Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1928, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY .August 13, 1 THEODORE W. NOYES... The Evening Star Newspaner Company Business Office §1th 8t ana Pennavivania New Yark Office: 110 Fast 4°nd St Chicaso Office. Tower Building European + M8 14 Regent St. Londen. Tugland . Editor City. or month Eate by ¢ erier Within t nine Swr i s star The E “Sundi ar Twnen 3 65¢ per m The Sunday Star Sl ellectjon made at the snd of each m. Orders mas he seal i by mail or telen) Main 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. irginia 00 1 600, 1 8400 s8¢ s0c 10c mo mo 1 me 0 The As to the ute : o 't puhlicatian af e Also Teserved Hoover on the Farm Problem. tic leaders, commenting o1 accepting the Re- nomination for Presiden: take the view that in his discussion of the farm problem the candidate failed to develop a con plan for farm aid. There are none so blind as those who w see. There are certain leaders ferm tions fought for the MeN Haugen bil the equalization fee who &l selves with the Democratic of Mr. Hoover in this matier too. will not ;see. But to the great body America farmers Mr. Hoover's sane. pra and sympathetic discussion of the farm problem has come with much satisfac- tion. They will observe his definite proposal for the establishment of 8 Pederal Farm Board, composed of farmers, with wide powers to deal with the surplus crop problem. with operatives and withh questions of agri- | cultural finance. They will under- . opponen: Th tical co- | 0c per month | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. €, 'MONDAY, At JGUST 13, 1928. |vanks. Shortly after the first of July he opaned an account at another bank i the name of a well known man cf Jarge means, whose signature he had ! no question was raised as to it. Then | from time to time he prescnted checks on the bank which has just revealed the fraud and these were cashed with- out question. and were passed through e clearing house. The forger knew that at the end of the month the 2ame would be up, inasmuch as under the present ments all checks would be returned to the depositor. with a report of his bal ance, and the fraud would then be im- mediately detected posits and withdrawals, the latter ex ~eeding the former so as to net hir | self the amount named. about $104.000 When the monthly statement was sent to the supposed depositor he at once Aenounced the account as fraudulen: {and the checks as forgeries It would seem as though in the ease | *f transactions of this magnitude some 1d be taken to confy he authenticity of a new account Al strang: walks into a bank an sresents the signature, seemingly gen- \ of a known man of large means. Soon afterward checks in con- |siderable sums begin arrive. A clephone message to this supposed de- or would quickly verify or disprove ihe genutneness of the account It is believed that this scheme is the work of a gang of expert forgers, the chief of which is called “The Scratch- It known that he and his frisnds have obtained a hundred thou- nd doll from other banks in nee the first of the vear itself should have led to inquiries a the outsst of the opening of the ac- | count which would have prevented thy Intest fraud 2 tion wou m ne. well to Pos ol | This | R ) A Vicious Tail Swing. ! In its swing to the northward and out to sea the storm which last week swept across the State of Florida has just crossed this part of the country and has given it a conception of the fury with which the Southern area was lashed by the elements. The local dis- turbance has been described as the “tail-end” of the hurricane. The swish | tion. setting up & harmful reaction within the nervous organism. With all the advances of science mak- ing for rapid transit and for instan- ! | 928 obtained and imitated so perfectly that | taneous communication and the trans- mission of intelligence and means of en- tertainment over immense distances, there has been little gain toward silent service. Indeed most of these so-called ! advances have been productive rather | than preventive of noise. The present day street ear is far more rackety than as the old horse-drawn vehicle, even | bled pave. And as for that latest devic the radio, to many it is & bane rather | | than a blessing. & nuisance that cannot | means of formal complaint and police | intervention. New laws are needed to protect the lovers of quiet from the nerve-shattering emanations from the instruments of radio addicts who lack | discrimination and consideration for | their fellow beings. Washington, D. C. is a recognized point of interest for Summer visitors In order to make the motorist feel that he is not severed from rural experionce the city strests are equipped with, ! “Detour” signs as never before The hope (hat poverty will be ban-| ished from the Nation may be realized i every individual can command the| industry and good judgment that cnabled Herbert Hoover 1o attain | afMuence B With the Ford fortune on one sid and that of Raskob on tho other. th® | mere detail of money may be forgotien tsmporarily. while the ethical. cconomic and strategic points receive full atten- | - | It is Herbert Hoover's fortune to b vears made their study a part of his regular office duty | r——- A parody might suggest itself to Mayor Walker for the benefit of Gov Smith putting to voters the question “Will you love me in November as you did in June?” e Reminders are considered due certain polite distinctions must that | be stand his proposition that the farmers’ [of that caudal appendage Was seVere growp petween a raid and a rough market in the United States must b protected by adequate tariff duties| egainst a flood of food products from | abroad. They will welcome, too. i enough to satisfy all craving for ex- citement and peril, although it did not inflict any very great damage. An cxceptionally heavy rainfall mark- house | One of the benefits of Olympic games | is to promote the cordial spirit which! recommendation that the inland water- fed the Florida storm. some fifteen | only the good loser cAn make possible ways of the country be used to give them lower freight rates. The myth | that his opponents have sought <o long to raise that M. Hoover is actually | an enemy of the farmer will disappesc | entirely with the farmer's understand- | ing of what Mr. Hoover is actually| seeking to accomplish for the men, the women and the children of the farms Senator Pittman of Nevada, who | headed the platform committee at the | Democratic national convention. com- | menting upon Mr. Hoover's farm plan, says: e stands firmly upon the Repub- Nean platform for farm reiief. He of- fers nothing new. He makes no ex- planation why the Republican admin- istration has not provided a remedy. 