Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1931, Page 8

‘THE EVENING STAR | WASEINGTON, D. C. WHURSDAY.......May 98, 1081 i i [ ] the Philippines. Eyen now Franco Rate by Carrier Within fhe City. Be &Y R 1 neighboring India. 80 per montb | pyooriptions of the International 8¢ per month | Colonial Exposition have mot yet o Sc_per copy | e o u.g‘,",‘.‘;;-n;rounm us any Inkling of the extent, quite #s serious as the Gandhi business ‘stressirig the importance of their col- onles as sources of man power. That ‘:"M overseas dominions bulk largely in o. 40c the government’s military policy is {openly acknowledged. Whenever the French, they are at this moment, jare immersed in discussions of naval limitation, they insist, with that clear- ness of logic so essentially Gallic, that & preponderance of destroyer and sub- - | marine strength s vital t6 the main- tenance of Prance's lincs of communi- cation with hee colonics. Raw mate- rials and other supplies, as well es troaps, wouldabc brought from colonial itory in case of war: Interfcrence Rate by Mall—Payable in Advanece. Maryland and Virginia. 1 fed me., 818 o Vite 1mol 50c Member of the Assoclated Press. “The Associated Press is exclusivelr entitled 20 ke AUSe o Fepubiication ot Al mens o3 To it oF not otherwise ered. in jhis paver snd local mew: Epecial dispatches herein 5 of ryed. e The Police Get Busy. . In raids of the last few days the po- Mee have yesorted to strategy with with their teanspert across and beyond double purpose in visw. If the logal. the Mediterranean would be a mat- ©of the raids can be established, the pes- | ter of most momentous conscquence. sibilities of future action are suggested | France's status as a world power is by Capt. Burke's statement that there | ixed nowadays to an immcnss degres are fully a hundred places in the first 1 by the reservolr of strength, physical precinct alone subject to & similar mode | And cconomie, which her great colonfal of attack. 1If the raids are thrown cut [ domain typifies. of ‘court as “warrantless” in fact as well as in law, the police will have given the eity a graphic illustration, embellished by shrieking sirens and other wucu-' Jar war maneuvers, of the futility of SUREE TR 0N The Consent Decree. There are several things that pro- tracted inquiry has made apparent to erybody in the Public Utilities Com- decree under which rates for electricity Ax Districi The valldity of the raids will hinge | oo oo B¢ b upon the ability of the United States attorney to show that the places raided s, Jusids upon summe diatic action Jooking to the revision or abro- gation of the decrée, such action should be predicated upon the definite assur-| ance to eonsumers that they will gain by the tran-action. There has, as yet, been no such definite assurance. Another is that the proposal to do something with the consent decre: has been founded upon the contention that the electric light company's returns have been “excessive” and not that the rates here are excessive. But while a net return on an agreed valuation in excess of ten per cent, resulting during & prosperous year and coming as the reward of efficient operation, has been deemed excessive, there is a5 yet no evi- dence that it is excessive in relation to the returns enjoyed by other public utili- ties furnishing electricity, nor is there a court definition of what constitutes an excessive return on rates that are ad- mittedly not excessive. Another is that current business con- ditions and other factors are tending to reduce the returns to the electric light ~ | company below the returns adjudged by the commissionas excessive, but that the returns, even though reduced, will permit of another reduction in rates for electricity at the end of the current jyear. , Another is that the electric light com- pany, among all except ons of the other public utility concerns in Washington, s furnishing service that brings a mini- mum of complaint from consumers, that it does practically all of its own work and has not reduced its employed per- sonnel at a time when such reductions threaten to be the rule rather than the exception. All of which factors raise the question ! as to the Public Utilitles Commission's aim in the proceedings under way. And all of which indicate that the time may not yet have arrived when the effort should be made to destroy a good bar- . | gain for the public