Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1928, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR . SON Sutiley Morning Bive. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.........June 25, 1028 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11th St. “‘;MP‘: 0.|c': in Ave. ."and_Pennsylvania Av New York Office: 110 East 4ana t. Chicago Office: Tower Butldine. European omcr.h Regent St.. London. nd. Rate by Carrier Within the City. The Evening Star.... 45¢ per month The Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundays) ~...60c per month | Star | “The Evening and Sun: (when 5 Sundays). ‘The Sunday Star .. . Collection made at’thi Orders may be sent In Main 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday....1 yr.$10.00: 1 mo. 85¢ Daily only 710 vrl £6.00; 1 mo.. S0c Sunday only 1 yr, 34.00: 1 mo. 40c 65¢ per month .- 3¢ per cony d of each month by mail or telephone | All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday..1 yr.$12.00: 1 mo., 3100 Dails oalr 1yr. $800: 1 mo. T3¢ Sunday only ... Il yr. $500: 1 mol 50c Mcmber of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repuslication of all news dis- patches credited 1o it ar nct otherwise cr ited in this paper and also the loca! n published herein. All rights of publication ¢ special dispatches herein are also reserved Reed as a “Dry." Senator James A. Reed of Missouri as a champion of the drys against the wet Al Smith of New York is the latest | product of the whirligig of politics. The | picture just does not seem real, | not- | withstanding the statement issued by Senator Reed in Houston Sunds vhich manifestly was a bid for the support of the drys in his contest against Smith for the presidential nomination of the Democratic party. Some of the dry | leaders are apparently willlng to fall in | with the Reed game, not because they | Jove Reed so much, but because they hate Smith so much more. Several | months ago it was reported that Wil- | liam Gibbs McAdoo was ready to “take” | Reed rather than have Smith, his old | opponent, win the nomination. Today | some of the old McAdoo leaders at Houston are foremost in the plan to | rally the Smith opposition behind the | fighting Missourian. ‘The straits to which the Smith oppo- sition has finally arrived are indicated in this latest move in the convention city. There is so far no indication that McAdoo himsel! is back of the plan to have Reed lead the anti-Smith fight. McAdoo is one of those who have not gone to Houston. How much more consistent would the movement for a coalition against Smith have been if George of Georgia, Hull of | ‘Tennessee or Woollen of Indiana were picked to head it! All of them are dry, and none of them has the anti-Wilson record of Mr. Reed. The trouble in Houston has been, however, to get any of these favorite-son candidates to fight Smith. There are two reasons—first, the ery for “harmony” has been so strong that these favorite sons have soft- pedaled anything that might look like a good old-fashioned Democratic row. Second, some of these favorite sons are shrewdly suspected of desiring to run | with Al Smith on the Democratic na- tional ticket. Smith, according to many of the Democrats, has a chance to be elected | President. The vice presidency is no job to be sneezed at these days. Reed'’s statement, which seems to ally him with the drys against Smith, creat- ed a mild sensation in Houston when it ‘was made public. While it merely gave his record on the wet and dry question, 1t also gave the inference that Senator ;Reed was prepared to go to theslimit of the enforcement laws if he should “become President. It was a palpable “attack on Smith, although it did not “mention the New York governor by Senator Reed has maintained through- “eut the pre-convention campaign that “prohibition must not be made an issue of the coming campaign. He has in- New York golfer one stroke in the lead. ‘The last two holes were gems for both players. Summoning all his en- ergy, Jones clicked off a “birdie” three on the seventeenth, but was matched by the determined Farrell, who saw the championship beckoning to him and was not to be denied. On the last hole it looked as if Jones' desperate finish would win back that one stroke, which looked bigger to him than one run in the ninth inning with two out does to home-town base ball fans. His drive was straight down the middle, while Parrell's was sliced to the rough. His second was close to the green, while Farrell was still in high grass fifty yards | short. Here, however, the new cham- | pion showed his mettle and laid a mag- nificent mashie shot eight feet from the hole. Jones, used to tense situations, concentrated on his delicate chip and put the ball dead to the hole for a sure birdie four. It was do or die for Farrell to sink that putt and win the cham- plonship. Straight for the cup his ball went and settled into the bottom with a fifty-thousand-dollar clink. Farrell richly deserved his victory. Until the play-off he fought against heavy odds. In gaining the seven strokes necessary to tie Jones in the last thirty-six holes of the tournament he accomplished a feat that no golfer here- tofore was given even an outside chance to do. Spotting Bobby Jones seven strokes in thirty-six holes is something like swimming the English Channel with feet and hands tied. It just is not done. The new open champion did not let this handicap bother him, however, but went out to prove that he was the mas- ter. The legion of golfers the world over hails the new champion. Long may he reign! R Houston Harmony. The Democratic donkey gives no evi- dence so far of kicking up his heels and behaving like a Texas steer at the coming national convention in Houston. Indeed, the Democratic don- attitude of patience and calm which ture in the past. But donkeys, Democratic and other- wise, are strange beasts. It is difficult to foretell what a donkey will do under a given set of circumstances. The Democratic donkey may yet become mulish, notwithstanding all the at- tempts of party leaders to go along at the convention in harmony. The wet and dry issue gives most promise | of trouble ahead. ! ‘This much can be said: The Demo- | cratic leaders who have assembled in | the convention city preparatory to the; opening of the big show on Tuesday | are bent on a harmonious gathering. Whether they will be able to control the delegates themselves, once the con- vention has opened, remains to be seen. The convention has all the makings of a hot fight, with Al Smith of New