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the trafic regulations and report them With Sunday Morning Edition. ‘pmmpuy to the authorities. The hit- — e = ——————— | and-runner is the worst offender and ' WABHINGTON, D. C. | the hardest for the police to deal with, WEDNESDAY. .. August 22, 1028 but there are other violations which in- ~ | volve potential loss of life or damage THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor | to property in which citizens can ren- | der aid. It is no great trouble for a person | who sees an automobile strike and dam- | age a parked car and then keep on iiz | way to jot down the number of the of- | fending machine and place the memo- = ‘,THE EVENING STAR] e The Cvening Star Newspaper Company Business Office 1ith 8t and Pennsvivania A Nex York Office 110 East 42nd St Chicago Office. Tower Building European Oflelsl gent St.. London. n Rate by Carrier Within the City. JFripinx Sur, 4% per month | ple act of justice. It is likewise no great lnlnx and Sunday Star (when & 'y The Evening and Sundav Star (when § Lun ¥8) 3 dent to give his name to the one whom he believes to be in the right. These &8¢ per month The Sundes St Sc per copy Collection made at the and af each monin ders may be sent In by mail or telennone o - | ture seems naturally to avoid “mixing Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. up” in affairs of this kind. Rees’ exam- Maryland and \Irfi‘,‘nll o N 1000 and Sunday 000 oy MR 8¢ i awakened community spirit. e Bladensburg's “Black Hole.” A community of Bladensburg's sire | | and resources could not be expected to build and support a very large or im- posing jail The present structure is large enough to take care of the nor- mal demands which might be made | upon it. The disgraceful and disgust- ing conditions existing today, as de- | sribed in yesterday’s Star. are mainly due to a delay in justice which permits overerowding and the Indiseriminats Rie prepared addresses of the presi- packing of men and women for long @ential campaign, was chiefly notable periods into a place that was never in hic nee to former Gov. Lowden. | intended for anything more than a Jeader of the farm movement for legis- “lock-up™ for the brief confincment of lation fevorable to the agricultural in- prisoners awaiting hearing or transfer fterests. The Republican candidate in ‘o the larger jail at Marlboro. The discussing the farm problem stated that . plea of a “shortage of funds,” thers- he proposed, if elected, to call a con- fore, offered in excuse for the situation ference of those who have made a | today. is not convincing. If Bladens- study of this question. specifically nam- | Brg’s unfortunate offenders were given ing Mr Lowden as one of the “out the swift justice to which they are en- standine farmers who will be asked to titled and either freed or transferred foin in the search for common ground o a jail. there would be little cause upon which we can act.” for complaint Since the selection of Mr. Hoover at Bladensburg’s ™jail” today Kansss City his chief opponent for the | Proach to a great Commonwealth which memination has fafled to tender his Proudly retains the title of the “Free eangratulations end to pledge his sup- State.” Built near the Eastern Branch Peri. as is usual in the case of all Or Anacostia River, the waters of which disappo:nted aspirants for the honor ris® and flood the surrounding territory of leading their parties in the national Wwith every large rainfall, it constitutes pace. He has, howsver, expressed him- 8 real menace to the safety of the in- self as “much impressed” by Mr.| mates. even to their lives. The storm Heover's speech of acceptance. adding ©0f Saturday and Sunday ten days ago that the candidate’s frank recognition | Sent so much water into the fail that that the agricultural problem is the one unlucky prisoner was reseued from most urgent economic issue in the Na- his plight after midnight only after he Hon today “is very heartening® and had stood for hours on his cot, waist- that fr. Hoover's aspirations to bring | deep. On other rather frequent occa- the farm population up to economic | Sions water has come into the jail to| equality with other groups have his 2 depth of several inches. In the jail's| heertiest approval confined space of twenty feet square Tt remains new to be seen whether there have have been as many Aas this specific reference in the West [wenty-two prisoners confined. and; Branch speech of the Republican can- there is little 2ttempt to segregate the dids'e to Mr. Lowden will elieit any Women. who from time to time are Surther responze. The fact that the locked up. Pinois agricultural leader is singled out | 1f Bladensburg cannot afford to bulid for solitarv mention is, of course, sig- | ® N*W jail on highsr ground, the county nif- It has been already termed uthorities can at least spred the wheels | an “olive branch.” held out to induce Of justice to prevent detention in .ae k= leader of the farmers' interests to | lock-up for more than a few hours. @eclure his support of the Hoover-| And. from the description in The Star. | Curtis ticket. There ic nothing new in he immediate needs are a thorough Mr. Hoover's speech at West Branch 3pplication of soap. mixed with the Beering on the farm question save this | Water that seems to be so plentiful, and | peference tn a conference of leaders of | Fenovation of the so-called sanitary agricuitural thought and this particular arrangements. The lock-up should at, mention of Mr. Lowden. Thus the <it- | least be it for human habitation, es uation has not changed in any way brief 25 that habitation riay be. since the speech of acceptance at Palo N Alto. Raskob’s Reckoning. Mr. Lowden mas wait before re-| Chairman John J. Raskob of the sponding to Mr. Hoover's reference 10 Democratic national committee s gain- Rim until he has read and analyeed ing his political experience rapidly. al- | the acceptance speech of Gov. Smith. | though he has never before had any.| which will be delivered tonight. in the | He is qualifying as the model chairman chance that there is in it some more | after a few slight slips of conduct. such | explicit proposal which might possibly | ae his expression regarding the equal induce him to favor the Democratic sation fee of the farm relief bill, which | rather than the Republican nominee. | he later had to explain away. He has | Yet there iz nothing In the political ‘now reached the stage of public opti- eereer or the farm problem leadership | mism—that is, he says nothing for of the Tilinoisan to suggest the likeli- | print that does not refiect complete | Bood of & complete echange of Party confidence in the success of his newly affiliation, even on the score of & more adopted party. alluring championship of the farmers’| Monday Chairman Raskob attended | eause. Gov. Smith has siready spoken | juncheon in Philadelphia and met a in highly complimentary terms of Mr.