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8. . THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1928 *_—__—___M—_———‘_——'———_‘_—b_——___—___————————————#— I THE EVENI With Sunday Morning Edition. WABHINGTON, D. C. tion's prosperity has been due to no particular Republican poiicies or per- formances and that there will bs no WEDNESDAY . .. .October 3, 1928 slackening of good times under Demo- THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company B usine=s OM-»: 11th St and nnsylvania Ave, Fazt 47nd 8t awer Buildine New Vork Ofee FTene B Londen, and Chirago Office European Ofce 14 Enxl he City. Rate by Carrier Within S per month The Pvenine Star i Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundave) and Stndar Star nnfayss nth 2 ion made pt the snd af rach manty Orders may be sent in by mail or telenhone Main 5000 Rate by Mail—Payahle in Advance. Marviand and Virginia. Taits prd Sundas. 1 ST.RAMT Mo Dailr onl REON: 1 Mo Eunduy only $1.00. 1 mo. 40c £5¢ per mo 5c oer o a5 1 s i 1w All Other States and Canada. Daily and Sunday..] yr..$1280 1 ma. g1.00 Dailr oniv 1vr. seoa 1 mo. 35 Sunday only 1 5. $500: 1 mo. 30c Member of the Assaciated Pres The Associnte Pre:c e elvsively R LT Tl i O e £reAen 1n 1t Ar Mot T BT thie Daper amd Al *he acal revs N D™ TAl] Timhts oF wnbli-atinn o Abecial ditpatches herein are also reserved —_———— Vermont Granite. Europe's latest attempt to inveigle the United States into a reconsideration of the $10.000,000,000 of war debts due this country has crashed into Vermont gran- ite. President Cooiidge announces with an incistveness and decisivensss that brook no misunderstanding that the debts are “a closed incident.” They are, of course, not “closed” in the sense that they have been paid, but Mr. Coolidg® proclaims they are “closed™ in so far as any reopening of their set- tiement terms is concerned. During the years 1823, 1924, 1925 and 1026 the United States concluded funding agree- ments with all of our thirteen war debt- ors. In every case, with the single ex- ception of Great Britain, the heaviest debtor, the agreements represent hand- some concessions, alike as to principal, interest and payment periods. Our French friends, who owe us $3. 810,516,043 of principal and $684.483.956 of funded interest, have failed to ratify the Mellon-Berenger settlement, though 1t was made as long ago as April, 1926. Tt is the only unratified agrecment. Un- der such circumstances, Americans note with surprise bordering on amazement that the newest project for “revision™ of allied war debts emanates from M. Poincare. The French premier, in one of his customary week end political addresses n the provinces, declared last Sunday that there must be a sweeping reor- ganization of the whole international debt structure, if it is to stand up and serve its appointed purpose. At the base of that structure rest the German repa- rations—the keystone of the arch, from Europe'’s standpoint. President Coolidge reminds the coun- try that there have been efforts, which he expects to continue, to transfer the final burden of German reparation pay- ments to the back of the American tax- payer. The Chief Executive has ref- erence to the scheme to “commercialize” the German Industrial and railway bonds which are the security back- ground of reparations. “Commercializa- tion” of thess bonds means their flota- tion in money markets capable of ab- a°f therwies cras- sorbing them. That is another name for | the American money market. The American money market is another name for the American investor and taxpayer. As to this precious program, Mr. Cool- idge now emits a stentorian “No!" For almost the hundredth time he points out that America holds German repara- tions and debts owing us to be wholly unrelated issues. There is a cancella- tionist school of thought in the United States, but its student body is very far, indeed, from being a majority of the people. In standing pat on the debt question the President stands four- square with the overwhelming bulk of American public opinion. — e Both political parties overlooked a point in not having their favorite ora- tors recorded on the phonograph discs. A political speaker is for the moment strong enough to compete with the orchestra and even with the prima donna. st Great advances have been made in science. A weather forecaster is now regarded as much more reliable than & political broadcaster. —_—————— Business as Usual. In many respects this present polit- fcal campaign is unusual. It involve new questions and it has caused new alignments. It has aroused feelings of exceptional bitterness on the part of large numbers of people. On the po- litical map of the country are shadings of doubtfulness in areas that have never before appeared in any such topographic representation of prospects. In still another respect this cam- paign is and continues to be unusual It is not accompanied by the “slo: ness” in business that ordinarily marks a presidential contest. Despite the fact that issues are under discussion and in the balance that might in other con- ditions somewhat affect the economic stabllity of the country. there has been | proprietor of the establisament to tonc no pause in the industrial activity or | gown the instrument to the point at On the contrary. there | wpjep it will not constitute a nutsance. in the trade. has been rather a revival of businesz following the comparative inactivity of | gone abatement of the nuisance will be ms the | roquired. season of 1828 will score high in trade | 1ast vear, and at the prezent s overturn. As a matter of fact there is really nothing at stake in this campaign that resches the national economy vitally. cratic conduct of affairs, | In these circumstances it is not sur- | prising to find that the even tenor of [the way of business is to be pursued. | ¥ith & prevalent feeling that there will Ibe no unfavorable reaction after elec- | [tion. There may even be a stimulation, | inasmuch as with the close of the cam- palgn attention now diverted to pfi"?l-l | cal affairs will b> again turned to the | family enterteinment, there is ground #% pREMONtY | o mercial and industrial routine. In- | ©OF PY deed, the diversion of encrgies on the | | part of largs numbers of citizens to {politics it absut the only factor fo | ackness in trade thet prevails tod | And that i why tha country i3 pess- ing through these months of politicai | preparation and promotion, of eam- [eten excitement and distraction, with- lout any appreciab'e fluctuation of the | | business thermometer. Which is a re- | |liable symptom of good national health. | OB, g fl‘ The Tassing of “Bucky.” | To many Washingtonians the news vesterday that “Bucky” Harris had been | relisved