York, wet, Tammany and Catholic, on the one side, and the dry, Protestant and anti-Tammany candidates on the other, with Senator Reed of Missouri, a wet and a Protestant, occupying somewhat middle ground. But the soft pedal is on. None of the candidates, for the presidential nomination is en- gaging in personalities or saying any- thing that might hurt the feelings of his opponents in the race. The same is true of the managers of the candi- dates. No one in authority has un- dertaken to bawl out Gov. Smith or Tammany. If the Democrats, meeting in Hous- gram with the adoption of a platform and the selection of presidential and vice presidential candidates without a ruction, it will be a triumph of peace. It will be in sharp contrast to the national convention of 1924, when at Madison Square the Democrats staged a sixteen-day fight and emerged there- from a mass of scars and sore spots. ‘The word has been passed around in | recent months that the party must nol‘ sisted that Democrats are divided over key has assumed for the moment an | has been decidedly forelgn to his na- | ton tomorrow, can wind up their pro- ! the right and wrong of prohibition, and | have a row at this convention; that if that the best thing for the party 10 do | it does there will be little hope for the to take no stand nationally on the .subject, other than to proclaim itself ~for the enforcement of the laws. Wmlg:'etmdmnwomtotun‘ _eighteenth amendment when it was put through, Senator Reed has a record ‘very different from that of Smith. He | opposed the proposed repeal of the Mis- | souri State enforcement act, and Gov. Smith signed the bill repealing the New York enforcement law. Reed has now come out as an opponent of the “nul- fification” plan of the New York wets, which would allow individual States to Getermine what shall be the alcoholic content of beverages sold within their borders. But Reed, as a champion of the drys, tllustrates once more what strange bed- | geliows politics makes. et A convention has to be well organized to prevent the serious program from being overwhelmed by volunteer efforts 8! comedy relief. o —e— The New Golf Champion. John Farrell of New York has been knocking at the doors of golf fame for many years. Yesterday he came into his own when in a gruelling thirty-six- hole play-off with Bobby Jones he won the United States open golf champion- #hip by one stroke. Halled as the best national organization for many years to come. Tales have gone out from New York of the great vote-getting strength of Gov. Smith, and these tales have in- until after the first procession, and then gradually to join it in & seemly and unhurried manner. This is not bad reasoning. Gov. Smith may be the inevitable choice, but the people who clected the delegates, who must nominate, do not at this time want him as the candidate. They have expressed their wishes for favorite sons or other available material, and the delegates who disregard their wishes without attempt to fulfill them might return home to find a disgruntled batch of voters who would not forget the first ballot at Houston by next November— & date when preconvention prejudices and preferences should be buried deep in some dark hole. ‘The Smith managers, with the nom- ination of the candidate almost a cer- tainty, would rather have the succeed- ing ballots express a growing popularity for their choice and the characteristics of & rolling snowball. They want to fight shy of those sounds which some- | times remind one of a crushing steam roller. They want to avoid a stampede, for -a stampede soon wears itself out. They want to keep away from produc- | ng a candidate who looks too much as if he were chosen in advance. | Whether they are successful will not be known until after the first ballot. The indications are that some of the delegates are beginning to look with longing eyes at the top of the band wagon. They think how nice it would | be to be seen sitting there ahead of time. They are getting just the least bit panicky, it is reported, lest they be left out in the cold. A first-ballot nom- ination slams and locks the door on a | lot of folks, usually. who would like to { be given just one more opportunity to get inside. A SR e The Prince of Wales has introduced & new pattern in his waistcoat. It is | widely imitated. Even though he may | speak with deferential modesty, the | wardrobe of a prince carries a note of authority. In early youth Senator Curtis had an honorable career as a jockey. Pub- lic confidence must turn to him as a man eager to do his best in a square race. i | Edison says there is rubber in many ‘flmmlr weeds. The statement does | not as yet afford any excuse for the man who neglects his garden to pose as a speculative economist. —— -t Humane societies might combine in an effort to have Summer conventions held near the Canadian border, where the temperature is normally low. Sl IO ) Up to the present moment, no con- sideration has presented itself with suf- | ficient power to cause Senator Reed to | say he does not choose to run. i America is a musical nation. But | the idea that a nomination can be | won'by a brass band has long since been thrown into the discard. vt ‘The really important discovery is made when an airplane succeeds in lo- cating the members of a stranded polar expedition. -t Political band wagons have become irresponsible. No candidate can hope to corrall the enormous but tempera- mental jazz vote. R i Every time trafic regulations are | changed the police have renewed op- | portunity to show courteous patience | with the jay driver. — SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. ;| Though men’s opinions differ more than many think they should, | Some point is always present to be clearly understood. Producer and Consumer ask, in phrases | rough or neat, The question of all history, which is, ' “When do we eat?” | | The able agriculturist pursues his pen- sive path, Where Elephant and Donkey rise in a familiar wrath. They'll need our good friend farmer, | clied some of the Democratic leaders of the South to try out the governor, the national ticket to victory in No- on the chance that he might carry | | disregard him as they may. | Both of these animals depend for nour- | ishment. on hay. o JUNE 9. THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. ‘Two of the soda jerkers behind the long counter were showing off. ‘With unnecessary vigor they slam- med glasses on the counter, banged open the lids of the fce cream con- tainers, rammed their scoops down with utter