Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1929, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR .. With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. ... March 27, 1929 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company usin e: 3 d pn‘nmy lvania Ave. New Vork Sffice: 110 Eust 4nd St. gb‘fll(l Office: Lak® Michigan Building. U1 n Office; 14 MJUI'. St.. London, Engiand. Rate by Carrier Within the City. ‘The Evening Star... .........45c per meith The Evemng and Sunday Star (whe; 4 Sundays) .........80c per month The Evening and Sunday Star ~....85¢ per month | 3¢ per copy | ihe end of eacr month. in by mail or telephone ropea ion made Orders may e sent Main 3000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 1 yr. $10.00: ' mo., 85¢ 1 yr., $6.00. 1 mo, S0¢ o1 yr, $4.00; 1 mo.. 40c Al Other States and Canada. ! Deile and Sunday..1 yr. $12.00: 1 mo.. $1.00 Dally nly ... 1yr, $800: 1 mo. T3¢ Bu v only £5.00; 1 mo., 50¢ Member of the Assoclated Press. The Associated Prase is exclust ntitled to the use for republication ¢f al vs dis- patehes credited to it or not otherwise cred- fied in this paper and also the loval news published herein. All rights of pui epecial dispatches herein are blization of erved. | Preserving Great Falls. It the Senate of the Maryland Legis lature favorably acts on a bill pa: by the lower house, an additional safe- guard will be erected against the utilization of Great Falls for power development. This bill defines the boundaries of a proposed extension of the present metropolitan area in Mont- gomery County, which includes the Great Falls territory, and declares that no power, park or highway project can be carried out in this extended area unless approved by the Maryland Park and Planning Commission. If passed, the law would be a safeguard. But whether it would estop the Federal Government, through its power com- mission, from permitting water power development of Great Falls would prob- ably have to be settled by the courts after examining the Federal Govern- ment's jurisdiction over the upper, Potomac. ¢ As the Maryland Park and Planning Commission is known to side with the National Capital Park and Planning Commission in its fight to preserve the Great Falls area for park purposes, passage of this bill by the Maryland State Legislature would inject a new fssue into the unsettled controversy over proposed power development at _Great Falls. The effect would be to I'be wiped out as easily as inadequate | can be certain, namely, that crashes in !pomu, these amateur speculators found themselves unable longer % make the grade and dropped by the wayside. It is they who become the shief victims of the slump, which hag s origin in the discount rate polics Iitiated by the Federal Reserve Board in the hope of discoureging and arresting insensate speculation. Time will show whether they have learned ‘their lesson. The speculative fever has well-nigh seized the whole country. Hamlet, town and city are/ victims of it. Men and women who for- merly did not know the meaning of stocks and bonds—end do not even | now, in many cases—have been sucked into the “get-rich-quick” maelstrom which has its axis cn lower Manhattan Island. The “ticker rooms” of brokers' offices all over the country are nowa- days almost as popular as the movie houses. It remains to be seen whether the lambs will profit from their recurring and tnevitably disastrous brushes with the bulls and bears. Perhaps it is too much to expect of human' nature to hope that they will. The craze for sud- den wealth is a human passion not to margins on a falling market. Of one thing the public should and | Wall Street have nothing to do with the fundamentals of national business conditions. The lambs may gambol and gamble in New York to their hearts’ content. Whether they are shorn of their paper profits or not, as prices soar or sag, at bedrock the fabric of Ameri- can economic prosperity is safe and sound. It is laid too decp and too se- curely to be shaken by margin-mongers and their victims on the Stock Ex- change. B Brave Words. With Von Kluck pressing on toward Paris in 1914, Marshal Foch sent one of those cryptic messages to his superior officer, Joffre, that somehow are chis- eled, like an epitaph in marble, upon the scrolls of history: My right is crushed. My left is in re- treat. I am attacking with my center. Such words become traditions. Men like to live up to them. The interesting thing about them is the spontaneity of their birth. Had Foch written, “But I am attacking with my center,” the in- sertion of that harmless conjunction would have made of that message a studied and rather grandiloquent bid for fame. Without the “but” we have a T+ losses ranging from five to twehty | ported that party. States named other means of selections must be found. 2 All this goes to the root of the mat- ter of political party maintenance in a reglon where there is by tradition and until recently by practice a single national political party, in effect.. The recent election demonstrated the possi- bility of a break away from the one- party rule prevailing in the South. It | does not follow that in subsequent elec- tions there will be similar departures | from tradition and practice, in the four States that “went Republican” last No- vember. ‘Those four may revert to Democracy in 1932 and remain on that side of the political fence thereafter. | But in the meantime it is possible to | put the Republican party organization | upon & higher plane than that of mere professional office peddling, and this is | the purpose of the present move to es- | tablish patronage upon a sounder and cleaner basis. > There will be scvere repercussions from this action. The President has gone counter to a tradition that is as definitely established as is that of the | Democratic dominance of the South. But if the party of which he is now the 1 head is ever to establish itself in the South with an equal chance of victory | this is the only way to do it, regardless | of the immediate effect of this move | for political decency upon those who | have for many years traditionally sup- ' It 1s unmistakably for the betterment | of the South that it should progress | toward a two-party basis. That sec- ton has suffered economically from | having for more than half a century stood steadfastly upon a one-party foundation. The way is open to a new dispensation which will effect a reforma- tion the fruits of which will be chiefly, almost wholly, enjoyed by the people