of the managership of the | | Washington team by President Clark Griffith came as a surprise, but to those | who have closely followed the fortunes ! :nl the Nationals for the past vear the | bhandwriting was on the wall. The fact | that. his three-vear contract calling for a large annual salary expired at the ond of this scason, a contract written {in the halcyon days of Washington base | "ball supremacy, and thet Harls' own | injuries and thos> of his teammates | prevented the club from going any- | where in particular until the past six | | weeks of the campaign made it evident | that “Bucky's” future with the local | | outfit was hanging by a slender thread. | | Base ball, long ago, entered the reaim | of big business, and there is little, if any, sentiment in business. Consequent- ly. the passing of Harris may be re-} !garded as in the light of & change of | | executives in any organization. As “Bucky" himself so aptly said on emerg- | !ing from the conference which decided |his status, “President Griffith is the ! boss and that's his decision.” Griffith |is most certainly the boss and if he | believes that a change of managers will be beneficial to the club, it is his !xnau»nable right to bring about the change. | It is not likely, though, that either ! Griffith or the fans will soon forget | [the thrill that succeeded thrill in 1624 and 1925 when “Bucky,” & manager at twenty-eight, led his teammates through to victory. The world series of 1924 Washingtonians who witnessed those sxciting games. “Bucky” was the hero dinarily a weak batter, he came through time and time again with an opportune hit and played a star game around sec- ond base. He bore his honors modestly | |and by his-actions on and off the field | won the respect and admiration of all of Washington. ‘The deposed Washington manager will probably have little difficulty in securing another bertn. He still ranks with the best second basemen in the game and when free from injuries he will hit well enough to be classed as la star. Besides these factors, he has | that intangible quality of “base ball | brains,” something that is much sought after and which draws adequate com- | pensation. Washington fans regret “Bucky's” passing. Nine years with the team, five of them as manager, this clean- living young athlete has come to be almost a part of the game of base ball in this city. The gameness and fight- ing qualities which enabled him to win a world series and two pennants and | to finish in the first division during h“i | caused many Washingtonians to ques- tion Griffith’s judgment in letting him | 20, but again let it be pointed out that | base ball is business and there is little sentiment in business. ‘The best wishes of fandom will go {with Harris when he leaves this city. His record here has been an enviable one and the sight of the scrappy little second sacker cavorting in another uni- form next year will cause his legion of admirers to wish that the exigencies |of the situation, in the eyes of Clark | criffith, had not made it necessary to send him away. Good-by, “Bucky,” and good luck! ot While contributing highly important {thought on inland waterways, New | York finds its=if under civic obligation {to undertake the responsibility of regu- |lating the prosaic but highly essential matter of sewsr service, | S s | The Loud-Speaker Nuisance. | A cose is now pending in ths Polies Ceurt in this city involving the question of whether & radio loud speaker con- stitutes a public nuisance which may e suppressed by law. Officials of the | United States Patent Office have filed complaint that a loud speaker in the neighborhood emits noises in such volume as to interfere with the conduct of business in that bureau. After hear- ! ing the testimony the court has granted a stay of a fortnizht to permit the | The assumption iz that if this is not N. J. ruled on the complaint of a citizen that the owner of a radio had the right to listen to the instrument [ at as 1ate an hour as he wished regard- is firmly etched on the minds of all; of heroes then, and deservedly so. 0~-| cntire period of managership have| The two parties are not fer apart in'less of the comfort of those within their declarations of policies respecting | ranee of its vibrations. In that case the the industrial life of America. There | complainant averred that her husband is no acute tariff question. The two|was rendered ill by lack of sleep, being platforms and the candidates are in unabie to obtain rest on account of the rivalry for the support of the farmers. radio- noise. Against this decision in who are demanding some measure of Camden there was immediate protest relief from their unfavorable situation. | throughout the country on the scorc The prohibition question, which .most | that the radio, particularly in Summer nearly approaches a conflict of views |time, may constitute an intolerable between the parties, is not presented | nuisance. It is obvious that if there are in a manner to affect business desply.|no restrictions the emicsion of loud The feeling prevails throughout the | ounds continuously for amusement or country that whatever the result next!advertisement purposes may be a grave month, business will be unaffected, that | offenze. domestic and foreign trade will be un-| There are occasions when radio is a diminished, the employment of labor"numlw servies, as in the broadcasiing will not be lessened, prosperity will not | of interesting and important events, tlacken. The Republican plea is for | Tomorrow and for several ders thers- a con‘inuation on the ccors that the|efter, for instence, loud &pea country has thrived greatly under th® be emp! edministration of that party. The for the open air transmission of the ’ STAR |Democratic contention is that the Na- | news of the world series base ball games. On the night of November 6 all over the United States, Washington included, powerful radio reports of election news will be broadcast in addition to the silent stercopticon screens. At such times, | with attention generally directed to thes2 announcements, there is no ob- | jection. But when cay after day, hour after hour, loud speekers are kept in operation to attract attention to busi- ness enterpriscs and when, espacially in Summor time, domestic radios are run at high pitch ‘er into th: night for t. Fvidently the Police Court judge who has just heerd this cass f2els that the adio when used without restraint for the purpos~ of attrasting trade is sub- jrct to the law as a nuisance to be abated. B ) Albanian Anxieties. It did not take long for the brand- | new sovereign of Albania, H. M. King | Zogu I, to get right into the swing of the king business, together with its vari- | ous hazarcs. Within