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Editorial Page EDITORIAL SECTION The Sunday Star, Part 2—12 Pages WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1930. -Reviews of Boqks TORIES SEE FRENCH NOTE BLOWAT NAVAL REDUCTION Regarded Heaven-Se nt Chance to Escape Rapidan Obligations, and May Undo Macdonald. BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. NOUGH time has now passed to permit the American public to get a just and clear' view of the mean of the French note, which fairly well de- fined the chief obstacles to any im- portant agreement at the London Armament Conference. It remains to examine the possibilities for any agree- ment, however slight, which can still emerge from a conference that has its fleld of action so restricted. In substance, France has said that she will sign no agreement which can n respect be interpreted as final or tive. For her, London is to be not & terminal but a way station. All that is done at the British capital must be subject to review and amendment at Geneva, where it will pass under the scrutiny of the many smaller powers not_represented at London. ‘Thus, in fact, France serves notice upon Britain and the United States, but upon the United States primarily, that the work of the organization of peace must be done at Geneva, that the American notion of conducting two parallel enterprises of peace in the world, the one under the color of the League and in the spirit of the Cove- nant, the other in the name of the xelllflg pact, will find in France a consistent and determined opponent. ‘That the United States, Japan and Britain, as the three greatest naval powers, should meet to arrange be- tween themselves some standard’ of , relative strength is for the French a matter of complete indifference. But that the three powers—and more par- ticularly the two English - speaking powers—should undertake to persuade or coerce other nations to order their naval establishments so as to fit -into this tripartite system is for the French intolerable. One French Peace Pian. From the moment of the armistice sistently maintained one thesis in the matter of peace and the subordinate detail of disarmament. Everywhere and on all occasions French statesmen have declared that g lence, France today rejects the Kell et —as at she rejected the dmnt of the League of Nations—as an ade- quate guarantee of her security and of security in the rest of the world. If United States and Great Britain desire to bring about a stabilization of val strengths in the world and are that Prance should fit her de- establishment to. their notions, asks directly that they agree to her_security. United States rejected the treaty of Paris, France creation of a system of she has associated ly all the armed continent, save Italy and And at the same moment she to reorganization of her end that she should pos- adequate to insure n: not otherwise estab- HHY b i3 ol o recognizing his thesis as honest, his phrase as lucid, his contribution as useful. 14 use this French note at once enabled all the Tory ele- ments in Britain to reopen the question of the Rapidan agreement. Sitting beside the banks of that stream, which has never had a fortu- nate connotation for Washington Gov- ernments, the American President and the British er fixed at 339,000 tons and 315, tons, respectively, the cruiser fleets of their countries. And the British figure of 339,000 tons rep- resented a reduction of 60,000 tons and a curtailment of 20 ships from the ex- isting status. So far Macdonald had been able to bring the admiralty from the point of view of Geneva in the ill- fated meeting of 1927. Basis for British. But for the British the Rapidan fig- ure was based upon the assumption that France, Italy and Japan could be per- suaded to accept as permanent the ratios of Washington as they related to battleships. For cruisers France, Italy and Japan have, however, already re- Jected these ratios. ‘What has not yet been perceived with sufficient clarity on this side of the Atlantic is that the French note has destroyed the very foundation of the Hoover-Macdonald agreement, because | it foreshadowed French naval strength in other proportions. And the British Tories have welcomed the French ac- tion because it saves them from the choice between publicly opposing and eliullly publicly adopting a reduction of British naval strength contrary to the desire of the British navy. Now, in the face of the Tardieu dec- laration, the British Tories are openly coming forward with the assertion that no definitive three-power pact is pos- sible, because France refuses to con- form her strength to British and Amer- ican desires, and British strength mus® therefore be based upon French. At best, then, there can only be a three- power pact which, while it agrees on tonnage for the moment, recognizes