Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1928, Page 8

anyiadahen s S THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, e e “THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Fdition. WASHINGTON, D. C \WEDNESDAY. . .August 20, “The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office: th 60c per month Star ...85¢ per month copy sent fn by 1028 | of New Yorkers toward the fafr project | The World replied that the picture ex- | pressed only the view of the artist, a | Chicagoan by birth and many years of Iresidence, and asked the News for an cle on the “public excitement in Chicago aroused by the cartoon.” The {News responded with a contribution | h the World printed. in which it asked how New York would feel if | the statue of civic virtue in City Hail | Park were represented by a night-club | hostess attended by Mayor Walker as a | taflor’s dummy. Tt quoted a Chicagoan's | comment: “The only difference be- | tween gangsters in New York and Chi- {cago is that here we club members.” ostracize them, | | while fn New York they make them | trying to pass a green light. what Aunt Jane will say when hears about this. * * * Wonder expecting, all the time, that about to go to sleep before experienc- jing the nerve-racking jar of a sudden stop. As it is, the person who falls from a precipice or a steeple will spend the time in descent worrying over what is going to happen when he strikes the ground. The Army Afr Corps should have thought this over carefully before | making public its findings. A Clever Scheme. The American she | And about | | that time he hit the ground, pleasantly | he was | writer of travel ro-| BY CHARLES A native Washingtonian, H. K., agree: with the letter quoted in this column last week, and signdd P. M. L., in which | exception’ was taken to the use of “in- dividual” for “person.” | “In this regard,” he continues, “T hate | to hear the nameof Gearshift being | used in otherwise fine articles T like the names Sam Jones, Bill Brown and | Timothy Hay. two jof which you have | used. But please loave out Gearshift, I | wouldn't want to foeet the fellow on | account of his nam Then again, brifg a bold Al Smith | ' instead of always using ‘we' when | THIS AND THAT E. TRACEWELL. pinion was that we used “I1" too much. If we (I) had been Lindbergh, or H G. Wells, or Mussolini, he might not have minded it.) Since we (I' had begun to feel some- thing of the same way about it, we (1) decided to suddenly change (o the old- style editorial “we,” as it is called After several years' use we (I) can say that it has ‘its good points. While tly pedantic, it is unobtrusive indeed, it happens to strike an ual reader in the wrong way. The pronoun “I" carries with it con- ations of conceil which are equally | I D. €. WEDNESDAY, /AUGUST 29, 19%8. e ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Politics at Large | By G. Gould Lincoln, | PORTLAND, Me., August 38—Her- bert Hoover, product of the sofl, versus ‘Al Smith, product of the sidewaiks of New York, is the picture, which the Re- publicans are assiduously seeking to | draw of the present campaign in the | farm States of the West. Apparently | they are meeting with some success, for | despite the defection of George N Peek, apostle of the MecNary-Haugen | farm bill, most of the farm leaders are {lining up for Mr. Hoover. Among the latest to adopt the Hoover colors Is | | Gov. Adam McMullen of Nebraska. Gov. I McMullen was a strong supporter of the nomination of former Gov. Frank O.! i formation Bureau, Washington, D. C. BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Did you ever write a letter to Frederic J. Haskin? You can ask him any ques- tion of fact and get the answer in a personal letter. Here is a great edu-| cational idea introduced into the lives| of the most intelligent people in the corld—American newspaper readers. It is a part of that best purpose of a newspaper—service. There is no charge except 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Address Frederick J Haskin, director, The Evening Star In- Q. Please give a list of DX stations vide special facilities defective vision?—B. A. The National Society for the Prevention of Blindness says that at least 5,000 classes are needed. for chiidren with 0. C Q. When was the Johnstown flood? R. W. M. A. The Johnstown flood took place on the 30th of May, 1889, and was caused by the bursting of a reservoir about twelve miles east of the city. Q. What hody of water is known as i the tideless sea?—R. H. A. This term ¥ frequently applied A. There Is no such list. DX is a | term used simplv to designate distant stations. A man is said to be “D Xing” when he is trying to get distant sta- tions late at night when the nearer statlons are off. telephone | ;mnnrre who has just completed a swim through the Panama Canal evidently { needed a bit of publicity for his books, | or else he would never have engaged in |such a senseless undertaking, The |to the Mediterranean Sea, which has | but a few inches of tide. objectionable to others. The writer | POMIN here would be very glad to hear xm‘v Lowden of Tllinois. or of Vice President but ‘T think. Brifig a bold T think' | readers upon this subject. as it is )| DRWes, or some candidate who favored into your articles sometime. .| problem faced by all columnists. Somelu:‘: e 'l’,‘ill‘l“‘“g“‘::"'}“{:’“"{fl “Lindbergh had more right o use “¥e'| ot the most famous of the New York | the MeNary-Haugen bill. But, like the | and people like hifn for “his modesty. | daily essayists have alternated between | Sovernor of fows, Mo MEBUIEL UK you know it's your own opinion and That is the present state of the war il o other people know jit is not ‘we think {Certain recent New York crimes have |been attributed to Chicago ganasters gsc | New York's police have been unable to 3% I solve them. Chicagoans aver that fts —Payable in Advance. Q. Did Andrew Carnegie leave $10.