Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1928, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY......November 16, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bus'ness Of d ce- 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave New York Office 110 East i2nd St. icago Office’ Tower Building: Europcan Office 13 Regent St.. London. England. Rate by Carrier Within the City. he Evenine Star . The Evening and Sunday Star (when 4 Sundays) The Evening and S (when undays The Sunday Star = 5S¢ per copy Collection made at the end of cach month Orders may bs sent in by mail or telephone Main ~000. . 60c per month unday Star ) 65c per month Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 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These poor people, | saved from the sea after long exposure, | tell their tales with perfect honesty of | purpose, but with some range of incl-% dent and with much feeling, naturally | aroused by their sense of hardship nnd" ill treatment. | 1t should not, however, be difficult o piece out the true story of what oc- curred on the Vestrls before the final; plunge into the sea. Those who arc| conducting the investigation in New | York, which is being held as a means of estabiishing the testimony while it 15 | most fully available, should be capable | of discounting hysteria and imagination | and determine whether the crew broke discipline and maltreated the pas- | sengers, whether the life-saving equip- | ment was competent and dependable, and whether the ship was in peril for any considerable length of time before the call for help was sounded. ' Thus far there has been but little variation in the testimony of the sur- vivors, members of the crew and pas-| sengers, from a tale of negligence, in- competence, mismanagement and fail- | ure on the part of those charged with the safety of the ship's company. These witnesses are testifying under oath be- fore a Federal court in New York. As witness after witness takes the stand and tells what was seen personally the tale becomes more gruesome, more hor- rifying. The worst. aspects of inhuman- ity are presented. There are two points to the inquiry— was the ship properly conditioned, and ‘was she properly manned and officered? On both points there is now testimony in the negative. It is, of course, not yet concluded, but the prospect is that little | will_be advanced to show the contrary of the demonstration of a cranky ship, | badly stowed, with undependable life- saving equipment, with carelessly han- | dled coai ports through which the waters poured, with an utter collapse of discipline in the hour of danger and, most mysterious of all, the complete; failure of the commander’s judgment | and power of control in the crisis. t While this ship was of foreign regis- try, owned by a company organized and chartered in Great Britain, the Ameri- can Government has jurisdiction over this disaster in that the ship was oper- ated on a regular route from and to an American port. It was subject to Ameri- can rules of seaworthiness. It was in- spected by representatives of this Gov- ernment. They, it would appear, gave it a certificate of fitness for sea. Upon them rests some of the responsibility. 1¢ it should turn out that the ship was not sound in any particular when she left port. American official share of accountability is inescapable. But for the manegement of the vessel at sea. for the failure of judgment on the part 45¢ ver month | | Christmas savin { tawrs | would like to see the Democrats submit | a splendid gesture. As a practical polit- THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. . €., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER _T6. 1928, otherwise save. But experience has demonstrated to the contrary. It pays to take an ordinary savings account, dress it nicely in holly and red berries, give 11t a fansy name and leave the rest to imagination. These who otherwise might never think of depositing fifty jeents a week regularly in an ordinary savings account will let nothing deter them trom remaining members in good standing of a Christmas Savings Club. In the last few years the Christmas | Savings Clubs have grown so healthy and fat that they have attain-d a real cconomic significance. Here in Wash- ington the close of their books means | | the release of some seven million dol- 'lars, a large part of which wili add to i the flood of cash which always circus | |1ates at+Christmas. Throughout the | |country ecight thousand banks and | financial institutions will distribute more than half a billien dollars in Much of it will 20 into the purchase of such temporary | things as red fire engines and china | dolls, but the greater proportion will be used to balance the family budgst and start the new ycar with a clean slate and another savings account book. 5 O | The Democrats’ Dilemma. Gov. Smith’s “hail and farewcll” to ‘he Democratic party adjured them to eschew the merely oppositional deg-in- the-manger attitude and “formulate and adopt” a “constructive” program. If thwarted by the Republicans in Cbn- gress, quoth Gov. Smith, the Democrats could go to the country in 1932 with “every promise of suceess. A Democratic leader quoted in the news columns of The Evening Star ye: terdey dismissed the late presidential candidate’s admonition as “something easy to say, but almost impossible to do.” Ther: is more truth than poctry in that observation. Formulation of a | Democratic program is one thing. Tts| adoption would turn out to be a horss ! of an entirely different color. The skeptical Democratic spekesmat m of Gov. Smith’s advice to the party. On every major issue now confronting the coun- try the Democrats are on the horns of a dilemma. They are a| house divided against itself. They hold divergen: views on the tariff. They do; not agree on water power—whether that | public utility should be government- | owned or privately owned. Some of them want a Great Lake: to-the-sea waterway via the St. Law- rence. Others prefer an “all-Ameri- can” route. On farm relief the Democrats are as many-minded as the Republicans. On foreign af-| Democratic ranks contain friends and focs of projects af- fecting Latin America, the League of Nations, war debts and a hest of other international issues. Some Democrats are big-navyites. Others, pacifistically | inclined, are opposed to expansion of the American fleet. These are all issues which would| necessarily be