Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1928, Page 8

3 STAR. WASHINGTONX, SEPTEMBER 21. 1928 THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. THE EVEXNING D. €. FRIDAY, T THE EVENING STAR |thousht back to last December, when |otse forget the terror that Cobb in-| With Sunday Morning Edition. Marian Parker was slain, the question spired tn opposing teams‘when he was ! ———————— " — . |arises again as to the kind of justice |in his heyday. Lightning fast on his| WASHINGTON, D. C. |that will permit a man. caught. accused. ‘ feet, a deadly batter. and playing the | 2 | convicted and sentenced for a horrible |game for all ft was worth, Cobb by | Sentember 81, 1038/ - ione o remain alive Tor ey Far | tie!shees mscity/ol s/ Clever fmoves | Editor | Rter its commission. |won for himself a place in the base | | There has never been any doubi of ball world taat can never be filled. | pet {Hickman's guilt. and consequently there | It was no unusual thing for Ty to | against overindulgence in radio. | has been no oceasion for delay in the [steal two bases on two consecutive | NO one would think of sitting at the execution of sontence. In many crimi- | pitched balts, and once. if memory does | MOVicS for six hours every evening |nal cases either doubt or extenuating ‘not fail. he stole second, third and ¢ i PHILOSOPHIES BY GLENN FRANK ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS RY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. I s i | THEODORE W. NOYES. Any reader can get the answer to any Q. What is Belleek porcelain?—T by writing to our_Information | A. C. in Washington, D. C. Thisoffer| A. Tt is an extremely thin ware, dec- to information. The | vrated with a pearly luster laid over the Yesterday I spoke of the existing in-| a solemn warning be issued|When amusements were looked upon as | tensity of race consciousness and the | questior from the devil. post-war instability of the relations be- | Burean Amusements form a large part of twecn the white and colored worlds as| applies strictly modern life, even in the life pnf the | very stubborn facts that must be reck- bureau cannot give advice on legal, | glaze suggesting the interior of shells. ! L i Belleek, Ire- oor. Millions upon millions. of dollars | oned with in safeguarding and sustain- | medical and financial matters. It does It derived its name from Be Bre spent, for e every day ln'i:gdnur civillzation. | not attempt to settle domestic troubles. | land, <‘kere it wi originally made. 1 | | | The Evening Star Newsmaper Company 3 om < 12 ae 110 Eazt 42nd St Chicagn Office Tower Ruilding Europrun Office 18 Revent St.. Londen. Yet thousands of radio enthusiasts esearch on Enzland Rate by Carrier Within the City. r month | Everin: & ar (when 5 Sundi 65¢ per nionth The Sunday Star Collection made Orders may be sen! Main 5000 > end o ea-h mont by mail or telepnone | eircumstances have ben brought for- {home on three piteches. To him 45¢ per month | cure appeals, but in the Hickman affei 5 per copy | PO | ward by counsl for tha accused to se- [ belones the credit for the Invention of he delaved steal. and much of his suc- a shadow of excuse exists for xhr}.—nss in bas® running was attributed to State of California to defer the final this unexpectad play. alty. Such delays certainly give lit-| For the past two tle comfort to parents throughout the | with Connie Mack's Athletics after hav- I not {world who may at any time be forced ing rendered his entire previous base | years he has been | think nothinz at all of misusing their i radio receiving sets in that feshion. | _Even the greatest booklover would not care to read, read. read for half a dozen «solid hours for 364 nights. { | Yet scores of thousands of radio | “fans” still find such an intoxicated istening-in" neerssarv for their com- plete enjoyment of radio. | the year, Sunday included. and millions | ! the light of the facts about the varied | Any subject are made by those busily engaged in supplying this demand. Those who prefer to get their amuse- ment in home, with the aid of mod- ern sciefitific devices, should keep well in mind the one great risk they run. that of “running the thing into the ground. ‘This well known tendency of human We must reckon with these factors in | nor undertake exhaustive r races of the world. What do we now | know about the varied races? Do we know cnough vet to be cocksure? I have read with great care the litera- | is sen direct to the inquirer. Write your question plain- | Iv and briefly. Give full name and ad-| dress and inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. The reply Address | ture in this field and I have been forced ' The Evening Star Information Bureau. to the following conclusions: First, research in the matter of race has been neither extensive enough nor | ton. D. C. A. What was the last golf course laid Q. How much do torpedoes cost? . B. A, The cost of torpedoes depends | upon their size. The price ranges from 510,000 to $15.000 apiece Q. What were tabhy houses?—J. Frederic J. Haskin, director, Washing- | p "¢, A. A tabby was used as a concrete. a substitute for bricks or stone in build- They seem to proceed on the fixed | belief that if their ears are withdrawn th= broadensting station will fall down. Now, no such thing is goinz to happen {at all. because there are so many ; millions listening to radio that it is not I the least bit important whether' any | ing. It was a mixture of lime with shells, gravel or stone in equal pro- portions with an equal amount of water, forming a mass which when drv became hard as rock. beings was exemplified in thousands of | critical enough to justify cocksureness idle phonographs, which their owners | regarding either the equality or the in | “played to death.” There was, and no | equality of the human races. We doubt is, many a good talking machine | simply do not know enough yet to speak standing in a corner of a room. a vase | with scientific certainty. The current or other ornament sitting on its lid. | literature of both the racial swash- buckler and the racial sentimentalist is out by Seth Gaynor?—T. A. W. A. The new Walalae course at Hono- | lulu was the last course laid out by the late Seth Gaynor, noted golf course en- | gineer. 1t has a semi-tropical setting and each hole is a duplicate of some | Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. 1:hmu;'.1 the same tragic experience as ball service to Detroit. Last vear Cobb Marvland and Virzinia | the Parkers. Justice. swift and sure, | played a good many games and proved d Sunday... 