Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1928, Page 46

= e e - THE EVENING STAR/|! commemoration of this historic|and purpose there would be much less With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. S"!NDAY. ++es..October 14, 1928 ‘THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company | vl wew' ! Cht European O Rate by Carrier Within Frenine Star s ing and Sunday Star usiness Off: e SR Fentasivants Ave. ork 110 Easf t 42nd St. Tower Building. en ngland. t 8t.. Londen. City. the 43¢ per tonth 60c per month (when 5 Sundays) event.” Such a tribute, it has been pointed out, is most fitting, for the inception of the St. Luke's Interna- tional Medical Center was made directly possible through the generous personal interest of the late Emperor and Em- press, parents of the present ruler. foreign hospitals in the Orient it has not remained foreign ! Teusler, is an American, the vice direc- tor is a Japanese. Other members of the medical staff are natives. Some THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, igun carrying by the thieving gentry | and consequently fewer burglarious en- | tries The gun 1s the chief source of this evil It can be obtained jn a short time and for 2 small sum. As long as this s possible and as long as the A distinctive characteristic of the | burglar gets no greater penalty upon | St. Luke's institution at Tokio is that | conviction than the unarmed buruhr! in contrast with most of the other; housebreaking and thievery by force | will continue to be the’ resort of men in personnel. | who choose lawless rather than lawful | While the director, Dr. Rudolph Bolling | means of carning a livelihood. Let the | faith or belief secretly held and faith | | gun be banned! 1 - Bus Drivers and Traffic Rules. | f | 'EVERYDAY BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES Bishop of “We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.” “Articulate Religio There is a vast difference between {or bellef opened avowed. What we | hold of religious conviction grows and | deepens In us only in so far as we give expression to it. Religious faith must OCTOBER 14, » 1928—PART RELIGION E. FREEMAN, D. D, LL. D. Washington rectors to have a brief respite from their labors, and affording the parishioners a new demonstration of lay power in | the high art of preaching. The effect of this lay evangelism proved amazingly stimulating; the rectors returned to their parishes to find their people more responsive to their own messages than they had hitherto known them. It was a unique sight to see a man conspieu- ous in professional or business life enter Capital ’ Sidelights These Indian Summer days, When the leaves are assuming their riot of coloring, prompt Representative John D. Clarke to turn from campaign ora- tory for a few moments and to preach 2 poetic sermon on reforestation: “Who has seen any canvas touched by a Corot or Innes that equals in beauty the Autumn tints of sumac or soft maple dressed in matchless reds, or the green tints of the sugar maple and oak. or the golden yellows of shell- bark hickory or fast-disappearing chest- nut, with here and there some lone- some pine or hemlock, that make our hills the Master's masterpiece in colors? “In God's great out of doors ‘the old There are left the The 1928 harvest is practically all in and, in general, the Department of Ag- riculture feels that the farmers should be fairly well pleased with the results. True, cmf rices have fallen since the middle of the Summer, but live stock prices have shown a gain. Experts of the Bureau of Agricultural | Economics have a great multitude of reports from their many field agents| and find that the season has been rather | curious In that, in relatively adjacent areas. some farmers have realized good | TAKING STOCK OF THE HARVES BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. the difficulties of a hard, dry soil. Re- ports made by farmers of intentions to plant promise a decrease of at least 2 per cent in the acreage to be sown to wheat in Kansas. and Texas. Kansas and States south thereof al- ready are sowing wheat. Yields have been good, but prices have been disap- pointing. The. Range Country—A threatening drought has set in over all of the rance country north of New Mexico arxl a shortage of water for cattle and an crops while neighbors have been less| increased danger of grass fires are fortunate. Also, the weather has been | feared. This is reflected in early ship- distinctly erratic. Planting was late be- | PINg. So far the stock has not been cause of excessive cold and rainfall, | damaged. However. with impending whereas later in the season there was| dry weather. stockmen are discouraged complaint of dry weather in some places | from buying young cattle to feed as and still too much rain in others. There | the arass promises to be sparse was an excellent nay crop, but its value | The Pacific Coasi.—It is very dr- In was impaired by rains during the mow- | the north and crops not planted where ing_season. irrigation is avalable show dam: #5¢ per month | order changeth.’ ¥ i rude scars on Mother Nature's face to tell their tragic story, if we know | Mother Nature well enough to interpret her signs. Some poet had the spirit of nothing of ostentation or show about = this endeavor: it was modestly «one | N scene in mind when he wrote vers vi 1“‘So he wandered away and away and covered a wide field. One of those | With Nature the good old nurse to whom this ministry was carried said A . to me: “The finest Impression I ever | Who sang to him day by day received in my life, and one that has The songs of the universe: the chancel on Sunday, conduct the vice and preach the sermon. Doubt- less to many it was an experience they had never had before. There was of the most eminent personages and| The contention of en atiomey for a ' gey i A o teremust, be made evi- | medical men of Japan are members |hyus driver who had been arrested for | common concerns of everyday life. Ask | of the advisory council. St. Luke’s is | spceding that operators of vehicles of | @ man what 1]n-brxm!di“n1 pol}tical belief | e 2 . . IS Vi . s | a training school for Japanese nurses this are not subject to the traffic ?.'.',?mléfim'f ‘)::S:; (;)mw p;zer::\::csigz and is thus developing a profession | yegylations because they are adhering with enthusiasm and abandonment. Ask | which has hitherto been scarcely known | 1y schedules laid down by the Public @ man to give open confession to his | in Japan. It has been estimated thal ytilities Commission has been efiec- The Sunday 3tar 5c per ccpy Collection made at the end af ach month Orders may be sent in by mall or telenhone Main 5000 Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Paily and Sunday r.