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All richts of publication cf special dispatches herein are also reserved Ritchie Withdraws. Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland at a psychological moment before the opening of the Democratic national convention has withdrawn himself from the race for the presidential nomina- tion and has announced his support of Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York. ‘There has Been little doubt for some time whom Gov. Ritchie favored for President, but his action now leaves Marvland's sixteen delegates free to wote immediately for the nomination of Smith. Gov. Ritchie has had no illusions regarding his own candidacy. Smith has made a runaway race for the dele- gations of the Eastern and Northern States, which might otherwise have turned to Gov. Ritchie because he. too, | is & wet. There was the off chance that if Smith were not nominated the lightning might strike the Maryland governor. But this‘was a slim chance, for if the convention turns down the wet New Yorker it will scarcely turn 10 & wet Marylander. As a matter of fact, Gov. Ritchie, -|speech when the first demonstration policeman to accompany him, who will be thus on hand to check resistance to this necessary action. The Commissioners can designate special officers in cases of emergency, but it appears that these powers can- not be granted to officials of the Health Department without additional com- pensation. This is a fine hair-splitting which should be corrected as promptly as possible. It is certainly preposterous that an official of the District govern- ment cannot discharge his duties with- out meeting resistance that he is power- less to suppress, or surely punish. . e Nominating Speeches. Some day some party is going to hit upon the happy idea of holding a po- principles of modern business practice. | It will set out to eliminate wasted ef- | fort, to conserve time and energy and | to reach the desired end with the least jof bother and confusion. In so doing it will bring down upon its head accu- sations of steam-roller tactics. But it { will demonstrate, at the same time, just | relics that this new political convention will cast overboard is the traditional | nominating speech, and the seconding | speeches that follow as inevitably as | July follows June. And that alone | would justify the experiment. The most impressive nominating | | speech made at Kansas City was de- | livered by Senator Borah, who nomi- | nated Senator Curtis for Vice President | 1 in the shortest speech of them all. By far the most impressive seconding | speech at Kansas City was made by: |Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight, who sec- onded the nomination of her father, Senator Curtis, in a speech of barely |twenty - five words. While Senator | Borah is always a good speaker, and while there was a sentimental interest in Mrs. Knight's appearance, the glo- rious thing about both speeches was their brevity. In contrast, one may remember the nominating speech delivered by John ! L. McNab of California, who proposed the name of Herbert Hoover. Mr. Mc- Nab had one of the most important gmd one of the highly honorary duties of the convention. He carefully pre- pared in advance his excellent speech nominating Mr. Hoover. But he had barely . finished the first paragraph when the biggest demonstration of the convention was started. The demon- stration interrupted the speech. What followed drew little attention from any- body, for evervbody was waiting for| the conclusion in order to start another demonstration. Suppose Mr. McNab had ended his started. bowed and left the stand? The effect would have been electrical. It litical convention under the accepted | THE EVENING arousing public feeling on the score of the insanity defense and the prac- tice generally pursued in the trial of cases in which it figures. Recently !the National Crime Commission issued the report of a special committee which has studied this question and which recommended the adoption generally by the States of the system in vogue in Massachusetts, where a person ac- cused of crime is at once examined as to sanity, not with the aid of alienists ;emplo,ved by himself or his counsel, Ibut by agents of the Commonwealth, whose report, unprejudiced by any par- tisanship, yuides the court in its treat- ment of the case. | Emotional insanity has been often pleaded in defense in murder cases in this country. It was the plea in the case of Harry Thaw. It succeeded there {as it succeeded in the Remus case. It | has saved from the gallows many a | eriminal whose deed has fully deserved [the death penalty. It has made a mockery of the law against murder. {Tt has created in the public mind a {reeung that justice can be thwarted d how antiquated are some of the meth- by wealth. The manner in which it «d- | ods it has abandoned. One of the first |is invoked successfully, as in the Thaw and the Remus cases. constitutes the deepest of all blots upon the pages of the history of American justice. Siasis ———— Proper Punishment. Gossip is a human failing and seldom gets the punishment it deserves. There is one man, however, of the big-mouth type who probably has spread his last poisonous story through his neighbor- hood. In court in Camden, N. charge made by a nineteen-year-old girl that he had told acquaintances that she had been seen kissing a man in the parlor of her home, this gossipy person was given ninety days in jail by the Jjudge. It seems a shame that more of these pests are not dealt with in the same manner. They blast reputations, hurt others needlessly and are an unwhole- some influence on a community. In many cases the gossip which they spread is untrue, or a distortion of facts. Ninety days in jail would be a just punishment for all of these busy- bodies. ——— When , women engage in public re- sponsibilities they show even less in- clination than men to interrupt the work in hand for social relaxation. It would be hard to Imagine a Mabel Willebrandt pausing betimes for a rub- ber of whist or a tea party. The bene- fit that women were expected to bring 10 political affairs is rapidly materializ- ing. e e