- 000,000 in his will to create a better understanding between the United 1 are too protracted ations made in June and occurring in November four are devoted to the procedure wi the months of between fties of the ca has often It is now abo second of the maic candidates for President and Vice President, and slightly longer since its rival put its ticket in nomination. And only cam under head- ths have bee it work and formal notifications and ace ancas. The candidates are ju ing in their respective activities in be- half of their own bids for votes. But for ali purposes of agitation and arousal the campaign has been in progress since the first of the two national tickets was named Both nfajor nominating conventions | were held in hot weather, the second | one in a particularly torrid city. Had these meetings been held at about the present time, in late August, the dele- g the electorate on the iss nd the person: ‘This period, is too long. it two months since the rties named its it beer | gates would have suffered far less in| oy, pave neither care nor responsibil- | | ity, parked cars have been run into and | discomfort and physical distress. Noti- fications and acceptances could have| { choicest law-breaking experts were in fact originally from New York. New York retorts that these gentry will be put in their proper place in time Meanwhile the rival world fair project it being recognized that there cannot ¢ be two of these big exposi- the same year and that one or r of the propositions must be ned — are taking shape. Each ccessive development adds to the live- e engagement. It is veri- tably a return to the good old times o competitive civic pride. Perhaps the urge for publicity will bring about at st a temporary reformation in both c . giving the law-abiding citizen a period of security and peace. B Swift Justice in Traffic Court. It is distinctly gratifying to the peo- ple of Washington that the flagrant of- fenders against the traffic laws are be- ing dealt with promptly and vigorously when they reach the Traffic Court misunderstanding on the part of the police and courts as to the difference between a traffic violation which in- volved possible damage to property or | loss of human life and that which in- volved neither of these factors. Also due to the excessively crowded condi- tion of the courts, trials were frequent- ly so delayed that conviction was dif- ficult. Now, however, Washingtonians are witnessing swift, sure, stern and exact justice being administered daily. The National Capital this Summer has seemed to become the mecca for the hit-and-runner and the drunken and reckless driver. Pedestrians have been knocked to the street by operators damaged, and in one case a motorist f| In| the past there has apparently been some | swim was & pronounced success as far as publicity was concerned. as witness the columns of space in newspapers | throughout the country, but the exploit | probably brought no cheers by the | United States Government, as Uncle | | Sam had to foot the bill for opening thor on his way from ocean to ocean The toll fee for the operation of the gi- i gantic machinery necessary to permit | passage through the canal is rated on | the tonnage basis. When the lone swim- | mer approached the locks and de- | manded that they be operated for him, there was nothing to do- —except, of E(‘ml\‘sl\ to tell him #o turn back and swim the oth-r way---but to set the pon- | derous works in motion. The swimmer | paid thirty-six cents on the tonnage | basis and the United States paid the | rest, which amounts to many times | thirty-six cents. If #he writer is as clever in his stories as he is in cooking | up a scheme for personal publicity at the expense of Uncle Sam, they must exercise? | S e Canada and the U. S. A. are on the friendliest of terms. But for mysterfous reason citizens from | side of the border do most of visiting. e - While Tunney may be willing to talk about Shakespeare, his fellow dinner some this the tion of how he puts a pugilistic antagonist to sleep. —————— An energetic thinker is often com- pelled to admit the difficulty of select- ing a party that agrees with him in all respects. ————— been hastened and for all practical | e drunken rampage attempted m!hnve grown tired of fish. His large poses the campaign could have been as effectively put under headway to the present state. It is evident that with the develop- | ment of the radio there will be less| drive along the footpath of one of Washington's parks. The police have done efficient work in apprehending these violators of the law, and from the entences imposed recently in court it | catches should provide for a | distribution to the neighbors. e The arrival of Labor day will be the | signal for statesmen to give up thought liberal “stumping” by candidates and thelr|, ' " oo jdeal condition had been | O Vacation, and settle down to real supporting spelibinders than in earlier | times, when there was no such means of | spreading the gospel by word of mouth | over limitless areas. It is to be ques-| tioned whether the people would be less fully informed regarding the merits 01‘ the contestants for the presidency in| 8 campaign of two months than in one | of four months, with gonsideration for | the use of the “ether” for the bmld-; easting of views and declarations. Just now there is evidence that the campalgn is going to cost an UNPrEC- |, 5 fine a motorist five dollars | edented sum of money. Estimates of the financial resources of the two parties run high into the millions orj dollars. A shortening of the mmpaxxn,f by having the nominations made Ln} late August or early September. would | perhaps have the effect of reducing the | budgets of the parties and thereby les- | sening the drain upon the pockets of | the people A wide range of view occurs in this| matter. In some States nominations for local offices are made four or five months ahead of election. In others they are made after the presidential | tickats are chosen. California has just held its primaries, two months latel than the naming of the national tickets. It 15 a fair assumption that the issues end quslifications of the candidates in C: rnia will be as fully exploited and ranvassed as in those other States i which the primaries and conventions were held before the Summer solstice. Just so with the national campaign. By print, by wire, by radio the questions et issue can be fully expounded within # period of two months, perhaps more effectively than if streiched out over four It seems anomalous for this country e to follow a custom which ished in the days before the telegraph and of course long before the development of the radio. Business has | conditions, Why