Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1928, Page 8

3 “THE_EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8 19%8.° THIS AND THAT i THE EVENING STAR With Sunda; Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C ‘WEDNESDAY....August 8, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. . Editor ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company dness Office: & 42nd St wer Building. Furopean Smce el %:A::nt St.. Londen. Rate by Carrier Within the City. 450 per menth 60c per month N .85¢ per month The Sunday Star Sc per copy Collection made at’the end of each month Orders may bo sent in by mail cr telephone Main 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 1 yr, $10.00; } mo. St 8400 1 mo.. 50c mo.. 40c All Other States and aily and Sunday..l yr.$12 3100 §-uy only 1yr. $8.00 sc unday only $5.00: 1 mo.. 50c Member of the Associated Press. | The Associated Press i3 exclusively entitled or_republication of all ews e Srediteq 1o it or not otherwise cred- ied in this paper and also the jocal news published herein. All rights of publication of goecial dispatches herein are also reserves Smith's Challenge Accepted. Gov. Smith, deeply resentful, has challenged Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist) Church, New York, to debate with him | Dr. Straton's assertion that Smith is | “the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress and true political wisdom.” Dr. Straton has promptly accepted the challenge, urg- ing that Madison Square Garden be the scene of the debate. and that in addi- tion a joint debate be arranged for a number of cities in the South. This i something entirely new in presidential campaigning. Gov. Smith's courage is to be admired. He has em- barked upon a course which, if car- ried through to a finish, may have widespread effect upon his chances m‘ the coming election. He has given far | wider publicity to the charges madel‘ against him by Dr. Straton—which, in effect, are the charges made by Willim | Allen White, Kansas editor, although | Mr. White withdrew part of them be-‘ fore sailing for Europe—than uwsev charges would have had otherwise. | Gov. Smith's enemies have dug deep | into the record of his votes as Assembly- E man in the New York Legislature. ‘They | have made public a list of his votes on various bills, and they have charged | | { | | Hinchliffe would never have under- taken the trip on his own initiative. Miss Mackay, wealthy and impetuous, in- duced him to go. Mrs. Hinchliffe was left destitute when her husband was lost and after Lord Inchcape's gift of his daughter’s estate of more than two unless he was sustained by a firm faith in the correctness of the theory. He would rank high among heroes—even by this definition—but not so high as the man who inoculated himself with deadly germs simply to provide experi- mental material, with no remedy in g | the Ttalian Navy has made a remark- and a half million dollars to the Brit- ish government it was incumbent upon him to recognize the fact that the other survivors of the tragedy were in a condition of abject poverty. Lord Inchcape's recent action should remove the bitterness which resulted from the spectacle of a wealthy man giving a great fortune to the govern- ‘ment and ignoring the pleas of a widow left destitute from an adventure of which his daughter was the prompter. It can nc er be said, however, that when pends not so much on the act as upon the British peer finally made up his‘(hp person performing the act. It was mind to provide for Mrs. Hinchliffe |, o tning for Lindbergh to fly across he did it in a parsimonious manner. |y, apantic, He had confidence in Fifty thousand dollars is a generous gift | pic yane confidence in his ability as T . an aviator and a navigator. It was B herofe. ~ Yet more herolc would be the All Dead on the F-14. case—it is purely hypothetical, of course | In the raising of the Italian subma-|--of a man barely capable of maneu-{ rine F-14, sunk i the Adriatic by a|vering a plane, yet setting out across | destroyer in the course of maneuvers,|the Atlantic on the bare chance of getting across and securing enough money from the exploit to pay for a| worth-while object, such as medical treatment for his wife. Both men would have entered upon the same project, but one would have | to overcome a hundredfold the fear of | the other. The daredevil in battle does not show | quite the same quality of herolsm as | the timid man who grits his teeth and | goes against enemy bayonets regardless. | The doctor who tests out a new and | dangerous remedy on himself is a hero. But another man might do the same | thing and not be a hero at all»v—!or; example, a condemned convict offered this alternative to death in the electric chair, The latter would have nothing to fear, for the act could not possibly | sight. Perhaps the “altruistic prineiple” can be omitted altogether. One is not ab- solutely sure that the human being is capable of what, in the final analysis, is an altruistic act. Here is another definition: “Herolsm is controllable behavior likely to react to the disadvantage of the individual, which varies directly as the degree of | tear overcome by the individual.” Certainly the extent of heroism de- | | | able record of expedition, though, unfor- tunately, upon the return of the stricken | undersea boat to the surface all its oc- cupants were found to have perished. The submarine was raised within_thirty- four hours after it sank when on emerg- | ing it was struck a mortal blow by the ! surface craft. This was accomplished with difficulty, as high seas were run- ning at the time. But speedy as was the salvage work, it was not fast enough. Communications had been re- ceived from members of the crew in- dicating that there was life within the submarine for a time after it sank. An| air line had been attached a few hours after the accident. But it did nnll suffice to maintain life within the crushed hull, which, it now appears, | became suffused with poisonous fumes result to his disadvantage and might from the batteries. ‘rvs\m greatly to his advantage, Comparisons with the S-4 disaster| Both these definitions contain stand- are in order. These two tragedies oc-|ards. Both would probably include any curred in similar initial circumstances, |list of the world's ten greatest heroes but the rescue work was marked by |composed with good judgment. different