the very brief spen | of his reign thus fsr, only & few weeks, | he has reached the point of fearing assassination and of having all sorts of | political troubles with certain elements | among his subjects. Zogu, on the throne but a little over | five weeks, is now barricaded in his | palace. Secret police are swarming in | their endeavors to round up plotters. The movement against the throne is described as widespread. Already the | new King is said to have had eleven of | his subjects exacuted in the Durazzd market place. A blood foud, one form of troubie with which most iXings do not have to contend, has been declared | against him by a powerful mountain | chieftain and his followars. The palace | wherein the monarch resides resembles an arsenal. In addition to all these troubles re- ligious difficulties are predicted for the very near future, due to the fact that his subjects in the norihern part of the land are Roman Caiholics, while the ruler himself is a Mohammedan. In spite of the oft-proven truth of the cld adage, “Uncasy lies the head that wears a crown," there is always some one brash enough to accept such a bauble | when it gocs a-begging or to inaugurate & brand-new dynasty. Zozua is stated to | be Above the average no: only in am- bition but in the “hard-boiled" qualities | that seem essential for throne-sitting in the Balkans and the Near East. Never- theless it is a good bet, in these times and in view of present circumstances, | that he will soon be fed up with b s new | job and that, provided he is not first “given the works” Ly disaffected sub- | jects, he will grant himself an uncondi- tional release. Betting odds on an election reflect | ionly cold calculation and sometimes a | readiness to place purse before patriot- | ism, Many partisans of old have con- | sidered a hat quite enough to wager | on an election. Should this idea sur-| vive, the country would. in the event of Al Smith's success, be flooded with | i brown derbies. o If all the expressions of sympathy with agriculture may be interpreted as | implying uncompromising determina- tion, the American farmer may just now be referred to as enjoying a posi- tion which in technical parlance is known as “sitting pretty.” e Hindenburg 1s a very old man, and | the forther Kaiser, for that matter, is no specimen of resilient youth. The rising generation in Germany has its own responsibilities. o S Roamgie A “terrible past” has been so com- mon an article in popular attenticn | that Tammany refuses to see why one | more or less should attract any partic- ular notice. PR The really “happy warrior” is equip- ped with enough intelligent philosophy to enable him to retain composure should the November 6 break go against him. e — It is possible to reduce certain tax- atlons, but impossible to keep assess- ments and valuations from going up. - SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Wet or Dry. The arguments at present Assume to make life pleasant For men in these dominions Who hold extreme opinions. No middle course we offer. We call each other “Scoffer!” And scorn the compromising Peacemakers are devising. Opinion—ws can't trim it We want to go the limit. We're Wet, to saturation, Or Dry, to desiccation, Economical Forbearance. “Your audiences used to cheer you by the hour.” “We're in an era of economy,” an- swered Senator Sorghum. “It costs money to cheer on radio time.” Stimulation, My Radio! My Radio! Your style is very neat. With speeches wise and jazz you go To both my head and feet. Jud Tunkins s: he stays home, but A few weeks ago & judge in Camden. | keeps late hours just the same, waiting jfor the rest of the family to return from the dance. Letiers, * “J= your new secretary industrious?” “No very. There are lots of letters |not yet written.” | “Don't you object?” | “No. Letters caus ;just now that any on» who can keep | you from sending any out may be doing vou a favor.” “It is h» who has misused the past,” sald Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “tha has most reason to fear the fu- ture,” Candid Criticism, I saw th finish of the p'ay. I la~ked the nerve to quit it. It mac> me laugh—although it may B wicked to admit it. | reached the reader scarcely knows what THIS AND THAT . TRACEWELL. BY CHARLES E. Oiten we find ourself standing in wonder at the back door of a beautiful house. The house is & book, the back door is the last pege, the front door the st page. We entered at the front door and rambled through the exquisite man- sion; now we siand reluctantly on the back steps, loath to take our leave of so delightful a place Women are said to be fond of en- tering a book by the back door, but they make a mistake to do so, for there is only one best way to see a_home, as every one knows. and that is to come in the grand entrance. like an honest | invited guest. and to go from room fo room under the guidaice of the hostess or host. The latest book we have read to im- press us this manner is “The Legend the Glorious Adventures of Tyl | Ulenspiegel,” by Charles de Coster, first publithed in this country in 1918 by ihe Robert M. McBride Co., New York, and just republished. We left Ulenspiegel singing & song, “But no man knoweih where he sang his last.” That is right. No one wants to know. It is tvpical of this altogeth- er satisfactory book that the heroic character is left “up in the air,” s0 as to be immortal, so far as the reader is concerned. This Belgian author | caes not make the mistake of his more famous French brother. ~Alexandre Dumas, who killed his giorious D'Ar- tagnan, for no better reason than to keep others from appropriating him. * K * % We purchased this book with sol misgiving. mostly out of curiosity, hav- | ing become acquainted with the name through listening to “The Merry Pranks of Tyl Ulenspicgel,” the suite | by Richard Strauss, as rendered more | or less frequently over radio. The | music. however, is based upon the| legendary figure of Tyl, the hero of the Low Countries; the, book is altogether different, a strange mixture of fact and fancy, written in & naive, almost child- like fashion, yet replete with beautiful thoughts and imagery of a most mature character. This is onc of the largest delights of | this book, that one is fooled by it. Most legends are rather absurd, in essence: they delight children for that very reason. But here is a legend mixed with fact to such a degrce that some- how the work grows on one as he reads, until by the time the last pege is| is legend and what fact. There are some scenes in it of startling authenticity; so realistic that they might have been taken bodily out of some widespread French novel of the better class, so interesting that one forgets anything of a legendary nature in