Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1928, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C persons, each of whom carries with him forever afterward the impression of a horrible tragedy. The thinking portion of the public WEDNESDAY.September 12, 1928 €A s¢e no merit in the first contention. THEODORE W. NOYES....Edltor| The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Business Office 11th St and Penneliania Ave New York Office 110 East 42nd St Chicago Office Tower Ruilding European Office. 14 Rezent St.. London, Encland | Rate by Carrier Within | The Evenine Star ‘The Evening and "when 4 Sundavs s0c per month ‘The Eveping and Sunday Star Tohen 5 Sundasa) 5 the City. 43¢ per month Sunday Star at the end af eaca mcnth Collectinn ma: nt in by mall or telephone Orders may be Main 5000 Eate by Mail—Payabt in Advance. Maryland and Vi i Daily end Sunday Daily onlv Sunda~ only T mo . B3 1 o 30 | 1 mo. 40c L e 00 100 All Other States and Canada. 15181200 1 mo 1vr. 88000 1 1 1. §300. 1 s1.00 | D2 e Eunday only aoc. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press 1s exclusively entit o the use for republicition of all . ews edited to 1t or unt ntherwise cred Ms paper and also the incal .evs 193 All tights of punication of ehes herein are also reserved o Fare Increase and Merger Plan. In helding that if an increass of the fare rate is granted to one of the two transportation companies it must epply to the other the Fublic Utilities Commission merely follows the line of reason. There cannot be two rates of fare in the District for the same qual- | ity and kind of service. To establish | a differential hstween the traction | compg s would be demoralizing and harmfy hurtful to boih compani»s and confush, ; to the public. Tt has been | heretofore definitely established that there must be, for the same character of service, a single rate of far H The fact that only the Capital Trac- tion Co. applied formelly for a fare rate increase did not make it incum- bent upon the commission to consider its claim alo without regard for the wishes or the policies of the other company. If with sceming, perhaps genuine, reluctance the ‘Washingion | Railway & Electric Co. now assents to | | ! by permitting them to perform senseless | i | strietly true that “as goes Maine so | i & poet said ;Avla!lnn. to become a succesz, should n who delights in witnessing injury and death. 1If the attendance is not as great at the conservative flving exhibi- tionz as it would be at hair-raisina maneuvers in the air, it is because the | public is gradvally accepting the air- plane as an evervday affair and this is | a mark of confidence in aviation, rather than a display of lack of interest. The Government is striving to put | fiving upon a sane and sensible basis to | nurry the day when it will unquestion- ably beeome one of the most important | means of transportation throughout the country. It cannot with con- | sistency, therefore. permit its service | airmen to throw obstacles in the way | of an attainment of this desirable era and suicidal maneuvers for the edifica- | tion of a small minority. ot have to appeal either to the thrill | eker or to the morbid-minded person | Echoes From Maine. “Maine means nothing in the na- tional equation.” So declare Demo- | cratic commentators on the result of | the Siate clection there on Monday. | No naiional issues were involved. No | attempt was made by the national Dem- | ocratic organization to canvass uu:“ Siate, or to arouse the voters. The | contest was regarded as purely local, | with no significance outside of the boundaries. Consequently it matters nothing whether the Republican ma- | jority was 30.000. 50,000 or 80,000. And. | furthermore, it is sot forth fn an elab- | orate statistical table that it is net goss the Nation.” This reasoning misses the point of | the quadrennial significance of Maine | as a barometer. The result in the Scptember contest there is a moral | force rather than a direct one. If the | majority there in the Scptember clec- | tion is impressive it stimulates Repub- lican spirits in other States. Repub- | licans who are jubilating now over the outcome of Monday's election find their an order by the commission to become | iation in the effect of a record- & party to the hearing. it merely falls |y ooyine margin upon those elsewhere into the line of logical requirement. | ooi2 % B8 ED S the band. | The public’s interest in this matter 15 not lsssened by the possibility of a It has from the outset been recog- | nized that Gov. Smith's chance of elec- general and inclusive advance in the ' ion d=pends upon a ground swell that fare rate, but s rather heightened. | gy pypm guer a great number of votes That it is opposed to an increase is | { from the Republican to the Demo- evident. Indeed, it would be extraordi- nary if there were any ‘degree of pub- lic assent to an advance in the rate. But it is more to the public's interest now that the rate should not be changed than heretofore,! for there is cratic side. If Maine had gone Repub- lican by only a small margin, with a heavy increase in the Democratic vote and a decrease in the Republican, it would have been regarded as indicative of such a ground swell there and by at present pending a proposition 10|y yeaiion elsewacre. But as a matter | merge the two systems, With a Dro-| i, the Republican vote was normal vision that if and when merger is ef- | " hemoeratic vote was markedly fected the rate of fare prevalent &b\ goq jont There was no sign of a the time s to remain. | ground swell promising a similar phe- | It is obvious that the traction com- |t 0 T b States. panies cannot wait indefinitely for congressional action upon the merger plan. Their right to a rate of farp that | is reasonable and that is required to | yieid a proper profit iz not to be re- gardsd as lessened or negatived by de- lay in decision by Congress. At the game time it is unmistakably the pub- lic view today that while the merger proposal is pending there should be no | chenge in the fare basts, unless it can i be shown that the conditions which govern the fare rate have materially changed since the merger plan was edvanced, to the degree to justify an 2ddition to the income of the corpora- tions. The Public Utilities Commission has | admitted the applying company to the status of a petitioner and has by its | order virtually included the other in the roie. It is now to proceed with a hearing. While it has the Tight within the law to grant a change, if the show- ing of facts justifies, it is assuredly the | courss