Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1930, Page 8

© 100 few members of Congress who stand B THE EVENING STAR WU Qaindny Morning Rditien. WABHINGTON, D. C. _THURSDAY....November 6, 1030 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Ne¢ Company per month c per copy Z' gac mor: reCtnay Be sent tn by mall of Gelepaons fAtional 5000, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. M: nd and Virginia, Ffl Member of the Associated Press. 1w s only iy to ¢l rltchn et this b d. | wets will have 145 to 290 drys. The Election and the District. Two of the upsets in the Republican membership of the House are of par- ticulfr interest to the District of Columbia. Representative Fred Zihl- man’s defeat in Maryland removes the @hairman of the House District Com- mittee, responsible for local legislative matters in the Homse. Representative Richard N. Elliott, chairman ef fhe House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, has lost out to a Demo- crat from the sixth Indlana district. Mr. Zihiman had very properly with- drawn from his dutles as chairman of the District Committee when he was indicted in connection with ghe P. H. Smith Co. affairs, and pending his trial, which is yet to come, had turned the chairmanship over to the ranking Re- publican member of the committee, Mr. McLeod of Michigan. His defeat, of ‘course, removes him from consideration in the next Congress, but has no effect in the coming short session. Mr. Me- Leod, the “baby” member of two Con- gresses, will no doubt continue to serve as chairman during the short session and if the House is reorganized by the Republicans in the next Congress he is T Ifl. the heir apparent. He has worked hard for District legislation, despite the handicap which lies in the fact that the Appropriations Committee, and not the legislative committee, has the real “say” in District affairs. Should the House be reorganized by the Democrats, 1t is of more than passing interest to consider that the ranking Democratic member of the House District Commit- tee is Representative Christopher D. ‘ashington, t of the whole project and his tireless energy in its behalf will be sadly missed. Unfortunately there are out.as real champlons of Capital de- welopment. The shifting tides that send them here and take them away do not @iscriminate. A member of Congres} ‘Who has merely begun to take an ac- tive interest in development of the Capital is apt to find him- planned to have artillery out- Minneapolis auditorium fire a scenium arch in which the mercury is shown steadily falling all through the Germany and Dissrmament. An old scquaintance of the United States, Count Von Bernstorff, will be prominently in the picture at Geneva this week, when the Preparatory Com- mission on Disarmament resumes the tedious business of paving the way to a world which shall have more plough- shares and fewer swords. Germany, through him, is in mood to speak plainly to the signatories of the treaty of Versallles on that subject. Bhe accuses them outright of breaking their plighted faith.” She is sore to the point of deflance at the spectacle of a wholly, or, at least, relatively dis- armed Reich surrounded by a Europe which ‘promises outrageously to mis- behave itself. In so many words, the Germans say this cannot go on. They cannot do very much about it if it does go on, except to register increasingly stentorian pro- Geneva and in the world at cumulatiwe volume and ef- e situation. Count Bernstorft will not get far if he resorts to truculence. ‘There is much right on the Reich's side. TIts case will not be strengthened by any threats to plunge all Europe in Hitler- ism if Germany’s demands are not fully and immediately met. The Wets and the Election. National prohibition becomes a greater political fighting issue as a result of the elections on Tuesday. Adherents of the so-called wet cause, heartened by the galns which they have undoubtedly made in the House, and by the outstand- ing victories of Lewis in Illinois, Bulk- ley in Ohio and Coolidge in Massachu- setts for the Senate, may be counted upon to fan the flame of opposition to the elghteenth amendment and the Vol- stead act. The wets, however, are still far short of a majority in either House or Senate. .| Giving them the utmost claims made by Henry H. Curran, president of the As- sociation Against the Eighteenth Amend- ment, the next Senate will have 20 Senators opposed to the eighteenth amendment as compared to 76 who favor prohibition. In the House the Under such circumstances it is clear that any proposal for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, requiring a two-thirds vote of both houses, or for modification of the Volstead act, requiring a majority vote, would be overwhelmingly defeated. The psychological advantage growing out of the elections, however, is strongly with the wets. They have gained in dis- tricts which hitherto have been con- sidered dry, certainly in districts that have hitherto been represented by dry Congressmen. It is true that the drys have, with some reluctance, admitted in the past