of the South. et There is no doubt that ex-President ! Coolidge has a number of offers before him relative to his future activities. | It may also be assumed that he has his | formula “I do not choose” still with ! him. el e Archeologists bring to light old cities | which disclose how much mechanical convenience has advanced through the | centuries and how little human nnlur&; has changed. T ——— Speculators are not greatly impressed by the increased cost of loans. It might be as reasonable to try to break up a poker game by increasing the lmouml the making of appointments. In the | One of the most feared demons of to- day is named Repression. Nowadays many respectable people have a greater fear of this sad demon han they have for the devil. No one has ever secen the devil, they vill tell you, but every onc has sten many examples of Repression. Horrible things are done to children | D by the Demon Repression—things too awful to be mentioned in polite soctety. A child attacked by this demon be- ccmes a Case. And a Casc, as every one Tople—something which is dis hospital round-tables. o Shyness, lack of confidence, moodi- ness, fear—thess are some of the ter- rible qualities which the Demon Re- | pression slyly instills into little children. Suppose he leaves, too, bits of im- politeness sticking info their minds and hearts, rough slivers of impudence, coarse fibers of discourtesy and large chunks of thoughtlessness. Well, those are concomitants which cannot be helped, according to the view of those who mightily fear the Demon Repression. The gond fairics Time and Experience will rub them away at last, and the New Man will stand forth in all his glory. % e One of the New-Women-to-Be, aged 6 years, came along the street on her way from school. She had a sweet face and a well bred iook. She stopped to admire some crocuses blooming beneath an evergreen. Sev- eral small companfons joined her. Bending down over the bright yellow and vivid purple flowers, smail Hor- tense—which name wiil do as well as any—gazed at them with something more than admiration. A desire for possession swelled in her fine black eyes, Now Hortense had never met the Demon Repression in any of his disguises; she knew nothing whatever about him. “I'm going to pick them,” she an- nounced. * ok % % Her small companions, who must have met Repression in some form or other, cried her nay. “Oh, no," they said, in chorus. “They don't belong to you.” “Yes, I am,” asserted Hortense, mov- ing a chubby hand forward. At this point, in a regular fairy tale, something would happen. May- be an Old Witch would appear, or an_Ogre, or something. Sure enough, just as Hortense was about to grab the little crocuses by the back of their necks, and yank them from the sofl forever, a large Ogre appeared—a tremendous Ogre, a fearful Ogre. * Kk This great Ogre had no little Hor- tenses of his own, and therefore, ac- cording to the canons of those who fear the Demon Repression, he could not THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL, 1 This Ogre had one terrible habit, awful beyond all his other desires, sup- | pressed And otherwise—he harbored the | horrible ambition of keeping his lawn | looking nice. What an awful Ogre! When little children, fleeing es hard | as they could from the Demon Re-| ression, slip down his nice grassy ter- race on their heels, leaving neat mud- dy ruts, this implacable Ogre dared to_ask them to aesist. | o NOW what do you know about that! Was he not a cruel Ogre? e ¥ Just as Hortense began to pick | seif a neat bouquet of bright Spring | flowers, the Ogre stepped forth and aid, in a boorish tone: “Please don't pick those, Hortense “Yes!" screamed Hortense, sensing the approach of Repression. “No,” said the Ogre, attzmpting to! be playful. And that was where he | made his mistake. If he had screamed | “No!" in a terrible voice, with maybe an | awful “cuss word” thrown in for good measure, Hortense might have thought Daddy was coming fo the rescue of | Mother, as he sometimes did, in ex- treme cases. | * * When the Ogre showed, by his at- tempt to be polite to Hortense, whom he thought to be a pretty little girl, that he did not understand the best ways to make a child mind (in 1929), our | | keroine immediately understood that | she had mastered him. | ves, I will!"” she reiterated, sticking out a firm chin and showing what she | would be 25 years later. The foolish old Ogre, llving in the past, when the Demon Repression was looked upon as an Angel-in-Disguise, still attempted to be nice to the child, in absurd, old-fashioned way. “If you touch those flowers,” he said, with what he fondly imaged was a | smile, “a bug wiil jump out and bite you.” | * * * Miss Hortense knew better. Curving her prety mouth into a knowing sneer, she laughed full in the face of the Ogre. “It will not” she said. Then her hand descended. Just as a helpless | crocus was about to be torn up, the Ogre abandoned the tactics of the Eliz- abethan age and jumped right squarely into the year 1929. “Let those flowers alone,” he roared, “and clear out of here, or I'll spank you good!" Dear little Hortense's eyes flashed fire. Her voice became shrill as the highest | note on the steam calliope, and almost | | as loud. “You won' backed away “And I'm going home,” she continued, “and get my mother’s butcher’s knife, and I'm going to cut your head off!" | The Demon Repression, which had| | stuck his head out, drew it in and be- gan to run for hi | | | " she screamed, as she! | see and Kentuck; Politics at Large By G. Gould Lincoln. President Hoover has taken a bold stand to clean up the Republican po. litical situations in some of the South- ern States. He has flatly announc: that the organizations in Mississip South Carolina and Georgia wor be recognized in the distribution of Fed- eral patronage, unless therc was reor- ganization, by tha States themselves, with men in’ the lcadership who will command confidence and protect the public service. His Postmaster General, Walter F. Brown, insists that his de- partment will not recogniz of the Republican organizitions in these three States, when it comes to ing post office appointments, but will seek the advice of citizens of the | States named who can be relied upon | interest. ke on The heads of the Republican organ- Izations in two of the States and the former head of the third have been charged with trafficking in Federal ap- poiniments and have bcen under in- vestigation by the Brookhart committoe of the Senate. Perry Howard, Republi- can national committeeman for Mis- 1ppi has been under indictment, and while once acquitted, is to be ftried again. Joseph W. Tolbert, Republican national committeeman for South Caro- lina, has recently been the subject of investigation by the Senate commit- tee. Ben Davis, former Republican na- tional committeeman for Georgla, has been forced out of office, but is backing a candidate for the place. Tolbert is white and Howard and Davis are both | colored. Friends of Howard and Davis insist that the attacks upon them are part of a program to make the Re- publican party “lily white” in the South. ‘The position now taken by President Hoover, the titular and the actual head of the Republican party today, may have a far-reaching effect in upbuilding of a Republican party in the States ot the “Solid South.” Mr.