1 vr. 51300 #5¢ | in this most conspicuous case, is a para- | that age had not dimmed his batting only R way 1 40c | mount need of the country. FmiAmestiieny ; | R | eve by amassing n perceniage of better C nada. 1 1m 1 mo.. All Other States Drils and Sunday .1 v Daiiv only 1 Sundav onls .. i The Badoer State. The fizht for political control in Wis- | consin has never been more brisk than |it is today. And rarciy within the last 30 yoars has the La Pollette progres aroup been more hardly pressed. Dur- | inz the World War, it is true, the! = | “stalwarts into control. an 00 Member of the Associated Press, The Ascociated Press is exciusivelv titlen to the use tor republication of all news dis- Patches credited 1h 1t OF ot otRerNise cred- fred 10 this paper and also the incal news ° erein All HIEAts Of publieation of * Atches Merein are also roserved AT swung Reappertionment and Election. From time to time since the comple- tion of the census of 1920, while Con- gress has failed to comply with the con- stitutional requircment of reapportion- ment based upen the new decennial 4 enumeration, question has been raised ive grip on the Badger St 2s to the validity of acts of the National | would disintegrate. A real effort w Legislature on the score that it has not | made to prevent the nomination ot his been properly readjusted in numbers to | son, Robert M. La Follette, jr., in 1825 represent the distribution of population | but without success. Again, the stal- among (he Statcs. On the eve of the | WAT'S tried In vain to renominate and election of 1924 this question was raised | o-elect Senator Lenroot in 1926, Sen-| pointedly. masmuch the eloctoral | Ator Blaine. a La Follette governor, de- college tihen was precisely the same sa ted Lenroot, with the aid of Senator ! in 1320, in 1916 and 1912, with 531 | a Foliette, voter. This current election in Novem. But At the same time Senator Blaine ber wiil be on the same basis, thus mak- | ¥9° elecica, e 1A & Glelt: OGN .l,n ing five successive presidential selec- slipped an imporiant cog. They failed tions with the same number of electors, | 10 elect ther candidate for governor despite a large increase in the country’s | °Nd Zimmerman - won. Zimmerman popaiation and a considerable change in | claimed to be an original La Follette, the distribution But he otvry opposed | Viliam Starr Myers, professor of | progressive. ! the orgamzation which the younger| | politics at Princeton University, in an 2 = article in the current North American | EXCIn have sought to maintain since |La Foliette, Biaine and Herman L.| Review, brings up this question anew, | the death of the old Senator. 1t is no and asks whether the election of one of | 3™ | the two candidates by a very small mar- | LAYCW their support to Zimmeiman and gin might not evoke “the possibilities of | 2% "‘_“;'“k“‘;“‘”i‘dk :':“.LT‘ “m"“ o court, congressional, political or even |13} sstback the La S iy Tevolutionary action” on the score of | tion had following the death ol i the unconstitutionality of the chojce, | SCRIOF Semator. He gives an illustration. It is generall s e Mt fE ANRES T asresd, he says, that in order-to win | POSition to proit sull fuither by ine Cov. Smith must carry the following | TUCtion in the ranks of the prog:c: €outhern and border States: Alabama, | They put forward Walter J. Koh! 12 votes; Arkans: 9: Florida, ¢ Successful business man, as their candi- Georgia, 14; Kentucl 13: Louisiana, | date for tne Republican nomination 10; Missouri, 18; Mississippi, 10; North | for gavernor. ‘wsm Zimmerman seek- | Carolina, 12; South Carolina, 9; Okla- | NS ieromination as a pregrissive N homa, 10; Tennessee, 12; Texas, 20; Vir- | Beek, the La Folletie prmz.mnK ] ginia, 12, a total of 167 electoral votes, | didate, dividing the opposition, n\l v If the new apportionment had becn | WaS nominateu. Shrewd politics on the passed by Congress. he proceeds, of | Part of the sialwar.s. e these States Kentucky, Louisiana and | ‘Fie swusans ha.e duriber i Mississippi would each have lost one | their sirengilin the raient Suave con- | electoral vote and Missouri two, while | Vention, and North Carolina and Texas would each | venied the adopiion of the Progressive have gained one, making a net loss of Diatform. While they were eiicclive 0 three electoral votes for Smith. The | «his exicnt, the progr ssives susceeded in | Democratic candidate, he goes on, io | tiecting Herman L. Ekern as chmrmnn‘ win the election must, for an example, | of the Republican Siaie committee. Un- | gain the following: New York., 45;|der the circumstances, Mr. Kehler s/ Massachusetts, 18; New Hampshire, 4; | not relying to a gieat extent upon m:[ Rhode Island. 5; Conn-cticut, 7; New | co-operation of the State committce in | Jersey, 14; Nebraska, £, a total of 101, his campaign for @ection in November, ! cording to the present electoral table. ‘ but is retaining much of the same or- | This would give Smith 263, or two more | ganization with which he won the Re- than the necessary number for election. | publican gubernatorial nomination. But ©Of these States named Connecticut and ! talwarts have a slight majority in New Jersey have each gained one under | the membership of the Siate committee the new apportionment, and ‘Rhode Is- over which Ekern will preside, which land and Nebraska would each have ' makes the situation still more mixed. lost one. still leaving the total 101. But | Scnator La Follette, jr. has been re- subtracting the three votes lost by the | nominated in the Republican primary. Bouthern and border States the Smith | His re-clection seems a foregone conclu- total would be 265 instead of 268, or | sion. He has not only pleased his con- |late Senator La Follette was re-elected o the Senate in 1922 and gained again ! his political sway in the State. With| the death of Senator La Follette in! predictions were made that the, saowa | | told the stor: one sess than the necessary number. Other combinations than those given by Prof. Myers are conceivahle to ef- fect a Smith majority. All of them, however, are subject to the possibility of a shortage on the basis of a new ap- portionment as compared with the hold- over apportionment that prevails, This question did not arise in 1924, when Mr. Coolidge received 382 vo #gainst 136 for Davis and 13 for La Fo lette. It may not arise in this present contest, which may be decided by a similariy overwheiming preponderance one way or the other. But it is, never- less, conceiveble that the election may be close, that the vote of a single Staie may decice if, and that that vote may be in excess, under the standing ratio. of that to which it is entitled under a de- cennial enumeration and constitution- {stituents by the manner in which he | | has conducted himself as Senator in the | 1ast three years, but he has a winning ! name in Wisconsin. The rumpus in Republican State poli- [ tics in Wisconsin has a real bearing this | year on the national