$10.00: 1 mo.. Dails onl: 1 Sunday only 1 mo! 1 yr., $6.00. " t i allegiance to Jesus Christ, to give ex- pression to his deep religlous conviction, | All Other States and m:{v and Sunday ‘\-r.x\‘;m 1 m aily only ... yr. 3300 N nday only . 1 vl $300: 1 mo. Canada. o0: 1 mo., Member of the Associated Press. ‘The Associated Press {s «xclusively entitlea to the use for republication of all 1 ews “3- atches credited to it or not otnerwise cred- Red I thix paper and aiso the .ocal tews 3 . All riehts of publication of herein are also reserved. Teaching After Forty-Five. The president of George Washing- ton University, Dr. Cloyd Heck Mar- vin, in speaking the other day before the parents of feminine freshmen, is stated to have given the opinion that the age of forty-five is one at which most men have lost touch with the new developments of the world in| which they live, and for that reason | have become unfitted to lead or to in-| struct youth. Their philosophical com- | placency, he pointed out, is likely to be | out of harmony with the latter's ener- getic enthusiasm. “The challenge of | youth to middle age is a constant one,” | he said, “and to meet it we must keep adapting ourselves to the new in life, | whether social, psychological or me- thanical” When a noted educator speaks thus Where is always the likelthood of un- | intentional misconstruction of his ideas. Witness the “chloroform-them-after- | forty” dictum, which for years has been inseparably associated with Dr. Osler, and which, singled out from his general theme, did it and him a grave injustice. There is, however, undoubt- edly a great deal in what Dr. Marvin says, but only on the basis of the ex- ception proving the rule is it possible to agree with him entirely. It is the experience of many college graduates to hold in peculiar fragrance the memory of some professor who seemed, during their courses, to be ex- ceedingly venerable, and who undoubt- odly was middle-aged or better. It ap- pears to them that when students they often received -less sympathy, less un- derstanding from those teachers whose diplomas were from three to twenty vears old. Outstanding examples oc- cur readily to mind: Prof. Willam Lyon Fhelps of Yale, President Eliot of Harvard,- Dr. Henry Van Dyke and Dean Andrew Fleming West of Prince- ton. Every graduate of every college ean recall such a one. In such instances the sympathetic bond between eager youth and complacent middle age or better seemed peculiarly powerful, not- withstanding the former's energetic enthusiasms. - At s generally thought that “Old Doc Hitchcock,” as he was affectionately known to three. generations, of the Amberst faculty inspired a poem which appeared in Scribner's Magazine a few years ago, and which no college man, whatever his colors, can Tead without & lump in his throat. “Old Prof. Dick- son,” as the versemaker calls him, “explained great books, all the time with keen, shrewd looks.” For half a century he “taught callow youth the beauty of letters and of living,” and that through a none too fascinating subject. In the whimsical poem, the eld -“Prof.” dies, enters Paradise and is met by myriads of ghostly former puplls waving ethereal banners. “Midst the thundering cheers of his ‘boys' " the old fellow “walks quaintly into Heaven, unaware that the roar and tumuit of welcome are all in his honor,” The dear old soul thinks the celebration is in observance of some great foot ball victory. Little does he realize that the hosts of his former students are cheer- ing something that far transcends all the games that all their teams ever won. Almost every higher institution of learning possesses a beloved figure of “philosophical complacency,” of which “Dickson” is the prototype. It is not improbable that the ideal faculty will continue to include alert and sympathetic youth and that grave, cultured, restful, dignified age, calcu- lated to make the callow youth wish, consciously or - unconsciously, that he, too, might become the same . sort of understanding, liberal and dignified old gentleman. Dr. Marvin himself is just about forty years of age. From his record so far it would appear that he is doing himsef an injustice in ad- vance. — g Opposing candidates may always look forward to a discovery in each other of close critical discernment, but never of approval. Opportunity to make something entirely unanimous does not get far beyond the nominating conven- tion. —ttee ‘The public with an abiding thirst puts implicit trust in bootleggers. This confiding example. however, does not persunde bootleggers to trust one an- other for & minute. —— . A Worthy Work in Japan, Incidental to the opening of the Gen- eral Convention of the Episcopal Church in this city the other day attention was called to the needs of an American ‘medical center in Tokio, Japan, an in- stitution established ten years ago un- der the auspices of the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church and now recognized as one of the most waluable of all works for the welfare wf the Japanese people. This institu- #lon has suffered severely from dis- wsters, being virtually destroyed in the fire of 1923, but it is going on and is mow planning a great establishment which will represent an outlay of $5,- 000,000, of which more than half has been provided. It is hoped that the temaining portion of the fund will have ‘been subscribed by American supporters of the hospital by the time of the coro- tnation next month of the Emperor and Empress of Japan as a good will offer- ing from the American people and “al punishment, it he is eaught and con- | Ehen. eighty per cent of the poverty in Japan is caused by preventable disease and the work of this picneer establishment for the betterment of the Japanese undertakings ever instituted in that country. It is highly appreciated by the Japanese and its maintenance by the generosity of the American people | is certain to be a factor in the strength- ening of the relations between the two countries. —.