connection with the scene. The twenty-third chapter of the sec- ond book is worthy of any writer. Here Ulenspiegel and his faithful fat friend. Lamme Goedzak, are caged in the house of their enemies. How they get out of it is adventurous meat for any reader. Somehow he is reminded of the fare served him in Dumas’ “Chicot the Jester.” Here is the same rich sense of high adventure, combined with the most matter-of-fact narration, colored with most capable words. Ulenspiegel had gone for a walk in | Harlebeke. Coming to the Alley of th~ Pot of Stone. he met a woman playing | on a viola. “And she opened the lantern she carried so as to let the light shine straight upon her face. ‘You are beau- tiful,’ said Ulenspiegel. “Th*n come with' me.’ she sald.” At the house of | La Stevenye, whence she took him, Tyl | found Lamme, he of (he great stomach. Lamme immediately picked a quarrel with his friend, and, while they were fighting, whispered into his ear that four constables were in the room to WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President Coolidge hes come down | like a ton of brick on revived efforts | to induce the United States to wipe out, in part or in whole, the various biilions Europe owes us. The Vermont- er's attitude represents no change of heart on the debt question. Coolidge comes from a corner of the country | where men are raised on the theory that debts are contracted in order to be collected and not canceled. As far back as 1920, when he was merely | a candidate for the vice presidency, | Coolldge gave expression to his views | in characteristic lingo. They were the days when the cancellationist idea was just beginning to sprout. A Washing- ton correspondent sought Gov. Cool- idge’s “reaction.” He cogitated a mo- ment, then rejoined, “Well, if we've got any money to give away, I think we ought to beogin by giving it to Americans!” * K K K Long before he was an active aspir- ant for the Republican presidential nomination, Herbart Hoover coined a phrase which must frequently be re- curring to him these whispering days. He stigmatized character assassins as “political gunmen.” They prevail in the United States, Hoover said, to such an extent that hundreds of good men who would adorn public life shrink from it because they don't care to b> targets for “political gunmen.” The Californian had particularly in mind the habit of a certain type of Con- gressmen who, shielding themselves behind the breastworks of official im- munity, specialize in mudslinging from bshind the safe ramparts of Capitol Hill. Politicians in both parties are wondering what's really back of Sena- tor “Jim" Reed's sudden decision not to swing arcund the circle on behalf of Gov. Smith. Reed's principal pas- time on the stump is assailing Herbert Hoover's alleged Anglicism. The guess is hazarded by insiders that the Demo- cratic management did not hanker for the particular type of anti-Hoover cam- paigning “Jim" Reed is fondest of—the “Sir Herbert” business and the like. * oK K % Undoubtedly the finest tribute yet paid to Al Smith by any of his admirers has just emanated from the gifted pen of Owen D. Young of New York, co- author of the Dawes plan. Naturally, Young envisages the presidency from the standpoint of its effect upon our in- ternational relations. “I am supporting Gov. Smith,” declares Young, “because I think it would be helpful to put the liberal party in power. Perhaps it was fust as well, with the restlessness suc- ceeding the war and during the clean- ing-up period, that we had a conserv tive administration. Now I think it time to try again the initiative of lib- | eralism * * * Our position in the. world will be aided by the election of a liberal party now. Since the war inter- national progress has been largely made | by liberal parties. Confidence, not sus- picion, is the attitude of liberals. So in international relations I am not con-; cerned with what Mr, Hoover know: about them, or what Gov. Smith do not know. I am only interested in whif | one or the other can do, and I am cor.. | 5o much trouble | Q08 B 1B § Y ean o most who hias the | | most generous and wholehearted liberal been the one in which he wrote* support. The courage of unselfish ac- | tion, rather than the fear of selfish in- terest, is natural to a liberal party.” i *x % % ! Over In a certain Government depart- | t, peopled mostly by the bobbed-hair | sex, politics is nowadays the all-engross- | ing subject, despite the civil service em- bargo on it. The Republican girls have | coined a conundrum, “Why is H the best Iotier in the alphabet?” The an- swer is. “Because it's the beginning of Honver and the end of Smith.” The Democratic maidens_are retorting with a catch question, “Do you know why every bank in the rountry wiil elose four months aft~: Herbert Haover is ety shouts,” said Uncle Ebsn, “so whisperin’ around.” inaugurates President?” When sam~. 'e4 in this city as elsswhere | as not to hear old Satan when he come bocy bites and asks why, the rejo'nder Is, “Because it'll be the Fourth of July,” | we have wondered just how many good OBSERVATIONS {the audience before him than he does arrest him, that the girl he had come in with was a spy. Another party enters, secretly of Tyi's faction in the fight to save Belgium from the power of the uel King of Spain. He is informed that the seven butchers who have just entered are cn his side, and that when he desires he can start a rumpus by saying, ‘T is van te beven de klin- kaert!"—It is time to rattle the glasses, In that far day and age, that was the customary signal for angry drinkers to “shoot up the place.” The spies and the constables made merry in token of the oncoming arrest of Ty{ They poked Tun at him, sncered at him, “rubbed it in," thinking that the seven butchers would remain neutral at the showdown The butchers, however, were simply waiting for the signal. At last it came. “It is time to make the glasses shiver,” said Ulenspiegel. The rcader is in the room, the close, stuffy room, surrounded by rude, crude fellows, and women of ill fame. The tables rock, the windows shake, glasses and plates are destroyed, and still that awful shout goes up, “'T is van te beven de klinkaert!" x ok % % The supernatural plays a large part | in this curious mixture of fact and| fancy. One of the visions into which Tyl and his wife Nele are thrown con- tains an allegory showing how happy the world will be when Avarice has’ changed into Economy, Anger into Vi- vacity, Gluttony into Healthy Appetite, Envy into Emulation, Idleness into the Dreams of ets and wise men, and Luxury into Love. It is the merit of this story that the folk-Tore quality, the legends of sorcer- ers and the intangible atmosphere in general, is tied up closely