vehemence, whanged the frozen dainty into the glasses. Grabbing a spoon, they rapped it smartly on the counter, once, twice, then hurled it into the glass. They seized the soda faucets with vim, put- ting the “fizz" into the beverages in short order. Their movements, even the slightest, seemed to be done to music of the ultra-jazz type, although there was no sound in the place except the unneces- sary noises they made, superimposed on the hum of conversation which came from the consumers at the rear. ‘The boys put enough energy Into their work to have made tires, or laid brick. or constructed houses, or done any one of a variety of jobs which ac- tually require “pep.” The idle spectator, sipping his glass of sweetened stuff, wondered why the young men were so full of vim on such a hot day. Just exactly what fun were they get- ting out of such furious manipulations? A soda served in a sedate way is just as sweet, why go te the extent of such fury? One felt like applying to them the well known sentence which the great Emerson used in another situa- tion, “Why so hot, my little man?” WON Sk Maybe this heralds a new style of soda dispensers, more in line with an athletic age. If a man be confined to wearing an apron and white cap and standing be- hind a counter, is that any reason why he should fail to prove himself a “he- man"? Must he forever hand out sirup sur- reptitiously? Not on your life! proved, once and for all, may assert itself anywhere. last place one would expect large quantities of superfluous energy would be at a soda fountain. Some way, chocolate sodas and “sundaes” are associated with sweet These young men that vigor The very young things in silk and ribbons. Or | At | the soda fountain one normally expects | do they wear ribbons any more? to discover staid manners, conservative movements, quiet words. ‘The shouting and the tumult ought to die quietly and in order at the front door of such an establishment. At small tables should be seated young men in blue serge coats and white flannel trousers, young women in tennis frocks with sunburned arms and silk stockings of a shade to match same. ‘The ‘hirsty stranger ought not to be forced. we submit, to watth two mis- placed base ball playérs leaping after spoons as if- some emergency existed. Surely the birds will smash something in_a minute. Bang! Sure enough, they have. There goes a glass as one of the boys slapped at it as if attempting to stop a pass, only in | this case he miscalculated by several inches and swept the container to the floor instead of spearing it on the run as he had intended. This slows 'em up a bit—well, con- siderably. No longer do they play leap- frog with ice cream or insist on regard- ing glasses as articles on wheels. They calm down to almost normal. had to. R It is to be hoped that these vigorous manners do not extend themselves into places of business in general. What would a mild-mannered man do if con- to find | the | fronted by an athletic buss driver in the morning? “Tickets, please,” the man would say, holding forth a coin. Whang! The driver would shoot out a right for the jaw, “holding” his punch as it reached the danger point, then would grab the money, swing around, slap it into his coin container, bring around his other hand in a wide curve, stick out his fist in a stiff left hook for the jaw. The poor passenger, menaced in this fashion, might tumble into a seat, | whereupon the driver would be entitled to wave both arms in semicircles while making mouthing noises to the effect | that “Here's yer tickets!" Suppose elevator men should sud- | denly get this idea and unanimously | decide to become athletic in their trade? | “Brothers, too long have we just sit lon a seat and gone up and down,” Brother Riley would say at the big con- | vention of elevator starters and oper- | ators. “We must impress the public. We must broaden out. Let us make | movements in the horizontal plane!” “I move,” Brother Jones would pipe up—"T move that we appoint a com- | mittee on movements in the horizontal | plane.” ‘The Committee on Movements in the Horizontal Plane would be appointed by the chair, to meet the next day at noon. | At noon the next day the committee would meet and steadily draw up ar- | ticles of activity. What wonderment would assail office | workers when next they stood at the | push button and watched the pink light g0 on in the globe above the door! ‘There would be a rumble of metal as the grating slid open at top speed. | With"a flourish of the right hand, the operator would crash the golden gates | be (of brass) and ram home the lever, | The lever would thump to a stop, the operator would hurl himself up and down several times, then settle back in | his seat with a bang. “Going up!” he would scream. Zowie! He would hurl the doors shut, leap side- ways to the right. then careen an ecual | distance to the left, bring up with a smash and do the same thing all over again between cach floor. Oh, what a world this will be if elevator men be- come athletic! * ok % % Where one would be forced to draw the line would be at athletic counte: men in restaurants. Hitherto th white-coated and sometimes white- hatted gentlemen have contented them- selves with being athletic talkers. Their “line” of banter runs all the way from the presumptuous to the interes | ing, from the merely jocular to the sup- posed funny. but to date they have not gone in much for activities which re- semble those of broad jumpers, sprint- ers or hammer throwess. It is true that waiters have been termed “hash slingers,” but such a | term has been rather in the nature of a slur, not an indication of physical activity per se. | When a counterman actually begins to sling pots of baked beans at the un- | suspecting heads of hungry customers | the time will have come for a complete reformation, with the good work initi- | termen. No, these are but dreams conjured up | by the ferocious energy of two neat- | appearing young men who insisted on | playing hand ball with soda glasses on |a hot Summer afternoon. There is little chance of their vim becoming con- | tagious. | The danger lles rather in the inertia which strangely resembles that which | infects otherwise good clerks who calmly | survey a customer and then go on to | discuss their private affairs ane with ! the other. HOUSTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC CONVENTION HALL, Houston, Tex.. | WILLIAM WILE. He’s typical of Lone Star hospitality. ated at the expense of expansive coun- | Mississippi Channel Project Is Urged From the $t. Paul Dispatch, Upper Mississippi River barge line operation thus far has attained a lim- ited success. The enterprise has proved itself of advantage to shippers and hence indirectly to the public. Its direct success is based almost entirely upon savings in transportation costs. Inland waterway transportation can- not be considered successful, however, while it is carried on for the benefit of shippers alone. It must show a profit not only for the business man whose goods are moved at lowered costs by water, but also for the oper- ator of the barges. If river transporta- tion is sufficiently economical to pre- sent an opportunity for profits to the carrier as well as te the shipper, pri- vate enterprises will be attracted into If there are no prospects of profits for the carrer, transportation will cease the moment the Government ceases to operate the barge lines. The administration in Washington 1is hostile to Government operation. Pow- erful competitors of Mississippi Valley business interests are opposed. The threat of discontinuance of Mississippi River transportation as a Government enterprise is real. It probably can be only temporarily dispelled. The author- ity to sell the barge lines actually is given the Secretary of War by the terms of the Denison bill, now pending in Congress. Even if this provision is stricken from the measure and the life of the Government's experiment is | prolonged, the demand for discontinu- ance may be expected to recur. There has been in fact no demand that the | Government should engage permanently | in_the river transportation business. | Ultimately Mississippi River traffic | will e carried in barges operated by business for profit, or else there will no important commerce on the | stream. Government experts declare | that inland water transportation is not | profitable as a private enterprise unless bulk cargo can be, carried. Movement | of bulk cargo is not possible in shallow streams. Therefore the outlook for Mississippi River navigation comes down to this: It will succeed if a deep channel is provided. Otherwise its | prospects are dubious. The vital importance the status of the Upper Mississippi 9-foot channel project should not be overlooked by shippers’ representa- | tives who are now preparing to appear before Congress with demands for changes in the Denison bill, R High Prosperity Tide Runs Into Mergers From the Utica Observer-Dispatch When the tide of prosperity runs high in financial circles and speculation is 1b«'r. The past few years have seen an | unusual number of consolidations. | ., Announcement of the International | Telephone & Telegraph Co.’s proposal ystem of to acquire the communication s; the Radio Corporation of America prompts the conclusion that such an amalgamation would be one of the | largest and most important in the | period | _The International Telephone Co. re- cently completed a $300,000,000 merger with the Postal Telegraph & Cable ‘Companies. | yond the acquisition of the radio com- | munication system. This deal may be back of the specula- tive mystery in Wall street over the ad- vance of Radio Corporation stock to a Ipl’k:? of more than $220 per share, al- though it earned oniy about $5 a share last year, and doesn’t pay any dividend. | . The progress of the International Telephone brings to the fore two broth- ers, Sosthenese Behn and Hernand Behn, who were unknown in Wall street | until a few years ago. Although born | in Danish West Indies, they have long | been naturalized Americans. Recent mergers show the trend to- ward more big corporations. In the carly days of the “steel trust” some | students of business believed that com- | | petent men could not be found to man- | age large sized companies. Now there June 25.—It is a much gayer show the | A letter addressed to convention cor-|are a number of them, and they are Democrats are staging at Houston than’ respondents reads as follows: “The In- | doing notably well. “the Quaker meeting” of the Repub- ternational Press Club, an organization PR IR s the carrying trade and the river will | become a thriving artery of commerce, | of ascertaining | rife mergers take place in greater num- | Possibly it has plans be- | This is a spectal department devoted solelv to the handling of queries. This paper puts at your disposal the services of an extensive organization in Wash- ington to serve you in any capacity that relates to information. This service is free. Failure to make use of it deprives you of benefits to which you are en- titled. Your obligation is only 2 cents in coin or stamps, inclosed with your inquiry, for direct reply. _Address The | Evening Star Information Bureau, Pred- erl% J. Haskin director, Washington, D.C. Q. Who built the three stone houses on K street between Connecticut avenue and Seventeenth street?—P. T. A. They were built in the early 70s by Alexander R. Shepherd, Adolf Cluss and Hallet Kilbourn. The one on the corner of Co-necticut avenue and K street was occupied by Shepherd, and was the scene of elaborate social enter- taining. Q. What became of the plane that Comdr. Byrd flew to France?—S. F. | A. The America was destroyed at the | time of the forced landing off the coast of France. | Q. How is absentee voting arranged? —G. L. B A. A number of States provide for | absentee voting, and the clerk of elec- | ition in the respective districts, upon | request filed some time in advance, will mail ballots to properly qualified voters. | Q. Does the outside rear wheel of a car travel faster than the inside wheel on a curve?’—E. L. B. | A. The Bureau of Standards says that when an automobile is making a | turn the outside rear wheel travels | faster than the inside wheel. The dif- ferential gears take up the difference in | distance traveled by the inside and out- | side wheels. | @ What parts of the body are heavier than water’—B, K. W. A. Al solid parts of the body are heavier than water. The specific grav- | |ity varies with the parts under consid- | eration. Q. Who is the new wife of Richard Barthelmess?>—H. N. | A. His second wife was formerly Mrs Jessica Sargent, who has a 7-year-old child named Stuart Sargent. | Q. How can the age of a hard-chell ! turtle be judged?