which happens also to have been a good bargain for the electric light company. If the Public Utilities Commission, after due consideration of the consent decree and examination of current busi- ness conditions, still feels that the de- - | cree should be amended, it would seem reasonable to believe that the best way of going about it would be through the institution of a test suit to that end, leaving the revision of the decree to a court which would pass on the merits of the contending arguments. No one can reasonably contend, of course, that the consent decree is per- manent, fixed and never to be changed and the Public Utilities Commission is merely doing its duty in looking it over thoroughly snd periodicslly to discover whether the time has come to amend its terms. the right to make subsequent arrests and seizures will probably stand. This, of course, is ly one view of the legal aspects of present cases. Nobody can forecast efther the judicial interpretation of the mass of law on search and seisure now written, and no attempt 18 here made, of course, to present the actual facts upon which the court myst mct. The Police procedure was that headquarters detectives, in search of some one wanted for questioning, obtained entrance to i 3 ! £ £ i ! f [ i} £z 13 ; E i | £ il s R E il m;fl &'E85 } “Stone Age Britons” were fond of breakfasting in bed. The Orkneys be- long. geographically, to Scotland, and The Paris Colonial Exposition. Although its gates have been open Jess than three weeks, the Interna- tional Colonial Exposition at Paris seems already to be an assured success. ‘The United States is spiendidly repre- sented through a reproduction of Mount Vernon, arranged as in Washington's time, including the room in which the Marquis de Lafayette stayed. The American commissioner at the exposi- e C— ‘The winner of the Harold Vanderbjit bridge champlonship trophy comes right out and declares that women are better bridge players than men. Be tien, C. Bascom Slemp, has provided | warned, Lindbergh, Albert Edward, and » diverting flavor of our earliest colo- |R. Vallee; here is a dangerous rival for nial life by engaging & band of full- [the widespread worship of the fairer biooded American Indians to furnich |sex. the music at the transplanted Mount f{Vermon. Yankee tourists this year Bave a new resson for ficcking to France, and the tide has set in. | 0 iy good news nowadays, no more The Paris exhibition represents two ygeeaple announcement has come in ’,urpn-. In the first place, it Is | pany o day than AristiGe Briand's de- ‘departuré, from the French tradition | ciion to remain at the Prench foreign ©f decennial “universal expositions.” |omice Yielding to the entreatics of Pre- Swhich was abandoned in 1910, and an { mier Laval and other fellow ministers, the jzemplification of the theory that|uge gnd seasoned master of the Quai| mowsdays ‘“specialty expositions” are | gOrsay yesterday withdrew his resig- | more practical. Secondly, the pres- | nagion and announced his readiness to | exhibition is designed to call atten- | carry on. Prance, Europe and the | #ion to the vastness and magnitude of | worid sre the gainers by his decision. | Bhe Prench colonial empire. The falf | Continuity of foreign policy at Paris wak financed by the government &t & |y thus assured, barring contingencies Jeost of $15,000,000. Within the past |y the European kaleidcscope which no | ear & Josn of $200.000,000 was voted | may can foresee. Briand personifies as | Jor the development of public WOrks|po other Old World stetesmen does, 3n the colonies. The British Empire, | now that Stresemann s no more, the . .WHH its colossal colonial pOPU- | doctrine of peace. The man of Lo- lation of more than 400,000,000, still| carno, co-suthor of the Kellogg pact, dwarfs in extent and number of in-|patentee of the United States of Eu- habitants the overseas realm of France, | rope, perenniel distributor of salve and with only 60,000,000. But on the ter- | soothing sirup at Geneva—such an in- rifofy over which the tricolor waves | fluence could {ll be spared at this criti- #un also falls to set. In Asia, | cal international juncture. But for " America and Oceania, including | Briand’s conclliatory hand at recurring Algeria and Tunis, the colonies and de- | crises during the past three or four pendencies of France aggregate round- | years, matters might easily have