that Massachusetts was wet in sentiment. But they have never ad- mitted that Ohio, the home of the Anti- Saloon League, was wet. Far from it. They probably will not admit it now. As & matter of fact, the depression of business and unemployment in - Ohio made Bulkley’s victory certain. Had there been no such depression, his dry opponent, McCulloch, doubtless would have won. But the vefy fact that thou- sands of voters in Ohio, hitherto regard- ed as favorable to the dry cause, were willing to subordinate prohibition to any other issue is a blow to the bone drys, who put prohibition above all other issues. The drys have been able in Illinois to elect dry Senators and dry Repre- sentatives at large over wet opposing candidates, by very large majorities. Because of that fact, the drys have been unwilling to admit that anti-prohibition sentiment could prevail in that, the third most populous State in the Union. But Tuesday's elections have upset all precedent there. The wets not only elected their preferred senatorial candi- date, but they have elected two wet Representatives at large. The sweep in Tllinois was tremendous for these candi- dates. ‘Wet gains in the House are not con- fined to a handful of States. They have apparently been made in twenty-two States. Even the South, the bulwalk of prohibition; has contributed to these House gains. Tennessee sends one wet member, Texas another and Arkansas & third. The bulk of the gains, how- ever, are made in New York, Illinois, Wluondn: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Cali- fornia and Connecticut. However, In- diana, Jows and Nebraska have con- tributed somewhat to the gains. ‘The drys, however, have not been without their victories. The dry tri- umphs, however, have been won in re- sisting attacks of the wets in some of the States, not in gaining seats in Senate and House hitherto held by wets. Their single gain in the Senate was made in September, when Representa- tive Wallace E. White, jr., was electem| Senator in Maine to succeed Senator Gould, who has admitted his wet tendencles. The drys defeated the wet candi- date for the Senate in Delaware, for- mer Senator Bayard, Democrat, and elected Senator Hastings, Republican, who espoused the dry cause. They beat off the attacks of the wet Demo- cratic candidate for the Senate in Pennsylvania, electing Secretary James J. Davis, Republican. In the same State they elected Gifford Pinchot. Governor in place of the Democratic and lberal candidate, John M. Hemp- hill, although the wets made desperate efforts to overthrow Pinchot. Pinchot's election, by the way, was made possible by an outstanding error of the wets themselves. Had they mot insisted upon placing an independent liberal candidate in the fleld for the Repub- lican gubernatorial nomination Pinchot probably would never have been nomi- nated. He might never have made the race. In a three-cormered contest Pinchot’s nomination was assured, though by & narrow margin. The drys defeated, of course, many wet aspirants for seats in the Hopse. ‘What are the drys going to do about it? They are not likely to lessen their efforts to retain comtrol of Congress in the interests of the dry laws. They have always the eighteenth amend- ment to the Constitution as their great gain. Laws may be repealed or modi- fled with comparative ease. But an | amendment of the Constitution is a horse of another color. Thirteen ob- durate States can block a change in the eighteenth amendment forever. The South is as solidly for prohibition as it 1s Democratic. Its States provide a great nucleus of opposition to repeal of the eighteenth amendment. ———————— ‘The laws of Abyssinia are said to give women more rights than they enjoy in any qther country in the world. A wife may divorce herself as often as she likes, taking most of the property of her hus- band. We, too, have something some- what like that. But—can she shoot him with impunity? There is the ulti- mate test. The Task Ahead. ‘The political story of 1930 has been written. Its significance will be subject for debate for at least two years. But as we face the facts and the theories THE EVENING STAR. T difficult task with which- he today The degree of personal and(party re- sponsibility for existing conditions is & matter of opinion—opinion too largely colored by partisan politics to be of large value. Nor, were the responsibility accurately estimated, would it matter much in the task which lies ahead. We are faced with a world economic ecrisis in which America is intimately and painfully involved. We must deal promptly, boldly and effectively with that crisis. And Herbert Hoover is the man for the job and is on the job. The Star holds that for the extent to which Mr. Hoover has failed to hoid the support of those who piled up his\ extraordinary plurality in 1928, he-—— where he is justly blamable—must be blamed for & hesitancy since tak- ing office to act with that force- ful independence which the Natlon rightly expected of him. Nobody thought of him in 1928 as a politician. Far from it. The lack of this qualification was