ticket in that State. | The progressive “hate” toward the regu- |1ar Republicans burns more intensely than toward mere Democrats. Probably | the progressives would prefer to see a Democratic governor elected rather than | | have Kohler in the statchouse. Senator | | Blaine has already declared that his | | triends will support Smith for Presiden’ | against Hoover. Scnator La Follette, | however, has given no such counsel | | his supporters. He has said nothing in | | support of either Hoover or Smith, and | | the fmpression gains ground that he | oopance How did the large audience | will continue to say nothing. If the ally required reapportionment. There I8 | Democrats should indorse La Follette unquestionably a risk in continuing an | for Senator this year a different situa- electoral system based upon outdated | tion might prevail, and the progressives | figures. | might saek to throw their whole strength | to the Democratic ticket. State and na- There is not much use of attempting | tional. A dangerous game, however, and » “whispering campaign” vith &0 mANY | one that the senior La Follette did not | high-power amplifiers in such excellent | piay. He stuck to the Republican party | working order. | throughout his long carcer, except at b e ‘ the end. when he sought the presidency A Demand for Justice. 25 an independent progressive—not as a | | With one kidnaped boy safe at hom= | Democrat, | with his parents after a harrowing ex- The sole hone of the Democrats for | perience and another found dead fol- | their national ticket in Wisconsin 13, lowing the payment by his father of | progressive support. There have not four thousand dollars for his release, | been enough Democrats in that Staie attention is again turned to this atro- ' in recent years to fill a good sized soup cious method of the underworld to ex- can. The question in the minds of the tort money and to the fact that William most astute progressive leaders. however. | Edward Hickman, the abductor and | may well be whether. having once raised slayer of Marian Parker and the per-|the Democratic party In Wisconsin, petrator of one of histol most re- | they will be able to thrust it back into | yolting erimes, has not paid the | oblivion after it shall have served the penalty for his deed. | purpose ot defeating the Republicans. As long as he lives ten-vear-old Billy | oo Ranieri will have cause to thank his| Some of the rather young policemen | lucky stars for the race feud which | should. perhaps. have the benefit of a saved his life after kidnapers had held | special course of moral instruetion re- him prisoner for thirteen days. His |2arding the perils of a great city. abductors, after demanding sixty thou- - sand dollars’ ransom, were frightened by powerful members of the Sicilian ele- | ment in Chicago into sending him back | lions of base ball fans as “Ty." is to home unharmed. hang up his glove at the end of the Gill Jamiesoe, the son of a wealthy | seasen. Twenty-four years in the game, banker in Honolulu. however, was not [ind ene of its brightest luminaries, Cobb €0 fortunate and came to the same end | has cecided that the time is:ripe for es iittle Marian Parker. The lad's|a well earned vacation. He announced father paid nearly half of the ten-!pjs cecision recently while the Phila- thousand-dollar ransom demanded 8nd | gelphia team. of which he is & mem- was told that his son would be deliv- | per, was playing in Chicago. ereca safe and sound to him. Mr. It is with excceding regret that the Parker. likewise a banker, paid fifteen | arrat Ty's bace ball obituary is written, hundred dollars to young Hickman. All|put 1o the lover of the game it 1S some that both of these fathers received in!consolation to turn back the pages of return was the broken and battered | time for a moment and enjoy again the bodies of their children. thrills that were aroused when this Of these three kidnapings. Hickman | human dynamo of the diamond broke 12 the only one who has been caught and | jonse with one of his characteristic per- found guilty, and inasmuch as any fresh | formances, | » Lidneping case invariabiy turns public Never can g old-time base ball dev- B~ R vet o O, “Ty" to Retire. ‘Tyrus Raymond Cobb, known to mii- | than three hundred and fifty, but this vear with the revamped Philadelphia team. the erstwhiie fircbrand has been forced to wat-h others cavort in his place. Cobb is comfortably off as far as finances are concerned and will be able 1o enjoy his leisure. Rut there will But | be many a fine Spring for years to come | A. C. tub: | that control was temporary. and the| when his ears will crave the sound of | SPeakers. will permit the set owner to bat against ball. In leisure or in busi- ness, however, the goed wishes of mil- | lions of fans are with Tyrus Raymond Cobb of Augusta, Ga. ———— It is reported that Gene Tunney will !insist on a quiet wedding. He is likely | against to have his way about the matter, so long a&s the prospective Mrs. Tunney ~grees with him. He retains enough of his pugilistic prestig> to prevent any publicity-seeking “best man” from try- ing to give him an argument about the matter. .o Queen Mary insists on censoring all fitms shown to the royal family. If she can employ her prestige to set the fash- fon in motion pictures and even in the drama, she may exercice & wholcsome and conservative influence on both sides of the Atlantic. P No point of popularity has been lost by Lindbergh. Recent exhibition flights | prove that in addition to financiers, he can, whenever he chooses, be just as strong a card at a count fair as ever. = ‘oo A political storm center seems only a mild figurative suggestion, when a gen- uine storm of the tornado class assorts self. Theories are interesting and im- | portant, but nature demands hard work and plain practical ides when a real isis comes. —_ ‘v The manner i n which Gov. Al Smith v of his life appealed to his audience. Quick communication has made the world seem smaller with Ok- lahoma, afier all, not so far from the sidewalks of New York. - e Ordinarily persens who insfst on talk- the first time have Pre= | jng sbout the weathsr are regarded es | harimless, though perhaps a little tire- some. The Summer that made the topic consistently disagrce- able. - - Both national indorsement to the kindly old gentle- man who delights to tell a bravely struggling small boy that he may be President of the United States some day. —ees SHOOTING STARS.‘ BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Vocal Relicf. Of course, I'm due to cogitate On all the oratory, And then decide which eandis Can tell the better story. 