Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1928, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morhing Bdition. WASHINGTON, D. C WEDNESDAY. ... .June 27, 1088 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editer The Eve tal The Evening :nl N v Rate by Catrier Within the City. The Evening Starc . ... . 45coer month Sundds Star The Fventn when 60 per month w! 5 Sundare) 65¢ per month The Sundas Star ; er copy & ine end of eaen ront \éshon Ordars ey o Tent by mall or th MAin $000. Rate by Mail—Pavable in Advatice. Marvland and Virgifila, Datls ard Sunday ...} yr. 410.00: 1 ié 1 $1.00 aile onlv ’f:‘ 1 undas oniy KR i Member of the Assoclated Press. The Associated Press i« axclusively entitiéd £ the use far Tenualication of all news dis- PAtehes cradited £0 it o nrt otharwise cred- ReA In this naver and Also the lnca) news “pabliened harein AN rishts of fnwlicaton ef apecial dispatches hersin aré Alsd red el D S The Keynoting at Houston. The Democrats are fond of telling the American people they are éfficlent and businesslike. Yet when the Democratic | party met vesterday in national eonven- tion in Houston it wasted a whole day before gatting down to business. bacause. forsooth, some one suggested to them the keynote speech to be delivered by Claude G. Bowers of New York would | get a wider and more numerous radio audience if delivered at night. Mr. Bowers delivered a masterly address to the convention. to be sure, but a day is 4 day, éspscially in Houston. No com- mittees were appointed and delegates sat around waiting for evening. after a | brief session in the middle of the day.; Nothing was accomplished. After what the radio did to the Demo- cratic party by broadeasting the ses- gions of the Madison Square Garden conitest four years ago, oné wonders why the present convention should be #o partial to broadcasting. Many dele- | gates were thoroughly disgusted with the delay. Not only because Houston, delightful and flourishing as it is, 1 no Summer resort, but because théy féared that the country .would take the view that the Democrats were just stalling tlong again in an unbusifiesslike man- Ber. Mr. Bowers' address, from & Demo- €ratic point of view, however, was worth waiting for. It was a masterly, épi- grammatie statement of the Democratic cause. It possessed both literary merit #nd a real punch. Furthermore, as keynote speeches go, it was quite brief. 1t avoided the prosy and striick 4 réal challengifig note t6 the Reptiblican party. It was impartial so far as candidates for the presidential nomination are éon- cerned, although it was delivered by an @rdent Al Smith man. It was & crusad- ing kind of speech that should have de- lighted the soul of Senator “Jit” Reed of Missouri, who more often than sny other Democrat of today has been likened to Andrew Jackson. whom Mr. Bowers extolled in his address last fiight. It was a cail to Democrats of all £ ot mo.. mo.. mo.. All Other States and Ca gm- and Sunday .1 sr. 818 n s SN S} T heek: indas ons TS nada. ma | ] which would indicaté éAreful prephta- tiofi fot the job. Unless' the information of the postal authorities is inaccurate there is now languishing in the penitentiary at Michigan - City, Ind., & man who, juds ing from past performarices, might easily have Beén the thief of the Lévia- than's postal cargo. Isadoreé Rosenberg: an international criminal, was sent in 1032 to Atlanta for thréé years for rob- bing the mails oh the Américan liner Mifirietonka At sea. Hé miist havé got sothe tithe off for good behavier, for In 1928 he was arrésted again And sen- teniced to teh vears in the samé peni- téntiary for the robbéry of $50.000 in bonds from the steamér George Wash- ington. Heé servéd only two of these téh vears, being released & short time ago. It i the présent understanding that he was not long at liberty, having Beeri arrostéd in Indidnd for bank rob- béry and sentenced to twenty-fivé years at Michigan City. It Rosenberg was at libérty when the Leviathan sailed he would be &4 mast likely suspect. Perhaps his alibi at Michigan City will 16t him out. Mean- while the mystery remains unsolved. The plotters of detective fiction will have a free hand at guessing as to the methods employed, and there will bé no lack of theories until the well known | heavy hand of the law is at last lald upon the crook who worked this big deal. Whoever he s, whatever his mode, he will be pursued with relentléss determination. ———————— Peoplé's Coiinsel and the Publiec. Péople’s Counisel Fleharty, in his re- ply to Senator Capper's letter, justifiss the Sénator's faith in his concéption of his office as that of represéntative of the community in matters affecting their welfare with regard to the sesv- ices and ratet of the public utility eor- porations. He specifieally states that he conceives that tlhiosé ihterests re- quire that he oppose the application of the Capital Traction Co. for an increase of fare. He furthermore asks that the expert who has recently been émployed by the Senate District committee to in- vestigate the proposed merger agrec- ment of the local transportation éom. panies be instructed to co-operate with him in his opposition to that applica- tion. This responsé gives assurance that the interests of the street railway patfon§ of Washington Will not be neglected in the coming test of the équity of the present fare rate and that the application will beé resisted by the representative of the people. Mention is made by the people's counsel of a lack 6f full co-operation ofi the part of somé of the organized civié associa- tioné of the District, by reason of which the counsel holds that it is in- cumbént upon him to exercise to some extent his own judgment dnd diserés tionn ds to the proper position to be taken in such matters. It is not to be expected that there should be complete agreement among ; the various organizations of citizens on the score of the utilities services and rates. There will always be diverg- encies. The course to be pursued, how- ever, is clear. The application for an increase of fare must be resisted to the point at which demonstration, if that is possible, is given of the actual need of a higher rate, in view of the right of the corporation—or the cor- potations, if the present application is joined with another fromi the Wash- ington Railway and Elestric Co.