that the quotas of all states signatory to the treaty are subject to instant revision in the face of new French or even Italian construction. Demands More Tonnage. ‘The Tardieu declaration also means that Mr. Stimson will have to under- take the of Geneva, for Great Britain is now back upon the Geneva thesis that she needs not g‘aqu%fl tons, but 400,000; not 50 ships, Today it is no secret in London that the British Labor prime minister been specifically warned that if he un- dertakes to reduce British naval strength beyond a certain point all the naval advisers of the government will walk out. And it is no secret, too, that for these advisers the Rapidan agree- ment, to which they consented with ex- treme reluctance, was wholly condi- tional upon the eement of the French to accept ratios that the Tar- dieu note has absolutely rejected. And it is equally certain that the forcible protest of the naval advisers of the government would precipitate a crisis that would almost certainly mean the fall of the Labor government. At the moment when Labor policy, alike in Egypt and India, is awakening ut- most anxiety in all imperial quarters, any surrender of national security in the presence of perils within home waters, in the Atlantic and, above all, *" naval , then France asks in exchange the guarantee of Britain and the United States that in time of war she shall mnot suffer because she has reduced her fleet to satisfy their notions of naval needs. Nothing in Substance. One must perceive, therefore, that the meaning of the French note is that France will not sign a five-power pact which can have even the remotest sub- stance. Moreover, she will not agree so to regulate own naval needs that & three-power pact can have meaning, ‘because adjustment between the three great naval wers must always turn upon the itish purpose to possess a tonnage adequate to deal with the combined fleets of France and Italy, alike in cruisers and in submarines. full truth of this is disclosed in the English comment of all but the Labor and Liberal journals upon the French note. All with equal approval pald to Tardieu the compliment of in the Mediterranean, would prods political upheaval. e Macdonald May Fall. I know it is customary in American circles to calculate that the fact of the London Conference insures the con- tinuance of the Macdonald government in power for the duration of the meet- ing. But I venture the prediction that, | she should Indian matters proceed toward a crisis, such as now seems- likely, not even consideration for the conference would persuade the British people to continue a ministry which seemed weak at the point most vital to British power and prosperity. Meantime, the American public must perceive that Mr. Stimson is going to join battle not with an isolated France, but with a French prime minister whose first act has won him the support of all the British Tories, because it seems to offer the heaven-sent means of es- caping a reduction of naval strength. which in their eyes constitutes an im- pairment of imperial security. Nor can any one fail to enjoy the double paradox by which a French prime minister finds himself brought to defend the British Navy against an ex- isting British government and the League of Nations inst the repre- sentatives of the nation responsible for its existence. (Copyright, 1930.) Briton’s Death Results in Speculation About “Curse” of Tut-ankh-Amen’s Tomb LONDON—With the une: death of the Hon. Richard Bethell, son and heir of Lord Westbury, there has been considerable speculation here as to whether there is any potency in the curse of the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt. It is said that when King Tut-ankh- Amen was buried 7,000 years ago the magicians put s curse upon whomso- ever should disturb the bones. Believers in the occult maintain that the = tians of the ancient civilization had the | power of infusing the mummies of their dead with supernatural influence, the power of which bi disaster to those | who profane or in any way disturb the | places of burial. | Other Deaths Recalled. ‘The ney of the curse might be expocmxmt: have dwindled with the | passing- centuries, but a remarkable | train of events during recent years| lends some plausibility to the legend. Only six weeks after Tut-ankh-Amen's tomb was opened in 1923 by Lord Car- narvon and Howard Carter, the former died and the latter was taken seriousl: ill soon after the tomb was entered, but later recovered. Seven Prench mnewspaper men and authars visited the ied tomb and within & few years six of them died. They were Mal Barrs, Jules Hulet, Henrl Casella, Plerre Baudin, Joseph Galtier and Paul Adam. ‘Three years ago two French scholars, Drs. Benedict vmmm‘h mgd ul;lr- expectedly after visiting mb. Dr. Mardus, eminent PFrench Egyptologist, then