1f Senator Pittman should search the records of the last Congress he would find emple explanation why the Re- publicans, in apparen$ @ontrol of both houses of Congress, failed to enact farm relief legislation. He would find that farm legislation could have been writ- ten and placed on the statute books but for the determination of a group of Republicans from the Middle West intent upon having the equalization fee, and but for the determination of certain Democrats not to permit farm legisiation to go through Congress which could be signed by President Coolidge. He would find that political ends rather than the desire for farm legislation had governed. Some of the Republicans who stood for the equaliza- | sireams of this area have fallen almost brella.” tion fee plan or nothing were more in- tent upon keeping the farm issue alive 1n order to bring about the nomination of a Midwestern candidate for Presi- dent than intent upon getting needed relief for the farmers themsclves. The Democrats saw advantage to themselves in keeping the farm issue for the na- tional campaign, rather than in a so- lution of the problem before the pres- idential race should begin. The history of the last seszion of Congress, so far as the farmers are concerned. it the history of selfish poli- ticians. George N. Peek, for example. 8 farm leader so called. who has an- nounced hit support of Gov. Smith was denounced on the floor of the Ben- ate months ago by Senator Brookhart of lowa because Mr. Peek had told him that he was interested in the nomina- tion of Vice President Dawes rather then in the immediate enactment of farm legisiation. Nor did Mr. Peck ever reply direetly to this accusation Mr. Peek and others allied with him used their influence 1o block legslation that would have aided the farmers and st the same time would have received the approval of President Coolidge. ‘The criticism that the administration falled o obtain farm legislation in the 1ast session of Congress comes with bad grace from the Democrats. 1f Presi- dent Coolidge had finally approved the McNary-Haugen bill they would have been greatly discomfited. Furthermore they provanly would now be on the wump denouneing this measure 88 unconstitutional and & hardship on the farmer Gov. Bmith nominee 5 the equalization the heart of the farm bill Democrats voted for in the Benate and House. The latest Democratic headquarter lution of the farm problem handied by Prof omist, of Colum York. At the request the Democratic ign mana Prof. Beligman i now working on 'he farm problem. 1t will be interesung o @ what his labors bring forth - “——— Bold Forgeries One of the larger New York % I s just reported a series of forgeris otaling $104.000 which were wor upon it during the month of Jul an expert operator. This falls upon & bonding corporation, whick now working with the police o find the forger The scheme of the darint as bated upon Bccurate knowi- nimself, the Democratic turned his bhack flatly on fee plan. which wa which propo ¥ that the shall Selig Mr. Raskol erook edge of the present practices of the neveriheless inches of water falling in the interior | of the State during a period of fort: eight hours. In its manifestation in this region the same characteristic of | precipitation was evident, though in less degree Within twenty-four hours, | according to official measurement. six | and a third inches of rain fell, con- | stituting a record for all time. This rain choked sewers, flooded streams. | filled cellars. swept away bridges, co! ered roads and in some cases under mined them and caused their surfaces to crumble and sink. Those who were compelled to go forth during the prevalence of this storm were in some peril. though for- tunately no lives were lost. Several parties wers marooned for hours owinj to the breaking of bridges and the | flooding of roads. Due to the fact that rain began to fall heavily on Saturday, | comparatively few week end tours were started and the heaviest part of the | storm found the roads comparatively | empty of traffic. Probably more Wash: ingtonians stayed at home all day y terday than in many years. Fears regarding the Potomac River, | which in this immediate vicinity re- ceived an immense volume of water, are | not likely to be confirmed. as it would | appear that the greatest deluge tw:‘ curred in the southern part of the wa- | tershed, and there is no present slgn‘- of a menacing rise in the upper| reaches of the valley. The smaller | as._quickly as they rose, leaving some | destruction but nothing very serious. | Some damage has been done to the small crops of the adjacent States. Taking everything into consideration, the visitation has been of slight sever- | ity, though while it lasted it was spec- | taculdr and somewhat disturbing. Had the winds been high there would have | been a costly destruction of property. | Evidently the force of the storm had | been materially dissipated in its swing | northeastward, and for this Washing- | ton and the surrounding communities ' are deeply grateful. | - - The old-time prohibition party would | have been a powerful factor in affairs | if it could have commanded all the cheers now in evidence for a dry plank | tn a platform - ———— ” | The city purchaset is m-mannm:l some kind of farm relief that will do| away with the necessity of payinz a| large price for a small loaf of bread. | Noise, Nuisances and Nerves. | A sad case of nerves brought to the | breaking point comes to light in the | suicide of a young woman in this city who shortly hefore her self-inflicted | death complained of the nolse of type- writers in the room where she was oc cupied. It is evident that she could not | | stand the incessant clatter. There are many people who are similarly afficted | but who fortunately do not succumb to the strain of sound. Modern life full of noise. There are nolses of traf- | fic. of trade, of construction, and, as in | this case, even of correspondence. There are day noises and night noises, In the cutegory are the sounds