—to a reéasonable return upon ifnvéstment. What constitutes & ressonable re- turn 18 & matter of judgment. The | Public Utilities Commission i to exer- cise and declare that judgment. The case before it is 16 be fought with rep- resentations by Both eofporation and publican party as the party of “privi- and pillage.” In picturesque lan- he described the Republican cavalry” cantering up and Pennsylvania avenue at will, aid- Mr. Bowers declared that the Demo- cratic party is no enemy of business, the oft-repeated charge of the Republi- of the World War in 1914; and that until the wir did come, business was slowing down in this country, and un- employment was growing by leaps and | bounds. The Democrats may love business, but they gave a sorry example of unbusi- nesslike proceedings yesterdsy. But why thide them? They dearly love a national convention and all its trim- mings. ———— A popular song has enabled Al Smith %o substitute the hand organ for the steam roller, o The Leviathan Mystery. people’s counsel. It is to be not alone with reference 10 the diate situation, but with regard present merger proposal, which be comsidered as pending despite suggestion of the applying eompany to dant reason to expect it the eguse of the user of utilities will be adequate- ly and faithfully defended. - ——— s “A hot time in Houston” was borne with patient good nature. Leaders of the party insist that they dre not cli- mate ehasers any more than théy are ¢hasers. Moments arise in a convention when ordinary forms of applatse do not suf- fice. It is necessary to organize a pa- | rade. A Museum of Industry. Fourth of July still is a few days off. | There is yet time, before the oratory and firecrackers start, to ask what may seem an fmportant question: Have | the American people contributed any- | thing worthwhile to the racial inherit- ance of humanity? Even if scrupulous analysis should | show that they have not, it would be excusable. The Nation suill 18 young. it is not yet off its adolescent diet—the | Those who are addicted w0 the read- | fegh-forming milk of immigration and ing of so-called detective stories—and they are & legion—have a rich field for specuiation in the case of the Levia- than mail robbery. Bo far as it hes been disclosed, the theft appears 10 have been one of those “master mind” operations in the fictitious commission and solution of which the “mystery” Writers are adept. According 0 the dispatches the mail bags that were looted yielded somc #500.000 in treasure in various forms. There is some question on the score of the amount. Naturally, the postal snd Police duthorities are discreet in re- spect Lo the contents of the sacks that were put sboard the Leviathan when she salled from New York and were teken out st Bouthampton and trans- ported o London, where the 108 was discovered. There must have been & goodly tressure in this consignment of mall, else the thief, or thieves, would not have taken the trouble 1o go after it It seems 1o be the presant judgment of the American suthorities that the Yoting was done on board ship or on the route from port w London. The British suthorities are inclined o be- leve that it was accomplished while the mail was walling in New York or while ® was being placed on board ship or on the ship itself. There is no trace what- | necessarily bears traces of the imma- | the muscle-butlding meat of ploneering. | Wennlmntymm!,wmm‘ turity of all adolescent organisms. We may as well admft that a great deal of our contribution to literature, art, music, fundamental sefence and | philosophy amounts to very Mttie. A | thousand years hence it may be for- gotten as absolutely as the contribus tlons of Carthage in the same flelds. There is only an occasionsl trace of | “divine fire” in them. Weé have nd| American Bhakespeares, Raphaels, Bee- thovens, Newtons or Spinozas. It would be miraculous if we had—eonsidering our age as a people, Nevertheless to the Einsteinian ob. server looking back on this past 15 years of America from the peaks of 1,000 years henee it seems certain that some mountain tops of achievement will jut out of the mists which cover the distant landscape. Our adolescent mind has displayed signs of powerful and original genjus In at least one, possibly two flelds. In one field alone, it seems, the American contefbution has been as- suredly notable and permanent. This is the fleld of applied scienee. The United States has supplied the environment which has stimulated an ingenuity ever 10 indicate the manner in wilich amounting to Arst-class genius, com- THE EVENING Rave freed the milnd of sofe of the weightiest of the shackles of Time by our labor-saving and transportation machinery. Ether, the steamboat, the telephone, the telegraph, the automoblile, the air- plafié—sueh aré the eontibutions of our genius. The list might be eéxtended al- most indefinitély. True enough, the original idea has not always been Amerieah. But Amer- fch Nas contributed the peculiar t¥pe of geniud necéssary to maké these things a concrete part of the inheritance of the human race. They will go down into history alongsidé of the frying pan, arithmetic and the alphabet as the great liberators. They may be the step- ping stones to a contribution as impor- tant as that made by the ape that first walked erect and fed himself with his forepaws. We have done miuch, by these inven- tions, toward freeing the huthat mind for the triumphs of the future. It is the ofie fleld in which wé have béeh niost indisputably gréat. These are the Achievements that enable us to stand béside the great peoplés of all ties. Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, proposes a $7.500,000 industrial museum in Wash- ington to preservé a permanent record of this, our single indisputable great- ness. Over no other public bullding could the Stars ard Stripes float more | appropriately. 