Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1928, Page 8

{THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. — WASHINGTON, D. C AWEDNESDAY......July 25, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor “The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11 S and Penmsivants Ave th St and Pennsylvanis Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd 8t Chicago Office: Tower Buildine European Office_14 Regent St.. Lon, England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. “The Evening Star ... 45¢ per month The Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundays) The Evening and Sunday Star wnen $ Sundass) The Sundav Sta 4 Collection made at the end of ¢ mas ba sent In by mail or 80¢ per month €5¢ per month 3¢ per cof Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. 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Proportionately, Britain is confronted by a labor situ- tion of no less calamitous a caliber. Not only do these distressing unem- ployment conditions prevail, but the Industrial Transference Board has de- creed that at least 250,000 artisans, thousands of them married men with families, must make a permanent shift from their present trades. In the vast majority of cases they are workers who have spent a lifetime at their craft. Now they must seek not only new domiciles. but new trades. They must begin all over again, in innumerable cases, at an age when it is not easy to become skilled in a strange branch. Grim facts, due in most part to in- ternational economic conditions, are responsible for British labor's plight. The textile industry, long one of the bedrocks of John Bull's trade power, is feeling the competition of Chinese mills. *Labor,” the railroad brotherhoods well informed Washington organ, points out that British cloth exports have dropped by nearly one-half—for every seven | yards of cloth sent abroad ‘before the war British mills now send only four yards. Shipbuilding, another traditional sheet- snchor of British industrial prowess, has slackened seriously. In sixty-two out of 101 classified British trades, in- cluding all the important ones, unem- ployment shows a heavy increase over previous years. Authorities fear condi- tions will grow worse before they be- come better. The Baldwin government, which sur- | yived the general strike of two years ago, expresses confidence that the nmew labor storm can be ridden without dis- astrous consequences, though there is no attempt to conceal their gravity. There may have to be a general re- sumption of the dole, the doubtful ex- pedient to which post-war Britain re- sorted on the grand scale as an anti- dote to unemployment. It is suggested that in the “Americanization” of Brit- ish industry, that is, consolidation of competing enterprises along the lines of our great steel and motor combinations. lies Britain's only salvation. Meantime 1t is plain that our cousins overseas are marching through an in- Gustrial vale of tears. They pride them- selves upon their inherent capacity to “muddie through.” Labor for its part essayed the general strike as a panacea and learned its ineffectiveness. Ameri- cans will observe with sympathetic in- terest the recourses to which his maj- esty's government and British trades unionism, hand in hand, will now re- sort. ——— The Tammany tiger fastens itself on A! Smith. When the choir wearies of “gidewalks of New York” it might re- vert to “The Cat Came Back.” e e——— The North Pole is & subject for in- vestigation. Inquiry as to details con- cerning-some of the explorations is not 80 1! ating .- And Now Comes the Fight. de in the political cam- | xhibition of the | nother of so-called box‘ng, with tae mpion heavyweight meeting a contender with a sufficient reputation and record o entitle him % the role of challenger. This affair will take place tomorrow night in New York ©City. Much has been said and more has been printed about the contest, in the usual fashion of appealing to pub- lic interest in an entertainment which 1s staged upon broadly expensive lines. In keeping with the traditions tha have heen established in recent years, the promoter of the match, whose name word comes sport present ch: i a he because of ar ar human be 4 the gs, has pay the champion tidy sum of $500.000, win or Jose, and the challenger $100,000, regardiess of the outcome. On the eve of the match, after doing some figuring on the basis of the number of tickets sold, he finds that instead of & profit e faces a deficit. Accordingly, Le reduces the price of admission Seven thousand tickets that have here- Wiore been quoted at $5 each are now . v §3. Even at that mediate outlook is that instead of a vacked stadium will be many the lable 1 is there vacant sea's tomorrow night at the Polo | Grounds, the bout is to take place The reason for this comparative lack rest is not far to seek. 1t 15 reflected in the odds in the betting, which at present favor the champion at 1 In short, there is little expectation of an upset for him., Yet there it always the possibility of & Buke Riiow, an uniooked-for weakenig} of where ree tn one. " | of nature. Tunney is at his prime, a nis | numerous adventures in catering to the | people.to see the flow of blood | position of suffering upon pledged himself to | the im- | brawn, an unsuspected punching power in the challenger. If there were any substantial ground for a victory for the challenger the crowds would need no ticket-reducing lure to draw them to the arena. Un- doubtedly the patrons of the sport like to see the overturning of an idol. And yet it cannot be said that the champion is precisely an idol. He won from the long-resistant Dempsey, it is true; won from him twice, his second victory con- firming his first. But, say the sophis- | ticated supporters of this great Ameri- can industry of prize fight promotion, Dempsey had finally gone back, and his time of defeat had come in the Nurs(" | careful trainer, a clean liver, a canny fighter. But he is not the popular hero that Dempsey was, even in his days of | defense against hostile sentiment cn | the score of his lack of & “war record.” And Heeney has yet to arouse interest |in nimself. He is an alien. He has been obviously chosen for the role of challenger because of the lack of other materials for keeping the game going. The public, in short, is for the present rather fed up on fighting for the sake of a big gate. Should tomorrow night's affair turn out to be a “flop” in a financial sense, with & deficit for the promoter, it may | be some time before another is staged, | unless