Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1929, Page 4

1 % PRESIDENT'S TRAIN MENACED BY AUTO Dbstruction Moved From {Track Hour Before Hoover Special Arrives. (Continued From First Page.) for less than half an hour, during which time he evinced a keen desire to receive their opinion of how his water- ways speech would be accepted gener- ally, and then excused himself and turned in for the night. He slept soundly and was up at his customary early hour this morning. He made no secret of the fact that he was eager to get back to his desk. Climax of Celebration. The President’s address in Louisville last night was the climax to a several days’ celebration in the Ohio Valley sec~ tion of the completion of the Jocks and dams on the Ohio River, thereby mak- ing that historic waterway navigable throughout its full length. The Presi- dent's remarks on this subject had been anticipated with great interest, but it is doubtful if any expected him to commit himself so definitely or to speak so can- idly. d!\rh)’. Hoover was at home with the sub- ect of treating the country’s waterways. t is a subject near to his heart and one with which he is thoroughly familiar. ‘He took great pains in the writing of his speeeh. He composed it as an engineer and he delivered it as one. It was the most important speech made by him on this trip. As nuamed by him, his policy calls for the development in 10 years, at a cost of about $1,000,000,000, of & network of dnland waterways covering practically the whole of this Nation. His ambitious lan in its entirety is more stupendous Yhan ‘was the Panama Canal—three or four times bigger. As described by him last night he is proposing & program Jarger undoubtedly than any single un- dertaking of a similar nature ever con- femplated in, the history of the world. Development Plan Definite. There is now every reason to expect shat Mr. Hoover will incorporate in his annual message to Congress when it convenes in regular session in De- cember, recommendations of a very specific nature for carrying his water- ways program into effect. His develop- ment plan is simple and definite, and, although it would involve an annual increase of $10,000,000 in Government expenditures for rivers and harbors, not including the proposed St. Lawrence waterway, which project he strongly favors and which he said last night would require another $10,000,000 an- nual outlay, Mr. Hoover feels confident that the people will support such an apparently huge expense as being in the nature of a capital investment more than justified by the prospective return. Aside from his engineer's logic and wision, Mr. Hoover added persuasion to his proposal by linking it up with his administration’s policy of naval dis- armament when he remarked in his | Ky., in connection with the celebration | President Sees Riv i The address in full of President Hoover given last night at Louisville, of completion of the nine-foot channel | of the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, Pa., | to Cairo, Ill, follows: To My Fellow Citizens: During the day we have com- pleted the journey from Cincinnati to Louisville as part of the celebration of the Ohio Valley upon the completion of the improvement of the Ohio River | into a modern waterway. The river has now been formally opened to traffic from above Pitts- burgh, 1,000 miles to Cairo, on the Mississippi, from which point another 1,000 miles of modernized waterway leads to the sea at New Orleans. By dams and locks, by dredging and revet- ments, we have transformed the Ohio River from a stream of shallows, oft- | times dangerous even to rafts, into a| canalized waterway of an assured 9 feet | of depth at all seasons. This transfor- mation will not revive the romantic steamboatin’ days of Mark Twain, but it will move more goods. The picturesque floating paiaces of Mark Twain's days drew 2 or 3 feet of THE EVEN. er Days Awakened and Regular Channels of Ohio With Tugs Pulling Trains Steel Barges Contrasted With Old Times in Address. ural waterways, I may well summarize their present condition and enunciate the policies of my admijnistration in respect to them: 1. As a general and broad policy I favor modernizing of every part of our waterways which will show economic justification in aid of our farmers and industries, 2. The Mississippl system comprises over 9,000 miles of navigable streams. I find that about 2,200 miles have now been modernized to 9 feet in depth, and about 1,400 miles have been mod- ernized to at least 6 feet in depth. Therefore some 5,000 miles are yet to be connected or completed so as to be of purpose to modern commerce. We should establish a 9-foot depth in the trunk system. While it is desirable that some of the tributaries be made accessible to traffic at 6 or 7 feet, yet we should in the long