of equity toward the public’s intersst to withhold decision until the matter can be considered by Congress | in connection with the merger plan. For an sddition to the fare rate now would alter the basis of merger and possibly in & manner to affect the judg- ment of Congress upon the project of amalgamation. i e = | Especial applause is accorded Lind- bergh when he consents to occupy a | deck chair, with a view to the general | good of aviation, instead of following his natural urge to climb into tne pilot’ seat. st An Anomalous Position With one fiver dead and another geriously injured as the result of stunt- ing for the benefit of the thousands of spectators who are attending the 1928 nztional air races and the aeronautical exposition at Mines Field, Los Angeles the United States Government is placed in the anomalous pasition of promulgat- | ing a set of rules for civilian fiyers.! but permitting the airmen of tine Army and Navy to violate these regulations ar | will. In hoth of the crashes which | have cast a gloom over what is the | finest exposition of aircraft and air- | eraft maneuvers ever held. the pilots | were flying in direct contradiction to rules of safety laid down by the De- | partment of Commerce for civilianz, end more or less in violation of the | rules for the services, although other | more fortunate aviators have performed | the same feats during the air meet without reprimand. Lieut. J. J. Williams, who was killed yesterday in a horrible accident in fuil view of B85.000 spectators, was flyinz upside down in his fast ship close to the ground. A sputtering engine, a loss | of speed and the plane hit the earth at 8 hundred and fifty milez an hour Lieut. George Hassellman was hadly injured on Sunday afternoon when h- geraped the wing of his ship on the | ground as he rounded a turn. This | crash was more in the nature of an gccident than was Lieut. Willlams', but | paign. day's voting in the Pine Tree State has | It is now stated that Chairman Ras- kob, who jauntily expressed his sur- | prise that the Republican majority in Maine was not much larger, is planning for a vigorous campaign in that State on the national issues. This would seem to be the result of faulty reasoning. It | would be better to s=rap Maine as hope- | Jess and continue the policy of letting it go its usual way, concentrating ef- forts in other and more promising fields. 1If there is no ground swell in- dication in Maine now it is hardly likely that one can be developed in the remaining eight weeks of the cam- The Republican elation over Mon- | he | a specific value in other areas. The | time is growing short now. After to- day there remain fifty-four days for campaigning, including Sundays. Or- ganization work has just about been completed. In some areas the speakers have not been started out. Schedules have been barely outlined. There are | regions where much speaking is re- | quired to stem the tide of revolt. ““he | course of political wisdom is to concen- trate upon the spots on the map where thare is, first, a substantial chance to win heretofore Republican States, and second, where there is a chance to Inse previously Democratic ones. Maine is out of the reckoning on the first score. But the reverberations of the | fight there are rolling West and South and something must be done to offset them if Gov. Smith is to be elected. ) Radio readjustments will leave the | patient listener-in confused for a while, | as he finds that his favorite stationz have skidded on the dial. He may feel as if a general earthquake had taken place, and later on will be glad to find that his impression was only that of the | fly who thought the universe was upset | every time the wheel on which he rod> turned around. - A Glance at the World. Newspaper headlines may not be yardsticks by which to measure the progress of human endeavor. but the front page of a newspaper at least serves as a porthole through which one may obtain a brief and passing glance | at what is going on in the world. The view is not always obscured by news of the political campaign, and sometimes it is so bright that one is almost led to believe that the sun is about to rise. Then, again. it is not. 1t is noted. for instance, that a Brit- ish scientist brings the news that| sclence is on the verge of a discovery | ¢ which living ceils may be created at will in a laboratory. The cells would e | relatively primitive. not nearly so far advanced as the lowly sponge, but 1t | has been demonstrated time and again that one thing leads to another. and ome of these days one of these cells take notice. At the same time, it is noted that Mavor Mackey of Philadel- phia. who is making valiant efforts to will be learning to talk and sit up and | back to the laboratory through the llnl for the first time accomplishing the i synchronization of radio and television. | What is more wonderful than the dem- | onstration, however, is that the millions | who read of it have a practical under- | THIS AND BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. standing of how it was done—so prac- tical, in fact. that these millions readily | Cold weather brings one thing the vorld loves: visualize the time when this experiment | W FamiRin fle! will have been perfected and conducted | Noxi(q apple. there i probably no time and again in their own homes. It | pie that appeals to the tastes of man- is learned. at the same time. that Chang | kind like the punkin. as it is com- - * monly and_colloquially called. Tsung-chang, the Chinese general, be- | Tl "oy “known gourdiike fruit of fore departing for the front to do a lit-| 5 cycurbitaceous vine (see dictionar;) tle fighting. fondly kissed his twenty- | is a universal favorite with all races. eight wives farewell | The pie probably came from Enc- ” . !land. although the fruit itself has One discovers an ftem of news tucked | pR0 (& OB T o nturies. The old away in a corner. and reads without | prench called it a “pompon.” The visible emotion that a bus company new | Latin in “pepo. peponis.” meaning transports solid citizens across the con- | “Cooked in the sun,” since it is not eaten NESDAY,- SEPTEMBER 12, 1928 THAT Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. The Republicans have drawn r\rst! | fust how to discriminate here. The old- timers will have no difficulty in under- | greatest plurality ever given in a State standing just what we mean. election in that State. Maine is a| | They know that there Is a subtle dif. | strongly Republican State. Every one | terence.” Such a ple has the ring of expected it would g0 Republican, but | authent city. few believed the margin between the [ "It will not break in the middle, if | two candidates for governor would be | frmly grasped between the thumb and |so great. approximately 80.000. The the four fingers, the former on the bot- { outstanding fact in the Maine electio |tom of the crust, the latter ne..uylhnwewr. 