-Hoover crashed through the traditions which e kept this group of States safely Democratic in national elections since the days of the reconstruction after the Civil War, He carried Florida, North Carolina, ‘Texas and Virginia. He carried, too, all the “border” States, including Tennes- "It has been widely proclaimed that this was not a Repub- lican victory in these States, but a de- feat for Alfred E. Smith, the Demo- -cratic nominee for President, because he was a wet, a Tammany man and a Catholic. But whatever the reasons for the victory of Mr. Hoover in the South- ern States, the fact was developed that these States can go Republican. Further- more, there is a shrewd suspicion in the South itself that many of the former Democrats who voted for Mr. Hoover welcomed the opportunity to vote “Re- publican” in national affairs. ey In the past Republican crganizations in the solid South have functioned principally for two purposes. One was to send delegations to Republican na- not | the leaders | | \ + What do you need to know there some point about your bus or personal life that puzzles you? Is ! there something you want to know without Submit your question 1o Frede . director our Washington Information Bure: He s employed to help you. Address your nquiry to The Evening Star Informa- tion Bureau, ederic J. Haskin, di- rector, Washington, D. C., and inclose | ap) 12"ce for return ts in coin or stamps | postage. Q. What is the ccrrect pronuncia- Ition of “vitaphone? It is not in the dictionary.—E. M. L. A T1 is given the long sound and the word is accented on the first | syllable. The word was coined for Vitaphone ~ Corporation, whose | trade mariz it Is, and applies to its products only. | @ Are comets often v ‘ ime with the naked eye A In the last hundred years, oniy | two comets h: bril- | liant to b h_the 1 eye. One of these was in Feb- | unatded ;\' 1843; the other in September, {18 | Where does the heaviest T iin the world occur?—J. D. | A, So far as known at the present | time, the heaviest precipitation occur: lon fthe southern slopes of the Hi- | malaya Mountains in Northern India. | Here during the monsoon period, usu- ally from May to September, inclusive, | the neaviest rainfall has been recorded. | At Cherrapunji in this region, the | average annual precipitation is about 40 ‘(Pr‘t. or slightly l¢ss than 500 inches. | Q. wh ted?"—N. | A The “guinea pig” is so called be- have |cause it was thought to come | from Guinea, which is in Africa. How- ever, this was a mistake because the ! guinea pig comes from Southr America. l Q. How many two-cent stamps are ‘\lsod every day?—J. H. P. A. Approximately 35,000,000 two- cent stamps are used daily, according to figurcs based on the year ending June 30, 1928, Q. How old is Lila Lee?—E. | A Lila Lee was born in 1905. She staried with Gus Edwards, when she | was 5 years old, in Band Box Revie. | She leit the films to devote her time | to James Kirkwood. jr, her small son. She is now in talki | | Q. When were treaties involving ex- traterritorial irst made with China?— 1J. H. C. A. As carly as 1689 China and Russia or a | entered into a treaty providing f modified form of extraterritoriality. The | existing system of extraterritoriality. however, had its origin in a number of treatics between China and the pow- |ers, commencing with 1843, in which | year the treaty with Great Britain was negotiated. This was followed in 1344 is the “guinea pig” so call- | iand are German, spoken by 71 per nt of the people; French, by 21 per cnt, and Itallan, by 6 per cent. Other languages are Romansh and Ladin. By the federal constitution ot 1848 and ¢74, German, French and Italian are recognized as national languages, $o (hat debates in the Fedetal Pariament may be carried on in any one of the ee, while federal laws and decrecs ar aise in the three languages. The dialects of Romanshe and Ladin do ical recognition by facts about M tion with Bene- Q. Please give a i Andre before hi dict Armold—1. B. M A. Maj. John Andre was the son of a merchant of Geneva, who settied in London. He was educated in Geney eturn to Eng d nd Lichfield ar tachment. who afterward married there | Honora Sneyd, Richard Lovell h. It is be- in love for ve up the merchandising for milita s. He was e ioned in the on the 1771 He jo the ica and was taken i After his mp to Gen. | Grey and then to Sir Henry Clinton, | who made him adjutant general in spite h, | of his youth and his short term of ser! ice. This position brought him into as- sociation with Benedict Arnol As | Clinton's chief confidant. Andre was | intrusted with the management of the | correspondence with Arnoid. | Q 1In the days hefore prohibition went into effect did Washingion, D. C., saloons as Chicago had | have as man; |in proportion?—T. A. In 1915 Chicago had more than | 200 times as many saloons as Washin, [ton It had a population only seven times as 1s Washington's. Q. What is Cincinnati’s new rallway station to c R. G A. The Cincinnati Union Station is to be completed in 1932, It is located in the Mill Creek Vailey and is to cost approximately $35.000,000. Q. How was Dartmouth College started?—J. F. R. A. Dartmouth College at Hanover, N. H., is an_outgrowth of a school founded at Lebanon, Conn., by Eleazar Wheelock for the Christian education of Indian youth. Funds raised in Eng- land and contributed largely by Lord Dartmouth enabled Wheelock to move 150 miles to the Hanover Plain, 5 miles north of the junction of the Connecti- cut and White Rivers, and so allowed him to enlarge the scope of his work. The province of New Hampshire fin a charter to the new Dartmouth College in 1769. Q. Who invented the needle?