1t is*a symbol of freedom, the condi- tion towatd which life is erawling so slowly and painfully from the dungeon of the inanimate rocks over wall after wall of ignorance, prejudice, isolation and weakness. It builds it& ladders to scale these walls as it progresses from one to another. ‘The republican form of government— apparently brought to such splendid ef- ficieney in the Unitéd States—is one of thése ladders to freédom. The automo- bile is another. The typewriter, the sewing midchine, the alrplatié, the tele- phorie—all are ladders by which life climbs upward and outward to the un- walled flelds of time that lie beyond us. 8o are the dramas of Shakespeare and, the opéras of Wagner. ‘The Smithsonian Institution hitherto has been handicapped by inadequate quarters in the task of preserving this record of American greatness. Scofes of worthwhile thing$ Havé not been éx- hibited at all. A€ & shtine of Ametican patriotism | such & museum &s is proposed by Df. Abbot would bé of priceless value. ft would be & templée of inspiration for the climbers of the future. ‘The first crude horseless carriages, it Seems, should be preserved a8 sacredly and A8 tenderly A8 4 first édition of Shakespeare. e The faét that President Coolidge had to paddle his catioe around in eircles is réfetred to a8 il luck. A man anfamil- | jar with a canoe Must be regarded as fortunate if he can keep it afloat un- der all circumstances. o To the musle student a “keynote” i& | represented by an unobtrusive tuning fork or a reticent pitch pipe. It re. mained for the temporary chairman at Houston to make it the big noise in the band wagon. ettt o ‘The influeneé of women in politics ia shown by the convention speaket's opening sentence, “Ladies and Gentle« men,” instead of “Friends and Fellow Citizens.” . Young men who engaged in the ora- torical contest will no doubt look fors ward to an effort which will equal that of Claude Bowers, ————— A presiding officer calls the conven- tion to order, and then takes pride in powers of éloguence that recall it to disorder. - SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Everybody Happy. Everybody Happy When the big eonvention starts, Smilin’ very snappy. ‘While they'ré speakin’ hearts Everybody's waitin' For Election to draw near, For there's glory in debatin’ An’ you feel that Heaven's here. Everybody Joyous As the mighty words resound. Nothin' to annoy us As the promises abound. from thelt | There are feelings of dejection, But we listen in an’ say, “We need just one more Election ‘To make everything O. K.” A Radiologist Restrained, “Why @on't you speak over radio?” “The same sentiment doesn't suit all communities,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “You have to study your dif- ferent audiences. It seems kind o risky to go positively on record before the public all at once.” the Melancholy Mike. That stolid microphone we see, Through discourse dire it holds its place. If it could answer back, you'd be Afrald to look it in the face, Jud Tunkins says the farmer is get- ting 80 nervy he thinks a hoe 1s entitled to almost as much respect as a golf club, Allaying Envy. “Why do you write post cards back home referring to this climate as dis- agreeable?” “Because of my kind heart,” an- swered Miss Cayenne. “I want my friends who are compelled (o stay &' home to feel that maybe they al | missing much " | “Anelent inscriptions glorify personl splendors,” sald Hi Ho, the rage of Chinatown. ‘The art of ad writing was another of the early discoveries of my august native land.” Old Standby. {an occasion. STAR, WASHINGTON, BY ARLES E. Just as June s the month of wed- digs, 80 it s the month of anni- véraaries These celebrations, whether of the first, the eleventh, the twenty-Arth or the Aftleth anniversary, give the lie m\xfimy to mouthings and propaganda of divoree, To listen to the alarmists, one might think that there is no such thing in the United States as a hetppy marriage, {u this country 1s so mn--k-{ull of them hat tever a day gobs by without see- In!)nn Anniversary somewhete. me of the features of this very newspaper, to the dissetrning eye, is the N\‘xuuu storles of golden wedding an- nivérsarles which crop out in its pages duirihg the year. Usutlly there 18 a plcture of the elderly couple, with more or less the samie account beside it, how Mr. and Mrs. So-and-So today are celebrating their fiftieth anniversaty, how friends will gather at the festive board, and 50 on. Sophisticated persons may smile, but these are happy stories, of the sort which Robert Burns summed up so well in verse when he sang John Anderson, my jo John, hen we were first acquent Your locks were like the raven, Your bonnie brow was brent; But how your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snow; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson, my jo. John Anderson, my jo John, We clamb the hill thegither; And mony a canty day, John, We've hiad wi' ane anither; Now we maun totter down, John, And hand in hand we'll go, And sleep thegither at the foot, John Anderson, my jo. L Remembering the anniversary is nnc‘ of the happy perplexities. Every mar- | ried ma . knows how easy it is to for- | get it, and every woman, too, although there is a popular Impression that a woman never forgets. ‘This, we belleve, is one of those cur- rent beliefs that mankind prefers to believe, although there is no particular amount of truth in it. According as there ar: many more diversified tasks in the dally life of A woman, so there aré just that many more opportunities for forgetting the great day. It is trué, of course, that women cher- ish the day for weeks in advanee and scrupulously refrain from giving hubby a single hint, in the hope, one might suppose, that he will forget it, which, of course. he does. ‘Then, if the comic stories can be be- lieved, wifie goes into tears and berates poor hubby for having forgotten such a momentous anniversaty. Whereupon— &till according to this popular version— he tries to make amends by sehding flowers. ‘The truth is that husbands go to o | end of trouble to remember the day| Just because they realize that it is so| easy to forget it, and because they know that ther is an unwritten law among wives that they shall give no sign, no| help whatever, in the remembering thereof. To tip a husband off to the anniver- sary evidently wo ld be to spofl the | whole thing. They want their husband: to remember out of their own minds lnd} hearts, and no doubt they are abso- lutely right about it. * % kW Yet there has come to our ears the | following happy story, showing how both | husband and wife may forget the day with the best will i the world. He made heroic endeavors to remem- | | | NVENTION HALL, HOUSTON, June 27.