accompaniments. The S-4 was | Yet both, it must be admitted, leave hit in December. Bitter cold prevailed |out many men whom the world will | as well as high winds and rough seas. |persist in considering heroic. | There was unavoidable delay in as- ‘We cannot improve greatly, after lll.! sembling the salvage equipment and!on the definition of Noah Webster. organization. The Italian submarine c——— was struck in Midsummer in the course | Rep. Moore’s Renomination, of naval maneuvers, with practically a | & full equipment of rescue craft and ap-| The renomination of Representative BY CHARLES E. There ought to be a law to prevent any one from "strllthmng up” & desk belonging to any one else. Ordlu' gl! one thing, but the orderli- ness of another person—any other person—is distinctly something else again. Let it be stated with conviction that no person in the world can tell what is and what is not important on some one else's desk. This axiom applies as well to the small home secretary as to the huge mahogany or walnut affair in business circles. A desk is strictly a one-man affair Even a confidential clerk has no right ( to meddle with the boss' own desk. Life I is not quite that confidential. Not that the old man has anything he wants to conceal! Far from it, he | | simply wants to be able to find what { he has, And that is system in a nutshell. Efficiency can go no farther, co- ordination” proceed to no more outer circles. The busy worker who likes his work and who wastes no time must have things at his fingers' ends | He must be able to reach in a hand | and bring out exactly what he is look- | ing for—and we ask the world how | can he do this if some busvbody has disarranged his papers and things? * ook ok The fond wight who believes in neatness to the exclusion of everything else never has a thought beyond the tips of his greedy fingers He longs with a mighty longing to rake two cubic bushels of letters and three of papers into a waste basket. He wants to see neat piles take the place of widespread confusion: he hankers to replace the horizontal with the vertical Now, a great deal may be sald for | the horizontal plane, in and along which we who keep disorderly desks prefer to distribute our secretarial be- | longings. Seas, plains, horizons, are but some of the mighty works of nafure made | in the horizontal. Their charm comes not from their extending up, but solely from their flatne: It may be questioned if even the mightiest mountain equals the sea in simple grandeur. As for the incom- parable lure which is a very part of ocean life, mountains are sadly lacking n that, as every one knows who has never seen one. ¥ ok ok % The busybody who insists on “clean- ing up” some one else’'s desk has a firm conviction, evidently, that we are | all wrong about this relativity of things horizontal and vertical. To him the upright seems sublime. The Washington Monument, no doubt, is his idea of something neat A lead pencil stood on end puts him . TRACEWELL. In all of a long experience, we have never yet seen some one else “rid up” a desk without losing the most valuable paper on it. “Why, I didn’t know you wanted that thing,” says the caretaker, upon being taken to task about it. “Why, T didn't see anything important about that.” This in a very hurt and aggrieved tone. You assure him that the very point of the whole proceedings is that he did not see, that he could not see, what was important to another. Therefore, you assure him. he should leave other people’s desks alone. You are wasting breath, however, The | passion for “straightening up” is "veri- tably grand; it will not give in to a few hust work its will upon every beautiful pile of old letters or papers it sees. R We recall one monumen:al desk In a certain Government department. It was a wonderful affair, mighty and four-square, and in its youth, no doubt. {shone brilliantly. When we saw it the carvings along the cdges had vanished beneath a litter of papers and letters. Fully 12 feet square, that great desk was piled feet high with the accumulation of sev- eral vears' work. ‘This huddle of paper was evenly dis- tributed, too. It was as if Nature had snowed papers and letters during the night, leaving an even coating. Each morning the official shoveled a small clearing out just in front of his chair., The caller had a suspicion that every time he gave the mass a shove the correspondence for the first six months of the preceding year went slid- ing off the rear into the oblivion formed by the wall and the two far windows. Yet this official was supremely happy and contented with his desk. As far as any one could discover to the contrary, his work was done as ex- peditiously and as well as any other of- ficial's work. Even his secretary could not tell how he found what he needed. but said he w | not only could but did find it. * ok K ok This supremely happy man we hold up as the example of examples of men left in undisturbed possession of their own. He knew the joy of tumbled papers, books, cigarettes, matches, pipes, letters, telephones, ink wells, scissors, paper cutters, memo pads, pencils, pens, rulers and what-not. He alone, of all mortal men, knew exactly where to look for anything he wanted. He did not have to fear that the maid servant, in a moment of dutiful ab- straction, would turn up her sleeves and wade in. His was the sublime content of a ! Politics- at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. Judging from the statements emanat- ing from various Republican sources, }and even from some of the Democratic sources, the women are for Hoover and the men are divided between Hoover | and Smith. The women, in other words, | hold the balance of power, and will use | it for the Republican candidate for | President. It is what the Republicans | are banking on to some extent. But | the more farseeing leaders are not leav- ing the entire job of electing Mr. Hoover to the ladles. They realize many wom- | | en talk bui fail to register, and, failing | to register, cannot vote in November. | Furthermore, there is much talk of the | enrollment this year of thousands of Catholic women, on the theory lh t| they will cast their votes for Al Smith | The Catholic Church, according these reports, has not encouraged the | voting of women in the past, but rather | has_discouraged it. However, as Gov. Smith nas been rinning for office in | New York for Io! these many years, and