1s not that it was carried | ranged along the edge. the Republicans, or even that it was | | "™ This is the only true way to eat pie. |carried by the greatest plurality ever | A ple that will not stand such han-|given 1 a State election. It is that dling Is not & true ple. Berry and other | the Republicans showed their ability to Squshy (not squashy) pics cannot sur- |get their vote out and to the polls. They | vive this test. came out in great numbers. If the The pkin pie. however, comes | Republican organization can perform as | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. This is a special department de- | tested when the Huns and Vandals tinent in five days and fourteen hours and that the first of these transconti- nental bus journeys was completed yes- terday in New York. One also learns that with one set of lawyers jubilant | over the fact that a cafe can be pad- locked by injunction in advance of trial, another set of lawyers hecomes | even more jubilant because a Federal judge decides that twenty-six such re- sorts, so padlocked. cannot be so pad- locked at all, for it is illegal. So the padlocks, which were put on in a blaze | of glory, are taken off in another blaze of glory. The “world do move"—but down. R . Gangsters send flowers to funerals Sentiment is by no means the exclusive privilege of the righteous. Its demon- stration in the ranks of the most reck- less outlawry is proof of: the underlying principle of loyalty and faith that con- stitutes the basic hope on which phi- losophers and statesmen build enter- prises for human benefit There is. as “much that is good in the up and worst. of “moms “Bimetallism™ wes once as disturbing an Influence in public thought as pro- hibition is now. however. did not involve considerations of gang and gun. Neverthcless the new controversy, however fierce, mav be cx- pected to fade as time passes, just As the old oncs have done. A projected airport on the Rockvilie pike is attracting much interest. Flyinz has proved more fascinating tha) trotting races or competitive exhibits of agricdltural achievement. The Rock ville fair may have to look to its laurels. | The affairs of Mr. Hoover will 02 easily manazed if a front porch cam- | paign can produce the same results throughout the country that it did in Maine. R America is ment for world peace out of politics. and intimates an earncst hope that Europe will consent to do the same. 1t will at least be the privilege of Mr. | Dawes to present a farewell address | that may help the United States Senate | to behave itself in the future. ———— As betwecn W. Tudor Gardiner and E. Carl Moran, jr., Maine found it im- practical to attempt any appeal to prejudice against the split family name — R = Maine long ago made a stand on the “wet and dry” issue and thiz year h2s voted az she always did, only more £o0. e SHOOTING STARS. \DER JOHNSON Autumn Epicure. September! September! We gayly remember That you are the month with the ‘Who calls us to roister Once more with the Oyster—- Which, somehow, still lingers afar. BY PHILA With mem'ry repining, We hasten to dining. Each tries to bear up like a man, As hungering praises Hypocrisy raises O'er things that come out of a ean. The reed bird has vanished. The partridge is banished. Of ducks we will soon be bereft. For you, thus belated, We've patiently waited: Friend Oyster, you're all we have left! Better Than Steam Cars. “You appear to be very much inter- ested in air travel.” “I am," answered Senator Sorghum. “For a weary statesman it is ideal. An airplane has no rear platform on which he can be expeeted by villagers along the route to appear and make a specch.” Gratitude in Doubt. The Autumn heat grows worse cach day As mortals go on living. The Old Thermom hints that we may Have to cut out Thanksgiving. Jud Tunkins says the only chance for | melieving all you hear is not to listen to much. Fears. “A man should journey on through life without a fear.” remarked | ready-made philosopher. “He should,” agrecd Mr. Chuggins. “But an hour in traffic is liable to get ! the best of us " “No government is overthrown.” said Hi Ho. the sage of Chinatown. “A new one is erected on the ruins of one that grows weak and topples of its own accord.” True to Form. We hear the glad Teetotal Cry ‘Uplifted once again. A lot of States, we hear, are Dry— And <o is Your Old Maine. “Somebndy has remarked,” said Uncle Eben, “dat de boy is father to de man. Rut dat ain’ no 'scuse foh mos' every pickanniny actin’ so bos r—.ms The currency dispute. | ected to kenp the agrer- | until ripe. . Maybe our modern slang word, “pep.” | came from the same source. Surely ! there is enough “pep” in a pumpkin, as ona must spell it. to sult any one. Our common pumpkins in th country are Cucurbita pepo. whereas Europe varfeties of Cucurbita maxima, the large squashes, are called “pump- ven in America many of the pump- ! pies. | are all sorts of spice pies masquerading | as_pumpkin. We feel sorry for any one who has not caten a_genuine pumpkin pie | punkin pie, if you prefer, as we do. | " Maybe you must be born in a small town or the country to know this glori- | ous pie in the fullness of its inestima- ble appearance and taste. Small-towners can tell the real from | the spurious simply by looking at them. | ! One glance at a pie. and any fellow | from Podunk can tell you whether it lis the real thing or an imitation. * ok k% A real pumpkin ple is stiff. for one | thing, not flabby. as so many of these | city imitations are. A true pumpkin ple may be held in one hand and so eaten. Try that with a spice ple. or a squash | ple, or a sweet ‘tater pie, if you dare! It is difficult for the pumpkin fan to | tell whether the basis of his favorite | dish is the crust or the filler. What he loves about this pie is that it is open-faced. No conk has ever felt the necessity { adorning a pumpkin ple with a me- or with criss-cross strips of | ringue, dough. A pimpkin pie needs no_top! ! 