Heeney should win unexpected: That may make for an early contin- uance. If the total takings are a mil- | lion, enabling the promfter to reap = paltry hundred thousand or so from | his enterprise, another match is to be | looked for next season, regardless of | the outcome. It is almost entirely a | matter of dollars and cents — although the prize fight game is not reckoned in terms of small coin. And it is largely | a question of the gullibility of the pay- | ing public. i The Liberal Arts College. ‘What is the future of the “liberal jarts” college—the institution of learning | devoted primarily to training in general culture rather than specialized tech-| | nique? At present it is an extremely impor- tant factor in the American system of | education. The great majority of the | institutions of higher learning below | !uni\‘emly grade would fall into this| | class. But there is little agreement among | educators as to its actual value in twen- | tieth century life. It requires produc- tive years in the lives of individuals and | it gives them in return little that has a | | “market value.” Even the social value | of its work has been questioned. It does not creat physicians, teachers, | engineers, efficiency experts, artists or ;lawyen. It simply paves the way for these professions. It is an investment |in Jelsure—and Americans can no longer |be satisfied with a purely nominal return | | from such investments. Orthodox educators—the old gentle- | men with high hats and frock coats who | were radicals themselves in Benjamin Harrison's day—defend it with consid-; erable -heat. The younger professors, themselves children of the motor age| { who find life too short to fritter away in | | Grecian gardens, have a tendency to/ consider it as an anachronism. They point out that the “liberal arts | college” itself started as a professional school for the training of clergymen, | |and simply has lacked the plasticity to | adapt itself to changing conditions. It | was unable to substitute engineering for | theology during the disturbing years of the later nineteenth century. But the proponents of the old school see today an even wider field of useful~ ness for the traditional type of college. The argument advanced by Prof. L. B. Richardson of Dartmouth at the annual meeting in Chicago this week of the Institute of Administrative Officers of Institutions of Higher Learning should cause serious reflection on the part of those who champion radical changes jn | the organization of the American col- |lege. He said: The aim of the American college to-| |day is in no sense professional, but is | rather to furnish the Nation' with a| class whose intellectual machinery runs from its,own power. In these days, when the use of leisure is becoming an increasingly pressing problem, the very | reccgnition of the high advantage to | the individual of intellectual resources |and the possession of such resources by increasingly e group is in itself sufficient to justify any system by which such a result may be attained. In these days of so-called liberalism, of nations and new republics, of evolu- tionists and fundamentalists, of Ku Klux Klans and Gov. Smiths, of anti- saloon and personal liberty leagues, of | pacifists and militarists, of Theodore Dreiser and Harold Bell Wright, of Dr. Cadman and Sinclair Lewis, of Calvin Coolidge and Big Bill Thompson, it is an asset to the community if a consid- erable element in it are in the habit of making up their minds upon contro- verted questions on a surer basis than personal prejudice, snap judgment or | supine ylelding to well organized prop- | aganda. | | { v———— s Eminent Europeans refuse to visit| America. America continues to recog- nize a “trip W Yurrup” as a means of | refinement which no Main street will | dare to challenge | River Racers. Are the good old days of river racinhg to be revived in the West? It would im-m 80 from the contest last evening on the Ohio between the oid Betsy Ann | and the new Chris Greene. The Betsy | Anne was rated as the fastest boat in | those waters, but a few days ago an in- | tormal speed contest took place between {her and the Greene, the latter nine years younger, somewhat larger and | - | the emblem of supremacy. {record today. | mashie-pitch {rom the green. THE EVENT NG STAR. WASHINGTON, P C, W St. Louis July 4, 1870, six hours ahead of the Natchez. River racing became so common in those times, when the great stern- wheel packets were the main means of transportation, that numerous disasters occurred, collisions and boller explo- sions. Those were the times when Mark Twain was a pilot, the times of which he later wrote in his “Life on the Mis- sissippt.” ‘The title “Queen of the River” was eagerly sought. There were no prouder men living than the cap- tain, pilot and crew of / boat that bore Now the Chris Greene carries the gilded elk horns that she has just won from the Betsy Anne and unless authority inter- venes the right to carry them on hex pilothouse will soon be challenged either by the old owner or by a mewcomer built for speed. The Associated Press sent the follow- ing dispatch the other day from willew Springs, Missourl: ¥ Maurice Triplett, 17, was knocked unconscious by lightning while playing golf yesterday afternoon when a bolt struck a nearby telephone pole, trav- eled a wire and jumped to his upraised mashie. Physicians said body perspira- | tion, which diffused the current, prob- ably saved his life. At last the perfect alibi! Down through the ages golfers have been per- fecting the alibis which, time-worn though they be, echo every afternoon up and down the Nation's locker rooms.