Senator David 1. Walsh has gathered |in the votes with much regularléy in | | Massachusetts, it is quite ltkely that { some of the Catholic women have been | | registered in the past. *, The first test of strength between the Republican and Democratic parties | comes a month hence in Maine, when | the Pine Tree State elects its governor, a United States Senator, members of the House and other State officials. “As | Maine goes, so goes the Nation,” is the | old axiom, which has held true at least | in recent ycd Already the campaign is well under way thece. Senator Fred- | erick Hale, chairman of the naval af fairs committee, is out to win re-ele tion on the Republican ticket. His vic tory seems assured. Victory, too, for other Republican nominees seems rea sonably certain this year. So far as the national ticket is concerned, when the | State gets around to casting its vote for | presidential electors it looks as though | the Hoover people would be too strong for the Democrats. Former Attorney General Pattangall. Democratic candi | date for governor four years ago, run- {ning then on an anti-Ku Klux Klan | | platform, has come out flatly for Hoover | |and against Smith., Mrs. Pattangall | was out for Hoover even before her | | husband. “The fight in the State four | | years ago was very brisk, with the re- ligious issue involved. Brewster, the | | Republican candidate, alleged to have Klan support, won over Pattangall by | some 36,000 in the largest outpouring | of voters in the history of the State. | There is a considerable Catholic popu- lation in Maine, and it is no secret that the Smith leaders expect to poll most of the Catholic votes in the country. But reviewing what happened in Maine | | in 1924 there seems little or no chance | * | | | | | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. quaintance instead of removing his cap?—E. A. J. A. The adjutant general's office says that a regulation of the service pro- This fs a special department devoted | to the handling of inquiries. You have at your disposal an extensive organiza- tion in Washington to serve you in &0y capacity. that. relates. to 1nlorma»khxbns American soldiers from removing tion. Write your question, your name | their caps. The cap is considered as a and your addrc -~ clearly and inclose 2 | part of the uniform. cents in coin or stamps for reply. Send to The Evening Star Information Bu- reau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, | Washington, D. C. | . Mow many miles a day did Peary mg!r in his fl!\ayl successful dash for the | Pole?-G. E. { A. The entire distance from the | mainland to the Pole was 475 statute | miles and was covered at the average rate of 13!, miles a day. Coming back, | due to favorable weather conditions, an average rate was maintained of 29.5 miles a day. How many automobile drivers are killed annually by carbon monoxide?— | A. Last year some 700 automobile drivers who allowed their motors to idle | @ What is the correct pronunciation of Pepys, who wrote Pepys' Diary?— A M.P. A. A proper name fs- susceptible of being pronounced to suit the bearer of it. Writing of Samuel Pepys, William Lyon Phelps has commented on the fact that at the university where Pepys was educated in England the name is pro- nounced Peeps Q. Into how many langu: ible been translated?—K. A. It has been transiated into nearly 500 distinet languages and into many tho s of dialects, some of which claim to be entirely separate tongues. Q When did Marcus Loew die?— B ages has the W. K. H e A. Marcus Loe motion picturs in closed garages were killed by carbon o e dicd at Glen Cove, Long monoxide polsoning. Island, September 5, 1927, Q. What play w George Washing- ton’s favorite? —E. T. Q. What i= th e principal religion in Nicaragua?—1.. H. It is said fo have been John G A i Cathallberis e 2 - e vas Tecently| tom cism s pre- Deggar's Opera, which was recently | yajling religion. This church has an played in New York and on tour in| archbishop and three bishops. celebration of its bicentennial. Q. In what manner may orange blos- Are_there any representatives of Q N soms be arranged as a decoration for e Russian Gove: t in the Unite L i L 4| the bridal vell? -1, . T. A. There are several Russian con-| A. The simplest arrangement is a suls in the United States at the present | Wreath of orange blossoms, which is time who represent the last government | Placed over the tulle or lace vell. If & of Russia which the United States rec- | COmplele wreath is unbecoming, a par- ognized—namely, the provisional gov- | Ual one ma$ be worn. When the veil is ernment. Mr. Serge Ughet, formerly 2ranged in cap effect the orange blos- financial attache of the provisional | 50ms may be placed on either side of government, is now the custodian of | the face as two rosettes. Russian interests in this country. office 15 in New York City. Q. From what count is 5 Q. How is an etching made?—A. G. A. An etching is made by scratching ry did gypsies | the lines of a picture on a metal plate originally come?—A. R. | by means of acid and wax, filling the A —Although the gypsies themselves | scratches with ink and printing the claim Egypt as their native land, it is | impressifls upon paper by pressure believed that they originally came from | against the plate. A number of prints India in the Middle Ages, passing|can be made from one etching. through Egypt to Europe. — " Q. How many hours of solo flying has | Miss Earhart to her credit?—B. P. 1 A. Miss Earhart has some 500 hours. | Q. Can auction bridge be called by e term “bridge”?—F. A. A. 1o This is the popular unofficial name | SPREREeS or the game. Since the earlier form of | q Are qisabled veterans of the World }"idxt" whist which was called bridge | war the only soldiers that get five extra s now seldom played, the term is un- | pomts added to their rating in Civil derstood to mean auction bridge. Service exnminations TS, gz T A. All World War veterans and all Q. Was Paul Whiteman's father a|other veterans and all other persons musician?—C. T. entitled to preferences under the law A. His father was a director of mu- | have five points added to their earned sic in the public schools of Denver,| ratings, with the exception that dis- Colo. i | abled veterans have 10 points added. Q. Is airplane traveling popular be- | Q. What is the name given to the application of hot cloths or moisture for the relief of pain?