—J. T. L. A. There is no sure way in which to | determine the age of a hard-shell turtle. In most instances the plates are exam- ined closely with a microscope, and on these plates there can be noticed scale cxpansion. This scale expands as the | turtle grows, leaving a ring of growth. | These rings are counted the same as those of a tree. | Q. Who originated the proverb “Let ' the cobbler keep to his last”>—R. C. | _A. This is attributed to Apelles. | | Greck artists exposed their pictures to | the public view in the fronts of porches of their houses. A cobbler criticiged the sandal worn by one of the figures | | in a painting by Apelles. The fault be- ing corrécted, the cobbler then vontured | to criticize the leg, whereupon Apelles ! | remarked, “Let the cobbler keep to his Q. What was the power used to play { the fountains at Versailles?—E. D. J. A. Grandes Eaux at Versailles are fed from reservoirs at Marley. When water | is led from reservoirs through a pipe to {an orificc suitably placed at a lower level it will spout upward to a height of a little less than that of the level in the reservoir. This is the principle upon which the fountains of Versailles op- erate. | Q. Did t ‘Golden Treas- | ury” contain the Victorian ! poets?—H. * L. | . A; The original “Golden Treasury.” | first published in 1861, was designed to ' ‘eontain all the-best songs.and lyrics in | jour language up to the year 1850. © What was the last message cabled ! from St. Pierre just before Mount Pe- | lee erupted?—G. E. M. | . A, The operator at St. Pierre cabled: | “Red-hot stones are falling here. Don't | know how long I can hold out.” The o origl “ any work of | number of the women being engagac 1 Q lished?- licans at Kansas City, as a Texas wit- | of the hedonistically inclined editors of ness dubs it. Despite the heat, there |the 36 periodicals published ‘On the is exhilaration in the air. The conven- | Last Frontier of Texas’' has unani- tion hall is sure to throb with it when | mously clected you to an honorary things get going on Tuesday. Perhaps | membership. This club is unique, in that it's the greater romance of the South- | it is the only one in America that holds . | message was sent the morning of May | Dark Color of Skin 16, 1902. May 8 the city was \n.nuns. Nature’s Protection Q Do canned peas contain vita- mins?—M. J.C. BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. X I | | The Canning Trade says that t that surcharges the Democratic | all of its monthly sessions in a foreign s B R g {hnd. A very damp banquet has been | arranged for the newspaper men who | take the side Lrlr to the lower Rio Grande Valley after the convention. | This will be held in a little Spanish convention = with an atmosphere of brightness and breeziness lamentably lacking in the Hooverized conclave. ‘The Mex esent. Ten-gallon hats are encoun- jcan-Spanish note is omni- | That the dark hue of the colored races’ skin, undoubtedly a protective device of nature for races accustomea for thousands of years to live in in- | tensely sunlit countries, is accompanied by a still more important skin protec- | green peas are most remarkable for their vitamin content. They do not !only contain vitamins A. B and C in ! fair amounts, but are outstanding in | that they are among our richest sources pro | . “The Old Gray | Reynosa. The date is Friday evening, n'fi::g‘g::d":q‘:::fig fine organization, | July 6. 8 o'clock. Mum's the word. in cowboy kit from top to bottom, and | Doesn’t that intrigue you?" of thess vital elements. Upon ripen-' ANSWERS TG QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. ing, peas lose all their vitamin € and most of their vitamin A. There is therefore, good Teason why we do nof allow peas to ripen. There is likewise reason why peas are canned in their most succulent state. There is also good reason for canning peas within a few hours after harvesting Vegetables begin to lose their vi after harvesting as they do their ‘When once they are canned ther no further change ©. What is the national soup of Russia’—B. S. A. The national soup is tchie or stchee. It is more of a stew than a soup, It contains sausage, cabbage and on all of which are fried before the is added. It is often flavored witn tarragon vinegar. Other soups typically Russian are those having beets in some form. Q. What is the proper metrono mark for a wedding march. end i proper to take one or two steps to A. According to the “Lohe: Bridal March” and other standard wed ding marchés, the proper metronome | 84 in quarter notes. In a processional one step is taken to a bar of music nek | bar?—A. T. C. Q. What percentage of fires staris in basements?—R. D. A. There is no general survey. In New York City in 1926 2,499 fires out of 7,504 in tenements or apartments hac their origin in cellars. This would be about 331-3 per cent of the total. Q. Why does a “mackintosh rai coat” bear that name?—R. P. A. As in the case of Macadam with road surfaces, the successful effort= of a Scotchman named Mackintosa to waternroof textile materials perpetuated his name in connection with india rubber waterproof garments. Q. Are girls arships’—E. D. A. The scholarships are given to men only. egulblr for Rhode= schol- Q. What does the name “Ashtabula” mean’—L. A. A. 1t is an Indian name, and means “fish river.” Q. How can sealing wax be made at home?—F. W. L. A. Melting together equal parts of shoemaker’s wax and resin produces an acceptable wax. This should be done in a pan over hot water to prevent scorching. Q. Where is the most northerly post office in America?—D. S. A. The most northerly is Barrow. Alaska. Mail service is restricted in *he Winter. Q. Was ambrosia a food or a drink?-- . M. A. Ambrosia is the term used in mythology to describe the substance which, with nectar, formed the food and drink of the gods and which made immortal those who partook of it Usually, both in Homer and later writers. ambrosia is the food and nectar the drink, but some, as Sappho. used ambrosia as the name of the drink and nectar as the food. Q. What per cent of factory labor in .h;;-n is now performed by women? A 'Aeeordsu to the latest available statistics given by the bureau of statis- tics of the Japanese government, the in factory labor on Oectober 10, 1924 was 725,590 out of the total factery laborers of 1326.286. The above fig ures were reached on the basis of 7.131 factories, which. with minér exceptions included those with 30 or more labor- ers on that date. It seems that th importance of silk and other te: industries in Japan accounts for relatively great number of woman fac- tory labarers. When was the first cartoon pub A. Benjamin Franklin. who. fntro- duced many innovations into the Amer- ican press, was the first to print t cartoon in his Pennsylvania Gazet The drawing appeared May 5, 1754 The author was James L. Lee, wh ! wrote “The History of American Jour- nalism.” Q. Has any comedian apd dancer ever become prominent as a public offi- cial?