with the hu- man mind and heart, so that the total result is a story strangely like Alfred Neumann’s “The Devil," recently re-, viewed here. While the two are utterly dissimilar in many ways, they are one in an atmosphere of certainty which somehow seems to be the prerogative of European tellers of tales. We have often wondered at this, because their stories strike the reader as much like American stories, except in regard to this absolute verisimilitude which floods them from first page to last. Too many of our English stories leave the reader with a sense of having merely read a narrative, after ail. Tales of Furopean novelists, on the other hand, put a reader in a fine state of mind—he lives with the char~ acters for the duration of the story. Perhaps the nearest one may come to solving this riddle is to say that the for- eign writers state a thing clearly and let th> thing go at that. Too many of our writers want to hammer thz point home, to such an extent that the effect is killed. The Bible itself is a striking exampie of proper handling: the utter power of many of its finest passages arises through the very simplicity of telling. Much is left to the reader, much being expected of him. It is not such a stretch from the Book of Boo.ks to “The Legend of Tyl Ulen- spiegel” as one might at first think, since both deal with the search of hu- manity for Truth. One may or may not think that Tyl was right or mistaken, but, however that may be, the discrimi- aating reader will admit, we believe, that this is a book deserving a wider circula- tion than it evidently has. Thers is about It somsthing compelling. Often books there are practically no one has read. Perhaps there are as good fish in this great sea as have ever been caught; we thank the fishermen who pull them out of the raging torrent of time and display them on counters for our pleas- ure if ‘we have the price. We stand at the open front door of these book houses, and knock curiously, then saunter through, coming at last out g{ the b:\:;: «:oa: vl:hence we cast & look regrof Al e interesting tri) soon come to an end. el One of the most popular forei diplomats stationed in v?unin;wn 8121 vears has just quit the United States— | Henry Getty Chilton, since 1915 secre- tary and later counselor of the British embassy. Mr. Chilton has been pro-| moted to be minister to the Vatican. In addition to long residence in thi country, he has a far more sentiment: tie with us. for Mrs. Chiiton is an American, the daughter of Thomas J. O'Brien of Michigan, a former dis- tinguished member of the United States | diplomatic service. Mr. O'Brien was | American minister to Denmark in 1906, | when Chilton, then a young Britisher on foreign service, wooed and won Katharine O'Brien. One of these day: Mr. Chilton will become a knight or baronet, and his legion of friends at Washington expects, sooner or later, ! to welcome him here again as “Sir| Henry” and with ambassadorial rank. ERE | ‘Whoever is elected Governor of New | York this year—Albert Ottinger, Re- ' publican, or Franklin D. Roosevelt— | | | national elections, howeve: it be a former Washingtonian who moves into Al Smith’s house at Albany. | Mr. Ottinger was Assistant Attorney General of the United States during the | carly years of the Harding adminis-| tration. He specialired in admiralty | Jaw matters, cases concerned with the | Federal Reserve syst-m, war risk insur- | ance, pensions, the national bank act| and farm loans, and with all minor matters of Government finance. Mr. Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy throughout the whole Wilson administration. e Ralph D. Blumenfeld, editor of the London Daily Express, who heads the party of British journalists now touring the United States as guests of the Car- negle Peace Endowment, is an American by birth and journalistic upbringing. He halls from Wisconsin, and was a star in Newspaper Row, New York, in the days of Dana, Bennett and Pulitzer. His career in England began under Lord Northcliffe on the Daily Mail 28 yeats ago. As one of the co-proprietors of the | London Daily Express, Blumenfeld is an intimate professional and political asso- ciate of Lord Beaverbrook, the Cana- dian-born newspaper peer, and. like him, also one of the powers of the now dominant Conservative party in Great Britain, The visiting British scribes expect to spend several days in Washington later on. CEE Henry A. Wallace, editor of Wallace's | Farmer, Des Moines, and son of the late Secretary of Agriculture, pays tribute to Gov. Smith's persuasive platform per- formances in the Middle West. “Smith makes a much stfonger impression on on the radio,” writes Wallace. “I was surprised to see how fluently he talks without any notes. Of course, I was pleased to hear him come out flat- footedly for the principle of the Mc- Nary-Haugen bill.” (Copyright. otors 1928 It Must Have Been. From the Portsmouth Morning Sun. They have found a room in Oxford in which® Shakespeare slept. Must have Titus Andronicus.’ Real Worry Is Missing Engine. ! From the Anaconda, Mont., Standard. ‘The sheriff says there isn't a thief in the county jail. No wonder there are so many automobiles missing. i Figure It Out. Prom the Toledo Blace. Hiking 15 good exercise for the right thumb. v And Frequently. From the Fl Paso Herald. Opportunity knocks onee, and the neighbors the rest of the time, 5 Politics at Large By G. Gou;d_-l;nmln. RALEIGH, N. C,, October 2.—In New York State it s Franklin Roosevelt against Attorney General Albert Ot- tinger for governor and Senator Royal S. Copeland against Ambassador Alan- son Bigelow Houghton for Senator. The State conventions of the two parties have put forward strong tickets. There remains only the final drive in the Empire State, a campaign that prom- ises to be memorable. With Gov. Smith heading the national ticket it is gene erally believed that the Democratic State ticket will be stronger with the voters than if any other Democrat had been nominated for President. The in- sistence of Gov. Smith on the nomi- nation of Mr. Roosevelt, however, is an indication not only of his high regard for the gubernatorial nominee, but age his belief that the Roosevelt nomina- tion will aid the national ticket. Mr. Roosevelt bears a name that is popular in the State. He has a winning per- sonalily. He is not a Tammany man and he helps to “balance” the ticket in other ways. * ok X The suggestion is made in the Raleigh News and Observer today, Josephus Daniels' newspaper, that Mr. Roosevelt, a young man, may well be the selection of the Democratic party for President after Gov. Smith shall have served a torm or two in the White House. The News and Observer says editorfally, “Young snd able, the finest of all