Motion picture stars easily dispose of the suspicion that they were trying to smuggle. Salesmen in hope of publicity for their wares were glad to make dis- would have been excellent psychology. It would have effected everything that the longer and carefully address accomplished. And as for the other nominating speeches at Kansas City, some of them were mockeries. counts which caused the prices charged to appear low. And in any event, a few thonsand dollars for duties would mean little in the financial life of a truly successful film star. ———— Mussolini would be quite willing to STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1928, BY CHARLES E. TRAC If he “gets away with it,” if he ls suc- duty, the divine necessity which makes | cessful in his initial attempt at thievery, them men. he has for reward exactly the same Without a high sense of duty. a man | thrill as warms the mind of the success- is not civilized, though he boast evex |ful person in any endeavor. 50 much of his physical strength and | It Is because this is true that early mental acquirements. training, especially in nipping in_the Onc's belief in the stern necessity of | bud the’ irst manifestations of crooked dutles Is the mark of how civilized a | Ways of thought, is of such vital impor- being he is. 'lanu*.”ll)ls]dlhr-l(llully”wm(q‘;'ll X Fn{:::): y | owes his child, which the teacher owes The savage performs certain dutles)Brre bo ©ohiin soctety owes the child. * ok Kk ok Hope is the light that lures men on: because he is afraid, but the civilized | man does his duty at all times simply ! because of an inner compulsion. It is his duty! Thus duties are seen to belong to a man, in proportion to his distance from | the crude compulsions which stir the | aborigine. | of the lesser glories of doing one’s duty. Let it be admitted that compulsion Thore &re a RURATEA Chances:SYEry at_the heart of all duty, still the true | day in the life of every person to do his difties have a necessity of a different | duty, and the essential nature of duty is sort. ot changed in the least because there These duties, since they come from is a certam necessity implied in the the man's own mind and heart and are | doing. intertwined with the very roots of his| Duty 1s so tied up with the ordinary being, are his own personal property. | compulsion of everyday life that there Although many of them are im- is no hope of dissevering them: for posed upon him from without, the com- | practical purposes the necessity may be pelling power itself is simply doing its | ignored and attention paid only to the dutv in imposing duties on him duty 1tself. Duty to one's country has been ex- | tolled beyond the power of any one to add anything to it; there remain the er walks-of life, in the discussion of hich one may hope to bring out a few He stands behind and approves. PO The duty to obey the law because it is the law he feels to his marrow. With him it is not so much a question of whether he approves of the law as whether it be the law. Only a law which flouts his honor will_draw from him the disrespect of | disobedience. “T had rather live wild in the woods has no law,” said Napoleon Bonaparte, shrewd observer of men and things. This fearless man knew the dangers of urban lawlessness sitting side by side with statutes. and made no pretense to iblink them, but went on courageously {to_revamp 'the laws of the land into what became known as the Code Napoleon. Respect for law as law, as a com- puision having one’s theoretical sanc- tion, if not actual apgrobation, comes with proper childhood ¥Rining. Such respect can be secured in no other way: “lawless” thinking in youth, crude mental effort, based on immature likes and dislikes only. is responsible for much of the misdirected energy which takes to criminal pursuits. ‘There would seem little doubt that the so-called “crooked” temperament gets its start and direction in youth, sometimes in very early boyhood: that is why early training is paramount. Perhaps many _persons overlook this very plain fact. They fail to realize that a criminal deed is, in essence, and before anything else, a deed. The essence of a deed is the oppor- tunity for success or failure. When the aviators fly across the seas the big lure is the chance of success, or failure, which lies in the venture. They hope for success, but in the back of their minds they realize that there also is an opportunity for mis hap. Doubt of the issue is the in- triguing factor. When a small boy goes forth in the dusk to steal some flowers from a neighbor’s garden, the big thing that leads him on is exactly the same. He hopes for success..but he realizes that maybe the owner will catch him at it. | BY FREDERIC Parents have duties to children, wide- ly recognized: children have duties to | parents, not so well known today as in | days past. Sometimes one may believe | that the rights of parents are sadly dis- togarded, when he contemplates the up- set homes in which small children are | allowed to be complete rulers, although they have not arrived at even an ap- | proach to years of discretion. | Surely a man who is earning a living | has a right to expect a certain amount ~on a|than in a civilized community which fof tidiness and quiet in his home, yet every one is acquainted with at least | one family in which nothing but hulla- | baloo reigns from 5 am. to 9 pm. In | despair the parer.ts let the children run | the streets, just to get them out of the { house; the old man runs his automo- few moments of the relaxation which he never gets at_home, but which it is the duty of his children, rightly consid- | ered, to give to him. | * ok ko Duty has its pleasant aspects. One should not get the feeling that duty is a thing of severity and solemnity alone. Those who do their duty in whatever sphere they are cast and under how- ever unpleasant circumstances have cept the man or woman who likewise has done what duty demands. Duties are not self-made. No one by taking thought can decide whether so-and-so is his duty or whether thus-and-thus is not his duty Duties of mankind are among its oldest heritages. Sorhistication of mind and habits do |not alter the nature of duties. are imposed as the result of the solidi- | fied thinking of centuries; time alone {can change them. « | Rash is he who attempts to take upon | himself the thankless task of deciding for himself what-is and what is not a | duty. and whether or not mankind has not been mistaken in the past in re- garding such an action as a duty. | He will discover that duties are among | the unwritten laws, all the more binding | because no one sa | After all, are not the unwritten laws 1of mind and heart the most binding, ! the most sacred? “Between Conventions” OQbservations WILLIAM WILE. | bile hours overtime in order to enjoy'a ¢ something which no one else has ex- | Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. HOUSTON, Tex., June 20.