ascribed the two deaths to “‘curses.” Legend of Poisons Cited. the fatal iliness of Lord Car- Marie Corelll, the novelist, that he had been bitten by & mosquito, and book, in which ff late Sir Rider Haggard's romance of old Egypt, “Cleopatra.” The dominat- ing theme of this story is the “Curse of Menkaura,” whereby the stealing of the ancient treasure slowly but surely leads to the downfall and ultimate suicide of Antony's Queen. There is an almost startling resemblance between the un- folding of the narrative conceived by the novelist and the events which have fol- lowed the discovery of the sepulcher and the removal of its treasures. Fires Revived Story. ‘The suggestion that the Hon. Richard Bethell, who assisted Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter in their operations, had come under the “curse” was raised last year, when some mysterious fires occurred at his home, where priceless trophies from Tut-ankh-Amen’s tomb were stored. Hot cinders were found underneath & cushion and burned patches were found in valuable screens and carpets. Subsequently a charge of arson was brought against a footman employed by Mr, Bethell, which charge was reduced to one of doing willful damage. Howard Carter, who actually discov- ered the tombs, does not believe in the “curse.” In his Tut-ankh-Amen book he said: “All sane people should dismiss such inventions with contempt. So far as the living are concerned, curses of this nature have no place in the Egyp- tian ritual.” Egyptologist Skeptical. Sir Ernest Budge, Egyptologist, said that, although there are many strange -g:.iu for which he could see no ex- P! , he was decidedly skeptical about the secretion of poisons in the tombs. He added that was certain the Egyptians did not do such things, and in most cases of death a rational explanation had been found. However, the fact remains that the nd of the tomb recalls the ho | Hon. Richard Bethell was found lying his_bedroom morning by dead in his valet. He had to be in | normal health. has | reason is as important as either of the BY DR. JAMES M. DORAN, United States Commissioner of Prohibition. As Told to Thomas Carens. T the first 10 years are the hardest, the friends of prohibition have real cause for rejoicing next Thursday. On that day national prohibition will be 10 years old. It has shaken off the diseases of infancy, it has weathered the bumps and bruises of the growing years, and it enters the period of adolescence with a robustness which augurs well for the second dec- ade of its life. Dangers and pitfalls are ahead. Storms of criticism will continue to beat about its broadening shoulders for long years to come. Its enemies in some parts of the land may honestly believe that this sturdy youth is head- ed for an early grave. But its friends and well- , and I am one of them, have no m . Looking back at that day 10 years ago when the United States embarked on this experiment, and when the scoffers were predicting its early abandonment, we are more than ever convinced now that s a natfonal policy prohibition is sound and that the vast majority of our peo- ple intend that it shall be maintained. No Desire to Preach. I say all this with no desire to preach. That is not exactly in my line. There were moral, social and economic reasons which brought prohibition to America. These reasons are just as compelling today for a continuance of the policy. Each has its eloquent ex- ponents. I am not a clergyman or a sociologist, but just an individual who Happened to choose the science of chemistry for a life work. Therefore, it is only natural that I should be more personally concerned with- the eco- nomic side. A short time ago I de- clared that I did not know an econo- mist of note who is not strongly of the opinion from data which he has ex- amined that our prohibition policy has brought about tremendous eeonomic advance. While I did not make that statement as a challenge, there is some satisfaction in knowing that it has not | been refuted by the enemies of pro- hibition. Laying aside the part which alcohol may play in weakening the moral fiber of our 'geople. and forgetting for a mo- ment the disrupting effect of the old saloon on thousands of American homes, let us consider 10 years of pro- hibition in its relation to the indus- trial advancement of America. Long years ago science reached a conclusion as to the effect of alcohol on the nerv- ous system, and while the moral and social forces may have been most ef- fective in forcing essional action, my opinion is that ay the economic others. Sees Aim as Futile. To attempt to reconcile the open and legalized sale of beverage liquor with our present mechanized and precisely controlled industry is ity itself. Henry Ford has sald that a return of the MNquor traffic would“Bet industry i BY ARTHUR CHAPMAN. RAW slip of an