| “I had a rotten day at the office,” “My | nerves are all frazzled"” “I guess I} stayed up too late last night,” “They oughtn't to allow dubs on this course. Now that foursome in front of me to- | day,” etc. “Why don't they build 8| new course and let the women have| this one?” “I was about to drive when the caddie sneezed,” “A gnat flew in my eve,” “Whoever designed this course has probably been murdered by now. If not, I'm going to be the murderer.” But it took Maurice Triplett, a Iad of seventeen, to develop the really per- fect abill. One can hear him now, lying on a bench in the locker room, explaining the thing to the group of awe-struck admirers standing around in their locker-room attire, bottles of gin- ger ale and glasses of cracked ice held in their hands: “I would have broken the course I only had to make a four on the eighteenth. My drive was a peach—just & bit of a hook on it, so that when it struck the ground it rolled and rolled. I thought it would never stop rolling, but it dfd, just an easy 1 took | my stance and raised my mashie. I| felt like I would hit that ball just right, and I planned to drop it about a foot from the pin, with maybe a little back- spin that would make it roll nearer. I |was about to swing when everything went black. The next thing I knew somebody was pouring some funny- tgsting white stuff down my throat that burned. Then I saw you fellows stand- ing around me. A bolt of lightning struck my mashie. Wasn't that just my luck? I'm going to quit golf. Any- body who wants a set of clubs can have mine.” s A prize fight has no difficulty about a radio hook-up. It is a means of ena- bling the public to forget the serious cares of statesmanship and concentrate on the issue involving brawn regardless | of brain. Civilization in its tense pur- suit of higher purpose requires its mo- mentary physical relaxations. e e Old temperance orators asked mem- bers of the audience to “sign the pledge.” Nations are now requested to do the same thing with reference to pos- sible war. . An Arctic expedition is studied first for its scientific enlightenment, and next for its disclosures of the possibilities ©of human nature under dire stress of circumstances. e Old King Tut's treasures are valuable. He appears, however, in the guise of a mummy in charge of a second-hand store. e The elephant d donkey evoke no | laugh. Both wear a faclal expression | indicating mental distress. | [ SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Resolutions. Made some Resolutions great, When the year was youthful, As in Summer time we wait, They prove qluva/ untruthful. 8ad is this convivial scheme, Leaving hopes neglected. Joy Rides prove a Bootleg Dream, Wildly misdirected! No C. 0. D. “You ought to deliver more speeches.” “Why?" asked Senator Sorghum. *“I have already delivered & lot of speeches that haven't yet been paid for.” Arctic Exigencies. Oh, never take me to the Pole, Unless, when I get there, You can produce, with due control, A proper bill of fare. Jud Tunkins says to be a fool is bad enough, without the joyous determina- | tion to remind a patient world that it | 18 compelled to put up with his foolish- ness. host” Writers. built of steel instead of wood. In the sprint of the tenth of July the Greene led, but, her commander now says, quit | the race with & four-mile margin and allowed the Betsy Anne 1o overtake | her. Much conversation ensued and a | formal challenge was isued and with | the approval of the authorities yester- | day's race was staged over a twenty- mile course. ‘The Greene won by two lengths, Coincidentally the pilots of | the two boats were suspended, after & | hearing before the steamboal inspec- | tors, for certatn actions of theirs on the | occasion of the earlier coptest and the | | | craft were steered by new hands last | evening Memories are, of course, at once re- vived of famous races on the Missis- sippl, particularly the classic of the | Robert E. Lee and the Natchez in 1870, | That was an historic event. The two | | steamers, starting together from New Orleans for Bt, Louls, were especially primed and stripped for the race. In- tense interest was aroused in the mateh and more than a million dollars was wagered on the result, The Lee reached “Do you think Bacon Wrote the | works of Bhakespeare?” | “No,” answered Miss Cayenne, “I| can’t be bothered with insinuations that | the talk of well advertised personages | Is not entirely origfnal.” “DId you hear my speech over the radio?” “No,” answered Ml Cayenne. “I couldn't see why you could claim m re- spectful sudience, so Jong as you were not advertising anything.” “We belleve what we have been taught,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, “without inquiring far back into | the responsibility of our teachers. Homely Necessities. . A plenteous peach crop is arrayed Throughout suburban scenes; And still the farmer Is dismayed About the pork and beans, “A banjo beater kin git mo' respeet | them as they met. | Lyman Wilbur_of Stanf | tied ¥ President dan & hoe pusher,” said Uncle Eben, “An' if dat don't show liv of art, whut does?" THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. It was a cool, foggy, misty morning. Over a parched land a breeze had come in the night, bringing with it strange healing, tantalizing odors, an intangi- ble something that stirred memories in thousands of hearts. ‘What was it that made many a man sniff the air, intent on recalling, as if with the nose, scenes and faces far away and. long ago? What right had such a wind inside the city limits? A slight saltiness, wetness—— Seashore! ‘There the answer in a word Every beach along the coast knows such mornings, only in more intense form, when the sun has disappeared and the sky is gray and the dominant mass of water out” there rolls in wetter than usual, if such a thing were possible. ‘What days of joy those were, unfor- gettably stamped on the memory of the city-bound man who was fortunate enough in his youth to spend his Sum- mers where the breakers crashed upon the yellow sands! Dream, if you will, of mountain heights and their glories, but permit us to recall the flatter, dearer scenes of long-stretched beach with background of deep green-blue water, clear sk | clouds, gulls, tiny steamers in the di tance, trailing banners of smoke, now and then a sailing vessel standing in close. In those days the favorite beach had an individuality of its own, perhaps lost in the march of progress. which does strange things to seashore resorts as well as to the human beings who fre- quent them. This place in those days had its queer characters, its peculiar atmos- phere. It had a boardwalk but no pier, several large hotels, many small on (usually called cottages) and a number of homes used only during the season. Since then, we have heard, a sawed- off pier has made its appearance, and many other “improvements,” but it makes no difference, as far as we are concerned—it will alw: be to us as it was then, with its innumerable sand crabs roaming over the beach, chased by various dogs madly and frantically. * ok KK ‘The song of the surf—what a delight- | ful music! Some profess not to like the noise of |out there, the' feverish lights along the | breakers, but that dull, subdued boom is music in many ears. It is nature’s lullaby, which, once having been heard, is never forgotten. It was delicious to wake in the night and listen to that restless, unceasing, grinding roar only a hundred yards away. It consisted of a tumbling of crest after