regarded as a genuine asset, and he was sent to the White House o exert his extraordinary executive abilities and economic leadership without recourse to political expediencies. Rarely has there been greater need for such services to the Nation than exists today. That Mr. Hoover will now rise to meet that need with the courage and wisdom essential to the task is and must be the confident prayer of America. —_——— Deer hunters are at it again—only the other day a father shot his own son because the latter was out of position and the careless parent saw a movement and instantly shot at it. But when quail hunters begin it, this would seem to be the extreme limit, unless, some day, some angler shail fire at his com- panion under the delusion that he is a played-out muskellunge. R AR TR A British scientist explains the fourth dimension to those who have trouble understanding, it—several billions of persons—by stating that “in a four- dimensional world we could turn a ten- nis ball inside out without cutting it.” Bill Tilden can come pretty near doing this in this old-fashioned three-dimen- stonal world. —————— A bunch of grapes weighing thirty- nine pounds is described as a record- breaker in a dispatch from New.York, port of its arrival. Small stuff, it the old Sunday school books showing Joshua and Caleb staggering home from the Land of Promise were to be believed. —_——————— “Are Parents Failures?” is a burning question propoundsd by the president of a local university. Frankly, it is a hard one to answer completely, but this we all do know: that around December 20 each year the average father goes into the hands of reccivers. et ‘The twenty-four-year-old daughter of the Governor-elect of Ohio will be the “first lady” of the Buckeye State. If she turns out as excellent an official mhuuymuhlmflolvtr- ginia she will be open to congratula- tions. The South has erected statues in honor of sbme unusual subjects. Ten- nessee has one to a famous horse, while Texas has put one up to memorialize the boll weevil. But none yet in honor of the hookworm. Specially selected music, it is an- nounced, is now used by highly artistic photographers to put their sitters In the proper humor. Suggestion: “She'’s a Picture No Artist Could Paint.” — e Sclence declares the mermaid legend a pure myth. Then who cleans out Davy Jones' locker? SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Facilities. We are now living in an era of such wonderful progression That there’s nothing strange enough not to be true. We can travel through the sky in an aerial procession Or journey underneath the briny blue. Where once old Dobbin plodded over lumpy lanes and byways ‘You can travel in a limousine so nice, And swiftly ride in comfort on the Itmz and level highways— muwny.uyoupouusmeyflce By wireless a message off to Europe you can rattle, And, in good time, to realms as yet unknown; You can talk with an acquaintance 'way off yonder in Seattle, By calling up Long Distance on the phone. But the service comes along with new demands for compensation ‘Tl your check book seems to threaten ‘writer's cramp. So when I feel the need for travel or communication, T'll use a trolley or a postage stamp. Proceeding With Caution. speeches?” i “Out my replied Senator Sor- ghum, “we didn’t have to bother about winning votes. All we had to do was to avold saying anything that might make folks change their minds.” Jud Tunkins says “the trouble with a smart man is that he's liable to spend more time showin' off than he does workin’.” Till the Next Campaign. Though thrilling speeches will be made, ‘This fact should soothe our ears: A lot of epithets are laid ‘To rest for almost two years. Not Apprehensive, “Don’t you think we ought to develop the military spirit in view of possible emergencies which may concern the next generation?” “I'm not troublin’ my mind much,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “Slong as the interest in foot ball keeps up I guess the boys will be able to take care “Did you win any votes by your | Wood. WASHINGTON, D. C, THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. Books about books are at once inter- romise dullence in "nhop hlk" by the author. Every one has had the misfortune at some time of being in a company of persons engaged in some one business, about which they all talk madly and at length, leaving one completely out of it, in a conversational sense. Army folks talk army, coal people talk coal, writers talk writing, soap amilies talk soap, men engaged in the hlulmn business discuss the hauling business—until the poor outsider feels ready to yell: “Say, aren't Greta Garbo's eyes beautiful?” Many a book about books strikes the reader in the same way as these in- tensely selfish communal discussions. The reader feels that it really should make the broad general topic of books a thing of beauty and a joy forever, instead of this small chitchat about authors and editions and papers and bindings and type. “The Magic of the Book,” Willlam Dana Orcutt (Little, Brown & Co.), of- fends no more in this regard than was to be