—Keynoter Claude Bowers, it seemed to this observer, did not quite put it over last night. The temporary chairman is & Hrilliant phrase-maker and had cothposed a masterly paper. But somehow he was not in his Jackson day stride. Accom- plished and experienced a public speaker as he is, Bowers never before faced so mighty an audlence, on so momentous M2n have been known not to reach the top of their otatorical form under like circumstances. Perhaps the author of “Jefferson and Hamilton™ succumbed to a bit of microphone nerv- ousness. Folks sometimes do. Bowers | spoke too rapidly, too, to permit his | mngnlm:enlly rounded sentences and | polished epigrams to soak Into a con- vention throng. Hammer blows like his must fall with more measured cadence to get their full effect. There were thrusts after thrusts, each a literary gem, that went over the heads of Sam Houston Hall's vast au- dience as if they'd been the merest com- ‘monplaces. If the keynoter feels today, as some of his friends do, that he did not scale the heights, he can have the consolation that his address will read splendidly. Undoubtedly, too, Bowers' eloquence scored more heavily by radio than in the hall_where it was potred forth, The amplifiers and other acoustic apparatus in the long-leaf yellow pine temple— “the house that Jesse bullt”—were not at concert pitch. There must have been thousands of people in the remoter gal- leries who could not follow Bowers in his sonorous flights. Even in the adjacent press galletles on either side of the speakers’ piatform, he was now and then unintelligible. 1 * ok kk There was a distinct reminiscence of | william Jenupings Bryan's immortal | imagery In the one passage with which Bowers contrived to stir the conven- tion’s emotions. In Chicago in 1896, the “Peerless One” spellbound himself into his first presidential race with this “You nhfil not press down upon the brow of Iabor a crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.” The Houston keynoter, clos- ing his discussion of “the tragedy of the farms,” exclaimed, “We do not ask paternalistic privilege for the farmer, but we do demand that the hand of privilege shall be taken from out of the | farmer's pockets and off the farmer’s} throat.” That set things going among the del- egations, Pandemonium enstied so in- stantly, following a period of complete composure on the floor, that It bore the earmarks of & staged and timed demon- stration. Two bands, stationed on op- posite sides of the hall, broke almost simulthneously into “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonigh ‘he calcium lights were shot at the speaker from the different corners. State standards, designating delegations, were speedily formed In procession and pa- raded around the floor. Corn belt ! { the front. If the thing wasn't organ- | ized, it was about as remarkably spon taneous 4 convention outburst over a mere phrase as memory can recall. The gallerles and the radio audience could have received no impression of a made-to-order “outburst,” and that s the main consideration from the con- vention standpoint. On the face of things, as they rip-snorted for the bet- ter part of 10 minutes the tumult was Houston's answer to Kansas City. It was the Democratic Jnlrly'l message of | hope to the sons and daughters of the soil everywhere, if they were still awake and at thelr iving sets. ook o# Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was & platform figure as she stood h the Ing When polities 1s golng strong To 0ll the wondering world with doubt, | That good old Tarift comes along As something safe to talk about, “An election is a relief to ‘de volce,’ %he begs were reached and opefied. | parable to that of the Renaissance |said Uncle Eben, “Nobody kin put ®ome of them bear counterfeit seals, painters or the Elizabsthan poets. We fanay jass ib three cheers. rest of the cheering conventlon when Bowers paid his wing tributes to the World-War President— eight ¥ gave another fmmortal to the skles the keynoter's vivid phrase. | Houstontans commonwealths were conspicuously “’h D. C, WEDNESDAY, THIS AND THAT TRACEWELL. Yer, but owing to visitors at the home the anniversary slipped his mind; it was not until several days later that he woke up to the horrible fact that he had for- gotten, “Now, what shall I do?” he asked himself mournfully. He recalled the tears which greeted his failure the year before. How hard he had tried not to forget! “en he went home that evening he took a good look at his wife out of the corner of his eyes. Yes, he decided, she looked hurt. He took another look -and verified his opinion. Yet he knew the guilty flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are as bold as a lion, He decided that if le could not emulate the lion he would at least act like a man. “Honey,” he said later, “do you know what day Tuesday was?" “What day Tuesday was?"” she queried vith a genuine look of astonishment. Why, Tuesday, of course.” Rellef fairly leaped in his heart. She had forgotten, too! “It was our wedding anniversary,’ sald modestly. SBurprise, wonder, embarrassment, happiness, each strove for mastery in her countenance. Afterward he sald he would have given a million dollars for a camera to have snapped her pic- ture at that moment. Happiness at last won easily, since both had forgotten. Ah, that made it all right! EIE I Wedding anniversaries of the happy cort are based solidly on many good qualities, among which may be named the four following: 1. No quarrels. 2. No Secrets. 