— Banning the Toll Bridge. Representative Kelly of Pennsylvania favors the adoption by Congress of som: us'd in interstate traffic. He classifies b> eliminated because of .its restriction to travel, trade, commerce’ and mutual understanding between communities | and States. business concern that uses the highways i will applaud his suggestion. There is; nothing so conducive to strong language. on the part of the motoring public, as a | the past and gradually they are dlsnp-: pearing. But enough of them are left to furnish Mr. Kelly with adequate | grounds for complaint. ‘Toll bridges should be eliminated So | should nails, sharp pisces of iron and | rusty railroad spikes which lie on the| highways waiting to find a com!ol‘ub'll‘} resting place in a worn tire. The unm-; culty is in finding the proper method | were permitted as a convenient and simple form of financing. Many bridges | yet to be built will be constructed pro- | vided only a toll can be exacted from those who use them. When a con- | gressional permit is necessary for the| construction of a bridge, Congress could | easily withhold the permit as a g sture | against the toll bridge. But the example | immediately comes to mind of the| authorization in the last session of Congress of a toll bridge over the | Potomac near Great Falls, to be con- structed by private parties as an invest- ment. There is universal agreement | that the bridge will be a source of benefit and pleasurs to those who use it. But the bridge would not be built for many long years to come if its building were left to the various gov- ernmental agencies under whose juris- diction it would come. No tall bridge should be allowed on any public highway. As Mr, Kelly says, & toll bridge on a public highway is an anomaly. Those which remain in exist- | ence should be bought and made a part of a system that s free and open to every -American. But Congress should 80 slow in turning thumbs down on the construction of new bridges, simply be- cause they are toll bridges. The better method would be for the proper agencies of Government to encourage their con- struction, but to insert safeguards against extortionate charges and al- | ways to work toward their eventual | purchase by the State for the people. | As & method of financing construction, & temporary toll is often the simplest | and most expedient resort. But as a source of continued revenue for fat returns on an investment, the toll bridge | has no place on any map today. | B — The life of a eandidate has been | made a little harder because of radio, | It is no longer easy to find a series of brand-new audiences for the same old speech. s IR A whirlwind campaign was predicted. It has become a-tornado filled: with rhetorical wreckage. b — The Armed Burglar. Unusually severe penalties were yes- terday imposed upon a trio of pris- oners convicted in the District Supreme | Oourt of robbery and honsebreaking. These men, whom the court coued a | “pistol club,” were sentenced to serve from fifteen to nineteen years in the penitentiary - Two of them were eighteen years old and one was nine- teen. 'They were all gunmen, and they were associated in the operations that finally were checked by their arrests, ‘These long sentences are Jjustifiable In cases of persistent lawbreaking. | These young men were all armed to| kill in case of resistance. It was their 8004 fortune and likewise the good for- | tune of their victims that they did not use their weapons in the course of their raids and robberles. But they were all potential murderers in that they were prepared for killing. Some years ago in consequence of a number of especially bold and brutal crimes a public agitation occurred m demand for the enactment of a law imposing capital punishment upon any person entering a building for the pur- pose of robbery if armed with a deadly weapon. Such armament, it was held, made the marauder a possible slayer. He would shoot if detected or resisted, and naturally he would shoot to kill. It was felt then by many as it is felt now, even in these days of greater lenlency in the matter of punishments, that the disposition to kill should be re- garded by the law as severely as the act of killing. The burglar who is not armed is not an especially dangerous person, though he may steal the material goods of his vietim. If detected and resisted, he will flee for his own safety without inflicting serous harm. 1If the pos- session of a deadly weapon by a house- breaker is treated by the law as tanta- | | | people is one of the most important cpinjon on this question was ! satety | tively answered by Corporation Coun- | sel William W. Bride, who on Thursday Ituled that bus drivers are granted no | special privileges. While Mr. Bride's a, fore- gone conclusion on the part of the pub- lic, his decision is an important one in | view of the fact that there apparently has existed a misunderstanding on the part of drivers as to their relation to the regulations. There is no gainsaying the skill and ability of the operators of these huge vehicles In the congested traffic of the city, but this skill, coupled with the thought that they are immune to prose- uniform policy against the authoriza- Cution for violations of the traffic rules. | knowledge in giving point and emphasis tion of toll bridges on public highways | has not bien conducive to a high degree | 0 of safety for other users of the sire.t the toll bridge as an evil that should | It I In this respect that Mr. Brides from the pens of laymen dealing with recently given opinion bring about a reform. Everything on the highway, whether will probably Every motorist and every | it be a borse-drawn vehicle or a streer, | effort should be made to encourage car, must conform to the traffic regula- tions which have been laid down for While the arrest for speeding of one bus driver dos not put ail toll bridge, unless it be a toll road. Both | drivers. or even any large percentage of | ) have come to be regarded as relics of | them, into the category of the reckless | this lttle group took 168 services in the and disobedient, it not only, with the ruling that was asked of the corpora- tion counsel, emphasizes the attitude | toward the authorities, but brings to | public mind abuses that have been noted in the past. Every motorist instinctively gives way before the approach of one of these ve- hicles, and in many cases bus drivers have not been averse to taking advan- of climination. Many bridges would | tage of this fact. That is one abuse. |a strong fighting chance. That is the never have been bullt unless the toll | Others are a fendency Lo “beat” th: |sum of the situation at this week end | Pennsylvania. lights—which, of course, cannot be charged solely to bus drivers, because the majority of motorists do it, too— fallure to keep to the right and speed- ing. Although all equipment of this type of vehicle is of the highest order and brakes are kept in perfect condi- tion, the danger to other users of the streets is accentuated by the ponderous character of these carriers. Mr. Bride's ruling, (herefore, will probably result in a greater degree of street safoty, be- cause from now on drivers will raalize | that violations of the regulations will | bring them before the authorities. — e It is expected that Henry Ford will ride In the:big dirigible. A master mechanician himself, he is willing to forget professional jealousy and ex- change courtesies. ———i Many persons have applied for per- | mission to see the execution of Wil- liam E. Hickman. A superabundance of spare time may be listed among in- dustrial problems. e r——e— It is not so many years since the idea of welcoming a Zeppelin with | bouguets and a brass band was beyond the wildest @ reams of imagination, A most agreesble climate asserts if- self just at a time when political asperities make the weather most useful as a safe topic of conversation. - Discussion now under way should in- crease the attendance at church serv- ices devoted exclusively to religlous teachings. . —.— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Woman in Politics. Songs of old are growing cold And clammy. Nothing's written, sung or sold, But “mammy.” Psychopathists boldly say A maternal complex may Still prevail. The song today Is “mammy.” Though the male whose plans may fall Says “damme!” She who will at last prevail Is “mammy.” Though rebelling once or twice, He endeavors to be nice. Still he yields to the advice Of “mammy.” Forward Looking. “Did you tell your audience how you had worked for the plain people?” ‘No," answered Senator Sorghum, believe in letting bygones be bygone: I told how I am going to work for ‘em In the future.” In a Few Short Weeks. ‘Where are the snows of yesteryear?” The poet asked in accents drear, The weather expert, with a tear, Replies, “My dear, they'll soon be here!” Jud Tunkins says political influence is of little use to a person who wants to work at his business Instead of play- ing at politics, Confused. “What is your forecast as to the election?” “I'm all mixed up,” replied the weary citizen, “The straw votes in different States begin to look like eross- road puzzles and I don’t know whether to cheer for Herbert Smith or Al Hoover." “We fear the new ideas,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “and trust the old, even though the old have often betrayed us.” Retribution, Of Retribution we may dream-— It does not fit the normal scheme-— The cats catch mice—it's obvious that A mouse w!ll never catch a cat. ! mount to murderous intention and,_ hiy “Noise ain' no argument,” said Uncle gesture of sincere friendship to Japan victed, is measured by that disposition de most voice an’ de least somse.'* - “De leader of de choir may hab and he is hesitant and frequently em- | barrassed. In the main the average layman thinks of articulate religion as belonging to a professional class; it has to do with those who are ordained to preach it. In this we find one of the conspicuous reasons why the Christian faith and the Christian Church move with less power and efficlency than they should. Surely there is nothing that makes a greater appeal to the imag- ination or that furnishes a llr%:r of- portunity for wholesome and helpful discussion than that which was given | to men by the divine Master. Latterly ! we have noted, and with deep satisfac- tion, that the secular press is giv more and more space to the considera- tion of religlous questions. Most of our leaders in public life have latterly made liberal drafts upon their scriptural th political .~ pronouncements, Within, comparatively recent times a number of notable books have come religious convictions and the relation they bear to the common things of everyday life. All these are signs that are hopeful and promising and every them. During the past Summer a group of professional and business men in one of our large metropolitan centers gave themselves without reserve to the preaching of the Gospel in scores of ‘hurches. Their record discloses that given me a different conviction con- cerning the realities of the Christian religion, was the simple, manly presen- tation made by laymen in the pulpit of my church. It has made me feel a real sense of responsibility concern- ing my own religious obligations.” Here was a demonstration of the value of articulate religion. Entirely apart from such a pro- nouncement made in a Christian pulpit, the value of a Christian faith boldly expressed and consistently lived is a comgelllx\l factor in the propagation of the Gospel. Jesus said to one that He had healed, “Go home to thy friends and show them what great things the Lord hath done for thee.” Again He declared, “Whoever will confess Me before men, him will I confess before My Father which is In Heaven." If men seriously believe that the teach- | ings of Jesus constitute a working | philosophy of life, they should boldly | and insistently declare it wherever op- | portunity affords. There is a kind of religious respectability and reserve that | Precluden any open expression of re-,| liglous conviction; it 1s not calculated to stimulate or set forward the high claims of the Christlan faith. A silent Christian adds little to the enrichment of the moral character of his fellows, “I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ,” said a bold apostle. His de- votion to his divine Master compelled him to make his faith articulate. The most popular theme of our time is re- ligion, and the free and fine dtscussion | course of two months, in some 60 or thus enabling tired ! more churches, of it by those who hold to it, and live by it, is gladly recognized and heeded. Fighting for the Fi | BY WILLIAM HARD, Hoover has the edge, but Smith has in the presidential campaign. | The Republican party—relatively to 1924—has suffered great losses in the Irish vote, in the negro vote and in the vote of the “foreign-language” groups. It also has suffered great losses in a group which is not important numer- ically, but which is highly important for publicity and for prestige. That group is “the intelligentsia,” as repre- sented by the faculties of colleges, the practitioners of ‘modernistic literature and the - {lluminated antagonists of | American- “bigotry” and “Babbittry.” Smith is going to carry “the intelli- gentsia” by a big margin. Contrariwise, the Republican party— reln!lvcl{]w 1924—has made great gains out of the development of woman suf- frage -and: out of the revival of anti- foreignism. A majority of women have Flckcd,}lw,ver oui.tq be a special enemy o the saloon and a special humani- tarian savior of the home and of chil- dren. Hoover speakers from numerous | States are meanwhile reporting here to the. effect that .nothing raises 'such storms of applause from their crowds as a general promiscuous attack upon immigration. i Many immigrant voters thereupon re- | act into a still stronger regard for Smith. | In fact, from a certain fundamental | point of view, the basic positive con- | flict in this campaign might be ex- | pressed as follows: ] Immigration fights for Smith. Woman suffrage fights for Hoover. Without. the confidence felt in Smith by the mass of recent immigrant voters in our large cities; his cause would be hopeless. These voters are mostly wet. They are mostly Catholic. Beneath | | those facts, however, there is an even ! deeper fact, For a vast multitude of | such voters Smith s a