Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1928, Page 8

T HE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D0, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1928. W ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. HE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. " WABHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. September 26, 1925 THEODORE W. NOYES.. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company justness Offc 12th %t and Semmccivania Ate 110 East e2n er finmfl e New York Office Burcpeas Omee, 18 Engtand ity. Rate by Carrier Within the Ci e Evenine Star 45¢ per month e Evenine and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundays) 60c per month The Evenine and Sunday Star Twhen 5 Sundays) b per month | er | The Sunday St A oy ] ‘Coliection made at the #hd of su-h month | Orders may be sent in by mail or telephone | Main 5000 Bate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Vi ia. s1y and Sunday....1 $r.$10.00. 1 mo. &% Fu- oaly . 21 5. 8800 junday only L1y $4.00: Al Other States ul“’ Canada. - nday .1 yr. mo., unday only . 21 yr. $500. | mo.. Member of the Aiweh‘wi Tre-'.m a tated Press is exclusively entitled | BTH;IA!I!!‘:(IUI' republication of all news cis- atches credited to it or net otherwise cred- [ted in this paper and also the incal news published herein Al rizhts of pnblication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. With the advancement of the ;mbllc| building program to the point of start- ing proceedings to condemn another | group of blocks within the Mall-Ave- | nue triangle, the District government’s own necessities demand consideration | and attention. Discussion has already been started at the District Building vegarding the future of the Police De- partment, which must have more room for its proper administration. In this connection it is to be borne in mind that two police units are directly af- fected, the House of Detention, which | has already been ousted from its posi- | tion, and Number One precinct, which | 18 tncluded in one of the squares soon | to bs condemned. In view of the dilemma of the House | of Detention and Women's Bureau, long located together in one of the buildings on the Department of Com- merce site, a determined effort should be made immediately to secure & perma- nent solution of this question of Police Department needs before further em- barrassments arise. A plan is already in contempiation for the removal of the District government headquarters from the present building to a new structure tc be erecied as a central unit of & group located within an area tentatively chosen, lying north of Penn- sylvania avenue, south of Indiana and Louisiana avenues, and between Third and Seventh streets. Within this space is alzo contemplated the erection of buildings to house the Police Depart- ment and other branches of the local administretion. If this plan is adopted and extcuted all troubles will be avert- ed in the future, as the District grows in population and in municipal activi- tes. It will require a number of years to put such a plan into execution. Au- thorization must first be given for the project itself, and lancs must be ac- | qQuired by purchase or condemnation and finally the construction work it- 8elf underteken and completed. This will compass a considerable period of time. Meanwhile, the District govern- ment is growing and without a definite project it will have to be accommo- dated in its growth by makeshift er- rangements such as are even now adopted with difficulty, as in the case of the House of Detention. There was plenty of warning regarding this in- stitution, the removal of which was as- sured frora the day that decision was Teached to put the Department of Com- merce on the “five-square site,” long held by the Government for public | building uses. Yet finally when the time of ouster came nothing had bzen actually *done toward a substitute ac- commodation for this necessary branch | of the Police Department. In the light of this experience the Commissioners should press with the utmost vigor for the final and specific approval by Congress at the coming gession of the plan for a new municipal center, with space enough for all im- mediate and all conceivable needs of the future. The Government itself will probably in time take over the present District Building as part of the public office equipment within the Mall-Avenue triangle. It is archi-| tectyrally in harmony with the group | of projected structures now beginning. It is so located that it is impossible ef expansion. When surrounded by Government offices, as it soon will be, 1t will be isolated from all other muniei- pal activities. This situation should be presented to Congress 2t the coming session in terms that will assuredly lead to action, | specifically for the sake of the over- | erowded municipal departments that are now distressingly congested and scattered and generally in behalfl of the District it should have a local “habitation and a name” in keeping with its importance and dignity. —— o A campaign committee chairman | eften appeers to have something to learn from the station announcer who makes his remarks as brief as possible | in order not to keep the audience wait- ing for the chief attraction. — e — Park Site for Fire Companies. | Assuredly a better site for the loca- | tion of the two Fire Department com- panies No. Three Truck and- No. Bixteen Engine, which are to be forced out of the Mall-Avenue triangle by the Government building work, can be found than one on the public park on Fifteenth street. ommendation that they be piaced on the park has ‘been made by the chief of the depart- ment to the Commissioners and is now being considered by the latter. Such a site, of course, cannot be chosen and secured without the assent of the Gov- erument by act of Congress. That there would be oppesition to the pro- posed emplacement is assured. 