expected. There are a large va- riety of subjects treated, all about books, of course, or some phase of them. Here are many aspects of bookmaking which will be new to the' general reader, although perhaps he may find some of them dull enough or rather too tech- nical in approach, although nat in treatment. * ok ok ok We have never seen a perfect book about books, but live in hope of finding one. Perhaps some reader here knows of a volume which has charmed him with its geniality, its great love for books, yet without a show of boastful “shop talk." What one has against shop talk, cither in books or any other matter, is that it is so intense. Necessarily so, in all likelihood, yet too intense, making too much of trivialities for the real good of the peruser. Those who have been forced to “listen in” on the con- versation of a group of men at a lunch- eon table know all about this. Drop into the grill, and take a seat. At the next table will be four gray- haired gentlemen, all busy citizens of the ‘world, real “men in the street,” as it were, only seated around a board now in the fellowship of good cheer. The lean-faced one is discoursing, in a tone so self-reliant that you, at- tempting to stow away a fair portion of split pea soup, have no choics but to listen. He is telling something or other about a contract—or was it a contract? —between himself and another party. ‘This other party seems to have come t0 some decision, or taken some action, of which the speaker does not approve. “I ask you now, could I have done anything else?” he asks. A murmur of assent goes around the table. There is something about the difference between $75 and $68. One is not able to get ex- actly whether the culprit promised to pay sthe former sum, but only handed forth the latter, or whether the expresg charges should have come to the latter figure only, but in reality bulked to the first alarmhing sum and substance. leY. the lean-faced man is cut ‘Ths man-with the red hcedounotmmwme'lthmm but evidently does not wish to disap- prove openly. One can hear with half an ear, ever, that he is of the oppo-" sition. e e Shop talk, all of it, interesting to the pcn.\clpnnu but scarcely so to the chance listener, or to the person who finds himself an involuntary party to the monologue. Now, abook is the greatest mnmo in the world. Even more than & a book has a way of monopolizing its hearer, for a reader surely hears his book as well as sees it. Homlha.fl the writer has been clever enough to give him enough 1mq-s and expres- |om calling forth the rgmembrance of scents past. This monologue, which 1s a book, has a way of eating into the heart and soul of a ler, if he is a real reader and i it is a real book. It calls to him to lay all .else ulfln and belong to it for the duration of 300 pages, or 500 s, or 800 pages. Sometimes this eall sounds fresh and clear at the beginning, but toward the end it becomes faint and sometimes even fades out completely. Such a book is not for you, then, ruder Do not fear what “critics” say. J if you will, the great trilogy, "Krh In Lavransdatter,” interest; but if the second palls upon you, if its tone beccmes too much of a good thing, If its preoccupation witly humdrum things strikes you as precious, drop it with a blessi ’?‘ go on to something else. That is the glory of good books. Perhaps some day you may come back to it with a fresh- ened mind and enjoy what now you put aside. Perhaps not, but it will make no difference. The book about books suffers from this handicap, that it must have its hearing among persons who are 85 diverse in'minds and likings as bopk- lovers. There a great pretence among those who_love books to uniform opinions about the “best au- thors,” but few of the real booklovers succumb to this false face. The true lojer of books knows that one mgn will think Charles Dickens & fool and his bcoks rubbish, and the next will call him England’s mightiest novelist and put “Nicholas Nickleby” before all that Conrad or Meredith or Thackeray, or Hardy even, ever wrote. One lovet of books prizes the didactic poems of Robert Browning and cannot give poor Longfellow a literary leg to stand on; his fellow reverses this de- cision, in a sense, although perhaps he will not be so hard upon poor Browning. Literary likes and dislikes are mostly a matter of taste, or opinion, notorious- ly various, but generally agreeing on the main-theme of any particular a thor, that his works are worth reading, or worth keeping alive, for those who do like and read them. That is all. No man alive has read them all, or liked them all, despite his pretenses. He may find it expedient to make out as if he has read evel author and every book in the world. It may save' him from eml mment from that worst - of book. the woman who says, “What. you lu not read ‘The Blue Monkey'?” In his heart, however, he knows he is a llar. There are too many atghors, even good authors, for any one reader to honestly read and appreciate them all. If he tried it he would get a terrible case of indigestion, which, ac- cording to latest reports, tends to cause certain types of deafness. Perhaps the literary counterpart of such physical deafness is an inability to like the books one's friend loves. Books about books might well discuss such topics as these in order that the inner human side of authors, writing, books, publishing, might have its in- ning. The outer human side, as de- picted in books of reminiscence about great writers, has been handled to sur- feit. Somehow even the most ardent Conrad “fan” cannot become excited because_ the movelist liked cabbay soup. But tell what he read and especially the books he did not care for. and we will read your book about bocks to the end. Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers.of Other Lands ENTRAL EUROPEAN OB- SERVER, Prague.—A new list of commodities subject to lux- | poi ury tax within Czechoslovakia has just been published. The new list contains 29 cnugnriel. com- pared with a previous 70. They include figs, grapes, dates and olives; certain kinds of sausage; 1 kinds of cheese; woolen fabrics priced above 100 crowns a square meter; velvet, lace and all-silk fabrics; men's hats over 150 crowns in price; women's hats over the same price; umbrellas and sunshades at any price; wax matches, shoes, furs, cosmetics and electrical toys. * ok ok Municipal Governments Control Liquors in Mexico. El Dictamen, Vera Cruz.—Pulque and mescal (Mexican liquors derived from ve and cactus plants) are said to be lly in control of the municipal governments of Izhuacan and Ayahua- julco, two important mining towns near Jalapa. The most prevalent business establishments are saloons. Commer- cial travelers report that there is one next door to the city hall at Ixhuacan and another directly oppesite the Church of San Miguel at Ayahualulco. Some of these resorts operate day and night without interruption from the po- lice, and a large part of the population of the two towns are being rapidly de- moralized. * %k k% Prized Highly, Wood in Nursery of Pantomime Tale. The Evening Post, Wellington.—John DeGrey, Baron Walsingham, recently died, .eaving large estates in the County of Norfolk. His family was an ancient one, but of all his possessions and claims to distinction there was none he val- ued more highly than his ownership of the wood of the famous nursery and pantomime tale in which the babes wera left to die by their wicked uncle. ‘The tragedy is believed to have oc- curred about 1562, soon after the reign of Henry VIII, royal pa.con of the fam- ily, the story first being published ‘n 1595 under the title “Babes in the In the original version, the name of the father given as “Ar- thur Truelove,” -but adtually he was a member of the DeGrey family. The au- thor dared not make flgerous state- ments about this powe: family un- der its own name. ‘The boy was called Cnn.nder and the girl, Jane, a name beginning to be fashionable in the reign of Henry VIIL ‘The wicked uncle was Robert DeGrey, to whom the estate would descend if the life owner died without children. There had been a quarrel between Rob- ert and his elder brother, William, who nevertheless intrusted his children to him, and left him a legacy, on condi- | tion, as his will of 1562 says, “that he' confesseth that he hath offended me.” ‘The children left alone at night in Way- land Wood, part of the DeGrey estate, by two villains in employ of the wicked uncle, died of cold and fright, according to_the story. ‘The legend and the subsequent fate of the wicked uncle, related with all the l!’t of any old country ballad writer, has become immortal, and does not em- barrass any longer the family involved in the fl'l.me. for the story has become hallowed by the centuries. any test of driving proficiency will be applied. Just pay a pound for a licenss and there you are, fuily equipped to drive forth into the week end's throng, with a brave cry of “Vive le Sport!” It is like the game license you must take out before attempting to_ shoot pheasants and other witd fowl. It con- fers no guaranty of efficlency, but mere- ly establishes your right to do your best with a lethal weapon. It does’not say that you will kill them, but only that you have a right to try. To neglect this technical safeguard and to kill either pheasants or pedestrians without a license may lead to very serious trouble. * K % % Spanish Monarch To Continue lndefinlr?y El Tiempo, The assevera- tions of old -u!edncn and of Repub- licars of the school of Marcelino Do- mingo would lead us to think that our old Spanish monarchy is coming to an end. We find in precedents from his- tory, however, that the ancient dynasty of Spain is in no danger, and there are far more powerful assurances that 1t will continue on indefinitely. The Span- ish throne was in far more danger after the death of Alfonso XTI, in November, 1885, when his noble wife, Maria Chris- tina, took up the reins of government, under the councils of the astute Sa- gasta; or again in 1902, when the Queen Regent abandoned the throne in favor of the youtHful King, who, during the revolutionary riots of 1911, and when Rivera seized the government in 1923 has shown