view look for- ward to increasing this latter depth as fast as traffic justifies it. Would Avoid Patchwork. This administration will insist upon building these waterways as we would build any other transportation system— that is, by extending its ramifications water and even then found their way precariously around the bends, among | the snags and over sand bars. In time they were unable to compete with the spreading railroads and river naviga- | tion passed into its Dark Ages. But now | is its day of renaissance. Upon_deep | and regular channels unromantic Diesel | tugs now tow long trains of steel barges. | What the river has lost in romance it | has gained in tonnage, for in steam- | boatin’ days 500 tons was a great cargo, | while today 10,000 tons is moved with less men and less fuel. It is thus by | deeper channels and new inventions that our rivers come back as great ar- teries of commerce after half a century of paralysis. And the new waterways are not competitive but complementary to our great and efficient railways. It is the history of transportation that an increase of facilities and a cheapening of transportation increase the volume speech the#’ ¥his annual increase in waterways [ Jopment is equal to the cost of of-/.f of one battleship. “If we are so fortunate,” he stated, “as to save this annual outlay on naval construction as the result of the forth- coming naval conference in London, nothing could be a finer or more vivid conversion of swords to plowshares.” ‘This statement called for considerable applause on the part of those in the new Louisville Memorial Auditorium. Peculiarly ennush there was very little other applause during the course of his remarks, regardless of their significant nature. Another disappointing incident to this great speech was the number of empty seats In the big auditorium, but this was easily explained by the heavy downpour of rain and the fact that there had been a last-minute change in the President's schedule in Louis- ville, and the faet that many persons ryemained home to hear the President on the radio, Held an Indorsement. However, the manner in which the President’s reference to naval disarma- ment was received last night was ac- cepted as a genuine indorsement of his aims to reduce navies as a step toward international peace and Government sconomy. Considering the tremendous ovation in his honor during his visits to Dear- born and Detroit, Mich., and Cincinnati, ©Ohio, just previous to his going to Louisville, it is quite natural that the President today should have conflicting emotions while reflecting upon his re- ception at the Kentucky city. Among the changes in the arrange- ments for the President while in Louis- ville was the place for the delivery of his waterways speech. Originally it ‘was planned to have him speak from the deck of the river boat which brought him from Cincinnati. He had been exposed to the rain and the raw winds so much during his trip that it was decided to save him from further exposure by having him speak indoors, thus the shift to the auditorium. Before making his speech last night the President was the guest of honor at ® banquet at the Brown Hotel, given by the Louisville Board of Trade. He made no address, however, at that gathering, Amplifiers Fail. A really disturbing factor during the President’s speech in the auditorium was the inability of the amplifiers to function properly. During half of the President’s talk his voice was not am- lified at all, and he was talking in a W couversational tone, so typical of Im, ne could not be heard by those more than 100 feet away from him. ‘When the amplifiers did work they threw his voice out with a bang. So great was the bang that there was a constant reverberation which suggested the echo of one's voice. Regardless of these several disap- ointing incidents in Louisville the resident is credited with not only layng a definite waterway program be- fore the public, but with starting a movement to make the country “water- ‘way minded.” ‘This movement was initiated when he Jeft Cincinnati Tuesday afternoon at the head of a colorful and impressive flotilla which in pageant style steamed Hown the Ohio to Louisville. Attention on River. By showing his own personal Interest in the river and by his waterways speech he has focused attention upon the Ohio River canalization arhise- ment and the enormous practical bene- fits already flowing from it. The be- lief today is that Mr. Hoover will not be back at the White House very long before he receives evidences of the stim- wulating effect his own river journey and his speech have had toward mak- ing the country more ‘“waterway minded.” Speaker Longworth, who joined the President’s party at Cincinnati and ac- companied it to Louisville, did not ac- company it on the journey back