Irish boy got off a Union Pacific train at Rock Springs, Wyo., & matter | of 40 years ago and approached some men who wetre dipping | eep. The lad hardly needed to say that he was looking for a job. His appearance denoted that much. He was dressed in a suit of rusty black which ended much too “pronto” at wrists and an- kles, and on the back of his head was a flat-crowned derby hat which almost created a riot among the sheep dippers. | If the boss of the sheep outfit ha had any inkling that he was dealing | with the future United States Senator Patrick J. Sullivan of the sovereign State of Wyoming, he might have been more respectful in the way he treated | the applicant for a job—and then again | he might not; you never can tell about | those Western guys. ¥ Anyway, the boss, after looking Pat over and sort of getting used to the | numbing shock, told the tenderfoot to | come with him. They entered a store | —one of those old-time Western em- poriums that had everything. Then the boss reached over and grabbed Pat's hat and threw it on the floor and | stamped on it until it was all in frag- ments and Pat was outfitted with a wide-brimmed hat, flannel shirt, cordu- roys and overalls to replace the clothes he was wearing. Then Pat was taken over and put to work dipping sheep. | | Dipping Exhaustive Job. | ‘The thousands of sheep that run the ranges of the West must be dipped at stated intervals in some highly anti- septic and generally not less highly odorous disinfectant to prevent the spread of disease. Grabbing full grown, muscular and reluctant sheep and hurl- ing them into this malodorous mixture t as they come through the chute is a man size job, but the Irish boy proved himself strong and capable. Then, when the dipping was over and | the sheep were started back again to | their ranges, Pat Sullivan tramped along behind one of the flocks—a full fledged sheep herder. A few weeks ago Gov. Frank C. Em- erson of wyomln&-npnmud this same Pat Sullivan United States Senator to succeed the late Francis E. Warren, dean of the Senate. By a coincidence the wyumlnsl senatorship thus passed from one sheep owner to another. Senator Warren for years had been one of the largest owners of sheep in the West, though, unlike Sullivan, he had never been a herder. Wyoming’s new Senator in later years acquired lands as well as sheep. He is a real estate holder in and around his home town of Casper, and he became interested in the developments which have made that town the center of one of the rich- est oil fields in the world. “People who have an idea that the sheep business is monotonous are all wrong,” says Senator Sullivan. “There's something to keep a man busy all the time. In the Spring there’s the lamb- ing and then the shearing. Then the sheep have to be taken to the Sum- mer range, generally in the mountains. In the Fall they have to be ht down again to the Winter range. If there are heavy storms during the Winter the sheep must be fed. That's some problem in itself when you figure how widely the flocks are scattered.” Excitements in Early Days. Perhaps much of the Wyoming Senator's love for the sheep business comes from the fact that in his early years as & herder and as a small flock- A ‘master “on his own" there were ex- citements in the game which have died out, now that the range wars have | Dangers and Pitfalls Ahead, Says U. DR. JAMES Ten Years of Prohibition . Official—Advantages Are Cited. M. DORAN, Who, as prohibition commissioner, is in active charge of enforcement measures. back 30 years and reduce the stand- ards of lving accordingly. ~And think even the skeptics will concede that the master of one of the world's greatest industrial plants has the right to express an opinion. Even among those industrial leaders who believe that their own purchases and ‘habits are above the application of this law, you will find a fairly general opinion that liquor drinkln"g is an evil in so far as it applies to their employes, their customers, and particularly their debt- ors. One of our unsolved problems is to make these men apply their inner- most bellefs to their own methods of % not essary not nec America’s _industrial January 16,.1920. for me to recite triumphs since We know that our From Sheep Range to 1] —Underwood Photo. economic and cultural standards today are far above those of any other civil- |ized state. Our accomplishments in | every branch of activity are the marvel of informed people throughout the world. Denied by Enemies. The enemies of prohibition will insist | that this, like the flowers that bloom in | the Spring, has nothing to do with the case. If they honestly believe that, they have a derfect right to express them- selves. But they cangot criticize the friends of prohibition who contend that there is a direct connection between our unparalleled material