|group of forty prominent business and Lowden in his talk with a Tep- professional men, who organized a resentative of the agricultural interests | “gmith_for-President citizens’ commit- | who recently conferred with him. BUt tee” After the luncheon the national | this fiattering gesture evoked no Te- | chairman, elated by the reports he had sponse All Other Sta Se Member of the Associated Press. ! 3 exclusively enty an of all | ews St otherwise cred iso the local An Olive Branch for Lowden. Mr. Hoover's “home-coming” speech West Branch. Iowa, the third of is a re- Farm relief continues to be A QUES- timent in Pennsylvania, predicted that | tion of importance in the campaign.|ihe Keystone State will cast its elec- although the Republican leaders declare iora] vote this year for the Democratic their complete confidence in the con- | candidate. He went further and fore- tinued allegiance of the Midwest agri- cast that in addition to Pennsylvania sulturists to the Republican party. With | Gov. Smith will carry New York, the breaking of party lines due to the Macachusetts. New Jersey, Minnesota, @harply raised liquor question. any con- Wisconsin and the two Dakotas. In ®ldersble Republican defection on the .hort, Gov. Smith will be elected Presi- score of farm relief is likely 1o have an 'dent. For such a combination, with important oezring upon the outcome ih. solid South. which the chairman ©f the campaign in November siill regards as without cleavage will B . S zive the necessary majority of electoral A candidate s sometimes embarrassed | vnies. He might have gone further and br overenthusiasm of support from 2 claimed a number of other States that source which may carry only & limited i the event of such a swing as he pre- measure of popular confidence . ———— The Capture of a Hit-and-Runner. The community owes a debt of grati- Sude 1o George W. Rees. whn yesterda eaptured single-hznded® one of thet ble type of automobile driver. v g from & street car just in ' see a machine #trice and knock down 2 te o'd bey FRees temporary guardian of law and order jumped upon the run- ning board of the car of the feeiny motorist and. sithough carried moe than & dlock in this manner, delivered nis prisoner 1n the police at the intn | Yole unbrokenly for the Republican o siation ticket, But it can be acccepted 2t wes & commendable piece of work, | that if Pennaglvania goes a3 M: decisive in action and deft in exe Raskob sces it going it will carry the rest of the country with it Perhap Smith column—8tates like Kentucky, Tennessee and Missourl. Indiana, Ili- nols and perhaps some others. Indeed, according to Chairman Raskob's pr tn oceupy that classic position, “the worst whipped candidate for the presi- | dency since Horace Greeley It does not follow in the tradi- { tional of Maine, that “as goes { Pennsylvania so goes the Union" for | Peny anla hasx gone seversl times for a defeatea candidate. It has since and including 1860 cast its electoral atior | randum in the damaged car. It is a sim- | #0c per month | trouble ta & person witnessing an acel- | things are too seidom done. Human na- | | ple. however, should point the way to an | | stitutional lawyer. | From Primal Conditions York, and to have a reserve of 230 ad- ditional machines to be installed in districts where the registration may be unusually heavy. Lest the voters of Greater New York reach the polls on election day without | knowledge of how to register ftheir | ballots 125 larg> instruction machines will in good season be set up in the | Republican and Democratic elubhouses L and the various assembly districts and | twenty small instruction machines have ;m»n provided for headquarters of Soclalist organizations. Small model machines will also be displayed on reg- {stration days in all the districts and instruction will be given by election officers, Great care Is to be exercisad to pre- vent any tampering with machines | before election day. They are now stored in warchouses and custodians | representing the two major parties will !be named for their safekeeping. these | custodians to prepare the machines for use and certify to their accuracy. The use of voting machines is stead- | ily increasing in this country. Balti- | more, Los Angeles and Milwaukee of the larger cities will use them for the first time this year, while several small- er Michigan eities will also employ the complete voting outfit. Pennsvivania has taken steps for the adoption of the mechanical recorder of the peaple's witl With the increased use of the voting machines the returns on election night | in Novembor will be much than ever before despite th heavy & crease in the number of voters. The: machin>s are self-tabulating and at the close of the polls reveal the totals immediately. The tedious counting of ballots is eliminated. In eities thus | cquipped there should be no “belated returns” to prolong the period during | which majoritiss are in question. Save in the case of an extremely close elec- | tion, with the result depending upon | the vote of a remote State fn which | | speodior | the 1ace is close, the verdict of the people should be known by ten o'clock | on the night of November 6. | B il = ‘ The late George Harvey became al- most the sole survivor in the art of in vective once considered essential in pub- | lic discussion. He was an intrepid pamphicteer, but never an instious | propagandist i r———a - 1 Patriotic utterances of the Summer indicate that the influential orators | have tak~n no post-graduate courses 1o | keep up with propaganda-edited school books. ! . —e It seems quite possible that Herbert | Hoover may win the farmers. At any| rate, biographers of his bovhood make it r that he is sure of the village blacksmith vote. v ——- So many eriminals are at large that writers of detective fiction might confer public penefit if they could put their | talents to work following up clues in | real instead of imaginary cases. e The gentle though Airm manner in which Gov. Smith expresses himself is | a disappointment to thos> who expected | to see him leap out of a wigwam. ' brandishing a tomahawk. .o | Prohibition has in one respeet. broad- | ened the scope of American statesman- | ship. Everybody assumes to be a Con- U There is fear of favoritism in the padiock process. Only & few nrflprlflon,! already famous, have had the benefit of all the publicity. | eicinse 1 | SHOOTING STARS. ( RY PRILANDER JOHNSON Fternal Quest. | Sinee firast on this planet the sun shone | 0 warm, 1 The word was passed out of a need for Reform. The Curious Creatures who made their escapes worked Into new shapes, | ‘The earliest man hurried into the fray | | To force all his neighbors to follow his | itself, | this THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. There are two natural manifestations | impertinent, curious stares of all such | njcholas Murray Butler, president of which make one particularly appreciate a home. unusually heavy snowstorm in Winter. Recentlv the District of Columbia oxperienced the former to an unprece- dented degree. and It rained. as the children say did even more than just rain—it poured. Those who happened to be down at | de when the big rain started. and who came home through the down- pour, were fn a peculiarly good position te watch the phenomenon. They saw it begin Friday night with I a rain which came down over the eaves of cottages in a steady drip, som~how reminding one of storybook rains it was £ insistent. so wet. in a word The sky Saturday had taken on the intense grayness which comes only on | | such mornings, and then only at ocean The drops had beaten the expanss of water perfecily smooth. The waves that broke on the narrow beach were only 3 or 4 inches high The water s ~d and dripped through the leaves of the groves of trees front- ing the narrow road which had been qrav sesterday. but which had turned a somber black, and held puddles at inisrvals. One had no *a. howevor record rain was in progr Even small thinzs the prophetic sight is lack- ing. If man“ind only could know when ihs unusual is happening. the moment it bagh hs might make better records He wonld b> more interested, and have more vivid memories ok k & Passing through the last of the re- 15 bafore turning Washingtoward, we iAW a fow brave bathers pretending o enjoy themselves in the rain-beaten watsrs of the Chesapeake Bay It is true that there is some enjov- ment in bs secured from bathing in the rain. but usually the water from the skies 1= much colder than any body of water. even if it be the ocean and after a time the steady splash of the drops on one's face be- comas somewhat boresome. Roardwalks and pavilions were prac- ticaliv deserted. A few girls in abbre- viated bathing suits 1an across eat, One had blue stripes. another se By this time the rain was sluicing down. An old dog ambled across the road and disappeared into a house where the door had been held oblig- ingly oven for him. No doubt he found warmth and dryness there, So we went slipping down the Marl- hore_road just before the bridge over the Patuxent was weshed off its moo! mas—only we didn’t know that until hours later. If we had, we would have paid more at*ention to the bridge! What inferested us more was the wide expanse of countryside with no houses. How unbuilt the United States is. after all. There are millions of square miles of unoccupied land and of untillad land, and yet a large per- centage of the population insists on huddling tozether into cities and towns. where land is expensive and habitation rostly. Yet there are good reasons for state of affairs. Without such rrowdine much of the comfort and such happiness as comfort brings would be lacking to many. *owow o We slid into Marlboro along agaregation had a wooden perch flush with the sidewalk. On it were seated, in reared-back chairs, men, who gazed at arrivals with the WASHINGTO Gov., Smith's defense of his legisla- tive record-his reply to William Allen White, Dr. Straton and his other tra- ducers—is a model of candor, fact and restraint. Those who expected that the Democratic nominee would be moved to indulge in a fiery tongue-lashing were disappointed. Those who expected only dignity and force were gratified But there was plenty of sting in some of his sentences, as witness: “What a coward- Iy course the Republican national com- | mittee th is- publicity referring its official channels of the latest of the White statements and {ts subsequent dis- claimer of responsibility for Mr. White's charges. Gov. Smith concludes with the stetement that “I shall refuse to be drawn into any further discussion of these matters.” His supporters will re- joice that he thus clears the decks for “v1 sued! 10 suance through | a campaign on national issues, which | he inaugurates with his acceptance speech, o oxow The sudden death of Col. George B. Harvey, editor, publicist and Presideni- maker, removes a stormy petrel from American polities whose brilllant mind | and biting pen won admiration always a big rain in Summer and an | It rained, and it I'Ml\l‘d‘ It the | the | wrong side of the street and stopped | | »t a small store, one in a group, The several voung | | and aroused fear and fury sometimes. | It was but a few weeks ago that Sen: tor Moses was seeking to enlist Harve there received of a growing Smith sen- | way. | The language we speak and the clothes i that we wear | Have made each assume supervisory | care. ward perturbation of tranquil Chairman | Work. History will probably appraise Col. Harvey's contribution to the fight which prevented America’s entry into the League of Nations as his most im- portant nublic service or disseice, | ‘according (e the point of view. Of the | thousand anecdotes connected with his i colorful life, it is interesting Lo recal The best of intentions may 'rn\\h ina, that it was In the first controversy be- storm— tween Wilson and Harvey that the Vet what makes life worth while s the | phrase “single-track mind. was coined | ~-not by Harvey, but by Wilson, and ap- ol [ plied to himself . w Pach longs to prescribe what to eat or 1 | to drink, | And even, sometimes, what to say or to think. ¥ % aid in behalf of the Republican ticket in | the present campaign, much to the in- | dicts will assuredly bring them into the | | ent figuring. Herbert Hoover is doomed | No Chance for the Heckler. | “Do you enjoy falking over the| radio?” | |, very mucn;” said Senator Sorghum “Radio is one of the greatest inventions lknnwn 1o polities. 