—F. B, A. The needle was known in very ncient times, its invention being as- cribed by the ancients to the goddess | ) pokaihly 16V8 HOEUAIiNG; (or ever unider- | by treaties with the United States and | stand her. tional conventions to help nominate the Beitona. The earliest instruments of align the State of Maryland, within | very real plcture of a gallant soldier. “And I'm g Early in his Civil War career Grant whose boundaries lies the greater part of the Falls area contemplated for de- | was awakened one night by a courler, velopment, with the agencies- which | bearing a message from the Confederate have been conducting a strenuous fight | Gen. Buckner, whom Grant had sur- against the loss, for park purposes, of | rounded. Buckner wanted to talk terms. the gorge of the Potomac. For that|Grant wrote, and naturally enough, be- reason it is to be hoped that the Mary- | cause he had Buckner corked like a fiy land Senate will take favorable action|in a bottle, “No terms except an imme- on the bill in the few days remaining | diate and unconditional surrender can of its present session. be accepted. I propose to move imme- After extended debate, the matter of | giately upon your works.” Within a few & preliminary permit for the Surveys|days the North was hailing and prais. and investigation of power develop-|ing Grant as “Unconditional Surrender ment at Great Falls remains unsettled, | Grant” and his message to Buckner be- the Federal Power Commission not ¥et | came a classic. Some time later Grant Baving acted. While the granting of | was hewing his way through the bloody & preliminary permit would not neces- | wiqerness toward Richmond. He wrote sarily mean the loss of the Great Falls |y, Gen Halleck, “We have now ended area for park purposes, the prolonged | n. gixth day of very hard fighting delay in settling the matter and as-| = "y o500 to fight it out on this suring park development of one of the o if 1o tayes all Summer.” That last beautiful scenic areas of this part of|coniince was written in books. No man the United States is unfortunate. t):: was more surprised than the matter-of- no definite steps are taken within for | fact Grant that such simple utterances near future to acquire the land 07|04 pecome nistoric. They became park purposes, it is too much to hope | . oo s - | his because they were living images that commercial interests can be com-| ) Seogenitar. pelled indefinitely to keep hands off. One may believe that Oliver Cromwell i devoted some thought to marshaling Germany's Costly Ship Fire. those words, “Put your faith in God, Yesterday & fire swept the unfinlshed |y \ yoen your powder dry.” Such & 48,000-ton German ocean liner Europa The philcsophical adage must have taken & at a building dock at Hamburg. little time to manufacture, And when blaze, which required fifteen hours of intensive fighting to subdue, is believed o have been started for the purpose of destroying the ship. Reports, it is stated, agree that it originated simultaneously in several different points. The ship was to have been put into commission for this Summer’s service, and in the esti- mate of damage done the loss of the season’s business is included. That estimate rises to nearly $4,000,000. It would seem that despite the intense fury of the flames the ship was not wholly destroyed, but that the hull can be salvaged and reconditioned. This ship, the Europa, and her sister craft, the Bremen, were to be Germany's bid for a profitable share of the im- mense transatlantic business. They were to make maiden voyages this set son. With the Europa out of commis- sion the German sharing of the trans- atlantic passenger service will not be as material as had been hoped. But it is evident that Germany is bent upon re- galning the business that before thej war was one of the most profitable fac- | tors of that country’s enterprise. | Just why the Europa should be set afire is a mystery. It is too fantastic to suggest that foreign shipping inter- ests should seek to cripple the German service by criminal means. If that were the move, it would be made against both ihe Bremen and the Europa. Far more probable is the suggestion that discon- tented workmen set the ship afire. And it may turn out after all that the blaze was accidentally started. r—oes ‘Without the yacht Mayflower the world will move on, but the “good old Summertime” will not seem quite the same. -—or— Bulls, Bears and Lambs. Yesterday saw vast carnage on the New York Stock Exchange, when prices crashed lower and lower under the heaviest liquidation Wall Street has ever experienced. Under bull leader- £hip, with the banks and the Federal Reserve Board co-operating, the bears were routed, as the market closed, but not before that other element in the Stock Exchange animal kingdom, the Jambs, had suffered cruel slaughter. In the present instance the lambs were the grand army of margin spec- ulators who in latter-day times have invaded “the Street” in their innocent myriads. Yesterday was not the first time they were led to the shambles. They will return for more punishment, and they will get it. In the day's rec- ord - breaking turnover of 8,246,740 shares, thousands of little traders tak- ing “fiyers” were wiped out because they had been foolhardy enough to jeopardize themselves with thin mar- Ethan Allen surprised the British at ‘Ticonderoga and ordered them to sur- render “In the name of Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress” one must remember that the stalwart Ethan afterward had time to write a full ac- count of the affair to the Massachusetts Congress. But Farragut’s “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead,” John Paul Jones' “I have not yet begun to fight” and the dying Lawrence's plea, “Don’t give up the ship! FPight her till she sinks!” ring with simple truth. None of them sounds like great men trying to say great things. Perhaps they were never uttered. Maj. Whittlesey of the so-called “Lost Battalion” was credited with telling the Germans to “Go to hell!” when they sent him a message asking his surrender to save further loss of life. He became known as “Go-to-hell Whit- tlesey,” but he denied that he ever acknowledged in any way the German message. Some of the brave words of brave men may never have been uttered until the story tellers began to tell their tales. But they are brave words, just the same. donated to the “kitty.” — e Tammany asserts itself as the real business of the New York politician. Running for the U. 8. presidency, while a motable interest, is, after all, only a side