not politics, which is the coun- most important business, be edapted t0 the new situation? | i 1 to co: | d st ed with of doe worth peace mear P v war 1o y pleasure o New York and Chicago at War. Jed 0 5 some have big ye filets been Each tows | be the means of death or injury. attained, close co-operation between the | guardians of the law and the dispensers of justice. Now that the major violators of the regulations are being taught that Wash- ington is an unhealthy place for them to operate, the courts might well go a step further and treat with the severity that they deserve the seemingly trivial violations of the regulatigns, many of which, however, have dangerous poten- tialities. It appears absurd, for in- for parking overtime and the same amount for running past a red light. It likewise seems a trifle unfair to charge the same price for running without a tail iight and running past a stop sign. Yet there have been many cases when the same penalty has been exacted for hese distinctly different kinds of in- fractions of the rules. The parked car can certainly do no damage, unless, of course, it is placed next to a fire plug or obstructs an alley, but the car driven through a red light may easily Sim- | tlarly, the car without a tail light for a hort period until the owner discovers it cannot be compared to the car which dashes across an arterial highway when it is expected to stop. It is patent that there is a difference nd driving in Washington will become | much safer when the police and courts recognize this difference. It is hoped, therefore, that along with the court's | commendable attitude toward the hit- and-runner and the drunken driver | will come the realization that perhaps these major violations are bred from { what have been looked upon n the past | | as minor offenses against the regula- tions, and that the time has arrived to | differentiate sharply as to the merits or | | demerits of a given case. o Both sclence and statesmanship now employ very large figures. Statistics are no longer regarded as uninteresting by the average reader. A Fine Theory Gone. In exploding the popular theory that persons falling from great heights lose consclousness before striking the ground, the Army Alr Corps’ parachute | experts have added to scientific knowl- edge and have demonstrated something previously, could not be proved ther that | one way or the ment of the parachute, those falling tent on the subject of losing conscious- ness helore striking the ground. Wo person could be made fo talk about it arted the persons went 1o sleep ek the rward it some one y that sucl the ground and so g was theory that it was accepted. The Alr bout the thing by demonstrating the maximum speed attained by Corps that “|a man falling through the air 18 118 a center of ¢ iy Jong suffered has been t commiseration ion. rd for Chi- | s a definite contst Each war in 1932 nary of the birih ) 18 making The Chicago o in rec offered a prize plan for o World promptly » which brought inte minal popula- soined prom of nence the The C! with & query regarding the World's estimate of the significancly of . als cartoon s expreseive of the attitude N to | | miles an hour, and that at such speed in parachute jumper still has enough | sens» to pull the cord and open the | parachute A fine theory has, therefore | exploded. But what of it? As far as the msjority of men are concerned | parachute jumpers, the theory could as well have rematned intact. It might have been better, in fact, if it had not | been touched, As it is. the man slips off & precipice or falls from a teeple 1 denied the modicum of com | fort contained in the thought: “Well | this 15 certatnly unfortunate, but it imwh! be worse! T'll go to sleep before cago News re- | 1 strike the ground, so it really won't | I hurt. 1 always did like 1o go to sleep anvhow, My! How hard the wind blows! T'm golng {ppler fi” l bys Before develop- | | from great heights were absolutely si- | | been | the majority being composed of non- | who | work. e ———— It might be interesting to learn how China came to require so enormous a | copper coinage before street cars were invented. —————— It may be found later that losses due to padlocking are to be made up by | additions to the cover charges, ] SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, The Bygone Bike. Sometimes, as in a dream, I see The time, so very distant, When bicycles a means would be Of pleasure so persistent. The pace they set brought many a care, And where the travel crosses Would give pedestrians many a scare And frighten all the hosses. The bike would fill the atmosphere | With most disturbing rumors. | A neighbor girl we’d maybe hear Had built herself some “bloomers!"” The two-wheel terror is no more, In gentleness seraphic | It wobbles 'mid the highway's roar, | Compelled to dodge the traffic. | No longer do we hear demands To curb some scorching fellah. | No lady on the curbstone stands With threatening umbrella. | Where motor cars rush on pell-mell, With wrecks the street to sprinkle, We wish that we could hear that bell ‘With unobtrusive tinkle! 1 | | Easier Than the Tariff. “What are your ideas about prohibi- tion?” “As an issue” replied Senator Sor- | ghum, “I like it better than the tariff. | You can make a big speech on its moral aspects without bothering to learn a lot of complicated statistics.” | Inaugural Spotlight. | We'nl grand! We pause for conversation To learn just who 13 going to be on hand For the illumination. Jud Tunkins says the SBummer ther- | mometer is the one thing that makes a | polar expedition seem really sensible, i Hopes. “Do you think you can make your land pay?” “1 begin to have hopes” answered Farmer Corntossel. “Several real es- | tate speculators have been looking it “He who lives only for his own hap- plness” sald Hi Ho, the sage of China- town, | gloom of loneliness.” | | | | Dull Repast. “The dietitians bid us shrink From pleasures customary. A little we may eat and drink— But we must not be merry, { | “De lazy man,” said Uncle Eben, “has 10 keep busy all de time tryin’ to make | excuses.” T | Qualified. | Prom the New York Evening Post The Turk 15 now described as the most henpecked of hushands. Thus his | claim 1o being fully civilized is estab- lished beyond question v—va Straw Votes Suggestive, From