoeratic | favor private entes . the Indianap- | olis News (indej 'nt) sees no general support for public ownership and o tion, while the St. Paul T ss (independent) condemns the Presi- | Srnment o explanation pos Seee: or e: "~ but - | nizes objection to “Government distri- lw“on of electricity, a la and com- plicated part of the power business.” | Method of rejection is condemned also by the Waterbury Republican (inde- pendent Republican) * x o w “The bill did not put the Govern- ::l;l;ll (l’mo business, for uu‘mm done Ve years ago.” tests t. ring- field Republican lhdtundew at), g’d the Milwaukee Journal ( dent) states: “At Muscle Shoals, built in the emergency of war, $160,000,000 of the khx]e;nn e th“ o el been a foundling, and mwfihl' time no p: timore Sun (independent Democratic and Brooklyn Daily Eagle (independ- ent) Rejection of the measure appears to r lbemnt:l : e it tween Hamilton and Jefferson :5" the dis- ition of the national wealth.” The Omaha World-Herald nmd's;ndenn argues, :n u‘tdl&ueu Shoals ernment cou! vise methods of pro- ducing fertilizer at low cost, if it could demonstrate that it would seem, wov serve a public purpose and do wrong to no legitimate enterprise.™ i ———— Playing the Whele G From the Philadelphis Inquirer A writer says Mussolint “has a tary nature” which seems but w in one who wants to plag the who same by Nmself, Those Political Values From the Ohlo State Journal say someth t about T alvays Sounds ao it 1t had N dragged in. 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