—One by one the favorite-son candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination are dropping by the wayside. Gov. Ritchie of Maryland has declared himself out of the race and in favor of the nomina- tion of Gov. Al Smith of New York This means that Maryland’s 16 voles will go to Smith on the first ballot at the national convention in Houston. Strangely enough, the Smith leaders now gathering in the convention ecity are overenthusiastic about nominating the governor on the first ballot. They seem Lo feel that it might be a good thing for harmony to let the fAvorite- son candidates have the satisfaction of being balloted for once or twice before the New Yorker “goes over." However, if the favorite-son candidates continue to take themselves out of the race and throw their delegations to Smith, ‘it may be a first-bailot nomination, after all, R Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Mon- tana, a dry and the McAdoo choice against Smith in the California pri- maries. set the precedent of waiving for Smith after Smith had won in the Soutih Dakota, Wisconsin and Califor- nia primaries against him. delegation is expected to vote for the New Yorker on the first ballot. For- mer Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, the favorite son ‘of the Buckeye State, it is well understood. is not antago- nistic to Smith, and his big State dele- gation may slide over to the Smith column at a moment’s notice. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska is a wet, like Montana’s the governor. F e The other candidates for the Demo- cratic nomination are Senator Jim Reed of Missouri, a wet, although he has been urging the Democratic party to forget the prohibition issue and make its campaign slogan “Throw the rascals Evans Woollen of Indiana, Repre- senative Cordell Hull of Tennessee, Sen- ator George of Georgia and Represent- ative Ayres of Kansas, all drys. The “Solid South” by itself does not have a third of the delegates to the Demo- cratic national convention. Unless the favorite sons of the Northern and West- >rn States stand firm with the Southern State delegations in the convention, Smith’'s nomination will be made quickly. | i ook % The whole psychology of the situation in Houston is favorable to the prompt nomination of Gov. Smith. not to men- tion the weather. The anti-Smith alli if they can be called that, like the anti Hoover allies in Kansas City, have been utterly unable to center on any single leadership against Smith. The anti- Smith people, like the anti-Hoover | people, and like Mr. Micawber, are | “waiting _for something to turn’ up.” | Senator Reed of Missouri looms as the | strongest antagonist of Smith. But | Reed has only a pitifully small hand- | ful of delegates to line up against the | New Yorker. If the Solid South would | back Reed, and Ohio, Kansas, Nebraska jand Indiana would do Hkewise. there might be a real battle in the conven- tion. The trouble is that not a fe Southerners would prefer Smith to Reed. if they must take a wet. Senator | Reed made himself unpopular in the South by his opposition to the late President Wilson. Reed is a two-fisted fighting man. If he persists in his cam- | paign to defeat Al Smith. the conven- | tion may yet have a thrill or two. »R | Have we had the pleasure of serving you through our Washington Informa- 1 tion Bureau? Can't we be of some help | to you in your daily problems? Our business is to furnish you with authori- tative information, and we invite you to ask us any question of fact in which you are interested. Send your inquiry ! to The Evening Star Information Bu- | reau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. | ton, D. C.. consider the granting of sites for homes of foregin representatives?—— P. R. D. A. A project of city advancement approved by George Washington and fostered by the Commissioners, was to encourage the erection of houses for the representatives of foreign governments by the donation of sites for such build- ings. The Minister from Portugal se- lected a site, President Adams signed the deed conveying the property to the Queen of Portugal, but the Attorney General objected, saying that Congress alone had power to grant away public property. The project was abandoned. Q. Is Ramon Novarro related to Do= lores Del Rio?—B. A. B. * A. Both come from Durango, Mex- Q. Did the early plan of Washing- | ANSWERS TO QUE BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. | world industry. Petroleum had been found in springs in several parts of | Pennsylvania before 1859, bui Drake | 'was the first one to dig into the earth | for ofl. | | Q. Is there a long-distance te: | coinnection between Washingio. | Mexico City?—C. C. | A. A line was established and opened on September 29, 1927, at which time President Calles in Mexico City con- versed ‘with President Coolidge in the Pan-American Union Hall at Wash- ington. > | @ What is an active partner in a | business?—M. J. A. He is a partner who is responsible for the full amount of the debts of the business. A silent or special partner i usually responsible only for the amount of money he puts into the business. Q. What necessary change must be made fo transmute mercury into gold?— L EH A. Physicists say that if an electron | can be driven nto the nucleus of a gold atom and one electron removed from its | valence electrons, an atom of gold wouid be formed. Q. Where is Port Puad?’