1 lay aside my coat and vest, And then T loose my collar, And cheer my best with all the rest— Because I Like to Holler! I vow my reason has been reached. My heart is made to flutter By noble things that men preached— ‘The noblest men can utter. To compliment the show I pause. It costs me not a dollar. And my applause is just becauss I Really Like to Holler! have Endurances, “Are you fatigued after your long speech?” “That phase of the matter." swered Senator Sorghum, “is of i1 an- stand it?" Sacrifice for Country. ‘The statesmen all are busy now. They're patriots correct, And for a short time, anyhow, Their goll they must neglect Jud Tunkins says some traveling salesmen send so many post cards back home, he doesn't seé how they get time to sell anything. Replenishment, “Do you find that taking your family to Europe encourages study?” “Undoubtedly,” answered father. “What special sort of study?” “Economy.” the ‘kind “An obstinate man, sage of Chinatown, “instead of con- quering his mistakes tries to make pets of them.” Eloguent Art. Oh, how can I make up my mind, Though talk my brain may smother. No candidates 1 ever find Agreeing with each other. | And so. when all is said and done, | Where naught has been made plainer, |1 make my choice and say which one Sults as an entertainer. “Tryin’ to fool too many people,” said Uncle Eben, “is liable to leave a man | wif nobody to try to fool, ‘ceppin’ his- | sei.” | | R Perfectly Gentlemanly Way. | From the Albany Evening News. | Our idea of the perfect gentleman is | one who, called out of bed at 2 o'clock , in the morning by a wrong number call, | accepts the apology and says, “Don’t mention it."” | — ] Gallery Divides Sentiment. From the Davton Daily News. A golf gallery is a crowd of people where Babby Jones attracts the atten- tion and his opponent n(?nus the A | sympathy, being | t that the sialwaris two years ago, the respected advissr of scientists and [ root of all musical enjoymeni—the closes has | candicates bring strong | Radio is in danger of suffering the same fate, if people do not stop over- | doing il. "Music 15 in no sense an es senual of hving. We say this as one | | who loves music from the bottom of | his heart and has much troubie to pre- | vent himsell from turning on his radio | set whenever possible, | ‘What!” comes the indignant chorus. | “Reirain from turning on my radio hy, to turn it on is what I got | _All right, 1tum it on! Run it from 5| ociock undl midnight! Sit_u er Thus when ones neiehbor wishes to | thas and. feversuiy search for wueoi sleep. it is vory. possible fo force him | town stations! (You won't have to wait to listen to a fine jazx band. a thousand [ more than half an hour for the an- milts 2way. it Is true. but pulled in | nouncer 1o give his call letters.) With so much “pep” that it might as| Do all of (his, but some moaihs later well be there in the living room. | don’t wonder why you have grown tired This column has been speaking | Of your radio. * Overindulgence leads the annoyrnce of the mis. |10 satiety in music as in life. | handled radio set for four years, and | Let the experience of the centuries be | is delizhted to find that the press at | YOur guide! i large is now indulging in a semi- | ‘ camprign egainst the nuisance. i It is true, as one writer to The Star said not long ago. that there is a point in the volume of ‘every snt at which i sounds best. This particular “point may be annoying to others, or it may | Mot. depending upon the construetion of | th> house walls. open windows, one's | eazs and ather factors, ) This phase of the subject, however, muct depend for its remedying upon human nature. in the last anaiysis. It is casy cnough ior any person to de- j termine when he is annoying others— if h> wants to. The trouble seems to be that many do not seem to want to! *oxox o Th> purcly personal phase of the | | matter is more interesting. in some re- speets, since it gets back to ths real | particular one turns on his set or not * ok ok % Intemperance in the use of the radio | not oniy tends to disgust tho hearcr | with music. as a whole, and with par- ticular compesitions. specifically. - but Also it runs the risk of annoying others. Up-to-date radio sets have plenty of power. The latest ircuits, and the new . together with the dynamic { function as a regular orchestra, almost. R Too intensive listening to radio not only tends to disgust one with music, | per se, but especiaily does it Kill one's njoyment ot certain pieces. (We like the word “piece” for a musical com- position. Tnere is some disposition on the part of the supercritical to stop its use, but it is interesting to note that | |many of the great living composers prefer it. And who should know better than they?) Radio stations, hearing cach other's broadcasts, work up veritable manias for ceriain pieces. Some months ago it was the old waltz, “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.” You couldn't tune in a | station anywhere without hearing it. The Tesult was that after listening to it every evening in the week for several | months, even the most ardent admirer | of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” had | no desire ever to hear it again. Later the stations took up Beethoven's | little “Minuet.” Now that is a nice | thing, in a dainty, delicate way. One | might stand to hear it every half year, | or maybe once a month, at a pinch. ! Two or three evenings a week, however, | for three or four months, was much | too much. Every time we hear that | tune, now, we groan. We never want to hear it again. | All music is so. Musical patterns cannot be indulged in repeatedly by one and the same person any more than one can eat beefsteak every night for din- ner and not get tired of beefsteak. There is something in the human | onstitution _which requires constant | change in all matters of art. We demand new books, new paint- ings, new musical compositions. The new ever vies with the great old. Th position of the great old remains se- | cure only through the constant supply of the new, great or otherwize. The old is the standard to which we go back for purposes of comparison. If we compare too much, we run the risk | of being surfeited. | i OBSERVATIONS || FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | listoner, Whiie mostly we listen to music n | | arouss, es i’ the theator, or in the heme, it is a fact that every listener listcns for himself, before oli. | This may seem Lk= a truism, but it is an important one, for no man can n to music with somz one else’s s, . Musical fmpressions are heard through the ears, and depend for their pleasure upon so many factors, in any given case, that it would be futile to attempt to_consider them. What may be said is that in no art is the homely saying more true, that | “too much of anything is bad." It must be remembered that th average home listener of music, and of | rodio music in particular, is not a pro- nal musician. Earning onc's liv- ing at music naturally makes one more receptive. The great majorily of music listeners, iand espeeially of radio listencrs-in. fake {tr music As’ an amusement, as some- { thing to while away the hours. The | | time_ has long gone by in this country WASHINGTO BY | Conceding that Gov. Smith's fortunes , a critical crew, first prize for the snap- have bsen undergoing a bit of a slump | piest epigram of the 1928 campaign is during recent weeks, Democratie leaders i awarded to Senator Joe Robinson, who | believe that the Omaha speech is des- | at Atlanta_on September 19, defined tined to mark a definite turning point | “a Hoover Democrat” as “a Republican for Me better. They are comparing the | who 1s ashamed to admit it.” About present juncture of the camnaign with | the same time the Arkansan was divest- | the corresponding period in the second | ing himself of that wise crack. the Wilson campaign. At the end of Sep- ! Demosthenes of the Senate. Borah of {trmber, 1916, the tide seemed to be Idaho, voiced a sentiment that should | flowing irresistibly in the Republicans’ | escape oblivion. In Detroit, Borah ex- |dircction. Then came ths famous ' claimed: “The Government should not | “O'Leary lett: 2 truculent communi- | sterilize individual initiative, take from | cation to thie President accusing him of | genius the fruits of its adventure, or | pro-ally leanings. Wilson rcjoined that | deny to frugality and industry their | he did not went the support of a “dis- | rightful reward." i again have a business slump. im- ! said Hi Ho, the | | loyalist.” The President’s friends then {and afterward always claimed that the “O'Leary Iotter” swung public opinion around to a degres that spelled Hughes' | doom a few weeks later. Gov. Smith, | his adheren*s contend, has now begun speaking out “in meeting” in the sledge- hammer fashion that makes vote: Oklahoma City speech, t say home the impressions created Omaha blast. rams | y the * k% Contrary to popular expectation, pre hibition is not likely to enliven proceed- {ings at th= forthcoming triennial gen- cral convention of the Episcopal Church at Washington in October. The coun- try has been led to thirk such fireworks were in_sight because of a recent noll of the Episcopal clerey by the Chnurch Temperance Society, which disclosed a considerable wet sentiment. The Ter- nerance Society is an entirely unofficial body. Tt has no connection whatever with th> Episcopal organization. The church apparently is taking no stand on the prohibition issue, pro or con, and no | arrangements whataver have been made to discuss it at the Washington tri- ennial. Not many people know that | the Federal Government. insofar as our | legislative system is concerned. adheres closely to the ancient legislative struc- of the Episcopal Church. The Jat- ter since time immemorial has been overned by a “two-house” system—fhe House of Bishops. carresponding to the Senate. and the Hous2 of Clericals and | Lay Deputies, corresponding to the | House of Representatives. The two | Episcopal honses will ~deliberate in | Washington in separate sessions. as Congress docs. All decisions must be | { concurrent, as on Capitol Hill, to be | I legal. | ¥k Word drifting down from the granite| hills alleges that Vermont is aggrieved and disappointed over the shortness of President Coolidge's visit to his native State this month. It is narrated that | when he notified Gov. Weeks some time ! ago that the visit would take place, the | | President said he would tarry for “a| brief spell.” Vermonters seem to con- sider a two-day sojourn too hrief to be considered any kind of a spell. | * ok % | His officlal biographer and Stanford | University room-mate. Will Irwin, dis- closes that Herbert Hoover at college had to “set himself painfully to perfect the art of expr on.” Trwin dcclares | that Hoover “in English was not a promising pupil.” The Republican nominee’s speech at Newark is being discussed as the highest spot, rhetor- fcally, that Hoover ever touched. To- ward the end of the Jersey address. the Californian perpetrated a phase which might have been inspired by Bryan's | eross-of-gold masterpiece. “Enduring national life.” said Hoover, “cannot b® huilded .upon the bowed and sweating backs of oppressed and embittered men {and_women" Senator Curtis' reply to an Towa heckler on September 19 in- dicates that the G. O. P. second-place | man has a gift for words, too. Probably | nothing the Kansan has ever said— not even his remark about Hoover on | the eve of the Kansas City convention— will be remembered as long as his slam at his Hawkeye interrupter, who was told he was “too damned dumb” to understand Curtis’ answer to his ques- tion. e The stumps of the country are fairly ringing _with inged words, and no| party or soeaker has a monopoly of them. In the Washington press gallery | | Smithsonian Institution and | Nation's * %k %k ok Senator Cole L. Blease, Democrat, of South Carolina, is to have a rival in his prospective contest for renomination in 1930. His name is Dr. D. W. Dan- iels, a professor of Clemson College, an agricultural school in the Palmetto State. He is an orator, scholar and stu- dent of public affairs, who has often been mentioned for gubernatorial hon- ors in South Carolina. Through fre- quent appearances on the chautauqua platform. Dr. Daniels has acquired a big_personal following throughout the Siate. and his friends predict that he can and will give Blease a real run. DA A Washingtonian who evidently be- leves in rational suffrage for the D trict_of Columbia recently submitted the following as his entry for a prize competition in similes: “It's as cheeky | as asking a vesident of Washington to contribute i paign.” t the presidential cam- ot A fair Southerner, Miss Margaret | Banister of Viiginia. a niece of Sen- ator Carter Gl recently mg the editorship of its official bul- n. Miss Bunister does not find it possible to g've her support to Al Smith's presidential candidacy and quit her post in the club as a protest against it. She is a graduate of Sw Briar College and a gifted penwoman with an ancestral penchant for poiitics. The Woman's National Democratic Club. ot which Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is honorary president. and Mrs. Emily Newell Blair (late vice chairman of the Democratic national committee) is president, was not always honeycombed with Smith enthusiasm, but is now in the thick of the fray on the governor's behaif. Its epening function on Sep- tember 20 s graced by the presence of a lady advertised as “a Republican and Episcopalian converted to Gov. (Copyright. r—— Protests Location of The House of Detention To the Editor of The Star To locate the