drifted 1y 4,000,000 square miles, or considerebly | from bad to worse, and from worse to shiote ‘Than the total area under the| catastrophe, in a Europe seldom so full United States flag, counting =il of our| of inflammetory material as it is today, nsular possessi-ns. thiricen ominous years aiter the armi- Prance i justifiably proud of her rise stice. to eminence as & colonial power of the et Briand Stays. From Europe. which does not spe- i any, to which the French arc| One is that should the Public Utilities . jup. Briand seized his chance. i shall not peass!” he thundersd, in the accents of Verdun, when Curtius of Berlin brought the Teutonic scheme to | discussion. The proposal was referred |to the World Court for an advisory opinion over German and Austrian pro- | He returned to Paris to reccive a con- ! queror's welcome from the populace. The astute Aristide is a wily politi- jclan as well as a sagacious statesman. virtually impossible for Laval to' let Briand leave the ministry. That the !lattcr may mow count upcn further and | subsiantial votes of confidence for | Briand foreign policies, at the hands of the French Chamber, 1s almost a fore- igone conclusidn. P No Rest for the Weary. Pity the poor traffic authorities! If it is not one thing it is another. Just a5 the agitation regarding the zoning limits and the angle parking in the downtown section begins to subside, up Pops anotter group who are not st ail satisfied with the conditions in its part of the city. And as soon as the latest '«il-wrhncc is straight>ned out—that is, as far as 1t is huranly possible to do so—there will probably be another |in some other section. Verily, there is no rest for the weary. The current trouble appears to be on Connecticut Avenue between L and N Streets Northwest, ‘where the merchants are indignant, to say the least, at ‘harsh. oppressive and unnecessary” regulations, the said regulations com. prising & one-hour parking limit and {® prohibition on parking between [ ‘ safety zones and the curb. A one.hour limit in somz parts of the city is there- fore frowned upon by some as being too liberal—these merchants want it set at fifteen minutes—a two-hour Mmit in other parts is mot considered liberal enough and in another all-day and ¢ll- night parking is thought to be neces- sary for the welfare of the public. In 50 far as parking between strébt-car loading platforms and the curb is con- cerned, it is the first time this subject has bzen brought up. but its inter- Jection into the general traffic discus- sion is interesting from a safety stand- point if nothing else. And so it goes with an apt parallel being found in the thousands of grand- stand base ball managers at a ball game. It should be perfectly apparent that there is mo set of traffic regula. tions yet devised which will please every one. One group might well suffer from certain. regulations, but if the rules are conceived for the good of the majority then that is the yardstick by which their merit should be measured. Unquestionably, the authorities err at times, but there is seldom a disposition to persist with unwise and unreason- able regulations. Much thought hls‘ ‘been given to the traffic problem in | ‘Washington. Its solution is most | earnestly desired. ———————— Well, there are only two things for Quasi-Queen Helena of Rumania to do | follows: now—write a book and héad for Holly- wood. i S Another- sweeping triumph for the pacifists! Two packs of Army equip- ment are stolen from a local church. r———— Observing persons recently returned rom Cuba seem of the opinion that she is not nearly so Libre as she used to be. ——— There are some who even think that | 1 the Nautilus will get there and back be- fore the DO-X gets here. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Playing Safe. He never wrote a bock which might Imply opinfons strong. He seldom spoke up for the right For fear he'd get in wrong. He never raised a single cheer For party,.creed or man Till he had taken time to The prospects of the plan. He never made a move that led To language stout and free. His effcrt, in the things he said, (As the cards fell, &t would have been mind is a versa THIS AND THAT BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. with what he saw. n old three-arched house in deep red brick attracted him particularly. * he dreamer had had actually seen? Perhaps it might be feasible, for the instrument. ‘The dreamer hi the most curious conviction upon awakening that what he had d times. ‘While he could not say that the pic- tures had been sharp-etched upon his mind, he felt that the impression of dream had been a mere fantasy. lnu;h half-dazed state upon awaken- aflfl ihat what he had seen had been the real uun;.