to Washington. Outside of the newspaper correspondents and photographers, the only ones in the returning party of the President and Mrs. Hoover were Secre- tary of War Good, George Akerson, one of “the President’s secretaries; Lieut. Comdr. Joel T. Boone, the President's physician; Capt. Allen Buchanan and Col. Campbell Hodges, naval and mili- tary aide, respectively; Miss Anne Shankey, the President’s personal stenographer, and Miss Mildred Hall, Mrs. Hoover's secrefary. The journey is being made on the same luxurious train which carried the | The of traffic. In the steamboatin’ days, the rivers were the great arties for travel. Those who must hurry will have little inclina- tion to journey by river steamers, but those who wish recreation may weil re- turn to this magnificent and powerful river. The majesty of the Ohio was born of the Ice Age, half a million years ago. Its beauty remains today undis- turbed by our improvements, and will remain long after our Nation and race have been replaced with some other civilization. And those who love the glories of “Ole Man River” may now again find rest an food for the soul in travel on its currents. River Place in History. ‘The Ohio has a large place in the history of our race. On this route 250 years ago birch canoes carried La Salle and his first party of white men into the wilderness of the Middle West. He was the first to visit the falls of Louis- ville, whose roar is this moment in my ears. Down this valley through succeed- ing centuries poured the great human tid> that pioneered the greatest agri- cultral migration in history. In turn came the explorer, the trapper, the-early settler, the sweep of farmers ever press- ing back the frontier in search of virgin land and independent hgmes, the merchant, the manufacturer, the city builder, until this great valley is today one of the rich places of the earth. It Is rich not alone in the sense of prop- erty, but in the sense of happy and in- dependent homes of virile men and | women. From forefathers schooled of courage, adventure and independence, of a spirit tempered by hardships, have sprung a race of men and women who have oft given leadership to the build- ing of our Republic. The improvement of this great water route has been ever present in the vision of our statesmen. George Wash- ington fisst voiced its potentiality to our new-born Nation. In reporting on one of his early journeys he said: “Prompted by these actual observa- tions, I could not help taking a more extensive view of the vast inland navi- gation possibilities of the United States, both from maps and the_ observations of others as well as myself, and could not but be struck with the immense extent and importance of it and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt its forces to us in so profuse & hand. Would to God that we may have the wisdom and courage to im- prove them.” Today, after this 160 years, Wash- ington’s prayer is come true in a great- er sense than even he dreamed. Other Presidents in succession over our his- tory have striven for its development, from Jefferson on down. Lincoln's first political speech was a plea for its im- provement. Our Nation - sometimes moves slowly, but its wiil is not to be thwarted. It has been a gigantic task, this transformation of the Ohio. It represents an expenditure and a labor half as great as the construction of the Panama Canal. Like many cur- rent problems, the development of our rivers is never a finished accomplish- | ment, it must march with the progress | of life and invention. While I am proud to be the President | who witnesses the apparent completion | of its improvement, I have the belief that some day new inventions and new pressures of population will require its further development. In some genera- tion to come they will perhaps look back at our triumph in building a channel nine feet in depth in the same way that we look at the triumph of our forefathers when, having cleared | the snags and bars, they announced that a boat drawing two feet of water could pass safely from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. Yet for their times and means they, too, accomplished a great task. It is the river that is permanent: it is one of God's gifts to man, and | with each succeeding generation we will advance in our appreciation and our use of it. And with each generation it will grow in the tory and tradi- tion of our Nation, Others to Be Improved. And while we celebrate the comple- | tion and connection of a great water- | way 2,000 miles, from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, we have still unfinished tasks in improvement of our other great waterways up to the standards we have established upon the Ohio. Some have doubted the wisdom of these improvements. I have discussed the subject many