House of Detention at 908 B street southwest would place it o near the Freer Art Gallery, the the Na- tional Museums. The Mall, extending from the Capitol to Arlington, is the lawn. In these the Nation has committed thefr treasures into our keeping. We should not allow sordid scenes about them, but should strive to preserve the beauty of their sur- roundings. Many of the city's most respectable citizens live near the apartment that has been leased. There is not another section_of the city that can show a nicer. finer or preitier group of young women than those that live in that immediate neighborhood. No neigh- borhood can show a group of girls with a larger percentage marked by g‘all'v. intelligence and grace. The is ihemselves. ‘These girls, through their own per- sistence, intelligence and ambition, have won for themselves splendid po- sitions. ‘The District authorities should be proud of such a splendid group of girls and should show it in a different way than that of placing down amid their homes the cn_\'s‘ disheveled, cursing, drunken women. ZACK SPRATT. 1928.) | on the other hand, they may not. They | our power to free ourselves as our fore- | adopt & new set of values—or. rather, caused a | flutter in the Woman's National Demo- | cratic Club, at Washington, by resign- | Commissioners can judge for | i | | | | their | | | the product not of ripe scholarship, but of green scholarshi Sccond. the ecxtreme racialisis hav made a hasty and as yet scientifically unjustificd application of what modern | biology has found out about individual | human beings to whole races. Third. neither our Accumulated | knowledge nor our present technique of research has enabled us to disentangle | the various factors of physical heredity, ! social heritage. climatic infiuence, the | effect of environment and the many other things that unite to determine the status, the characteristics and the civ- flized accomplishments of the various | races of the world. This should cause us to go slow in making cocksure | statements gbout the natural superiority or the natural inferiority of any race. Fourth, we have learned much about | ce character and race mixture, even our knowledge of the causes of racial | character is still inadequate. We have grounds for some very strong assump- tions about race mixture. But our re- search simply has not reached the stage where anybody Is justified in speaking with scientific certainty either about | race character or race mixture. There | are considerations of political and social | harmony that counsel caution in the | indiscriminate cross-breeding of the | radically different races. But as far as accurate biological knowledge of the re- | sults of race mixture is concerned we are still very much in the dark. | The most we can be sure about now ! is that our lack of sure knowledge should lead us to go slow on race mix- tures, not because we know it is always | bad, but bocause we do not know that | it is good. The relation of the racesis the over- | shadowing political problem of the mod- ern world. (Copvriht. McClu rag if Svndicate.) ire Newsvaver ———— | Progress Held Inane Without Old Values| From the Ann Arbor Daily News. The world has been spinning rather rapidly the last few months. Herbert Hoover has predicted the approaching abolition of poverty. Edward A. Filene has announced that we need never The Westinghouse peoplé are preparing to broadcast movies by radio. Henry Ford feels that the universal six-hour work- ing day is not far off. Forty million people have listened to a presidential campaign speech: a German company is about to start transatlantic airship | service, and the American people are buying new automobiles at the rate of | ! 200,000 or more a month. All in all it becomes obvious that we S are moving pretty fast. The times are times in which, as the Psalmist said, | the young men are drcaming dreams and the old men are secing visions. | We are finding new horizons opening | before us, and it isn't to be wondered | at if we sometimes feel that the greatest era in human history is about to dawn. | Yet it is quite possible that we are a | bit too optimistic. | ‘The kingdom of Heaven is within | you" is & very oid plece of advice. It means, obviously, that externals are un- | i hat the real starting place nces, all happiness, lies in our own hearts. We are, for our crass- ness, stupldity and acquisitiveness, es- sentially spiritual beings, and we must seck a spiritual satisfaction. i Now, it may be that the devices of | this machine age will bring us this in- | ternal relcase, Automobiles, labor-sav- | ing devices, short working days, radio, abundant money and all the rest may | free us from the cares of this world and enable us to find within ourselves the pathway to the kingdom that was envisioned so long ago in Judea. But, may make us more earthbound then ever. What earthly good is added leisure if | we use it only to race about more heat- edly than before? If radio movie: only to bring the five-minute kis Greta Garbo and John Gilber! every living room, they will be a doubt- ful boon. Happiness and peace do not depend on gasoline and electricity, and | there were men who managed to lead | rich lives before the invention of the | steam engine. | There are boundless possibilities in this new age, to be sure. It is within fathers never dreamed. But we must we must get back to one of the oldest | sets of values on earth. We must real- | ize that the world, with all that is in it, | is only a stage setting for a great in-; ternal conflict. We must find our king- dom within ourselves. UNITED STATES N WORLD WAR | Ten Years Ago Today. | —— Great enemy activity behind the Hin- denburg line on the St. Mihiel front to- day. Large supply trains are seen on roadas and imerous troop move- menis are observed, indicating a still further strengthening of the German lines in fear of another American at- tack: * ¢ Our overscas Army | now totals 1.750.000 men, including ail | who have gone to France and the! smaller detachments sent to Vladivo- | stok, Archangel, England and Italy. * ¢ Official figures published to- day disclose that the total loss of ship- ping by allied and neutral nations since | the beginning of the war, due to U-| boat ravages, is 21,404,913 tons, more! than 7,000,000 tons in excess of the| tonnage constructed in that same pe- riod. Net loss by submarines is 3.362.