crest, those near at hand, those up and down the beach, not t gether but in succession, so that there was a continual roar. ‘The keen ear could detect the differ- ent combers as they came in, accom- panied by the peculiar slithering sound they made when they ran out again, and the smaller subwaves broke over Occasionally an awful thing would happen—there would be no sound aj alll’ Then how one strained small ears to catch the first roll of watery thun- | beautiful smile, that sweet. mouth which | ™! der! These brief lulls in the music of {the surf seemed portentious, somehow fraught with grief. As long as the breakers broke every- thing was well, but when one of those infrequent lulls happened, occasioned by one grand wave a mile or so long breasting and breaking along the beach at the same time, & pause WAS Necessary as the water ran back. Then there was silence. The cessa- tion seemed for ages. Everything is exaggerated on and by the sea. Wakers held their breath, as if in sympathy with the sudden silence. Ker-chunk! A wave broke at last then another, then another—the happy WASHINGTO BY FREDERIC ‘With Herbert Hoover's arrival at his Palo Alto campus home, it develops that Stanford men and women through- out the country, practically irrespective of politics, are getting ready to line up in. phalanx behind the Purple and Gold's most illustrious son. Because tanford is virtually the baby among great American universities—it was founded only in 1891-—its alumni and alumnae are mostly on the sunny side of middle life. Hoover was one of Stan- ford’s earliest graduates—'95. One of the Democrats who probably will not submerge his politics in college loyalty in Richard T. Buchanan, publicity di- rector of the Democratic national com- mittee and executive sscretary of the Houston convention. Buchanan was at Stanford with Hoover. There's a Demo- cratic United States Senator, too—Carl T. Hayden of Arizona, Stanford, 1900 who wishes Hoover well, but not too well. Senator McNary, Republican, of Oregon, 15 a Stanford man, and des- tined to be active in the formulation of a Republican farm relief program. A "McNary-Hoover bill” may emerge some day, In the House, two Stanford representatives sit, both Californians— Arthur M. Free of San Jose and Philip D. Swing of El Centro, Boulder Dam ploneer. ok K K The signal for Stanford’s sons and daughters to “get busy" probably will | be Hoover's speech of acceptance in the vast 90,000-seated Palo Allo sta- dium, Never before will there have been an American national political event s0 steeped in collegiate atmosphere. A tio of college presidents who are Hoover _boosters — mcludes xi)u. Ray DI liam Westley Guth of Gouch classmate of the G. O, P. standard- bearer, and Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin George Washington. In the diversi- flelds of business life, Stanford men dot the landscape everywhere Ernest N. Smith, general manager of the American Automobile Assoclation is one of them, Karl Bickel, president of the United Pr son E. Reynolds, president of the First National Bank of New York, got his Stanford sheepskin a year after Hoover at least one Wall Street magnate, who may be for the Californian, though Reynolds is listed as a Democrat. Wil and Wallace Irwin, Bruce Bliven, Aurania Ellerbeck, Dennison H. Clft and Charles K. Fleld are among the writing _fraternity who were at Stan- ford. -Dr. Vernon L. Kellogg, secretary of the National Research Council, fot many years a Stanford professor, Is & member of the Hoover nner circle at Washington. * kK Political historians will greater phenomenon than the recon- ciliation between Hiram Johnson and Herbert Hoover. For eight years the two distinguished Californians disliked record each other with enthusiasm amounting to ferocity. The feud began with Hoover's lil-starred attempl lo caplure the 1920 Republican delegation from Callforniu, With the Seeretary of Commerce’s entry into the Harding cabinet o year later it became w ven- detts. Johnson did most of ‘the hating, but Hoover never stayed awake loving Hiram Harding tried to bring the arch foes together. He wanted them Lo meet at & White House dinner. The sory goes that Hoover wus willing, though not eager, but Johnson de- murred, Matters did not improve in 1924, when Hoover helped (o snow Hiram under the Coolidge primary land slide, which robbed Johnson of his own State's delegation at Cleveland. Dur- g the past year or two the nsperities | on both sides steadily subsided. Jol von renounced his ambition to becom His attitude toward form He let it be known work at the snemies mellowed that he regarded Hopver' Department of Commerce a great cons structive achievement, ‘Then 1028 ap- proached. Hoover was an aspirant for the presidency, Johnson a candidate for re-election to the Senate. They agreed to bury the hatchet and throw Wil- | u 95 no | melody of old Ocean was resumed. One turned over and went to sleep—every- thing was all right again. * oK K K Everything is magnified on and by the sea. The wonder of vast sweeps of water extends to the shore, beating into hearts and minds tuned fo the proper note. At night evem the daytime joys are claborated. The sleepiest of city persons is content to sit and talk on the hotel plazza, rejoicing in the keen, cold, damp wind that, tries to chill his | frame. | the chill out but lets in the benefit of | salt air. ; How bright the lights in the lobby look in contrast with the immense darkness outside, broken only by starlight, which seems but a poor light indeed, so far away is its point of origin. Tonight one may well sit in the dark around the corner of the porch and hold the soft hand of some fair charmer who charms only because of the sea. She thinks it is herself, but any other lady would do as well. It is the sea! The sea has made her altogether de- sirable. The night, and the wind, and the tang of salt air, and the stars, and the song of the surf—have combined to make her lovely tonight. Tomorrow, in the light of day, she may seem other- wise, 'R Do you remember that dark night, Kathryn, when we first met? No doubt | you have forgotten us, but we still re- member you. Perhaps the darkness of | the night had something to do with it. We had just come down from the city, where the nights are lit by street lamps and electric signs. We had.stepped out on the platform, eagerly sniffing for | that ador we loved so well—the absolute aroma of salt air. Ah, there was no mistaking it! We breathed deep of Mother Earth's greatest tonic. Already we felt better. Something wonderful seemed about to happen. On such a