part and parcel of a great | party’s national program. Gov. Smith | n | such a program to Congress in the party’s name. How long does he suppose the embattled hosts which succumbed on November 6 would have to sit, and debate, in convention assembled before | they could get together on anything entitled to the description of a paity program? As a heartening message to cohorts | in the dumps of a disastrous defeat at the polls, Gov. Smith's valedictory was ical formula, his Democratic confreres do not appear to assess it so highly. ———at——— Freak Bet-Payers. ‘The usual outerop of freak and fool- | ish election bets has come this year,| wagers that are not heard of at the| time they are made, but which come to public view after the ballots are cast and the losers begin their public pen- ances and performances in expiation for their bad judgment or overenthu- siasm. One case is just reported from | Harlingen, Tex,, where a man is now engaged in rolling a peanut with his nose a mile a day for cleven days. The other day in this city an election bet loser rolled a straw hat down one of the | public streets with a golf club. All over | the country bet losers have been carting winners in wheelbarrows. Placard wear- t | of 1ite stories 1s by no means\new. But previous compilations of this sort have been rather mechanical and incomplete. The history of a nation has been re- garded as the biographies of its states- men, soldiers and clergymen. The ed- itors of the present work have swept THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. H | that T reccive a salary from the Red | 44 thy aside this view. War, government and religion are important activities and their leaders inevitably are notable fig- ures in history, but other fields are just as imporitant. Who would venture The search for the perfect cup of to embrace her, to say, amid the cheers the connoisseur into |of the assembled crowd, “Folks, behold strange places and adventures. Haunts | the only public servant who ever had of all sorts of men are visited, adven- |enough sense to see that I liked my tures chiefly noted for whimsy are en- | coffee light!" | /No Red Cross Salary Paid Miss Bnardman| To the Editor of The Star: i A report has reached me that there is | a rumor in circulation in Washington Cross T would be indebted to you if you would kindly publish this lotter to refute the statement. ¥ |tion in Washington to serve you in any ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN. This is a_special department devoted e handling of inquiries. You have | at your disposal an extensive organiza- eracity that “relates fo tnformation. | Write your Qumhfl. your name Iflg‘ nts | countered. Years of search lead the secker to the | who honestly insists that he can go on to compare the effect on American life of the invention and distribution of the automobile ard the telephone with that of any event of war or statecraft? Who would venture to compare the eventual cfiect of a famous victory with the eventual cffect of the broeding of a new strain of wheat or the building of a railroad? . So the editors of the Dictionary of Amcrican Biography have found their 16,000 outstanding Americans among authors, artists, scholars, scientists, ed- i hu_;nanil.\'. eisaith oitic verv. Iiteak ucators, physicians, lawyers, clergymen,| Two men listening to the very 1a te philanthropists, statesmen, _saldiers, | (.08 1 radlo loud speakers wil fns zailors, merchants, bankers, industrial- | their verdict. , menufacturers. engineers, techni- | I8 tone is 190 deen., ciens, journalists. labor leaders. arti- | oypor. gha sans, agriculturist sportsmen and: So it goes through all the walks and many other groups. | affairs of life. From books to beans, + > | no twe agres. s2 that thers is place for The authors have striven to give a a1l of them inithe strange. glorious com- clear account of each man's work. But | plexity of Amsrican life. the biogra are far more than me- * o chanical enumerations of events. Each There was the ‘dark-cyed soda foun- sketeh presents a lifelike. accurate pic- | tain girl who astonished the connoisseur turs of & man himself, his hercdltary,by offering him extra cream for his background end hisenvitonment, There | o Sra oty Pk neked, It was the first time in his life that is a consistent effort to make possible |any one had proficred an additional a true evaluation of the forces which | amount of cream without a strongly make such leaders possible. vo'ced wish for the same. e | "He could scarcely believe the soft ST | volce that said, “You want some more This National Capital is entitled to | CH‘EYm. do}r‘\‘lgyaosl;)?d o) 121 v “Yes." he ed. fecl encouraged by the election to the He sat in amazement before presidency of a man who has Been | brimming cup of cofee and his many years a resident instead of being | \'cl{iv shmnll Jugdfls crfiam, ki cqu: v ‘i e happened fo be one - acquainted only occaslonally with the |perents of the Light Coffee School, the inside appearance of the railway sta- | opposition party being the Black Coffee tion. | School. These two schools of thought on cof- foe claim 99 per cent of the drinkers of this brew. admit the need of repose. Thomas| Cur friend liked his “very light.” de- spite the admonition of the doctors, Edison is the one prominent pe . . personage |08 " claimed that the addition of cream |to coffce resulted in the formation of substances which literally tanned the lining of the stomach. He had a particular shade in his honest belief that the perfect cup of coffee nowhere exists except in the mind, where perfection is seen to be possibls but not very probable. Just as every pipe smoker envistons {the ons perfect tobacco, but scarcely ever finds it, so the coffce drinker can | imagine what he seldom if ever tastes. This is no reflection upon the eoffee bean. nor upon the growers, blenders, packers, grinders. A human taste, whether it be for art, music, coffes, racios, automobiles or whatnot, rema‘’ns a_human taste stll, with all the vagary and changeableness instinct in th2 likes and dislikes of says one. declares the * ¥ his - All the active political contestants indefinitely doing without sleep. e — | A professional race- track tout goes | particulor tint of light coffee was the result of leaving about, three-eighths of an inch of space at the top of the cup |of average strength, R Most, dispensers insisted on leaving on every entry. A few political fore- casters pursue pretty much the snms; method. e e A vessel engaged in ocean should not be allowed to depart from its':"xffl}gm;”{,‘;‘“;fi{’fi; cggul}nhdfl “!:;‘«*gc port without a careful inspection of jjked it, and sometimes he didn't. crew and eargo by an efficiency expert.