—R. R. A. “Fomentation” is the general name given to the method of relieving pain through the application of hot th | v g A . | Q What solut vill v himselt, ot only with TammanS, Ut | marine mother ship, a veritable floating | 5001 ItTct of Virginia as the Demo- | pored) goes about “itrajghtening up” | Nob even his unconfidential secretary | s oot | daily. Each trip 14 travefers can be |- ;Lh¢ Bureau of Standards says desks——other people's desks, let it be reiterated. He will take that careful stack of papers on the right of the ink well, which one has been patfently collecting (and we suspect that some of them are s0) dared to move a paper or a letter on his_des| He had 'em trained. | that iron rust may be removed without injury to the base by soaking. the mate: by immersing in a hot solution of 15 per cent ammoni citrate. |cratic candidate doubtless assures his | return to Congress, which is a prospect | pleasing to Washington. Mr. Moore has in the course of his service in the with the saloon, the gambler and the | o one was on the scene. While the prostitute. ‘The governor naturally Ye- | gon wog most difficult, owing to the gents these charges, made publicly. He y.0p so0c 5t was not attended by low The campaign in Massachusetts is | carried and seats are seldom vacant. | waiting to some extent upon the pri- | It takes 100 minutes by air and 4 hours maries for nomination of State and'and 15 minutes by train. However, al- congressional candidates, which does | most two hours are consumed in com- | not is prepared to defend himself, and will g0 to the mat with Dr. Straton. pro- | vided the debate is ever actually ar-j temperatures as in the case of the S-4.| American naval authorities will doubt- House proved a valuable friend to the District, participating in progressive for six months, and inside of six min- | utes will have it pushed and pulled around so that not even the writers “Let me see.” said this happy man, as “I want that letter from Jones & Co., dated March 6, 1925." he sat at his desk. | take place until September 18. | Nevertheless, both sides in the national | jfight are digging in already in the | ing and going to airdromes, while only | three-quarters of an hour is an average | for transportation to and from railroad | Q. What is a visagraph?—N. N. A. The visagraph is an invention by less obtain an st the re- | State. Loujs K. Liggett, the new na- | stations. id 14 y ranged. Explaining votes on legislative ports of the ;_‘vfl:: zfl_‘::’;! “: ‘:! legislation for the development of the | O{htl‘me papers could tell one from the h Then, as only the man can do whose | tional committéeman for the Repub- | ifil. ;’;,‘: f‘.;fihiy"}fi;‘l,‘l",ffi," o | ui‘;mmli ’sxef?t;gs norb en‘::ss g::,ehmm ’g"'f'., matters has been the cause of the dOWE- | {grippe It is vitally important that | NaUonal Cepltal and manifesting a| i qtion 1o this bit of cruelty, he | s thumi ang el qut s aqped in licans, ‘has opened headquarters in | * Q. Please give the meaning of “Miz- | scund alfter proper {raining. and the fall of many politiclans in the past. every possible device and metholi of | K¢€R Interest in the attainment of the | insists on losing the most important | This Jack Horner of executives may 4 € | pah."—L. S. sounds are produced by an electrical people are inclined to interpret for, &mmmmaflmm legislators. O Eteaton in Tis sermon: st Sun- | fiy.mhhlk'\’orkch\mhmtewm further than did Mr. White in his at- tack upon Smith, for while Mr. White gave the governor credit today for be- ing an upright, courageous executive, Dr. Straton declared that “Smith is the deadliest foe today” of forces of moral Gov. Smith had any idea Mr. White have been said in the past| in State elections, but in New York have not had the effect of halting him | #t the polls. It is not the possible effect of these charges in New York| State, but their effect in the other States of the Nation, that must be feared by the Smith campaign man- sgement. The Democratic candidate | is undertaking himself to give the charges the lie and to repel once and for all the charge against him that he is an opponent of moral progress in this country. e ———— New York's affectionate interest in the Western business man continues to be shown by the manner in which Mme. Manhattan continues to keep her night clubs going ————— A Benediction, Almost simultaneously with the an- .|smaill. Service in submersible craft is | | His lexicon defines heroism as “exer- objects which are on the program of District achievement. In this service he has not lessened his activity for his own district in Virginia or for the State which he represents. He has within recent months accomplished striking results for the benefit of his constitu- ents. The vote given to him yesterday in the primary was a sweeping indorse- ment of his services and without doubt assures his election for a fifth full term. ————— Olympic games call on Uncle Sam once more to figure in public admira- | tion as a “good loser.” The spirit of | good losing is what makes sport socially valuable, quick rescue in the case of a submarine | accident should be adopted by this country in order to lessen the risk of losses at sea. It is possible that the Italian Navy itself was governed and | alded by the experience of the United States in the case of the S-4. It is evident from this latest acci-| dent that when a submarine is punc- tured and sinks it is almost certainly | doomed. Unless it sinks in very shal- low water, with a calm surface and with rescue facilities immediately at | hand, its occupants are faced with al- most certain death from drowning or from asphyxiation. The percentage of res- cues from stricken submarines is very | ! | | —————— There may be hope for the worker who keeps an eye on the clock, but in | August there is no hope at all for one who keeps an eye on the thermometer. R Neither the submarine nor the dirigi- ble has appealed to the popular imagi- nation as anything more than a won- derful piece of machinery—if it works. B An appetite for notoriety cannot be mentioned among Grover Bergdoll's faults. Nobody cares what has become the most hazardous of all in naval op-‘ m&xulndtbebutthnunheex»i pected is a lessening of the chance of | tragedy by the adoption of extraordi- nary and elabdrated methods of salvage. | ————— Problems involved in restoring glories | of ancient Rome reveal complications | due to the fact that there is now the airship to be taken into account. | ———————— What Is a Hero? ‘Wanted—a definition of “heroism.” A New York newspaper last week conducted a poll of its readers as to the world’s ten greatest heroes. Nat- urally the estimates varied widely. The | lists submitted contained names as far Some financial expert may yet under- | take a revaluation of the street car | g iy sy token :tlll :lgl‘mlke it worth more, and Jack Dempsey. ¥ SHOO' This is hardly cause for wonder.