night as this—Lord, how dark a night it was! There are degrees of black nights at the seashore, shades of inten- sity, gradations even unto the depths of the unfathomable pit of which the poet sang. This was the deepest, blackest, dark- ‘The stars away | est night of a lifetime. | boardwalk made the immensity of night all the blacker. The sounds of music | from the casino helped along the belief that something would happen. It was ! a night made for things to happen. One had to lean against the wind, so keen it blew in from the ocean. It was | no sideways wind, but head-on from the sea, riding the breakers, dashing with doors, people. Rocking chairs, deserted |on the porch, rocked merrily of their jown free will. It was around the corner, to one side jof a lighted door, that we waited for | something to happen. And. sure enough, |it did! It usually does—at the seashore. | . We were in the pitch blackness when Into the utter day of the doorway swam | a vision, tanned. glowing—a girl with hair as dar’. as the night, white teeth, | is the heritage of all good women. She stepped down and into the cool well of darkness, so that only her beau- { tiful head remained lit, as if by some | happy halo, | Kathryn! | We are old now, and many things have happened, and more water than | was in that ocean has passed over the mill; but we will never forget you, Kathryn, as you were then. The fact that you let us hold your hand because you were at odds wi'1 Bill was some- thing we didn’t know until weeks later. But what difference did it make? We see now, in the certainty of dreams, that it didn't make any difference at all. OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WIL, | no barriers in each other's path. The Palo Alto lovefeast was the result. * o ow % Senator Willlam E. Borah of Idaho, chairman of the foreign relations com- mittee, sees no occasion for Europe's re- ported fears that the Senate will re- | fuse to ratify the Kellogg anti-war treaties. Borah has made no attempt to canvass the situation, but knows the attitude of the Senate generally is fa- vorable to the pacts. If they are ac- cepted by the 14 other signatory pow- ers as Kellogg proposed them, it is Borah's view that the Senate’s O. K. will not be withheld. The Senator has always liked the phrase coined by M. | Briand at the Washington conference, | ;moral disarmament.” The Idahoan :):‘:Il“}'l‘s 'hr“ Kellogg agreements dis- nctly provide o beotiar » for “moral disarm- * o ow X Rumania is the first foreign c ¢ | to take advantage of the radio xi"i‘,ii". sent its cause to the American people. On the evenimg of July 30, Andrei Popovici, secretary of the Rumanian legation at Washington, will discuss Rumania and Her Post-war Problems" over the red network of the National Broadcasting Co. from New York. Mr. Popovici was born in Transylvania and was himself a subject of Hungary until the Wofld War realignment of eastern Europe brought his native soll within the Rumanian kingdom. Prior to join- ing the Rumanian legation staff’ Mr. Popovic! edited a Rumanlan-language dally newspaper at Cleveland, having previously taken his M. A. at Western Reserve University. Rumania s ar- ranging to borrow $250,000,000 abroad before long. Some per cent of th amount s to be foated in the United | L B ) Jouett Shouse, who has been . the t of capturing de(llv‘ \‘il',"('.‘ifl Southwestern States for Al Smith, |personifies & unique intersectionnl | composition. He was born in Kentucky i was brought up In Missouri and lives i Kansas. During the last year of the Wilson administration he was Assistant { Secretary of the Treasury, Shouse ac- complished the miracle of bringing an Al Smith delegation to Houston from bone-dry Kansas. He's been in Con- gress and the Kansas State Senate and now practices law In Kansas City, Mo. L Al Smith once told this pbserv he plays goll for an unusual :n:\;x'\m 1t keeps him from overindulgence In smoking. Sometimes his cigar accom- pan him to the links, but the gov- | ernor finds that as a rule he doesn't miss it amid the concentration of hit- ting—and finding—the ball, (Conyright, 1028.) . -oge Correspondent Writes of Hoover’s Home Town Ta the Editor af The Star 1 was greatly interested in the article you published lately concerning W Branch, Town; how It was no longer the little, quiet Quaker city. Allow me to write T know a little about that town, as, with my husband and family, 1 spent some time there whilte my husband was working on its new consolidated school. Our children attended school there, It 15 a niee, quiet village; kind, old-fashioned people that wre a joy o lsten to, But I must sy there was a movie at that time seven years ago—for we attended quite regularly, The school had a wonderful parent- tencher assoclation; best I have ever | attended. Fathers and mothers from miles around came in at night to at- tend, for thelr meetings were held at night, I have several snapshots of the new school, which to this day I prive highly., T know_fust where the Hoover home 15, as we lived only a short way from It Just behind the st_office, Mrs, Jx“’ F, BHAVER. A heavy coat or sweater keeps the | Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. While it is possible that the country might elect a Republican to the presi- dency in November and at the same time elect a Democratic House of Rep- resentatives and turn the control of the Senate over to the opposition, it is not at all probable. In national elec- tion years the control of Congress fol- lows as a rule the choice for President. It is in the so-called “off years” politi- cally, when congressional elections are held but no prrsldl‘ntl& choice is made, that one House of*Congress or even both are sometimes swung from the control of the party whose titular head occupies the White House to that of the opposition party. If Hoover is elected President, it is almost a foregone conclusion that both the House and Senate will be under Republican_control in the next Con- gress. If Smith should be the choice of the country, it would be the result of a political upheaval in this country which would sweep many Democrats into Congress. At present it looks very much as though this upheaval will not take place and that both a Republican President and a Republican Congress are in prospect. P The Republicans have a working ma- jority in the present House of Repre- sentativ In the Senate their control hangs a slender thread, and rests largely upon the fact that Senator Shipstead of Minnesota, the sole Farmer-Labor Senator, vates with the G. O. P. and against the Democrats on organization