—V. T. ~ad | Smith, and has much admiration for | | candidate to bear the full burden of | A It is a new city in Egypt, puilt by the Suez Canal Co. opposite Port Said. The King, Ahmed Fuad Pasha, presided at its inauguration, December . 1926, Q. When will the new Greek Dietion- ary be finished?—S. E*M. The first volume—A-K—is com- ico, and they are second cousins. Q. What bullding was first called a skyscraper?—T. E. S. | A. The Monadnock Building in Chi- | » cago. completed in 1889. was prebably the, first to be so designated. It was 16 | stories in height. i o A Q. What is the longest time that A | pioted, The entire work will require glider has stayed in the air?—J. A. D.| a0yt 15 years. The compilation of this A. Commandant Massaux in 1925 gictionary is to be a monument to the established a world record for the length | janguage, history and culture of Greece. { of time spent in an airplane glider, re- | — 2 | maining in the air 10 hours 29 minutes| Q. Are all sweet potatoes yam: | 43 seconds on July 26, 1925. This rec-| T. W. N. | ord was recently broken by Ferdinand| A. Yams are a kind of sweet potato | Schulz, who flew for 14 hours and 7|a variety of sweet potatoes. but all minutes without stopping. As far as|sweet atoes are not yams. The real we know Schulz still holds the glider | yam is deeper in color, sweeter and record, although since January 1, 1928, | more watery than the ordinary sweet | glider records have not received inter- | potato. national recognition. P I Q. Who was the first person to drill | the United Stats . C. P. r oil?>—P. M. | A. A great many kinds are increasing. A. Col. Edwin L. Drake, who was for | Antelopes, black and brown bears, deer, some time considered a crazy enthusi- | elk, mountain goats and mountain ast, finally struck oil in the vicinity of | sheep and beavers all show a steady in- Titusville, Pa., on August 28, 1359. The | crease in numbers. The grizzly bear, following morning he found a great| however, faces extinction. Thers are flow of oil surging up through the hole | only 880 grizzlies in all the natienal in the ground. completely flooding the | forests outside of Alaska. Californla, derrick floor. This was the beginninz | where they were once found in great of petroleum production as a great | numbers, now has none. animals_inereasing in ?—M. C. F | for | Popular Support for Hoover Called Republican Talisman | The “free and enthusiastic choice” of | zette (Democratie), and this is empha- | Secretary Hoover for the presidential | sized also by the St. Louis Times (Re- | candidacy, as the New York Herald | publican) and Charlotte Observer (in- | Tribune describes it. seems to the many | dependent Democratic), while the Ro- newspapers who comment upon it tobe | anoke World-News (independent Demo- the Republican talisman of success this ' cratic) contends: “The Democrats have year. To those who represent the op- | but one candidate who can hope to | posite view, weakness of the Hoover- measure swords wifh the champion | Curtis ticket lies in what the Indian- jnamed at Kansas City. Talk of any |apolis N®ws (independent) calls the | other man than the yGovernor of New “political wounds” inflicted upon the | York as the candidate of the Houston McNary-Haugen supporters. | convention is merely to give up the fight Evidence of the popularity of the before it has begun. choice is seen by many other papers, in- | On the other hand, the Ann Arbor cluding the Harrisburg Telegraph (Re- News (independent) states: “The publican), Norfolk Daily News (inde-|specter of Al Smith had much to do pendent), Erie Dispatch-Herald (Re- with the selection of Hoover,” a thought publican) and Adrign Daily Telegram which comes also from the Milwaukee It is no secret that Senator Reed | RiG T NE | Journal (independent). A national { eulogistic that more than one nominee, | lend his Fascist idea to neighboring has felt that the Democratic party listening, must have squirmed and shut off the radio. Nominating speeches are preserved as campaign material. They are treat- ed as more or less historically yaluable documents. But what they accomplish could be effected -equally well jother means, Fundamentally, the av- erage nominating speech has no more do with the nomination of a can- "~ |didate than have the tin horns and cowbells which always blow and ring after the speech for the favorite Is delivered. It cannot be long before by | nations. But nations prefer to be orig- inal in their economics and are willing to borrow only money that may assist in carrying out their own ideas. —————— Camera men are so essential in all phases of public life that in the selec- tion of a future candidate question may arise as to whether, in addition to quali- ties of statesmanship, he screen personality. ——— et — After all, a national convention Is a historically serious affair and there GALVESTON, Tex., June IO.—OO&-‘INQ deadlock against Smith, the ther- siping and guessing by the Gulf at|mometer may play a decisive role Galveston are the pastime and nccu-kl-lere‘s the situation: It is the dele- tion of conventionites who survived |gates from the solid South, some 228 nsas City and are now condemned |in number, who will prospectively form to endure Houston. It is for the most | the keystone of the arch beyond which mt the convention press gallery that | his allied and associated foes will say hied itself guifwards for re-|to Al “Thou shalt not pass.” Now, cuperation from the Republican show 'as all the world knows, Southern dele- and for storage of energy to meet the gates are the only “Houstonites” who trials of the Democratic circus. Gal-|will be able to stand a protracted spell veston is the terminal of an “inter- of Texas heat, supposing they “stop” urban” 50 miles awaay from Houston.