of which fill the n otherwise | peacetul neighborhoods with v that makes sleep impossible Some people are indifferent to noises Hut the majority suffer from them. They may not be wholly consclous of the strain, but they are nevertheless affect- d by din and rattle, crash and clatter | The nervous system is deranged by the vibrations that assall the ears. Resist- ance 15 lessened and undoubtedly a large part of the so-called nervous troubles with which modern man s affiicted Is due to these sounds of “civilization One often hears 1t said: “I do not mind the nolses I have become accus- tomed to them and do not notice them This is only partially true. It 1s true that the ear rendered less sensitive by abuse does not register in terms of conscious appreciation of all the vibrations that Lenter it. But the constant hammering of | sound upon the delicate tympanum is ing & record there and Intter | radic alr | a caco- S, i Italy adds to the interest of polar xploration that of investigation. o i SHOOTING STARS. | BY PHILANDER JOHNSON | old counterman, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. How about this mystery of never seeing people again in a great city A face is glimpsed on the street, the countenance of one of these persons who belongs to one. but never again hall it be seen If the person should migrate to a far country he or she (particularly she) custom of monthly state- With the clatter of hoofs upon the cob- | could be no beticr lost Take the case of John, the counter- man. A conunt rman. the white-coated as most. persons know, is individual who He timed his de- | be abated save by the always doubtful | stands behind the counter in a res- taurant. Generally he is a gay voung blade who believes that he must mix wit with the foodstuffs he serves His idea of humor strictly his own John, on tae other ant but solemn. He had reached white hair and dis- cretion long ago. Perhaps he had come down in fhe world, we do not know. What every one did know. however. was that it was a ple: to have him 2l one a ham sandwich and coffce Here you arc, my boy,” he would And let it be whispored that the 2 10-cent tip mysterious effect upon one's heck. Somchow the amount which one was required to pay for the foodstuffs received dwindled Just how this pleasing. yet neverthe- absurd, mathematical juggling hap. pened, it is not for any one at this far time to guess. As far as known. no gentleman cusiomer ever questioned it And then one day John. the pleasant vanished. We heard that he had been piaced in another po- sition In his institution, but we never heard his cheery voice again, or knew the wholesomencss of that kindly smile They said his had hurt him. and so he bad been taken off them and de- posited gently into a big chair. wk he aid various dutics. He still worked inquirers were told, a hundred feet away. No doubt of course, s hand, was pleas- los: if one had persisted in -e= able to speak of economic conditions | puching through yonder door and had | with the confidence of one who has for | gone down a narrow corridor and come out in the clearing he would have seen John busy at his new tasks He did exist. Occasionally one of us saw him on the street. so that there could be no doubt of his existence But in so far as his old stamping ground was concerned he had vanished from the haunts of men Sometimes the same phenomena ist in relation to a wight one does Itke. Despite the pleadings of religion very one knows some one he does not itke. » I* may not amount to open enmity The fellow is not worth it! Why should one get wrinkles, as the chorus girl said. over any one who does not bring pleasagy relations® ‘There are women. for instance (and this I8 something else that every one knows), who make us as a child again, playing with other children in a wide field of flowers, as that stern, humorous sage. Ralph Waldo Emerson. so suc- cinctly said This being so. why should one-—-oh. anv one!-—waste his precious time on uglv ladies, or "’Y\‘ ladics, or down- right mean-tempcied ladies? Let him choose sweet, gentle ladies. and be happy. Sometimes it happens that one of Enlightenment. From time to time we must await rose persons on= does not like moves Some deciaration breezy. | dway. or gets fired, or just quits, or We listen to our candidate— &rn\erhln or nfhn And everything seems easy | ‘Bolting to Date ' Record Shiftin A Tax no longer mystifies: It is a thing of beauty. Which stimulates and gratifies; It teaches us our Duty. ‘We have been searching ever since Life brought details unpleasant To find a way to please the Prince And still placate the Peasant. With the presidential eampaign fust beginning, there bas been to date enough formal bolting of prominent | figures from one major perty to an- We've been bestowing mental skl | Sber 10 et BSEG nte Wil Ings ol y ERCUNEROM S B S | exiabiieh a Tecord for modsrn American In hope to keep the Grocery Bill politics. Proportionate to the Wages. “Never, except in the break-up of the old, Federalist-Democratic’ lines, and in the disintegration of the Whiz partv with the coming of the Republicans.” says the Wichita Beacon (independent Republican). “has & campaign been so chaotic, These should be times these next thrse months ™ observing. that A fair amovnt of bolting.” the New York Sun (independent) feels, how- ever, that there is “not so much as the country will see in years to come, as- suming that the two major parties con- tinue to write platforms so nearly like each qther.” “Democratic leaders in the South may be somewhat concerncd about the un- usual amount of bolting which is bein X done this year” states the Roanoke . ™ World-News (independent Democratic). Remember, there | “But let them remember that the coun- Is golt to play [try today is normally Republican. by a < big majority. Al Smith's only chance " or victory lies in this little game o ud Tunking days e iised to want, fof, vielbry bos In this ILEC SR farm relief. Since he moved Into a|polters in the South, and this won't fiat he wants delicatessen relief. ! affect the result: in the North. he will | ain as many. or more. and_this may play havoe with the usual Republican majority in the electoral-college ™ So. hasten, Good Friend Candidate. To cheer bewildered Nations. Elucidate each mystery great By erudite orations. Adaptablii ‘Are you wet or dry? “A MNttle of both,” answered Senator | Sorghum. “I