1t is, of course, highly desirable that these two fire companies should be es- tablished as near as possible to the large group of public buildings already in being and soon to be erected and to the business area which they in such great measure protect. From the point of view ot proximity to both the public offices and the business establishments the proposed site on the “White Lot” is ideal, save that Engine Company No. Eixteen would by such a location be removed nearly three blocks away | than the park have been considered, both of them west of the White Lot, and the conclusion has been reached that they are too far removed from the high value area. Furthermore, a position south of the Mall has bsen like rejected as even more remote. The problem of the emplacement ol fire companies in the heart of the ciiy is admi:tedly difficuit, but it would hardly scem that the solution lies in putting such instaliations in the park where they would be disfiguringly con- spicuous as the only occupants. In these days of motorized equipment dis- tance i3 mot so vital a factor as in former times when horse power pre- vailed. It may be questioned whether the difference of two or three blocks involved in the location of these com- panies south or west of the reservations would add appreciably to the peril of destruction by fire. Indisn Warfare, If there wrs anything needed to convince the harassed Washington motorist that the Summer of 1928 shattered all records for the accumu- lation of difficulties and troubles in the ordinarily simple act of driving a car, it was given last might by policemen of the sixth precinct, who, in arresting automobilists who ran past an incon- icuous detour sign, demonstrated = gross misconception of duty. From ac- counts of witnesses of the affair it ap- pears that instead of waving traffic aside at the mouth of the detour, which, of course, is the accepted and decent method of handling a situation of this kind, the police reverted to the methods of Indian warfare, and, am- bushing themselves at a point beyond the sign, proceeded to stop eacn motor- ist who inadvertently passed the mark- er and to hand him a ticket which appreised him of his traffic violation. Seventeen hapless Washingtonians out of more than one hundred who were given tickets, posted collaters: lest night at the sixth precinct and doubtless returned to their homes to dream feverishly of dancing detour signs with policemen, dressed as In- dians, descending upon them after emerging from places of concealment behind trees. Washingtonians are fed up with de- tour signs, and especially those which apparently have been placed without rhyme or reason. The scene of last night's police exhibition was at Third street and Massachusetts avenue. The sign was to divert traffic because of sewer construction on Massachusetts avenue. Instead, however, of placing one policeman at the sign courteously {0 wave aside traffi~ seeking to enter the street, three policemen were sta- tioned a block away to nab the un- fortunates who, try as they might, have been unable to make heads or tails out of the street repair program in Wash- ington. The police show, in which Washing- tonians were the unwilling participants, lasted for about three hours. It wes not until representatives of the Amer- ican Automobile Association could get in touch with Inspector Brown of the Trafic Department that the farce | lined up waiting for tickets that it looked as if the firemen-policemen bail game had not yet been held, but of course it would be ridiculous to suppose that policemen would play Indians be- fore that game came off. Unquestionably the motorists who ran : past the marker violated a regulation, but in ell enlightened communities it is the accepted theory that violation: of the regulations should be prevented rather than encouraged. It would ap- pear, therefore, that the police of the sizth precinct who engaged in last night's foray deliberately set a trap for drivers who were the most trivialof of- fenders: against the traffic rules, and that the policemen committed a fa: graver violation than did the motorist. Every motorist who ran past the de- tour sign would have had to stop an< turn around when he reached the con- struction work. The police, therefore, in order to make a few totally unneces- sary arrests fomented congestion and potential accident by allowing drivers to get into the trap. It is such -affairs as these that bring the department into disrepute. —————— Soviet Russia is manufacturing matches. This is a useful commercial activity, better than playing with po- litical fire. e September 26, 1918. This is the tenth anniversary of a day that is outstanding in the history of American arms. . Unlike the anniver- saries of the battles of Cantigny, Cha- teau-Thierry and St. Mihiel, it passes unobserved. But in significance it out- ranks any of them. Cantigny, Chateau- Thierry and St. Mihiel were glorious stages in a period of training American troops for battle. On September 26, 1918, the training period was ended. On that date the First American Army took its piace with the armies of the alliss and struck a blow that foreor- dained the end on November 11. The American troops did not win the war. But it fell to the Americans on this day ten yoars ago to bear the brunt of a concerted drive that did not end until the signing of the armistice. ing nine American divisions—the 77th, 25th. 35th, 91st, 37th, 79th, 4th, 80th and 33¢—Ilay, in the dew of a smoky dawn. stretched across a front line that ran from La Harazce, in the Argonne forest, on the west, to the bushy banks of the Meuse on the east. Behind them 2700 guns were roaring as one and spitiing long streaks of yellow flame. Starting at 11:30 o'clock the night be- fore, these guns had bsen barking at intervals until 2:30 o'clock. Then they commenced a withering fire of destruc- tion aimed at the strongest line of fortifications the Germans ever built— first. the Hindenburg line, comprising acres of tangled barbed wire and rein- forced concrete; the Hagen line and the Volker line. At 5:30 a barrage be- gan to creep forward, and closely fol- lowing it went wave upon wave of Americans. & In the next four days those waves, thinned, and sometimes dashing them- selves to pieces against machine gun and artillery fire, advanced to a depth of twelve kilometers through the strong- est position on the western front and tities of material, including 100 guns. sent to their rear as they went along some 9,000 prisoners and large quan- September 78 until November 11 the | Americans were moving forward. They were held up at times. Divisions were | grabbed from the front and sent back to breathe, while fresh divisions were rushed to take their places and carry on. But the battle of the Meuse-Ar- gonne went forward with unrelenting fury until the armistice. On that day Gen. Pershing and his American Army |had justified themsolves in the sight of the world. On September 2 Gen. Pershing and |Gens. Foch and Petain decided to | striks, with the generel purpose of sev- lcrlnc #n important German artery of | | communications and supply on the | | western front by taking Sedan, and | {then to drive the enemy from the val- | {uable Briey fron basin. The task was {no easy one. The