matters. The Demo- | crats this year have 20 Senate seals {in jeopar Some of the Democratic | Senators whose terms of office are to | expire in March, 1929, are from States which not linfrequently go Republican. The Republicans, on the other hand, enter the senatorial campaign with only 13 seats to defend, and they are all in States which are usually Republican, and strongly Republican. The bulge, therefore, 15 with the Republicans at the start of the campaign for Senate control, * oK K K ‘The 20 Democratic Senators whose terms of office are to expire with the present Congress are: Ashurst, Ari- zona; Bayard, Delaware; Bruce, Mary- land; Copeland, New York; Dill, Wash- ington; Edwards, New Jersey; Gerry. Rhode Island; Kendrick, Wyoming; King, Utah; Locher, Ohio; McKellar, Tennessee; Mayfield, Texas; * Neely, West Virginia; Pittman, Nevada; Reed, Missouri; Stephens, Mississippi; Swan- son, Virgima; Trammell, Florida; Walsh, Massachusetts, and Wheeler, Montana. | the' force of solid matter ‘against houses, | o S€REIGE FEE L GO ot e can- Senator Reed of Missouri is the only | didate to succeed himself. He took him- | seif clear out of the senatorial race in | his effort to land the Democratic nom- ination for President, burning all his | bridges behind him. But, while he took | himself out of the Senate race. he has not_eliminated himself as a factor in that struggle, for he is violently opposed | | to the election of Charles M. Hay, a | | dry Democrat and old political oppo- | nent, who is sceking the Democratic mination for the Senate. * % %8 The Republicans who come up for | re-election this Fall are: Cutting, New | Mexico; Fess, Ohlo; Prazier, North Da- kota; Greene, Vermont; Hale, Maine; Howell, Nebraska; Johnson. California La Follette, Wisconsin; McLean, Co necticut; Reed, Pennsylvania; Robin- son, Indiana; Thomas, Idaho, and Van- denberg, Michigan. The Democrats who come up for re- election to the Senate must go into the fight under the wet banner of Gov. Smith of New York. This may be a help to those who come from so-called wet States, but it will decided)y not aid those who hail from dry territory. F: example, there is Walsh o1 Massachu- setts, a wet from a State reputed to be wet, although in the past it has voted dry. There is Edwards of New Jersev, whose boast when he was elected gov- ernor of his State was that he would make Jersey “as wet as the Atlantic.” and Bruce of Maryland, one of the m: itant wets of the Senate, not to men- tion Copeland of New York, Gerry of Rhode Island and Bayard of Delaware, all of whom would choose to fight un- der a wet banner in any event. On the other hand, there are Ashurst of Arizona, who has been a flTnlmg dry: Dill of Washington, McKellar of Tennessee, Neely of West Virginia, Mayfleld of Texas, Stephens of Missis- sippl, Swanson of Virginia and Tram- mell of Florida, all of whom may be embarrassed by a wet head of the Dem- ocratic ticket in their dry States. * ook ox Of the Republicans who come up for re-election to the Senate, only two ere considered wets, Reed of Pemnsylvania and La Follette of Wisconsin. Reed is by no means one of the active wets of | not \tion issue in his campaign speeches. Both of these Republicans seem sure of re-election. Reed already has been nominated and La Follette is pretty sure to win the nomination in the Wisconsin primary September 4. There will be the usual effort of the stand- pat Republicans of Wisconsin to defeat La Follette, but if they do it will be & decided surprise. During the last two or three years, since he entered the Senate as his father's successor, the vouthful La Follette has made good in W measure which has surprised even his friends, Veteran Republican Sena- tors predict that he will go far in the political life of his State and of the country. “The test of the Republicans are drys in dry States, though some of the States have their wet streak. In the main the Senate fizht this year emphas {he wet and dry issug, with the Denx crats taking the wet side and the Re- the prohibi the Senate and is not unacceptable to| the drys. La Follette says little about | BY PREDERI Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing to our infor- mation_bureau in Washington, D. C. This offer applies strictly to informa- tion. The bur cannot give advice on legal, medical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles nor undertake exhaustive re- search on any subject. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and address and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. The reply is sent direct to the inquirer. Address The Evening Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washington, D. C. Q. Is there a fine imposed if a playet ! does not go to the bench immediately | when a base ball umpire tells him to do so?>—C. F. R. A. The official rules provide that “A fine of $5 shall be assessed against any player or coach who fails to be seated on his bench within 1 minute after ordered to do so by the umpire.” Q. When will the next Wrigley Marathon Swim be held?—E. N. A. The third Wrigley Marathon Swim will_be held at the Canadian National Exhibition at Toronto this Summer. A special event for women will be held on Wednesday, August 29, and an event In which the contestants will be mostly men will be staged on Wednesday, September 5. The first 10 women to finish in the former event will be allowed to participate in the second one. Q. When was the first railroad built to Atlantic City, N. J>—R. E. N. A. It was in 1853 that the pioneer railroad was built to the shore for the purpose of establishing a bathing resort at the shortest distance possible from Philadelphia. It was also hoped to furnish shipping facilities for the iron, glass and other industries along the Mullica and Egg Harbor Rivers and to open to agricultural use large areas of land along the raflroad line. Q. What is plosive?—O. G. A. The Bureau of Mines says that the most powerful explosive known is ben- 2oyl peroxide. Q. Can you trace the origin of the saying, “Even when the gates of Heaven are shut to prayer, they are open to tears?”—F. L. A. This saying is from the Talmud. Q. Where is the largest organ in the world?—L. T. A. A new organ constructed in the Cathedral of Passau is said to be the largest. It has 17,000 pipes. There are five manuals. Q. Can an ex-sold ent, to him In foreign the most powerful ex- . A have his pension intry?