—B. A. Lew Shank, twice mayor of In- dianapolis and a candidate for nomi- nation for Govermor of Indiana. was for several yeags of his early life comedian and dance: tion, that against germs, is the conclu- — sion of S. J. Holmes of the University | {of California, from a study reported by | a woman soloist on horseback, is the | official music-maker. It parades the | streets and hotel lobbies. playing “How | * ok ok ¥ Jim Reed and Mrs. Gretchen Down M » - . Cunningham of Washington, D. C., and 33.3""é‘.x&“&fl’:fii?i‘l‘.‘."fh?.’. fifq‘:fl Galveston, Tex., had a diverting run- the filmslest of sport frocks on women in Saturday. Senator Reed was holding fill Houston with a blaze of color sug- his first newsgflw conference. So many 1 cribes turned up that they had to mi- the seashore. In the streets | S¢! ?:I:“;:fl?fnlh:aphllt Sinks beneath the | Erate from Reed headquarters across feet and the Texas sun beats down | | the Rice mezzanine to & more capacious mercilessly. But atop the tall Rice | chamber apparently untenanted. Hotel, hub of the convention universe, | “Jim" led the journalistic van in that breezes blowing in from the Gulf bring | by an Amazonian Democrat—Mrs. | the Wistar Institute Bibliographic Serv- | | ice of Philadelphia. Medical men have noticed, Holmes | reports, that colored persons are less likely than whites to catch skin disease believed to be due to germs, like ery: sipelas. Colored races also are rela- tively immune to diphtheria, scarlet | fever and similar germ diseases be- ' Violence and lawlessness which led, lieved to begin by lodgment of germs | to national honors and contributed to in the mouth or throat. The reason is,, the achievement of a great political | Holmes believes, that the colored skin change are on the record of Mrs. Emme- has been toughened as well as blackened | line Pankhurst. the British suffragette, | Though markets vary strangely for the ylelds of every sort— Some sell corn by the bushel; others | vend it by the quart—— ‘We find when pointing with great prlde; or viewing with alarm, | A nation has to place its great depend- ence on the farm. vember. ‘There are still other Southern and Western leaders, however, who have resigned themseives to defeat— which they expect—provided they can | be rid of Gov. Smith as a presidential | candidate four years from now. For diverse reasons, therefore, a spirit of apparent harmony has been developea{ S in Houston among the leaders. | A Professional Standard. The candidates opposing Smith (nrj “Do you believe in the direct use of the presidential nomination, too, are money in politics?” none too hopeful regarding the value “Certainly not,” answered Senator of the nomination to any one of them |Sorghum. “Only an amateur attempts if Smith is turned down by the con-‘l( nowadays.” vent‘km. ‘That lack of hope is not cll-t According to Precedent. culated to bring them (o desperate, Jast-| 1. qojogate, with manner light, ;1':::1 :emod.s to prevent Smith's nom- | "gyyq ernis wnvem:m:-. ;,;l,:l a stick of dynamite may be dropped a— under the business end of the Demn-! Jud Tunkins says & “good talker” cratic donkey at this convention. It usually does more for his country if he might come in the shape of a recom- | keeps out of politics and sticks to com- mendation from Gov. 8mith for a plank | mercial salesmanship. proposing the modification of the dry | laws. That, indeed, would throw the | Voice in the Home. dressed golfer in professional ranks, it | was no easy task for the twenty-seven- year-oid New York lad to prove that for | the championship at least he was the best player. Starting the last two rounds of the tournament proper, Farrell was geven strokes behind the golfing machine from Atianta, the re- doubiable Bobby, who has more titles 10 his credit than he can remember. | Farrell, however, kept plugging away, and with two fine rounds caught the slipping Jones, and they both finished the seventy-two holes in two hundred and ninety-four strokes The play-off for the title was held yesterday, and a grand play-off it was etely out of gear. st ‘Texan poets make a delicate but im- portant distinction. Mocking birds are | singing in the moonlight, but not in the moonshine. ) Putting on the Brakes. | political annals confronts the managers of the leading candidate at Houston | With the die almost cast and the re- sult generally accepted, these managers {are making some effort to prevent the | nomination of Gov. Smith on the first carefully built harmony machine com- | A situation that may be unique in | With a blazing finish on the last four | ballot, something that under ordinary conditions would be a highly desirable holes of the morning round, four “hirdies” in & row. Parrell went to lunch with & snappy seventy under his belt, three sirokes shead of Jones. In the efternoon, however, Jones speedily closed the gap, and the two players were 8l even as they teed off st the 1hirty-fourth hole, with only three %o go. AL this point Farrell played & fine shot twelve feet from the pin, while Bobby s oo strong and overrap the green Yarrell easily got his three, while Jones vas thort on his chip and had to be rb"ut with & four, thus placing the thing. But according to the under- | standing that seems to prevail | Smith managers belleve the psychology {of a nomination after the first ballot would be helpful, while nomination on the first ballot might work to the dis- | advansage of their favorite. Instead of pleading with some of the doubtful | delegates 1o hop on the band wagon | and ride to glory in the big parade as s00n as the trump sounds, the idea now ) seems 1o b= that it might be good policy toi some of e ‘dtufllwl to hold off A | the | “A woman's voice should be heard in her home.” | “Henrietta’s is,” answered Mr. Meck- {ton. “The children and 1 listen to her | every night over the radio.” “A patient public,’ sald Hi Ho, the| | sage of Chinatown, “trained to proper | | applause frequently appears in an ef- | fort to entertain an orator.” Climatic Comfort. Whatever be the fate In Houston that we heed, The old thermom will rate Kansas City in the lead. “I can’t belleve in ghos'es,” sald Uncle Eben. “Wisht I could. Dey'd be a heap safer dan automobiles and air- planes.” B An Aspirant. From the Detroit News. Mr. Haugen is now aspiring to his | sixteenth term in Congress and his | third veto | B ) Annual Gold Shower, From the New York Herald Tribune. There are few gold shipments