‘ £l I It was & triumphant realization, and | had only been questioned when he had | come into complete consclousness. | Then the doubt arose, could hc have | seen something that he bhad never seen and by no possibility could have scen? Next to the housc with the three arches, his most vivid memory was | of a large weeping willow trec which | overhung a . picket fence somewhere yivania avenue. i The lack of detail, of course, might | seem to speak against the reality of | the backward process; if the dream had been authentic, of & bona fide National Capital of 1860, the dreamer ought to have brought back more complete pic- | tures, one might think. { Yet what does one bring away with him from any casual stroil through a g |dreams, as most p-ople do no | tell his adventurers, “Soldlers, re had come to him clearly the | these dreams. While few will give his theories entire | fewer still who . dream hout. Prend then, need worry no more & than did the millions upon millions of :orm in the centuries before he was n. “" fll.r d;"cl:‘ms "sh:lll'" anything, it perhaps as well, f cases, that we know nothing rhbout the matter, mcdl.:aodrm- of en- sense. This the layman may well however, , Ina is_ons flel d:avor which a; leave to the scientist until some neces- sity arises for investigating it. the meantime one may dream about what one pleasts, if one have the ordinary common-sense not to tell |the wrong dreams to the wrong per- sons. There is ert hers, too. K % Most dreams se'm lald in a curi- in 99 per cent|the ously indeterminate present, or the fu. | COm! ture. It is seldom, dréam of past ages and events, or even of past comrades. Few of ‘us have ever -dreamed of being present at the construction of the Pyramids, or list:ning to Naj cen- turies look down upon you!” No one has ever sat, in a dream, in an old London thute'r',m-nd seen with T ire the boards. loubt would be more pleasant than they are if dreams of this sort would be vouchsafed us. Who t has enjoyed Dumas’' immortal “Three Musketeers” but would revel in the opnortunity to be a living part of that mighty adventure just for a night? * % owx Childhood’ |drenms often are of the nivviviaie varioty With simply patchwork oddities of everyddy life. built upon some chance note or other which somehow heas impressed the waking person. Many persons in maturity never dream at all, or, if they do, it is of some trivial and pleasant subject. With such persons an attempt to read dreams is an absurdity, just as much as an in- terpretation would strangz city? It is qu:stionable wheth- er waking impressions are any sharply engraved on the memory. Some people have a keen grasp of | such features and aiterward can tell | you everything they saw. Others| &carce can name a detail. If you ask | them what they saw in New York they | will reply, “Oh, a lot of tall build- mrg;‘—-nd, oh, yes, the Statue of Lib- e | more | | * k%% | Dreams always have been a fasci- | | nati rt of ‘life. One hesitates to | say of e mental life, for often enough | they impress one as having littls, if | un{mm, to do with the mentality. n the ancient days dreams were | thel Ioterpretation Mayed o Jrmt s | r terpre n pia) & Jarge rt in the lif> of human beings, eopec&.nyl of in power. It was the u&:-l ning of the adage, “The bigger y are the harder they fall.” If a King had a dream he call-d in his soothsayers. And can there be any doubt, human nature being what it is, and what it always has been, evidently, that the interpreters da” the dreams to please their lords and masters? Sometimes they didn't, of | | course, as Bible stories teil us. |sclous mind, formed at the It is a question, too, whether most dreams are really dreams, or only poorly formed images of the waking or w‘n‘- peculiar point between sleeping and awaking, between sleeping and non. i which is forever the delight of sleep. * % % % Sleep is & blessed thing, Coleridge’s Ancicnt Moriner has assuyve: B is not so much the sleep, in itself, half-drowsy state which intervenes be- tween partly waking up and clear wak- ing up which