the Piint Daily Journal, with all | taken on the coming election, & lot of | candidates are taking their medicine L L — and closing the locks to speed the au- | indeed be good, but if so, why all the | guests are said to prefer a demonstra- | By this time President Coolidge must | surely have some pyrotechnics | oon finds himselt left o the | the advance polls being | but you can even dictate your column to a stenographer; therefore, your ‘we | means ‘I’ Yours for the column,” ete R well defined “kicks.” > of “Henry 's name, and se of the in, honest Here are two one against the shift” for a cha other against the “we" instead of the p a column of this nat We (I will take of the last protest first tive merits of “‘we” and a problem which probabl can comprehend quite a writer, since he has tried nouns and has been criti | use of both ! This experience, one must admit, pits us (me) in a comparatively good posi- tion to write about the matter. This we (D) shall proceed tb do in a perfectly serious vein, We (I} might make a jok out of it, but actually it is not a joke Those who read this (‘[ulvlm whe \KH ¢as begun more than four years ago | Crevall ‘that in those days, just | When Al Smith was coming to be men- tioned in national jpolitics, the writer here always used “I; iy Who has a bettér right to use “T than one who writes under his own name? ) This being a combin book-and- | human-nature column, it is and ¥ ! been consistently nal matter b | tween the writer and reader. Such an attitude of mind calls for plain speaking and‘honest reading. In the daily working out of the former necess! we (I) found that the stumbling block was just one small word of one letter—I. It is one thing to be honest, and bring a “bold Al Smith “I'" into & col- umn, and quite another to read it day after day. That was wher * he consideration The compara- constitute no well both d for the pro- the e the trouble lay. such a the he na- who has written column as this can comprehend tremendous urge to use “L” and alone can understand the heroic ture of refraining from its use. The pitfall was (and is) that of over- use. We (I) were (was) led to the abandonment of its use by two persons. one whose criticism we (I) valued, and another who also wrote a column. The latter used “I” “me” and “mine” to such an extent that it bored us (me) simply as a reader. He over did it by a million personal pronouns, or at least so it scemed. One might think it easy enough, when writing, to use only one or two of these bold proneuns in 1.200 or so words, but the sad fact is that nec sity seems to call for more than one | or_two. The other person referred to let it be known to us (ge) that his honest WASHINGTON Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, As- sistant Attorney General in charge of the prohibition division of the Depart ment of Justice, is at the moment the storm center of the ructions which have arisen incident to fhe spectacular New York nipht club raids ged immedi- ately after Gov. Smith's nomination, and more recently the invocation of the padlock provision of the Volstead act against “private homes™ in Minneapolis It has been insinuated that Mrs. Wille brandt ‘was the real instigator of both episodes and that political motiv played some part. in these suddenly strenuous efforts at prohibition enforce- | ment. Mrs. Willebrandt's active parti- sanship in behalf of her fellow Cali- fornian, Mr. Hoover, was brought into the picture. In refutation of these in sinuations, Mrs. Wiliebrandt points out that the Department of Justice is not specifically charged with prohibition enforcement, but that that obligation rests with the prohibition division in the Treasury Department. The job of her department is merely to prosecute in court after the prohibition agents have gathered their own evidence and staged their own raids. As to the pad- locking of private homes, she with emphasis that she has had any hand in the Minneapolis cases, and de- nies that any unnccessary harassment of private citizens is contemplated by any branch of the Government or any overstepping of the . plain provisions | of the law. Only one T Secretary Kellogg's abrupt cancellation of his projected “courtesy call” to Lon- don before his return home from his present mission in Paris has evoked a first-page sensation in the Britlsh cap- ital, though as yet it has come in for little notice or comment on this side of the water. The “interpretation” of Mr. Kellogg's suddenly discovered lack of time, which he says precludes his visit to London, cabled to the London Times by its usually well informed and experienced’ correspondent, Willmott H Lewis, Is to the effect that the Amer can Secretary of State canceled his Lon- don visit at the hehest of Mr. Coolidge and arlses from the pleasure of the President and the State Department with the secrel and some what mysterious Anglo-French naval agreement which has come to light in the last ‘wo weeks, It Is entirely in | posstble to substantiate this interpreta- tion, which is wholly plausible, and which has been readily acceped us the fact by the British public. However since the matter has now reached the stage of a “diplomatic incident,” it is probable that our own Government will take steps to smooth it over and convey | assurances by one channel or another | that no slight to Great Britain was in- {tended. Indecd, it may turn out that | Mr. Kellogg will find time 1o go to Lon don uiter all . » * When “Joe” Robinson of Arkans accepts his vice presidential nomination | this week, he has a stage setting more typleally American than was the Le sford Stadium, or the Assembly of the State Capitol at Albany Hot Springs, personally selected by the Arkansas Senator as the scene of his notification _ceremant other town in the Unit tes, the composite of many. There 15 the heat and drawling.accent of the South there 15 the dust of the desert, the ex- pansiveness of the prairie, the energy and business enterprise of Northern capitalists, and the sideshow and carnl- val spirit of Atlantic City and Coney Island, all rolled into one. It s an odd town, yet with representation of every element which goes to make the average American city. It now holds the spot- preparing to make the most of it reception to 1ts most distinguished na- tive Arkansan will be