1t faces the world as Nature—with and unashamed. | |the golden pir, the poetic observer is omchow reminded of the old Fnglish poem, that gem of wit and humor: My Love lovely fis. ‘When all her clothes are on, But Beauty's self she is When 211 her clothes are gone. Let lemon pies defraud mankind with a fluff of egg white in a sticky mass, piled on top like a feather mattress. Let various fruit pies peer out at the hungry frem behind their erusty bars. or even repose beneath a solid coat of the same. The pumpkin. queen of ples. charms through it< very simpiicity, as it lies i there in the dish. e As to the color of our pie. it may | range from golden to light tan and even brown, but it must never be of too in- | tense a hus in any of its tones. It Is difficult to tell the uninitiated WASHINGTON : BY ¥ FREDERIC | Although the Republicans have car- iried the Maine State election by a | record-breaking majority, there is one teature of it that is probably disquieting to them, as well as to the Democrats— namely, that the total vote is consider- ably smaller than that of 1924. In that presidential year, Brewster, Republican, IAnd Pattangall. Democrat. pelled be- | tween them 253,907 votes for governor. | Incomplete returns indicate that in this | week's election onty 210:000 Maine men and women went to the polls—a slump | of 43,000-0dd from four years ago. De- ! spite the prodigious G. O. P. effort, just about the same numbsr of Republi‘ans kin pies served up are in reality squasi | Then. as every one knows, there | pui | through with flying colors. | spilis its nor calmly disintegrates. There it something pleasing in the | the Democrats are organizing as they very shape of a weage of pie s0 held | have not been organized for years, may and o consumed. s one views the pointed end of the | lesson of the -Maine campaign to the wedze approaching one’s mouth. there | Republicans, as well as to the Demo- | can be little doub. in his mind that the | crats, is one of organized effort to get Shape was divinely destined for justiout their vote. | such usage. Would God have made slabs of pie in triangular form if He had not intended | them to be caten so? We think not. Surely a piece of pumpkin pie was never meant to be placed sedately in a plate. and eaten with a fork, after t! manner of less meritorious pies. That is one reasor. why we pumpkin is the most natural pi world. * oK Kk 1t may be eaten cither warm or cold. but_ there should be no half-way tem- | perstures. warm or real cold Experts prefer | cold. The natural degree that | from a pantry in Winter is just right. | Then the pumpkin is in exactly that | condition to allow cating | described. The only beverage Al pumpkin pie is cold sweet milk. have heard of peop! It neither well in Massachusetts next November, | tents down one’s shirt front | that State, in which there is now a [ | he | election of Smith will be of no real aid say the and that if he is elected and undertakes | o in the 10 carty out his promise to enforce the Tt should be either quite stead act and the amendment of tie their pumpkin pie!lined in his speech accepting the | ‘comes | nomination. The rest is up to Congress. | in the manner | Side of the issue, and might -influence llowable with , measure the national election wiil ve We | considered a national referendum un | jle drinking hard ' the liquor question, although it is clear strong Smith sentiment and in which | |yet be in the Republican column. The A ke Up in New England. where the wet and dry issue is considered a help to Gov. Smith in his drive for the| | presidency, except in Maine, the Re- | publicans are striving to prove that the | toward getting beer. wine and whisky, | laws strictly, the wets will be no better off_than they are now. | The only thing that Gov. Smith can | | do, if he 15 elected, Is to recommend to Congress the modification of the Vol- eighteenth amendment. as he has out- Smith’s vietory in a Nation-wide fight, | however, would give heart to the wet | {some of the votes in Congress. In a that many dry Democrats will vote for | | blood. They have carried Maine by the | voted to the handling of inquiries. You | flooded the have at your disposal an extensive or- zanization in Washington to serve you in any capacity that relates to in- formation. Write your question. your name and your address clearly, and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for reply. Send to The Evening Star In- formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. Is the demand for airplanes for those in the low-priced or high-priced class?—N. K. A. Using production statistics of 1927 as a basis, the preponderance of civil demand for airplanes is for those in the low-priced class. Of the 1892 new planes built in 1927, 1,083 weve made by manufacturers specializing ‘n under $7,000 planes, 561 in the $7.001- $16.000 class and 248 in the $16.001 and over class, Q. What does P. N A Kokomo™ mean?— A Miami village. thus named after a chief, stood on the site of the present Kokomo, Ind. Q. Why does dance?—L. H. S. A. A waltzing mouse waltzes because the balancing apparatus of the inner ear of the mouse is imperfect, causing the animal to turn constantly in short circles. This defect is strongly fixed and transmitted with regularity to the young. & waltzing mouse Q. Can the weight of ice be deter- mined measuring the size of th2 piece?>—F. E. H. A. The Bureau of Standards savs | that 1 cubic_foot of ice weighs ap- proximately 57 pounds: 30 cubic inches of ice weighs approximately 1 pound. These cquivalents may be used in de- | termining. by measurement. the ap- proximate weight of a piece of ice. Q. How many continents are washed along the shores by the four great oceans?—Y. D. A. America. taken as one continent. | “Kokomo™ means “young grand- | mother.” country?—W. 8. T. A. In a letter to Henry S. Randall of New York. author of ‘the “Life of Jefferson,” dated May 23, 1857. pub- lished in’ the New York Times, March | 24, 1860, he said: “The time will come when New England will be as thickly | peopled as Old England: hundreds of | thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then the in- stitutions of America will fairly be brought to the test. The rich will be robbed to feed the poor. Either some | Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reigns | of government with a strong hand: or your republic will be as fearfully plun- dered and laid waste by barbarians in ! the twentieth century as tne Roman | Empire was in the fifth. with this dif- | ference: that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came | from without and that your Huns and Vandals will within your own country and by your own institutions.” . How long did it take Milton to | wrire “Paradise Lost"? | A. It was composed between the | years 16858 and 1665 and published in | 1667. It was conceived, however, as carly as 1640. Q. When is a river considered navi- gabie?