line. —————— New methods are under consideration which may make the matter of Federal appointment more to the purpose for public service and less like a political lottery. ) Louisiana is so much engaged in the discussion of alleged assassination threats that it cannot be quite sure whether it is having a gubernatorial administration or a crime wave. S Photographers now find the ex-Kaiser of Germany a willing target. The pen is mightier than the sword and the camera is more powerful than the machine gun. ———. “Ten Nights in a Barroom” was an impressive old play, but prohibition pursuit may render ten minutes on a rum-running ship much more exciting. —————— Aviation has encouraged physical risk to an extent that renders the old motto, “Safety First,” entirely obsolete. ————— Piracy is out of date. The rum- running ship may succeed in reviving it, minus its pictures B e — SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Beauty Parade. It's time for the Beauty Parade! Here are sunshine and light serenade. The jonquil's appearing. The violet is nearing, With charms that are frankly displayed. The birds in gay plumage arrayed, In the haunts where of yore they have er. This fearful fellow was never known |your old house, too, so there!” strayed, Will bring new elation To this revelation— It’s time for the Beauty Parade! Sure-fire Statesmanship. “Do you never repeat yourself in pub- lic utterance?” “1 do so frequently,” answered Sena- tor Sorghum. “Statesmanship has its ‘sure-fire stuff’ same as the vaude- villes.” More power to them! e Mexican rebels might find it advisa- | ble to delay their activities beyond the | Summer season to a time when the sen- | tence of being shot at sunrise will not be | | carried out quite so early in the morn- | ing. | — et Southern Patronage. ‘While it may not result in an im- mediate, or even an early, establish- ment of two-party government in the | Southern States, which is greatly to be desired for the sake of that section as Hoover's action, announced yesterday, in regard to patronage distribution in three of the States facilitates the move- ment in that direction. He specifically states, in his capacity as titular leader of the Republican party, that Southern Republicans, in order to be recognized in party and patronage matters by the Federal administration, must reorgan- ize and select respectable representa- tives. Three States are specifically named as in need of reform in this re- gard, South Carolina, Mississippi and Georgia. In those States, it has been demonstrated, the distribution of patron- age has become corrupted. The dis- pensers of Federal office have acted as brokers. In shameless manner the fruits of political victory have been bar- tered. In other States of the South better conditions have prevailed in re- spect to Republican organization and management in recent years. In his well as the country at large, President | Jud Tunkins says radio is a great comfort because you don’t have to be polite and listen to a tiresome talker, Alphabetical Condensation. Four letters haunt us on our way Of sorrowing or glee: This world, one day, is quite O. K. The next, it’s all N. G. Handsome Stranger. “Who is the handsome stranger with whom you danced at the night club?” “I don’t know,” answered Miss Cay- enne. “But he is so handsome and so strange that I think maybe he must be a prohibition agent.” “He who voices many words,” said Hi Ho, the sege of Chinatown, “may | find he has not left himself time enough | to discover many thoughts.” “He Haw!” ‘Words often balk In wisdom's way. ‘The more we talk, ‘The less we say. “We keeps sayin’ dat a man is intitled to his own opinion,” said Uncle Eben, “in spite of de fack dat some grown folks insisses on mixin’ up de school chillun by sayin’ de earth is flat.” e Speaker’s Peculiarity. From the Nashville Banner. And another pecullar thing is that the speaker with only 10 minutes will take up 9 of them explaining that the statement the President notes this im- provement and indicates that as to subject is too large and important to be vhandled in the brief space allotted to gins. .As a long list of stocks registered those States no change will occur, in him. AL to send flowers to little neighbors who were ill, or to purchase them candy, or in any way to attempt to be good to them. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC President Hoover must be filled with rather mixed emotions over the Anglo- Canadian-Americun incident which nas arisen in connection with the sinking of the I'm_ Alone off the Louislana coast. On the very day—March 20— that the Coast Guard began its two- day “battle” with the Brit'sh rum runner, Mr. Hoover was issuing his now celebrated dry manifesto at the White House. It was to the effect that h!' projects “no drastic or dramatic drive” to enforce prohibition. By the relent- less irony of fate, about the most drastic and dramatic drive ever launched by our high seas prohibition enforcement patrol was at that very moment in progress. We're not going to war with Johin Bull over the I'm Alone affair, even though Representative La Guardia, wet, of New York, horrendously likens it to the situation which caused the War of 1812. But it's dollars to dough- nuts that the episode will cause all concerned henceforward to watch their step—British rum runners and Ameri- can Coast Guardsmen alike. With the “freedom of the seas” the outstanding bone of Anglo-American contention, two governments have the livellest in- terest in seeing that there is no silly monkeying with the brass works. * koK ¥ Secretary Mellon probably relishes the opportunity of squaring himself with the ultra-drys by nobly upholding the Coast Guard in I'm Alone business. For the first five or six years Mellon was at the Treasury the prohibition people did not place the Pittsburgher in the same class as Caesar's wife, as far as enforcement was concerned. They re- membered his earlier carcer in the dis- tillery industry and were skeptical about his Volsteadian zeal. Latterly Mellon's stock has risen among the devotees of the Anti-Saloon League. When asked about him nowadays, the usual re- joinder is, “Uncle Andy’s all right!” They confidently expected that his en- forcement vigor would increase under Hoover, because Coolidge was never re- garded a 100 per cent believer in the arid cause. Secretary Mellon greatly reveres the Coast Guard. He eulogized it in eloquent terms at Arlington a year ago, when he dedicated the handsome bronze pyramid created there in honor