himselfean able champion of the people and dominant in every crit- ical situation. The monarchy will sur- vive to a new glory! o Cut in Street Car Fares May Be Copied From the Hartford Daily Times. A few months ago the Boston Ele- vated Railway lowered its fare rate to a nickel. We have not seen ires on the effect of this move to win back the patrons who had found other means of transportation, but presumably the re- sults have not been adverse, as a simi- lar policy is now being adopted by the large Public' Service Corporation of New Jersey. In each case the fare reduction was from a four-for-a-quarter rate, or a ]oweflng 'of 20 per cent. t will be significant to observe how t.heu two experiments in différent lo- calities, one strictly urban and the other embracing a number of commiuni- ties, will affect company revenues over a suffirient period. The test involves the important principle of diminishing returns, as it is called in economics, by which ascending rates actually reduce read the first part with | in the THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1930. The Political Mill By G. Gould Lincoln. In an election full of anomalies, noth- ing seems, on the surtace, more strange | to than the fact several States have gone Democratic in senatorial and guberna- torial elections, but have continued to doctmuum::mummmmg\fl congressional ‘Take Mas- mnum for example, where Marcus Coondn. Democratic candMate for the Senate, and Joseph B. Ely, Demo- cratic_candidate for Governor, have both been triumphantly elected. In that am the RCWNICW Thold in the present House seats to 4 for the Dmoenu ND' that the dust of battle is over, it appears the ntlo has been absolutely unchxued New York, Gov. Roosevelt, won /by more than 700,000 votes his Republican ent, Charles H. ‘Tuttle. Yet there been no Demo- enuc gain in the New York a.uc- Hpuse. It stands as it stood be- fore, 23 Demoetnu t.o 20 Republicans. ‘The Democnu nppnrently had every right to expect gains in both Mass- achusetts and New York, circumstances, with depression and pro- hibition both working in their interest in those Sta It is a fact, however, that the hol sitting member of the House has on his or her district is not easily overcome, even in a landslide in favor of the oppodflon party. Members of the House have a habit of ldokins out for their constituents, no matter to which political party these constitu- ents may belong. They hold their dis- tricts by winning friends. In a con- gressional district, this is far more easy of accomplishment than for a Senator to hold the entire State. Always there are men and women whio look for auguries of future events. Doubtless many are today seeking some signs to show that the next presiden- tial election will see victory smile on the Democrats. When John J. Hemp- hill, Democratic and wet candidate for Governor of peflmylvmu seemed to have a good chance of defeating Gif- ford Pinchot, the Republican and dry candidate, there were plenty who saw in such & victory a portent. They look- ed back to 1882 and to 1890 when the Democrats elected Governors of Penn- sylvania, victories which were followed two years later by the election of Democratic Presidents. The Democratic President, in each instance, was Grover Cleveland. The wets also looked for- ward to the election of a President ifi 1932 who would be, like Hemphill, fa- vorable to the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, in the event of a Demn- cratic-Libral candidate’s winning Lhe Twemmhlp of Pennsylvania., But Gif- ford Pinchot has put a rude ending to these dreams He has won in Pennsyl- ia. Perhaps, after all, his winning llly not settle the 1932 presidential ; race. * k% Kk J. Raskob, chairman of the tic National Committee, scems Dembcr: Stal to have a political jinx in the State of Delaware. There he hu made 28 8 wflhll of the pewernfl du Punt hml!y Two Raskob did his utmost to in the Union, for Al Smith for Presi- dent. He failed, however, by a very eonaldenble majority. On Tuesday, Raskob sought earnestly to bring his State ln!n Iineé for the Democratic party by electing former Senator Thomas Bayard, Democrat, to_the Senate over Daniel O. Hastings, Republican. But he failed again, ite the fact that Bayard was rated as a wet, with ;R’""’ of wet sentiment in Wilmington, the big city of the State, and: despite depres- sion of business and unemployment. Hutlnn won by more than 8,000 votes, a considerable margin in a suu 'nlch casts 5o few votes. Raskob t into Delaware in an ef- about the nomination of late Josiah M-rvel 'mocratic party itself. back o{t Bnt:np. who sagacity nol d_dry issue, and com- t.he Republican _strength, which undoubtedly exists in the State, ‘Tuesday’s election brought. victories to the Democrats in States which were close, but were supposed to be ine toward qhe Republicans. On the other hand, they ht victories to the Re- Tage waa supposee to e Wit te Demmo- e WaS Su] e 0 = Take, for example, the sum of South Dakota and the latter. Who would have luvpoled that the Democrats could defeat a can- didate for United States Senator