—M. D. A. According to the generally ac- cepted defigition a river is navigable Wwhen in its ordinary state it forms bv itself, or its connection with other waters, a continued highway over which commerce is, or may be. carried on. in | the customary mode in which com- merce is conducted by water. Q. How many people are engaged In the motion picture industry>—E. W. H. A. About 235000 are engaged in pro- duction. distribution and exhibition of pictures. | | Q. Why was the “clipper ship” s ! called?—T. O. RS ; A. The long, overhanging prow and the sharp lines forward gave the nam~ to these ships. | the sid of the cook—made it, unafraid | Looking at the bold. sweet beauty of | | cider with pumpkin pie, but surely they | miss half the treat. Smith and many wet Republicans will No. sir. nothing takes the place of |continue to support Hoover. Every State milk! It goes with the pie. Its taste in the South which Smith carries. for Dlends with the true pumpkin taste. example. will be making use of dry It may as well be said now that this | territory to support the wet idea, and taste is not known to every person. |States in the North and East. if carried Many people think they are eatin: by Hoover, will be the reverse. pumpkin pie when it is only a clever | g, blending of various spices superimposed on a pumpkin basis. Such a fraudulent | Prohibition has had its ups and concoction generally may be detected | downs. in this country for 80 years. by its brown tone. It has, however, been attached now to There are still others who have eaten | the organic law ' of the land, and pies of real pumpkin, but which have | amending the Constitution is no easy not been properly mixed and baked. [ job. There was an era of prohibition Such a ple lacks the genuine taste. |in New England, years ago, a part of | for making the non-poisonous match s Q. What size hat do most men is the only one the shores of which| -, are wasned by the Atlantic, Pacific,| “e2r?—L. L. Arctic and Antarctic Oceans. 1 A. It is cstimated that 25 per eent, | of the hats sold to men are size 675, Q. Who was the man who invented | the poisonless match?—H. B. S, | blond really thicker than A. The man credited with the w. H A. The Public Health Service says that blood iz really thicker than water. ’ proce: Willlam Armstrong Fairburn. Q | Has the octopus a head?—L. A. Q. Is the church at the leper colony A. The Smithsonian Institution says | At Carville. La. Catholic or Protes- that the octopus has a head. Its head | tant?>—B. E. sticks out as if in a cylinder and the A. There is a Catholic Chapel there Since tastes are impossible of descrip- | the country W o ol ot e thIk Junchire) Woi| Loy, coumurys WHICIE e e o today. Maine led | arms make a sort of star-shaped ring around the head. Q What is the Palais Royal>—G. M. A. It is a group of buildings in the | built about 15 years ago. and a Protes- | tant Chapel built about 3 vears ago. | @ What is rottenstone, so often rec- ommended for cleaning and poliching brass and other metals?—L, E. B. cannot tell you how genuine pumvpkin o with the first prohibitory law in | ple tastes, any more than any one else 1849, Maine's lendp was tol{owcd by can describe the difference between the | New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Is flavor of a Stayman Winesap apple and | ¢ it. The last land, and even Connecticut. that of an ordinary Winesap. 1 v Y v 1f you know the genuine, hnwevpr.‘mo States are the’ouly States which i o | have never ratified the eighteenth you know that the taste is not onlv|amendment. But years ago they went indescribable but also 'inimitable. Al gro for a time, In that same dry era the spices of Araby will not vield #t. | New York, Delaware Indiana, Michi- | To know it in its completencss. ane | oan' Tliinois, Iowa and Nebraska, of | must eat a real pumpkin pie. “Like - “ v i moiher used to make~ is & much-mis- | Loois s ol told. went tdry. A e | Rue Richelieu in Paris composed of a | | palace, public gardens, shops. cafes and | restaurants. The palace was built for | Cardinal Richelieu. The Theater Fran- cais and the Theater du Palais Royal A. It is supposed to be a decomposed siliceous limestone and consists essen- tially of aluminum silicate with ear- bonaceous matter. Several localities in Derbyshire, England. and in Wales, are the principal sources. Q. How will the new paper money be put in circulation?—D. A. B. A. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing says that the new paper cur- now form part of the buildings. . What group of people were known “Roundheads™?—G. T. W. A. The name was contemptuously used of the English Puritan or Parlia- | mentarian party in the time of Charles as used phras~, but it holds good of pump- | two of these States later reptaled their | I originating in their fashion of wear- prohibition Hampshire By 1376, only four States had dry ws. Kansas. Vermont, New Hamp- shire and Maine. Rhode Island went dry during the next quarter century, but its period of dryness lasted only three years. Iowa tried-the experi- kin pie. A good pumpkin pie is a secret | between a good pumpkin and a good cook. which they may allow you to j, share if you are good. laws—Vermont and New ment for 10 years and South Dakoia | ing_the hair short, while the Cavaliers i wore flowing locks. Q. How many negroes belong to Masonic lodges?-—A. C. A. According to the statistics pub- lished in the Negro Year Book there are: Royal Arch. 14,000; Knights Tem- rency will be distributed for circula- tion through the usual channels. that is. through the banks of the country. Each bank will turn into the United States Treasury for redemption the old paper currency and will receive in its place the new. Q. What is the present total capital- ization of the telephone industry’— OBSERVATIONS for 7. Prohibition_in_the South was yet to come. But finally the States below ihe Mason and Dixon line turned to pro- | comforted by the recollection that it | hibition for purposes of their own, eco | took three years to et Truman. H. Romic, social and racial. North Caro- | Newberry of Michigan out of the jlina. Georgla, Alabama, Mississippi | trenches, under somewhat simflar cir. ' and Tennessee adopted prohibition in | cumstances. while the Wilson attack on ' the vears from 1907 to 1900, inclusive. | vare has been going on for a mere Alabama gave it up, but West Virginia | trifle of two vears. Mr. Wilson's daugh- | WAs added to the dry ranks. ter and chief political adjutant Agnes | “ 5w is not only running for the House of