| Just what is heroism and by what scale can, it be measured? Noah Webster leaves us dissatisfied. TING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Sports Competition. Although we see the quest of pow'r And rivalry for place, The only question of the hour Is, “Who has won the race?” On earth, and in the sky and sea, We watch contestants go. And only question which may be The leader of the show. As competition goes along No hint we seek to trace Of who was right and who was wrong; We ask, “Who won the race!” cise of the quality of courage.” Cour-’ age, it tells us, is “that quality of mind | which meets danger or opposition with | intrepidity, calmness and firmness.” | This seems to beg the question. Yezg when we try to improve upon it we | soon find ourselves in an inextricable | tangle. Lindbergh met danger with “intre- pidity, calmness and firmness.” 8o, mr} that matter, did Blackbeard, the pirate. One definition that has come to light is as follows: “Heroism is consclous and controllable behavior entered upon to the possible, or probable, disadvantage of the individual for the sake of an | altruistic principle. Tt varies directly | as the two regulating factors—likeliness of disadvantage and altrutstic extent of the principle. The correctness of the principle is not necessarily a factor.” On further reflection this seems | | Influential Discord. clumsy and difficult to apply to the| oy yijage choir was wather sad, facts In any given case A transal-| - ang played us some discordant tricks Arranging the Encores. “You made a fine speech over the radio.” “Radio speaking isn't exactly satis- | factory,” answered Senator SBorghum. hey have things so arranged that the station announcer takes all the | encores.” | | nouncement of a fifty-thousand-dollar gift by lord Inchcape to “sufferers from the disaster” which overtook his daughter, Elsie Mackay, and her pilot, Capt. Walter Hinchliffe, comes a farc- well message from the two ill-fated transatiantic fiyers Although the wealthy ~ ritish ship owner did not name Mrs. Hinchliffe as being the benefictary of his generous gift, she was the only sufferer, financially at from the daring attempt to span the Atlantie from east to west, and will very prob- shiy receive the entire amount in some form. ‘The farewell message, therefore which was picked up in a hottle washed ashore in North Wales, and which read “Good-by all. Down in fog und storm,” can be taken as & benediction upon the gift of Lord Incheape Although the father of Elsle Mackay did not approve of the adventure on which she embarked, and there was nu‘ legal responsibility on him to provide for the widow of Capt. Hinchliffe, he wae certainly under & strong moral re- | himself with death-dealing germs peeuliar efrcum- sponsibility in the slances altendant upon the flight, Capt lantic aviator, for instance, enters UPON | pecause the loudest singer had | course of behavior with the Proba-| e piggest pull in politics | bility of extreme disadvantage to the | individual-~death, Yet the altrulsm of | the principle involved always is open | hLis town wish many a time that he had |to question. The fiyer advances the | been one of those slones that keep | cause of man’s conquest of the air, but | rolling and gather no moss whatever! | he seldom sets out deliberately to do | » this. He seeks to attain perzonal glory, the value of which he weighs against | the poseib! consequences 1 "Thus he wonld not rank particularly | high, according to the scale laid down. | | A fruitful source of popular heroes | |15 armed confliet. Here we are faced | by the difficulty that the behavior of | the ndividual 15 not entirely control lable, even in #s initial stage of enlist | ment. ‘The soldier in battle faces the | {pnm-mmy of extreme disadvantage | Everybody Content. death—for an altruistic principle—the | o kigs o baby he forgot: welfare of his country, But the prin- | And that 1s better, maybe. ciple seldom is uppermost in his mind The candidate would like it Closer to the definition of herotsm And neither would the baby. the bacteriologist who Inoculates to| “Dat song, ‘Home, Sweet Home test the value of a theory. But, gen-'said Uncle Eben, “was wrote long hefo erally speaking, he would not do it folks knew anything about joy-ridin’,” Jud Tunkins the moss-back make: Cholce of Climate, “Is 1t hot enough for you?” asked the fiippant. person “Supposing T should say it fs not, snid Miss Cayenne, “Is there anything you think you conld do about 12" “A revenge” wald Hi Ho, the sag of Chinatown, “Is dangerous for a moy tal to undertake, in an effort to deprive the gods of their greatest privilege.” not i e e | the election. i turned, hence 1928 is much too soon paper of all. However large the radio hook-up next Saturday for the Hoover notification ceremonies may finally prove to be—and | it ‘i already established that it will be the largest the country has ever seen— it is apparent that the broadcast of the Smith notification ceremonies will be just as extensive. Indeed, it is quite probable that the hook-up, station for Istation, will be identical. The National | Broadcasting Co. and the Columbia | chain, which. together control more | than 60 stations, are donating their full services for the notification speeches of | both nominees. They are asking no | compensation and playing no favorites. So all the Smith folks have to do is to take the hook-up arranged for Hoover | next, Saturday and adopt it as their own. But future radio service for political broadcasting for either party will be on a strictly cask. basis. Whether Repub- licans or Democrats are on the air most will depend simply on which side wants to spend the most campaign cash for radio service. It is likely that it will be about a fifty-fifty break, with each side matching the other, dollar for dol- lar. The preliminary radlo expense budget of the Hoover campaign direc- | tors is $200,000, according to published, | but