land to be covered contained the tangled forest of the Argonne, almost impenetrable, &nd countless hills, valicys, streams, swamps | and the high banks of the Meuse. The ! territory had been held by the cnemy. | {and fortified strongly, since 1014, It | | was the key to the German system of |defense. The First American Army, which included the 17th French Arm: on the right bank of the Meuse, and | with the 4th French Army on th» Ileft flank of the Americans, were to | turn this key. In the interval of fourteen days be- | {twesn St. Mihiel and the 26th one u(‘y { the outstanding feats of the war was; accomplished. Two huhdred and twenty thousand French troops were moved | out of the area to be occupied by the Americans and six hundred thousand American troops were moved in. This transfer of nearly a million men was iecemplished in cool, rainy weather and under cover of darkness. It was ef- fected without the enemy's knowledge of what was going on. Until the first | {line of defense was crumbled by the | artillery on the morning of the 26th| | ithe German thought an attack was| to, be delivered either as & continuation | lof St. Mihiel or on the east bank of | the Meuse. He was unprepared for the {blow that came—a blow struck ten years ago today, which sent him reel- ing. fighting bravely and courageously, but reeling to the end. - Gangmen send flowers to funerals, promoting them to an extent that| should make the florist’s business one of greater prosperity than that of the | ordinary “dirt” farmer. R e It is made evident by congratulations showersd on Gene Tunney that inter- | est in pugilism does not obscure the fact that “all the world loves a lover.” oo Ben Jonson's good old lyric “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes” is rap- 1dly working its way to the front as a campaign song. A defect in the weapon-carrying laws is made manifest by the fact that mem- bers of society who have least business with guns are able to possess them in greatest abundance. B ‘The pride of Tammany is humbled | could be stopped. At one time, witnesses by its own protest that a “sachem” | | agree, there were so many motorists today wields no more real power than one of thore ancient cigar store Indians. —— Some share of important time is consumed at Gen-va by eminent gentle- men who interrupt proceedings to call for a timetable in order to catch the next train home. R Novelists who have dealt with person- alities have in most cases reversed th fiction is stranger then truth. RPS No community has ever attained per- fection such as to compel a suspension of the ancient custom of finding fauit with the police. B Flying has a fascination of its own which prevents the aviator from heed- ing advice, friendly or professional, that he ought to take a vacation. e S A Democratic speaker when hiring & hall is frankly warned by his opposi- tion to aveid selecting Tammany Hall. R e o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, _Exemplary. They say this thought I can't escape: |My distant forbear was an ape. He dwelt among the trees so tall And never tasted elcohol. On hosses he would never bet. His gals ne'er smoked a cigarette, He kept his babies safe and warm |And shiclded them against the storm. In reverence I'll bow and s-raps, Saluting that Ancestral Ape! Reader's Reward. “You must have derived great benefit from your extensive reading.” “No doubt of it,” answered Senator Sorghum. “I might have been obliged ito suspend several speechmaking tours 'if T had not happened to run across | certain cough-drop advertisehents.” Overwhelming Melody. | O Statesman, we have often heard The village band drown out your word! Ten years ago at 5 o'clock this morn- | Although our hearts with talk you | touch, Your syncopation isn't much! Jud Tunkins says a fairy offers | three wishes, but a candidate promises at least half a dozen. Votes. “You will be called on to register your opinions next November.” “I'm not sure about that,” answered Mr. Meekton. “You have a vote, haven't you?” “My present impression is that while I am theoretically supposed to have one vote, as a matter of fact Henrietta has two.” “He who makes life harder for others,” said Hi Ho, the sage of China- that he has created conditions which make life harder for himself.” Riotous Letters. My Radio! My Radio! My A's and Z's you st In action till I do not know My modern alphabet! “Dar is two kinds o' religion,” said Unclé Eben. “Cne wants to help proverb and succeeded in showing that | | | THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native 2ir In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, ‘Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in Summer yield him shade, In Winter fire. Blest, who can_unconcernedly find Hours, aays and years slide sofu away, In health of body, peace of mind, Quiet by day. Sound sleep by night; study and ease Together mixed; sweet recreation; And innocence which most does please With meditation. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus uniamented let me die, Steal irom the world, and not a Tell where I lie. —Alexander Pope. The above poem, written by the poet at the age of 12 years, while hving Winazor #orcst, expresses a thougiit eld by most pcrsons at some time cr cher in their iives. If it wore not known to have been written in youth, the subject-matter would brand it ior the proauct’on of a young man, for the idea it contains 15 cssenuially immature. Age brings with iv th « the impossipility of any such iayliz existence except for a very few people. Not only Goes th very crowaing of the world preveni it, the aesires of human- ity even more thwart such a wish. Young poets have ever given expres- sion to such cssentially juvenile ideas. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his “Farewell, Crucl World,” called for a renunciation of sidewalks and sireet lights and the superficlal friendships of the city. P The very living of life, however, brought them to the realization thai {here is no gotting away from life except by the coward’s path. One does not have to be a poet to stone e knowledge of | come to the same understanding. Yei the wish will persist, especially &t times, to be able to live and to have no one pay any attention to one. i One of the genuine pleasures of living in a great modern city is simply this, that one may live there free irom thz irammels of the spying of the small towns. who has lived in an average American small town needs no explana- tion; the city-bred man or woman may perhaps be told of the petty brand of compiete knowledge which every one has of every one else. Lest this gossipy knowledge be thought to be & small town character- istic solely, it may be added that indi- | viGual communities in large cities know exacily the same sort of thing. The woman who “just happens” to b2 at the window when something is going on has her city counterperi. As a gencral thing, however, the city does allow one o live his own life, il he minds his own business and does not violate th> police rules and regulations, at least not to any great extent. One of the charms of such a place as Atlantic City, for instance, is that one is “lost in the crowd.” This resort pleasss mest people because it gives almost any temperament what it wants If on=> desires to “show off,” he can do so, provided he has the money, of course. On _the other hand, if the visitor wants to live a monastic life, in line with the precepts of the youthful Pope, he can do that, too. * ok ok Surely every one knows the feeling, if only at times, of desiring to be Ist WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC Herbert Hoover is inundated with campaign advice from well-wishers with guaranteed methods of victory. The counsel that reaches the Republican nominee with the most persistence nowadays is to conduct the same kind of up-and-et-'em fight that Gov.Smith is waging. It emanates from timid souls who think the Democratic candidate’s Western tour is burning up the prairies and that the time has come when Hoover must combat fire with fire. The Californian’s callers find him consist- ently deaf to such appeals. While Hoover is constitutionaliy sensitive to personal attack, he cannot be budged from his determination to ignore it, as far as the campaign is concerned. The G. O. P. standard-bearer is not addict- ed to swagger, and registers none in these critical days of the presidential contest. But he wears the smile that doesn't come off, reveals no outward trace of strain, and conveys the impres- sion that his political fortunes are pros- pering. Hoover and Coolidge hold their press_conferences on the same days— Tuesdays and Fridays—and have ar- ranged non-conflicting hours for them. ‘The confabs arc much of the same type, especially in unprocuctiveness. Like the President, the nominee may not be quoted without special permission. Un- like Coolidge, Hoover doesn't require written questions in sdvance. * K oK X Gov. Smith's big crowds and enthu- siastic receptions in the West are now being compared with the rabble-rousing Wwilliam Jennings Bryan unfailingly achieved during his perennial contests. The comparison comforts Republican leaders. They recall that the Nebras- kan's campaign mobs had an invarable habit of melting away on election day. are considerably different in Smith’s case. Bryan never cut so deep- ly into regular Republican strength, es- pecially among G. O. P. leaders, as the New Yorker is doing in various direc- tions this year. With many influential Republicans like Senators Norris of Ne- braska and Blaine of Wisconsin stub- bornly withholding their. support from the ticket, and with the normally Re- publican Western farm vote split_vide open, Gov. Smith is fortified as Bryan mever was in any of his barren bids for the presidency. * ok ok 1t George Moses, Republican, of New | Hampshire, end Pat Harrison, Demo- | erat, of Mississipp, £5 reported rom New | York, are to mix it up in a joint 1928 campalign debate, the fur will fly. ‘They are beyond all doubt the keenest rough- and-tumble scrappers on their 1espec- tive sides of the Senate aisle. KEach is a master of irony in invective, Hairison has the advantage of a more sonorous voice and knows how to turn it loose in flachy fashion when flailing the oppo- sition. Moses has a genius for cynicism and for crushing, sometimes with merely a phrase, the strongest argument of an antagonist. together in a_ modern version of the Lincoln and Douglas ducl theyll ex- perience a_mutual difficulty, namcly. to “got mad” at each other. Off-stage they are bosom frien like so many opponents on Capitol Hill. * oK k¥ Borah is the radio star of the cam- paign. Hoover is persuasively informa- tive. Smith is _interestingly force- ful. But “Big Bill” really measures up to the average man's idea of what a presidential campaigner ought to be. town, “must not be surprised to find ) The Idahoan has done relatively little broadeasting. He is now in the midst of his first comprehensive experience before the microphone, and is demon- strating that he has radio “it.” Borah's voice booms over the wave lengths with all the eloquent punch that char- acterizes his oratory “in person” on the Senate floor. He's one of the few public speakers who trust themselves to extempore broadcasting, and un- doubtedly that has much to do with his effectiveness. At Tulsa, Okla., this week Borah brought one of his hecklers onto the air by reading aloud a query everybody into Heaven an’ de yuthi - Mrom the businars sentar, Othar sitas Rut that was enly the beginning. From cm:y to :uu semebody out.” ey :::t Oty are ob repuisr thia Bear & are you regular this year, I the two solons Co get| alone, to live and to have no one pay any attention to you. It is the basis of the well known desire of m°n to go camping, after a year of grubbing in an office. It was an ideal, indeed. which the youthful Pope set up for himself, one which he no more followed in after life than most men today could or would follow it. Most msn haven't any pater- nal acres, in the first place. A dairy supplies one's milk, just as other men's wheat fields supply the bread. Clothing comes through no one knows how many evolutions from flocks perhaps thou- sands of miles away. Blest is he, indeed, who can find his days going by to the happy tune of health of body and peace of mind. Only the man of studious disposition will find an ideal in “quiet by day” and “sound sleep at night.” Perhaps few will care to live unseen and unknown altogether. Tt is pleasant to fesl that others recognize one's worth, and that in the solemn end which comes to all men there will be at least a few to lament. Yet one perpetually comes back to the same point. that some portion of this good forgetfuiness wouid be a good thing. Especially is one inclined to feel this way upon being made the unwelcome recipient of Shakespeare speaks heated words upon this bad fault, likening it to the bite of “a serpent’s tooth.” It is unques- tionably true that nothing will make a man more willing to renounce socicty than an overdose of ingratitude, whether it be from man, womam or child. The hurt this vice gives Is a deep one, since it penetrates both the mind and the heart. Intelligence, as well as emotions, are insulted by ingratitude, which, though it may take a thousand forms, is ever and aiways the same in essential characteristics. Because kind- only scorn, men often feel a desire to withdraw {rom society, in an effort to run away from the risk of exposing themselves to the same sort of thing twice. “Never twice in the same place!