— J. A. A soldier’s pension voucher will be forwarded to him to any foreign coun- try. It is necessary merely to notify the Pension Office of his change in address. Q. When was Pratt Institute estab- lished>—F. P. H. A. This co-educational school for art and_industrial training was established in Brooklyn, N. Y.. in 1887, by Charles ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS C J. HASKIN. Pratt. The institute comprises normal, technical and trade departments. . Where was the first canal dug in this country?—M. B. A. The site of the first canal may be seen at the lower end of Norristown, Pa. It was laid out in 1740, and part of the old excavation still remains, Q. Where was the first session of Con- gress held after the burning of the United States Capitol?—G. P. C. A. The first session was held in the Blodgett Building, located at Seventh and E streets northwest, the site now occupied by the Land Office Building. | Q. Why are there more earthquakes in Europe and Asia than in the United K. State: H. A. The occurrence of earthquakes depends on strains set up by changes in elevation and other slow earth move- ments. There are more such actively moving regions in Europe and Asia than in the United States, hence more quakes. The details as to why certain regions are in this state of change and others are not are not fully known. How did the “Diamond G” Ranch gets its name?—W. T. A. From the manager, who is called “Diamond G,” James T. Gratiot. Q. What is the perfect number? M. —T. M. A. Pythagoras called 3 the perfect number, expressive of the beginning, middle and ending, wherefore it makes a symbol of deity. Q. How can blocks of salt be made? —A. L. A. Salt may be made into blocks by first reducing it to brine and then evaporating it in a pan of the desired size. It may be evaporated in an open an by means of the sun's heat, or by the application of artificial heat. Q. When was the Corcoran Art Gal- lery given to the city of ‘Washington? —J. F. E. A. The nucleus of this gallery was the private collection of William Wilson Corcoran, which he presented to the city of Washington in 1869 with an endowment fund of $900,000. Q. Should a house be painted in the sunshine?—P. H. A. Outside painting may be done in the sunshine, provided it is not too hot. It can be done whenever the surfaces are dry. Best results are obtained when the temperature is between 60 degrees and 80 degrees F. | e ! . What show running in Ne | has had the longest run?—, | A. According to Billboard. “The Lad- der” has been playing the longest, with | 655 performances up to June 30, in- | clusive. | A | Q. Is it difficult to raise snakes?— | ew York W. D. . 8. C. | 'A. The National Zoological Park says that it is a difficult matter to raise any species of young snakes. Their food should consist of meal { worms and earth worms, TS | and such small insects. A pan of milk, | into which a raw egg has been beaten, | should be kept in the cage. Irregularities in the handling of Fed- eral patronage in the South have been brought sharply to the public’s atten- tion recently through investigations by a Seniate committee and activities of the Department of Justice. It is contended that the practice of levying upon pres- ent or prospective officeholders is one of long standing and by no means new with the individuals now in the lime- light. “Subjecting Southern postmasters to the process elegantly described by the late Senator Quay of Pennsylvania as ‘frying the fat’ seems to be a regional, not a party practice” says the New Bedford Standard (Republican). “There is no question but that Republican poli- ticlans who control, or are believed to control, patronage in the Southern States have been assessing postmasters for political purposes. Assessments have run as high as 5 per cent of the salary. The man who has the job is expected to pay. and the impression given is that none of them believes he can safely refuse.” As to the use of the money in the South, where it is collected, the Standard frankly is mystified, observing | that “if postmasters turned in their en- tire salaries the Republican party could not carry a single county.” Bearing on this point is the comment of the Savan- nah Press (Democratic) that a private, not a campaign, spoils system has been disclosed. * ok ok % “The official admission that Georgia postmasters contribute funds to the Re- publican organization of that State” in the opinion of the San Francisco Bulle- tin (Republican), “cannot be offset by charging that the Democrats pursue the same policy when th Two wrongs do not make a right. and there is something both wrong and rot- ten In the system of collecting political campalgn contributions from postmas- ters. * * * That postmaster Is bcst who 1s not known for politics or his political affiliations, and in whose hands a post card is as sacred and confidential whether it be written by a Democrat or a Republican. It is playing the political game down pretty low when postmasters are held up for party contributions at the risk of I g their jobs. Getting outributions from men that expect to ery publicans the dry *x ok From both wet and dry quarters come today grand, eloguent claiins of de: tions from the Republican and Demo: cratic ranks by wets on the one hand and drys on the other. The wet chiefs See Republicans deserting Hoover and going to Smith, while the drys pleture thousands of dry Democrats who will support the Republican nominee rather than the wet Democrat. Probably there | is & lot of “bunk” in the claims of both. At all events, the losses to the Re- publican party by the defection of wet Republicans are likely to be offset by the defections of dry Democrats who will not vote for Smith but will vote for Hoover. A few millionaire Repul lieans who may vote for Smith, claimed by the wet lead Are not g Ing to set the world afire. Both Republicans and Democrats are as ‘busy “organizing” for the big fight next Fall as the bees laying up honey for next Winter. It will not be for any lack of organization that either side loses the election, nor for cam- paign funds, either. Up in Massachu- setts Gov. Fuller is to head & volun- teer committee in the Hoover campaign. He has been a strong Hoover man from the first. In the old Bay State Fuller has been & great vote-getter, although not always popular with the organiza- tlon Republicans, But the efforts of the Hoover Republicans in Massachu- setts are merely typleal of the desire of Republicans in other States to * ganize” (o fight the enemy and for Hoover, | | | * R ow ok Gradually but surely the Republicans | of the Middle West are turning to| Hoover, Thelr disgruntiement because they failed to win either the presi- | dential nomination or to have the Mc- Nary-Haugen farm