Representatives from her home district | The outbreak of the World War, 1914, | found only nine States of the Union | in Pennsylvanta, but is in charge of in- el vamens activities. SGor - the | under prohibitory laws. But in the next | Democratic national committee. [EOU yuite 1 (A BACRT MROGY B | P water wagon. The Anti-Saloon League | WILLIAM WILE. | Jlar, | Chronicle of the call by President Calles 12,000: Nobles of the Mystic Shrin: WA W 200; A. A. S. M, 5,712, o s ¥ Gt el L A. ‘The capitalization of all of the Q. What was the statement Macaulay | telephone companies in the United made to the effect that the Govern- | States on June 30 was $3,630,000.000. ment of the United States would be|The total mileage of wire was 59,225.000. Calles Attitude Significant of New Day Dawned in Mexico “Significant of the new day that|powerful figure in the country, does not has dawned.” says the Houston | intend to take advantage of the situa- . “tion to perpetuate himself in power, as To passers-by on_Connecticut avenue it looks as if the District of Columbia and the W. C. T. U, aided by other temperance organizations, were hard at voted for Gardiner on Scptembor 10 as voted for Gov. Brewster in 1924. Some 146,000 fewer Democrats voted for their | | qubernatorial candidate, Moran. this | time than voted for Pattangall in the | | previous presidential year. * % % % were annexing territory of the British Empire, because street-widening oper- ations have done away with the famil- far iron fence in front of King George's embassy and brought the sidewalk right up to its main entrance. No British soil, in fact, has been seized, for the work in all parts of the country to aid {in drying up the Nation. And finally | the eighteenth amendment was put | | through Congress and ratified by the | | States. Some of those ratifying are mak- | |ing the greatest outcry today - against | |it, including New York, New Jersey. of Mexico to all factions to share in control of the government and his plea “that in the important duty of select- ing his successor the Mexican Congress choose, not a soldier but a civilian.” Thus, continues the Texas paper, the retiring President “definitely turns he could very easily do.” and that. “in his opinion, conditions have become so far settled and the country so far paci- ! fied that legitimacy may be recognized | and the constitution permitted to func- tion normally * K K X “President Calles has brought respeet | to himself and strength to his countrr. the ! | There are two distinct angles to the | Maine results apart from the over- | wheiming G. O. P. victors. One is that the get-out-the-vote campaign, though prosecuted with unprecedented does not appear to have achieved much | of anything. Hoover managers made no secret of their desire to roll up an un- paralleled in order that corr> sponding discouragement might over- take the Smith camp in its designs on New England. Yet Gardiner, victorious Republican candidate for governor, with 80,000-0dd majority. is roundly 5,000 behind Coolidge’s presidential ma- | jority in Maine in 1924, The other angle is that Pine Tree State Democrats nominated a dry for governor this year. The alibi is likely to be put forth that when Smith is voted for 10 weeks hence, Maine may give a different and wetter account of itsclf. The national popular | vote for President "1 th: Coolidge-Davis- | La Follette contest reached the record | total of 29.099.131, an Increase of 2.- 1424.960 over 1920. It was the largest year gain ever attained. With wom- en voting. the normal four-year gain | expectation is 1,800.000. When men only voted, it was: 1,000.000. The returns trom Maine make politicians wonder just how effective the 1928 get-out-the-vote drive against political apathy is going to be. * ok ok ¥ President Coolidge enters upon the last six months of his administration with his return to the White House from the Summer vacation in Wiscon- sin. Politicians, th> business world and foreign governments would give a good deal to know whether the Vermonter | intends resting on his laurels or crusad ing in some_direction that will add to them. Will Coolidge press for important | new legislation during the expiring weeks of the Seventieth Congress? Will he aspire to leave office acclaimed by agriculture and put through between now and March-4, 1929, some genuine form of farm relief? Will he advocate a big naval program as the American answer to the Anglo-French agreement? Has he up his sleeve some scheme de- signed to make the country remember Coolidge economy more vividly than ever? Time will tell. * ok ok % Elihu Root's canny refusal whether ne's for Hoover or Smith, ol the ground that he’s “out of poiitics arouses sneculation as to where hi sympathies really lie. The nestor of the G. O. P. is generally accounted a wet. His argument against the unecen- | stitutionality of the eighteenth amend- | ment before the United States Supreme Court is well remembered. Tha! was the time—10 vears ago, more or less— | | 15 feet of commandeered space were ' Illinois and Wisconsin. But the wets from the polic lder day, re- e policy of an Dlder ey, i | avers the Harrisburg Patriot, while the always District property. * ok ok K missed their step in the lasi big dry drive. When prohibition was written | pudiating the point of view which | made Porfirio Diaz all powerful.” vigor, | to say | !into the Constitution it was given a status which, it would appear, only years could change, if ever. There was | Democrats are quietly amused -over the alfference of opinion, bitween M. oover and Secretary Kellogg as_to whether the nnn-uarytrenty T -a Re. M0 _chance for single States to back- publican accomplishment” or not. Hoo- | Siide and become “wet." All of the | ver claimed the other day that it is.ls(lll‘s are tied together in this matter | Kelloge signalized his Teturn o the of prohibition unl three-fourths of United States this week by declaring | them agree to sever the string. Gov.