™ A man is that sort of a fool. Maybe once, but not twice. Then there is such a thing as ennui, simply becoming bored with the sophistications of modern ways of live ing. One even finds it creeping into one’s reading habits. An honest man who has been brought up on what are sometimes called Victorian standards his reading habits to take in books— and this applies particularly to novels— which speak more frankly, which con- sider phases of life only hinted at in novels of the English schools. Such a reader is amazed at his own temerity in “going in" for Guy de Maupassant, only to find him parlor amusement be- side the crude realities of Emile Zola. Suddenly he realizes that these out- spoken books are the sort he always wantad to read, the sort which all peo- ple want to read, simply because they are honest, and the astute man values honesty above every other quality. This ennul with old things, old books, old ‘ways of living, tends to make one wish to withdraw to the paternal acres which, unfortunately, do not exist. Perhaps it is fortunate, after all, that they do not exist, for, as it is, one must “tough it out” in the place where he is. There is no release in the war, as Kiplinz said, in the warfare of life. We must fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer, and all Winter, too. Yet to live so that no one pays any attention to you—that is a worthy dream for idle moments, is it not? OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. Senator, when usually you're irregu- lar?” somebody wanted to know. The Idahoan replied that he was for the regular G. O. P. nominee because Hoo- ver is 50 ideally equipped. i In shelling the Harding-Coolidge edministration record with his heaviest artillery Al Smith is turning his back on the tactics to which John W. Davis adhered in 1924. The Democratic! nominee of that year, it was generally understood, stubbornly declined to drag | Calvin Coolidge into the oil scandals end other nauseous affairs of the same era on the ground that the President could not personally be implicated in them. Gov. Smith insists that the party and the adminisiration to which | | both Coolidge and Hoover belon H cannot dodge responsibility. The Drm‘:l crats found Teapot Dome et al. pretty poor campaign pickings last time. But! their battling 1928 leader approaches them from a different angle. It's just possible that the country’s “reaction” may be different, too. i * k% If President Cooli to Fred- ericksburg, Va., in lgem\fibm Ilun(‘:’h the movement for, a new national park to embrace the ‘adjacent battlefields, he's sure to visit the James Monroe shrine. The little law office in which the author of the Monroe Doctrine once practiced was recently restored by one of his descendants, Laurence Gouver- neur Hoes of Washington. Many mo- | toring patriots stop at Fredericksburg | to inspect it. The other day an oid couple flivvered up, and, being wel- comed by the Virginia lady who func- tions as hostess at the shrine, the fe- m}::eeorx :tr;: s}r:ecle:‘ asked reverentially, “Hav e honor of s Mus, s peaking to Mis * k% % Maud Younger, congressional chair- man of the National Woman's Party, is | its Hoover-and-Curtis campaign man- | eger. She comes naturally by her sun-| port of the California_standard-bearer, being a native of San Francisco. In or-| der to famillarize herself at close range with “the problems of workingwomen, Miss Younger got herself a job as & waltress and eventually became presi- | dent of the San Francisco Waltresses' Union, then the largest in the country. In her day she has run the whole gantlet of the militant feminist move- | ment, having proudly to her credit ar- | rests both for picketing and striking. | Miss Younger is the guardian of the | famous Woman's Party card-index, | which contains the “low-down" on every | Congressman's suffrage record. | * ook ok William Dawson, chief instructor of the Foreign Service School at the State | Department since its establishment in | 1925, has just been promoted to be con- sul-general at Mexico City. More than |2 hundred of our present foreign service | | “career men” in posts all over the worid | have passed through Mr. Dawson's hands. A Minnesotan by birth and holder of a degree from the famous | L'Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques at Paris, he has just completed 20 years in | the foreign service, including many | stations abroad. | (Copyright, B i — Or Shoot Them Down. From the Springfield, Ohio, Sun. ' They are having an argument in Chi- | cago_over how to spell the name of & street, but after they find out the| chances are they won't put up any signs on the corners. —— oo Leave It to Them. From the Nashville Banner. The office Pesqlmm says he doesn't see how people can think up anything sillier than a marathon dance, but feels sure they will. 1928) o - Bright Suggestion. From the Indianapolis News. Perhaps the next time they have a non-stop flight they'll award the prize to the who makes the fewest stops. ;\ ingratitude. | ness is sometimes met with cruelty, be- | cause honest affection sometimes draws | finds himself unconsciously extending | | ho, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota. Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. The prohibition issue cuts both ways and in separate sections of the country in this campaign. The Democrats be- lieve they have the best end of the is- sue in States of the North and East, in ‘Wisconsin and St. Louis, a_Republican stronghold in Missouri. The Republicans, on the other hand, are counting on this issue to aid them in winning the elec- toral votes of the Middle West, the West and the border States, and even some of the States which have always been con- sidered part of the “solid South” and as such safely in the Democratic column. In effect. the issue is endangering Re- publican States of the East and Demo- cratic States to the South. If Gov. { Smith can hold the South in the na- ! tional election—admittedly dry terri- | tory—and add to it the Republican wet ! territory of the North, winning thereby, | the election will mean little on the pro- | hibition issue per se, except that the | wets are strong in the industrial cen- ters of the North and East. and tha