from | this country to Europe because the tour- 15l W9 \akios 1Y over W thek\Posksy. direction. At the threshold he was met a caressing coolness such as the North | Shore of Massachusetts might envy. * ok K K has stolen a leaf out of te-book hitherto regarded property of George e of the hflsmurlv's ign buttons surmounts a cellu- lcflali:‘p:uflmrr on which is emblazoned, “Reed—First for His Country." P -eye Connelly, professional gate- crgll‘:er.yu on the Houston job. He bummed his way from New York and landed a bed and a meal ticket for the duration of the convention before he'd been in town two hours. Also One-eye was thrown out of the ball park when he tried to crash into the Houston- Shreveport game. When he found him- self outside the breastworks, he said to the burly Texas bluecoat who had the honor of ejecting him, “Say, Caj I'vi been thrown out of a lot bette: than this.” “Jim"” Reed the slogan nol as the private Washington. On ok True to promise, the Al Smith brigade at Hnuslol’? is distinguished for ‘whnl. is known on the East Side as “refine- ment.” The governor's headquarters are manned—(and womaned)—by & staff which might be in charge of the Institute of Polfucs at Willlamstown ‘“.' stead of the fortunes of Mlnh.l".lnl idol. Nobody there looks as if he'd ever heard of Tammany Hall. The aroma is that of Park avenue, not Fourteenth street. When orders are to be given, or decisions made, the Smith slogan is to leave it to one of the two Georges-— George R. Van Namee, the governor's convention generalissimo, or George Olvany, grand sachem of Tammany Hall. Two intellectuals supply the cul- ture touch—James W. Gerard, former Ambassador to Germany, and Repre- sentative John F. Carew, scholar of the Manhattan delegation in Congress lgl‘d LL. B. prize man of Columblia, 6. Franklin D. Roosevelt lends the aristo- cratic note. The Democratic vice presidential can- didate of 1920 is still unable to walk unassisted, apparently the lasting effect of the infantile paralysis which over- took him six years ago. He is to place Smith in nomination * ook Mal. George L. Berry of Tennessee pres'dent of the International Press- men’s and Machinists' Unlon, is an un- blushing candidate for Vice President A bunch of sweet singers, eight or ten in number. periodically threads its way through the conventfon crowds and suddenly bursts out with this, to the tune “Whose Iegy Is He'?: Whose Berry is he? He ls yours and he is mine. We're shouting Berry, Ma) all the time, He's Nke you and he's like me, a regular fellow from Tennesser We're shouting Berry, Maj, Berry all the time," Berry, | Cunningham. “This is reserved for the national committee” she said to Reed. | “Oh, well.” was the rejoinder as “Jim" waved his half-chewed cigar at the lady, “they're of no inportance! They'll | soon be out of office, anyhow." | With that Reed took possession. The screaming feature of the altercation was | that Mrs. Cunningham is the conven- tion secretary of Mrs. Emily Newell | Blair, vice chairman of the Democratic | national committee and Reed’s pet aversion in Missouri. * ok k¥ Discussion of the platform almost sidetracks nomination talk because of the prevalent bellef that Smith has all but brought the bacon home. A New York enthuslast is carrying around “Al's idea” of a platform. It's part of the vernor's address to the 1924 New | York Democratic convention and says: ‘You will have imposed urnn you the duty of representing this State in the make-up of the national platform. Whatever else you do, insist on plain talk. The people of this country are { worn out with this Court of Appeals | language. So, what you want to | say in understandable terms. Say 50 that the man in the street, the plain, ordinary man, can know what you promise to do. If you intend to carry |out the promise, you don't have to be | afraid of how explicit you make it. Make it different. Make it concrete. Make it to the point, and, above all, get I away from qualifications.” | We shall soon see whether Gov. Al's| views on brass tacks in platforms are going to prevail at Houston. * oxox midst the first democratic national con- vention held in the South since the| Civil War breathed a sigh of relief this | morning. They were desperately afraid | some Protestant preacher at yesterday's | dedication of Sam Houston Hall, the convention scene, might let off a sug- gestion of iIntolerant steam. Nothing happened. There were Baptists and Methodists on the program along with monsignors and rabbis, but a pleas- ant time was had by all. It s vera- clously narrated that prayers for de- liverance from an Al Smith nomination went up from certain Houston pulpits on Sunday. Convention hall is voted a triumph of beauty, constructive genius and solid comfort, LI Overheard in the Rice lobby ‘Texan No. “Texas becomes doubtful State If Smith's nominated." ‘Texan No. 2--“8Sure it does! Doubt- ful whether his majority will be 250, | 1000 or 500,000." [ Playing Safe. vom (he Woréester Evening Gazette Mabel Boll I8 showing good sense in ' the liberalization of provisions for Whe on, belleving harself—perhans ervona. the cotton section. » ot fiylng toward by its long exposure to tropical sun- | light. Perhaps the age-old colored habit of going virtually naked has also helped. The white races, inhabiting countries | where there was less sunlight to toughen | essential, have developed thinner and | more delicate skins, through which germs find it easier to enter. The lining of the mouth and throat. being closely | related to the outer skin, shares, Holmes | believes, the relative toughness or deli- | cacy of the races’ outer covering. UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. | Gen. Pershing’s communique reports ! that a German counterattack against the American lines at Torcy broke | down with heavy losses under our rifle, | machine gun and artillery fire. He | also mentions local actions in the | Chateau-Thierry region with capture | of machine guns and further advances, | and records the capture of several Amer- jeans in a raid on the Lorraine front. + s Ninety-seven casualties reported | today. with 54 killed in action. * * * the skin and where cold made clothes | who died recently in London. Her ter- rorist methods, it is recalled, were sus- | pended for the period of the war, and | at the close of the conflict the goal she sought was attained without a struggle. “Perhaps the strangest thing about | her career,” recalls the Houston Chron- icle, “was the fact that so gentle a person and one so unassuming should have taken