unconfirmed, reports. ERE I A widely known Bay State Congress- man is prn‘noallcltlnil the political fu- ture by the same methods of statistics, factors, charts, cycles and trends that he applies to his financial horoscopes. His prophecy is that Al Smith is Hkely to carry Massachusetts, but will lose He figures that political cycles are not unlike business .cycles. He says that the Republican cycle of supremacy in the ordinary course of events runs a decade before it is over- for a change, unless some decisive ad- verse factors are present. He does not see any “adverse factors” at hand this year except in New England. He thinks | there is no serious economic depression ~-that the farmers’ difficulties are over- rated—and that the personal factors present in the campaign will operate against the Democratic nominee in many States. But in his home State he declares there is a business slump of major proportions and the personal fac- tors operate the other way around. So he is sanguine of Hoover's election, but pessimistic of Republican success in Massachusetts. * ok K Though the prospective sale by the shipping Board of the United States Lines, of which fleet the Leviathan is the flagship, is to be made to the high- est responsible bidder, bidders for $50.- | 000,000 worth of ships, who are ready | and able to guarantee future operation | in the transatlantic service, are few and far between. The fleet would have been sold long ago had a real purchaser been in sight. As matters now stand, the ! syndicate headed by Lawrence R.| Wilder of New York is the most likely prospective - buyer assoclate in the shipping venture is W.| F. Kenney, millionalre New York con- | tractor and close friend and backer of Gov. Smith, Kenney came forward | some months ago with a tentative pro- posal to charter, but not o purchi the Unlted States Lines. When this deal did not go through, Kenney beeame | associated with Wilder, The latter i represented the Brown-Boverl Electric Co. in his attempts last winter to in- terest the Shipping Board and Congress | i a proposition to have the Govern- ment finance the buflding of a fleet of | express” liners to ent the time from New York (o Southampton (o four duys, Since then Wilder has acquired | from the Brown-Boverl Corporation | their Camden, N. J., shipyards and all thelr other shipping Interests, and s | now operating on his own account, 1t} Is reported that Wilder stll intends to | carry through his express Jiner plan to | augment the United States Lines, i he acquires the latter from the Govern- ment. 'R I Herbert Hoover s Quaker faith will not prevent him from taking the presidential outh of office on March 4 next in the manner and languuge of his predecessors and m the words "1 solemnly awear.” Quakers of the early colonial days never took au aath and never “swore.” They “affirmed,” a distinction without & difference, which was as legally effective as the oath, Mr. Hoover is represented as be lleving that present-day Quakers take elected, his Nop sl WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS | $64.50 i Under almost incessant well excite the envy of lesser men, a more liberal and common-sense view of the matter and have no consclentious scruples against taking the oath in the sual form. Inquiry also develops that Mr. Hoover was “sworn in” when he entered the cabinet as Secretary of Commerce, and that more recently, when he appeared before the Senate campaign fund investigating committee, he was “put under oath” and “swore” to tell the truth. * o* ok X Senator C. C. Dill of Washington, one of the most able and popular of the { younger men on the Democratic side of the aisle in the Senate chamber, is facing a hard re-election fight in his home State, where dry sentiment is reckoned to strongly predominate, Dill is 100 per cent dry himself, and in his own campaign, which is already in full swing. according to reports coming back to the Capital, he has disavowed Gov Smith's position on_prohibition, but ::'m‘ny lfldu:?‘ed the Democratic rfiomi- n all other respects. He is tellin his Washington audiences that Smlll‘f. it eclected, will approve legislation to protect the people from the great power octopus,” that he will sign a bill “to {)llee the farmers on a basis of equality with other citizens” and that he will urge the enactment of legisla- ton “to prevent the arbitrary use of court injunctions in labor disputes.” Dill himself declares that if he is re- ;{’e:f:rdthe will :Io everything in his 0 prevent any modification of the Volstead act. Miles Poindexter, who was defeated by Dill in 1922 by margin of less than 5,000 votes, may face him again in November. Poindexter Is contesting with Kenneth MacKintosh. former chief justice of the Washington State Supreme Court, for the Republi- can nomination, The marles are next month * K ok ok has dubbed a recent re- e Bureau of Labor Statis- ties respecting the cost of medical service for Government employes “The High Cost of Dying." At any rate, the bureau sets out that the average annual expenditure per employe for medical attention was $122.72, or 6.2 per cent of the average annual salary of $1.992.63. This figure embraced the {otal expended for doctors for both the salaried employe and those de- pendent upon him. It figured out T _person for the employes familles in the lower salaried Some way port from t and thei groups. (Covyright, 1938.) UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today One hundred and thirty thousand, Wilder’s principal | tWo hundred and seven men are called | to the colors and will entrain for camps in the next two weeks, * * Four hundred and forty-two casualties announced In today's report; 145 killed in action, 101 severely wounded and 65 ported missing. * ¢ Under the command of Halg, British and French troops struck a terrific blow early to- day at the German lnes from near Albert south to Braches, on the Avre above Montdidier. The surprised ene- my gave way along nearly the entirs front of 25 miles and the allied forees, with a multitude of tanks leading the | attack, swept the enemy before them {gained 7 miles, took 10,000 prisoners and 100 guns. * * * German prison- ers admit they were expecting only local attacks. A heavy helped sereen the for the big early m low-lying misi British preparations orning push, * * * hellfire Amert- can troops struggled forward to 10 slightly Lfl!ur positions north #yllll: Vesie. French divisions to the east and went did thelr part in stralghtening the Hne, * % % American artillery is boni- barding North Fismes heavily ‘with the Intentlon of making it untenable. * * * It 18 definitely known that the Kalser 18 preparing a speclal force of 500,000 picked men to stand back of the Rhine against an invasion of Ger man soll e Cerman high command realizes that the tide of war is turning AgAlnst them, nominating pri- made to bring the organization up to perfect working order in every district, | county and precinct. At present there is a brisk campaign on for the Repub- | lican nomination for Senator, to oppose | Senator David Walsh, Democrat, who has no opposition for the nomina- tion. Loring B. Young, formerly speak- ler of the House in the State Legisla- | ture, young, a good speaker and cam- paigner, seems to have the inside track. He has been attacked, however, by But- ler Ames, formerly a member of the House, as a lobbyist before the State Legislature. This is not very clubby on the part of Col. Ames, and the Democrats are hoping to make the most of it if Mr. Young is nominated | to run against Walsh. ! * ok ok ¥ | William M. Butler, former Senator jand former chairman of the Repub- lican national committee, has dropped somewhat out of the picture in Massa- chusetts politics, although he is con- sulted by the new leaders frequently. He stuck to his determination, an- nounced months ago, that he would not be a candidate for the Senate this year. Mr. Butler, until the Kansas City convention had come and gone, was {the head of the Republican national organization, and gave much of his time and energy to the party. His was to keep more than skeleton organiza- | tions always on the job and ready to |leap into & campaign and to form the | backbone of the greater organization for national campaigns. The wisdom of his course has been shotwn already this year. The race in Massachusetts this year is no “cinch” for Mr. Hoover, although the Republican nominee is undoubtedly popular in the State. The Democrats | are banking on the strength of David L. Walsh to help put Smith across, on the wet sentiment and on the large | Catholic vote in that State. Smith, it now appears, will give the Republican candidate all he can do to carry the | State, and there are some observers Wwho insist that the Democrat will win in the OId Bay State. * x ¥ | ..Senator Kenneth D. MecKellar of Tennessee fulfilled expectations and won the senatorial nomination last | Thursday over Representative Finis J. Garrett, Democratic leader of the House. | Senator McKellar, an ardent dry, has | butlt up a strong following in the State. | His name on the ticket, it is hoped by | some, will help the national ticket in | Tennessee. At least it will help to bal- | ance the wetness of the Smith candi- | dacy. Mr. Garrett will go out of the! House after a long and distinguished | service next March. He has been a| member of that body for 22 years and | Is recognized as one of the ablest de- | baters of the House, For one reason or another, the next | Congress will find & number of impor- | tant figures out of the congressional pie- | ture. In addition to Mr. Garrett, who | abandoned hope of re-election to the House to run for the senatorial nom- ination, there is Senator “Jim" Reed of Missouri, who declined to file for the Senate and, putting all of his political eggs In one basket, went to Houston to fight for the presidential nomination. | He, too, goes out of of next March | with the close of the present Congress Death has clamed Muartin B, Madden, veteran chalrman of the House appro- priations committee, Who served for, years as & member from Ilinois, | ook o { | | | | As the Western States are gradually falling into Mne for Hoover and Curtis, despite the opposition of some of the farmers, so the States of the South are leaning more and more toward Smith. { There is mueh reason to doubt that any |of the States of the so-called Solid South will actually be found in the Re- | publican column the day after election | The old question of white supremacy is bobbing up more and more in North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and the other States below the Mason and Dixon line. Smith they do not like | But that they will go into the Republi- enn column does not appear probable at his writing. Leader after leader among he Democrats has come out for Smith, and these leaders understand pretty | well what the rank and file will do. R Qeorge N. Peek's effort to throw the | prt of the Helt Committee of gty-w«. to Al Smith appears to be a “dud.”” Although chalrman of the committee, Mr, Peek apparently was not authoriged to speak for the commit~ tee when he came out for Smith, In- deed, from Yowa come reports that Mr. Peek has been known there as a Demo- crat. ‘The lowa Republicans do not relish the idea of being handed over to the Demoeratic cause by a Demaocrat, farm leader theugh be may be. | { graved in wedding rings, in which sense | | watch between me and thee. | & new national anthem, of course has jus w patriotic | and popular enough to be identified as | | Banner'? A. The word “Mizpah” is Hebrew and literally means watch tower. The term has long been used as a parting | salutation. It is also frequently en- device in conjunction with an ordinary book. - Q. Has rowing always been a feature of the Olympic games?—D. L. A. Rowing is a comparatively recent agditiorr to the Olymvic games. This sport was added in 1908. it is Interpreted as meaning “The Lord Q. What is the largest number of | vehicles that has gone through the Q. What kinds of birds and fish are Holland Tunnel in a day?>—O. S. being introduced into Hawaii>—D. F. A. The highest number of cars' A. During the first half of 1928 the through the tunnel was 51,694 on the | Board of Agriculture and Forestry has opening day, and the total income from | introduced chinook salmon, fresh-water these vehicles was $25,873.35. {crayfish, California clams, Samoan b, | crabs, abalones from California. steel- Q. What is a main-gauche’—F. E. T. | head trout. several species of Panama A. The word is French and trans- game birds, African ringneck doves, lated literally means left hand. It is | mockingbirds and Pekin nfi;‘mmrfln. the name, however, given to a T N which was held in the left hand while| Q. Upon what date were the g the right hand held a rapier. In com-|chial schools closed in Mexico— bats of the fifteenth and sixteenth cen- | A. D. L. turies this was used to parry the thrusis| A. They were closed February 11, of the adversary’s rapler. | 1926. Q. What is the name of the stone| Q. How many bear cubs are there that Mexican women use in grinding |a litter>—G. T. corn?