other issues were too strong in th South to swing those States away from their Democratic allegiance. ERE ‘The Republican leaders are striving vigorously to put aside the issue of prohibition in some of the Northern and Eastern States and to lay emphasis on prosperity, the tariff, immigration, employment of labor and the like. It is no secret that some of the Repub- licans in New England and other East- . drive of the drys, among them Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant At- torney General, to arouse the Metho- dists 2nd others against Gov. Smith on the wet issue. They sce in her ad- dresses, too, an appeal to church inter- ference in the campaign, and that, too, is making it more difficult, they say, for them to carry th> Northern States. Eeme of these Republican leaders would like very much to have Mrs. Willebrandt ceass her campaigning along the lines she has followed so far. They oint out that the Republican high ommand has no control over the ac- tivities of Senator Heflin of Alabama and L. Straton, for example, but that Mrs. Willebrandt is a part of the Re- publicar: Federal administration and as such might be mflusnced to “pipe down.” But the Republican campaign man- agement ncturally is hesitant about call- ing upon Mrs. Willebrandt to cease her campaigning, which. whatever its effect may be in New England, is likely to make votes in som~ of th> States of the Middle West 2nd the border Siates It appears to be on the cards, how- ever, that the effort will be made to direct the Republican campaign more and more along economic lines, making the tariff again a dominant issue. The protective tariff has won for the Re- publicans in many States of the East in the pest. New Jerscy, Connccticut and New York all have faith in the tariff of the Republicans and have suffered when the Democrats have tinkered with the schedules. * x k% Gov. Smith is to speak tomorrow night in Minnesota in his swing back from Montana. Minnesota has been considered debatable ground, with ‘a farming population aroused in the in- | terest of the McNary-Haugen bill. But | recently the Republicans have taken theart in that State. Reports generally are tha conditions are bettering in that State for the G. O. P. Former Gov. | dent Wilson, is opposing the election of { Gov. Smith and supvorting Hoover. He has no little infltence among the Scandinavian peoples who have settled in Minnesota. It will be remembered that four years ago Minnesota was a hotbed of La Folletteism and was re- garded as likely to go for the late Sen- ator from Wisconsin up to the very enj of the campaign. But election daf found it safely in the Republican - umn, for Coolidge and iwes. _The vote in that election stood finally Cool- idge 420,000, Davis 56,000 and La Fol- lette 339,000. Give the Democratic candidate the entire La Follette vote there, and the Republican still wins, provided he can hold the Coolidge vote. Not all of the La Follette votes in Min- nesota came from the Democratic renks, of course, and not all of them are likely to vote this year for Smith. * X x The Democrats are angling and have been for weeks for the La Folleite vote which was cast in the States of the West. as well as that which went to La Follette in_New Jersey and other States of the East. There were eight States of the West where the La Fol- lette vote, plus the Democratic vote. in 1924, exceeded the vote cast for Presi- dent Coolidge. These States were Ida- Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota and Utah, and all these States gave their elec- toral votes to Coolidge. In Wisconsin, La Follette won. The Democrats are ring that if they can pick up the La Follette vote in these nine States, they can take @ big block of votes away from the Republicans which the Hoover-Curts managers have been counting upon. It does not appear reasonable, how- ever,” that the La Folleite vote can b2 swung in anything like solid measure to the Smith ticket this year. This Is truc for various reasons. One of them is Tammany. Futhermore, when Gov. Smith's campaign management was taken over by John J. Reskob and other big business men came out for him on the prohibition issue, the appeal which he might have made to the progressives, who supported La Follette, was con- siderably lessened. * K ok K It will be remembered also that these States have a Republican habit, and | that_they went for President Harding in 1920, when there was no divided op- | position. Utah, for example, appeais | poor hunting ground for the Demo- cratic national ticket. Utah stuck tc President Taft in 1912 when other Re- publican States fell by the wayside. The reports are to the effect that Utah is lining up strongly for Hoover this year and that Senator King, the Democratic ;nominee for the Senate, may lose to his Republican opponent, whom, by the way, he defeated in 1922 v some 600 votes only. There was no presidentnial campaign on that year. 1f Hoover goes over “big" in Utah, he is likely to carry the senatorial candi- date, Bamburger, along with him. EEE I The Republicans in Colorado, ac- cording to Clarence Hamlin, national commi.teeman, this year, notwithstanding reporis to the contrary. He and his faction re- cently succeeded in nominating their candidate for governor, Attoxscy Gen- eral Boatright, but the party sores have been healed in the interest of the State and national ticket, he says. Colorado is a center of the bes’ sugar indnstry, and the protective tariff is a | issue there. Furthermore, the cat- tle men have staged a comeback in cn!grndu, and the prices of cattle are high. | | * ok kK Senator Borah of Ideho, who has been | trailing Gov. Smith in tac West, after visiting Kentucky and Tennessee, has | reported to headquarters that those | border States appear ripe for Republic- | an picking this year. Senator Borah has a reputatoin for conservative judg- ment when it comes to election predic- tions. * Kk ok K ‘The Republicans in Wisconsin are working hard, according to Alvin P. Kletzsch, State chairman of the Hoo- ver-Curtis Volunteer Clubs of Wiscon- sin. He sets great store on the fact that the Republican State convention, held recently, incorporated in the State platform a strong indorsement of the Hoover-Curtis ticket, the first indorse- ment given a Republican nagional ticket in a Wisconsin Republican State convention in three national elections. Mr. Kletzsch insists that many of the ern States are upset over the continued | John Lind. a Democrat, friend of Presi- | | to be expected ot w | trivial,” and it continues, “The plight are strongly togecher | out. Have we had the pleasure of serving you through our Washington Informa- tion Bureau? Can't we be of some help to you in your daily problems? Our business is to furnish with authoritative information, and we in- vite you to ask us any question of fact in which you are interested. Send your inquiry to The Evening Star In- formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin. director, Washington, D. C. Inclose 2 cents in coin or stamps for return postage. Q. What is the meaning and origin of the expression “Tell it to the Ma- rines"?