| Smith and checkmate him for eight, It hopes for a regular stream of com- nine, ten or a dozen and more ballots. muters once the convention gets going. ‘} If the temperature in “Sam Houston Certainly its Gulf breezes are worth!Hall" sizzles around 100, who'll be the the journey, and, it the Democrats|first to cry: “Hold, enough?” A per- rolong their meeting into a 1928 spiring, overheated. tired convention is should be no resentment when efforts | edition of Madison Square Garden, Gal- EL7 e B4 : .a_{ it has been Gov. Ritchie eye more intently turned upon 1928, It was understood no chance of “stopping” at Houston, even if he desired § f i b § Democratic party that he must disposed of one way or the other. he wins the nomination and election goes into the White House in March, 1929, that is one thing. If he mominated and loses at the polis November, that is still another If the latter happens, the field be wide open, in al! probability, from now for candidates presidency from the Eastern section of the country as well as from West. " —— e RRES H Conventions are making it difficult | for the dance orchestra to hold its own in the attention of Msteners-in. It is unfortunately impossible for the radio to provide a convention as an every- night feature. ——— ‘The dirigible has not had a favorable record. If the Nobile heroes come through safely the alrplane or the dog sled will command the gratitude of the world The Powerless Poundmaster. An absurd situation is disclosed by the inabitty of the Commissioners 1o constitute the poundmaster of the Dis- Bmith is so powerful a factor | ‘There is no doubt about the authority to introduce comedy relief fail to over- whelm the proceedings, even mo- mentarily. R Japan feels that China needs a help- ing hand and proceeds to put on the velvet glove which may make the grasp “1of iron digits seem less formidable. Even though relinquishing the presi- dency, Calvin Coolidge must continue to sacrifice his feelings in conscientious refusal to grant pardon or commuta- e e e The platform crash at Syracuse did no physical harm and may be regarded by Mr. Heflin as well worth the risk for I(hp sake of the publicity results. | A “dark horse” who breaks ahead of | the field in the race for the Democratic | Harmony Sweepstakes is Gov. Ritchie. - e | A Blot on the Record. , American justice reaches the height {of absurdity in the decision rendered (today by the Supreme Court of the |State of Ohio which sets free from the State Hospital for the Criminal In- {sane, at Lima, George Remus, former {bootleg king. who shot and killed his wife in Cincinnati last December. {Remus was acquitted by a jury when tried for murder, on the ground of | insanity. He was thereupon committed to the Btate asylum and immediately | began efforts to secure his liberty. Re- cently the Court of Appeals at Lima | declared for his freedom on a writ of habeas corpus, and today’s decision af- firms that judgment, which is final | This case stands forth conspicuously lon the record of judicial inomalies {Of the fact of the killing there was no question. The defense interposed was that Remus killed his wife while 1 a state of ‘Mgh’ emotional excitement |amounting to aberration. There was triet & special policeman In order that he may have the power of arrest in Vidence of deliberate plan 1o kill, of case his efforis 1 impound stray ahi- | PUrSUIL and of iflexible purpose, The mals are resisted. It appears tial, the , “rcumstances were those of man poundmaster has been repeat-dly ser Who definiiely ‘sét”out’ in ‘cold blood upon by owners of animals ang by o take lfe. . Yel. the jury scquitted hoodlums seeking % prevent the col- Ditn on the score of his “insanity.” Al- Jeetion of upmuzzed dogs and others | 'hough throughout the trial he was that are dangerous w public security, fully muster of himself. indeed conduct- Having no police authority, bowever, he 0§ bix own defense with exceptional has no power 16 make arrests unless | hrewdness and skill, he was beld by the identity of his assaflant s estab- | the court 1o he dangerously insane and Jished and a warrant can be afterward | Was committed o the hosgital for the jssued for him. The Commissioners criminal insane. If only momentarily have heen advised by the corporation | insane at the time of the murder he eounsel that they are without authority | Was plainly, if the evidence afforded 1o invest the poundmaster with the | by his own bearing at the trial was power of arrest. A bill o grant them | 10 be considered, perfectly balanced that authority has been prepsred, but, | upon the rendering of the verdict, He of course, Do opportunity can be af- chould, if the verdict was justified, So1ded for several months for its passage | have been then sel free, as he has now It is possible at last for President Coolidge to know how it feels to relin- quish business cares and give undivided attention to a fishing trip. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Collision. A Traffic Officer we need To supervise the way. This Water Wagon's burst of speed Is causing much dismay. The driving is so eager, in ‘The haste to move along, We tremble as we hear the din Of whistle, bell and gong. John Barleycorn’s big truck will soon Come rashly into view. These are the paths of rosy June That now they journey through. And one of them must go to smash— Our fears we can't restrain— When both eollide, with cruel crash, At Next November Lane! Political Economy. “You don't say much about political economy.” “I don’t dare to mention it.” answered Senator Sorghum. “Many of my con- stituents think the phrase refers to the efforts to keep Government employes hard at work at small wages.” | i Humble Pyrotechnics. The firefly brings a gentle glow. He makes no glorious din. He sees his duty here below, And does the best he kin, | | | Jud Tunkins says many & man laughs at his own jokes when he ought to be apologizing for them Safety First. | “You are going to forsake your coun- | try home?” i “Only for a day. On the Fourth of July we are going into town where pro- miscuous fireworks are prohibited.” “A man of power” sald HI Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “must be wise, in- deed. not to meet with temptation to imagine he is commanding honor when he is only inspiring fear” Talent Sidetracked, When men of eminence have passed Unto the realms where votes are cast, While they contend and vote and think. The game of golf goes “sur le bline.” “A good ulker."