can't dictate the political | weather, so I carry an oratorical .um-| Public Duties. Though fishing's fair, New Conditions. “Leaving town?" | “Yes." | “Where are you going?” “To Plorida. It now appear: where the cold waves come from. * The Springfield Unfon «Republican) | however. holds the view that “Gov 1 Smith would have to go farther in his |own State and in Massachusetts than Hoover would have to go in States like “As you grow older,” said Hi Ho, the | North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennes- sage of Chinatown, “you will either |See. But there is one iraportant diffe v Wi " ence to be considered.” continues the w wise v it Sy o e Union. “In fthese Southern and po:der States the Democratic vote is much DU - | more rigid than the Republican vote in Discussion still attempts to right |some of the Eastern States (hat Gov The war through which we passed. /Smith hopes to win " Before we A new situation is emphasized by the x“n- b hh'""""m" iy | Kansas City Post (independent) with et's finish with the last | the atatement: " “Many. persons who ’ e o fajthfully go to the olls nn electinn Religion,” said Uncle Eben, “Is 100 | gy are heard to say that they will not g0od foh de kind of man dat can't talk | vote in November. On the other hand about it wifout losin’ his temper.” | # host of citizens who play golf on clec- | tion dav are planning to register ihis | vear. Tt is impossible to guess whether | the 1028 presidential vote will be un- usually heavy or unusually Hght }ts what makes the camnaign interest- {ing" And the Haverhill Gazette (in- dependent) believes that it a nominec’s | campafan “Is that of a winning candi- dnte differences of opinfon on issies | will be forgotten in eagerness to be with a winner.” that's UNITED STATES N WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. King of England, on extended nine- day visit to the western front, aecorates | Gen. Pershing and & number of Ameri- | |can soldiers, the latter for thelr valor in | | the recent fighting around Hamel. * * * ' more cxtensive than in any natlenal ! 8ince the beginning of the allled coun- “ "«ml‘mlfln since m’m\ flnmtl‘ lr;}w their ter-offensive o s have | PRItIes because of personal grievances e O 0 rimens e | More go because ther parties happenec more than 1000 guns, aRd it Ih eati- | (0 80 against some idea to which th Thated that at least 10000 machine guns | Are most sensitively attached. If there have been taken from the enemy. * » +|Were not such changes. there would | The French, under Gen. Humbert, re- |10 use in holding elections. One cle sume their offensive and. in the face of | ton. if nobody changed his mind, stubborn enemy resistance, threaten | would do for all time Lassigny. Farther to the east the| The Santa Barbara Daily News | French troops have gained in the hilly, | (Democratic), commenting on an appeal | wooded region and capture 'Econvilion, | to_break party lines in favor of Ciov | which 1s virtually on the crest of the(Smith, remarks. “Party Hnes will be | ridge overlooking the Oise Valley. Evac-|badly disarranged, but the breais will Untion of Roye is looked for In & day or | not all be In places favorable to Tam- two, and its abandonment will make it, many and its candidate. On the con- | difficult for the Germans to hold Chaul- | trary, the ievolt of the women in ai nes. * * * In six hours of sharp fight- | least a half dozen States will be suf ling on the Vesle front the Amer! ficlent to turn the balance against [forces repulse the Germans and hold | Smith " | thetr ground. * * * Both sides launched | “There Is a stirring under the politi- |attacks simultancously and the Ger-|cal terrain: the strata are shifting as | mans, superior in numbers, foroe our|never before In a two-party race” d- Imen to retire, ¢ * * German aerial|clares the New York Times (Independ- | activity continues marked, With an ap- | ent), adding: “When men of the Mo | parently limitless supply of planes they, | Cormick or the Raskob type make pub for the time being. have superiority over | lic proclamation of thelr change of | Americans along the Vesle front party alleginr It can be taken as A - .- !sured that there are many hund Q"' of T o % BL. the same mind who do not speak out Traffic Alters Wishes, This election should reveal curious d- From the Adrian Daily Telegram Ivll“nnl from form, and it s w rash The old man who wanted (o live in | prophet who will predict the result » house by the side of didn’t ' Referring to the prohibition qiestion own a waterfaelon patch. R he criss-crossing of party lines this vear," according to the Miami Daily News (Demoeratic), “will probably and to the possible action by Lhe wels, interesting | While | “so far there has been | That | is that one never sees them again. | You might think that surely one | might mect them again, at a theater, or on the streot, or at the ball game, but surely one never does. ceasionally seme ona spoaks their but if on is ha'’-way lucky, h fereed to view thelr face again And this is well [ ‘Then the happy thing P Boyhood friends have a mysterious vay of disappearing in the same curi- 1z manner Both of you have lived in the same city since childhood. but after high «chnol days you parted, perhaps to go to college, Both of you come back to town, but one of you might as well live in Lon- don. “for you never see each other again PHILOSOPHIES Looked at from another planef, hu- manity would doubtless seem to an Olympian outsider a singularly formless aggregation. | “In reality, humanity is a vast army |in which men are rather cleanly seg ated in the corpa, divisions, regiments battalions and companics for which | temporament and | tined them It is important to discover for us th> soctal conflicts and conquests of our time | "The chief units in | are, viz First, the scouts | In this unit we find the men who are | by nature trail-blazers—the radicals. {the explorers, the discoverers. the in- | ventors, the experts who are prosecuting their researches on the varied sectors of the human army training have des- | carly in life the unit of the human army | in which we can hest play our part in | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. The resources of our free Informa. | tion Burcau are at your service. You | are invited to call upon It as often as/ you please. It is being maintained | Solely to serve you. What question can | we answer for you? There is no charge | at all except 2 cents in coin or stamps | for return postage. Address your letter to The Evening Star Information Bu- reau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, | Washington, D. C. Q How many accidents happen people’s homes?