Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1928, Page 16

' EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €y SATURDAY; OCIOBER Providence stages a wild welcome for Gov. Smith on his campaign swing through New England. Through a storm of paper streamers and confetti, the Democratic candidate is seen waving the brown derby from his car as he passed along crowd-banked streets in the Rhode Island city. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos, With the Western flight abandoned because of weather delays, passengers and crew of the Graf Zeppelin are now preparing for the return trip to Germany. Lady Drummond-Hay, who has been waiting at Lakehurst for the expected overland flight, and members of the crew are shown looking from the cabin windows of the great airship. TIME FOR CATHOLIC SAYS MRS. ROSS Appeals to Voters to End In- tolerance by Electing Gov. Smith. By the Associated Press. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., October 27.—A plea to the voters of the Nation to “cast aside religious intolerance and bigotry by electing Al Smith to the presidency” was made here last night by Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, former Gov- ernor of Wyoming. Mrs. Ross addressed & capacity crowd in the Colonial Thea- ter. She made her appeal chiefly to ‘woman voters. The former woman executive said she believed the time had comé to elect a “well qualified Catholic to the presi- dency to answer for all time the ques- tion whether a Catholic citizen in this democracy is ineligible to all the privi- leges of citizenship.” Mrs. Ross lauded Smith for “un- fiinchingly approaching the prohibition question” in the present campaign. She criticized Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant United States ‘Attorney General, for what she describ- ed as “using the prestige of a high Federal office in an attempt to in- fluence great bodies of church mem- bers” against Gov. Smith’s candidacy. Would Elect Catholic. “Now, after 152 years of national life,” the speaker said, “I think it is time we were electing a well qualified Catholic to the presidency to answer for all time the question whether a Catholic citizen in this democracy is ineligible to all the privileges of citizen- ship while there are imposed upon him all of its obligations, not only of taxa- tion, but the offer of life itself in time of war to defend the liberty of the country. “It has not been many years since mothers of the land stood on the sides of the streets, their hearts in their throats, and tears in their eyes, watched the finest young manhood in the coun- try march off to an unknown fate— Catholic boys along with the Protest- ants. There was no thought then of religion; no suggestion that those Cath- olic boys should be exempt from ser ice; nor charge against them of shrin) ing or lack of valor upon the battlefield. 1 denounce now, in time of peace, as unworthy the precious heritage of American citizenship, and unworthy tae sacrifice of all our heroes in that war, any sentiment or conduct on the part of all our people that is based upon prejudice or injustice rather than fair- ness to all.” Takes Up Prohibition. In discussing prohibition, Mrs. Ross £aid “Prohibition is a subject loaded with dynamite. How unflinchingly does he (Gov. Smith) approach it. Even those who reject his proposed soluticn of this most baffling problem honor him for scorning to obscure his position in ‘weasel words,’ as Theodore Roosevelt once termed the language of evasion. The people are becoming thoroughly wearied and impatient with the hpocrisy that underlies so much of the discus- sion of prohibition. “I know that the law is flagrantly violated in every part of this country by a:most every element of society. It ie a matter of common knowledge that even lawmakers who tbe ap- SIBLEY HOSPITAL GUILD WORK SHOWN Exhibited to Baltimore Con- ference of Woman’s Home Missionary Society. Eight charts showing the work ac- complished by the Woman's Guild of Sibley Memorial Hospital during the past year were exhibited by Mrs. Joy Elmer. Morgan, president, and other Guild officers, at the two-day meeting of the Baltimore Conference Woman's Home Missionary Society last Tuesday and Wednesday. ‘The four departments of membership were represented by the Baby Guild chart, showing that Sibley babies had contributed $201 this year; juniors, $42; business men’s department, $1,257, and Sfe!;i:);os}uud, $1,257, making a total of $4,200. Other Charts Pictured. Other charts pictured the activities of the guild, such as the purchasing committee having bought 40 Morris chairs, waiting room furniture, 90 food tables and 58 bedside lamps; the chart for welfare work telling of $500 set aside each year from guild funds to aid little children needing hospital care; the sewing committee presenting a chart showing hundreds