1t absolutely insures | | against heckling | Accepted Apparel. | Though skirts are more or less on view, With fashions old we're getting through. | The bathing sulits that we admire | Are quite the usual attire, | Jud Tunkins savs he doesn’t object to # lazy man except when he wakes up and tries to look busy hy acting hossy Agrienitural Struggle. The farmer is humorously depicted wearing his pants in his boots.” Leather i s0 high” answered Farmer Corntossel, “that 1 can't afford hoots. | “The blast against the Republican pc sition on prohibition as enunciated Hoover and Curtis, delivered by Nich- olas Murray Butler, nresident of Co- lumbia University, In New York on Monday, falls ‘ust short of an outright renunclation of his party's nominees, but to all intents and purposes Presi- | dent Butler will now be classificd as a “bolter” of the ticket this, he quoted the words of Patrick Henry, “If that be treason, make the most of it The New York Republican also ridienled the Hoover pronounce- ment with respect (o 'adequate prepa- ration for defense as & factor in co- operaiion in the maintenance of peace.” | Butler asserts that “the contrary is now the well demonstrated fact.” Mr Butler appears to have the same sort of enthusiasm for Hoover that Willlam | Gibbs McAdoo has for Gov. Smith MeAdoo has maintained an impenetra- ble silence since the “ouston conven- tion, but California reports credit him with preparations to publicly bolt his | party and enroll under the Hoover bar ner. It is sald that he Is waiting for Anticipating | | loungers. | We were after ham sandwiches. The | woman behind the counter indicated | that the establishment was in posse: soin of a large amount of maferial for the construction of just such delicactes, but that it would be necessary to cali Dan. She went away calling for Dan was A small, gray woman, with a rather pleasant, face. A huge moving obstacie came through the door. He was Dan He was portly to a fault, and had a | very red face. His function. it scemed. was to cleave the hambone with neatness and dis-| patch. Seizing a sharp knife in a laige | red paw, he cut off several slices of ex- treme thinness. We could not help admiring Dan < dexterity, although we had to pay for it. Probably one is better off with iess | | meat, anyway. Certainly no one would | cat too much meat if he confined him- If to Dan’s concoctions. That ham | | was of warer-like consistency, but the | | gereral effect was good. | *7hile waiting for the food we picked | up a small gray lady cat that had ambled in and held her in our arms She submitted to this pettinz with very good grace, sniffing the while in the | ceneral dircetion of the hambone. 1 ' Out past Marlboro the roadbed was now half filled with water. Piles of | crushed stone had been distributed at scientific points along the way. Evi- dentiy some one was a good guesser a to the amount of such material needed | in putting in the ramp under construc- tion on that side of the road. It was bocause of this work that the water | already had begun to bank up on the left side. The going was slippery. We went, past Forestville, and at last came to the Pennsylvania avenue hill, and &9 into the District. | | How pleasant it was to be home. while the rain pelted down and bea* against the windowpanes, and swepi across garage roofs, and kept on for a-| record fall! It was a most comforting | feeling, that the roof had been at- | terided to just a month ago. and would | ched all the water required. The roof held up nobly. Tt was a qood roof. It shed water like a duek's | As the rain continued we sur- | and the doors and the walls for possible leaks. There was | none. | All through the night it poured. The water came down in great shects. The hibiscus, one could see by the alley light, were so heavy with water thut they had torn their supporting cords loose, and were hanging far forward | We hoped that they had not been broken off at the roots. Se\'tr?l zinnia plants bent forward across the elistening concrete vath. The arass, under the lamplight, looked as | if 1t had grown several inches in <« many hours. How grass loves water! IThere can never be too much rain for | the grass I Drowsily waking. one still heard the water. It ran along the roof, and down | the gutter, and dripped down the spout. | When daylight came it was raining | | about as much as ever. The Sunday | Star gave one a big “kick" with its ac- count of the big storm. Why, we had come down that very road. and across | that very bridge! Well, well, well There. was more satisfaction tha: | sver, then. in contemplating the good | inb of water shedding being done Ly | hie home, and in appreciating that one | eat sterling quality of a good house cor one's views may be on pol- | re can he no one opposed to a dry house in wet weather. OBSERVATIONS- | retold with the comment that “neghi-{ | zonce” in failing'to vote “accounts for | | many misfits holding _olitical posi-| tons.” It 1s a distinguished roster | which is appended to the appeal. Elthu | Root is honorary chairman: John Hays Hammond, chairman: Gov. Alfred E Smith is one of the vice chairmen: Herbert Hoover is a member of the ex- | ecutive council along with Owen D.| Young. Gen. Pershing and a host of other notables. . * Buttermilk soap, which contains no buttermilk: silk hosiery, which contains no silk; grape and orange sirup, which contains the juice of neither grape nor orange; lumber, which contains no wood-—these are some of the taboos 1ssued by the Federal Trade Commis- sion in recent weeks in its “Cease and Desist” stipulations entered into with| various _manufacturing and sales con- cerns. The commission’s ‘activities in putting a stop to false and misleading advertising. particularly with respect to | misbranding of products, are much more extensive and of more far-reaching con- sequence than is publicly appreciated. Tt | is only the concerns involved—under the prevailing practice of the commission | the names are not disclosed-—which are | | fully alive to what is being done. P ‘The New England ancestry of Senator | | Charles Curds stressed in Republican | | announcements of his forthcoming | | speaking tour in New England. It ap- |pears_that his paternal grandmother was Permelia Hubbard Curtis, a native | of New Hampshire, who migrated to Kan His maternal grandfather was Louis Pappan, a French lendlflnlrlp-t per, who married the daughter of a| Kaw Indian chieftain. Thus Mr. Hoo- | ver's rurnint mate can present blood ‘Hl's to appeal to tt Indian vote, to the {voters of French Canadian l“(lrnfllnn.