symbol of emancipation from social and political inferiority. He is a deliverer. In and through him there may be triumph for the immigrant who wants with all his heart to- prove that he, too, is an American. That social urge is at the very marrow of the strength of the Smith movement. Against it rises the alarmed “native,” who notes that these immigrants are | mostly wet and Catholic, in addition to being “foreign,” and who thereu embraces prohibition and Protestantism not necessarily as the marks of his per- sonal conduct, but as the badges of his “nativism” and “Americanism.” Such sentiments are swaying millions of voters, both men and women, but they come tq their peak of power among women, Wwith: whom pdrty " ties are lighter and instincts are stronger. Fear of the return of the saloon and of penniless pay days tends to make some- converts to Hoover even among the wives and daughters of urban wets, {In the end, ‘then, from any angle of analysis, the one force that can and does give: final battle to the party strength of -8mith in the South and to his “East Side” strength in.the cities of the North is the force let lopse by the woman-suffrage amendment to the | Federal Constitution. In’ the presence of ‘these tremendous and terrific social thunders and'lighte nings the two national political cam- paign organizations have behaved for the most part as if they were either bewildered or stupefied by the tempest. The Republicans have lost the bulk lof their old-time negro vote in the North by fatuously confiding their “‘col- ored division” to the care and control of intelleotual negroes who are not in any way the actual political leaders of their race, This disregard .for the actual. leaders has aroused against the Republicans a formidable negro revolt. ‘The Democrdts meanwhile, with equal fatuousness, have congentrated the con- trol of their party info the hands of a little knot of New Yorkers who are often eminent for .intellect or eminent for wealth, but who bear upon their personalities the manifest brand of the metropolis. This neglect of the claims of the second-rank cities and of the countryside rebounds against the Demo- crats in further charges to the effect that they now represent only primarily our most urbanized regions. Neither political national organiza- tion this year has elicited the slightest breath of spontaneous approval from our technical professional political be~ holders, The ‘campaign is reminiscent of the German student story which says that at the top of things there is the cavalry officer, and then there is nothing, and then there is nothing, and then there is the infantry office: In this campaign at the top there are two of the most extraordinary char- acters in all American history, Smith and Hoover, and then there is virtually nothing, and then there is virtually nothing, and then there is the mass of volers guiding ~themselves by those characters and by the correspondence between those characters and the decpest emotions of their hearts and Great Presidential Poker Game| N | it, uttering violent incantations. nal Pot in the' a certainty of victory in the following tates: In New England—Maine, New Hamp- shire, Vermont. In the Middle States— In the border States— West Virginia. In the Central West— Ohlo, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois the Prairie West—Iowa, Kansas. the Mountain West—Wyoming, Utah, Idaho. On the Pacific Slope—Wash- Ington, Oregon, California, hat is 205 electoral votes out of a needed majority of 266 in the electoral college, ‘The mass of the seeming certainties —with the emphasis still today on the word “seeming”—are on Hoover's side. Against them Smith's fighting chance is marked by fighting along almost every inch of the way. In the solid South the Hoovercrat re- | bellion seems indeed well put down in | South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana | and Arkansas. Its fires are meeting vigorous counterfires in Georgia, Florida and Alabama. It is still rising in great fury, however, In Virgin North Carolina and Texas. ¢ In the border region it comes to its severest intensity in the Bible belt States of Tennessee, Kentucky and Oklahoma. Outside the solid South, in faet, thete are few seeming certainties for Smith anywhere. He is thought by some objective Re- t;:uhucun observers to be making his | est headway against the Republican | forces, with victory inclining toward | his banners, In Rhode Island, Wiscon- sin, Montana, New Mexico and Arizona. He is conceded to be giving blow for | blow in Massachusetts, Connecticut. New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Mis- | souri, Minnesota and North Dakota. His valor is felt and feared, though not just now so acutely, in Delaware, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado and Nevada. Happy or not, Smith's task is cer- | tainly that of the warrior. He has few possessions. He has to be bent upon acquisitions. Or, to change the figur>: The time Is 2 o'clock. The game is to last till 3. Hoover sits with quite a stack of blue chips gained and saved in front of him. Smith's chips are mostly in the pot. Each flnyer must | win something out of the pot, but Smith | needs it much worse than Hoover. Hence a safe prophecy: Hoover will stall and stall tiI 3 o'clock, ?ll ing more and more like 2 wooden nd};nn‘ Smith the table and walk around and lr_:fin?l A will be intelligent for each candidate and each- candidate is going to do it. This campaign—to put it flagrantly flippently—will end in a wonderful round between a wooden Indian and a whirling dervish. (Copyright. 1928.) B Experts Seeking Solution{ Of Mysteries of Textiles | | BY HARDEN COLFAX. It may require, in the ordinary mind, | considérable stretch of the imagination | to visuallde any relation betwen a short skirt growing shorter during & rain- storm and a tire blowing out through failure of the fabric, or an electric wire causing a short circuit and stop- f"“ factory wheels because the insu- ation was “defective, but science sees nothing fantastic about it at ail. To sclence, the answer in each case might be plain shrinkage. any of the problems which con- front consumers of textile goods, both | those used industrially and those used about the person and household, were discussed here last week at a meeting of the textile committee of the Ameri- can Society for Testing Materials. The technologists composing this committee have solved many problems which com- monly arise, have tests under way which promise to straighten out others, and are trying to devise means for ap- Dro-chlnlL.sm more. ‘There is nothing of mystery or mnrlc or bunkum about science; it deals with cold facts. Therefore, members of this committee are using chemistry and mechanics, fire and water, the micro- scope and the camera