- | 038 tons. * * * United States leas the world in shipbuilding, with 386,001 employes. * * * Haig's forces again | break into the Hindenburg line near| Epehy, encountering strong opposition | in the way of determined German coun- terattacks, which were repulsed. Brit- ish continue thei advance in Flanders, capturing a strong point west of | Messines. * ¢+ Serbians gain 9| miles more, liberating 10 villages in| victorious northward march. | Heavy gunfire all along the Italian break the line in the mour.!ains are re- pulsed at all points. * * * Four hun- dred and ninety-cight casualties on | lists published today: 199 killed in action, 143 wounded and 155 missing. e - The Difference. From the Rutland Daily Herald | The optimist observes the silver lining | of clouds; the pessimist looks at his| brake linings. —— e Everpresent Bodyguard. From the Utica Observer-Dispateh. Now if John Coolidge could get his bodyguard to do his work he could get out once in a while to See that girl. e Wrenched Knee Season Opens. | From the Detroit Pree Press The. wrenched knee season has onened at our colleges and universities. | the United States or Europe. e | comb'nation of fameus golf holes em-| that it is not possible for a battieship i near Montrose, Scotland. | that | eraticy, indicate understanding, of the human relation- ' particular hole on a popular course in Tt is & bodving all s of American and con- tinental construction. Q. Is the treaty to renounce war con- | sid-red a party issue?—N. E. A. secretary of State Kellogg says that 't is an international matter of vorld-wide imnortance: that the pro- motion of world peace is an ideal com- mon to all civilization: that it is not the prerogative of any one country or any one grovp within a country. Q. 15 Nomensland the name of a real piace? -R. L. C. A. The name is used in several coun- tries. In South Australia there is a territory of about 80.000 square miles which is so-called. No Mans Land is also .he name of a small island near Marthas Vineyard Q. What proportion of the Army and Navy chaplains are Catholic?>—W. B. N A. About 18 per cent of the chap- Iains i the Army and 20 per cent in the Navy are Catholic. ’ . How many people in the United Stat~s are bitten by snakes each year?— P. A. 1t is estimated that more than 3.000 suffer from snake bite in the course of a year. In May during the mating season and in October when the young appear, snakes are more danger- ous. Q. What are the Montrose Pits? C. E g A." These are deep places in the sea Great num- bers of codfish are caught here. . Can a battleship be sent in to Deiroit?—D. F. D. A. The Bureau of Navigation says | to traverse the Great Lakes as far as Detroit, as the Welland Canal at Buf- falo, the only entranc: to the Great Lakes, is too narrow to aliow the pas- sage of such large vessels. . What repairs have been made to the White House recently?—B. K. A. Last year the old roof. inciuding the ceiling structure of the White House, was replaced -with modern nre- | resisting construction and a third story was added under the roof. The cost was approximately $300,000. This year the Executive Office Building is having a new tin roof, the cost of which is about $3,000. These are the imporiant repafrs to the White House that have been made recently | Q. When food is served in smail dishes, should the food be transferred |'to the piate littie by little, all at once or not at all>—T. H. A. When food is served in individual service dishes it should not be trans- ferred to the plate. Q. Is it true that there is no rac- weed west of the Rocky Mountains? G. B. A. Government authorities have found that the common ragweed is to be found in some parts ot Colorado. Th~ great ragweed is also found in & few sections of the Pacific and Mountam | States. The Western ragweed is so common in some parts of California | that it is an important factor in ha | fever in that State. The most impo: tant hay-fever weeds of the Pacific 2 Mountain States are the wormwood- Hoover Spe;ch at Newark Is Accepted as Challen; A challenge to the Democratic party ships of labor.” in the judgment of from Herbert Hoover, Republican can- didate for President, in his speech at Newark. N. J.. has been accepted by his | opponents. His assertion of the in- fluence of the administration at Wash- | ington in the advancement of the coun- try in business and labor conditions, since the World War, has immediately become a subject of debate between the two major parties. ‘The candidate’s discussion of Amer- fcan achievements in the past seven ars is supplemented by the New York vening Post (independent), with the atement: “The Department of Com- merce has had a share in these mighty accomplishments, which Mr. Hoover has never dramatized, and to which he referred but modestly. Labor has done its share, far-sighted employers have done their part. But all have been brought together and led forward, step by step, by the man who broughi to the department of business the same breadth of experience and vision which Mr. Mellon brought to the department of finance.” “The goal Mr. Hoover presents is cne we are all for. It is an ideal, almost utoplan in some aspects,” says the Newark Evening News (independent) of the speaker’s economic program, but it conciudes: *“There is nothing radi { cal and not much that is controversial in. Mr. Hoover's presentment of these views, He has shown himself a sound thinker, well able to make a good. con- ventional speech in suppori of that good old friend of the Republican party, the full dinner pail.” o e “He definitely set forth.” according to the Los Angeles Times (Republicun), “the most vital question that confronts the American people—whether pros- perity and general well-being shall con- tinue, develop and expand under the guidance of the same forces which have wrought the achievements of the last seven years.” Observing the great de- tail in which he considered “the rel: fons of labor to general prosperity,’ the Des Moines Tribune-Capital in- dependent Republican) advises that “those who read the speech will dis- cover how thorough he can be in his | consideration of the great problems.” “He argues with inescapable force for skilled leaderskip. in order to main- tain the comfortable environment which the workingmen and workingwomen | enjoy in the United States today,” | states the Providence Journal (inde- | vendent), with the added tribute: “He is incomparably the leader for Ame | iran labor to follow.” The San Fran- | isco Chronicle (independent) feels that | “he has given us an issue that is vital and compelling—the issue of bread and butter.” | Of Mr. Hoover’s sympathy for labor,” in the judgment of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin (independent Repub- lican), “there is no doubt. Of his prac- tical capacity to help labor. his native genius and the acquirement of a long and varied experience there is ample demonstratio) The Uniontown Herzid (Republican) declares that “he sounds the clarion call to the workers of the industrial East.” and the Fort Wayne Ne: Sentinel (Republican) argues full employment depends not only upon a strong and progressive