‘ and to the New England Yankees, too. | For it is pointed out that “the Curtis family were early American colonists who landed in New England in 1621." | | That was just one year after the May- flower and Plymouth Rock. | ok ok ow 00 | | The United States mails Wl bring to | Washington this year the various certifi- | cations of the electoral vote for Presi- dent and Vice President in the several States, which in actuality finally deter- | mine the outcome of the presidential | election. Heretofore, since the first days | of the Republic, the votes of presiden- tial electors east In their respective | States after their own election have been brought to Washington by ofcially | commissioned messengers and delivered “in_hand” to the clerk of the Senate There were no airplanes or railroads or | steamships In the days of George Wash- ington, and the journey to the Capital wak @ tedious and ofttimes hazardous undertaking. The custom of sending messengers has persisted to the present time. Now a recent act of Congress abol- ishes the messengers and substitutes the malls. Incidentally it will save the Federal Treasury about $25.000 every once In four years. Another Coolidge She | - | bs seen whether Dr. | vote, | 53,935 negro voters. Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. ALBANY, N. Y., August 21.—Dr. Columbia University, is a wet, but, ac- | cording to his own statement, he is still a Republican. This despite the fact that his party has adopted a dry plank in its platform and Herhert Hver, the Republican nominee, has ared against the repeal of the teenth amendment. It remains to Butler will work or vote for the election of the Republi- can ticket. His recent statement to the New York Times, attacking Mr. Hoover because of his views on national pro- hibition and natlonal preparedness. is vegarded by the Democrats as a blow to | the Heover cause and an advantage to| that of Smith. The fact remains, how- | ever, that it was already widely known | that Dr. Butler did not and does not like prohibition. He said as much in | a speech at the Kansas City convention, when he urged his party to take a siand against the cighteenth amend- ment. Dr. Butler's position in relation to | his party’'s nominee has some of the same aspeets as the position of Charles | M. Hay. Demorratic nominee for Sena- for In Missouri. Mr, Hay Is as dry as Dr. Butler is wet. Mr. Hay has frankly safd he will oppose Gov. Smith, |hv~‘ Democratie nominee for President, if | the latter is elected, and recommends | to Congress that the prohibition laws | b> modified. But Mr. Hay has an-| nounced he will support Gov. Smith and do everything he can to bring about his election. Dr. Butler .= not a can- | didate for office on th» Republican | tickst this year. If he were he might | take the same course as Mr. Hay. sup- porting the Republican natinnal ticket but promising if clected himself to work for an amendment to the Consti- tution. R Democrats in New York are chuck- ling what they claim is a “Clem | Shavi se in the Republican ranks. | | Miss Sarah Schuyler Butler, Dr. Butler's daughter, is acting chairman of the| | Republican State committee of New ! York since the death of - Chairman George Morris, and vice chairman of | the committee in her own right. Miss Butler is expected to go along with the | Republiean organization. notwithstand- | ing the views of her distinguished | father. Mrs. Clem Shaver, wife of the former chairman of the Demoecratic /| national committee, is out and out against the election of Gov. Smith on the wet and dry issue, | T Gov. Smith has a tremendous asset in his campaign for clection, his per- sonality. A hackneyed phrase, but no ! other scems exactly to fit his case. He wins those who come in contact with | him. If the Democratic national or-| ganization could devise some means of | bringing him into contact with the mil- lions of voters in all parts of the coun- | try they would aid the party cause im-| mensely. Those who see him in action and hear him oelieve in him. What im- presses them most is his honesty of | purpose. Next to that he amazes them with his clearness of vision and his abil- ity to cut to the bone in any problem that is presented to him. He is human, he 1s kindly and he is just. He has | rnuraw and he has great executive abil-* ty. o ox ok In past elections, it has generally been conceded that the negro vote would go almost solidly Republican. But the sit- uation in the presidential campaign this year, at this particular time, presents more of a problem when the political | leaders begin to figuge how the colored | voters will cast their ballots, Gov. Smith nas had support of thousands of color»d | voters in Harlem in his gubernatorial races, if the reports are correct. The | Domocratic national committee, having | canvassed the situation, is out to get the colored votes in other States of the| North and Middle West, where today | there are many negroes voting. In Ine| diana, for example, where the Ku Klux Kian has been strong in the past and where there is a considerable colored the Democrats are counting on the fact that the Klan has been aligned | with the Republican organization to wean away the colored voters from the Republican ticket. In the Hoosier State, the 1920 census showed there were | Indiana has been a battleground for Republicans and Democrats n recent years, and it is not | difficult to see that a big swing of col- ored votes. 1if it can be brought about to the Smith standard would have an| appreciable effect next November. This | is particularly true in a State where ! many Republicans have been thoroughly | disgusted with the scandals which have recentlv involved some of the Repub- lican State leaders, some of whom have been indicted and some placed in jail | oxoxox In 1920, according to the Census Bu- | reau, the negro population of the coun- | try numbered 10,463,131 in 1920. and | it 1s estimated that it was 11,698,000 in | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERI What do you need to know? Is there some poini about your business or versonal life ihat puzzles you? Is there something you want to know without delay? Submit your question to Frederic | J. Hasgin, director of our Washington Information Bureau. He is employed to help you. Address your inquiry to The Evening Star, Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. C., and inclose two cents in coin | or stamps for return postage Q. Under the Marquis of Queens-| berry rules must a fighter retire to a neutral corner before the referee begins to count over an opponent who has been knocked down?