—'-»ld Uncle Eben, “is by Congress. Meanwhile, the only way | heen set free by ‘he highest eourt of 1o prevent disorder when tbe poupd- gilhie State, amaster makes his rounds is to detell &/ This case has done some good In able to win many arguments by leayvin out de sense an’ turnin' his end of it nto & vocal solo.” #t veston may literally hecome a life- preserver. We spent just lonz enough in Hous- ton, en route from beautiful but broil- ing Dallas, to realize that the conven- tion ‘city is likely to generate a brand of weather ‘errible to contemplate. With Kansas City's coolness in fra- ear, trembling and , humidity. * ko Galveston is a combination of St. Au- gustine and Atlantic City. the Jersey resort's shore line, minus the Boardwalk. Like Atlantic City, Gal- veston is an Island. Unlike the gay bailiwick r!ed)reeenwd in Washington by Senator ige and “Ike” Bacharach Galveston presents the aspect of a sea. side establishment that has seen better days. Perhaps the place was at its ze- nith tn those more thrilling times when Jean Lafitte, pirate king. salled the Spanish main and made the semi-tropi- cal pearl of the Gulf of Mexico his oc- casional headquarters. joices in its legendary past. One of its hotels is the Jean Lafitte. Another about to be built and christened the Buccaneer, and a second in contempia- tion will be called the Pirate. Though Galveston remains a cotton port of vast { in metropolitan splendor by the Texa wonder cities of Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth. Those communities of skyscrapers, parks, gorgeous residential sections and civic aggressiveness—the products of cotton, timber and oil— open the eyes and excite the enthusi- asm of sophisticated newcomers from the North and East. They are modern America at its newest and finest. ok ok K R. B. Creager, Republican commit- it Al 8mith is the nee for President the Lone Star State will be doubtful in November. No one has yet been encountered south of Del On the contrary, persons are plentiful who Will wager 10 to 1 thal Texas will go Democratic in 1928 by any- thing from 250,000 up. Cox carried it by 175000 1 1920 and Davis took it by 350,000 in 1924 Few deny that the wet, religious an ammany faciors between them would” cut heavily into | the Democratic vote if Smith heads the ticket, but the possibility that Hoover will take Texas into the G. O, P. column seems to be one of the things John J. ‘Ingalls called “Iridescent dreams. * xox % When Herbert Hoover returned from the Mississippl flood distriet last Sum- mer laurel-crowned, sycophantic ad- mirers purred into his ears that if the G. O, P. put him up for President in 1928 even States lke Arkansas, Louistans and Miwissippi would be battle grounds. To Hoover's credit and as evidence of nis newly acqu political sense, be it sald that he n permitted himself to be deluded by such moonshine. He knows, llke every- body else in the South knows, that with the Democrutic gentlemen of Dixle it's not so much a case of loving Al Smith less as of loving the plums of a Democratic administration more. If the governor looks to be the most ltkely distributer of post offiees, judge- ships, prohibition enforcement ap- pointments and other patronage fruit during the next four years, deserving Democrats neveabouts may be relied upon to swallow their prejudices and comport themselves accordingly on clection duy, Democratic nomi- aonow The city re-| importance, it long since was outranked | | teeman from Texas, once said that| son who agrces with Creager. | capable of strang impulsive decisions. * X * % Gov. Ritchie scores the first Houston | bull's-eye with his dramatic withdrawal ’ n favor of Smith. The Marylander’s | e things, including i | renunciation is a surprise only in that it precedes the convention. It long | Ritchie takes lea! out of a well| known advertising slogan, and says: ventually, why not now?” The 1m~' with the waving palms and gorgeous an additional leg-up of 16 votes on the | They like oleanders of the anclent Florida port, | and its sea front is almost exactly like | Annapolis tells the country he has no | cities in Te: first ballot. The first gentleman of | | “ulterior motive” i1 making way for | Smith. Early ccnsention gossip, nev- | ]rrthrlem. is promp: to envisage the { possibllity that if and when the time | comes for the New Yorker to bequeath | | his strength to somebody else, the Marylander may be the beneficiary. | After Walsh or Ritchie, who will be| xt-—Reed, Pomercne, Hull, Wooller or George? W { | Charles Evans Hughes wrote a letter on the eve of the Kansas City con | vention that brought joy and relie! |to_the Hoover camp. It was, in ef fect, an assurance that, come what| may. Hoover had no reason o worry over any use of the former Secretary name, If any such use Hughes said, no time would be lost in convincing the con- vention that it was wholly unau- thorized and would be equally un- |avalling. There is reason to belleve |that the “hero of Havana nt_no | less unqualified word to certain New York and Pennsylvania leaders, whose first choice was Coolidge, and whose second preferance was Hughes. Despite the fact that FHughes received a hand- ful of votes on th: convention's one ballot, his name was hardly mentioned at Kansas Cit | UNITED STATES | N WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. American troops stormed the Ger- man trenches and machine gun nests in front of Cantigny, in the Montdjdier sector, at dawn this morning, kiling { many of the Germans. who had orders to hold the positions at any cost, and | capturing some prisoners. Ameriean artillery put down a heavy box barrage on the rear of the enemy positions, and A few moments later the nfantry swarmed over the top and rushed the trenches, * * * American troops at- tacked the German line northwest of Chateau Thierry during the night and made an advance of more than half u mile, driving the Germans back from a smudl pocket I the northern side of Bellean Wood. One small salient is all that the enemy continues to hold in Belleau Wood. ¢ Seventy-three casualties reported by Gen, Pershing today, including 14 commissioned of- ficers. * * ¢ Incessant attacks of Italian forges on the entire Austrian front In the Montello reglon force Aus- trians to fall back, and it is confidently belleved that the worst phase of