lens, the X-ray and other forms of inquisition in their relentless pursuit of the answers to the uestion marks. The cries of anguish rom the cotton fields of the South may be those of hapless molecules which have been pinned down by some scien- tist who demands an answer to Wh: some cotton fibers spiral to the lel and others to the right. very consumer of textiles—and that means the entire population—and every roducer and every dealer has a stake what the members of this technical committee, and others working hlong similar lines who may not belong to this rticular. organization, are doing to mprove the quality of the raw products and the finished materials, and to dis- cover better ways of doing things. ‘The textile industry, in all its branch- es, i8 of huge proportions. The value of ‘lts fabricated products is second only to | foodstuffs; it is the first of all manu- souls. Hoover has the advantage of position because he {s grounded primarily on the established while Smith is engaged strategically in trying to upraise the new, facturing Industries in number of em- loyes and wages paid. It reaches heav- ly into agriculture, on one side, and into distribution, on another. Some of the subjects touched upon at this meeting of textile technologists will arise frostq £ And whenever the way seemed long Or his heart began to fail, She sang a more wonderful song Or told a more marvelous tale.’ “An Agassiz studies our rocks and| earth's structure to give us his legacy in ‘bending twigs’ in the fundamentals f geology, and Lowell says of him: “The beauty of his better self lives on In minds he touches with fire, in many an eye He trained to truth's exact severity; He was a teacher; why he grieved for him ‘Whose living word still stimulates the air? In endless file shall loving scholars come : The glow of his transmitted touch to share.’ “A Humboldt turns his God-given talents to the study of Mother Nature, and the fundamentals of physical geog- raphy become the inheritance of our twigs. So daddies of today and grand- daddies of tomorrow can help Incline their twigs if they are willing to make the effort.” * o Eulogizing one of Kentucky's three most famous products, Representative Virgil Chapman of that State gives us | an intensely lnv.eremn‘1 the development of t| strain: “The limestone formation underlying the blue grass region of Kentucky trans- mits to its soil an unsurpassed fertility and imparts to the blue grass itself sub- stance that incites J’h in horses that feed upon its luxuriance and gives to them bone and muscle and heart, speed, weight-carrying ability, endruance, stamina and mn!!e—qulu- ties that have brought to Kentucky's equine kings and queens the crown, of supremacy to the tan-bark ring and to her fleet-footed thoroughbreds the floral wreath of conquerors on the turf. “The blood of the Kentucky trotter in the remount service will carry on in artillery and transport horses. Gen. Basil W. Duke and Gen. John B. Castle- man, both knightly Kentucky gentle- men who rode with the intrepid John Hunt Morgan in the 60s, have left beau- tiful tributes to the superior qualities of the saddle-bred horse for cavalry serv. ice, elnquenfl& deplicting his powers of endurance, his smooth action and easy gaits, his cheerful response to kind and careful treatment. “Both the standatd-bred trotter and ‘the saddle-bred horse have a strong in- fusion of the patrician blood of the thoroughbred. Gen. Harbord said: * “This blood, above all others, carrles with it the qualities of courage, stamina and speed which are 5o essential to the saddle horse for military purposes. It will be a sad day for our country If it is permitted to disappear.’ “In reading the history of the thor- oughbred and his ancestors we learn that among the royal patrons of the horge centuries ago were Conqueror, Edward III, Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, James I, who rode horseback to Westminster Hall: Charles I, Charles II, who intro- duced Eastern blood into “England; James II and Willlam III, during whose reign appeared in England the first of three stallions, to one of which every modern English and American thor- oughbred traces ancestry in direct male line. He was an Eastern horse, Byerly Turk. "“The other two founders of the thor- oughbred race were Oodol!: Darley Arabian. Every other male line has disappeared. Not only does the word picture of e thoroughbred | thoroughbred trace his ancestry to those three sires, but the fastest trotters the world has produced are scions of the house of Hambletonian, a descendant of Darley Arabian, and the greatest saddle horses that ever carried the blue | ribbon . from a show ring traced their lineage through Denmark to Byerly Turk, the first of the triumvirate of founders of the thoroughbred race.” venture If stripped of their prosaic terms, Take this very matter of shrinkage of materials. Considerable is known about it and precautions are taken in the pr:r- aration and manufacture of textile d against shrinkage in the L. ' wisich might cause not only dismay to the woman whose garment suddenly assumed smaller pro- gonionn. but, in Industrial use, might ring about a disastrous accident. It is not only necessary to study the compo- sition of the fiber involved, but also the reaction of that fiber when placed in combination with others of its family or those of a different breed. At the same time, in order to get the full pic- ture, there must be a knowledge of stretch. In cotton, the greatest of the vege- table fibers and the most important agricultural crop from a monetary standpoint produced in the United States, tests are under way, some of them by members of this textile com- mittee and others by experts not fliated with this particular organization, which may revolutionize not only the uses of cotton, but its production and n:rlrk!llmnl‘u:‘l well. The mecl‘em:nt :! streng! e possesses sufficient prob- lems to keep the scientists busy for many months to come, for what ap- ars to be the strongest cotton fiber as t comes from the plant in the field may, when spun into yarn, prove to be in- ferior in strength to what was consid- ered to be a weaker variety at the pick- ing. The study of this subject Involves not only composition of the fiber, but a review of all the methods of manufac- ture, Somewhere along the line there is what now appears to a mystery, and the tov:l'mt'llo'?e are eager to unmi it. Involved the matter of finishing textile materials—the frocm which adds the final touches to the production, principally in the matter of appearance ~there are a thousand unknown quan- titles. For instance, does the copper which may ruin a fabric when an at- tempt is made to rubberize it for a rain- coat come from the bleaching to remove | the foreign substances just after