deserves the greatest praise. Sleep, per se, is nothing, or next to nothing, since the conscious mind of man is extinguished for the time being. No one can enjoy slesp, for he is nath- ing, or next to g, when soun slumber. It is only during those moments of inertia* betwzen sicep end awakening that one can consciously enjoy his sleep. m{: so-called “dreams” occur here, which properly ought not to be called dreams at all, but merelv hagy creations of the mind not yet ftself. This is the great borderline of life ftself. In it a man is as near to know- ing what Poe meant as he ever will when he asked. “Is life but a dream within & dream? Highlights on the Wide World Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands MPARCIAL, Montevideo. — King | Gustav of Sweden has published a | statement In which he utters | clally his refusal to authorfize the marriage of his grandson, Prince Lennardt, with Senorita Vissvandt. ‘The text of this communication is as “The constitution stipulates that a prince of the royal house may not en- ter into matrimony unless the King has knowledge of the intention of such marriage and has given his consent to it. Without comj with the con- ditions of this seasonable deposition, Prince Lennardt has decided to marry without the prior consent of the King. After long and painful reflection, the King has decided that it will not be | possible for him to give indorsement to the contemplated union, regardiess of the fact that his assent was not so- ited { | | | Prince Lennardt, on the other hand, declares that he will marry Senorita Vissvandt regardless of the royal dis- favor, and everything else. He doesn't | care whether he loses the right of suc- | cession to the throne. It is belleved | the wedding will be celebrated in some | foreign country and that thes prince | will come to be simply Senor Lennardt Wilhelmsson. * ok x % h Community 'o Drunks in Nine Years. Huntingdonshire Post.—Residents in Rutiand believe that their little county | is freer of crime than any other in the country. There were no prisogers for trial at the assizes nor were there any at the recent quarter sessions. During the last year no resident ha: been proceeded against for drunken. ness, a record standing to the county credit for the past eight or nine years. Englis) | Has | culprits for infractions of law. Of those with fines or imprison- ment, 14,184 wer> bicycle riders; 11,234 were motor car drivers; 1880 draymen and carters, ang 282 pedestrians. From this it appears that traffic infi nts are perhaps th: chief deling with which the courts have to contend. From all the offenses brought to the atten- tion of the tribunals, it is calculated there is a mor: or less sion every eight minutes throughout the ear. Of a total of 2,673 cases brought L(or! the criminal courts, 319 persons accused re acqul . Of the re= mainder, 41,609 were released on pay- ment of fines, and 4,1a8 more through payment of damages to private indi- viduals, wi 3920 were remanded to prison for longer or shorter terms, some of them bzcause they did not have the sums neeced to pay their fines, while 17256 transgressors were released on robation, with punishment remitted :ponmeeond.monolmhlnlooflk avior. Consolidated Sehool Movement Grows Prom the Ban Antonio Express. Almost a century ‘ago, In his cam- paign to reorganize the Massachusetts ccmmon school system, Horace Mann called attention to the inescapable shortcomings of the one-room, one- teacher school. That great educator perhaps originated the consolidation idea, but he was fully 65 years ahead of his tme. The present-day movement began in the first decade of the twentieth century, as an inevitable outgrowth of motor transportation and highway de- velopment. During the past ten years consolidated schools have been estab- It was only a couple of weeks ago | * X x % Shaw Unable to Cope With Spanish Drama. A B C, Madrid—Because Bernard Spain, he 5 iined 1o bime nip i pa lame I .. translators! Such a literary veteran 2 should not be so easily conquered! Simple Arrangement. | Btrange that a man, perhaps the most “‘What arrangements are you going | vallant and original playwright of our to make for moving the crops this times should be will to admit in- year?” | ferfority. to contemporary Spanish 2 . | drama! What, forsooth, has frightened 1 don’t have to worry about moving him? Was it the chattering criticlsms the