it upon herself to lead a movement in deflance of smug, conserv- ative public opinion in England. One | mi wonder what inspired her to be- | lieve th-: she could ever ch the | spinions and age-old prejudices of hard- | boiled John Bull." But the Detroit News concedes that “the woman who waged | this campaign have as their defense that Britons always have brought about | thelr reforms by sincere rough-house.” | “The spectacle of Mrs. Pankhurst and | her helpers ‘raisin’ ‘el with the sturdy | minfons of the law was always enough | |to twist the sympathies of the crowd | |and set it to yelling ‘Aw, let ‘em go, | { ver big bullies!' " says the Danbury Eve- {ning News. which remarks that “the lot of the London bobble was anything but a happy one, as Mrs. Pankhurst. her daughter and their allies fought the first grim skirmishes for their | cause.” { * RN “A radical of the radicals, in a land where the political processes of yester- | A German semi-official statement Ye- | g,v have been generally regarded as Houstonlans proud of having in their | * ferring to the cowardice of American soldlers is considered a most absurd at- tempt to furnish palatable reading for home consumption. Letters taken from German soldiers killed In battle express the opposite and disprove such charges. * * German Foreign Secretary Kuehl- man, in a speech before the Reichstag. expresses & hope that the allies will approach Germany with a peace offer. He blames Russia for starting the war, with France and England as the next worst instigators of it. * * * Debate in the Senate over the Army appro- priation Dbill indicates that 20 to 40 will likely be the age limits decided upon for the next draft. * * * The last rear guard of retreating Austrians sur- renders and Itallans completely reoc- cupy the west bank of the Plave. On the mountain front, in the Monte quite good enough for today.” observes | the Birmingham News, “the Pankhurst mother and daughter gave the Britons some pretty rough sledding for a while, but John Bull probably needed a jolly ride like that to make him snap out of his smugness and utter self-sufficiency It bally near shatered the last vestige of his island pride. vou know, but it | made him better to live with.” “Mrs. Pankhurst not only won suf- frage for the women of Great Britain.™ in the opinion of the South Bend Trib- une, “but she probably had marked | influence on the political destiny of American women. Her militancy made woman suffrage & subject of interna- tional discussion, and_this discussion undoubtedly helped suffrage campaign- ers in this country.” The Rock Isiand She turned on the i Argus declares: Grappa sector, the Italians are vig- orously attacking the Austrians, inflict- | Ing heavy losses and gaining consider- | able ground, It is estimated that the | Austrian losses now approach 250,000 -, - system she believed to be oppressive like an enraged lioness and she lived to see her hopes realized. Women of Great Britain owe much to her labors." A contrast between her natural tend- encles and her public act is observed | by the Oakland Tribune fragile, flery “nd somehow every inch a Some Whittling Pr a_great “Slender, | M From the Kansas City Times. Coolidge has been President less than | five years. The debt has d«-wmd; about & billlon a year in his time. This has been done in spite of the heavy re- ductions in taxes, and such Government commitments as the soldier bonus, the inereased pay of the postal servies and care of ve lady. she fought politiclans, resisted forcible feeding in iall. and was the For Leading Cause of Women common soldier in the liberation war of humanity.'” The Lexingto: picturing her as “a revolutionary figure pays the tribute: always. No doubt a monume: erected to her memory ‘by the peo England. who admife courage an success.” “Just a dear, motherly soul.” she scribed by the St. Louis Times, v further statement that she “was Joarr of Arc of woman's suffrage fighter who led many demonstra a heckler who boxed the ears of fessed woman-hating parliamentar: who suffered imprisonment and h strikes, who fought with every ounce o fight that was in her. who temporar threw all suffrage plans to the winds « that she could work for her countr cause during the great war.” * % o ow Features of her campaign are recal by various American papers. “No i vidual apart from Napoleon and t! German Kaiser has ever caused mo: trouble for the British governmer says the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. She w “England's Carrie Nation” to the Paul Pioneer Press and the Alto Mirror. “The destruction of prope: without any concern as to whose pr erty it was, merely to attract attent: is recalled by the Columbus Evenin Dispatch. The Asbury Park Press de scribes her campaign as “in its day th boldest, loudest and most fearsome thirg in public lfe anywhere.” “By violent demonstrations, b of the peace and other forms ¢ o les the New Times-Picayune. “the Pankhurst Ing attained notoriety as the ‘shri sisterhood.' * * * Encouraged the advertisement given their ca they progressed misdemeano graver offenses—from window bre to arson.” Yet the Newark Ev News is impressed by the fact tha “spectacular and effic with the result that she “exerted & fluence in America and other cou * xow 0w Her methods “astonished the world lawlessness. avers the Albany Evening News, wh records that she “led a cause that phed™: that “she will have a bl | history.” and that “the world will forget her methods and remember her The Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator be- lieves that she “will rank in history as reformer.” and the Reg (Saskatchewan) Leader holds that “will be reckoned an emancipator Rochester Democrat and Chronicle af firms, “If the present privil that women enjov in business. in 1 vublic lfe, did not spring directly from rs. Pankhurst, they at least are the result of an irresistible movement of which she was a guiding tnftuence “Even today her share in this work terror of Fnglish politicians. who lived | takes on from the results now achieved in soluttering agitation as to what she wonld do next. * * * At the time f timent trulv sald that she died with her boots ously but nnmrthn less unfalteringly—'a { A the British peante.” sued an exceedingly An effulgence which 20 yvears ago very few persons felt inclined to accord her of her death she was standing for Par- | offorts.” asserts the Boston Transc Of no one could it be more | and the Chattanoogs Times savs that “she_died_annreciatad and henarse e though she “pure dangerous course.”