the | distinguished Roosevelts, many will hope that ths future will see him the suc- eessor of Gov. Smith in the White House.” This i& a thought for the future. The governorship of New York has been the stepning stone of many presidential nominations, including Grover Cleve- land and Gov. Smith himself, not to mention the late Col. Theodore Roose- velt and Charles Evans Hughes. It is true that Reosevelt was nominated first for Vice President and became Presi- dent after the assassination of Presi- dent McKinley. But later he was nom- inated for President in his own right. Franklin D. Roosevelt has paralleled to some extent in his political career the course of the late Col. Roosevelt. Both served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Assistant Secretary of the Navy when Josephus Daniels was the Secretary of the Navv, Mr. Roosevelt was nominat- ed for Vice President in 1920, running with former Gov. Cox. * k% % The Republicans have pinned their hopes to Attorney General Ottinger, a great vote getter as shown in his cam- paign in 1926 for attorney general, when he alone was successful on the Republican ticket. He was first elected attorney general in 1924, and before that served in the State Legislature. 1t is predicted by the Republicans he will add strength to the entire ticket in New York this year. Ambassador Houghton is An “up-State” New Yorker. He was twice elected to the House and in 1922 he was appointed Ambassador to Germany, the first American Ambas- sador to that country following the war. That post he resigned to accept appoint- ment as Ambassador to Greet Britain. The work he did in Germany after the war is likely to strengthen him with the voters of German extraction in New York. The New York State Republican con- vention acted with great harmony. There was a disposition to wait until after the convention and its nomina- tlons to make a real campaign in the interest of the Republican ticket. The Republicans believe they have put for- ward a particularly strong State ticket end that the situation from now until election day will improve for them. It was a foregone conclusion that the Democratic convention would be domi- nated entirely by Gov. Smith, and this was the cese. Gov. Smith had his way, and Mr. Roosevelt was nominated al- though he urgently requested that his name be not put forward, owing to his health. New York at present has a Demo- cratic governor, two United States Sena- tors of the Democratic faith and a ma- jority of the New York delegation in the House is Democratic. Under such circumstances, the Empire State might well be considered a Democratic State if it were not for the fact that in presi- dential elections it has cast its electoral votes so often in the last 30 years for the Republican nomine: ‘The Demo- crats hope to overcome this tendency in because of Gov. Smith's great pers popularity and the fact that he is a “favorite son” candidate. They are counting on State pride to ald in swinging the vote to Smith this year. e For better or for worse the Republican pational organization has decided to shelve the La Follette Progressive Re- publicans in Wisconsin. A subcommit- tee of the Republican national commit- tee has decided to recognize the two “stalwart” selections for membership on the national committee, Judge George Vitts and_ Mrs. Harry E. ‘Thomas. Herman L. Ekern, for at- torney general, and Mrs. Elizabeth Mec- Cormack were the selections of the La Follette Progressives for the places on the committee. This action on the part of the subcommittee of the na- tional committee is not likely to appeal to the La Follette Progressives, nor to Senator Robert M. La Follette, jr. who appears now certain of re-election to the Senate. The regular Republicans in Wisconsin, however, have been giving the La Follette Progressives a real batitle in the Badger State and succeeded in nominating their candidate for governor and in forcing through the State con- vention recently an indorsement of the Hoover-Curtis ticket, There were prom- inent Republican leaders from the West, however, who hoped that the Republi- can national commitiee would not ofiend the La Follette group by turning down Ekern and Mrs. McCormack. They looked on Wisconsin as a de- cidedly doubtful State in the coming national election and they believed that it would he the better part of politics not to give the Progressives cause for throwing their strength against the Re- publican ticket. The decision of the committee, however, has been otherwise. Wisconsin today is decidedly in the doubtful column and the Smith ad- herents are claiming that they will carry the State with the aid of Progres- sives. The Democrats are making a strong play for Progressive Republican support in the Northwest. A case in point is the withdrawal of the Demo- cratic nominee for the Senate in Minne- sota, with the propesal that the Demo- crats throw their strength to Scnator Shipstead. Farmer-Labor, and against the Republican nominee, It was clearly a bid for the support of Scnator Ship- stead for the Al Smith ticket. * K K % The circulation of anti-Catholic pamphlets in Alabama by Republican National Commitieeman Oliver D. Street, coming on the heels of the pub- lieation of a letter signed by Mrs. Willie W. Caldwell, Republican national com- mitteewomen for Virginia, declaring that the Nation must not be “Roman- ized and rum-ridden.” has given th» Democrats the opportunity to charge that the injustice of the reiigious fs- sue in this campaign is fostered hy the Republican national organization. Mir. Hoover and Chairman Work of thc Re- publican national committee have re- pudiated such tactics. The interjec- tion of the religious issue is deplorable when undertaken by individual voters and campaigners. But its interjection by members of a national commi‘tee is inexcusable. It would be ridiculous to say today that the issue does not exist, particularly in the Southern States, where speaker after speaker is discuss- ing it, but that does not make it any the more desirable. e That Doesn’t Help Any. Prom the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Ths chemists say they do not full undersiand the “gas knock™ in motor Howe' they are no worse off than other people. Incidentally, Mr. Roosevelt was | This newspaper puts at your disposal a corps of trained researchers in Washington who will answer questions for you. They have access to the Gov- iernment departments, the libraries, museums, galleries and public buildings, and to the numerous associations which maintain headquarters in the Nation's Capital. If they can be of assistance to you, write your question plainly and send with 2 cents in coin or stamps to The Evening Star Information Bu- reau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. What are the laxative foods?