| Most of the time he didn't. he farmer receives an immense | E & amount of sympathy. None of it, how- ]m:nfie n‘;fls {Zir ll{‘n 2:‘:; with a nice ever, is in a form to be utilizd at the |younz lady who softly asked, “You * | want some ‘more cream, don't you?" Pkl 0i | "85 saying, she handed him a second While it may be a “quiet inaugura- ,“ 5—19 almost foll "in love with that tion” in Washington, D. C., the prelim- |young woman on the spot, He Ionged inaries in South America will undoubt- | edly be very jubilan WASHIN(;TON one | mind to which cach cup of coffee had | through the crowd and whispers a tp |45 arrive before he really liked it. This | travel | but one-eighth of space. Requests, pleas, | time in his | - o SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOIINSON ‘Wide Open Spaces. “Where are the wide open spacea?" Said friend Cactus Joe with a tear. They've put up those gas-filling places To welcome mankind, far and near. The high-powered bootlegzer scurries His wares ‘crost the prairie to bring:’| The racketeer busily hurries Where once the coyote was king. “Where are the wide open spaces®” They've vanished, alas, here; But the sunset in cloudland still traces | New pathways ta welcome or fear. The airman his course boldly reckons And rides toward a prospeet so fair; Content, as his destiny becxons To wide open spaces up taere. from down | Ever Votinz. “People love politics,” said th> ob- | servant citizen. “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. “We love the contest for position, Hav- | ing settled the presidential contest, we | are now preparing for a vote to decide who shall have the honor of being Santa Claus at our next Sunday school | Christmas tree.” | i Jud Tunkins says fortune tellers are | wise people. They're willng to tell whether you are in love with a blonde | ers are numerously in evidence. Beard- |or a brunette, but none of them ever RY FREDERIC Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis will be chosen President and Vice Pres- ident of the United States, respectively, under an electoral college_system util- ized for the first time. The electoral votes of 48 States will be sent to Wash- ington by registered mail instead of be%ng brought here, as hitherto, by spe- cially designated messengers. —An act of Congress, which went into effect last yeor. is responsible for the change. Its author is Representative Hatton W. Sumners, Democrat, of Texas. Inci- | dentally, a little piece of glorious graft goes glimmering. ~Practically ever since the foundation of the Republic messen- gers bearing electoral votes have been dispatched to the District of Columbia at a remuneration of 25 cents a mile for this trip to and fro. In the case of those who had to cross a large sction of the country the iob was | always eagerly coveted. Somectimes the messenger was himself an elector se- lected by his colleagues. Often he was a party worker, wh ward in the form of a Washingion theory, in proposi v-ride to as fast and reliable mafls did not exist. * ok ok X Two famous diplomats—an American and a Chinesc--met under interesting circumstances at a German embassy dinner in Washington the other night. Ambassador von Prittwitz's guest of honor was Dr. Jacob G. Schurman, the United States Ambassador to Germany Next in order of rank at the festiv board was Dr. Alfred Sze, Chinese Min ister to the United States. When Am- bassador Schurman was president of o received his re- | J Representative Sumners’ | ing a change in the law, was that the old system was a | relie of the dark ages, when such things | | Beinz a man of modest and mmnnl | disposition. he gzave up that scheme. | and bethought himself of the expedient of sending some chrysanthemums to the young lady. He wrote the card in his mind: | “To the only girl who ever gave me |all the cream I wanted for my coffee.” He pictured her amazement. when recefving the flowers, and finding the card. He listened to the gibes of her! fellow workers, and later saw himself | sitting once more before the counter. wondering if she would know. The question was, of course, to find out_her name. Just es he got up courage to ask her she started away to wait upon another | customer, and 'he never managed to | summon up enough nerve again. | 8o the young lady went without her | | chrysanthemums. ~ although she never ]mlssl‘,d them, for she never knesw she was in danger of getting them. | | 1 The connoisseur is almost, led to h!-‘ | lieve that employes of coffee-dispensing | firms are forced by their hard-hearted | | employers to purchase the cream with | their own earnings, so tenderly do they handle it, so niggardly are they in serving it to consumers who demand | light coffee. Dispensers have two mean tricks in keeping the coffee drinker from secur- ing as much cream as he needs to | maks his cup palatable for himself. The first is to put the cream into the cup themselves. By this method | the coffee is taken out of the hands of the consumer completely. He takes what he gets. The sad part of it is that he never gets really light coffee, but a mere mockery of the same. The other method, equally expedient. is to permit the consumer to pour in the cream, but only to leave him enough space to put in ahout one- fourth as much as he wants. If the obstinate wight insists on filling the cup | to the brim he will spill part of the | drink over his trousers and shoes as he | attempts to carry it away. This, according to the pecunious dis- penser, serves him exactly right. One way that the customer can “get back" at the counter man is to slop the coffee out of the cup, thereby making a mess for the white-jacketed fellow to mop | | i up. . The search for the perfect cup leads | one into little restaurants on side | streets, into great hotels, in all sorts and i styles of hostelries where one may or may not find an approach to what he seeks. Pate plays him strange tricks. The young man of whom we have | spoken was so pleased with his fine cup |of coffee, and with the extra cream. and with the girl, that he bragged of | | the trio to some friends. | “Come with me.” he said, “and T'll buy you one of the best cups of coffee you ever drank.” H When they got there the cupboard was bare. The pretty girl was gone, and in her | stead was a cowlike creature. The coffer was so strong that it was a wonder strain. | And the cream was sour. OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM TILE, lacked—could have for Senator.” *ow ok Houghton whol beaten Copeland i * No election of recent times let the melting pot come into its own more vividly than the poll of November 6. Of the 33 new United States Senators elected 2 are of foreign birth. A na- tive Mexican enters our Congress for the first time in the person of former Gov. Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo, Re- publican, of New Mexico, who was elect- ed for the short term ending March 4, 1929, to fill the seat held by the late Senator Jones, Democrat, of New Mex- ico. Gov. Larrazolo was born in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, in 1850, but, he has lived in the United States for nearly 60 years and held many offices in New Mexico. The other new Ssnator of alien birth is Judge Felix Hebert, born in Quebee. This French- Canadian. a Republican. will inherit | the place of Senator Peter Goelet Gerry Democrat. of Rhode Island. N R -t isn't often that two of the great- est lawyers in the country face cach other in the courtroom, one as counsel |and the other as witness undergoing rigorous cross-examination. Such was the unusual spectacle just presented in Washington during the perjury trial {of Col. Robert W. Stewart, Standard Oil magnate. The lawyer was Frank J. Hogan, the brilliant and triumphant | defender of Doheny; the witness was Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Democrat, of Montana, regarded by most authori- ties as the leading legal light of Con- gress and chief prosecutor of the oil scandals. Hogan and Walsh have been at daggers drawn ever since the Sena- T have been a volunteer in Red Cross | your address clearly and inclose 2 ce service for some 28 years. 1 have never |in coin or stamps for reply. Send to | teer their services, but pay their own {annually for the members who come from the Fed Cross. My services are | given and T er have received a sal- | ary. I have paid 2ll my own expenses | in’traveling Tor the Red Cross all over the United States. from the Atlantic ‘o | the Pacific, from the Great Lakes to the | Gulf. I have always paid my own ex penses and T have contributed to all of its appeals to the best of my abilit In the raising of funds for the new Memorial Building, in addition to our contribution, my mother and I met all the expenses of raising the fund. T desire to have the false information that has been circulated corrected May 1 take also this opportunity to state that Judge Payne, the chairman of the central committce, not only | aives iis zervices but pays all his own expenses. Mr. Bicknell. who is in charge of faseign operations, is also a volunteer. The treasurer of the Red Cross, myself as secretary and the counselor are all volunteers. The mem- bers of the central committee, from all parts of the country, not only volun- expenses in attending meetings. This amounts to some hundreds of dollars from distant. points of the country, such as the Pacific Coast. | called 1 think it justice fto t*> officers of the organization these facts should be made known. The officers of the chapter are aii volunteers, and 822 volunteers in the chapter gave over 34,000 hours of vol- unteer service during last year. 1 would appreciate the publication of this letter for the sake of justice. MABEL T. BOARDMAN. Secretary, the American National Red Cr ———— Says Taxpayers Pay. Gadets” Trip to Foot Ball Games Declared Pleasure Jaunts. To the Editor of The Star: | received any remuneration in any way |The Evening Star Information Bureau, | Fred-ric J. Haskin, director, Washing- ton, D. C. Q. Are the funds needed for the re- | conditioning of Old Ironsides now in | hand?—E. G. A. Two-thirds of the necessary funds have been collected. Tt is costing about twice as much to rebuild Old Ironsides as it did to build it originally. Q. How old is the President of Ar- gentina?—S. E. N. A. Argentina has recently inaugu- | \rated Hippolito Irigoyen as President. | He is 80 years of age and is serving his second term. He is unique among pres- ‘ |idential candidates in never having | Imade a public specch in his own be- | half. Q. When did the schism among the uakers take place:—&. W. A. The separation or schism amonz | ;th! Quakers occurred in 1827-28 and | !was due to several causes. The imme- diate occasion was the preaching and teaching of Elias Hicks, who promul- gated doctrines closely approaching Unitarian views. More than one-half {of the Friends of the Middle States fol- {lowed Hicks. the “Hicksite.” Q. What tude?—F. J. A. Horse latitude” is the name given 'to the belt of calms in the North At- lantic Ocean between the region of i westerly winds of the higher latitudes and the region of trade winds of the Torrid Zone. Authorities differ in re- igard to the origin of the name, some ‘!‘lflim\n: that it was derived from the | fact that vessels with a cargo of horses { were often so delayed on account of the I “Orthodox” and the is meant by horse Mti- calms that the animals perished from [lack of water, Q. What. de the names “Pagliacei” and “Punchinello” mean?—L. W. K. A. The name “Pagliacci” means the “strolling players.” “Punchinello” is | | synonymous with “‘clown.” “Punch”—of |for a love bird>—W. B. P, the | food ‘The two divistons were | Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson, each of whom served two terms. How many daily papers are pn® in Paris?>—8. M. Paris has 50 dailies weeklies. Q. What is the name for the ami tion of some persons—a terror depths?—J. A. B. A. “Bathophobia” means a.“fear depths.” Qri What is St. Bernard's Symbol ‘A The symbol of St. Bernard is 1 beehive. It typifies eloguence. Q. What temperature Q. lished and ¢ is necess: A. The love bird is a kind of par: 1t is a tropical species and must b & quite warm and the air fairly moist. Q. Are the Hawaiian commemorat half dollars for sale in this country F.P. D A. The Capt. Cook Sesou: half dollars were all sent to H None of these half dollars was sold the United States Q. What is the most common me food with the Chinese?