p: ty and the | could not restock, and so we passed into wfi':wml of alcohol as & the second , the diversion of pure During the coming week, I whisky warehouses real- ize, the manner in which the Federal PATRICK J. Pat Sullivan Spent His Spare Time Studying and Making Friends, SULLIVAN, Recently appointed Senator from Wyoming. Drawn for The Sunday Star by S. J. Woolf. diminished. When Pat Sullivan start- ed out on the dusty trail made by his first herd the sheep men were unwel- come figures in the West. They were making their first real headway in the invasion of public ranges which the cattlemen had come to look upon as their own by right of prior occupancy. “Dead lines” were numerous, defining the cattlemen’s ideas of the boundaries of the sheep domain. The herder who crossed any such line was endangering not only his sheep but his own life as well. Pat Sullivan at the outset of his ca- reer as a sheep herder could not be expected to kpow these things. From his own account he was about the most unsophisticated tenderfoot that ever hit the West. On his arrival in New York from Ireland he had spent a short time with relatives. “T got & job along the water front,” he said. ‘“The stay in New York, but I wasn't con- tented. I noticed that most of the young fellows there were just working al ‘without much prospect of better- iny mselves. I wanted to get away where I could go into some business for myself. The folks thought I was crazy when I told them what I in- tended to do. But my mind was made up. I went to the failroad ticket office and told the man behind the counter folks wanted me to | that I wanted to go out West. asked me where I wanted to go. I told him as far as my money would take me, and I laid down most of my sav- ings. The man figured awhile and then gave me a ticket to Rock Springs. 1 had never heard of Wyoming, but it sounded all right to me—and it's | sounded all right ever since.” A sheep herder’s job is not quite the pastoral ‘sinecure that many persons imagine, n it was considerably harder in those times than it is today. A man started out alone, in charge of 2,500 or more sheep, and he was gone for weeks, perhaps months, with oc- casional visitors furnishing his only contacts with the outside world. But the loneliness of the life didn’t dis- turb Pat Sullis It gave him a grand opportunity to read, and he made the most of it. Rustlers Were Numerous. There were plenty of sen in Wy- oming who were living cn the shady side of the law. Cattle rustlers were numerous. Many small ranchers were suspected of stealing cattle from the big outfits, and there is no doubt that the suspicion was justified. Matters came more or less to a head in, 1893, when the last of the cattle wars was fought in Johnson County. The big cattle cutfits hired a force of gun-fight- Government has handled this prohibi- tion problem will be the subject of ex- tensive, and perhaps furious, debate. ‘Wets will say we have failed. Even some drys will take the attitude that the Gov- ernment has not done its full share. But I am bold enough to say that only a very few of those who discuss the prob- lem will have any real appreciation of what has been done in the last 10 years. Critics of enforcement methods are in the habit of considering this as a single battle, to be won by a skillful maneuver on one side or gross stupidity on the other. It is not a battle. It is not a cam- paign. It is a war—and a war which is not limited to a single boundary, or to the more favorable seasons of the year. Raging for Ten Years. It is a war which has raged for 10 years, day and night, on a far-flung line, 3,000 miles long and half as wide. 1In this war the resources of the Federal Government are pitted against the in- genuity of avaricious men: At times victory perches on one banner, and then suddenly switches to the other. How long this war will continue no one can foresee. I am not optimistic enough to belleve that in my lifetime the Federal Government can afford to relax in its efforts to stamp out the liquor traffic. Common sense tells us that so long as America has to Mht| one in unis war against alcoholism, large sections of the people of our coun- try will be on the side of the man who breaks the law. But there is some satisfaction in knowing that in 10 years we have inflicted terrific losses on the enemy, and there has not been a single year of the 10 that has not witnessed some triumph by the Federal Govern- ment. I have been closely associated with the Prohibition Bureau since its incep- tion, and therefore I look back not on a few outstanding incidents, but on a general picture of new problems arising | as soon as old ones have been solved. |, At the very outset, 10 years ago, en- | forcement was necessarily difficult be- | cause liquor was extremely plentiful. The saloons and the