crops” replied Farmer Corntoscel. of comrades heard in his Andalusian “I'm going to let the Summer boarders | S Tt s Triaas Le Gy come' here and get ‘em.” | perament that he let himself be super- Jud Tunkins says come prophets are Seded by f{",fizfl?:“p:;h,fl‘ ey without honor in their own country | jife ‘or novelty in their characteriza- because ft's harder to fcol people when tions; by plays without plots, climaxes they are well uainted with you. | or problems? Has Bernard Shaw been = | vanquished by compositions such a: ! these? Such a thing scarcely seems | possible to be—unless the primeval lure i and lethargy of the Pyrenees preoccu- | pled him 20 that during rehearsals of | his Spanish _adaptations he almost Was not to disagree. And so he rose 'mid mild applause To an important height. His record was O. K. because Useful in Its Way. And still no date is mentioned when All threats of strife must cease. It needs a war cloud now and then To make us valuz peace. o drama, or to make his plays Naghost. { fo" Spanish understanalngs. is. evident, “So your husband Is beginning t0 Of his own defects, he sn{h neglect you?" "Mly ‘hk:mh ll;e ‘fdln‘)nl aflt‘t:r of “yas " translations. r. Jul ron| my Yes," replied young Mra. Torkins. |, onoriced” transiator for the Spanish I'm afraid Charley is geiting to be language, and he is probably already at very selfah. He is so doeply interested | work on St Joan, £ cannot say that I in the base boll pennant race that he have found pan eater very | docsn't seem to care whether I win f5cesaible co far “One play of mine, VB “pygmalion,” has been by | the prize at a card party or nt.” Martines de Slerra, and that s all, in | Spanish, except for South American Sometimes it's just as easy to get|productions, in which, o to the ab- " along without advice as it is to t | sence of international t, 1 have no interest. I have long since given up the kind you will take after you get it. Spain as hopeless. Its modern authors A Book Lover. L jumped over me a 't me far behind, | She bought a handsome cook bock and J,M the trouble and ex] I had to she wept Tarn then, to"the mfiu & and 4o £ rn, then, ¥ sun and do Becauze she heard her thoughtiess | TWE, thet to the ving sun and do husband say about A supcrannuated person like That in the library it should be kept And from the kitchen banished far | slept. That Bernard Shaw feels him- Sic transit ars, et litterae! *xox % first magnitude. Once upon & tim: tie' that Ariside Biiend's star seemed frre- Prench d¢id not rate in the same class trievably in the descendant. His pre:l- with the British as colonizers and co- cential hopes were shattered at Ver- . Today—and the sallies. His pride was hurt. Seven ’ntlnfl 1 calculated to bring successive a/nd fruitful years of work G. B, 8.1” away. “It makes all de difference” said| Dioigle Riders o Uncle Eben, “wether de good opinion Ehanite it DGl 1. a man bas of hisself is an homest be- 31929, to October 31, 1930, approximately lief or only s blufl.”® 94,000 sentences were on various ‘ self unable to cope with B8panish | acceptable | | lished at the rate of about 1,000 an- | nually, With striking regularity they | have followed the spread of all-weather | roads over the country. As a rule, the community that builds paved highways is no longer content with a “little red schooltouse.” In sup- porting a consolidation project, the citizens generally are concerned with something besides markets and land values. One objective is to provide their children with better educational opportunities. The United States Office of Educa- tion, an effective propagandist for this movement from its beginnings, |in a recent country-wide study learned that more than half of the States now encourege school consolidzticn through generous grants of money. Eight States contrijute to the bullding cost, the allotment ranging from one-fourth to ne-half the total outlay. Two States provide allowances for equipping such a school after it is established. Seven- tecn States, including Texas, share the expense of pupil transportaticn. As the centralized institution is not on'y more efficient, but more econom- ical to operate than the one-room schocls it supplants, the Stats’ would | do well to encourage such improve- |ments. Thereby it would save money |in the end. For example, last year | Texas distributed $27,250,000 to com- mon schools—$17.50 for each