times and in many places before now, and I shall not re- peat the masses of facts and figures. American people, I belicve, are convinced. What they desire is action, | not arrurment. I may, however, men- | tion that as the improvement of the Ohio and its tributaries has marched section by section during t! years the traffic has grown 000,000 tons to over 50,000.000 tons an- | nually. Yet it is only today this great | branch line is connected with the main | trunk of this transportation system, the Mississippl. It is only now that the full movement of goods can take place between the great cities of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, on one hand, and St. Louls, Memphis, New Orleans and the wide ocean.-on the other. With the completion of our national job on the Ohio, with the celebration of this day, we can well turn our minds toward the other great jobs in water- way improvement which lie before u The Ohlo is but one segment of the natural inland waterways with which Providence has blessed us. We have completed the modernization of but one other of the great segments of this sys- tem—that of the lower Mississippi. Five or six years ago I had oppor- tunity to join with those many repre- sentatives of the Midwest in council as to the method by which we could strengthen national interest in cnergetie development of the other narts of this great system. At that time I suegested that all these tribu- taries of the Mississinpi and the Great party from Washington last Sunday. “The only change was made in the loco- motives. The Lord Baltimore, the Jargest passenger locomotive in this country! was substituted for the George Washing'on because of the heavier mades coming East. ' solidly outward from the main trunk lines. Substantial traffic or public service can not be developed upon a patchwork of disconnected local im- provements and intermediate segments. Such patchwork has in past years been the sink of hundreds of millions of public money. v 3. We must design our policles so as to establish private enterprise in substitution for Government operation of the barges and craft upon these waterways. We must continue Govern- ment barge lines through the pioneer- ing stages, but we must look forward to private initiative not only as the cheapest methcd of operation, but as the only way to assured and adequate public_service. 4. We should complete the entire Mis- sissippi system within the next five years. We shall then have built a great north and south trunk waterway entirely across our country from the Gulf to the onrthern boundaries, and a great east and west route halfway across the United States. Through the tributaries we shall have created a network of transportation. We shall then have brought a dozen great cities into dircet communication by water: we shall have opened cheaper trans- portation of primary goods to @he farmers and manufacturers of over a score of States. 5. At the present time we have com- pleted 746 miles of intracoastal canals. We still have approximately 1,000 miles to build. We should ccmplete this program over a period of less than 10 years. 6. We should continue improvement of the channels in the Great Lakes; we should determine and construct those works necessary for stabilizing the lake levels. 7. One of the most vital improvements to transportation on the North Amer- ican continent is the removal of the ob- stacles in the St. Lawrence River to ocean-going vessels inward to the Great Lakes. Our Nation should undertake to do its part whenever our Canadian friends have overcome those difficulties which lie in the path of their making similar undertakings. I may say that I have seen a statement published lately that this improvement would cost such a huge sum as to make it entirely uneconomical and prohibitive. To that I may answer that after we have dis- posed of the electrital power we could contract the entire construction for less than $200,000,000, divided between the two governments and spread over a period of 10 years. Systematic Work Ahead. 8. We shall expedite the work cf flood control on the Lower Mississippl in every manner possible. In the working out of plans we find it necessary to re- consider one portion of the project— that is, the floodway below the Arkansas —but work in other directions will pro- ceed in such fashion that there will be no delay of its completion under the 10-year program assigned to it. 9. With the increasing size of ocean- going vessels and the constantly ex- panding volume of our commerce, we must maintain unceasing development of our harbors and the littoral water- ways which extend inland from them. 10. The total construction of these works which I have mentioned amounts to projects three and four times as great as the Panama Canal. In order that there may be no failure