| e Bt A% Demacratie votes are | Smith alone cannot sever this string, | necessary for the treaty's ratification | 8nd the Republicans are emphasizing | I aate. The Secretary of State | this fact in all the so-called wet terri- is naturally anxious to avoid the im- |lOfY. But there are many Republicans | prassion that the pact is a partisan af- | Who will vote for Smith as a protest | if for no other fair. Now comes the Republican nomi- | #8ainst prohibition, i |nee and glorifies it. along with the | reason. Washington armament_conference and the Dawes reparation plan, as a feather in the G. O. P. cap. Democrats are suggesting that Kellogg Is averse to joining other cabinet members n 1928 campaign speeches lest he alienate Sen- ate votes required to cap the climax of the Minnesotan's distinguished carser at the State Department. ok % ox i Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly, lexicographer, | who ' announces that some of Gov. | Smifh's phraseology—*bolony” and “rad- | dio"—is to be immortalized In the dic- | | Sonary. of hew deAnitions mysne gic- | leader, even as potent as & La Follette | Ibert Hoover hasn't coined anything | in Wisconsin, cannot “throw” his entire i with T Hiardiimed AnythINg | vote to another candidate. Beck, the | B e Y-"| La Follette candidate for the Republican | Wilson's “watch- | [l wattma" ands Clevelsmas: - | nomination for governor. was defeated | elandss “innocu- | | " iohler, the Republican “stalwart’ lous desuetude.” The Republican stand- [ara ‘bearer's formor mssoclates. in’ - | candidate. ' It is true that Zimmerman | Department of Commerce recall a phrase | the present governor, who has claimed | yxur:(tpl;z;x; 'hlr})'( worthy of Dr. Vizetel- | ?01}1':;11 P::;m};:lp‘l:d 5 :m::rfl tlfi:‘ {1 on. It was use v Ve . 4 Couple o yenrs. agn yaed by Hoover ® | strength of the Progressives in_their | ‘:-ryimz the ‘intervention of anrnmrml";"“"'-; 'f“; ‘hF' ]fult!flrmmr!nl nomina- n business. He said. “You e ion. But La Follctte failed two vears Chate an economic Jaw with & weliec. [ %0 o put across his candidate for | | man." governor against Zimmerman and the senior Senator La Follette, when he| attempted to defeat former Senator | Lenroot in a race for the Senate by | backing a Progressive candidate, also | failed. There is talk today of the possibility of the La Follette leaders in Wiscon- | sin throwing their support to Gov. Smith in the coming election. Such an attempt would be dangerous politics for La Follette. The senior La Follette always insisted upon remaining within the Republican party until he led an in- dependent ticket for president in 192 How many Republican Progressives La | Follette could carry to the Smith ticket, if he should come out for Smith. is a very serious problem. and if he attempt- ed to swing the State to Smith and failed. it would not add to his political prestige. * & a0 La Follette is still a name with which | to conjure in Wisconsin. Senator Rob- | ert M. La Follette, jr. was swept mto | | renomination for the Senate by a tre- | | mendous plurality. His victory was by | { no means due alone to the popularity | which his distinguished father had and | continues to have in Wisconsin. The | younger La Follette has won in the Senate and in his ow But there was demonstrated again in | Wisconsin's primary the fact thal a (Covyright. ) Not on the Menu. From the Binghamton Press Upstate business man. fust returned | from Gotham, says about the only things | now served in the night clubs are sub- poenas. | 19280 v -ems Spare the Rug. | Prom the San Francisen Chronicle. Sex equality: “My gosh, woman! Use the tray. Don't spill ashes on my office ! rug. - [SSs % Another Think Coming. Fiom the Hamilion Spectator. That British savant who looks for- | ward to the artificial creation of human | | lite will be well advised to get his spec- | tacles adjusted and take another look. .- e Representative Hamilton Fish, jr.. of New York is put forward in some quar- ters as a candidate for the Republican | and d {each sneceeding administrs -| when, paraphrasing a popular sdvertis- | a New the leasers “This dramatic announcement is the more significant and patriotic,” ac- cording to the Chicago Daily New: becaus> of the reasons for his decision which President Calles gave frankly in his address to Congri The welfare and progress of Mexico, said the Presi- dent. demanded sincere and hearty application by all groups of authentic republican principles * * * He apparently has no fear of any formida- ble reactionary movement in Mexico. He seems to be equally confident of the acceptance by the extreme radicals of the regime of constitutional and repre- sentative government. If he has not underestimated the forces of revolu- tion and counter-revolution, his velun- tary renunciation of power will be just- Iy regarded 2s an extraordinarily valu- able service to the cause of liberalism and political progress.” The wording of his purpose would seam to leave no loophole for a change of mind."” observes the Scranton Times. with the comment: “Renunciation of power is most unusual by Latin Ameri- can leaders—in fact, by political leaders anywhere. In Mexico Presidents have generallv held on until death or until they have been expelled.” The Nash- ville Banner also recognizes that “he ouit official life with a convincing and strong declaration.” and that “Mexico thus escapes another very harmful situation, and will be able to proceed along constitutional lines to elect an- other President and turn the govern- ment over to him in an orderlv manner. Calles proved himself oane real patriot erves the enthnsiastic regerd countrymen.” concludes the of his Banner. e “The seeds of self-government are spouting in profusion in sadly man- handled Mexico.” declares the Fort Worth Record-Telegram, while conced- ing that “there will be tares and thistles among the crops for manv presidential elections to come.” and that paper of- fers the judement: “President Calles has set a solendid example. If thines remain normal. he will be a power for neaceful develobment in Mexico and in the opinfons of the nations of the world. If things eet out of hand. we may know by vast performance that | he will not refuse to step into the breanh.” “The election of his suceessor may nrove the turning point,in the historv of the nation.” sugensts the Calimbu ®vening Dispatch with the belisf that “nther nations long have discredited the nronamanda of revalutionary parties. as fon. mut in | office throneh hlondched. nroved the | ntter lack of altrnism on the mart of If Calles is right. and the | Asheville Times italicizes his announce- | ment “that he will serve under his suc- cessor in a subordinate capacity,” and holds that “if his successors will only show similar unselfishness. Mexico can look forward with reasonable confidence to a long era of political tranquillit and to the profitable development of her incomparable resources.” Nevertheless, the Lowell Courier-Citi- | zen expresses its doubts: “He wants the | country to live up to the letter and | spirit of its constitution. That's splen- | did—if the country can do it. We feel | some doubt of this. recognizing the diffi- | culty of