in the Sunflower State? Henry J. Allen defeated by his Demo- McGill._ And in surgent, McMaster, has gone down to defeat before the Democratic Governor, Bulow. The Democrats uelmd to have far better chances to M Island and in Delaware. nnt the po- litical dope was upset in those sn‘u Metcalf, Republicari, was returned a winner in Rhode Island, and in Dela- ware, Hastings, also Republican, won with a luhuunu-l mljorlu Even Al Smith’s to Rhode Island was not Auflclent to Dllll former Senator Peter Goelet Gerry through in the senatorial race, * ok ok ok Out' an the lican opponents. Besides beating Henry Allen Tor the Senate, they came very nur ele:unx their d:"lndldtte for Gov- ' ur Capper, oy the most popular man in pol- in the State for many years, rolled up anything like his usual lead in Kan- sas ‘Tuesday. Allen’s defeat was due, to Republitan part, of Kansas he instituted the so-called industrial court and sought to .{mmumAm labor disputes wlti?u em- ployers. good many Repul Rave been opposed to- Allen, also. He been also. onged to a different faction from that ol Vice President Curtis, for ex- ample. When Vice President Curtis took office and Senator Allen was ap- pointed to the Senate, there was talk of “buryml thawhnsf:l:ia&; Anl‘l“ the fac- ns opposed a len appar- an‘tlv have only buried the hatchet in head. It won't be long now before they begin talking a lot about the next Democratic nominee for President. Roosevelt of New York and Ritchie of Maryland won smashing victories in ‘Tuesday's elections, the former becom- ing Governor of the Empire State for a second time by an unheard-of plurality, more than 700,000 votes, and Ritchie ernomhln of Maryand. Out in Ohio Robert total income because of adverse effect | lBht by on sales. If three patrons will ride on the trolleys or busses under a nickel- fare policy where but two would pay the former rate of six for a quarter, it is evident that the company is 20 per cent better off in total receipts. One is inclined to speculate about the effect lower fares would have on the lines of the Connecticut company, which has from time to time raised the rates in order to produce more revenue. income is less than sufficient. It could not be expected to drop from three-1 fir—l—q\llrtfl' to a nickel rate, of only dry b who may have a claim to the ic nomination for President s Semhr “Joe" Robinson, Democratic leader of the Senate, who was re-elected this year by his usual big vote in a strongly Democratic State. Indeed, he was without opposition. * ok k% cent, bul lf Trades | other ' companies muufy" This district lower rate rather than with the oM in !ora is ooy “ay muumdulehnhhdb good will. Breaks for Cuo oo thn sbssiaca Mandard CHue). under the [ Al to trim | William tor Vet here is|Of cratic opponent in South | from Harry Dakota "that stalwart Republican in- by Kansas prairies the Democrats did things to their Repub- | € winning for the fourth time the gov- s The retention of the second Virginia district, the Norfolk the | Hon ANSWERS TO QUEsmms Ay BY FREDERIC mu-mmmn&mm the handling of mln-. ‘You ha and , and Imbn 2 cents coin or mmcu;ufw reply. Send to The Star Information Bureau, . J. Haskin, director, Washing- Q. was it who ways hu" vhen he was asked whether he thought it would stop raining?— is told of the late Sena- nsin and Allison of of Wisconsin th. ‘They were lea the capi!ol one evening and it Was raining heavily. “Do you think it will 2" asked mner, “It always has” answered lied “It al- Q. What do the init I.nltl.fll L D. B, stand for?—W. N. ’l' A. They ai Afflun lbbre- viation for l\llclt Dlunond Buy! buying of diamonds contrary to South law from natives or other unau- thorized persons is a penal offense, which is tried by a special court. Q. Please describe the tube connect- ing Detroit with Canada. Is it the first international tube?—A. L. nel” conneetng - Beteoly Aein, "snd ‘Windsor, Ontario, is the first subway ever buiit between two nations. It hll taken nearly two and one-half years to build this tunnel. One of the most spec- tacular construction features was the fabrication, towing and sinking of the nine steel tubes comprising the under- | DECe: water portfon. The ventilation system is similar to that used in the Holland Tun- n!l. The total amount of fresh air that n be supplied to the ducts of the tun- nel is approximately 1,500,000 cubic feet & minute, giving a complete change of alr every 90 seconds. The tube is 5,135 feet from portal to portal, of which 2,200 feet is under water. The cost was ap- Dflnlmllellvutib ,000,000. Traffic upaclty icles an hour in each direc- What is the s nmcture seen in ,lennese pictures that looks like two Lw'.h a bar across the top?— ‘A" Tt 1s & torus. The gateway of a i ot Spgery St f crosspieces, o g, What cit What city s called the City of " Ruicieh, N. ©. A, What are cireular notss?