the fabric has left the loom, or may some of it be traced to infinitesimal particles of metal which may wear off from the machine parts in spinning and wea: ? This is one of the questions which the textile committee of the American So- ciety for Testing Materials hopes to m;w:r at lgmls §utun ttm:;l leld for exact knowledge ex- ueer antics un influence of ordi o the atmosphere are of concern to the pro- ducer, the dealer, the manufacturer and &hgl mm\um{. i ore exact owledge of any of the hundreds of problems now involved in the textile flel oy ysical development | William the | sanitary measures, is the onl, Henry VII, | method hin sarb and | nary moisture from the | 1 | tricts were received and died within the It is of interest to note that the pur-| chasing power of what the farmer has| raised this season in terms of what he has to buy is the highest in eight years. Taking the country by the sections into which the bureau divides it for sta- tistical purposes, the spottiness of the results can be seen. The East: Haying and oats harvest- ing was accomplished in the face of a wet, difficult season. Generally the quality is good, but in many counties the rain damage is excessive. Oats are good. Corn indifferent in quality ut will fill the silos. Fruit crops gmvld disappointing and the potato arvest in most places was so poor as to indicate hardship for the principal growers who depend upon them for | their chief staple cash crop. The East- | ern dainy Industry is in good case with | milk prices rising and feed prices| declining. Crops Show Wide Variation. The South.—In the eastern section ot the South the boll weevil incidence has been high and rain and storms have | done heavy damage. Picking and gin- | ning is well advanced in the Gulf| States. In the western pertion of the | South cotton has been delayed by drought and the cotton is shedding off before maturing. So spotty have deen | rainfall conditions that other crs Pu stiow wide varfation in different sect'ons. The Corn Belt.—The hay and the wheat have been harvested, the harvest- ing having reached Canada, and Fall plowing for the new crop has set in with much complaint of hard, dry soil. While the corn crop has done well in Iowa and Northern Illinois, there has ween a lack of moisture in other corn- wyrowing sections and the cereal is hard- | ening too early. Both corn and live | stock are produced in the corn belt, and | while losses are being taken on the ¥lfnl they are recol?ed on the cattle, m;,nzpn cattle for feeding, however, are ced. ‘The Wheat Belt.--Wintor wheat growers are busy preparing the land for Winter wheat, but they, too, complain of | The general harvest is well adv: and prospects for late nut and fruit crops are good. In general the Department of Agri- culture thinks the farmers should be well pleased with the wheat outturn. In 1913 the crop was 763,000,000 bushels, in 1927 it was 873,000,000 bushels, and this year promises to be 891,000,000. Corn in 1913 showed ‘a harvest of 2,446,000,000; in 1927, 2,774,000,000. and this year 3,030,000,000. Living Standard Is Rising Abroad. It would almost appear that the heavy stocks of wheat now in storage, coupled with the large exports which already have gone forward, would result in little relief to the farmer froin the point of view of price. Supplies of 1927 wheat in storage in principal wheat-importing countries are materi~ ally greater than last year, and this year Canada has more wheat in stor- agé than ever before in her history. From Germany comes a dispatch that a wheat crop of 128,381,000 bushels, whioch s the largest crop ever pro- duced within the borders of Germany as constituted since the war, has been harvested. Rye, much more generally | used in Germany than here, also-shows an_increase. All this means—that is, a big crop here and a big crop abroad—that the export demand will be materially less | The world crop so far reported through | the International Institute of Agricul- ture at Rome shows a harvest for 1928 |of 2.563.415,000 bushels compared with 2,512,120,000 bushels in 1927. On the other hand, each year since about 1923 has seen a higher standard of living in Europe. Many countries consumed scarcely any white wheat bread at all, rye bread and black bread being the staple of the masses. Now, however, there has been a great hegira to the industrial centers and people have obtained jobs at good wages. Also there have been many government doles. The people of European countries havin become accustomed to white bread l‘lfi continue to demand it and this will in- substantially the whole demand. IF ifty fears Ag?)“ In The Star The following in The Star of Oc-| tober 8, 1878, regarding the yellow feves | Quarantine and (oo mioush S | ,/h.l" fll tast! 4 l:ev. ‘\ eral fan theo- Yellow Fever. [l ' ansmission | and cure were then entertained there was an unconseiously close approach to i;)lmlon through drainage and sanita- | tlon: . k | “It is evident that vigorous quaran- tine against the disease, combined with effective of fighting the yellow fever. The patent-coc man has perished in his own invention; the ice water and boil- ing water cures have been equally un- successful; the opium treatment has not checked the disease and the theor; that burning gunpowder would kill the fever germs is, like the powder used in the experiment, exploded. The pres- ent_epidemic is ascribed to the arrival | at New Orleans of the steamer Russia from Havana on the 8th of June. Thence the germs of the fever were carried to Memphis, Grenada, Browns. ville and the other afflicted cities and villages whose names have become fa- | miliar, The immunity of several towns in the fever districts has caused re- mark. Union City, Tenn., has not had 1 single case, though the fever has mad: its appearance in all the neighboring villages and though it is surrounded by swamps. The strictest quarantine has kept out the fever. Galveston, Tex. has enjoyed a similar immunity. The exception in this case is attributable to the energetic measures adopted by her citizens since the epidemic of 1867. The grade of the city has been raised 4 feet; the space beneath every building where wal stood has been filled up with sand and a thorough system of drainage has been introduced. The board of health, composed of physicians serving without pay, has enforced strict sanitary regulations in public streels and private houses. As a consequencc the once filthy, plague-ridden city has for 11 years been free from an epi- demic. In 1873 refugees from other dis- city limits, but no case originated there Consequently cleanliness is an effective protection against the disease; in its absence, which is the rule in Southern cities, the only security seems to be found in a quarantine that is carried even to extremes.” * % Fifty