of garment made each year through volunteer work, and the linen shower chart giving a re- port of $3,000 for cash and linens re- ceived at the last linen shower. With October, membership month in Sibley Guild, drawing to a close, Miss Mary H, France, membership secretary, has completed plans for the roll call o be held on Friday night, November 2, at Rust Hall. Four division leaders, four associates and approximately 50 circle chairmen are working with Miss France to gather in all dues possible by that time. Urged to Join Guild. Membership funds will be used this year, it was announced, to purchase new sterilizers and steel wardrobes for Robinson Hall and a new sterilizer for the dispensary. No tickets are sold for benefits for Sibley Hospital and no persons are asked to tontribute except through the memberships and the linen shower, it was pointed out in a statement by Miss France, who requested that all who are interested in the work of the hospital jolxs]] the guild. The enrollment fee is 81. propriations for its enforcement do not scruple to set the example of violation to subordinates charged with the duty of enforcing it. Nor is indulgence on the part of judges who impose sentences upon offenders an unheard of occur- rence. “To me it is appalling that zeal for party triumph could induce Mrs. Mabel ‘Walker Willebrandt to use the prestige of a high Federal office in an attempt to influence great bodies of church members to believe that by fighting Gov. Smith’s election they are championing a great moral cause.” ARLELIER ‘The oldest business in London is said to be the ancient bell foundry where the American Liberty Bell was cast. It was origially established n 1570. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. [S—— Charles Evans Hughes, himself the Republican standard bearer 12 years ago, delivering at Arcadia Hall, in Chicago, the second of the five addresses he is making in behalf of Herbert Hoover's candi- dacy for the presidency. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. GLASS LAUDS SMITH IN SPEECH AT HOME Virginia Senator Applauded for Re- pudiation of Ecclesiastical Tyranny in Politics. LYNCHBURG, Va, October 27.— United States Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, speaking in his native city last night, received an enthusiastic wel- come from his fellow townsmen. While one audience filled the 'hal in which he spoke, amplifiers carried his ad- dress to an overflow audience assembled in_another auditorium. The Virginia Senator launched a scathing denunclation against corrup- tion, which he said had prevailed under Republican administration, and lauded the accomplishments of the Democratic party. He heavily scored those whom he said have sought to inject into the campaign questions which he said were not real issues. In comparison of the two presidential candidates, he-emphasized the qualifications of Alfred E. Smith, which he found to be outstanding when compared to those of Herbert Hoover. “But they say,” he told his audience, “that the real issue is not how much the Republican party stole, but whether Al Smith takes a toddy. Some people i seem to think it is a crime to take a | drink, but a virtue to steal everything in sight.” Senator Glass closed his address with an appeal to the people of his home city not to throw away “the birthright of Thomas Jefferson.” He brought the crowd to its feet with his final declara- tion that if the people of Virginia want- ed a Senator who would bow to eccle- mfigffil tyranny, they could not have Wild animals killed 2,285 people in India during 1927, and snakes no fewer than 19,069. Tigers were responsible for 1,033, and wolyes for 465 deaths; 4,388 tigers were ahot the year. Stefansson Holds Course of Empire Is Northward Rather Than to West By the Associated Press TORONTO, Ontario, October 27— Vilhjalmur Stefansson, famous Arctic explorer, told the Empire Club here that the old statement “‘westward the course of empire takes its way” now should be changed to “northward.” Starting with the birth of civilization on the tropic of Cancer each succeeding cycle of 1,000 years has seen a north- ward trend, he said. “‘Just because the Arctic is the tradi- tional home of Santa Claus,” he con- tinued, “people imagine the place is unreal and therefore impracticable. Re- cording thermometers of Fort Yukon have shown an average temperature of 80 and 90 degrees in the Summertime and a maximum temperature of 100 degrees in the shade. At Great Bear Lake trees grow 100 feet high, are close together, large in diameter and not stunted in any way.” Commending the north as a desirable and practicable portion of the earth, Mr. Stefansson said that “the people who leave Chicago for Winnipeg be- cause of Economic reasons are the kind wk;"ah will leave Winnipeg for points north.” PRINCETON STUDENTS LOSE FIGHT T0O VOTE By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J, October 27.