in admin- istration, and as an indication of our determination to pursue these works with resolution, we have in the past month entirely recast the organization of this executive staff in the Govern- ment. With the approval of the Sec- retary of War, and under the newly appointed chief of engineers, we have assigned to each of these major proj- ects a single responsible engineer. We thus secure a modern business organ- ization, direct responsibility and con- tinuous administration. We wish to see these projects completed with all the expedition which sound engineer- ing will permit. We shall be able by this means to place responsibility, without question in failure, and to give credit without question to the men who bring these great projects to suc- cessful completion. At the present time we are expending approximately $85,000,000 per annum on new construction and maintenance of these works. To complete these pro- grams within the periods I have men- tioned will require an increase in the Government outlay 'by about $10,000,- 000 per annum, not including the St. Lawrence; at most, including that item, an increase in our expenditures of say $20,000,000 a year. A considerable proportion of this will end in five years’ time. It is of the nature of a capital investment. This annual increase is equal to the cost of one-half of one battleship. If we are so fortunate as to save this an- nual outlay on naval construction as the result of the forthcoming naval conference in London, nothing could be a finer or more vivid conversion of swords to plowshares. To carry forward all these great works is not a dream of the visionaries —it is the march of the Nation. We are reopening the great trade routes upon which our continent developed. This development is but an interpreta. tion of the needs and pressures of popu- lation, of industry and civilization. They are threads in that invisible web which knits our national life. They are not local in their benefits. They are universal in promoting the pros- perity of the Nation. It is our duty as statesmen to respond to these needs, to direct them with intelligence, with kill, with economy, with courage. A nation makes no loss by devotion of some of its current income to the improvement of its estate. That is an obligation we owe to our children and |; our grandchildren. I do not measure the future of America in terms of our lifetime. God has truly blessed us with great resources. It is our duty to make ) them available to our people. MINER- SCHOOL GIRL WINS SPEAKING PRIZE Oratorical Contest Staged by Sun- day School League. Miss Alfreda Washington of the Miner Normal School was victor in the inter-church oratorical contest staged the | Jast night at the Haven Methodist Episcopal Church, Fourteenth and B streets southeast, under auspices of the Sunday School League of that church. She represented the Asbury Church at _Eleventh and K streets. Lakes comprised a single great trans- nortation system. That it must be de- veloped in vision of the whole and not in_narts. Without delaving to traverse the de- talled ramifications of these great nat- Second prize was given to Miss Rosetta Berry. Others winning prizes were Miss Winona Wing, Miss Eliza- beth Queen and Miss Irene Marlowe. Miss Edna Bowie charge. NG _STAR vWASHINGTOZ\'. D. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1929. PRESIDENT STANDS RIVER TRIP WELL Physician Pleased by Hoo- ver’s Condition After Expo- sure to Heavy Rains. BY WILLIAM HARD. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. ON BOARD PRESIDENT HOOVER'S 'TRAIN, October 24 —The President this morning is rapidly on his way back to Washington, with many praises pro- nounced upon his constitution by his| special physician and trainer, Comdr. Joel T. Boone, U. 8. N. 2 “He has survived the trip with marvelous power of resistance to ter- rible weather and to great fatigue,” said Dr. Boone. “He is just as physi- cally fit this minute as he was when he left Washington. He has stood the torrents of rain and the crowds of sight- seers and hand-shakers without losing a bit of his fine physical condition. He is going back to Washington not only without pneumonia but without even a trace of a cold.” In Dr. Boone's voice there was the ngle of a feeling of great relief and of gleat triumph. George Akerson, the President’s secretary for his contacts with the public, was meanwhile talking about the President’s success with the vast crowds which har greeted him. Mr. Akerson was glad to have the President get through his trip with un- abated personal popularity. Dr. Boone was glad to have him get through with it alive. Discuss Traveling. The whole question of presidential cress-country political _steeplechases was thus brought up for discussion and debate on the presidential homeward- bound journey. On