—S. A. C. A Clreular notes are nou- or mun lat credit rurnuhed by bankers to trav- With the notes the traveler is given a “letter of tndlc‘fian bea: the names of foreign bankers who cash the notes upon pon presentation. Q. Please describe the new Em te Bullding under erection in Rew nis | YFE n"n 8 stories and 67 ele- ::m will carry its I‘;‘f}hflo inhabitant :“tl AR e me mast 'hlch rlm 200 feet 3 lgrm'n 6,000 to 7,000 men are working’ every the structure, the steel fnme o!mhleh in excess of 46, m De- the height of zh- 1t ,oudnwnon!ymflmr&.uhout!s feet, below street level. are not indented, the glass being even in New | J. HASKIN. Q wammh,mmm- dian chief, lnoflen the English a brigadier A e et o & | 9 'mn‘. in'the British Atmy during the War of 1812, led w force of Indians at Fort’' Melgs and commanded the right mnmnmaxmmm When did the Chinese coolie im- ml;nnm'.: Rbcennu a problem in this A nmmfimdmmnwamn California in 1848 there were no laborers in the United Bhl. 1840 to llW according lmmlul 35 entered the country, next decade 41,397 came m bt igration m to be a polltlcll issue and the tn-ty signed November 17, 1880, gave }l’x’l‘l‘l?d States ?emfl'h to r!nlllh. or suspen e |mmuntm = laborers, but new Ci - hibit 1t lltc(e@her ok, Q Doulflxhhenmd if so, how?— A. Fishes do heaT to a certain ex- tent. The more rapid vibrations of the water they sense with their ears, &8 sounds. Owing to the great energy of sound waves in water, these pass through the hard tissues of the head and reach the internal ear unimpaired. Thus no other parts of the ear are ssary. The fish ear is not enly primitive in itself; it exhibits in its various conditions several 'grades of proficiency. The ears of these lower fishes are stimulated only by, relatively loud noises such as have been’ shown to be effective- stimull for the skin. In the higher fishes, the teleosts, the ears are not only stimulated by noises of the kind just mentioned, but they are stimulated by much less intense sounds and sounds in the nature of tones. Q. In playing poker with the joker what is tge best hand?—J. R. M. A. The highest hand is “com of four aces and the joker. All “fives” are better than any straight flush. In cases of tles a )und made with natural cards is better than a hand made with the joker. HQ'R ‘What is meant by Bowdlerize?— 'A. Cromwell's “Handbook for Read- ‘The windows | Alto, Calif. two days before his Breadth of interests is credited to busin and sporting circles, where his person- ality counted for so much, Mr. Whit- ney’s death will be mly felt. He wul be remembered 1 is high .sense honor~in his uhthm with men lnd .fl.!‘!"" in some degre least “He wll. e e, at t," according “the .muuct of his own fortunes. Co- lossal was the sum he left behind him, riches nered in banking, real estate and mining. After graduating Yale and Columbia Unlversmu he de voted his attention sport. He actively wficlplhd in hufld great properties in associa- ploits as an international polo star, his 10~ mmup. which m;;lk.ed hlnz as one very greatest players of the {me will not stamp him in retro- as a mere playboy. Nor will his ncln; stable and the horses which car- ried his colors to triumph on a hundred tracks mark him-as a restless scion of the rich. He worked hard and played hard in this world, sportsman and business man.” * x % % Voicing the esteem in which Mr. Whitney was held in Kentucky, the Lexington Leader u- that “his beau- tiful blue grass estate was greatly ad- mired,” and “his stock farm, where some of the most noted thoroughbreds in America roam the pnturu. was one of his most cherished " That paper also holds that “he canf.rlbuud probably more to the advancement of amily that the nnest traditions in s he has been a generous contribu the advancement of the arts and hu ly of hl.l talent and means to s tncie e “His princ interest was not sport, but business, yet to o?on he brou(ht the same keenness gave to finance,” dechns '.ha .uhny Evening News. The Evening News avers that “he dnuloped abilities which won tion from his géaesi gentleman and = " | its own Whitney Influence Lauded In Sports and Finance World ded & loi B Sl i, Shalicngans " = %k % % bk Alken That he was “one of the the Houston Chronicle, | ypy ;xelnumenu which followed him through e.” New York Watching Atlanta Census Fight New York Sun. feated in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the city of Atlanta, Ga.,, is continuing its effort to compel the director. of the census to publish its population as 360,692 in- stead of 270,367. its first effort was to oh'.gn :Wv‘vlm :t Tn‘nmiz‘n its second the d.l.':ecwrno{n j‘:;:f&ua P Um‘:; the population of cities of the populatio; Atlanta” at its “true fl:ur? lagssf 3‘0 692.” One argument advanced in behau or Atlanta’s contention is that lation of Greater New York, the only other city in the UnM States having a borough form of government,” “is_not listed as the director From t lant# Decatur, College Park, East Point, Avondale Estates an unincorporated territory. Althau‘h uch has been declared a borough, each has tive , a council, ex- cept for Decatur m( Avondale Estates, which are governed by commissions. pmtaowear g .. Trouble for Watchman, From the Charleston S. C. Evening Poat. Unless cities begin to place a ban on O From the Louisville e oL R Pmyl.muOItol(w Courier-Journal.