3. Honesty In money matters, 4. Similar likes and dislikes. A marriage based upon these four grlnrh)lcs has every chance of being a appy one. Each of the four is equally impertant. The first prescription for a happy marriage is “Don't quarrel.” Just how this may be accomplished is im- possible to describe, since the factors differ in each case, but it must be worked out if marital happiness in the best sense is to be secured. Small tiffs may blow over, but genhuine wrangles leave marks which time cannot erase. Secrets withheld by one party from another is another common cause of marriage failure. To do or say anything that the other does not know about is to sow seeds of discontent along Love's chining road—seed that may some day lossom into unexpected and ugly lowers. How this rule is to be followed also is something that no one can tell :not“hen It must be worked out, that s all. Honesty with one another in money matters is a practical rule of success, Money, although in a sense the root of all evil, also is the root of success in a world based so solidly on solid cash. For a young couple 1o begin life to- gether, as is sometimes dofie, with the wife in ignorance of what the husband makes, is simply to go out one’s way to court trouble. Similar likes and dislikes stand squarely as the base of a happy mar- riage. If you likc swimming and your wife doesn't, you haven't much chance of celebrating a tenth wedding anni- ersary. If you iike books and chess nd she likes dances and automobiling, the chances are 100 to 1 that you will never celebrate a fiftieth wedding anni- versary. These are generalities, of course. You may be able to teach her to swim; she may be able to make you like dancing and butterflying around. As & rule, however, Mr. Book should marry Miss Book, and Mr. Swimming the lovely Miss Swimming. he HOUSTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, On_either side of her sat two field G. | marshals of the Wilsonian old guard— Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson and Senator Carter Glass. Not far away, {:’nln' fervently in the demonstration their old chief, were two other Wil- sonian musketeers—Joseph P. Tumul- ty and Bernard M. Baruch, L A patriarchal figure, who could play Robert E. Lee in the movies without a make-up, had a front seat on the platform—nicholas M. Bell of St. Louls. He is a veteran Democrat, aged 85, and claims to have placed Horatio Seymour in nomination for the presidency in the early 70s, or whenever it was. Bell's been going to Democratic national con- ventions since the Civil War and is happy as a c¢'am to be attending the first one held in the South since those days. He carrles with him the same vhatir he's occupled at the last five con- ventions. It appears still serviceable. Bell is for Jim Reed for President, but doesn’t expect to get a chance to vote for him. * % %% Convention Hall was gloriously cool for the Democratic first night session. By an Ingenlous process, air is changed every 42 seconds with the ald of huge suction fans. The hall being open on all sides, fresh ozone rushes in at these frequent intervals. The net effect upon the audience is that it is being caressed by a recurring serles of balmy breezes, The breezes didn't scem to be on the job at Tuesday's midday session. That happily brief sitting took place under the most sizeling and seorching noon- day sun Texas Is capable of turning If it 18 true that geniue is inspiration and 90 per Houston should the week is convention “10 per cent cent perspiration,” achieve mightily before over, xR Houstonlans, boosters all, are fright- fully fearful that recent events in thelr home town may be touted to the world as regular features of life in south- western Texas. Last week's negro Iynehing, the first Houston has known for more than half a century, bowed the whole community in remorse. As Los Angelesians say when the climate goes wrong in Southern Californin, insist that lynching is most unusual hereabouts. That's what they want us to belleve, too, about the | incident that enlivened proceedings in the Rice Hotel on Monday. An over- heated Texan, tired of seelng crowded elevator after elevator pass him on an upper floor, yanked out his six-shooter and blew half a dozen holes in the rlnu panels of the sliding shaft doors n front of which he stood waiting and sweating. Houstonlans assure us it's mest unusual for Texans to signal for elevators with thelr guns. ER It s the convention witticlsm par ex- cellence. The other day when the ' State convention at Beaumont s electing delegates to the Houston natlonal convention P. C. Canders, & downstate politiclan, who considers himself the Lone Star's Will Rogers, observed ar the out of a speech, “Once upon & time, women wore dresses fong enough to shield their insteps. Now, they wear ‘em short enough to show thelr step-ins.” As there were 200 woman delegates at Beaumont, Sanders’ wise-crack eaused & commotion. A score of women took the floor in violent and formal protest, The speaker was not permiited to continue, He sternly refused to lfml(luln‘. however, and is now baking in the sunshine of State- wide fame for having given the State its_biggest laugh In years. Opinion differs as to who was fun- nler—-Sanders or the ladles, CREEE Claude Bowers was golden with s+ lence on the subject of nmhlhlllfll‘ The one-time First Lady chose a white crepe de QM;: and a moire lav- ender wrap Wnnnntkm nvmh: Wi attire. Hor ying halr was brushe smoothly rin- evitable i Somebody in the press gallery asked Ohu&u moluhonfl the New York platforms about the elgh! A no Al on. The result was a sadly bedraggled | the Has this yarn reached Washington? | JUN Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. CONVENTION HALL, HOUSTON, Tex., June 27.