—E, T. A. While cattle, hogs, sheep and fi provide part of the meat, diet in Chin | probably the most. common of all me: i 15 poultry. Many varleties chickens. ducks and geese afe rajsc rand eaten. | Q. Does damp ;dry air’—K. M. | /A Damp air weighs less than drv a: The dampness is due to the vapor « | water in the air, and vapor of -vat- is lighter than most of the other gas { of the atmosphere. Q. What is darso?—E. P. | A Darso is a_grain sorghum of n | known origin. It is probably a er: | between a saccharine sorgaum 2nd 1 non-saccharine sorghum. Q. How did alunin! start?—E. M. A. The organization of those whe hav been students is characteristic of Atrer ican schools. The first aiummni asso- ciation was established at William ‘colleze in 1821. TFor hery Yus— }nlumm organizations were chiefly ro- | cial, affording opportunity for the re- r weigh more thr assoetrhio, 1 was amused under your eaption. “Punch and Judy” fame—is an ab- union of friends. As these association: in last night's to Questions.” Answers to Q Haskin had to Star to read what Mr. say to the question as to who paid the cadets’ way when they attend foot, ball games away from the academy. These trips, of course, are purely pleasure trips and could in no way be considered essential to the training of the cadets. Mr. Haskin answered that the United States Militery Academy paid the expenses. Why not admit, that we, the taxpayers, pay these un- necessary expenditures? Time was when you might have f the people by such an answer as Mr. Haskin's, but you can’t fool the genera- tion of today. HULDAH W. RANDELL. M S ' Leaf-Green of Plants the “eup “could stend the| Found Old Age Remedy nave BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. ooled some of | | breviation of the name “Punchinello. | Q. 1s there any place on earth where there is no twilight?>—R. C. A. The Weather Bureau says that twi- light, occurs in all portions of the world. It is of shorter duration in the tropical regions than in other parts. | Q. What are the bills signed by | members of a club for refreshments and | various services called?—W. A. | A, They are usually called “chits." | Sometimes they are referred to as “‘checks” or ‘‘vouchers.” Q. What was the purchase price of the Ansidei Madonna when acquired by the British government?>—W. R. | - A. This was purchased in 1885 for £72,000. | @. How many Democratic Presidents tgen’ been since the Civil War?— A. The two Democratic Presidents developed. however, they proved ta be useful, not only in wel former students together in friendship, but in | maintaining interest in and in some cases supplying funds for the various | schools and college: Q. What s the nationelity of Mrs | Patrick Campbell>—S. R. V A. Her father was English and her mother Italian. She was born in Len- don in 1867 and married in 1384 to Patrick Campbell, who was killed in 1900 in the Boer War. Q. Why were front wheels of wagons gadNe smaller than the back wheels?-~ A. The development of the practice of making the front wheels of a coach or wagon smaller than the rear wheels is due to the fact that a wagon so constructed is easier to steer or guide. Such a wagon will turn corners much 'more readily that if all the wheels qre A new remedy is being tested in Ger- since the Civil War have been Grover of equal size. many against that peculiar malady of old age—arterio sclerosis, sometimes called “hardening of the arteries.” It | is a green coloring matter of the leaves | of plants, the substance which botanists | and chemists call chlorophyll. Extracting this brilliant green dye from the leaves of such plants as spin- ach, Bern, Switzerland, gave regular doses of it to patients suifering from heart trouble caused by arterial hardening. He found great improvement. The high blood pressure which is a charac- teristic of this disease slowly fell to | Another evidence of improved condi- tions in Mexico is found by the Ameri- can press in the orderly trial and con- viction of the youth, Toral, who assassi- nated President-elect Obregon, and the | containing plenty of fresh green vege- | da; nun accused of inspiring the crime. “This manifestation of orderly pro- edure in spite of intense excitement and demands for reprisal,” in the opin- jon of the Oklahoma City Oklahoman, “pays tribute to the change that Mexico | has undergone. Few countries are able normal values. Dizziness and weakness disappearcd. The heart beat returned | to its normal rhythm. Whether a real cure is produced or whether the patient | merely is relicved so long as he swal- iows the daily dose of leaf-green, Prof. Burgt has not yet determined. In possible explanation it is recalled that the green coloring matter in plant leaves is chemically similar to the red coloring matter of human blood. Fur- thermore, the green dye of the plants aid the breathing of the plants, just|fused to accept a re-election that was as the red blood compound serves to | his for th2 askinz. The orderly tria! carry oxygen around the human body.| of Toral and Mother Concepeion gives Perhaps the green plant dye helps to | additional assurance that Mexico it produce more red blood or perhaps it | emerging from the shadows that have aids the red blood compound in its| darkened her from the days of thc work. | viceroys " The new discovery probably explains | also the well known fact that a diet| toward orderly government ¢ the when Madero was Kkilled,” avers the Buffalo Evening News, whose opin- |fon of the trial is emphatically ex- pressed: “It would have been impos- I sible, in any country where capital pun- | ishment is authorized, that he could | have escaped the death penalty. There appears not 1o have been in his case ‘even so much basis for an insanity | plea as usually can be urged for po- litical assassins. The case is excep- | tiona! in Mexico, however, in that the man was not executed immediately by | order of a court-martial, but was al- | lowed all the outward forms, at least. ’o{ orderliness and regularity. A long step toward national stabilization was | taken when Calles bowed to the man- date of a written constitution and re- ico has progressed a long way tables, instead of meat, helps to prevent or to relieve the symptoms of arterial hardening. et Mlinois Redeemed in The Recent Election From the St. Louis Daily Globs-Demoerat. Perhaps to no State in the Union are the results of the election as significant- Iy auspicious as to the State of Illinois. ars Illinois as a whole, and lits | to give more striking exemplification | o For ye: of a fair civil trial” PR Progress in Mexico Revealed ' By Trial of Obregon’s Slayer Prof. Burgt of the University of | attorney