— H. H A. A list of good laxative foods would include oranges, peaches, grapes, plums, apples. pears, prunes, cream, lettuce, tomato, onions, bacon, squash, carrots, peas, spinach and oatmeal. Q. How large an area could a pound of gold be made to cover>—W. H. A. The thinnest sheets known to have been made of gold mechanically are 0.00001 millimeters thick. This would indicate that if a cubic centi- meter of gold could be hammered out to the same thickness it would cover 100,000,000 centimeters. or 100 square meters, equivalent to about 120 square yards. At this rate a troy pound of gold would cover about 235 square yards of surface. It is to be remem- lhifl‘ed. however, that this is figured on the basis of the thinnest possible sheet of gold to be made mechanically. Ordi- ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. | narily, gold foil is 10 to 20 times as thick and would cover a correspond- ingly smaller area. Q. Was the Leaning Tower of Pisa er used as a prison>—G. A. N. A. In 1518 there hung half-way up the tower a wooden cage in which pris- oners were kept until they starved to death. The campanile was at various ;ier]r}es used as a tchtower and as & ry. Q. Do any birds move their wings alternately while in flight>—J. 8. u".k A.; hbl; ;.fi l;“krl"mwn. the swift Is only bird which moves its wings alternately in flight. . What is the meanin | name, “Ouida"?—L. T. G A. This was the pen name of the British novelist, Maria Louise de la Ramee. Ouida is her Christian name as it was pronounced by a baby sister. Q. What is the negro 18“;‘an?-2. L. L. ki . There are few negroes in Stock- | holm, Sweden —only those who are members of jazz bands and a few who act as porters. | Q. What kind of wood is suitable ;frorcthg manufacture of fancy fans?— A. Foreign woods that are common- L‘Jm used are sandalwood. boxwood and | V. ny fine textures | avalinble may he tried ¢ 00 Bt I8 Go;f Smith’s Speech at Denver Stirs Up Conflicting Views Conflicting views on water-power con- trol and operation have been aired i vigorously in newspaper discussion of Gov. Smith’s Denver speech. Republi- can critics almost unanimously eon= demn what they view as a declaration for Government ownership and opera- tions. Some Democrats also have mis- givings on this point, but many greet the nominee’s speech as a courageous | stand on a great national issue. | “This is an issue, and a vitally im- portant issue, although few people seem to realize it says the Louisville Courler-Journal (independent). “The Republicans and their nominees have ignored it so far. But the Democratic nominee is keenly cognizant of its sig- nificance—no one has better appre- clated its significance since Theodore Ropsevelt—and on it the Governor of New York has made a great fight for the people of his State and won for them a signal victory against powerful opposition.” “The water-power special interests are the most powerful in the land to- day,” declares the Omaha World- Herald (independent). “Smith marches boldly to fiing defiance in their teeth, as David went to meet Goliath, with only the pebble of truth in his sling.” The Waterbury Republican (inde- pendent Republican) contends: “The desirability of public ownership and development of all future hydroelectric plants cannot be denied. It ought to be made a cardinal feature of the poli- cies of the next administration, regard- {less of its political complexion.” That | paper concedes that “Gov. Smith’s | speech as a whole bears out the ex- | pectation that when he deals with subjects with which he has had to deal as a State official he will demonstrate a thorough understanding of the sub- jeet.” ERE “He has noth'ng of the demagogue’s spirit,” according to the Atlanta Jour- nal (Democratic), “in his challenge to those who would mcnopolize, for pri- vate profiteering God-given . resources as essential to the people’s welfare as the air they breathe. Rather, he deals with the question as an economist would, or as an upright, far-seeing man of business, intrusted with the admin- istration of a great estate. * * * The outspokenness of Gov. Smith re- veals an ingrained honesty of mind that commends him to truth-loving people, while the clarity and vigor of his speeches show how thoroughly he understands the country's affairs.” “His position approaches dangerously to the principle of Government opera- tion,” admits the Hartford Times (in- dependent Democratic), which, on the other hand, suggests that “the country knows that a great power lobby, rep- resenting the vast power industry, has fought its hardest to prevent Congress from adopting a bill providing for Gov- ernment deveiopment of Boulder Dam resources. * * * Even if at points Gov. Smith approaches theories that are undesirable, it is infinitely safer for the American people to tie to him than to surrender to the pov\:r trust.” * % * “The very boldness of the speaker, challenging “ the most tremendous and resourceful capitalistic group known to the history of the country,” says the Nashville Banner (independent), “must give to this address an influence and a place in the political history of the stance, notable though it be, that it was the first to be made by any can- didate for the presidency of the Re- public, on a subject which will stand 1o the very forefront of the political life of the Nation until it is settled, and settled right.” Charging that Gov. Smith has made a “radical shift on the Colorado River problem,” the New York Sun (inde- pendent) adds: “The Swing-Johnson crowd will boast now that their bill has won the support, in on® degree or an- other, of both candidates for President. * * + Gov. Smith has flung into the discard his brave atatement at Albany that in tae Colorado River case ‘the duty of the Federal Government is confined to navigation.'” Condemnation cf the governor's posi- tion as favorable to Government activ- ity in business comes from the Spring- field Unfon (Republican), Springfield (Illinois) State Journal (Republican), Providence Bulletin (independent) and Oklahoma City Times (independent). “It will alarm the conservative ele- ments of the Nation everywhere,” in the opinion of the Spokane Spokesman- Review (Republican), while the Hart- UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Ago Today. | American, British and Italian war- ( ships have destroyed th> Austrian naval base at Durazzo and the at noon, allied cruisers getting into the marines. * * U. S. 8. Tampa is lost. with entire crew of 118 aboard, throug! Admiral Sims reports that the vessel got ahead of other ships in the convoy | and was attacked alone. * * * Brit- ish attacks today again shatter vital German defenses between