three successive days the Presi- dent was drenched to the skin by tre- mendous downpours of rain in the course of his travels through the sight- seeing crowds in Detroit and in_Cin- cinnat! and along the waters of the Ohio River. He had need of the pro- fessional and affectionate care, not only of his physician, Comdr. Boone, but his watchful wardrobe master, “Boris.” “Boris” has many years behind him of solicitious efforts to circumvent and counteract the President's absolutely negligent care of his clothes, ‘“Boris,” therefore, thoughtfully started out from Washington with a vast stock of spare- part clothes for emergencies. He ac- cordingly was able, as soon as one pres- idential suit was ruined by the rain, to replace it upon the President by an- other. Honors for returning the Presi- dent to Washington intact must be al- most_equally dicided between *“Boris” and Dr. Boone. Defied Pneumonia. ‘The President in Detroit made a re- mark, which is thought to be a fairly complete summary of presidential duty in touring circumstances. He looked at the thick endless lines of drenched and almost drowned people along the sidewalks of the flooded streets and waved down the efforts of his com- panions to raise the shelter of the top of his car over him, and said. “If I'm going to leave a trail of pneumonia behind me in the Middle West, I ought at least to go along the trail myself.” A great comic frony was lent to this situation by the events of the Presi- dent's night in Louisville. He spoke in Louisville in a warm and dry and splendid auditorium. In Detroit and in Cincinnati and along the waters of the ©Ohio River, enormous crowds had stood out in the open and in the rain just to look at him. In Louisville, in the inclosed waterproof auditorium, there were hundreds of vacant seats, which had been reserved for people who pre- ferred to stay at home and listen to the President’s set formal speech over the 1adio. What with people who will brave drowning to look at a President and people who won't take a taxi through the rain to hear him talk in a dry place, it is thought on this train that the presidential problem of public touring appearances is difficult in the extreme. May End Long Trips. It seems likely to be solved only by having the radio companies hurry up with the art of “television.” Then every- body will be able to see and to hear the President while he remains snugly and safely healthy In his second-story study in the White House. “Television,” it is suggested, may be the end of hazardous plresidcnllal “swings around the cir- cle.” ‘The saddest spectators peghaps of the President’s present tour were some sleepy members of his early morning “medicine ball cabinet.” They thought that during the President’s absence from ‘Washington they might be happily abed till half past seven, possibly, in- stead of half-past six. It is said that the President wholly frustrated this pleasant expectation of theirs by an- nouncing to them that health was a splendid thing, and that medicine ball activities would be permitted and con- tinued on the White House back lawn all through his unfortunate and una- voidable separation from his fellow ath- letes. ‘They accordingly presumably have been toiling every morning at health while he has been miraculously preserving it in the midst of the chilling downpours of this week's Western skies. One of the keys to the miracle is thought to be {illustrated by the fact that on the boat between Cincinnati and Louisville the President was fast asle>p by half-past nine in the evening. He will @eturn fully refreshed and ab- solutely healthy to wakeful “medicine ball cabinet” Friday morning. (Copyright, 1929.) Job Costs Shawkey $31. NEW YORK, October 24 (#)—It cost Bob Shawkey $31 to get a telegram informing him that he had been picked as manager of the Yankees. The club sent it collect to the wilds of Canada. Bob had to pay Indian guides, the owner of a sleigh and then some. Let us estimate and save you money on all your building needs CREIETE T E T EITE O IE @@ S 3—Branches—3 9 MAIN OFFICE-6™ & C.Sts. S.W. CAMP MEIGS-5U & Fla. Ave.N.E. BRIGHTWOOD-592! Ga. AveNW. View during the dedication by President Hoover of the Ohio River Monument in Cincinnati. The monument sym- bolizes the completion of the improved Ohio River. TARIFF COALITION - FACES SUGAR REEF Regulars Hope Cleavage Over Schedule Will Break Senate Control. BY MARK SULLIVAN. The Republicans are waiting, not without some cynicism, to see what the Democratic-Progressive coalition in control of the Senate will do about sugar. If the coalition is to have grief, sugar is where it may come. On sugar there is potential cleavage that might split the strangely assorted coalition sev- eral ways and end their control of the tariff-making. ‘The facts about sugar begin with the