bill principle in-| cluded in the uerubu«m national plat- ! form is evaporating. Look at lowa, for | example, the heart of the d nd n | the Middle West for the MeNary-Hau- gen bill. There the governor, John Ham- mill, after & conference with Mr. Hoover on his way to California, announced So th_cough and systematic is the system® in Georgla,” says the Atlanta Constitution (Democratic), “that & card officeholder’s card as made, so that the patronage jobbers may thus know what postmasier or other Federal emplove has ‘contributed’ during a fixed period.” cratic officeholders made voluntary con- tributions, the Lynchburg Advance (Democratic) remarks that “Democrats do not make voluntary contributions to & Republican organization, nor would Republict make voluntary contribu- tions to a Democratic organization.” * ok ow % Maintaining that “the Senate com- mittee will find that such a system has been In vogue in every State in the| Unlon, that it has existed as a prac- | tice for more than half a century, if | not for a full century or more.” the, Charleston Daily Mail _(independent | Republican) asks: “What shall we do| about it? Recognize the principle —and { have the Government control contribu- tions by Arranging a maximum rate and making it & penal offense to contribute | more than the prescribed amount, and | thus prevent the officeholder from being | the unhappy victim of bluckmail by a more or less disreputable party boss? Or what? “Ihat the commercialization of poli- ! tles should have many phases, and that | in divers instances it should be crude, | Is perhaps to be expected because of | conditions and the past lack of effec~ tive effort for correction.” thinks the | St. Louls Globe-Democrat (independ- | ent), while advising: “Perpetration of the ‘commercialized system would be | sadly discouraged, for a time at least, | if_both parties to a large number of office-bartering transactions should be sent to the penitentiary " A suggestion which comes from the | Grand Rapids Press (ndependent) is that “there seems o be only one way | to kill the patronage referee system," | publicans have the faculty of ”"“"l that he was salisfied that the farm cause was safe In Hoover's hands, And mlug.l ehraska are k\ollng' up for the Republican nominee, too. Tha Re- - fogether, after their party fracasses, to A remarkable extent. The party en- mities Democrats are harder the IW‘M‘A.% longer. ey are in power. | become postmasters s graft and brib- | Replying to the argument that Demo- | X 'Traffic in Federal Patronage Brought Sharply Before Public and that is “for Republi administra- tions to appoint tflpa%f?gzmom's on their merit to many post office jobs in preference to the inferior class of Re- ‘publicans frequently recommended b+ | the referees.” The Baltimore Sun (independent | Democratic) feels that “the root of the trouble is with the highest officials, be- cause they could wipe out the whole business of sale of Federal pat: with one stroke, if they would.” the Lincoln State Journal (independent Republican) suggests: “The passing of money is rather raw, but it does not differ from the common practice of securing men’s support by promising or giving them office” The Louisville Times (independent) believes that “it is less dangerous to the public welfare to sell an office for cash than for a legislator’s vote.” * k x % It is recalled by the St. Paul Pioneer Press (independent) that “two bills aimed for the correction of this un- ! doubted abuse were passed by Congress in 1926 and signed by President Cool- dge.” The provisions of these laws, which the Ploneer Press comcedes are all too easily evaded, are summarized as follows: The first prohibits the pay- ment, solicitation or receipt by any per- son of any money or thing of value for |the purpose of procuring an appoint- ment under the Federal Governmen' | The second requires the filing of an affi- davit by every person appointed to a Federal office, stating that ‘neither he nor any one acting in his behalf has given, traniferred, promised or paid any consideration for or in the expectation or hope of receiving assistance in secur~ ing such appointment.” A protest against the sending of Mrs Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, to the South for the investigation of these cases is made by the Kansas City Journa! (Republican), which argu “It is not considered good policy for employe or official of the Departm of Justice to be active in the running Io! conventions. Many years ago & | statute was enacted against the prace |tice. The reason was obvious, for ¢ |trol of party conventions by such offi- cials and employes might be dange: i* A sense of fitness of tb should dictate the designation of so: | uther representative of the Departme of Justice in these particular | The Journal asserts that Mrs, W brandt “was very active in the seat | 1 | | index is kept with the monthly or other | of delegates from Mississipp!, Ten: | periodical payments entered upon each land Georgia.” | UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. French and Ameriean troops on the west, and Franco-British forces the east. have again driven in sides of the Marne salient which ¢ Germans have been trying to ho! The mouth of ths salient is now o 21 miles wide and the whole dis between both sides in under the rant of allled guns. * * * The Geriner military nerve center at Fere-en-Tarc nois, A most important dist \ point where seven highways con is now subject to & murderous vom American and French and is well-nigh untenable, with ba loons and airplanes: sweeping overhead 1o direct the fiving of allied guns. The enemy is expected to make a str effort to hold this important cen *. * * The most extensive gain ¢ day was made below the Ourcq Riv where the Franco-American forees took HIll 1€, southeast of Armentieres, (he village of Colney (about & mile fartic south), and by a thrust in & north easterly direction occupled most f Tournelle Wood, only three mile from Fere -en Tardenois Farther to the south the French Amerieans pushed forward in the Fores of Fere to the general line of Beun vardes-le-Charmel and also made pros ress in the Forest of Ris and north o Dormans, taking. all told. about fort Square miles from the Germans. * Typleally American was the capture of a tion north of Epleds, With the Geormans Intrenched along the road with thelr machine guns, the American mounted machine guns on 10 Ford cass and dashed up this road., spurting streams of bullets on either side. The Qermans beat a hasty retreat and American infantry moved in to oceupy the for them,