—D. E. S. A. Not under the Marquis of Queens- berry rules. in the United States, such a provision however, make Q. How many daily newspapers are ore in the countries under the Amer- n flag outside of Continental United States?—8. P. A. There are 50 daily newspapers in the detached ferritories as follows: Alaska, 6, Hawall. 6: the Philippines. 20; Porto Rico, 10: Canal Zone, 3, and Virgin Islands. 5. Guam. American Samoa, Wake and Midway Islands have none. Q. Was William §. Hart's Pinto Pony ever known by another name?—W. I A. His owner says: “My paint. horse has been_known the world over by tw names. Prior to the World War he wa known by the name Fritz. When our country entered the war he requested that his name be changed to The Pinto Pony or Pinto.” Q. Does the sun cause frecklos?— B A Freckles are always most distinet in Summer, but though the influence of the sun's rays affect their distinct- ness, it is doubtful whether it can cause them. They are due to increased local deposit of pigment granules in the epidermis. Where was the first paper mill bujit in this countr; N. L. . The first paper mill in the Amer- ican colonies was located at Roxborough near Philadelphia. It was buiit in 1690 by Willlam Rittenhouse, a Dutch paper- maker, and William Bradford, a printer of Philadelphia. Q. What is meant in England by the slang term ‘“going to the dogs"?— L E M. A. This is a facetious way of referring | to the dog races which are so popular in England. Q. What is the name given to ina- bility to see as well in daylight as in aim’light>—R. 8. A. The scientific name for da: blindness is hemeralopia. This is de scribed as fnability to see as well in a bright light as a dim. This condition is sometimes found in albinos. Who are eligible to apply: for & United States patent?—N. M. A. Citizens, foreigners, women., minors and the administrators of cstates of deceased inventors may obtain patents. Q. 1s a submarine considered sub- merged when the periscope is the only ‘The rules in general use | C J. HASKIN. part showing above the waterline?— "' A. Submarines are considered sub merged when only the periscope visible. - Submarines often submer completely. Q. What is the German birth rate since the war?—J. P. A. The German birth rate hovers near 20 per 1,000—about that of France Prof. Edward A. Ross says that annually | two and one-half million ver births now take place in Europe than wonld I occur if the birth rates of 1878 had been | maintained. Q. When was the expression “ohce | in & blue moon™ first used?—E. T. & A. "Once i a blue moon” was first used by Roy and Barlow in‘“Rede Me and be not Rothe” in England in 1528, It was formerly used to designate some- thing that will never happen. E. C Brewer in his book, “Phrase and Fable.” says: “On December 10, 1883, we had A blue moon. The Winter was unusual- | Iy mila.” The expression is now used | to mean very seldom. Q. Is the earth growing lighter or heavier’—J. L. H. | A. There is nothing to indicate that | there has been an actual change in | weight in the earth. recent | periment of Dr. Paul Heyl in reweigh- ing the earth has merely given a more exaet result. Q. Is brass ever mined?—J. 8. A. Brass is not found native. | an alloy of copper. zinc, etc. | Q. How elosely related are the King of England and the former Kaiser of | Germany?—K. L. | " A. They are first cousins. both grand- | sons of the late Queen Victoria of | England. Q. Which of Gladstone’s daughters | was his secretary?>—T. T. | A. Mary Gladstone Drew, who died | in January. 1927, was the most closel: associated with her father. She con- tinued to live with her parents after her marriage to Rev. Harry Drew in 1886, and acted as her father's sacre- tary until his death in 1898. Q. Who was the first man to b~ employed by the Government as a food expert?>—E. 8. B. | A, The pioneer food expert and the | man to bring the nutrition of food to | the attention of the public was Dr. | Wilbur O. Atwater (1844-1907). He was an American chemist and pioneer in agricultural experiment station work. He was the first man to be em- ployed by the United States Govern- ment as a food expert. This position was called chief of nutrition investiga- tions of the United States Department of Agriculture, a position he received |in 1894. Dr. Atwater's activities' were | followed by those of Dr. Atkinson of Boston, who became well known for his interest in the nutrition of foods between the years 1895 and 1900. The focus of public interest in home eco- nomies is thought to be around 1902 or 1903. After 1900 Dr. Harveyr W. Wiley, chief chemist. Bureau of Chem- |istry. 1883 to 1912, kept bringing to ! the public attention information econ- corning pure foods. The climax was | reached in 1906, when the pure foods | bill ‘was passed. It s Byrd Expected to Increase Knowledge of Polar Region Comdr. Byrd's million-dollar argosy into the Antarctic and flight over the bottom of the world, following his other achievements in aviation, is expected by the American press to make valuable contributions to science. A better knowledge of weather conditions and an assembling of biological and geo- graphical facts are forecast. That the expedition will be successful is assumed from the wide experience of the leader of the party, and the care with which his preparations have been made. ‘The New York Evening Post sees in the expedition a promise of “more im- portant geographical and scientific re- suits than any previous voyage to the Antarctie. If it is successful,” declares the Post, “a vast portion of the world now virtually uncharted and unknown will be revealed. And it will be Amer- ica which has increased our knowledge of the world we live in, and to Amer- jea will go the credit for Comdr. Bvrd's discoveries and explorations,” concludes this paper. “Here is an expedition conceived in the true interests of sclence and frank- ly in the interest of prestige for this country” is the way the Providence Journal expresses its opinion of the venture, as it bids godspeed to the explorers in the words: “May the wire- less of the Virginia gentleman and his companions ever crackle reporis of cheer and accomplishment, good health and good fortune to us while they are gone.” 1927, About one-half of the mumber | §09€ 1SS TE 0 S b G o Jourmal: voting age. Of the total of § negro voters in 1920, 2,792,006 were men and 2,730,274 women The same census showed negro voters in New York. 142544: New Jersey, | 75,671: Pennsylvania. 