pupll— end an additional $2,500,000 to -rural schools. Evin with that generous assistance, the country schools, except in a few particularly progressive coun- ties, sueh as Bexar, where a system is applied, left much to be_desired. Were the Legislature to spend that $2,500,000° annually, or even $1,000,000, in helping consolidated schools, the need for rural aid speedily would dis- ppear. Or suppose that Texas had applied $20,000,000 for rural schools during the past 10 years, besides the reguler apportionment, to promoti: centralization, wculd not educational | | preciably higher today? ‘To be sure, so long as & county’s the year, it cannot afford consolidated schools. But, as that handicap largely has been overcome, Texas now shou'd pzy more attention to bullding up its rural echool system. Indeed, if il would remain first in agriculture the policy, State must ndv? such s 3 l "{ doubt that more stren perhaps, that we | oouncil of 1 by League to stay out of referendumgs prohibition. The results of the refer~ endums in that State have in been wet. And if sentiment in Con- necticut has been rightly judged, the verdict in the Nutmeg Stats next year will also be wet, fust as it was in Ma; sachusetts last year th before that. The General Assembly of any persons such dreams give | Connecticut put through iha act call- place, ir later life, to those which are ing for the rafere; | protests of the dry | 'um over the heated . Q. Who was the first Negro physician In this country?—E. J. 8. A. The first Negro physician of any standing of whom there is record was * ok ok w * The adoption of a wet plank in the Jersey Republican platform, in prerl- ration for the gubernatorial election, which takes place next November, will doubtless have its effect, as it was in- tended to, on results in the election in that State. Thllfiflmo(fllue wet, planks by the Republicans in & number of the most States of country can scarcely fail, too, to have some significance for the meeting of the Republicans in national _convention next year. There is not the slightest uous efforts be made G. 0. Republican conventions. However, if the national leaders are to be believed, the G. O. P. is to t the Nort! Republican victory mus at all, the will suffer won, if won ml national. ticket * X %o year and leses ty the -mmmummc?; Such an occurfence would have effect unquestionably of locsening the riand’s presi- grip of:the drys on the Blican | AFistide Briand's loss of the national organization, just as that grip dency of France has not meant loss of l-‘l‘r‘eud‘;“':’ o )n:;e’mghgn -ndu. :l:n worldwide interest in his efforts to de- 2 e e NS. | feat extreme nationalism in Europe. Quite naturally t! - o s of American comments give him the center of the stage, though opinions of looking this matter. eats of plag independent candidates in the flel his prospects for the future differ. “Is it that Briand Mmbflum seem rather inces. It would Briand and that next t] inst :fil‘y under the cf bet for the drys to aAppear the best ck of the Republican line up solldly bas national banner next year if the Demo- as there seemns erats nominaf wet, every likelihood they will. If they can | For o | standards in the open country be ap- | brighter. | roads are impassable for about half |papers in the Sta t most to earry ite & help put across the Republican d canaidate for President under the cons ditions which exist in the country today real vitory ‘4 the vets w11 hirn Ba an e wets wi 12 & real setback. v *x % % ‘The Republicans have nominated for governor David Baird, jr., of Camden, Who served as Senator from New Jersey o lmrt & diplcmatic post in France, and before Senator Morrow, who was then Ambassador to Mexico, was ready to return to this country and take up the duties of Senator. Baird has long| been known as the Republican “boss,” particularly in his section of the State ;%d more reeent.l’y n;nwhnumz the State. e mocrats in Jersey ve alrea attacked him as a “boss.” He retatiates | tle Dispatch-Herald. “Per th the challenge that the Democrats 1ot signify thal name their own boss, Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, a8 their candidate | ! for Govern That, Baird insists, the Democrats have no stomach to do in view of the record of Mayor Hague and the many charges which have been made against him in the past. Baird insists that Hague has put forward for the office of