cannot make himself heard as he makes his summation of the evi- dence, and is forced to sit down after speaking a very few minutes. In the United States we go to the other gx- treme. We find it hard to convict any one of murder. Somewhere les a haj medium between the methods of the L":xl‘e:"l" courts and those of the United The emotions dismlayed by the assas- sin are discussed by the Fort Worth ecord-Telegram, with a warning against “the abstract dangers concealed in arousing religious fervor.” and the expression of a belief that “it knows no denomination.” but is “a receptive state of mind that all ministers of the gospel know to be congregational liabilities.” The Chicago Daily News, taking up another phase of the case, says: “A painful impression was produced bv Toral's uncontradicted statement that after his arrest he was tortured by the police. in the presence of higher au- thorities. Mexico cannot afford to us» the rack as a means of forcing con- fessions, whether these be essential ta conviction or, as in Toral's case, wholly superflous. But the police ‘third de- gree’ in the United States is still much too commonly administered. Torture is. of course, no proper handmaiden of justice anywhere " The attempt to broadeast the trial moves the Des Moines Tribune-Capiial to observe: “The Mexican judge win stopped the broadcasting of the tri=i of the murderer of President-elcct Obre- on to be commen Our own courts have gone a long way in making of the master, for the failure of dis- cipline on the part of officers and crew. there is but one burden of blame, and that rests upon the corporation served by these men who so lamentably failed in their trust. chief city in particular, have been litical ring ey ,",‘;,T,';‘,',f,’é"{“"fi,: e o | Purther tribute to Mexican conditions | iv vorst ents of po- | is baid by the Rochester Democrat and fiffé‘.?“fié;.’mi“’&fi'; G:-C-.H‘Sm-u atits Chronicle. which makes the statement, head, aided and abetted by the Crowe- | “When Gen. Obregon, Prosident-clect of Thompson ring at Chicago, it has held | M??(Ico. was assassinated in cold blood 2 State and city in an iron grasp, utilizing | fe months ago. a relapse into general | concessions to publicity for trials. Thev have halted proceedings for pictures and films and all the paraphernalia of ‘bsllyhoo. Trials should always be pub- 3“c affairs, but that does not mean ihey 1are to be press agents’ orgies. The pre- posal that a great trial be hroadcast b radio was bound to come. It is well tor, during the Teapot Dome exposures, spoke on the radio while court proceed- ings were in progress. Capyrizht UNITED STATES growers are dotting the landscape. | risk any definite advice on how tn bet | ‘There is no public sympathy with |on an election. those who lose these silly wagers and | pay them. They, in fact, seek no such sympathy. In truth, they made the bets | with the idea of becoming conspicuous | Cornell University, 30 years ago, the first Chinese undergraduate ever m: triculated there was a pig-tailed vouth named AMred Sze. He was graduated with honors in 1901 and a few years later embarked upon a diplomatic ca- reer. Dr. Schurman and Dr. Sze have Phenomenal Catches. 1028 The fishermen go forth anew To gratify the sportsman wish, ————r—t———— The true statesman knows how to| utilize what the public regards as a| wyacation” as & period of hard work for beneficial results. " ——— . Christmas Savings. Any number of fine morals can be | drawn from the story which appears in The Star today to the effect that some eighty-three thousand ‘Washing- tonians on December 1 will receive a | total of more than seven million dol-" Jars from the Christmas Savings Clubs | which they joined so hopefully a year ago. But the moral that covers them all is that Santa Claus Comes to Those | Who Save. 1f that is trite, then make | the best of it. But one of the really interesting things about the growth of the Christ- mas Savings Club idea, which has| spread through the country like wild fire in the last few years, is the fact that from twenty-five to twenty-eight per cent of the funds saved, and in many cases so laboriously saved, throughout the year are transferred into permanent savings accounts at Christmas time. For this means that a large proportion of Christmas Club members have jearned not merely to save money against the season when unusual de- mands are made upon the family pocket book, but to keep on saving egainst the rainy day that too often comes when one is least expecting it. Faving money is merely a habit, dif- cwlt to acquire, bul vute saincd we- comes automatic. Scores of Cmristmas Savings Club members have acquired the saving habit. The Christmas Savings Club idea was not generally accepted by the banks when it was first tried. The bankers, knowing only too well the short dura- tion of the vast majority of savings fccounts. saw in it too much bookkeep- ing and trouble for the banks, without in case of loss. A suspicion is felt by | many that certain of these freak bettors really hope to lose in order to become objects of public attention. No amount of ridicule will ever cure | these folks of the habit of staking some- | thing strictly personal upon the out- come of elections. No arguments can ever persuade them of the folly of sup- porting their partisanship by pledges otl nonsensical actions in case of failurz. | The psychoanalyist finds in such a case | an interesting field of observation. Is 1t | an “inferiority complex” that inspires such a wager? The natural habit of mankind 1s to avoid any show of ab- | normality. Yet these freak bettors al- | most deliberately seek public displays of eccentricity that were they net pro-| claimed as the “paying of bets" wouid subject the performers to question on | the score of their sanity. | AT P e After studying the shipping disasters, | aviators feel warranted in inquiring whether the ocean is rcally much safer | than the sky. 1 e A Dictionary of Biography. History is an aggrcgation of biogra- phies. The history of the United States is essentially a compendium of the life stories of approximately 16,000 men and women who have attamned prominence in verious lines of human endeavor. The publication of the first volume of the Dictionary of American Biogra- pny, compied under the direction of the American Council of Learned Soci- cties, represents a long step ahead to- ward a clearer comprchension of the forces which for four hundred years have