—This year of grace, 1928, is a bad year for “dark horses” in the great game of presidential politics. The Republicans at their national conven- tion at Kansas City nominated Herbert Hoover, who early in the pre-conven- tion campaign became a leading candi- date for the presidential nomination. And nhow the Democrats at Houston are about to pick, as their candidate against Mr. Hoover, Gov. Al Smith of New York. Only a miracle, it appears, an unexpected turn of the political fates, could prevent the New Yorker's nomi- nation. Gov. Smith, like Mr. Hoover, leaped quickly into the lead for the presiden- tial nomination of his party. Both Mr. Hoover and Gov. Smith en- tered the presidential preferential pri- maries in many States. Hoover met de- feat in two favorite-son States, Indiana and West Virginia, but in the other States, including Ohlo, he demonstrated | His great personal popularity with the voters. Even in the two States he lost he was accorded huge votes and lost only by narrow margins. Gov. Smith met successfully every test except that in North Carolina. He won in the West, in the East, and, of course, in the Middle Atlantic States he en- tered. EEE For the first time in many years the two major parties apparenily have elected to present to the voters their outstanding men—men who have made their mark, who have demonstrated great executive ability—one brought up & Quaker and the other a Catholic. The voters have & real choice set before them for the November election. Eight years_ago the Republicans named the late President Harding as their candi- date for Chief Executive. He came out of the ruck at the cmeasn convention after the convention had deadlocked for a day. Four years ago the Democrats selected John “W. Davis of West Vir- ginia and New York, who, able man that he is, was not widely known to the people cf the country, and who was for many ballots little more than a dark horse candidate. His nomination, too, came after a prolonged deadlock. * ok * % The set-ups in the Republican and the Democratic conventions have been strangely similar in other rzKetts than that of the victory of the leading candi- date for the presidential nomination in the one and the expected victory of the leading candidate i the other. Both have had their “issue” to plague them. In the case of the Republicans it was the farm issue, and in the case of the Democrats it is the prohibition issue. The leaders of some of the farm or- ganizations and several of the candi- dates at the Republican convention fought for the MeNary-Haugen bill, and some of the farmers came to the con- vention city to stress the cause. In Houston the drys have been the active workers against the nomination of Gov. Smith, fust as some of the farmers were active agaitist the selec- tion of Herbert Hoover by the Repub= lcans. The Republicans picked a Senator, the Republican leadef of the upper house, Senator Curtls of Kansas, for Vice President. The Democrats are in a fair way to nominate Senator Robin- son of Arkansas, the minority leader of the Senate. But there are certain differences be- tween the two conventions. The terness and hatred evinced in the Re- publican convention have been absent on the surface. at least, at Houston. There has been a spirit of harmony and a lack of personalif among -most of the Democratic .leaders. Underneath, and among rank and file of the party, however, the Democratic har- mony is not so great. After the nomi- nation for President has once been made, the real rub may come. The nomination of Senator Curtis of Kansas for Vie# President has pleased a large number of Re) cans, hfi | because of the personal populafit the Kansan and because thev believe that his nominatien will help the ticket in the Midwest States. The nomina- tion of Senator Robinson will be as pleasing to many of the Democrats. He has proved an able leader of the minority in the Senate. He comes from the Southwest, from a State that is in- cluded in the Demoeratie “solid South™ always when politics are discussed. L Arkansas was & flood sufferer last vear and many of its eitizens have been grateful to Herbert Hoover for the work he did amongk the flood sufferers. Furthermore, there are not a few Ar- | kansas Democtats who do not relish the idea of Al Smith for President. There has been even talk of Hoover carrying the State against Smith. It is difficult to believe that any of the ‘“solid South” will fall away from the Demo-~ cratic column this Fall. But doubtless Hoover will get more votes in Arkansas than any other ch*bnrun who could have been famed. The nomination of Senator Robinson, a dry, is calculated, it Jt materialises. to_ heip the Demo- cratic ticket in the Sou m;hw;sk uth and also in e Arkansas Senator, in a Is entitled to the gratitude of m'i”t??.‘.‘n'& following and also of the entire party for the firm attitude he took in the Senate when an attempt was made by Senator Heflin of Alabama to interject rel %! question into the debates ot that y and to attack the leading Democratic candidate for the iden- tial nomination on the ground he was A Catholic. As party leader he stood squarely against such tacties and gave the Alabama Senator a severe drubbing. His stand for tolerance and for har- mony in the party I8 worthy of re- ward, many of the Democrats feel, and his nomination as Vice President would please them. There is no doubt that Senator Robinson will accept the noml- nation if it is tendered him. e Vice presidential nominatior are slipvery things, until they are actually made. At the Chicago convention of the Republicans in 1920 the leaders who had succeeded in nominating Mr. Hard- Ing for President were ready to nomi- ator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsim. The word had been passed around. But before (his could be accomplished the convention got up on its hind legs and nominated Calvin Coolidge of Massa- chusetts, Only a few weeks ago there was widespread talk at Kansas City about the probable nomination of Viee President Dawes on the ticket with Hoover. But the Dawes boom el rather aulokly to give place to that of ‘Tilsen of Connecticut and later to that of Channing Cox of Massrchusetts vice nresidential nomination in the hand is worth several in the bush. R Always a Trial. From the Roston Transeript. All this talk about trial marriages seema 8o superfluons—considering that marriage has always been a trial. e eeste Any Door. for That Prom the Detroit News. A decathlon 1s any combination of 10 athletic events. Such as putting up a screen door, Matter. OO e Puaying the Prodder. ¥rom the Han Francisco Ohroniele. Another thing the ultimate consumer pays without realising it is the salary of the bill collector, P There'll Bo No Difference. From the Atlanta Constitution. No matter what is written in the teenth amend- notice any difference bit- | nate as his running mate former Sens I ANSWERS TO QUESTION Take advantage of this free service, If you are one of the thousands who have patronized the bureau, write again. It you have never used the service, begin now. It Is maintained for your benefit. Be sure to send your name and address with your question, and inclose 2 cents or a stamp for return postage. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. Does the term “business hours” iniclude only those hours during which business is “transacted?—C. H A. This term is said to include legally the entire day from sunrise to sunset Q. How much older was Paul Dre than his brother, Theodore Dreiser? B. M. . Paul Dresser, the famous song writer, was 15 years older than his brother, Theodore Dreiser. Q “Sault Ste. Marie” mean?—N. P. lated “Falls of St. Mary.” “Sault” is the same word that appears in “somer- sault,” meaning ‘“leap.” but custom has given it the pronuncia- tion “So0.” Q the title. Earl>—P. O. E. A. The feminine title corresponding to Earl is Countess. Q. Who was Vesta?—M. K. Vesta was the goddess of the hopde and fire, and her temple was the oldest in Rome. It contained no image was rekindled by friction on the Roman new year and attended con- stantly by the vestal virgins. Q. How did the Volta Bureau get its name?—T. B. A. Volta was a faious French clectrician. The Volta prize, created by Napoleon, was conferred by France upon Dr. Alexander Graham Bell for the invention of the telephone. Dr. Bell took this money, 50,000 francs, added to it a large sum received from other electrical _experiments, and founded the Volta Bureau, “for the in- crease and diffusion of knowledge re- lating to the deaf.” This bureau prints and distributes every year hundre of leaflets containing helpful inform: tion for the hard of hearing, or for the parents of deaf children. Q. What is the Morris dance?—R. I. N. A. This is an old English dance of Moorish origin. When danced in May day celebrations it was an elaborate costume dance. There were several variations of this dance, the two most popular being the sword dance and the ribbon dance. Q. What kind of architecture is the portico at Arlington?—W. D. A. This portico is Grecian, being modeled after the Temple of Theseus at Athens. Q. What is the word that describes the feeling most people have had that the same circumstances have occurred before when such could not have been the case?—N. E. A. The term for this is “param- nesia." Q. What is batik?—H. T. S. A. Batik is the name applied to the wax-dyed fabries that have latel come popular in America. Wax 18 A process of dyeing fabrics by hand after a pattern is formed by covering a part of the cloth with wax so that it resists the action of the dye. For ex- ample, take for your pattern a vellow butterfly sitting on a green leaf. Use yellow cloth and with a paint brush dipped in hot beeswax draw the butter- BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, . What does the word “Sault” in| A. The name is French and is trans- | The word | should by right be pronounced “So” | . What is the feminine gender of | of the goddess, but had a fire which | | fly and cover it with wax. Dip in green | dye. The wax covering the butterfly Il resist the action of the dye. After the fabric is dry draw the leaf and cover with hot wax, Dip the fabric in a dye that you wish for your ground. Neither leaf nor butterfly | take the color. When dry wash in gas- oline to remove wax and the process is | compiete. Q. What is the Pent A. This i1 a_design: books. in the Hebrew Bible ascribed by tradition to Moses. The English titles of these book Genesis, Exodus, Le- | viticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. | @ How was Benjamin Franklin's kite “xperiment_conducted?—N. K. | "A. In experimenting with electric in the atmosphere with his kite, Ben- jamin Franklin used a kite made of | 5ilk. at the top of which there was a arp-pointed wire, » the end xt to the h he t where ths silk an joined fastened the k The kite was raised during a thunderstorm, and when the clouds came over the kite the wire brought the electric fire from the kite, with all the twine trified. When the rain te. it conducted the elec- so that it streamed out irl from the key. Q. Has the Chicago Great Western | Railroad a nickname?—P. D. M. A It is ca “Maple Leaf Road.” Q. Is the National Academy of Sci- ences and the National Researck cil the seme?—L. W. B A. The National Research Council was organized in 1916 by the National Academy of Sciences under its cons tutional charter. The majority of membership is composed of aceredited | representatives of about 75 nation: | scientific and technical societies essential purpose is to promote fu mental research n the fields of p | and biological sciences. The | Academy of Sciences was foun. | 1863 and consists of members | from among the most distingui scientific men of the United Sta @ What is meant by “middle peas- antry">—R. B A. This term defines a class of ple in R s. It is u wealthier peasants, thos work on farms, but have progres the peint that they hire other peasant to work for them. Their status is h to determine, since they are part pr erty owners and part toilers. Occupa- tion and use are titles of ownership The peasant is not free {o develop into afi absentee landlord. | pr i | When was “East Side. West Si first played in a nhational convention?— V. N. | A In the San Francisco convention The composer, Thomas Lawlor, a mem- ber-of the old vaudeville team of Thornton and Lawlor, returned to the vaudeville stage after the populafity of the song was revived by. its use at the convention. Q. What is the most popular sport of today?