of the Guard’s herolc dead. * ok k% Prench Strother, who has been named as the President’s literary and research man at the White House, comes into an important job. Men who've held it in the past had the reputation of writing Presidents’ speeches, but Herbert Hoover is not addicted to “ghost writers,” and Strother is npt at all likely to be his master's voice. The princpial work he'll be called upon to do will be to dig up material for the speeches Hoover has to write, generally of historical or statis- tical nature. In other words, facts and figures, not ideas, is what the present_ President will call for. In ad- dition, the White House “literary and research” secretary will be on constant draft for the preparation of the moic or less stereotyped letters, telegrams and other communications which the Chief Executive is asked or required to dispatch on recurring occasions, grave or gay. Strother wields an accomplish- ed pen and is considered an ideal ap- pointment. He is a Missourian by origin, * Kk k k Dr. C. C. Wu, newly accreaited Chi- nese Minister to the United States, per- | formed what he called an act of filial plety in Washington on March 25, just an hour or two before presenting his credentials at the White House. He ap- peared on the platform of the Richards Study Club, where, he said, his father, the late Wu Ting-fang, had stood ex- actly 20 years before, to speak infor- mally to men and women of the Capital. At the outset of his mission in America, Dr. Wu explained, he desired. in that spirit of ancestral devotion which char- acterizes his people, to tread in the footsteps of the elder Wu, who served 50 long and with so much distinction as China’s envoy in Washington. The first Minister of Natlonalist China adjured his audience to remember that his country was “trying to evolve in as many decades the civilization which it had taken the West centuries to achieve.” %k ok April 25 will be Wisconsin day be- neath the dome of the United States Capitol, The occasion is the formal dedication of the marble statue of “Fighting Bob” La Follette, which has been prescnted to the Nation by the te Senator's Badger feliow citizens. | Hortense went away, leaving the mean |old Ogre quite defeated and the Demon Repression completely vanquished, as he is so often in these latter days. WILLIAM WILE. The statue has just been placed in Statuary Hall and will be unveiled with impressive cersmonics. The sculptor is Jo Davidson, noted American artist and personal friend of “Fighting Bob.” He deplets the old Progressive chieftain in a characteristic pose, leaning forward, hands clenching the arms of his chair in the Senate, as if he were about to arise and address the chamber. The late Senator's daughter happened to be | showing a friend through the Capitol a day or two ago, after the draped | statue had just been put in place. She heard a guide saying to a group of tourists: “This is the statue of ‘Young | Bob' La Follette, the baby Senator. The sculptor was Gutzon Borglum.” * K ok The most picturesque Republican white leader who finds hims:If outside the breastworks, as the result of G. O. P. house ~cleaning in Dixie, is Joe Tolbert, national committeeman from | South Carclina almost since the flood. | At national committee meetings Joe | was easily recognizable because he was the only man in the room without a necktie, on his pro- hibited list. He does not scorn a collar, but he prefers it unadorned. Once he told this observer that “neckties are | an unnecessary nuisance.” Political conditions in South Carolina, which the Hoover administration is determined to improve so far as its Republican voters are concerned, once were graphically described in the Senate by Senator Cole Blease of that State. He alleged that ordinarily only about 14 per cent of qualified voters cast ballots at election time. The canny Cole did not discuss | the reason for that modest use of the franchise in the Palmetto common- wealth. Cravats a (Coppright, ) Some Fleas Travel, Others Stay at Home BY E. E. FREE, PH. D. Fleas, like human beings, may be di- vided into the stay-at-home classes and the travelers; the latter never happier than when they are crowding into the cramped quarters of a steamer or a train. Fleas have the disadvantage, however, that they cannot travel of their own free will, but must persuade a rat to take them along as tolerated, if unwel- come. baggage inhabiting its hide. This is true, at least, of the varleties of fleas which are believed to carry the germs of bubonic plague and which have attracted, for this reason, the special notice of scientific men. The United States Public Health Service, as a part of its efforts to safe- guard the country against a plague in- vasion, made recently in the port of New York & “census” of rats and fleas on ships, the resuits of which are re- ported by Dr. C. L. Willlams. From 1913 ships Dr. Willlams obtained 18,- 265 rats and 7,886 fleas. Six thousand nine hundred and ninety-two ‘of these fleas, nearly 90 per cent of them, be- longed to a single travel-loving variety rejoicing, in scientific circles, in the name of Xenopsylla cheopis. Another 10 per cent of the flea travel- ers were of a second variety named Ceratophyllus _fasciatus. These two | proved to be the only flea travelers. A | few specimens of six or eight other va- rieties were found: probably individuals unfortunate enough to have been car- | ried away accidentally on the back of | some rat that decided suddenly to take | a sea trip, like incautious visitors who stay too long aboard when a steamer is | about to sail. 1020.) e That’s Different. Prom the New Castle News. The artist who says there is no beauty in straight lines never has scep a white gphere describing one just over second ase. o e Digs Grave With Trunk. From the Boston Evening Transcript. Albert the Great, biggest of circus elephants, is dead of indigestion. In a world of unlimited peanuis it may be that he dug his grave with his trunk. ——rates Exit Popular Songs. From the Loulsville Times. If Dr. Durant is right in his predic- tion that the day will come when men | will do nothing but mental work, then the popular song will breathe its last. > Republican candidates for President and Vice President. The other was to parcel out Federal offices in their States while a Republican administration was in power. In some of the States, particu- larly Virginia, North Carolina and Flor- ida more recently, the Republicans have built much stronger organizations, and have elected now and then