epoch-making, if 11,000 Hot Springs citizens and count- without the borders of the State can make 1t s0. “Notification day” has be mude A State holiday in Arkansas by "I gubernatorial decree, CEE Death has taken a hand fn remov- | Ing from the present Congress some of the most interesting personalities in the lower branch. #enatorial ambi- Hon 1e. Ioly WD the editorial | SEean | reader | denies | supposed _dis- | light and haa been busy for o month | il less more thousands from within and | the two o As for the use of “Hemry Gearshift" for a man’s name, we rather like it. ' Certainly Gearshift' is a manly sort of name, if there ever was -one. What | could” be more masculine than an tomobile? Even the effort of advertising writers to make a car feminine (with spectal | empha upon the “body” featur which usage is obnoxious) has left the automobile an intensely masculine | proposition One look inside the hood, and you sec_what an automobile is, | | Hoover is not after all the enemy of the farmer which he has been painted. Mr. Hoover’s sympathetic statement regard- ing the farmer and the farm problem | in his specch of acceptance helped him | greatly in the West And along comes Bert Martin of Den- ver, who has resigned as secretary- treasurer of the Farmer-Labor party and | declared himself for Hoover, with a statement that it is natural for ! Smith and Tammany Hall to wish the | city dwellers of New York fo pay as| littie as possible for their foodstuffs. “Confrol of the Government by Tam- | many.” he says Q. What is the size of our detached territories as compared to given Amer- ican States?—J. H. A. The area of Alaska, Hawil, Philippines, Porto Rico, the Canal Zone. Virgin Islands. Guam, American Samoa, Wake and Midway Islands is the | States and England?—S. E. D. A. He did not, but in 1910 he con- tributed a peace fund of that amount to promote a better understanding be- | tween the nations of the world. Q. Has anything been invented for equal to that of seven American Stal as follows: Washington, Oregon. Cali- fornia, Nevada, Idaho, Utah and Ari- 70na, @ Should hot water be used in washing a refrigerator’—M. B. P. A. Tepid water in which baking soda “presents Tather 2 pa¢ peen dissolved in the proportion | Objections to names, however, are|gloomy picture for the men and Women | or"a teaspoontul to one-half gallon of as many as there are persons. This| | applies not only to first names, but also | [ to last names, of which there seem to be millions. One is always hearing a | new name. | We (I) got quite a “kick” in the news | recently through discovering the name of Judge Hickenlooper. Repeating it |aloud, we (I) fell in love with the musical accents thereof, and went ound repeating it for days. We (I) aged to use it with deadly effect | ainst certain persons who had ex- | ed derision of the name Dooden- (I) had used her The. latter, they said. was an absurd name. Truth, however, often is stran- ger than fiction. * * pr flocker which we _— There is an insistent demand for cer- tain new words to bridge over actual difficultics in the everyday handling of | the English language. One of these| is a_substitute for the clumsy “his and | her”” “Hiser” has been suggested, but | it is not very good. Writers tacitly | have agreed to use “them” and “their” | | after a preliminary “his" and “her.” H | In this connection one might be | boid as to suggest the coining of “we: | to overcome the curious-looking juxta- position which has been used to this| point here today, we (I). The difficulty of the verb form might be overcome bv using either the | singular or plural. Only once has this difficulty been encountered here, “We | (I)_were (was) led.” etc | Such coinages, however, are always | oddities, and have never found a wel- come. The peculiarities of our lan- | | guage form a part of its charm. A | foreigner, they say., never knows how to pronounce a . Of course not! | That is one of the joys of being Eng- lish-speaking. | After all is sald and done, the writer | | has three choices, to use " to use ' “we,” or so to write as to avold per-| sonality. If he believes in the personal | touch, he has but two chukos-—andl | perhaps Christopher Morley had the | | right idea, after all——he used “I" some- | | times and “we” at others, but always | | the same in any one essay, of course, OBSERVATIONS sult that the House has lost a lot of i | [mt‘mln-r.l whose places will be hard to | |l Martin Madden of Illinois, Tom | | Butler of Pennsylvania and Jim Galli- | van have been taken by death—able | veterans all. Tom Blanton of Texas becomes @ lame duck by reason nl‘| trying_and failing to land a Senate | seat. The same is true of Finis Gar- | | rett of Tennessee, beloved and respected on both sides of the aise. Tom Con- lly, another Texan, who talked les but with greater effect than his col- league Blan‘on, now moves up to the | iate seat of Mayfield. Jim Begg of Ohio, aspiting to a governorship, re- | linquishes his seat in Congress. Martin Davey, who claimed to be the greatest etter writer with the largest corre- | spondence a Representative has ever | had. will hereafter pay postage on his | letters—something he can well afford | to do, as he has acquired a fortune | as @ tree surgeon. Davey is the Demo- | cratic gubernatorial nominee in Ohlo, * N | The most plcturesque stump speaker | the campaign has produced to date is | Mrs, Nellie Tayloe Ross, former Gov- | ernor of Wyoming, who is on the firing | { line for Gov. Smith. Mrs. Ross is first | | of all an effective and appealing woman | speaker. In_addition, she 15 a most | { pronounced Prohibitionist, whose zeal | | for the eighteenth amendment and all | | its works 1s surpassed by no one. Be- sides this, she is a Protestant and stress- | es that fact in all her speeches. Mrs. Ross s now a vice-chalrman of the | Democratic national committee, but she | {15 spending little time at a desk in | headquarters and much time on the | | public platform. When she discusses | the wet and ue, she places her | “implicit trust” in Gov. Smith’s pledge | of a real enforcement of the law. Tam- | many Hall, she says, was “once objec- tionable, but that is all changed now.” | And on the religious question she urges | as a Protestant the clection of a Cath- olic as President “to quell for all time | | the