economir system, but also upon the sound policics of and the vigorous co-operation b the Sovernment The New York Telegram (independent) predicts that “the speech will live as a treatise on liberal and forward-looking economies long after the end of the political cam- paign that brought it forth.” E “Mr. Hoover macge an excellent ad- ress,” agrees the Philadelphia Record (independent Democratic), but that pa- | per, while conceding that “it kept on a h plane,” describes it as “franklv partisan,” and continues® “We could not reasonably expect him to point out that there are Democrats as well as Republicans who wish to make the country prosperous, who are in sub- stantial agreement with him as to the means of doing it, and who can he trusted to supply certain deficiencies in administrative talent which have lately | front, but attempts by the Austrians to | been rather conspicucus at Washing ton.” “The oft-exploded myth of Repub- lican ‘prosperity' " is denounced by the Dayton Daily News (independent Demo- while the Louisville Courier- Journal (independent) sees Mr. Hoover in the role “of a thoroughly orthodox. thick-and-thin Republican partisan.” The Milwaukee Journal (independent) argues that “if party government has caused prosperity. it hee <till to wer to those who are not ~' ‘sperous,” and | also that “on the claim that this party | is the creator and guardian of pros- perity he is too plainly trying to hum- bug himself to be convincing.” Of the gains enumerated the San Antonio have accrued regardless of anything the Government at Washington might have done.” % “There is nothing in the address fo the. slightest svmpathetic New York Evening World ¢indep~ ent), while the Fort Worth Star-Te gram (independent Democratic ply- | ing & similar test to Mr. Hoover's at- | titude, states: “With his customar® precision he has disposed of the lab~: | bhase of the campaign. He likely wil | not refer to labor again in the cam | paign, unless he is forced to do .~ * * * Yet, al the tisk of his displea+ ure, many hard-minded workeis will b disposed to ask a few questions.” The respective attitudes of the ris | eandidates, as revealed this week, in- | spires the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Re- | publican) to remark: “The plans of | both candidates promise a real discus- sion of the issues by the principals. Thet is campaigning at its best.” The Spring- | field Republican (independent) finds in the Hoover speech that “partisanship in economic discussion is reduced to a | minimum.” elthough “he open=d his ad- dress with a statement highly colored with partisanship.” That paper empha- izes certain points with the declaratiol | “The Republican party does not prom: the abolition of poverty. Nor does Mr. | Hoover. It is simply worth noting that | in the year of our Lord 1928 and in th~ | 153d year of our independence. a Re- | publican candidate for the presidency | has the vision of it.” | Less enthusiastic is the thought of the | New York Times (independent): “And | in this year of topsy-turvy politics, noth- |ing is ‘more probable than that thou- sands of people will go into a kind of rapture over Mr. Hoover's display of sta- tistical and economic authority and d | clare that it shows him to be just the | man we need at the head of the great- | est business government in the world.” | The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch (inde- | pendent Democratic) points to subjects omitted from tI peech, with emphasis upon merchant marine and prohibition. The Raleigh News and Observer | (Democratic) says: “He goes ahead as if there were no unemployment in | America, ‘though y else knows there are In the neighborhood of three million workingmen looking in vain for ‘full and stable employment.'” The | Baltimore Evening Sun (independent | Democratic) cenies the aceuracy of Mr. | Hoover's figures on unemployment. * R R Commendation of Mr. Hoover's views in favor of immigration restriction is given by th> Oklahoma City Times (in- dependent) and Cincinnati Times-Star (Republican). The Kansas City Jour- nal-Post (independent Republican) in- dorses the joining of this policy with tariff protection and reduction of s sonal unemployment as ‘“outstanding benefits to labor.” The plea that national wisdom is np- posed to a change in administrative pol- icies is extensively discussed. The In- dianapolis News (independent) recog- nizes that “the man spoke the truth as he saw it in the simplest and most un- oratorical way.” and that “his plea wa: the old one of ‘leave wel enough alone’, while the Springfield Union (Repub- lican) contends that the voters “are de- termined that the basis of their present standard of living shall not be de- stroved.” The New York Sun (independsnt) hails a “dignified apoeal to the very hu- man belief that tihe material things of life are too valuable to risk through a change in political management” and the Jersey City Journal (Republican independent) on this point sees “a tauk to every man or woman who earns hi: or her daily bread. and to every man or woman who would continue the pros- perity this country i§ now enjoying.’ | while the Rochester " Demociat and Chronicle (Republican) ~ advises: | change of administration would invalve changes in policy. and from any sanc standpoint would be a hazardons experi ment for business. industry and labo:." The Hartford Courant | Republican) says: “We have travele far, and we shall go much farther | we have the good sense to continue th policies that have made for prosperii | and stability.” Challenging this position, the lyn Eagle (independent) insists speech will doubtless serve the purpos of campaign which. if the premises o Republican wisdom “and achievemen are admitted. runs to the inevitab' | conclusion that there musc never be | change in the control of national af | fairs.” | The Chicago Daily News (indepened |ent) is critical on the theory of for elgn trade, stating: “Mr. Hoover ha yet to reeoncile his advocacy of hig’ | protection and effective prevention ¢ | foreign competition with his equall | fervent advocacy and his past assidu |ous cultivation of foreign trade. It i | to be hoped that he will devote an ad dress to the subject of trade balances visible and invisible, means of gettin: payment for the country's growing ex ports, and the relation of high protec- tion to foreign commerce.” Holding that Mr. Hoover “believes ir (independen Brook 2T Express (independent Democratic) be- | the strong.” the Gharlest s ant Jieves that “most of these benefits would | Courier (Demooradie; offers the jude. ment: “He thinks that the great and noble. the masters of finance and in- dustry. will take benevolent care of so long as the Governmen® e and enforce laws giving to them power and privileges.”