—E. D. Q. A. It is probable that more persons attend base ball games than attend an: other sporting event. Golf has many devotees, 2nd unquestionably more peo- | ple play golf than play base ball. We formed that a million and a half { people attended the base ball games at the Yankee Stadium in New York, ex- clusive of the world series. When one considers that this is only one base ball park in the major leagues, one may make an estimate of the number of ersons - attending base ball games throughout the year. ationa peo- | { | 1 | Welcomed as Two gifts to aid the cuitural interests of Virginia, representing together abou $10,000,000, have been warmly receive: in that State and enthusiastically The younger John D. Rockefeller’s pro- vision for rebuilding Williamsburg anclent seat of government and learn- ing, is held to have promise of a great American shrine, while the similar amount. from an unannounced well- wisher, to the University of Virginia, doubling its endowment, is described as a splendid contribution to education. The Springfield Republican recalls that when Jefferson prepared his epitaph, he named as the things for which he desired to bs remembered that he was “author of the Declara- tion of Independence, of the Virginia statute for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia™: and that paper adds: “This epitaph has re- cefved less attention than it deserve: | for the light it throws on Jefferson's character and interests. He was twice President of the United States. but he enumerated only the accomplishments which he believed (o have directly moted the cause of human liberty” The Republican links the college gift with that to Williamsburg as remarkable benefactions, and says of the latter: “If any American town invited and de- served this reincarnation, doubtless Williamsburg was the one. * * * After Mr. Rockefeller has set this remarkable example, other philanthropists may be similarly inspired.” *ox XX “As the nearest neighbor and clo: of kin of the Old Dominfon." in words of the Raleigh News and Observs er, “North OCaralina rejoices in the two noble constructive benefactions. It particularly congratulates Dr. Alder- man. The best thing that has happened to the University of Virginia since it was founded by Thomas Jefferson was when it secured Edwin A. Alderman as its president.” Viewing the ben derived by Dr. Alderman’s in tion. the Columbus E predicts that “a fair s wealth which is coming from the de- velopment of the natural resources of the South will find its way into edue: tional endowment. The two announcements of the gi ngle day,” [t u- id strides Virginia is making the congregation of the States. What $5,000000 will mean to the great university Thomas Jefferson d that Edwin A. Alderman ngly bullt up, only educators *7* This great gift will not be the last one. The State is beglnning to realize its larger responsibility to higher education. * * * The restored Williamsburg, 1t 1s about the ancient Col will be a university in itself. will be a continuing inspiration to the American people of those true ‘)nm les of liberty on which the Na! foundea.” Coming from an alumnus, this gift suggests to the Charlotte News that “the destiny of a great many college: in these days of tremendous collegiate undertakings, depends upon the devel- opment of a greater interest on the part of former students.” The mag- nitude of the gift, doubling the endow- ment, suggests to the Des Moines Trib- une-Capital that “the accumulation of & century but equals this one mag- nificent gife." CEE ‘The New York Times is impressed by the importance of the restoration of “We are not Iu‘l"l‘u’ liam an faculty) and Mr. Rockefeller, thi restoration of colontal wmhnuhu‘,, will not have done more for the education of Ame i) most charming and stirring \ praised by the peoole of other States.| pro- | fon i8¢ Millions in Gifts to Virginia Culture’s Assets will have given a refined pleasure to and quickened the imagination of mil- lions. They will have made more real and vivid & mighty source of American | origins.” The fact that the historic community will become a shrine is attested by the Charlotte Observer, Lansing State Jour- nal, St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dal Journal. “Even as it is today ing to the Charleston Daily Ma linmsburg. but a village, is an attract place. and looks & great deal | colonial town that one would in was when some of the mo. scenes of early American history w staged.” Recalling that “when the s of government was moved to Rict | shortly after the Revolution. the sed to expand.” the Baltimor: nirfg News states that “it is only | cent year t the automobile b | gun to bring visitors to the | tours of exploration And they have not be concludes that paper. “It has a wealth of marks the Nashvil to some of the my incidents of the tinent's settlem the formation of Iv became the United States of Am: fea” The New Orleans Time: .yune feels that “even more importan than her place in government may b classed Willlamsburg's position i catlon, for Willlam and Maty Co! chartered in 1693, still includes, desy three conflagrations, certain wall are the oldest in any education: | tution in the United States. It is city’s collegiate associations that have given it promise of rebirth eve mare particularly the facttha Kappa was established thepe ber. 17%6." p | ive old firldlu\)nx ’ s Famous names among the st the college designed by Sir Ch Wren are empha by the Rapo ning Gagette and Texarkana Ga “Worship of the past?” asks the | elnnati Times-Star, with the r Were it no more than that, Tves the memorial, but it 1as | that beauty was o until near our own th | ing, is the Bra of U | folk Ledger-Dispatch avers th ere | i loveliness, well nigh destroyed. to be | made wholly lovel: > UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR $un Yowrs des Todey Premier Clemenceau appears pectedly upon the American fro felicitate the American Army unit upon its capture of Belleau Wood. He called it A “meat job" done in a way "pe- culiarly American” ¢ * ¢ The achievements of the American forces in this particular sector during the past three weeks have been to help (halt & most determined and dangery: thrust toward Paris and to smash 0 the apex of an ugly and not incon: orable wedge that the Germans had driven into the allled line. Chatea ‘Thierry may be called the most sub- stantial military ccess of the Ameri- can Army to date * A regiment of troops in Pershing's forces has been ordered to Ttaly ta complete the unity on that front of Malian, British, eh and American fighting men ¢ % "+ Thirty casualties in today’s Teport, * ¢ last night captured a strong poin Lys salient, east of Huazebrouck, and captured prisoners and machine guns. o MR from several sources indicate that Von Hindenburg is plan- ning another m.:mndn for August @ smash the reach - ]