ever-smoldering question” of re- ligious prejudice. Al in all. Mrs. Ross | appears to be one of the Democratic aces on the stump, * Employes of the Department of Commerce need have no fear that how- ever great the pressume of public busi- ness they will ever be ealled on to do | extra work on Sunday during the in- cumbency of the new Secretary of Com- | merce, Willlam F. Whiting. Mr. Whit- ing is. with other things, a rigid Sab- | balartan. As a paper mill owner he bas always fnststed that his mills close | down at midnight on Saturday, though | in other paper mills which ordinarily | evate on & 24-hour schedule, 6 days | it 15 the custom to operate ¢ morning, before closing for a 24-hour lay-off. And it 15 only within the past few years that Mr. Whiting would consent” to make | any railrond fourney on Sunday. He | broke this lifelong rule wm returniy | from u uational conventlon. He brok it a second time when he left his Massachusetts home last Sunday night to arrive in Washington Monday morn- ing * ok | (Covyright. .- Yurope May Kick. From the New Dominlon, Morgantown, W Va A soclologlst says that In another 10 y s Europe will be Americanized See Europe first R 1028 Seen As Blow to Trade. From the Louisville Courier-Journal If Pullman porters go on strike, it will be a serlous blow to the makers of whisk brooms | | | P — A Long, Long Chance. From the Pasadens Star-News, Just suppose the Republicans should carry Texas and the Democrats should | carry Pennsylvanial Just suppose, " .- November Love Counts Most. From (he San Bernarding Sun, What the candidates_would like to :.nnw is whether the; ll love them In o Y Ud I Jupe, . | has been for a decade | ity | 0 be so honore | no one in who raise this f markets.” | Mr. Martin apparently has reached the same conclusion as that reached lopg ago by Judge William S. Kenyon, former Senator from Iowa, who has believed that the interests of the farmer and the industrial worker simply do not le along the same lines. but that the best which can be obtained s a compromise permitting each to live in comfort. His contention has been that the ity man pa little as he can for food and the farmer as little as he can for the products of the factory. including clothes, farm implements and automobiles. A Farmer-Labor political party. under such circumstances, is an anomaly and the recent statement is- sued by Mr. Martin seems.to bear this out | A5 N The dry Democrats now supporting Gov. Smith in the presidential race have adopted a formula all their own. Senator Swanson of Virginia is one of the latest to enunciate it, declaring his allegiance to the Smith-Robinson ticket. This formwa declares for Smith, but against Smith's wet policy. It says that Smith must be elected President. but that his plan to bring about local op- tion permitting those States to go wet which wish to do so must be defeated. These Demo s may satisfy them selves with this stand. but it seems that Gov. Smith has adopted the bolder and the franker course. In politics a leader must be one thing or the other, and the politician who seeks to carry water on both shoulders is likely to take a tumble. ERE ‘The interest in the presidential cam- pail this year is far greater than it | or more in similar campaigns. The people are talking about it. They are discussing the candidates and the issues. In the East there is one issue which predom- inates—the wet and dry. Prohibition has been a fruitful topic of conversa- tion in all kinds of gatherings ever since it was adopted, and if not prohi- bition, home brew and bootleggin, Can Smith modify the dry la W he enforce the prohibition laws if he is elected? These are the questions which are today furnishing topics for hours of conversation and argument. It may be that the tariff and the farm problem, economy and taxation, will be given more consideration later, but to- day the question is liquor. . * ok ox ok The sudden death of Representative Louis A. Frothingham of the fourteenth Massachusetts congressional district has removed from the campaign in the Bay State a powerful Republican figure in that district. At present his district is faced with the problem of picking Mr. Frothingham's ~successor. He would have been renominated and re-elected without, a doubt. A movement was started ‘in the district to send to Con- gress widow. Mrs. Mary Ames Frothingham, But Mrs. Prothingham has put her foot down on it, declaring that she does not wish to be considered for the place. Massachusetts has one woman member of the House of Repre- senfatives, Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers widow of Representative John Ja- cob Rogers, to whose seat she was elected after her husband's death. Mrs. Rogers’ selection to carry on the work for her husband’s district has proved a signal success. No more hard-work- ing and efficient member of the House 15 now on its rolls. Doubtless ‘the suc- cess which has attended the election of Mrs. Rogers to fill the vacancy created by Mr. Rogers' death led in part to the suggestion that Mrs. Frothingham also be sent to Washington to represent a Massachusetts congressional district. It is sald that Mrs. Frothingham was al- ~ays closely identified with her hus- band's public career and has displayed a keen interest in public affairs. With Mrs. Frothingham out of the race, a.number of other candidates for the congressional seat have been sug- gested, among them Allen Lawson of Braintree, formerly a member of the State Leglslature; Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, who commanded the Yankee division at one time in the World War; Richard B. Wigglesworth, former star Harvard foot ball player, and Judge Thomas R. McAnarney. The short term, ending March 4, 1920, and the long term beginning immediately there- after must both be filled, CEE T ) The announcement that Lamotte du Pont, president of E. L. du Pont de Nemours & Co., will support Herbert Hoover against Gov. Smith in the presi- dential race is of no small interest, par ticularly in view of the declaration by his brother, Samuel Pierre du Pout, head of the board of the same company, that he would vote for Smith. The du Pont | following in Delaware, which is consid- | erable, will be split. ‘Lamotte du Pont | grets the stand taken by Mr. Hoover | ainst the repeal of the eighteenth | amendment, but