the Austrian onslaught 15 over. Allled air- men bring down 14 Austrian planes Hindenburg and Ludendorft join coun- el of generals at Austrian front and give advice, * ¢ More than 100,000 ‘wl'nml» have gone on strike in Vienna N n protest In the reduction of the It It comes to & tug-of-war In the Houston convention, with an unbreak- Uons factories, bread ration, crippling lluvu muni- could " make no headway this Fall | against the Republicans with Smith, | a Tammany man, leading the way. | The corruption issue evaporates, | his opinion, with Smith the party nomi- |nee. Not because Smith himself is a corruptionist, but because he will stand for wn organization which has been charged for years with being the most corrupt political organization in the country. * ok ox % Smith, of course, can be nominated | without ' the Southern delegates cast- !ing their ballots for him, although it takes a two-thirds vole to nominate in A Democratic national convention. The | Louisiana delegation is set to vote for Smith, so he will have that much aid from the Solid South, and some of the North Carolina delegates may cast their ballots for the New Yorker. While Southern political leaders have appar- ently made up their minds to take the nomination of Smith with as good grace as they can, there are a lot of Southern oters who are objecting seriously. This rant, memory, we face Houston in|has been discounted as a certainty. | is particularly true of the women. Mai of them declare that thev will never | vote for Smith, and many of them insi: that they will vote the Republican ticket It is filled mediate effect is to assure Al Smith|if the New York governor is put up. Mr. Hoover. anyway, they mayor of one of the larges xas, talking freely the other ht. is reported to have said that the say. A | Democrats might just as well indorse | if | Demoeratic Hoover and go on home, especiall; the alternative is the nomination of Al Smith. *kw R ‘The renomination of Senator Fred- erick Hale of Maine, who defeated Gov | Brewster of that State in the senatorfal primary Monday. bids fair to return to the Senate a man who has been a stanch supporter of the Republican party and the Coolidge administration. Senator Hale, who has served in the upper house since 1917, is chairman of the Senate naval affairs committee, like his father before him. and believes in | building up an adequate navy for the defense of the United States. & N ‘The political order in Massachusetts, is changing. Willlam M. Butler, former Senator, has retired from the chair- manship of the Republican national committee and from the committee itself. Louis K. Liggett of Boston was elected to fill Senator Butler's place on the national committee, although not as chairman. President Coolidge, after March 4. is dropping out of the political picture, at least for several vears, though' there is nothing to prevent h re-entry into public life if he desire Mr. Liggett has been active in Repul lican polities for several vears in the Bay State, under Mr. Butler. He aided largely in raising funds for the Repub- lican national campaign four vears ago in New England » ox Whatever the charges brought by Democrats against the leaders of the Republican natfonal organization before Mr. Butler took charge as chairman, there have been no eharges against the national committee and Its conduct during the Butler administration At least, none that have stood up Mr. Butler rganization a, cloan, businesslike administration There was no defieit. but a surplus, at the close of the 1924 campaign was handled by Mr. Butler. S ator “Jim" Read of Missowrl is to be in Houston Friday or Saturday ta take charge of his campalgn for the presidentlal nomination, A statement issued by F. J. Price from the Reed headquarters declares that the Reed- for sident campaign is “not amli- ated with any coalition movement.” It further says that “Reed's opinions on all national issues are well known,” a slap at Gov. Smith, who has kept mum up to now on many national issues. How the Reed people expect Smith to be stopped I the coming convention is told * statement: “An anglysis of those delegations from typically Democratic States that will not vote for Smith plainly indicates (hat the nomination has not yet been mads abama, 24; Avkansas, 18; Colorado, 6; Florida, 12 Georgla, 28 fhinols, 9 Indiana, 300 Kansus, 20 Mississippl, 20; Missourt, 36; Nebraska, 16, North Carolina, 34: Ohio, 47, Okl 20; Pennaylvania, 36, South in | “Undeniably the Republicans have battle of gianis” is seen by the picked their best man asserts the |homa ‘Oklahoman Worcester Gazette ( t) and | and the Kalamazoo Gagette (independ- | the Philadeiphia Evening Bulletin (in- | ent). Duluth Herald (independent Re- dependent Republican) commends the | publican) and Brooklyn Daily Eagle (in- platform on which he stands as reflect- | dependent) expect a spirited and close ing “Coolidge-Hoover policy, traditional | political fight. Republicanism and sound American. Comments on the wide range of im- Much of the opposition in the agri- | cultural States, the Pittsburgh M-) Gazette belleves, “was based on preju- | Express (Republican), Kansas dice,” and this, it points out, “Mr.| City Journal-Post (independent Repub- | Hoover's friends are confident will dls-‘ lican), Altoona Mirror (independent). appear entirely as the campaign pro-| Charleston Daily Mail (independent gresses and the people come to know | Republican), Madison Wisconsin State the candidate better. Journal tindependent), Buffalo Evening According to the Charlotte News| News (Republican). Long Beach Press- (Democratic), Republicans, “tens of | Telegram ¢ ), Jersey City | | i which | in the following paragraph from this| millions strong,” Wwill probably support Hoover. “not only for the things for which he stands, but for his personal achievements in various realms of pub- lic activity in the past and for the solidity of character that is admittedly s~ The selection uterpreted as_as | surance of victor: the Flint Daily | Journal (independent). Wichita Bea- con (independent Rcpublican), Cle land News (independent Republican) !and Haverhill Gazette (independent). ok oxox | _“Don't get it Hoover