wholesalers were well stocked when war time prohibition went into effect on July 1, 1919, and while much of these floor stocks found their way into the hands of purchasers during the next six months, there were still large supplies on hand in vhw‘ where the eyes of Federal agents could not penetrate. First Year's Problem. ‘That was the problem of the first year, the secret transfer of w] and wines from the liquor dealers to the | customer. To stop it was the job of the local police. The Federal Government at that time had only a few hundred men in the work, a force pitifully inad- equate even to make a beginning. By the end of the first year this prob- lem solved itself. The floor stocks dis- appeared. Saloons and wholesale houses Senate Insuring Success. ers to invade the county and “clean out” the rustler element. The climax was a pitched battle near the county seat of Buffalo, between the invaders and the so-called rustlers. There were assassinations and Iynch- ings. Every man went armed. Men | who were being too closely hunted left the cattle country and sought sanctu- Sullivan asked no questions when an occasional heavily armed stranger rode into his camp. The herder prepared a “mulligan”"—a savory. stew which any | real sheep man is adept at making— and the stranger was always welcome to a meal and a place to roll up in his |blanket at the camp fire. ! Pat Sullivan, grazing his sheep on the high plateau stretching eastward from the Big Horns, often entertained homi-~ cidal visitors. “I never had any trouble,” says Sena- tor Sullivan. it was one time when I missed one of my horses. I started out on another horse, looking for the missing lnlmll.' I saw another horseman at some dis- tance, I rode toward him. Pretty soon bullet whistled over my head and I heard the report of a rifle. Then | there came another bullet and another report. I was pretty sore to think that any one would shoot at me, so I rode over toward the man, signaling as I went. “When I came up to the horseman, I saw it was one of the Hole-in-the- ‘Wall gang. “‘What are you doing away out here, ! Pat?’ he asked. 2 “‘I'm looking for a horse’ I said. “‘What kind of a horse?’ he asked. gave him a description of the miss- ing horse, and he looked at me sharp- like and said: “‘I'll get the horse for you. We picked him up with a bunch, and didn't know he was yours.' Then he said: “‘Pat, you get a brand of your own, so0 we'll know your horses, and then you won't have any more trouble.’ “I followed his advice and put a brand on my horses. And after that it | | was as T had been told—I didn't have any more trouble.” Desperate Men Eat. | ‘Two members of the Hole-in-the- | Wall gang rode into a -sheep camp late | ome afternoon and demanded something | to eat. The herder was an English boy who was even less acquainted than Pat with the ways of the West. He hesi- tated about complying with the request of the rough-looking, unshaven men, who no doubt were making a get-away after a hold-up. | “It isn't dinner time yet,” observed the herder, The visitors looked at each other in amazement, and then one of them drew a heavy revolver with which he prodded the herder in the ribs. “You're damn right it's dinner time, kid,” sald the outlaw, “and you get Hanna would | by the political ary in the domain of the sheep. Patis “The nearest I came to | be mmeu\mfinon the fire quick!” The e between Wyoming and Colorado was a sheeg.nnd cattle dead- line for years. Probably the greatest slaughter of sheep in any one raid oc- curred when 8,000 ), belonging to a ‘Wyoming outfit, were killed in Northern Colorado. When another Wyoming out- fit ventured to drive sheep across the cattlemen deadline, a convention of 250 was held in the Snake River district of Northern Colorado. Scouts were sent osut to keep the cattlemen advised of the movement of the invading bands of sheep. There was a concerted raid, the herders being tied to trees and forced to look on while thousands of shecp were clubbed to death or shot. In Wyoming there were numerous repriseld for deadline violations. Sev- (Continue8 ea Fifth Page.) HANNA’S IDEA OF WOMEN IN POLITICS IS PONDERED Entry of His Daughter Into Senate Race Brings Speculation of Reaction on Present-Day Events. BY MARK SULLIVAN. idea this article means to put forward is bigger and calls for more delicacy of treatment than either the article or the writer * at this moment can provide. The idea, therefore, is pre- sented to any writer sufficiently expe- rienced in fantasy to be able to work up a modern version of “Rip Van ‘Winkle”—with materials more timely and more interesting and concrete than Washington Irving had. ‘The story can be called by some quite commonplace title: “Two Candidates for the Senate,” or “A Father and a Daughter.” The facts upon which the fantasy can be based are familiar de- tails