years ago.there was a sharp conflict between the “outside” and “in- side” market 12, Markets and and the following let- Monopolies. e ter printed in Star of October 1878, presents an interesting aspect of the matter: “We notice by last evening's Star that the inside market people or dealers are the District Commis- sioners to help them in their further attempts at man.omull.n(. The idea is 4o give the Commissioners aforesaid or some other authorized party the power to impose additionai "axes and restrictions uron the count:; pso&l: who occupy places for the sale of ir garden and other market goods, so that they may elther be driven away or practically un- able to compete with these inside dealers. It is most sincerely hoped that in this family fight or contest between the in- side and outside market people the most worthy Commissioners will not inter- fere. The present status of these market matters is bad enough indeed. | Every article, or nearly so, household matters is fully 30 per cent higher than it ought to or would be if healthy competition were allowed. Down with rings, combinations and mo- nopolies, especially in all that relates to our market!" * * % The location of - the Washington Monument on its site on the banks of 2a8.s the Poto Criticism of the w: nm:""mn :': Monument Site. Sa e ok letter in The Star of October 10, dicates: “T am one of those who cannot un- derstand why any one can enthusiastic- - uuww for or desire the completion o proved 50 years | o, This and That By Charles E. Tracewell. No two cats are alike in mental char- acteristics any more than they are in vsical appearance. ‘This needs restating for the benefit of ‘those who profess to believe jthat tht:ud animals are as alike as peas in a pod. Just as human beings differ from each other, so house cats vary, one be- ing kindly. another of a sour disposi- tion: one solemn, another Plly(yl: one intent cn being liked, and its mate not caring a whoop whether any one pets it or not. ‘The procession of cats which has ap- ared in this column during the past our years shows all this very well. First and foremost, of course, comes Jack Spratt, he. of the white . shirt front and the gooseberry-green eves, whose adventures have been standard Sunday morning read! for thousands. The various mental and physical traits of Spratt are well known to readers here, so that we will not go into details, except to say that he is of an ultra-affectionate disposition, spiced with a tendency to bite and scratch at times. a Little Nipper I and II come next: These two small tiger cats looked a reat deal alike, but were utterly, dif- lerent in disposition. The first Nipper was distinguished by has ability fo meow a perfect “All right” in response to the question, “How are you, Nipper?. His prize feat was to claw himself along rapidly upside down beneath the dav- enport. He vanished one day and has never been heard of since. The second Nipper, now living in another section of the city, is an in- tensely solemn little fellow, almost a runt, but a mighty warrior notwith- standing. .His chief trait is kindlines he never having'been known to bi or scratch a human being. Whe Jack Spratc likes to be petted, Nipp does not. * ko % A lady cat by the name of Burlei » was one of the first cats to visit backyard. She was a white and gro spotted animal, with a very affectiona disposition. There were two Egypts, No. 1 being all black, with a bad disposition. No. 2, black with white paws, W shirt front and white nose, Both were unlovely cats. . Old Blackie may be remembered by some readers. He lived in a vard nearby and came to vicit Jac: Spralf for dinner. One day, while we were rolling him over on his back, he bit us, following which we slapped him. He immediately left and was never seen again, much to our regret. Cat-O-War, sometimes called Cato. was a great white tramp cat that once assaulted Spratt by jumping down upon him the top of the fence. His paw was raised against every man and he possessed an amazing ability to dodge missiles. Peter Pauls, alias the Calico Cat, owing to his white coat spotted with brown, had a big head and a eye. While he would accept proffered meat, he would not allow the donor to pet him, but literally would bite the hand that fed him. A favorite evening diversion of poor old Peter Pauls was to fight with a big cat called Maltese for lack of a bet- ter. This cat had white feet and chest and possessed an unusually large head Rusty, a clown cat, with all-black coat, is still looking for Little Nipper, whose soclety he seems to miss. He may be seen prying around the back steps of the vacant house, as if de- termined to find the hiding place of his lost friend. Rhoda. she of the white coat spot- ted with light tan and gray, so that the total effect of her was pink, mysterious- ly disappeared after a week’s sojourn at Spratt’s home. She was a nice little cat, with a liking for Coxwell n there have been various cat visitors, including a part-Persian cat that drank milk and wanted in; Izazy, @ neighbor, sometimes ,called the Bear a , & small yeliow ummtmm&wzo(nmwl in the alley, & kitten that insisted on playing wit] grass clippers, 2 that looked Monument on its present site. e otherwise beautiful will mean a saving and | view of our city and its environs from an improvement in performance. Some | the opposite side of the river is marred of the answers may not be for years, but the experts are on the trail, and one by of mg slaught of facts. (Copyright. 1938.) Wouldn't 1t Be? From the Indianapolis Star. It must be terrible to be a Republican and have a particular preference for & Hoover seems well on his way toward would form a story of romance and ad- brown derby. one the breastworks | stery are falling before the on- ; discovered | by this crude white chimney that ob- trudes its tly bulk in the fore- ground and dwarfs every other archi- tectural feature of the p) t. The effect of the contrast on all the fine &\lblll.‘ bulldings is to reduce them to significance, and even the proper cen- tral figure of all—our magnificent Cap- itol—is painfully tamed by this thing. which can only be likened to a great daub of whitewash across some artist's masterpiece. : It is an unll!huy feature from any pont of view. It is difficuit B Nibper: and o big i siges mar ot into the basement one evening. to imagine why the present site wa: selected, as there are many so much better adapted for the p ; and ope, which cannot be nverm by those most indifferent to scenic effect, Is Spring Hill, just beyond Boundarv street, on the road to Bladensburg Placed on this elevation the Monument would seem to spring up into the back- ground with a weird suggestiveness and be a graceful complement to the Cap. itol, instead of being, as it now is, an indefensible intrusion.”