—C. D. A. It carries the idea that the speaker is incredulous. It is supposed to have originated with seamen who considered Marines landlubbers, and therefore easy to fool. Q. How many big railway stations are there in London?—S. T. A. London is served by 18 great rail- way stations. Q. Why do slorms in West Virginia and Oéflonusueng come from the West? A. The Weather Bureau says that it is becaus> the general drift of the atmospher: in middle latitudes is from the West, and that in turn is owing to two things—the circulation of the at- mosphere between the heated equa- torial and the cooled polar regions, and zholroutlon of the earth from West to East. Q. How many people visit the Pan- gms!r(('ln Building in Washington?— "A.” Approximately 10,000 persons pass through its portals each week. Q. Are tunnels of ancient origin?— . C. A. Tunnels cut through solid rock with the aid of simple hand tools were built by many of the ancient civilized nations, including the Egyptians, Assy- rians, Greeks, Astecs, Peruvians and natives of India. The oldest known tunnels vere used as the entrance to a royal tomb or for religious purposes, but by 500 B.C. the Greeks were using tunnels for mining. Q. Is hydrochloric acid found in the body?—S. P. A. A smell amount of very dilute hydrochloric acid is formed in the stomach and assists in the process of digestion. Q. What was the original name of +Raphael's painting “The School of Athens"?—H. O. A. It was first called “Philosophy.” Q. Who was president of the Louis- fana Purchase Exposition?—B. S. A. David R. Francis, public official !and diplomat, was president of the 1 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1004. Q. What are Tex-Mex?—B. R. A. Texas-born Mexicans sometimes are known locally as “Tex-Mex." . Q. What Cuba?—D. B. A. A central is a sugar mill. Some- times it is called “ingenio.” Q. Do the pits of wild cherries con- tain a_poison?—B. W. A. The pits of wild cherrfes contain traces of prussic asid. They should ‘not b2 used for edible purposes. Q. What is the orfgin of the name Peterwardein?—A. C. T. A. This town and fortress of Jugo- xlavia was once a Rowan fort. The | nis meant by a central in | | mt name means “fortress of ter.” The soldiers for the first Crusades were collected there by Peter the Hermit. The name was given to the place because of this circumstance. Q. How old was Wayne B. Wheeler at the time of his death?—M C. A. Mr. Wheeler was 57 years of age when his death occurred at Battle Creek, Mich. Q. What is the term used to mean “interpretation of dreams"?>—K. B. A. Oneirocritics means the “interpre- tation of dreams:” oneirotechnics is the “analysis of dreams.” Q. Is Al Smith a lawye A. He is not a lawyer, but has wide knowledge of legislative p cedure and legislative history. He was a member of the constitutional con- vyentklon of 1915 of the State of New ork. r?—L. E. T. Q. Was there ever a heavyweight boxing champien who retired unde- feated?—N. H. A. Gene Tunney is the only man who has this record at present. In 1905 James J. Jeffries retired, but re- turned to defend his title against Jack Johnson in 1910. He was defeated by Jack Johnson. Q. How fast can cigarettes be made by machinery?—E. 1. D. A. The editor of the Tobacco Leaf says that the maximum production of cigarettes by machine is at the rate of about 400 per minute. Q. What nations have owned Nas- guil)lar Province, Bahama Islands?>— A. It was founded by the English in the seventeenth century. It was destroyed by the Prench and Spanish in 1703 and rebuilt in 1718. It is still an English possession. . Are many people conveyed in ambulance airplanes>—F. M. A. During the fiscal r 1928 the three Army Air Corps ambulance planes in commission transported 22 patients to hospitals. The distance covered totaled 3755 miles, the flying time, 45 hours, and the time saved, 320 hours 40 minutes. Q. Was Horace Greeley a delegate from New York to the Republican convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln?—A. G. W. A. He was a delegate from Oregon to the 1860 Chicago convention, his own State refusing (o send him. He was influential in bringing about the nomination of Lincoln. Q. Does an ivy vine growing on brick or stone houses loosen the mortar and make the walls damp?>—R. 1. E. A. The American Flower Garden says it does not make a house damp, for there is s a free circulation of air under the leaves: its aerial roots do not weaken walls in spite of a pop- ular notion to the contrary. In fact, the vine strengthens them. Many & ruin in England would have tumbled to the ground vears ago had not the branching tenacious ivy bound together the bricks or stones from which the mortar had crumbled away. Q. Are there as many men u\ll.% the seas now as there were 20 or years ago?—A. F. F. A. At the E:'mnt time there are more men sailing th> seas than there were 20 or 30 years 2go, although there are now fewer sailing vessels is decrease is more than made up by the increased number of steamers | | | Nation Grieves In Wake of While the Nation responds to appeals for assistance in the work of relief and megnnmn for rehabilitation in the path of the tropical hurricane which swept the West Indies and , 1t grieves over the destruction wrought by the storm and wonders whethér such disasters always are tor be accepted as inevitable. “Nothing can curb these tropical hurricanes,” says the Flint Daily Jour- nal. “They are among the th! that must be endured by those who live in | these sections where they prevai The | Rochester Times-Union observes: “It was known many hours in advance that the storm was on its way toward Florida, but that knowledge did not prevent loss of life when buildings were wrecked. If such hurricanes are every few years, it will be necessary to plan to escape their fury, although it will be a hard matter to get a considerable population to take to ‘cyclone cellars’ or their modern equivalents.” “The frequency of these violent storms shows the need of precautionary con- struction,” declares the Albany Evening News, although the Oklahoma City Oklahoman argues: “Man, with all his ingenuity, has never evolved any means of saving his fellows from the lashing whip of the tempest. Perhaps he never will. "All that humane peo‘fle can do {8 to support with generosity the organized forces of charity and reclamation.” Suggesting means of protection, &mw- ever. the Hartford Times says: “The cities need to have thelr wiring in waterproof conduits: they need bufld- ings of cement, brick or stone, or it ood, then “‘lllil h;l"{n censt{uc- tion and small elevation, having cornices, chimneys and roofs which will hold on when the wind is blowing 125 miles an hour, or more. Beach cities must have sea walls, like those of Galveston. When these things are accomplished, which will take time and be en ex- pensive business, the Florida hurricanes will bring no terrors for the people on shore, and developed real estate. agri- cultural or residential, will have high and lasting values.” * ok ok ok Giving attention to both Florida and the West Indles, the Kansas City Post points out that compared with the two storms of this year and 1926 “the carthquakes of southern California are of the West Indian Islands especially is bad, because they have no means of quick overland communication with unaffected regions, their economic re- sources have been destroyed and their facilities for self-aid have been wiped | The St. Louis Times is confident of adeouate measures for relief and re- habilitation. “Tropic elemental fury precious it | apples, each plo* as Over Tragedy Great Hurricane population that lived off_its soil. there was no waste of snace. Eventhe s slopes of the lovely hlls carried burc*ns cf bananas and pine- carefully cultivated the truck g -—-1s the commuter sees from his train.’ . * x % % “No matter how much may be done in the way of acsistance,” according to the Elmira Star-Gazette, “there is fear that economic ruin will be the result in Porto Rico. What was expected to be a prosperous return in fruit. sugar, tobacco and coffee crops is now ex- ted to be nearly failure. ¢ ¢ * use of loss of crops and failure of revenue it is ble that restoration will be most difficult and may not be accomplished before the lapse of years.” “Hurricanes are particularly destruc- tive to coffee plantations, as the growth is comparatively fragile,” the San An- tonio Express explains. ‘“‘Wholesale replanting will be necessary, as in 1829. Citrus trces there also have been broken and blown down as never before; the tobacco has been damaged heavily, and sugar production will be impeded by the destruction of numerous mills.” ‘The Express also states that ‘“Porto Rico's forests are inadequate to supply its own needs of building material under ordinary conditions.” In estimating the destruction, the St. Paul Ploncer Press points out “that “these tropical cyclones are often con- fused with the tornado, peculiar to the United States, much smaller in extent and marked by its black, funnel-shaped cloud which extends downward to the earth’s surface,” and that paper, quoting the statement that the tornado is the “most diminutive and yet the most violent and destructive of all storms,” adds: “But it does not cover the tere ritory of a hurrican», nor does it last for days. The hurricane delivers de- struction wholesale: the tornado handles it in retail lots with dazzling speed.” “This is peculiarly a charge upon the people of the United States,” concludes the Charleston Evening Post. “Porto Rico is an American possession, acquired as a consequence of the war with Spain, and became a permanent part of the American system. It has never had from this country the care and consid- eration to which it should have been entitled. in the opinion of its people, and it has not enjoyed the prosperity which some of its neighbors in the West Indics have had. That is a question of national policy. the justice and wisdom of which are, perhaps, debatable. But the presont strick~n condition of th~ island is a humanitarian consideration.” NITED STATES IN WORLD WAR has stricken little Porto Rico with a visitation from . which recovery will necessarily be tardy.” says the Times. “Porto Rico is our ward. A cry from’ her for help is that of a babe in its; cradle.” I To the Louisville Times it seems that | “the best help the North can gi\'e‘ Florida is to go there as usual when | the Winter season begins. Those who ate, was swept by the storm. | And they will find the State ready, as usual, to receive its Winter guests.” Economic conditions in Porto Rico are described by the Detroit News, which expresses regret that “nearly 30, years of American occupancy of the island have done but little to mitigate | the 1lls of the Porto Ricans as a whole,” and holds that “the heavy death toll in so small an area is in part due to the fact that the people are not properly housed.” “Those who know Porto Rico and | realize what the hurricane did to its| crops will picture the destruction of a ! beautiful garden.” remarks the New ! York Sun. “For in this island, so small in size and relatively so large in the Senator Robert F. Wag- New York, who has re- Badger State. n ', Democrat. La Follette progressives are lining up for Hoover and Curtis, despite the claims of Democratic leaders that the swing is all toward Gov. Smith in the tly returned frem Wiscons | the epposite vie ocratic chances in that State are ex- cellent. d that a section of the State, b Ten Years Ago Today. ‘The 1st American Army attacked this morning bdetween the Meuse and Alsne rivers on a front of 20 miles, smashing through the Hindenburg line for an averege gain of 7 miles. The prisoners counted thus far number 5,000 d 12 ;g_wnal t‘m-e been captured. * The Infantry attack began northward at 5:30 in the morning l?ter three hours of intense eartillery prepara- tion. Despite the stubborn resistance of the crack Prussian Guard, Kansas, Pennsylvania and Missouri troops stormed four towns. Tanks co-oper- ated splendidly, and Yankee airplanes had full supremacy in the air Lok b The Germans were taken by for it is known that they expec th attack on the St. Mihiel sector and had rushed troops there. For many of our l.nen. lt' ";‘u'heh‘r '.fll‘:)tps“ma in battle. ncl ., co-operatin, with the Americans, lu‘:kedwm fl’\'t Champagne front, and at certain points made an advance of 4 miles. ¢ ¢ * Because of an epidemic of Spanish in- fluenza in army camps, Provost Mar- chal Gen. Crowder cancels calls for the entrainment of 142,000 draftees to training camps. * * * Four hun- dr>d and sixtv-two casualtiss are on st published today; 249 killed in ac- lon, 86 dead of wounds, 80 wounded severely and 79 missing.