—-D, G. P. A. About 24,000 fatal accidents oc- enrred in homes last year. About 200 times that number of accidents occurred | {in homes, but were non-fatal. | | @ How did the Diana monkey re- | ceive its name?—P. N | | A. This species of monkey is named | Uafter the moon goddess, because its | membars have a crescent-shaped whxle‘ in Some way life has not eventuated in | the social front. and all those who are | mark on their forcheads. exactly the same dircction | "He never shows up at your club, 1 never visit his. At first you kept vould not meet him at last some day when you both would look curiously at cach other, for a second, and then rush forward with outstreteh=d hands, Years went by, knocking this expec- tation out of you Now you khow that never the twain shall meet, as the poet said. The feel- ing that the old friend may pop up suddenly. at the most unexpected time, no longer occupies your thoughts. If you should meet—but the thing is impossible—you would simply look the other way. d wondering if vou ok ok x And there is the unknown sweet- d your path, do vou re- member and years ago, before vou became a happily married gentle- She was getting on a street ca mavbe just walking along the stre: Your eyes met For that brief, electric two understood each other It was not, vou swore then (and recall now, unless time has done un- usually severe things to you)—it was not just the ordinary play of eyes upon eyes! Something deeper that particular brief, when you two me You may have gone to the extent of ng. wondering— And then she was gone ter that, you may recall passed ‘that corner without if you should see her again it was a corner like all corners, but it had become, if not exactly hallowed then different Once you thought you saw instantyou work, in moment was at electric ha you never wondering her in a - place she had vanished again For months, even years, let it be whispered, you carried a picture in vour mind's eve. or in vour heart, if that suits vou better Gradually the face faded awav. as vou realized the awful immensity of a areat city. The two of you no doubt had passed and repassed, but you might as well have moved to Paris and to_the South Sea Isles You were lost to each other in the ccaseless crowds. And remorseless time makes you forget the sweetheart vou never knew. excebt upon some spe- cial occasion when, for a brief second. vou stop. as now, to bestow upon the memory of her sweet face a thought lke violets blooming Foreshadows ¢ of Party Lines Post-Dispatch (inde- “One thing. it sesms to us, is certain: The evasiveness, hvpoerisy and smug Casuistry with which the politicians of both parties have been dodging this issue pass.” the St Louis pendent) asserts “Such a free ebb and flow of voters is calculated to render an old-fashioned political mechanic seasiek,” remarks the Springfield Daily News (independent Democratic), “but it ought to mean more eoffective and intelligent government.” The Altoona Mirror (independent), be- wili witness an unusual amount of bolt- ing,” assumes that “party ties in the majority of instances have become so very light and tenuous that they are seldom visible, except in seasons of unusual excitement.” “It has already become apparent.” in the judgment of tho Lynchburg News (Democratic), “that there will be more switching from old political moorings in this presidential election than is usual, but it will not be the flopping of headliners which will determine the re- sult. It will be the votes of the normal men and women who, individually, do | not command much attention. but who collectively are the most important factor in American public life.” The support of Mr. Hoover by Vance | McCormick of Pennsylvania, former | C national Demacratic chairman. is dis- cussed by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (in- dependent) with special reference to prohibition, of which Mr. McCormick | makes an issue: “Ench candidate is left | free as air «by his platform) to take what position he chooses to take about | changes In the law." says the Eagle | “The difference between the two up to date is only in the frankness of Alfred E. Smith." But the Philadelphia Eve- | ning Bulletin (independent Republican) | contends: “If the Democratic vote in | this national campaign is declared by |the presidential _candidate and his spokesman to be the voice of opposition | to prohibition in a great referendum, dry Democrats have no means of show- ing their dissent other than by follow- ing the example of Vance McCormick. Y The Scranton Times (Democratic) | holds that Mr. McCormick was under | political obligations to the wet voters of his party. and concludes as to his attitude. “When the convention got down to brass tacks at Houston, it was revealed that McCormick and his group footed up a total of 5% of 76 in the Pennsylvania delegation At this minute they do not mean even that much and between now and No- | vember they can be expected to grow in the manner proverbially ascribed to A cow's tafl.” | The Reno Evening Gazette (inde- pendent Republican) agrees that oceca- sional defections from the parties come i every npaign, but that paper maintains, “This year their weight is | decidedly upon the Demoeratic side. land their effect will be seriously to i shake the morale of the party’s organ- | ization. which was none too solid at o1 the start.” | In view of the shifting lines | Louls Times (Republican) states tha “the chief problem of the campaign will have o do with whether the Demo- eratic party can stand the shock of re organization on the eve of an election ” The San Francisco Chronicle (inde | pendenty” advises that' “no one need { count on beating Smith by breaking the {solid South.” although it agrees that the campaign “will be a fight." and assumes that “Gov. Smith will fail as far short of election as Bryan did in his cross-of-gold campagn o Rescue League Does Not Preserve Animals o the Editor of The Star | A letter In The Star under the head- ing, “Opportunities to Ald Unfortunat | Anfmals,” speaks of the Animal Rescue | League as an ideal place to send home | less eats and dogs. By the tone of the letter the writer seems fo be under the delusion (hat animals are cared for at this league, whereas, on the contrary | they are put o death n M. C. MORRIS. 