— Princeton students lost their fight for the right to vote at the coming general election under instructions given cut yesterday by the Mercer County Elec- tion Board. Members of the district boards at Princeton, who were summoned into conference with the board, were or- dered to carry out the State law, which requires a year’s residence in New Jer- sey and five months of uninterrupted residence in the county. County board members said the five months’ provision hars most, of the stu- dents from voting. Any student whose residence is ques- tioned will have to sign an affidavit set- ting forth his claims of residence before he will be permitted to vote. All cases will be considered individually. ‘The ruling followed upon an appeal of the students, about 200 of whom were refused regmnmn by.the second dis- trict board. ° Dr. John Grier Hibben, president of the University, and Dean Christian Gauss appeared before the county ‘board earlier in the week to ;u:rmnt general claims of student resi- BALLOT IS QUESTIONED. Wyoming System’s Validity Raised by Lawyers. CHEYENNE, Wyo., October 27 (#).— Question of the validity of Wyoming's new ballot system to be used in the general election which provides for the voting for presidential electors and the presidential and vice presidential candi- dates all in one square, was raised here yesterday by lawyers. Opinion was expressed that the ballot is not in accordance with the consti- tution of the State in that it denies! the elector the privilege of expressing his choice of the six presidential elec- tors. Under the new ballot, Wyoming electors will cast their vote in one square for the presidential and vice presidential candidate and the three presidential electors. In past elections, electors have had the &'lvllm of vot- u]:g mlndivldmlly for the presidential electors. o The brillant birds of paradise are all found in New Guiana and the sur- rounding islands. Their closest rela- tions are members-of the crow family. 1 ot ‘Members of the Women’s Democratic Club of Montgomery County planting s tree as a memorial ¢o Woodrow Wilson yesterday at the Glen Echo-Cabin John School The spade is held by Mrs. C. E. Roach, president of the club. —=Star Staff Photo. The fuel yard at Lakehurst is a busy place as hundreds of these storage tanks, lined up in long rows, are made ready for refueling the Graf Zeppelin, preparatory to the return flight to Germany. The fuel cells of the giant dirigible have a capacity of 735,000 cubic feet of blau gas, the new type of fuel used for the air- ship's five big motors. Ghosts and witches frolic in school Halloween play. Fourth grade youngsters of the Jackson School, R street between Thirtieth and Thirty-first streets, costumed for their playlet, “ Shadows on the Moon,” given at the school yesterday. —Star Staff Photo. END OF INTOLERANCE DEMANDED BY RITCHIE Blames Anti-Smith Forces for In- jecting Religious Issue Into Campaign. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 27.—Appealing to the people to root out religious in- tolerance “for the sake of our common brotherhood,” Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland in a speech here last night charged the anti-Smith forces with re- sponsibility for the religious issue in the presidential campaign. He said there is a “determined, or- ganized, un-American effort to defeat Gov. Smith because of his religious faith, and for no other reason what- ever.” Statements made by ‘“political parsons, Ku Kluxers and bigots that Smith or his supporters are injecting this issue in the campaign, or that it is a smoke screen for the wet cause,” are untrue, he asserted. “The truth is,” Gov. Ritchie added, “that the wet issue is being used as a camouflage by those who are against Smith because of his religion, and in exposing this and fighting this, Smith and his supporters are really exposing and fighting as vicious and dangerous an assault as has ever been made on the cardinal tenet of American liberty.” He branded as ‘sheer bunk” talk about the Pope or the Catholic Church interfering with American politics or Government. “The defeat of Smith because of his rellflon and the injustice of this to the Catholic Church are inconsequential compared to the evils that are sure to result’ from this injection of the re- ligious issue into politics,” he said. “Once started no man can tell its end.” Brown trout w to 30 pounds or more in New Zealand, and average more than double the size of the same in English waters. Yet all New Zea- land’s _brown trout came originally Irom - Great - Britaln, DECLARES HOOVER —Copyright by P. & A. Photos, URGES “VENTURES AIDED SMITHCAUSE, N GOVERNMENT Raskob Says New York Speech Won Farm Votes for Governor. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 27.