of political history: Just a little over 25 years ago Mark Hanna was a United States Senator (he died in 1904). Today his daughter, Ruth Hanna McCormick, is a candi- date for the United States Senate—the first woman, I think, who ever chal- lenged a male Republican senator about his right to continue to hold his seat (Mrs. McCormick’s competitor being the present senator from Illinois, Charles S, Deneen). Those two facts compose the suffi- cient framework. Any one with suffi- clent fancy can imagine the details— imagine Mark Hanna, after 25 years, feeling some &lyl:hlc summons that his daughter needs his advice and aid about something or other; imagine him ap- pearing in her presence and imagine the conversation that would take place. Hanna's _first astonishment would arise upon his daughter saying: “I am running for the United States Senate.” It would take, one feels sure, full hour of explanation to convince Hanna that his daughter had not fallen into some mental aberration, to persuade him to believe that it is an actwal and familiar _possibility for a woman to sit in the Senate. To make him believe that several women (including his daughter) have actually sat in the House, he would need to be told, with detail, how it came about | “oqm: ST I vote, 'y have held several im- portant offices, have been Two Btates. es, have governors in Social Aspect Surprising. Muu'ct f it e o ol e o gt for grasp idea that should care to sit in the san:'e';auut & woman could be and has been a Gov- ernor of Texas or of Wyoming and a member of Congress from each of eight States—without being regarded as a crank or without in any way seeming In all this and social cmennthnm e that would interest Hanna would be the fact that his old politiéal William Jennings Hanna would want to know about the e “running for the Senate.” t,run for the Senate” he Would say, “you are sent to the Senate by a State Legislature and that does l.::.t stg:nl;e “running’—you need only to undred or two dred mem- bers of the lénlllwref'h‘m ‘Thereupon, Mrs. McCormick, having the already explained the of nineteenth amendment, m would be obliged now to explain the eomln: proviaing “Tor fhe "Gescment, 5 1013 United States Senators. = o Hanna’s remarks upon this enon would be worth hearing. - There & good deal of current about whether the Senate now is as able as it was when Hanna sat in it, and whether the deterioration, if any, is due to the ch: electing them. Hanna's. Judgmens on that point would be as vaiuable as any that are available in the material ce Hanna got over the idea that a woman could go to the Senate and that any woman should want to; once he realized that his daughter really wanted to go to the Senate—he would fruitful in help, we may be sure, for he had enormous affection for her. He used to have her in his office a good deal and when he got temporarily tired of politics and business he would take her with him to a farm he had (I think the family still owns it), near Ravenna, Ohio, where he would sit silent on the porch, soaking in the gentle Autumn sunshine, a quiet smile of happiness on his face as he watched m:téh ride a pony up and down the Hanna would want to help his daugh- ter win her Senate fight, orpn-llz“:ny other ambition she might have. But he would be sadly handicapped for knowing how to help her. The arts of politics that he knew have been modi- fled by a score of innovations and changed conditions. Getting the Soldier Vote. Doubtless, Mrs. McCormick would tell him that she wants to get the votes of the war veterans. Instantly, Hanna would say, “I know all about the ‘old soldier’ vote, I can get that for you. I'll see Gen. and Gen. A" Then it would occur to him to say, “The old soldier vote can't be very important; most of those old boys in the G. A. R. must be dead by this time —Iit's 65 years since the war ended— the old soldier vote was becoming un- important even when I was in the Senate.” Then his daughter would oxxllln that the meaning of the Grand Army of the Republic in American politics and in American life has been sup- planted; that & generation has grown up which does not even know what the letters “G. A. R.” mean, and that the ‘“‘veteran vote” means now the vote of the veterans of the Great War. How many hours would be consumed in tell- ing Hanna about the Great War, the part America played in it, and how we came to enter it, one can hardly guess. At some point, quite certainly, Mrs. McCormick would tell her father that an important part of her technique and of the technique of every candidate for important office now is her speeches over the radio. How long would it take mrsumwufrupw}uuhend!oh. and how novel to him would be the part it tfl-y‘ in politics. Yet period in which these changes have come is very brief. Hanna's death was only a little while ago, as genera- Senate three men who sat with him there—Smoot of Utah and Simmons ;nnd ngverm-n. both of North Carolina. The Cuptor orfidors, tnciuding Bpeakes apitol corridors, inclu Longworth and Democratic I.ud-r“;hhn N. Garner of Texas, and Gilbert N. Haugen of Towa, apd Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin, and Henry T. vote, that they actually | . phenom.