7 wd. but by the time you got to the | she must | lieving that “the chances are both parties votes out | the 8t | smitten with a passion to know the un- | known. | Second, the commanders i In this unit we find the men who are by nature leaders—the statesmen, the apiains of industry, the executive di- {rectors of our social instituiions, and all hose who are blessed with a genius for co-ordinating and directing the energics of othe Third, the privates. In this unit we find the men who |are by nature followers—all those who are capable of sound and serviceabl work as membars of an organization, al | though they may lack executive genius | Fourth, the stragglers. | _In this unit we find the men who are | by nature happlest when playing a lone hand-all those who prefer 'd outside the modern tendency le organization and co-ope tive activity, the men who are fore looking lcngingly over their shouldsrs the pre-machine age when & man might his own food and weave his own cloth and know the consolations of what G. K. Chesterton has called “the re- ligion of small property | Pifth, the deserters. ! In this unit we find the men who are I by nature weaklings and wastrls—all | those against whom the cards of both heredity and environment have been | stacked, all those in whom nature has | Invested but little and whom nurture can improve but little. | Sixth, the camp followers. | In this unit we find the men who are ;b\' nature devoid of a sense of social | responsibility and duty—all those who consider socfety their own private oys- ter, who work for themselves alone and | let the rest of the race go hang To find the unit in which we can | function best is our personal problem: | to provide special training for each unit is a public problem (Copyright, McClure Ne | "———— spaper ;;\n Esoteric Hypothesis To the Editor of The Star Th> news item in your publication of | August 9. giving the ‘issue taken by Dr. G. S. Miller, curator of mammals at the National Museum, with the alleged ‘sclentific_facts” brose J versity Theological Review to prove the | possibility of Jonah having been swal- | lowed by & whale, is most fnterest- ing. A third point of view may be ob- | tained from anclent records cited by H. P. Blatvatsky, page 258, “Isis Unveiled,” which reads as follows | “Big Fish is Cetus, the Latinized form | of Keto, and Keto is Dagon, Poseidon, {the female gender of it being Keton | Atar-gatis, the Syrian goddess, and | Venus of Askalon. The figure of Der- Keto was generally represented on the | prow of the ships. Jonah (the Greek ITona. or dove sacred to Venus) fled to | Jaffa, where the god Dagon, the man- fish. was worshiped, and dared not go to Nineveh, where the dove was revered { Hence, some commentators believe that { when Jonah was thrown overboard and | was swallowed by a fish, we must un- | derstand he was picked up by one of these vessels, on the prow of which was | the figur> of Keto. The kabalists have {another legend that Jonah was a run- away priest from the Temple of the God- re the dove was worshj and desired to abolish idolatry nnd”fé‘. stitute monotheistic worship: that caught near Jaffa, he was Neld prisoner ¥ the devotees of Dagon in one of the prison cells of the temple, and that it |1s the strange form of the cell which | gave rise to the allegory. In the middie 1 of the interior of the temple of Dagon stands an immense idol, the upper por- | tion of whose body is human, and the lower fishlike. Betweent the belly and | the tail is an aperture which can be | closed like the door of a closet. The | found in an excavation a fe r found | few miles from Considering the extraordinary tend- ency of Oriental nations for puns and allegories, is 1t not barely possible that the “big fish” by which Jonah was swal- | lowed was simply the cell within the belly of Dagon? B. K. POVELSEN. R |Question on Heroism ‘licits Observations Kindly allow me a few words in re- gard to vour recently printed editorial }L‘I\I\('rn\mn heroism T think most of us have a fairly clear ::;.;:hm ;n what constitutes a hero. Cer- ¥ the term is no res of per- o no respecter of per well as Lindbergh. Heroes are fou among robbers as well 8 Among. JAw abiding citizens. Our prisons will at- | test to this. I have in mind a convict at one of our larger prisons. He had made plans to escape As he was realizing these plans he saw the infant daughter of the warden toddle onto a track in the prison vard in the path of an engine Hidden by the engine, he could easily | cacape The child meant nothing tc him. He hated the warden - But with- |out_hesitation he rushed forward and fescued the babe. Was this convict a ero? Nor does the transatlantic aviator | necessarily embark upon a flight to at- | tain personal glory. It is, I think, a | well established fact that. had he so de- sired, Byrd could have prevented Lind- { bergh from making his epochal flight to Parts. With his influence he could have been the first to cross. Instead. (he young naval officer. who dived into an {lcy sea to rescue a member of his crew knowledge of instruments and atded he follow this course to attaimn personal glory? Did he cross the North Pale for [ the sake of personal glory?> Is { purpose now’in leaving for the Antare- | te A sclentist 15 not convinced of correctness of his theory oculates himself with death-dealing erms. Many perish in this mannet not through any urge to enter the halls jof Vathalla, but for a much nobler | motive | History records many herocs; many | remain_unknown; some try to attain | that designation’ through ™ dare-devil | foolhardy acts, seemingly not realizing | that a hero is not a daredevil, although a daredevil may, at times, be a hero Thus we come once again to the ques- | tion at issue: What, after all. is a hero® ’ W CLAY GLASCOCK [— \ Melon Gambling Real. | From (he South Bend Tribune > No man can boast that he has never gambled unless he never bought a | cantaloupe the when he in- Weather Wilts Wealth, From (he 8t Paul Ploneer Press Frozen assets in closed banks reported to be liquidating rapidiy weather would thaw anything. are | Ihis to | Syndicate.) | Of Jonah and the Whale adduced by Rev. Am- | Wilson in the Princeton Uni- | A blackheart can be a hero as to | offered the intrepid aviator his supertor | him in his hazardous undertaking. Did | that his | | Q. What is meant by receiving the | call of Abgmham’—G. V. | | A This ¥ sometimes said of one | who believes he has received & com- | { mission or command to leave the land {of his birth or family. and go live | |in a strange land among strange people | for the sake of advancing the cause of | | righteousness | | Q. How many hundred-calorie por- | tions are contained in a pound of sugar, sirups, jellies, etc.?