—John J. Raskob, Democratic national chairman, said yesterday that reports from his party workers indicated that Herbert Hoover’s speech here last Monday night “has helped tremendously” the Smith cause in the agricultural Northwest. At the same time other leaders said reports received at Democratic national headquarters stated that Senator Jo- seph.. T. Robinson, Democratic _vice presidential candidate, had been re- ceived “with great enthusiasm” in North- Dakota this week, and this was at- tributed in large part to the speech. - Claims Many States. While national headquarters were claiming New Jersey, “the solid South” and all the so-called “border States,” Mr. Raskob said he felt confident of three New England States—Connecti~ cut, shire; Indiana in the Middle West and Oklahoma, “We haven't any doubt about Con- necticut_or Massachusetts at all,” he said. “In fact, we expect Gov. Smith to carry New Hampshire. It is only a question of how much the French vote is opposed to him. Senator Moses ought to concede New Hampshire, just to show there are no hard feelings. “We feel very certain of Indiana now. The section up around Gary seems to be with Smith, and that is the sec- tion that has been strongly in the Re- publican column. Hoover's New York speech apparently helped us tremend- ously through the Northwest. And now all our people in Oklahoma, for the first time, have unanimously the feeling that Oklahoma is safe for Smith.” Credits Thorough Organization. ‘The optimistic outlook in Oklahoma, he said, was due to tharough organi- zation work. “In the Northwest, though,” he added, “it is attributed to Hoover's speech and to Senator Nor- ris of Nebraska coming out for Smith.” Mr. Raskob predicted that following upon Gov. Smith’'s Philadelphia and Baltimore speeches there would be a great change of sentiment toward him. When asked what the speeches were to be about, however, he said he did not know. “I think few people appreciated be- fore the governor went through New England the real enthusiasm people have for him here in the industrial East,” he said. “I think the reception he got up there has sort of opened people’s eyes to a strength they did not think he had heretofore. There has been so much stress laid on religious bigotry that it has overshadowed some- what his real strength.” —_— Since_the opening of the Delaware River Bridge, from Philadelphia to Camden, there has been an increase in the number of horse-drawn vehicles filx'xz t‘ho m!emal t:‘% %mu the river. otor traffic on e and the steep incline make un;’efll‘on it for horses a.hardghip, Massachusetts and New Hamp- | Norman Davis Praises Demo- cratic Share in Federal Reserve Act. By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., October 27— Economic conditions in America de- mand a “venture” and only a Liberal party has ever made ventures in Government, Norman Davis, New York capitalist and Undersecretary of State during the . Wilson administration, said In an address here last nfght in the interest- of the candidacy of Go:. Smith. “The Federal reserve act was a ven- ture,” ‘he sald, “and the ‘only thing the Republican party--contributed to it was opposition. Now " leading Re- publicans and virtually all business men agree that it is most. constructive plece of legislation in recent; years.” Davis ridiculed the Republican claim of prosperity and said that if the tariff would solve the farm problems, the l‘::fli)’ should have been applied be- “Two of the greatest paying business in America are the automobile industry and the hip flask industry” he said, “and both lucts are unprotected.” The Republican party has erected a “man of straw,” Davis said, and pro- ceeded to discuss the “false issues” which he listed as religion and Tam- mm‘l!he Hall. . b * Anti-Saloon - League,” the speaker said, “which was founded and still is controlled by the Ohio gang, has hired many of our ers to quit preaching Christ to preach politics. The league has hired some to abandon the preaching of the gospel and to disregard two of God's com- mandments: ‘Thou shalt not steal’ and ‘thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.’ " Davis, who was born in Tennessee, said the South has owed Tammany Hall ln] debtldvg’ “;a&ltude since the organiza- lon a fefferson in esf hing Democratic party. g ki —_—— HOOVER SEEN AS WINNER. Billy Sunday Tells Virginians Smith Cannot Be Elected. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., October 27 n‘?-—Rfl}l'. k;,W‘Dl.uhm A. ‘&‘:") Sunday, tionall Wn_evangelist, addressing his first Virginia political audience here last, predicted a national majority for ggrben Hoover in the November elec- n. Gov. Smith, he said, cannot be elected because he is “a Catholic in a Prot- estant country; a wet in a dry coun- try and a Tammanyite inp an honest country.” Also_addressing the g:]thermg here i Saioon of the audience, tions to_defeat Gov,