Governotr a man whom 2;, Hague, can control, former Gov. been world, especially neighborin, tions, to have an internationalist at the helm of Prance than a nationalist. * * * With anti.Briand influences at the helm, Europe would have been forced to remain an armed camp, lacing an aggressive Prench policy. “Perhaps his tnlru‘re does not mean all it seems to mean.” ruggests the of the Tghtened: 1o, sieierate. gréstly’ smy accel movement _for international brother- 'y Moore. ‘The Democratic plank on the prohibi- tion question is even wetter than is |PI® that of the Republicans in New Jersey. It calls not only for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, but also for the repeal of the State e ement act and for an immediate modification of the Volstead act pending repeal of the amendment itself. The Democrats of New Jersey, in their State campaign this year, are ing to make the most of the depressed conditions and unemployment, attacking the Republi- can national administration along with the State administration. It is only a forerunner of what may be exp-cted in the national campaign next year, unless business conditions improve to a very great degree within the next eight to twelve months, but that paper adds: “Do we select, in our national conventions, strongest man? Does democracy, hav- ing free choice, always elect the strongest? A strong man in public life creates many enemies and gives cause for many antagonisms.” * % x % Observing that “the name of Briand will be found on most of the treaties s o of late years in which France and ¥ oth IThe Repu}:lluln; ula‘t.n; first Wiscon- | tor | sin congressional ict have a plethora Jand Oregon rnal that, of candidates for the nomination to fill i “ unlortunhly‘“glfllllfl c:::e:eo‘t l:::l the House vacancy caused by th: death | able to effect those treaties without op- of the late Henry Allen Cooper. So position at home.” The Des M far no date has been fixed for the spe- | Tribune-Capital ‘Briand’ :&u'fleg‘l)c‘-’npflllfilll‘m;u c-x;‘cy. l‘ld"ll'nll labors for international amit . p “tte has sal 1 he would fiot call ‘the election until | Sccord have. retsed akions mm for the world's polif after the State Legislature has ad- 3 journed. That adjournment may take regrettable as inevitable that' those place in the latter part of June or not untl] July. In th: meantime half a dozen or more candidates have their 1ig) rods up, although only one htning has formally declared himself in the race, Assemblyman Hilker, a member of the Conscrvative or ‘“stalwart” group. An effort was made to get the Conservatives to agree to settle the candidacy of their group in a caucus, pected that the Democrats will have a i real Jook-in 8o far as this congressional election 1s concern: D 1 State iiiflii §EE ‘whete he Russia from the was defeated and retired visited the United States Q. How old is the Guido scale?— W. M. A. This seale of musical notation was inven ed by Guido d'Arczso, an Itallan who lived from Benedictine 900 to 1050, to Paris. He n 1927, i | fogt i ] j géo. i l i i : ; i ] £ ; i 8 § i‘ii; f?i!a L] i i { o i i -3 ral P § £ i i i Bk g A i S 4 o i B ilf i H giz ! i i il ] H : ¢ 5 E i § E i o iy ; o H tH g8 8 § is g! 4 ] T is o i i ; i 3 : i sl Prance reflects, more or less, the at- titude of the whole of the continent,” in the opinion of the Columbus Ohio Journal. “The state of mind across the Atlantic is such as to reject peace plans. country trusts the other, and why should it? In Germany, Hilker has announced that he is going into the race no matter whom | ington the caucus may select. meumxl;m l, ve agreed that they will have just one candidate in this nfie o, dhr was & Progressive, alf - trict is regarded as ha & number of s publicans If the Conservatives eleventh district in part. district has been rej R. Hall, a n, feated last Fall by his ponent. Watkins; if he enters tepublican. l.u;:ow s v orial aspi kle Senator up for X3 Stephen Bolle Janesvilie Daily Gasetie, ‘most rded as one of Conservative :news- has considerable support, among the stalwaris for the nomination. It looks as though the|will run zontest would be a brisk one. The Laéaid ng Follette Progressives will do their ut- this district, and the Conservativ:s may be expected to do elec the same. In any event, it is not ex- 5 not lkely ‘Watson, who com next year, buf few years. EE;HF: i i 5! : =2 BER | i | i i i b i i g 3 i i