—C. E. M. l A. Sugar provides 18 hundred-calorie portions per pound. and average candy about the same number. Thick sirups | provide about 13!, hundred-calorie por- | |tions and jelly, jam. marmalade and rich preserves abonut 9 hundred-calorie portions per pound. Q. During what season of the year are our exports heaviest?>—C. C. A. United States exports are heav- fest during the Fall and early Winter. Imports are heaviest during the Win- ter and early Spring Q. What was the purpose of Golden Milestone in Rome?—B. R. | A. Milliarium Aureum was set up oy Augustus in 28 BC. It was an tin- | erary. or list. of the chief places on the roads which radiated from Rome in all directions. with a record of their | | distances from the various gates of the‘ | city. ! ©. When was the doctrine of immor- | tality first advanced?—A. N. | A It is impossible to say when the | doctrine of the immortality of the soul | was first advanced. It is certain that| the early Assyrians and the Egyptians., the history of which comprises some of |the oldest records, were firm bellevers |in immortality. | | Q What does “Ti Zuccone” mean?— T 1 A. This name was given to a statue | by Donatello, It means “bald head.” Q. Does the Canadian government lavy an fncome tax and a sales tax?— O F A. Tt levies both an income tax and | a sales tax. Q. Which country has the largest territory in Africa>—M. B | A. Frepce controls the greatest area in Africa @. How many church denominations have more than 100.000 members in the United States?—T. S. A. There are 20 having such mem- bership. The Roman Catholic Church has the largest — 18.604.850. Of the Protestant denominations, the Baptist leads with 8.417.354. with the Methodist a close second with 8.069.870 members. The Jews number 4.087.357. | the is | Q. What States consume the most lumbey in the manufacture of wooden produsts?—K. N A. The latest available statistics show that New York State leads with a con- | | cumetion of 1.738.522.000 feet | Q Has Virginia cast her vote since | the Civil War for a Republican presi- | ! dential candidate?—K. M. | A. In 1872 Virginia cast her votes for Grant | Q. How many aliens were admitted | to citizenship in 192 A G. G | A The annual report of the com- | missioner general of naturalization for | the fiscal year ended June 30, 19 | shows that 199.804 aliens were admitted to citizenship during the fiscal year 1927 | Q How large is a township?—T. M. A. A theoretical township is 6 miles ! OBSERVATIONS || WASHINGTON President Coolidge gives evidence that | tablet showing a drawing of this was | he is in no special hurry to return to House, observed extraorginary Washington. Latest reports from Cedar | Island Lodge. on the Brule River in Wisconsin, menion the middle of Sep- tember as the probable date of de- | parture. It is suggested also that he might then spend a week or so at the old homestead at Plymouth. Vt, and perhaps stop over at Northampton, | | Mass.. before setting up housekeeping i once again at 1600 Pennsylvania ave- | nue. At any rate, Mr. Coolidge this | Summer. for the first time since he became President. is enjoving & real| respite from the cares and responsibil- ities of his office, and for the first time also is off the front pages of the metro- pohitan newspapers. Palo Alto, Calif., | rather than Superior. Wis. has been ! the mecca of the message bringers. x * Small matters sometimes start large | controversies, and at the moment ihe publicity department of the Republican national committee is busy answering innumerable inquiries as ‘to the au- thenticity of pictures of the Hoover | | birthplace at West Branch, Towa. One | ! photograph widely distributed shows a | two-story frame cottage. with a pillared { porch in front. Another photograph !used to illustrate several life stories of | | the Republican nominee depicts a small | one-story building. hardly more than a | cabin. The fact is that when Mr. | Hoover was ushered into the world 54 | vears ago the Hoover homestead com- prised simply the one-story. two-room | | building-—a real Abe Lincoln setting Years later & two-story house was erected with the original birthplace | joined on as an ell. So, in a sense. both pictures are correct The Hoover | publicists are perplexed as to which conveys the most potent Reports from abroad to the effect | that the alleged poor showing of the American athletes in the Olympic | | games at Amsterdam was due to too | much rich food consumed on the voy- age across the Atlantic have been neatly ! turned to account by the Shipping| Board to advertise the fine culsine af- | forded to passengers on the United States Lines. The American athletes chartered the United States Lines steamship Roosevelt for their tran atlantic trip. First of all. however, it is denfed the American team made a | poor showing. Gen Douglas Mac- | Arthur. president of the American | | Olynmipic committee, cables that “they have achieved a brillfant suce " Then it is pointed out that the athletes were served a specially prepared menu, but | that the other guests on the Roosevelt were served the same fare always serve | ed to passengers, and concludes: “The standard of living on American ships is very high, much higher than on com peting lines perhans. This is not a ma | ter of reproach but one of gratification A pertect llustration of the futility of press-agented political prophecles was afforded recently when on the same | day and at the same hour | headquarters here and Democratic headquarters issued interviews on the | political outlook in Massachusetts couched in almost identical language setting forth diametrically opposite con- clusions. nvnnlnlive Treadway, dean N | The Democrats lost their present With each passing year. square, containing 36 sections 1 mile square of 640 acres. The area of a theoretical township is 23,040 acres. Q. What was the first street in Plym- outh, Mass.?