191,226; Illinois. | 128,000: Ohio, 126,940 Tennessee, 245, 308; Kentucky, 143,881; Missouri, 121, 328, and Maryland, 141,991, There are other States where the negro is by no means a negligible fac- | tor. There was a colored population of | more than 149,000 in Oklahoma in 1920, | I e “No one knows the richness and value of the secrets long locked in the land of snow and iée. The Byrd party seeks to know, and its courageous curiosity has made a strong appeal to the world. As the members start, the world will give them all it has in friendly support and continuing good wishes for a safe return.” is the assurance of the Journal - xow o That every precaution s being taken ta insure the success of the expedition is pleasing to the American press. On in eontemplation to the recent disaster in North Polar regions, declaring: “As we struggle to he just to the ill-fated men of the Italia. inevitably we shrink from the thought of what may befali lBhodbnld expedition of our own Comdr. vrd." “Viewing Byrd's Antarctic expedition as & gigantic business venture discloses an aspect which is by ne means the | least interesting of those in which the | explorer’s plans may be seem.” remarks the Worcester Daily Telegram. enumer- ating the items of cost in money to date, and asking: “What returns in money can it ever make for this $1.000.- 000 investment?” Giving a partial an- swer to its own question, this paper notes that “meteorological conditions in the Antarctic cannot fail to have great influence on the climate of parts of the Southern Hemisphere.” and suggests that “what Byrd's expedition can add \to the knowledge of those conditions may be worth much monev to govern- ment and ship owners in that part of the world.” o owow | The Albany Evening News names two | things about which the world wishes | to know more —'the aurora australi= which corresponds in the Antaretic to the aurora borealis in the Arctic.” and the “radiation of heat at the South Pole. | which differs from that in other narts | of the world" The Oaklana Tribune | refers to the theory that the South | Polar regions are “the home of the | Indian monsoon and are even definitelv | related to the floods on the Nile and | world weather conditions.” and co | siders it possible that the study of this | theory “by capable men™ may result in | “new discoveries of large importance | Anather science. ton. may be en- riched. as the Detroit Pree Press poin's out. saying: “Biology will have an op- portunity to increase its knowledge of the life that exists in the land to be | explored. on much of which the eves | 0f man have never fallen. unless it was | before the ice age took hold there. Sn and of these more than 76.000 had at- | this point, the New York Times re-| far the biggest life discovered bevond tained the voting age. Kansas had | 79,725 negroes within her borders in| 1920, and of the number 37,000 were | entitled to vole. | In New England the 1920 population of negroes was: Massachusetts, 45.466: | 21,04 Rhode marks: “It is the purpose of Byrd to command success by anticipating every need of his expedition. He hopes that large as the scale Is on which his enter- prise has been planned, he will be able to avold disasters that have so often Conneeticut, Island, | 10.036: Vermont, 572: New Hampshire, 21, and Maine, 10. o ow % called for salvage and relief at great expense.” The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, praising Byrd's careful foge- thought in making ready. savs: “Those who have watchad this intricate props aration have been imbued with his own confidence; there is a feeling in the air that this expedition is destined for suecess."” ‘The Great Falls Tribune also turns The Republican national committee, | however, has taken cognizance of the efforts of the Democrats to win over the colored vote this year and has ap- pointed a committee of widely known leaders among the colored people to! have charge of the Hoover campalgn | among the colored voters. If the Demo- | crats succeed In bringing to their cause | many of the colored voters, itswill be | little short of a political upheaval so far as the colored vote is concerned From (he fact that the colored voters, | through State laws, are practically dis- franchised in many of the Southern States, the “solid South” is likely in the end to militate against any general withdrawal from the RepubMean party by the colored voters. But it must be admitted that in many individual cases today colored voters are talking of sup- porting Gov. Smith, o R TATES WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today, Germany at last admits American | strength in France. In a short notice, which appears in virtually all the Ger- | | man newspapers. the identical nature | of which suggests official inspiration, the reluctant admission is made that . | Secretary Baker's figures regarding the | | the edge of the Antarctic Continent spider,” this paper recalls, as it for “a new unveiling of the scientific mysteries of the South Polar region.” | These mysteries are many, as sug- g gested by the Dayton Daily News, wh’eln | It says: “There are many things which | man does not kmow about the Ant- | arctic—the cause and course of the strange storms that come from there | with great suddenness and die away in A manner equally abrupt. the depth of | the great fce cap. under which a terri- tory as big as the United States fs | burled: the relation of the great Ant- Arcgg mountain ranges to the Andes | wl T there are two continents sepa- rated by an ice stream or only one what causes the aurora. still more pro- nounced in the south than in the north. If the expeditions make ciear a few of these riddles they are justified,’ says this paper . DR “In a land where the temperature in Winter drops to 70 or 80 rees below zero there will be plenty of danger and hardship and Byrd's countrymen will wait anxiously every day for the news he plans to radio back.” states the Youngstown Vindicator: while the Toledo Blade remarks: “His wisdom in 7 * It it not every one whe, for a totw later in the campaign he will revise his | strength of the American forces in | 8€tHNg & short-wave radio transmitter | the Smith speech before | cconomy! stranger. will risk bodily injury in & H personal encounter with & fugitive. Rees, | ockoning’ If so, he will probably not however, svidently had that high sense ' Proclaim his change of mood of justice which prompted him o g0 | oo R through .vvgamxmpv,y v:, consegiiences, | 1t 18 0ot 50w the o cresed by in- I & & matter of gratification that an. | emperance who bresks up tha furmi- othier of those ‘who drive sitomobiles | 0% THAL