- | House are still nearly a score of | ing Rainey of Tllinois, and Burton L. Prench of Idaho, and Charles R. of rgia, and Edward W. Pou of North Carolina, William H. Stafford of Wisconsin, James A. Hughes of West Virginia, Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia. There are scores of men in Washington, not yet old, who called Hanna “Uncle Mark,” and at the corned beef breakfasts that were the pride of him and of his colored cook. Flying Developed Since His Time. Yet how much would be novel—more than novel — utterly astonishing — to Mark Hanna, returning as Rip Van Winkle, after being 25 years gone. airplane. Then the Wright brothers had made their first flight about six weeks before Hanna died, but we canm be sure Hanna did not see it and most emphatically would not have believed it if told; he would not have believed that man could fly upon any evidence what- ever, except actual sight of it with his own eyes. That was ‘the practically universal attitude about human flight— nobody believed it till he saw it. Hanna and his daughter would have a good deal to say about the airplane and about the conquest of many dis- eases—Hanna's death was caused by typhold fever, a disease quite common in that day, but now largely under con- trol of human intelligence. The income tax, the direct primary, women smoking, ragtime, motion pic- tures, jazz, tunnels under the Hudson River, electric refrigerators, the League of Nations, prohibition, the World Court —all these would be novel to Hanna, and some he would disapprove. I have implied that the conversation of father and daughter would begin about her ambition - for the Senate. That is not certain. He was a forth- right man, Hanna, and it was his way to say promiptly what came to his mind. warning e had a crank to d with—a '.hchmhlh’wflumld have been in 1 Jjust the sort to get daughter’s dress, located as all women's dresses now are, in the neighberhood of the knee. With some embarrassment. but impelled by a sense of paternal duty, Hanna would say: “Of course, Ruth, it’s all right with me—it's all right when there's nobody present but your {ather—but I hope you“don't wear that dress in the street, If you do, you'll never get to the Senate and you won't deserve to:” Hanna ‘in his day was by no means backward in his generation. On the contrary, he was intellectually a liberal —a rather courageous liberal, but the streets full of women with dresses end- ing at the knee would have been too much for him. It is safe dwhe'.hher laughter, -even at the age of 10 or 12, to ride her pony astride. Had World of Common Sense, ; / arvidua o 10 (e "o ¢ Sgure in the Senate of his time, or, perhaps since, -ndms“ ‘was due as much to his personality as to the ion he created and Zo - trolled. - He had regard for facts realities and honest convictions of any kind and he had scorn for isy, indirection and shallowness—ail shams or tricks' he was ‘able to recognize at sight and gruffly he tossed them out Doltees toward the persoms whe pres rsons who pre posed them. be S He was a big man in his generation and in history he tends to flg:!.";dm and more recent books on American history emphasize him and his influ- ence, and give increasing space to him. ;‘Vlv.hln h‘:.lu last ry::r t.ro':' ::ok about im ap) . tl Tl}l;mm Beel'pn e nna’s daughter wins her fight in Ilinois she w:f be. the first wcr:nn elected to the Senate—though not quite the first to sit in it; a gentle old lady that from Georgia was appof State a few years ago as a mark of honor, to fill a vacancy of Mrs. McCormick, she wins, have an additional ‘and unique munc'u! inted from . J duration. g if tion—in that she will be the first Sena- There are two elderly ladies living— and not more than two, I think, who have been the daughter of a Senator, the wife of a Senator and the mother of one. One is Mrs. Eugene Hale, daughter of a Civil War 'B!lllto: named Chan Hale of dler, widow of Senator a recent West Virginia Senator, Davis Elkins. s Pride and Love Often Causes of Murder Personal pride and the emotion of love are the most frequent causes of murders in the Philippines, les strangers to conclude that life is light held here and murder mmit over mere trivialities. woul polic. opinion. 1 stabbed her classm: other gifl, to death with 46 veritabl and the window overlooking the s presence or hedring.of called him “un borrachin,” a common drunkard. -Less-than. five minutes later out the family. A Mal be sately insulied in