—E. C. A. Leyden street, which merges into Water_street and goes down to Plym- outh Rock, was the first street bullt by the Pilgrim Fathers, Q. What i5 the average babies at birth?—S. N A. In the United States the average 7 pounds 10 ounces, For for boys is 7 girls it Is 7 pounds 215 ounces weight of Q. Mow many people in the United 3tates belong to golf clubs?—W. 8 W. A. Tt is estimated that golf clubs have more than 1,650,000 members, Q. Who wrote “The Sidewalks of New York"?—W. N. A. Words and music_were by Charles B. Lawlor and James W. Blake. It was copyrighted in 1894 Q. Who gets the tolis that are paid when crossing the bridge at Harpers Ferry, W. Va.”. H A. The Harpers Ferry Bridge Is now owned by the Harpers & Potomac Building Co., and the toll is imposed by that company. Q. Are the raw materials very pensive that go into the production costly French perfumes?—K. R. A. The retail price of perfume has very little relation to the cost of raw materials used in its manufacture { depending entirely upon the skill of the perfumer in compounding these materi- als to produce a pleasing effect. Q. How many Catholics and Protes- tants are there in Germa M. G A. Germany has no state church. The Protestants number about 39.000 .- 000, the Catholics, 23,000,000 Q. After Grover Cleveland marricd did his sister, Rose Cleveland. remain in the White House?>—D. G. S A. When her brother was elected President in 1884, Rose Cleveland charged the duties of hostess at the White House until his marriage in 1336. After that time she edited a magazine called Literary Life, published in Chil cago, and was the author of several books. Q. Why is the “Arena Chapel” Padua so called?—D. S. C. A. The name of the chapel is“Santa Maria dell'’Ayena.” It was built by 2 rich Paduan in 1303, on the site of an old Roman amphitheater, hence its name. Q. Of the common Midwestern trees which is the most suitable for construc- | tion of rustic furniture?>—W. F. O. A. Rustic furniture is usually made from hickory. Q. Can 1 make a radio crystal set which will get stations 100 miles away? A. Under unusual conditions it might, but the average distance range of the average crystal set under average con- ditions 1is not over 50 miles. Q What is the Poet's Corner"?—L. D. A. This is the name given to a space on the east side of the south transept of Westminster Abbey. containing tab- lets, statues, busts or monuments of poets, actors. divines and men eminen' in letters. Almost all of these memori- als are to Englishmen. Q. What is the Almanach de Gotha? —N. F. A. This i a Prench almanac which was first published in 1763, and gives genealogical particulars concerning all the sovereign houses of Europe, the me- | diaszed families of Germany and many of the European princely and ducal houses not of sovereign rank. It also contains vatuable:information regarding officers of administration and statist'cs of x‘r: principal politieal divisions of ihe world. Q. Whose paintings of the Madonna did Raphael most admire?—D. 8. A. Raphael is quoted as « g that Francia's Madonnas were the most de- voutly beautiful of any he knew. Q. How many times did the negro Matthew Henson, accompany Peary into the Arctic regions’—D. E. D. A. He accompanied him when he dis- covered the North Pole and upon seven other Arctic expeditions. lected, according to Peary. adaptability, fitness and loyalty of the Bay State Republicans in the enthusi- asm for Hoover in his home State, “ab- solute harmony” in Republican ranks, and “conservatively” predicted a Re- publican majority of not less than 150,- 000. Gen. Edward L. Logan of Boston prominent Bay State Democrat. boomed for gubernatorial honors. observed ex- ceptional enthusiasm for Gov. Smith, unexampled harmony in Democratic ranks, an extraordinary desertion their party by Republicans. and predic!- ed that Smith and Senator David I Walsh would sweep the State o oxox Federal employes may make cash donations to the party war chests and may cast their ballots on election day, but that is the full extent of their po- litical aétivity if they obev the explicit and voluminous instructions just is- sued by the Civil Service Commission It is an impressiive list of “Donts” which they are offered. No campaign buttons in their coat lapels and no po- litical stickers on their automobiles They must not organize or officer po- litical clubs, write political opinions for print, make political speeches or pro- mote political meetings. or take any election-day job as checker or watcher at the polls. “Restrictions again: litical activity impose no hard: declares the commission. “They I employes free to vote and think as they | please.” N John Garner of Texas. “good Jack.” beloved of friend and foe alike with & record of 26 years of service in the House of Representatives of the fifteenth district of Texas is the next minority leader, and. if there be an overturn and the Democrats bt control. the next Speaker he o doubt on that score resis with Garner himself. It has been suggested tha to assume the duties of minority leader might involve his surrender of his place as ranking Democrat on the Ho NAys and means committee, in whiet event he might decline the new hono nd keep his present important post ad old 1o, Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, the Iatter elected to enter torial primaries against Senator Kellar of Tennessee only to meet feat. Edward W. Pou of No Caro lina is the only member on ths Demo cratic side who has boen in Con longer than Garner Pou has sen 14 terms the ser M .. The stamp_collectors of the coun are paying Washington their annual vislt this week for the thirty-fourth annual convention of the Soclety of Philatelic Americans. The stamp-col- lecting hobby claims added devotces e Dot The Post Of- ce Departmen Deen obliged to os- tablish a 1 division to handle ex- . clusively the sale of stamps—not for | postage, but for the | bums of collectors. specimens of éaah new lsstie, wit! plate number In the margin attached, and new issues bearing a cancellation | date of the dav first fssued ave some of Republican | the fine points which tage stamp al- tfectly centered the the collector seeks when he writes to Washington to put in his advance order snle of rare stamps is one of the prin- cipal features of the annual eonvention of the philatelists. Conyr An_auction ’ ll