form of ‘sciivity 4 let to without conscience or responsibility wini | the Faiders be barred, for & time at least, from the ity streets | While it is eases actuplly to capture & person fie ing from the scene of an accident, it 1 | assuredly every citizen’s duty to yecord the number. the make of macaine and the sppearance of the driver when be | witnesses such an affalr. The police | cannot be everywhere at once and many motoriste of this ik make gt ave hout molestation, or even ide. Wheetio . m—— Voting Machines. Preparations are being mads In New York City for the casting and counting of a record-breaking there In November It has been es- not necessary in most | vole the registration will be ¢ mgh as 1700000 as against 1,260 000 in 1927 and 1,500,000 in 1924 The entire city will vote by machine for the first time in s higtory. The last lot of 100 machines ordered has just been As & matier of fact, law-abiding ci- | recetved and ihere W now & sufficient fsens of the community ehould be on ' supply to place one in each of the the lockout for flagrent violations of 2,845 election districts of Greater New y electinns that their the timated by an official of the hoard of | 1 teel lucky to hold on to the pants.” acceptance speaking his own little plece. eventuates, then It about evens the seore—Butler jumping the fence one way and McAdoa the other, and for the same reason, the prohibition issue which 1t fs 8o truly said is like*a sword thrust through the vitals of both parties. | “He who declares he Is seeking | Truth,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of China- town. “is often nearsighted and can s { only the Truth that is close to his own Tendency to Agree. We walt, in serious discontent, For some emphatic argument A candidate exclaims, “I'm Dry!” Another answers, “80 Am 1! LR An entirely non-partisan call to vote In the November elections as a civie | duty has been issued by John Hays | Hammond in his capacity as chalrman {of the department on active citizen- ship in the Nationai Civie Federation The American Federation of Labor Ameriean Leglon, General Federation of Women's Clubs, Daughters of the American Revolution, Natlonal Grange. Natlonal Education Assoclation, Ki- wanis and Rotary Clubs and the Knights of Columbus are numbered among the long list of social and efvie hodles which have handed together for a common drive upon their member- ship to impress the obligation of exer- cising the voting franchise. The fi miliar story he steadily mounting peroentage of y-at-home’ voters is A man ain’ gittin’ de true comfort | dat’s comin' to him," aajd Uncle Eben, | “when he goes to church simply foh de | sake of hearin' his side of an argu- ment.” Frow the Loulsville Times The Turk has been described as the most henpecked of all hushands, That 15 the remson, we suppose, for nick- naming him “the unspeakable Turk’ 1 this | | (Conyright. 19281 | . -veo Currency Fame. From the Ghattanoosa News Chase’s portrait s to be placed on the new $10,000 bill. Some people seem Lo be Just doomed to obscurity. - ‘.- The Champion. | From the Little Rock Arkansas Demociat It must_be wonderful to be as opti- mistic as Voliva, who contends that ail the world Is on the level -t Dark Traffic Prospeet. | From the Movgantown New Dominion A few more motor mergers and auto- | mobiles won't_be competing with each | other any more except on the road 1‘ - | Something Lacking. From the Waterion Sunday Tribune Then we have a lot of people who won't think the Olympic games are complete until they include golf, Every presidentinl campaign has its campaign songs. The Democrats have | one ready motto, “The Sidewalks of New York." Others are in the making. Republicans are working overtime on the musical end of their campaign, too, Henry L. Sweinhart. Washington news- paper man, former president of the Na- tional Press Club, has written a Hoover song. to the tune of “Yankee Doodle," which goes in part as follows “Oh, Herbert Hoover is the man We want for President; He's honest and we know he can Do any job's that sent. CHORUS, Herhert Hoover, pep it up, Herbert, you're a dandy Mind the East Side and the West And with the vetes be handy, “He's big and broad and fair to all And work to him 18 play He'll All the White House to a “T" Because he's built that wi 8o 1t you'd choose, and choose aright Of thie make careful note Remember Hoover fs the man For whom you ought to vote." jon the Arras-Albert France are about correct. * * * Amer- feans on the Vesle gain ground west | of Fismes improving their ons, smashing a counter-attack. and taking prisoners. * * * Eleven brigadier gen- erals are nominated by President Wil | son today to be major generals, and 44 colonels named brigadier .enrnh.' * * * French forces, under Giens. Man- | gin and Albert, push the enemy back | 7 miles, and at some points the Ger- mans are so hard pressed they were falling back in disorder. Thousands of | prisoners are taken and 200 cannon. * * * This brings the French Army ) within 2 miles of Noyon from the south- | on the same side of the Ofse. ' * * The Important town of Albert, on the Ancre, 18 miles northeast of | Amiens, s captured by British troops. | The new drive carries the British 3 ' miles on a f-mile front. Efforts of | the Germans to break the British hold ' rallway are de- feated and the Cermans retreat to avola e, 72 ¢ ¢ * Three hundred and | twenty-two on casualty lists released to- day; 70 dead, 144 wounded and 108 missing, A . and a receiving set for every dog sled and airplane in his expedition I uNh(:;bt?lx:l. l‘!:cn‘:unflaflL Guilbaud and their e crew ml t ve been uw;f by radio." i “It may be" suggests the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. “that Dick Byrd has reduced exploration, whether in the air or on land, to & cold business proposi- ton. Perhaps he will miss mrflh that might have come from surmounting obstacles that might be met were his preparations less complete, but the chances are that the commander will find enough unforeseen situations to prevent his year or more in the Ant- aretie ing monoton The Terre Hauto Star predicts: party not get soparated from its m?phu it will surely have enough to eat and enough to smoke. * * * The main trouble in such expeditions hersto- fore north or sauth, seems to have been a fallure to keep in touch with the supplies.” "'The extent of the assistance given Byrd bears its evidence of the goneral mterest in his undertaking." avers the Manchester Union, & view which is ex+ ressed also by the Breokiyn Daily