puts business stability | in this country above prohibition as an | issue, and declares that business needs @ Republican national administration here s good reason to believe that, as the campaign progresses, the Republi- cans will come more and more to stress | the fssue of good business and prosper- and so far w le sections of the | y are concerned they are cor- particularly in many of the mill | towns of New England. | R | State treasurer of Wis- consin, has had new honors heaped upon him. He has recently been in- stalled as an Indian chief, the first Jew it 1s said. Probably olitical life in Wisconsin 1 more widely known today than Mr Levitan. He was an ardent supporter of the late Senator La Follette, and transferred his allegiance to Senator Robert M. La Follette, jr, when the senlor La Follette died. Chief Levitan one of the interesting personalities | | Sol Levitan |In the public life today. He began his | career in this country as a peddler with a pack on his shoulders. He tramped all’ over the State of Wisconsin and made many friends. He prospered, and eventually became a banker in Madison, the capital of the State. He wanted to be State treasurer, and the senlor La Follette backed him. Twice he was defeated, but the third time he won, and has been elected several times since then ——eeates. Experience His Teacher. From the Des Molnes Tribune-Oapiial When it hecomes too cold for the 0 T A A , b e il The Democrats deny there is pros- | F ood and ship it to the | waier “has been found to be the best | agent. Q. Why is the air around large waterfalls charged with electricity? —M. E. 8. A. Where drops of water are broken into spray there is a separation of pos- itive from negative electricity. The cent air acquires the latter. A. A medal has been struck by the Bavarian State Mint at Munich in commemoration of the 400th anniver- sary of the birth of the German master. Albert Durer. The Germanic Museum in Nurnberg will distribute these coins in the size of a five-mark piece, silver and gold. The obverse shows the head of Durer, with suitable inscriptions, and the reverse. the coat of arms of Durer and Nurnberg. Q. What is the diameter of Arcturus and of Antares?—A. W. A. A. The diameter of Antares is esti- mated to be about 200.000,000 miles, and of Arcturus about 20,000,000 miles. Q. What symphony did dedicate to Napoleon?—T. A. Beethoven originally irscribed his third symphony to Napoleon. The com- poser regrdpd Napoleon as the cham- pion of human rights.. History records that when Napoleon became Emperor. Beethoven tore the title page from his manuscript and threw it to the ground. Q. How many islands are there in Lake Winnepesaukee?—T. R. H. A. This New Hampshire lake con- tains more than 1,000 islands. . How many sight-saving classes are needed in the United States to pro- water retains the former and the adja- | Q. Please describe the Durer medal. | N. Beethoven | N. extracting air from water?—J. M. A. The Bureau of Standards says that air can be removed from water the simple expedient of bolling, ecially boiling under vacuum. has produced the most silver?—E. A. In the last 500 years Mexico had produced more silver than any other country in the world. Q. W guages? A. The Romance languages are the languages sprung from Latin and bear- ing its impress strongly in vocabulary and grammar. It is usual to speak of seven or eight Romance languages, even though such a division is not al- ways scientifically accurate. These are Rumanian, Romansh (Rhetian, Ladin), Italian, French, Provencal, Spanish and Portuguese, to which may be added Catalan; Franco-Provencal, Sardinian and Dalmatian. Q. At what angle are the blades of an glectric fan set into the fan?—D. A. The Bureau of Standards says that the blade angle at the hub varies within rather wide limits. In a series of measurements it was found to be from 15 to 30 degrees, depending on the make of the fan. Q. What is the purpose of the Gor- | gas Memorial Institute?—W. G. C. A. This institute is planned with the hope that it will be a fitting memorial to one of the greatest sani- tarians the world has known, Gen. Wil- liam C. Gorgas. Its name, Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Pre- ventive Medicine, explains its purpose. The institute, which will be on the | Isthmus of Panama, will make exten- sive laboratory studies of tropical dis- eases. Q. When does the fiscal year end? A. A fiscal vear is the time between one annual time of settlement of bal- ancing of accounts and another. Un- less otherwise specificed the fiscal year regularly ends on December 31. The United States Government's fiscal vear | ends June 30. hich_are the Romance lan- N. E. | | Praised by Brilliant talents are credited to George B. M. Harvey, who died recently “In New Hampshire. His relations with Presidents Wilson and Harding are especially interesting to the public, which recalls the influence he exerted when each of those men was elevated to the highest rank. Some question his iright to the title of a “President maker.” and some regret that, because of the exercise of unusual ability in writing of a sharply critical character, he rejected those lines of constructive work which would have brought su- preme success. “Whatever the cause in which he en- listed his journalistic and forensic pow- ers,” says the New York Sun, “he brought 1t strength and gave it gallant service. To an unusual personal charm which made men like him he added shrewd practical judgment and a gift for enthusiasm.” The Rutland Herald “a first-class publicist” and one who “in fonal diplomacy.” “He made war relentlessly upon the objects of his disfavor, such as Bryan, Roosevelt, Wilson and others,” records the Montgomery Advertiser, “but he was honest and forthright—and bril- lfantly entertaining at all times.” The Detroit Free Press states that “he pricked bubbles, methodically. ruthlessly and conclusively that “he was potent, outstanding member of the forces of common-sense Americanism. “Powerful as & molder of public op} fon,” according to the Flint Daily Journal, “his fleld was publishing, and there he did his greatest work. From the ranks of America’s famous publicists passes & brilliant figure.” The St. Louls Times agrees that “he was a publicist of genuine eminence and possessed vision in political