will be e ! the Durham Sun adds “Hoover your head that to beat™ advises independent), which will not _endanger the South. into But he will | East, in the W part of the | stretches across nd in the greater vast territory whicl the North between The Passaic Daily Herald (independ- ent) remarks that “he will reach out and gather up the independent vote, while the Appleton Post-Crescent (in; dependent) % his candidacy was frresistible ‘Never has chosen as its man_ better qu the Republican party presidential nominee a ified.” avers the Fort Wayne Net entinel (Republican), and the Cinciny Times-Star can), paying a tribute to his “great abil- | ity, fine patriotism and splendid iter- est i the well-being of his fellow men, says that his “preparation for the presi dential office has been magnificent.” The ticket, including Senator Curtis for Vice President. is described by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (independ- ent Democratic) as “the strongest which could have come forth from the Repub- lican convention and. as suchl a tri- umph of the cohesive torce which seems inherent in the Republican party.” The Kansas City Star-Times (independent) predicts, “As armers learn more about what he did for American agri- culture during the war and just after it as they discover his intelligent concert in farm problems, they may be expected to turn more and more strongly to him Mr. Hoover's position as the best Re ublican selection, barring = Messrs. ughes and Root, is affirmed by the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch _(independent Democratic), and the Albany Evening News (independent Republican) —pre- | dicts “a united party led by the man best fitted to bear its banner” Noue better “has been nominated for the presidency for ¢ long vears.” i the judgment of the Lexington Leader (in- dependent Republican), and superla- tive commendation comes from the | Manchester Union (independent Repub- | tican), Binghamton Press (independent | Re) Providence Journal (inde- pendent), Chicago Dailly News (inde pendent), Chicago Daily Tribune (Re publican) and Rock Island Argus (in- | dependent) The Topeka Dally Capital | (Republican) asserts | to believe that Hoover is better quall- ffled than any of the other can- didutes for the presidential nommnation to work out a practical solution of the diffeulties of the farm * % o publican) is faced with need made by Fort W do its best” is ne Journal-Ga- Caroling, 16: Tennessee, 34: Texas, 40; Virginia, 24; Utah, 3. West Virginia, 6: Porto Rico, 6. Total, 457 Even with defections that may oceur in Arkansas, Nebraska and Ohio, there still remain a considerable block of votes sufficlent to cause the delegates to ponder and | fally come 10 Reed. Thoy come fram 1ock-ribbed Democratic States, and olher States will follow the Reed bans ner and nom! the tenth g T Sy s (Republi- | Suggestion that “the Democratic party | inale the Senator hhl|3 l | Journal (independent Republican) and | Jackson Citizen-Patriot (independent). { The Utica Observer-Dispatch (inde- | pendent) calls “the strong man of the cabinet, outside, perhaps, the field of finance,” and the Hartford Times (independent Democratic) points to his success with the Department of Commerce. “He is keenly sensitive to sponsibility.” in the judgment of the South Bend Tribune (independent). and the Indianapolis Star (independent | Republican) sees in him one who is ‘equal to every emergency.” To the Co- lumbus Ohio State Journal it appears that “if the Republican candidate wins. the great powers of the presidency wi be in safe and competent hands - But naturally th unanimous. - Withou: questioning record, the Louisville Times tinde- pendent) declares that “it is Hoover's jtask to make good on the assertion of his friends tha' the man who has solved all other problems presented to him can solve the farm-relie! problem witheut advocating tariff reduction “He now has an opportunity to redeem himself, to demonstrate what his supporters ass that he is really |the farmers' best friend.” states the St. Paul Pioneer-Press Independent), slmd the Daytonr Daily News (Demo- cratic) comments, in view of the placing lof Semator Curtis on the ticket, | "Whether or not his selection will {placate the farmers after two | dential veto | {0 be s The Denver Post (inde- | pendent épublican) suggests that “Mr. Hoover®is, by rearing, environ- wgent - and Jnclination, an Easterner, i«\r, rather, an internatio t, in view- n apin! is s of the farm bill remains * M *Hoover alarms the Eastern financial and industrial interests.” it js_pointed out by the Houston Chron Lle (Democratic), “because they can't {be certain what he'll do tomorrow and-he offends the agricultural Middle | W because of his entire urban- mindedness and apparent assumption {that e Yarming classes were meant jto be inferior classes” Attention is glvep .to the prodlem of the farmers by the Davenport Democrat (Demo- tic), which belleves that mil- them will refuse to i Seranton Times ). Savannah Press (Demo- Savannah News (independent Democratic), Banger Commercial (Re- publican) and Sioux City Tribune (in- dependent). D | “Whether his passion for efciency fhas removed him i any degree from ithe plane on which best can be under- stood the trials and aspirations of the common man s for the American peo- Ple to judge.” suggests the Chicago Daily News (independent). The Balt more Evening Sun (independent Dem- jocratic) avers that “his net contribu- [ ton to the discussion of public ques- tons * * has Leen & general ref- erence to the Cvolidge policies.” The | Chattancoga Times iindependent Dem- ocratic) believes that “Hoover, the Coolidge _conservative, so called, and Curtis. the supporter of the MeNary- HAugen monstrosity, will have great dificulty In meeting upon a ‘common level' and standing upon a ‘congenial square.' " The Lanstng Stats Journal (inde- pendent) realizes this contrast be- ween the party’s new standard bear- ors. but allows the reader to pass his own t on & team (hat repres sents new and the old-—abuts ments on both sides of the chasm be- fween past and future—a business executive, an ald-thwe party regular- the high, procise busipess of governs