members of Congress. Republican Presidents, particularly if they sought renomination, might well have been embarrassed had they under- taken to ignore the Republican organi- zation and their leaders in the South- | ern States. The cry has ever been that these Southern delegaticns would al- ways line up for the administration; that they were forced to in order to maintain their control over Federal patronage. Mr. Hoover in effect has told these Republican organizations of the South that they must behave or they will have | on his second visit in 1678 was accom- | ‘ster first uses the word no pie. He has held out the hope to the people of the South that they will get a square deal from the Republican administration and an honest Govern- ment if they will only help themselves. In some quarters his action will be interpreted as an attack upon the Negroes of the South, who have played a prominent part in some of the Re- publican State organizations. But there is nothing in President Hoover’s state- ment which would eliminate the Negroes, What he demands is clean and honest leadership, and he has drawn no color line. * % K Kk ‘The Democrats of the South, accord- ing to Senator Brookhart, chairman of the Senate investigating committee, are strongly against the establishment of strong Republican organizations in their States. The Iowa Senator insists that they much prefer to see the kind of Republican organizations, trafficking in post office and other Federal appoint- ments, which have flourished in some of the States in the past. ‘The position taken by the President now with regard to Federal patronage in the South is an experiment. It is an open invitation to the people of the South who are Republicans or who be- lieve that a Republican administration is better for the country to join in form- ing strong Republican organizations that will be able to carry some of those States in the future. * Kk ok x The Boston Transcript hes started a boom for Calvin Coolidge for the Senate. It has proposed editorially that the former President be nominated next year for the seat now held by Senator Frederick H. Gillett. There has been no indication, however, that Mr. Cool- idge will “choose” to follow this course. He could have been renominated and re-elected President in all probability had he not made up his mind not to run, but to retire from public office. After the former President has been out of office for a year it is possible he may look differently upon the situation. Massachusetts has had a number of great Senators. The office of Senator of the United States is one of honor. A former President from Massachusetts, dead many long years, sought election to the House of Representatives after he had ieft the White House, Quincy Adams. Mr. Adams served for @ long time in the House. Mr. Coolidge is familiar with the Senate. He pre- sided over that body as Vice President and President of the Senate for two and a half years. One thing which may or may have an influence upon the attitud not e of Mr. Coolidge with regard to the sug-| gestion he run for the Senate lies in the need of Massachusetts to put its best foot forward if it is not to finally be lined up as a Democratic State. The State went for a Democratic nominee for President last November and re- elected Senator David I. Walsh, a Demo- crat. Mr. Coolidge is regarded as the greatest vote getter among the Repub- | iicans whom the party could put for- ward next year. Senator Gillett has had a long and honorable career as a member of Congress. He was elected to the House in 1892 and was re-elected contdnuously a member of that body until he was nominated and elected a Senator in 1924, defeating Senator Walsh. Mr. Gillett served several terms as Speaker of the House, just prior to his election to the Senate. Next Oc- tober he will be 78 years old. But they don’t call that “old” in New England, and, indeed, Senator Gillett is hale and hearty and apparently capable of many vears of service yet. He may prefer to seek re-election himself rather than to step aside for the nomination even of Mr. Coolidge. ey * Tammany, it appears now, is not to have a new. leader for several weeks. Furthermore, the growls of the dis- trict leaders, demanding that one of their number be selected to replace Judge Olvany, who has resigned as leader, are quieting down. The com- mittee of seven, appointed by Tam- many's executive committee to confer with the “Big Four"—Mr. Smith, Mayor Walker, Senator Wagner and Surro- gate Foley—has let it be known that the “Big Fowr” will be given a free hand | France, in 1847, Sweden and Norway; 11871, Japan. By 1918 these countries {and in addition Denmark, Italy, Bel- gium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Peru, Mexico, Brazil and Switzerland had concluded similar treaties. Ger- many and Austria-Hungary lost their i rights as a result of the World War. Q. Where do the Marines learn to fl | airplanes>—E. S. A. They learn to fly at Pensacola { Fleld, Fla. Q. Who was the first white man to sce Niagara Falis . K. A. For many years Father Hennepin was known as the firsi white man to | see Niagara Falls, but_recent research | has revealed the fact that French mis- sionaries and explorers reached the Falls before him. La Salle made his first expedition to Niagara in 1669, and | panied by Father Hennepin. Hennepin's ! carliest account of the Falls was pub- ane” in 1683. He was undoubtedly the first European to describe and depict the Talls. Q. Why is “Cwt. viation for “hundredweight”?—J. E. B. A. The “C” is the Roman symbol for 100 and “wt.” is a shortened form of “weight.” Q. What Inng;a_g:s are spoken | Switzerland?—O. A. A. The principal languages of Swit- i in lished in his “Description de la Louisi- | used as the abbre- | this kind were fashioned of wood or fish bones, and did not have the eye, but were used after the manner of the awl. The Babylonians, Egyptians and Phrygians did embroidery. In Pompeli both ordinary and surgeons’ needles | | have been found. The Chinese appear o 5}3\(: been the inventors of steel hat is the meaning of the neme Q. Wi sh word, and means What is the arca of the Island Q. | of Madagascar?—s. M. A. This fsland has an arca of 228,- 020 square miles. Q. When was the FEnglish law-mak- |ing_body called the Parllament?— A B. W A, In 1275 the statuts of Westmin- “parlement,” il in Eng- | @eseribing the great coun | Tand. | @ Is Rarl von Wiegand an Ameri- 1 can or a German?