—A. L. | A. There are usually two bear cubs A. This stone has one side which is |in a litter, although occasionally one a concave incline and is known as a |or three appear. s gt | Q. wnat is the largest railroad cen- Q. When was the first national road | ter in the United States>—A. A W built that was free from tolls?—H.E.D.| A. Chicago is the largest ratiroad A. In 1808 the demand for better |center in the United States and in the means of communication with the West | world. s ™ vid- — caused Congress to pass an act provid @ What s the meoet-vabuie . M. T. mgdlnfr the l(;(ll1:,l!l‘|l‘li'fll)n of l‘ national oL T the vaters th Jut s tn:nu ?A’!n!m; 0:1?0 ‘;i:':. ofrer efr{-:?n A. The sable is the most valuable of tolls. The first section, from Cumber- |8l furs. It is soft and silken, deep land, Md. to Wheeling. W. Va, ns‘;’“’"é‘- 0{:”;!1‘““;‘0“" Sfl;!l’!d It l; opened for trai 1 st, 1818. ound only Siberia ) ese an o e e Chinese sable, local varieties of less Q. Why does a soldier salute an ac- | value, are usually dved or topped. > in New National Anthem Contest Greeted With No Enthusiasm “The Star Spangled Banner” is not without its champions, numerous and earnest, whenever some one comes along Wwith a proposal to find a new national anthem. Even critics most frank in conceding the defects of the old song that has stirred American hearts for a | century or more are not inclined to hope that anything better will come out of prize competitions such as Mrs. Brooks-Asten of New York plans in the name of the Brooks-Bright Founda- tion. Writing somewhat_facetiously on the Spangled Banner” will never bd sban- ed. “It has served more than a cen- y," says the Evening News. “It has stirred the spirit of Ameriea for 100 ars and more. However faulty it may be, no song can take its place. Amer- ica will not ard the anthem that has ory. But let the contest £0 on, let us see if we can’t have some good American songs.” While the Champaign News-Gazette extends to the promoters its “best wishes,” it contends that “the odds are about 5,000 to 1 that after she gets her subject, the New York World says:|prize song, the country won't adopt i." “Mrs. Florence Brooks-Asten of our | The Butte Miner refuses to “stand” for own fair city, who is offering $6.000 for | any substitute, and the Lansing State Journal asks, “Suppose splendid senti- our respect. Almost anybody Who was | ment, expressed in meter fhat would willing to back an idea with $6.000 | lend itself to spontaneous soms, were would have our respect. Yet she also|produced and sot to equally good has our disapproval. What, we feel in | music—would that fact give us an an- duty bound to ask, is the matter with them?" The Journal then proceeds to the national anthem we have already?” | unswer its own question, saying: “An- This challenging question is asked or | thems are born of occasions and of long. inferred by many other newspapers. | historic use. If a new, great. enduring The Kansas City Star hopes no new na- | poputar anthem can be given the Na- tional anthem will be produced, observ- | tion, let it be done: but it will not dis- ing: “Some time, perhaps, immortal| place ‘The Star Spangled Banner' in a words and music may combine to give | day, and it may never come into general and nationalistic song. | acceptance until associated with soms noble enough to be called an anthem, | great national feeling or oceasion. LR Says the New London Evening Day “The principal virtue of the existing song Is that it stirs you up. When you | hear 1t, you just instinctively feel that 1 preity good country, and one such by universal use and consent, but it | will not be by the means now suggested National anthems do not come out of prize competitions, but out of the cru- cible of natfonal strus {rations and triumph: i tp 0 stmilar vein, the Koanoke World- | bt o X News declares that “the patriot-poct-| e ) musician must have an inspiration other | GOV ECHES than dollars to hrur:lg forth ;‘u !I!\(hl(‘li'.\‘ the. Wi "“ of 1o worthy of sueh a Nation. Nor" adds| ™\ - the Virginian editor, “is there any as- ““;‘“’\‘t"‘,‘:‘fln\‘\llqfi vg:n'; few persons surance that the Nation at large will| g Fo WH0 n‘ Ay _|P Wor \lnl lhr.&\ 8. look with favor on the choice that may | it SERHE DLy Times notes that *the come out of this competition, Tt takes | (VETTAR Lo By least know the old more even than an act of Congress to| JEid oL CHOUKD 1o stand before more adopt & national anthem. It must be ! A hall dozent bars )'H\r been played adopted by and be an expression of the | W to toss aside such nd they will be sl heart of the people.” heritage for the doubtful task of *ox ¥ % wrniug another all over again.” | The Detroit News considers. the pr The San Antonio Evening News won- | ent ders: “Do the promoters seriously anthem “bound up with patriotic pect this competition will vield a song | of ex- | traditions™ and declares that it “thinks national anthems as compositions worthy to supplant “The Star Spanglod Certainly the vesults of sim written in blood with pens of iron flar past enterprises have not been sueh | However, it continues, “but all this and much else considered, still it seems as to encourage that expectition,” HM News holds, a3 It points out that “un- | a good e to make of $8,000." Of sueh songs o8 “The St led doubtedly much of the present national | Banner,” the Ann Avbor nn-L: :‘::l:.m--‘ anthem's popularity ts due to the dra- | clares, “Somehow, somewhere, genius matic cireumstances under which it was | plants a seed and 1t blooms in human composed. A substitute—{f written— | favor," A new national anthem must not only must excel in lyric beauty, but | come, says the Portsmouth Daily Timos, must stir the popular imagination, That | “white hot, not only from the bratm is asking much™ concludes this paper.|but from the heart." That the winning Even though a winning song of highjanthem will be “Mrs. Brooks-Asten's quality may be produced, the Albany|national anthem alone.” is the predie- Evening News believes “The Star'tion of the Allentown Morning Call S les, sufferings paper it would of traiing to make us teel