flelds denied to most men.” The New Orleans Tribune pays the tribute: the offical, political and literary chron- icle of his time. He had the rare gift of personality, as well as ability.” . “The public will miss a trenchant pen and a virile, unfettered politiciar who loved nothing better than the task {of ‘stirring the animals up,’™ believ the Jersey City Journal, while the Louts ville Times offers the estimate: “As a writer he was pungent, rough. persist- ent, tremendously energetic, bright and highly productive. when driven by per- sonal feeling. ‘The Manchester Union comments: “Col. Harvey enjoyed con- troversy, He loved a good fight. He NITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today: The Covernment today paid out 156,000,000 for ordinary war expense uking it the largest single dayv's e penditure for these purposes in the Nation's history * * Noyon, the jerman stronghold at the apex of the Ofse-Canal du Nord, has been captured v the French under Gen. Humbert after heavy fighting. Freneh attack was a triple-stroke affair, and in addi- tion to Noyon they force the crossing of the Olse at Mor Beaurains and Quesnoy Wood, north of Noyon. * * * Accompanied by a fleet of tanks and covered by a heavy artil- lery barrage, Americans and French swept forward early today against the German lines and drove them out of Juvigny. Our men crushed machine- gun nests as they swept through cross- fire, and the enemy. under von Schwerin, is desperately trying to hold his ki position north of Solssons. * * * British capture Bapaume and close in on Peronne. From the hills north of the Scarpe, beyond Arra: right away down the line across the old Somme battlefleld, by Ginchy and Guillemont and Morval, the Germar retreating and thelr men are try- | to get away behind guards before they are caught and killed. * * German machine gun- ners and rear guard lines resist flerce- Iy tn order to gain time for an orderly retreat and to permit the removal of huge stores. * * Three hundred and forty-sevell_on today's casualty e L S, thelr rear ' of his native State describes him as| the last decade or two of his life was| active in pational politics and interna- | “He played a large part in | ncourt and capture | ‘Talents of George Harvey Many Admirers | had a vigorous and remarkably exten- | sive vocabulary, a quick-action brain and a rare power of caustic criticism.” “He was a strange mixture,” suggests | the Albany Evening News. “He has been | called a President maker, but he was { hardly that. He did much, of course, to | bring Woodrow Wilson before the coun- | ry. and, no doubt. more than any other one man, he furthered Mr. Wilson's | candidac He had much to do, too, with the selection of President Harding. ! In many ways he was like the small boy who goes to the circus, not to see it but to be part of it, perhaps to feed the animals something that might disagree with them. just to see them cavort.” An appraisal of Mr. Harvey's career | comes from the New York Evening | Post: "He was ever near the larger szures of his time. He moved among | them, talked with them, advised them. | wrote about them. he even created | them. He could make Presidents, but he could never attain that stature himself | The passion for words was too strong upon him. He sacrificed sense to sound. He was essentially a pamphlet- eer; writing was more to him than doing, and, in_ writing, the sense of proportion passed from him. Never- theless, he was-a figure that put color into the texture of our life.” “Perhaps Harvey's greatest contribu- tion to his country,” thinks the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat, “was the lesson of ‘pitiless publicity.’ He used it often and .well. But there were many times when more conservative folk thought that discretion would have been far more appropriate. hence his title of a ‘gadfly.” But Harvey fur- nished much that today is appreciated as real humor.” The Philadelphia Record, rccognizing that “Harvey was a man of unusual ability,” regrets “that h;' 1?hi not make more constructive use of it * ok oo “With his undoubted gifts, he might { have been enrolled among the great men of America.” avers the Roanoke | World-News, with the explanation, “His | bitterness alienated his own' frie.ds and | destroyed what might otherwise have been a highly useful career.” The pringfield Republican obser that ‘his career as & whole gave him all the opportunity for self-expression that he could have desired.” and that “had his immense personal power been matched by equal ponsibility and delicacy in -ts use, he would have been one of the reat American publicists,” but that he had “defects in taste, in sensitiveness and in the quality of generosity ‘Col. Harvey always had a following.” states the Columbus Ohio State Journa with the conclusion that “he was not A great man but he was & mighty smart | one, and at times a very conspicuous one.” The Asheville Times advises Let the flery colonel's h-aesty and | courage be magnified over some of his defects. * * * He had many virtu which a bitter tongue should not doom | to oblivion.” The St. Louis Globe-Dem- ocrat comments, “The public has never been quite sure of the exact estimate to be placed on Harvey's abilities and character, but he was one of the na- | tional dramatis personae of an inter- {esting period, wnd s talented news- | paper man who played an important | part. |, “The Harvey palitical star, which hung high from 1910 to 1 lost some ot its brightness while he was abroad,” judgment of the South Bend ) Tribune, which feels, howéver, that his ! death “removed a colorful personality | one that left a marked fmprint on the | Nation.” That paper also testifies that i “Hi Journalistic Imost universally kind to Col! Har- says the Oklahoma City Okla . "was the fate that directed his but it was cruelly unkind in he will be remembered for his | implacable resentments, when of | his brilliant services shall ha: forgotten. The Dayton Daily News declares | was a star which no astronomer ecould chart. His wind blew whither ft listed, and perhaps that is why, being more eccentrie and miteresting than the aver- age steady-going Amrfiun. he a rather welcome diversion on the Ameri- can political and journalistic ~scene. 0. He was one of the very ablest erican journalists and, by and laige, *