—C. B. i Karl von Wiegand was born in | Indlana. He is, therefore, a native- born American 2nd a citizen*of the Unitea States. | _Q What bulbs are suitable for | pring planting>—C. L. M. A. Chief among them are gladioluses, | dahiiss, cannas.” Peruvian ~ daffodils, ancmones, montbreties, {uberose: | zephyranthes. g v ‘There are no party lines in newspa- per discussion of the suggestion that Charies G. Dawes mey be sent to one | of the great European powers as Am- | bassador of the United States. The prospect of having such a vigorous and colorful personality in the diplomatic service strikes a favorable chord almest everywhere. “The fitness of ‘Hell-and-Maria’ is that he is himself, whether at Wash- ington or at Chicago, whether in Florida or in England,” observes the Birmingham News, which adds the tribute that “Gen Dawes is a man of strength of character and grace or character.” Calling him “one of the most cultured men in American public life,” the Binghamton Press says that “his grasp of foreign financiai pron- lems is unusual and his temperament United States Government of an ade- quate representation.” “Dawes knows his limitations and one may bank on his preperly doing any job that he would undertake. He bhas always done so.” declares the Kansas City Journal-Post, and the Yakima Daily Republic concludes that “he will be a credit to the administra- tion and will add to the already high esteem in which he is held by his fellow citizens.” The Springfleld, I, State Register states: “Any doubts as to his discretion in diplomatic matters are obscured by his record of tactful | deportment in situations abroad which ! would have tested the equanimity and | balance of many a statesman of better | surface qualifications. He has ability, | prestige and wealth equal to all re- quirements.” The South Bend Tribune feels thae i “Mr. Dawes’' talents could be put to | good use in either London or Paris. I ! 15 particularly well equipped by his ex- | tensive knowledge of European eco- | nomic and political conditions.” The New Orleans Item-Tribune suggests, “We don't know whether Mr. Dawes | would turn out to be another John Hay | or not, but he has one or two of the | traits of the late Benjamin Franklin" ! The Roanoke Times records that he “is | highly thought of in Europe, where he | won the confidence of the various | chancelleries by his efficient work as | chairman of the Reparations Commis- ! sion “There is a very general belie! | cording to the Rock Island Argus, “that | Mr. Dawes would serve his country with e e e i === in making its reccmmendations for the leadership and will not be asked to con- | fine itself strictly to the list of dis: | trict leaders. This is a very different attitude from that of the district lead- | ers and their friends on the morning of the meeting of the executive commit- tee last Friday. There is strong belief in New York that none of the district | leaders, the “little leaders,” as they have been called, will get the job now. But it not a district leader—who is to be- come Tsmmany chieftain? Wagner and Foley both would make able lead- ers, but neither, it is sald, wants the job or would take it. Walker wants to be re-elected mayor. No one knows what former Gov. Smith wants, ap- parently, but his friends in New York say he would not take the Tammany leadership. ol is sufficiently vigorous to assure the | 'Prospect of Dawes as Dip“lomat \Appeals to Popula r linagination 1 distinction in such a Ht - tactful enough when the sleun!lu:x“c‘ngs for it. The more his career is studied the more the opinion prevails that | whenever, in war days, he was guilty of an explosion, an explosion was de- | manded by the circumstances.” | “President Hoover could hardly pay |a finer compliment to the British na- | on,” says the Worcester Evening-Ga- | zette, “than in sending the former Vice | President of the United States to ad- vance the friendly relations existing be- ,tween the two nation: The Salt Lake iDrse‘rcL News believes that “diplomacy ins practiced and approved by the great ‘erublk‘ of the Western World is fast | outerowing the Old World pattern,” lnnd that “no one could give it a more spectacular push along the line of new procedure than this same vigorous, h:iffl-hlllln‘_’. iconoclastic Gen. Dawes."” Yes, sir, Dawes as a diplomat appeals |to us” proclaims the Little Rock Ar- !I:nnsas Democrat, “and we have no if?lr that ‘Hellenmaria’ will knock the ashes out of that underslung pipe on | the brass knockers of Buckingham Pal- |ace, or do anything else that the aver- | age’ American would be tempted to do. The Charleston Evening Post con- cedes that “he will probably make a good enough Ambassador, if he won't smoke his pipe during audiences with Queen Mary, who is sort of subbing for the King; and he can afford the ex- }pt‘nm‘ of the' place, which is by no {means light.” The ening Post also | thinks that “no offense was taken at his effort to change the rules of tha Senate, the members knowing very well it would amount to nothing, and they parted with Gen. Dawes in the best of humor and will doubtless be glad to i *peed him on Wway across the ccean with full ambassadorial honors.” “After all,” suggests the Ann Arbor | Daily News, “it might be to the credit | of Uncle Sam to set the pace for a new diplomacy in Europe. Possibly the folks over there could be induced to play |the game the American way—with frankness. Possibly the benefits would be mutuel. A frank diplomat! Dare we | make the venture?" “Gen. Dawes is vigorous, colorful, daring.” asserts the Baltimore Evening Si The Britisher who looks at him the dinner table or who hears him speak at some public dinner will know that he has to deal with some- thing other” than the type that was found in those days when the American in London “proceeded to ape Btitish | ways and to become. in outward seeming at least, more British than the Brit- | ish.” 2 | eemed alike by President Hoover | and Secretary of State Henry L. Stim- son, Mr. Coolidge's running mate should | be in a favored position for the honor,” in the opinion of the Cleveland News, while \the Manchester Union suggests that “it is taken into reckoning that President Hoover /holds the general in high esteem and has been credited with the opinion that the United States needs more red blood in some of its diplo- mats.” As to the opinion of the Sen- ate, the Petersburg Progress-Index says. 1“It Is said of him that no man has ev loccupied the viea presidential chair who | bes presided with a preater degree of fairness and a stricter regard for the rights of every Senator. | 1