molded this Nation. The editors have undertaken the monumental work with a broad, consistent and intelligent | pleted biography be the most valuable source book of American history, but any prospect that the depositors would save any more coq. atly because of membership in a “club” than they would it will be entertaining and inspiring reading. The view of history a3 a compendium And yet, had all their teies been Ix‘uE.l remained .warm friends throughout the gencration which . they ‘began, respec- | tively, as pmfl:ssor and s:ud&m. “ll;’l;g Chinese envoy is as ardent a Cornc! i il L Ias ever left Ithaca. Class reunions arc “The last shall be first, " said the quo- | his favorite and unfailing pastimes in tationist. | recurring Junes. “I realize that,” said Mr Chuggins, sl “when I have somebody ariving from| Those elements which are opposed to the back seat.” | ihe passage of the l5-cruiser bill now | pending in the Senate would like to see said | the Kellogg anti-war treaty ratified be- fore the Senate acts on the naval bill. They overlook a fact which is likely to blast their hopes. The cruiser bill, al- ready passed by the House, was reported out by the Senate naval affairs com- mittes at the last session. It is there- {fore on the Senate calendar and ready for consideration. The anti-war pact has not, yet "een submitted to the Sen- ate. It is not certain when it will be Whenever it comes, it will go to the foreign relations committee, where pro- tracted discussion may ensuc. Only after that will the treaty be brought to the Senate for a vote. Senator Borah, an ardent apostle of naval limitation. rather disappoint=d the pacifists in his New York Armistice day speech by declining to take part in any side- ‘racking of the cruiser bill. W, One of the most envied women in | Washington is the wife of a cerlain i who hes been sta- There might today be no more fish! “When there iz disagreement,” Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “silence may be bes To win ¢n argument scldom compensates for the loss of a | friend.” Evolution—a Mistake. The monkey sald, “I once ohservec Strict prohibition rule, And from the morals never swer: Taught in a monkey schooi “But as a man, with all my clan, I rum run and I shoot. And T am asking, man to man, Why did I evolute?” “When you trics to make a man change his mind,” said Uncle Eben, “he's purty sure to stait in tryin' to | make you charge yours ar’ you might ias well call it a draw an’ go back to European envoy, tioned in the United States for the plan in mind. Not only will the com- | | past four years. She is known as the Ichxvmphm bridge player of the Capital | o and her income from the game is satd | “Look.” A 9 !'to amount to something between $15,000 SODK, O APPERE: | and £20,000 a year. L From the St Louis Post-Dispatch. | o | Massachusetts and Rhode Island look faw % | Post-mortems on the carnage of No- { awtully Tonesome up there on the biea! | il =METERS A0 YO8 SN day work." | New England Coast. | among statesmen drifting back to their | R . | House or Senate offices on Capitol Hill i rick Throwing Is Ended. | One of th> most diverting yarns i | Fiom the Fort Wayne News-Sentincl. vouched for by a New t\|{m—k (:on-}\;;rnf man—a_Republican—who says he of- | Now. we hope, everybody on both sides | fered Senator Heflin $500 ot to make will quit throwing bricks and start lay- } a speech in his district. The Congress- ng a few \man's theory was that if the leather- G e v R | lunged Alnb?mnn tnlked_rtgnere e would ) make votes for Smith. The same mem- Few Have Any to Count. | (0O Byaie declares that the From the New Castle News. election results in New York State arc One reason why all the world loves a {no longer a mystery. ‘“Manhattan lover is because he doesn’t count hi:|Island,” he says, “failed to'roll up the change. anticipated majority for Smith because - business feared his_election wouid a rest prosperity. Up-State the Prot- cstant church vote, frrespactive of its polities, was almost solidly against the Do your ' gevernor. Anv Republican with veie. getting qualities—which Ambassador L Why Think of It? From the Tulsa Daily World Only four years to clection. meditating early. IN WORLD WAR Ten Years Azo Today. | Gen. March announced today that 200,000 soldiers in camps in the United States will be mustered out in the next | two_weeks, following which the rate of discharge will be 30,000 a day. * * *. | No more troops, except surgical units, | will be sent oversecas. All sick and wounded with the American Expedi- | tionary Forces able to be moved will be brought back to this country with- out delay. * * * In a conference off the coast of Scotland between Germait naval delegates and allied naval repre- ' sentatives arrangements are completed for the surrender of German warships, “with full complements of crews," de- livered in allied ports within a certain | number of days after notice from the allies. * * * Ten battleships, 6 battle cruisers, 8 light cruisers and 50 destroy- ers of the most modern type are to be given up. * * * Postmaster General Burleson takes control of all cables operating between the United States and foreign countries. * * * It is generally expected in Paris that Presi- dent Wilson and Secretary Lansing will Join Col. House with a large staff to participate in_the peace discussions. » * * With British, French, Italian and Belgian armies represented at the ceremonies, Gen. Pershing is presented with the Distinguished Service Medal by order of President Wilson, the presentation taking place at the Ameri- | can general headquarters at Chaumont * * * United States Food Adminis- trator Herbert Hoover, with his staff, { sails for Europe. 