sustaining. in Mexico, with its | large percentage of illiteracy and ifs | record for abiding in tolerable stability only when governed by a dictator, a purely constitutional government based | on popular elections As to the change of spirit the Evans- ville Courfer thinks “it is possible that the shocking assassination of President- 3 elect Obregon has had a sobering effect on some selfish groups. and has awak- |ened many Mexicans to a deeper | patriotism_than_they have ever known | before.” The Chattanooga News adds | that “incidentally, the way in which | Mexico went through the crisis caused | by the assassination of the President- elect was a gratifying surprise. No new revolution broke out to disturb our un- happy neighbors across the Rio Grande.” continues the News. “It may be that Mexico has. at last. reached the path of constitutional government | and is able to stick to it. It is greatly to be hoped that such will be the case.” | | UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ago Today Ten Years Early this morning, the First Amer-| jean Army. assisted by certain Frenc! units, but all under the direct command of Gen. Pershing, launched an attac between the Moselle and the Meuse, o a front of between 30 and 37 miles, fo the purpose of wiping out the St. Mihi salient. Precisely at 1 o'clock the Amer] ican heavies unlimbered and not sinc| the battle of Verdun has the Valley the Meuse known such a roar ar umble. Not only did our guns achie the most savage and devastating inte: sity, but their accurary was remarkabl| When the German guns attempted make a silencing retort. it took Americ artillerymen exactly 35 minutes to bl out the enemy’'s counterfire, * ¢ * T attack on the south side of the sa'i~ /) have been engendered 4 1 1 ’ v senatorial nomination. Mr. Fish is both an up-State Republican and a dry. He | was a leader of the dry element at the | State convention two years ago, and made his protest against the nomina- tion of wet candidates and wet plat- ing slogan, York newspaper Faith headlined a front page story, “Beer Hard Pressed. Hires Root." This observer heard in | From the Loulsville Times. Three things that depend entirely Washington this week, on whet pur- | ported to be authority. that Root wrote, llp(;nhfnl}l‘h are love, political statements and hash. s - jor advised. the prohibition amendment was made along a distance 2 mil and that on the w !Pmnsld:rwln.\ r:" front of 8 miles. The Americans reach their first objectives at some points hour ahead of schedule and by 2 o'clo time. actuallv is rine for a rnle of the neanie by the neonk continues the Disnateh, “it suenrs wall for the future of Mexieo. It has become annarent. even far above the border, that theve close-to-the-ground fiying was respon- | disentangle his Police Department from sble in both cases. | the bootlegging business. has asked There are. of course, two schools of | Billy Sunday to come in and heip him Shought on the type of flying that| out by reviving Philadelphia spiritually. Get Them Motor Cycles at Least. | From the Cleveland News. Three more convicts have walked away trom the Ohio Penitentiary should be permitted at a meet of this kind. As one fiyer phrased it at Los Angeles. “You can't stick a flock of airplanes high in the sky and have them fiv along perfectly straight and expect the public to become thrilled.” The other side of the argument is well taken by those who insist that human life 12 valuable, that airplanes are ex- ‘The news also carries the information that two actors, locked up in a room the General Electric Co.s research laboratory at Schenectady, were heard | locked up in another room in the same building. This was accomplished by the simple expedient of transiating the voices and the actions of the performers into electrical impulses which were sent pensive and that the statement that fiying 1= safe i* refuted when avistors meet death 1n full view of thousands of over a ground wire to a redio broad- casting station four miles away, then and watched by a group of spectators | honor farm. You'd think our sym: pathetic State would provide a more modern form of transportation. e i Should Make Them. Prom the Florence (Ala.) Herald. Australia has a compulsory voting law. They should go a step farther and make 'em vote right. g R Wireless Politics at Last. From the Dallas Journal. At last we have wireless/§politics. paragraphs of Gov. Smith’s acceptance speech. * Kk kX One of the welcome recruits to the Smith cause is William B. Wilson of Pennsylvania. former Secretary of Labor and irrepressible contestant for the Vare senatorial seat. “Uncle Billy” 18 a dyed-in-the-wool dry. but evidently thinks that party lovalty is more im- portant than prohibition. The former Wilson cabinet oficer has ne thought of dropping his fight for the Pennsyl- vania senatorship. He 1 probably R | - - | 47 Per Cent Stay Away. From the Toledo Blade. | People want this and that kept out of | politics. So far the only thing kept out of politics Is about 47 per cent of the | Nation’s votes. forms at that time. Mr. Fish has an excellent war record and has served in | the House for a number of years. | Whether the Republicans will agree. | however, to turn to as young a_man this year remains to be seen. There are several other important candidates for the nomination. There seems to be no more doubt about how Michigan will go into the national From the Columbus Dispatch. election than there iz today about But Old Dobbin never failed his' Maine. In the Mlch!f-n primary a few driver when the vehicle was squarely on days ago the Republicans rolled up a ailroad craghing. large number of votes for Gov. Green . ——— 0Old Dobbin Didn"( Stall. is a risino sentiment among the efti- zenry of Mexico for order. and this timent has been reflected in a measure. in the Calles administration.” “The future of Mexico seems brighter than for generations,” states the Lex- ington Leader, it observes that the chief exeentive, “one of the prime lead- ers of the revolution, and the most in. the afternoon had capti fi towns and taken 8,000 prLso':\:'rrse.d' ¥ The recapture of St. Mihiel was effect| on the fourth anniversary of its loss the Germans. All during the war ! salient has been a thorn in the side France and American troops. in an op’ atlon far transcending anything ! our armies have previously attem covered themselves with glos v and hie o) votes cast was almos nent, and the number of the Democratic primary negligible. g S Five hundred and twelve names casualty list released today- 57 killed s, 262 severly wounded and J missing. i