existing rate in the 1922 law, which is 22/10 cents a pound. The Republicans in the lower house raised this to 3 cents. That change by regular Republi- cans was indorsed by practically all the farm organizations. Farmers With Regulars. On sugar the farm organizations got into the same bed with the regular Republicans. Indeed, the farm repre- sentatives have gone farther. When the regular Republicans in the Senate pro- posed a compromise rate of 2 75/100 cents the farm representatives pro- tested that 3 cents should be the irre- ducible minimum. The farm organiza- tions went on the principle that sugar is a farm crop. In the spirit of pooling all the interests of all farmers they demanded that sugar should have the same generosity of treatment as ordi- nary farm crops. In consequence of this, Washington will watch to see what the coalition Democrats and Progressives do when they have the responsibility for fixing the rate on sugar. Hosts of farmers re- sent a high rate on sugar. There are whole farming States in which no sugar is raised. One important farm editor in the corn belt takes the ground that “every farmer buys sugar, but only one farmer in a hundred raises sugar.” In general, the attitude of the Republi- cans toward the coalition is one of ac- cepting the condition in which, so far as the Senate goes, the Democratic- Progressive coalition is In_control of the tariff-making. The Republicans watch the course of the coalition with resignation qualified by vigilance. If, as is possible, the coalition should break down in its new role of responsibility, the Republicans will, of course, cheer up and resume control. ‘While a coalition breakdown is hardly Gunner Loses Life In Explosion After Firing Hoover Salve By the Assoclated Press. MADISON, Ind., October 24.— An_ explosion which occurred while the gun crew of Battery E, 150th Field Artillery, Indiana National Guard, was attempting to fire & salute in honor of Presi- dent Hoover, when his boat dock- ed here yesterday, caused the death of one man and the injury of seven others. Robert C. Earls, 19, of Madi- son, a member of the gun crew, died yesterday afternoon at a hospital from burns and injuries. William Stephanus, Charles Rousch,and Charles Haak, three other gunners, are in the hospital receiving treatment for serious burns. Four others were slightly injured. The explosion occured after the sixth shot had been fired. A spark fell in a box containing 50 pounds of powder. The crew, standing near the box, was blown in all directions. a_probability, it is, of Sourse, a pos- sibility. Responsibility carries’ its own difficultfes. Hope Margin Will Wane. ‘The hope of the Republicans is that, on some rate or rates, such as sugar, the coalition will not be able to hold all of the entire margin which consti- tutes their slight majority. In the nature of things, an improvised coali- tion formed spontaneously in the heat of combat, is not likely to be as co- hesive or as well disciplined as either of the regular party organizations. Furthermore, many members of the coalition are temperamentally, so to speak, uncohesive. It is because they are strong individualists that they be- came insurgents. In such a group, co- operations is not always easy to achieve. All this sort of thing constitutes the hope of the Republicans. As against this, it is to be said that the coalition have the morale that arises out of several successive victories. They haye an air of perfect confidence. They as- sert complete willingness to accept en- tire responsibility for revising the whole tariff. This is illustrated by the free- dom with which they reversed . them- selves on the resolution to confine the revision to agriculture. Four months ago, on June 17, when the coalition was merely a protesting minority, Senator Borah introduced a resolution to confine the revision to agriculture only. At that time the coal- ition cast 38 votes for this resolution and came within one vote of carrying it. This week, under the new con- ditions, a substantially identical reso- Hundreds of pairs of the famous Queen Quality Shoes, featuring the new Fall models in all the wanted leathers at this special reduced price, $5.85. This 48 your opportunity to buy genuine Queen Quality Shoes at this remarkable price and enables us to secure many new customers and friends for this shop.. All sizes, AAA to C. October Sale of Queentex Hostery Full fashioned all silk chiffon from toe to top | L5 also Service Weight with narrow lisle top. 2 Pairs for $2.25 Quercn Quality Boot Shop 1219 F Streest N. W. —Wide World Photo. lution was introduced by Senator ‘Thomas of Oklahoma. ‘This time, however, only 10 members of the coalition supported it. Twenty- five of them reversed their vote of last June and voted against the resolution. The spirit in which they did