St. Quentin | and Cambrai. Tanks lead the attack | and break into the Hindenburg line | north of St. Quentin for 5 milcs. Several towns are captured and prison- | ers captured by the thousands. * * *! British advance in Flanders continues. Evacuating Armentieres and Lens, lhel Germans are in retreat on the 20-mile | front between the two strongholds, both of which the British have occupled. * ¢« * French armies operating from St. Quentin to Argonne make sweeping | gains, capture 2,800 prisoners, take | Challerange, further relieve the enemy | pressure about Reims and break the | El enburg line from LeTronquoy to ins. Allies are now on the | of amazing possibilities” as the | breaks in the western front alarm the ' German leaders, * * * Seven hun- | dred and twenty names on casualty list announced today—150 killed in action, 121 missing and 393 wounded, times quite apart from the circum- | 1 self there as he has here. | ford Courant (independent Republican) | states that “his plain IntImn'!l,fim that he would have signed two bills (Muscle Shoals and McNary-Haugen) will un- Jdount{dly prove gravely harmful to his |cause.” The Chicago Daily Tribune ithpubllcnm holds that “Gov. Smith's views on power are all the reason that |any business man, any man of experi- |ence in the ways of government, could 1nsknlor1 vutlriu against him.” “It is quite possible.” suggests th | Charleston Evening Post llrfiicpenden: | Democratic), “that Gov. Smith may have lost by these concessions to Western radicalism—if so it may be defined—the favor he was supposcd to have won in the business world. He doubtless knows what he is about and hes weighed these considerations, but they cannot he left out of the account.” ‘The Charlotte News (Demoératic) warns that “the peonle of the South are sticklers for the th-ory that the least | the Government geis Into business and the more that business gets into Gov- ;em.!nem, the better off the country will “No one familiar with the power prob- lem,” states th> Lincoin State Journal (independent Repubiican) “will accept as a solution of it the substitution of Government ownership of site and gen- erating station for regulation, when the l“g" items of cost of service would be under the control of the private capital he says should take care of distribu- tion.” The Lowell Courfer-Citizen (in- dependent) suggests that “the public ownership idea ougr: to work, but doesn't. and never will, so lonsun men are human and politicians what they are.” * x x % Suggestions that further information | i3 desired as to Mr. Hoover's position on | this subject are made by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (independent), Louls Post-Dispatch (independent), Evening News (independent), Canton Daily News (independent Democratic) and Youngstown Vindicator (Demo- cratic). The Houston Chronicle (Dem- cratic) reviews the history of the power problem, stating: “Thirteen years ago a man predicted that greater than the long struggle of this country to break up the monopoly in oil pro- duction would be the task some day to hold away from private exploitation the public water power of the country con= verted into electrical energy. That man was a Republican. He was a great Re- publican. And he was a patriot. His name was Theodor> Roosevelt. * * * No man, except a great leader of the people, a fighter and a true defender of public rights, can break up the water power menace and restore to the people of this country the rightful and eco- nomical use and enjoyment of this great public resource, which belongs to them alons. Such a man is Gov. Smit “From Chairman Work’s statement,” says the Columbus (Ohio) State Journal (Republican), “we judge that Mr. Hoover holds the same view (as Gov. Smith), and we hope that great engi- neer will make a speech on the subject before the campaign is over. The Springfield Republicar. (independent) argues: “Mr. Hoover ‘came through’ unequivocally for the power develop- ment as provided in the Johnson-Swing |bill. And that is all specifically that | Gov. Smith has done. One must cone clude, however, that from the pregres- sive point of view, broadly considersd, Gov. Smith s preferable to Mr. ‘, Hoover on the power issue.” “Bucky” Harris’ Release by Griffith To the Editor of The Star: It is with pain and surprise that I read the announcement of President Grifith of the Washington base ball team that Stanley Harris “is on the market” and that he is about to be released from the managership of the ‘Washington club. Whether this is good business for base ball in Washington, being an amateur, I have no means of knowing. As outsiders we are not taken into the inner circle and given the reasons | which led the ownership of the club to this change. However, my feeling is that if a “solemn referendum” were had there would be no change and that Stanley Harris would be left to com- plete the work already started this year of bringing his club to the pinnacle of a world pennant. As an enthusiastic fan and devoted admirer of the game and particularly | of the Washington team, I greatly re- | gret that it becomes necessary for Stan- | ley Harris to leave here. Certainly, if | he can do for Detroit or any other club | what he has done for the Washington team great success awaits him around the corner. In the passing of Stanley Harrls let us not forget that under his brilliant leadership a world championship wes brought to the Capital of the Nation Regre | warships | for the first time in its history; that anchored there. The attack took PIACe | he also won for us the nennanl;yin the { American League and this ve harbor despite the mine fields and sub-| ynder the mof",' '.dv'i‘l,. rfrc:,:;{uym":s' . | with iiness and bad luck besetting rm, submarine_attack off English "coast, | e o i tenacity he 1 fourth place. And thus brilliantly he terminates his {assoclation with the Washington club, From the side lines I have watched this fine young leader in action, not only in Washington but in New York and elsewhere. In every situation, under all circumstances, at times razzed by the crowd, patiently and coura- geously he stood up against the tides of unfriendliness—a real sportsman and a gentleman, clean and wholesome in every way. But a few years ago he was the man of the hour in Washing- ton, hailed by all as the master mind in base ball, and soon he will be on his way to new fields of action, where I predict that he will distinguish him- Perl we shall regretfully witness his fl::wlbll- ity utilized in thwose new fields. I sincerely trust that here in the Capital of the Nation the departure of Stanley Harris will not be permitted ‘a ga unnoticed. but will bring to him the generous tributes his unsurpassed record deserves. P. TUMULTY,