1 ———— Daughters of 96, { From ihe Lansing State Journal { The ghost, of 1898 still haunts politi- jcal America. The daughters of Mark | Hanna and Willlam Jennings Bryan have both been elected to Congress. e P A National Ability. From the Asheville Times. A commentator on Il Duce reporis that he does his best writing when diec- tating, which is natural enough for a dictator. - And 1936, Too, FWha"? | candidates for imj the powers of government to promote its own intcrests with but little respect for the obligations of office or for the | rights or welfare of the people. They were a patient people and were long unwilling to credit the evidences of wrongdoing brought out in their own tribunals of justice. But last April. at the primarics, they arose in their might and by decisively defeating the renomi- nation of Gov. Small and of State’s Attorney Crowe in Chicago they pre- pared the way for the redemption of the State at last Tuesday's election. It matters little by what party this was| accomplished. If they had clected Judge | Thompson, the able and courageous Demacratic candidate for governor, the result would have been more striking. but probably not more effective. Illinois. however, is normally overwhelmingly Republican. and it is therefore very difficult to achieve reforms by a change of party control. The Republican party had to reform itself at the primaries by | repudiating the ring and then to_put the administration of the State affairs | into the hands of men in whom it had confidence and who were pledged to carry out the reforms in government. All this has been done. * * * As to Chicago, it has cleancd house witih the same thoroughness as the peo- ple of the State as a whole. The cam- paign there, like that in St. Louis, cen- tered upon the election of a dependable State’s attorney, and in the election of Judge Swanson by an overwhelming vote Chicago has accomplished what St. Louis has accomplished in the elec- tion of Judge Miller. But Chicago did more than that. It defeated bv an avalanche of votes every one of the six riant offices put up by the Crowe-Thompson Republican ring and elected Demoerats in their places, thereby thorouzhly wrecking the machine that has so long controlled the city government. - ———— Only a Handful. Prom the Kalamazoo Gazette. With the election over, all citizens who regret the discontinuance of politi- cal speeches over the radio may hold a convention in some centrally located telephone booth. Not Even Speedometer. From the Hamilton Spectator The British aviator who flew at the Prom the Atlenta (Ga.) Gonstitution There are enough campaign promises left over to start things in 1932, raie of 319 miles per hour said he was | ing the fact that “the jurymen wore re- disorder and lawlessness seemed a likely result. Mexico being what it is. what do we actually see? The assassin, Toral, brought to trial with swift and reloatless turns of the machinery of justice, his conviction and sentence fol- Jowing with no more P than would attend a trial of similar im- portance in this country, and with much less red tape and delay. The Mexican reputation for explosiveness failed to function after the Obregon affair. Al- though the crime resulted from the hot passions that have been seething under the surface during the Calles adminis- tration, there was no general tumult, such as many prophets of pessimism had feared.” . | “There was no question as to the guilt the defendant,” observes the Kansas City Journal Post, which adds: “The only doubt was as to his sanity. The | slaver of a public official or one elected to the highest office arouses such gen- eral feeling that fine discrimination is not attempted in passing on the pecul- jar mental quirks of the assassin. This is true the world over. * * * The secrecy which attended the trial, with the exception of the impassioned speeches by counsel, prevents intelli~ gent judgment as to its nature. The sp2aches would have been ruled highly improper in an American or an English court, since they were addressed to the | deepest prejudices.” ‘The danger of violence toward Toral that existed during the trial is noted by the Ann Arbor Daily News, with the comment: “That he was given a fair trial, through which he was permitted | to live without lynching by the friends | of Obregon, is a tribute to the new Mexico.” That paper concludes that “his guilt, was as apparent as ever guilt | can be. and he merited the extreme | penalty.” The Brooklyn Daily Eagle also holds that ‘“Americans generally will concede that Toral merits the death that he faces.” The Eagle. however, | rotes the extraordinery conditions un- der which the trial was held, mention- But, | of volvers on their hips during the trial” and that “they asked for police protec- tion when the trial was ended.” L T Against the more favorable views is that of the Danbury Eveninz News, which argu “No matter what the evi- dence or the weight of the evidence, no blic hysteria | stopped the first time it is made there pe no such use of t of justice in this couniry.’ — et Ten Years a Republic. | Prom the Louisvills Courier-Journal. Without, celebration, but with con- fidence in the past and hope of the fu- ture, Germany looks back upon the first 10 years of republican government. As the new order was born in the midst of defeat and hardships, its anniversary was not the occasion for jubilation. None the less the wisdom of the change is established and the arguments of the s May e machine:r | Monarchists have lost their weight. Up to this year it might have been questioned whether the republic eould last. Until a few months ago the cham- pions of the monarchy all but held the whip hand. They constituted the strongest party in the Reichstag. They h about the good old days and looked with contempt upon the bour- geois leaders. Flying the colors of the old empire they strutted about the :ar:et;, mddlendtludnfl:ln of the nation y deman and received rtan cabinet posts. povaas In the general elections last Spring these Monarchists were unhorsed. Their reactionary tactics and obstruction io forward-looking measures were given popular disapproval. Their seats in the Reichstag, as the result of the ballot- ing, dwindled to & poor second, and the Socialists were accorded the first place. No longer is it necessary to consider the junkers in the formation of a ca’. inet, and they may be regarded - harmless malcontents. In domestic and foreign affairs th new regime has vindicated itself under the most trying conditions. Germa:y. house has been put in order and ih, place in the world has been restored It is a cause for jubilation, but the war and the peace that brought it about are too near not to remember th: wounds of both. 2 SRRy S New Members. From the Worcester Gazotte. Wildcat Thompson insists that hers- after Massachusetts and Rhode Island must be included in the solid South. e SRR Harnessable. defendant has a fair chance when the jury u’ openly threatened with death unle: ivaveling so fast could see nothing. And he didn't have any zignboards o block his view, either, when the ened =i deat, “iis duty by hi defense a <imply becavse he dacs ¢ brings in a verdiot of guilty. From the Ashevilla Times. 3 clophant s nowe