this was made clear by Senator Simmons and others. They said, in effect, that now they are in control of the situation. Being in control of it they tgtopfise to tsccx?e responsibility for e entire arifl, In carrying out that responsibility they propose not to confine themselves to the new bill pending in Congress. They propose to go back to the existing tariff law passed .in 1922. They pro- pose to survey industrial rates in that 1922 law and reduce many of them. From all this it is to be inferred that no one can charge the coalition with any hesitancy about accepting respon- sibility. ‘The whole situation is watched with keen interest because the coalition con- trol of the Senate is a sensational con- dition having far-reaching possibilities. The ultimate phase visualized for a few weeks hence by the coalition lead- ers is a struggle between agriculture and other industries, with the farmers in control of the Senate and the other industries presumably in control of the House. - Plot on Ibanez’s Life Scouted. By Cable to The Star. SANTIAGO, Chile, October 24—The attempted assassination of President Carlos Ibanez by Luis Ramirez, 23 years old, was.not part of a general plot, but was believed -by officials to have been prompted by personal motives growing out of Socialistic beliefs. A brother and half-sister of the youth were arrested. A pamphlet written by the Socialist priest Bernardo Jendillin was found in Ramirez’s possession. Thousands of messages of congratulation were re- ceived by President Ibanez yesterday and some 2,000 persons, including members of Congress and the diplomatic corps, visited La Moneda Palace yesterday to express their congratulations. G R 0 S CANALIZATION HELD OF IMMENSE VALUE Speaker Longworth Urges Hearers Not to Abuse Hoover’s Confidence. By the Assoclated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky, October 24—A call to the people of the Ohio Valley to see to it that a confidence of President Hoover in the completed Ohio water- way is not abused was made here last night by Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Addressing the President himself and a thousand others, mostly business men and political leaders of this section, at a Board of Trade dinner commemo- rating the comple~ tion of the new canal system upon the river, Longworth wldl ufi‘}l t the people tha ey should see to it that the American people never have cause to regret their investment in the waterway. Describing the new Ohio as “an artery of commerce capable of trans- porting throughout tlrie year all articles il § of commerce con- fided toit,” Speaker SPe:er Loneworth. Longworth said he did not dare trust himself to speak of the ultimate future of the river, Value Held Limitless. “To me it seems almost limitless,” he sald. “This I do predict, however, that during the lives only of ourselves and our children and of our children’s chil- dren, by reason of the savings in the cost of transportation on its surface and its potential effect on all trahsportation costs, the Ohio Canal will prove to have exceeded in actual worth to the Ameri-~ can people by millions if not billions of dollars all the sums that have been ex- pended on its triumphant completion.” Recalling that George Washington, the engineer, surveyed the Ohio and bought large tracks of land along the banks, the Speaker said it was by no means imposible that Washington may have foreseen not only the development of the Ohio as an artery of commerce, but also that it might be developed by canalization. “He was probably the leading au- thority on systems of internal water- ways and an investor in canalization projects, the Speaker added. “With such a background I am by no means sure that my suggestion that Washing- ton had vision of a project such as we are now dedicating goes far afield. “It is a most happy coincidence, if not a providential one, that another great engineer, like Washington among the most eminent of his time, honors us with presence tonight. Like ‘Washington, he is also a President of the United States. Like Washington, he will, as I predict, take rank as one of the great Presidents of the United States. He comes both as an engineer in his private capacity, and as President in his public capacity, to lend his ap- proval to this completed project and to dedicate it forever to the use of le of the United States. “‘Let us of the Ohio Valley resolutely see to it that his confidence is not abused and that the American people may never have cause to regret their investment.” Convicts Read Newspapers. OSSINING, N. Y. October 24 (#).— Three hundred newspapers are delivered daily to subscribers at Sing Sing, the rpopulation of which is°1,958. NE ELRES 1325-F- STREET ONLY Specials Buy These Tomorrow and Save . . . 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