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PARTIES WATCH HOUSE | ELECTIONS FOR 1932 OMEN I Vacancies Lead to Missouri and ship at BY JOHN SNURE. ‘ MPORTANT opening skirmishes in the I ial congressional elections this These elections, called to All vacancies caused by death, will be watched with anxiety by the leaders of both parties for two reasons. In the first place, they will have a diract bea on the organization of the House when Congress meets. In the second place, the political experts will study .xf phases of th~ returns and will read into them signs ~nd portents with r!hlln:x fo‘ge pl'!l:n:null and ocgfiudom elections next year. rp contests between the Republi- eans and the Democrats for election of House members to fill vacancies are now | assured in three districts—the first Ohio, the seventh Missouri and ths eighth congressiona them no shift from one party to an- other will occur in the special elections. Whissouri Seat in Doubt. At ons time it appeared the only im- portant contest would be in the first Ohio_district, represented for years by the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth. But recent developments have intensi- fied _inte: in the battles for the seventh Missouri, where Representative | Samuel C. Major, t, died re- cently, and the eighth Michigan. where the death of Representative Bird J. Vincent of Saginaw, Republican, has made a special election necessary. | The Democratic national leaders, in the belief that economic conditions have turned the trend of politics to- ward their party, are planning a fight to capture the Longworth district, to hold the seventh district in Missouri, and even to break into the Saginaw dis- trict u‘! Michigan, the old I:br?na dl;: trict, for years a strenghold of Repu licanism. With the Republicans and Democrats Longworth or the Saginaw district, while holding the Missouri seat, their control of the House would be practi- | It would be clinched— | cally assured. Darring further vacancies—if they won | both the Ohio and Michigan districts. National Leaders Take Hand. | | ‘The special election in Ohio will be held November 3. The iblicans re- cently nominated John B. Hollister, while the Democrats nominated David Lorbach, member of the State Senate.| The national concern in the election | when Mr. | Mr. Hollister is a wet, that | ith of him | Hon by the National Committee and the | Committee. | enter into the contest, Tor Sate Beny. | inee mms.muuuumm-} publican opponent, and the district is | & wet stronghold. t political battle to be de- | tmf:lnpt;lelr will be fought in 'acancies now exisit in eight | districts, but in most of | | hdpes on. Fights in Michigan.‘ Ohio—Speaker- Stake. In the election last Pall Mr. Long- | worth, after a bitter fight, carried the | | district, which is a part of Cincinnati, by 3,507. This was a much narrower Republican victory than usual, and the closeness of the vote encouraged the Democrats, since it ls supposed | Hollister is weaker than was the late Speaker. However, the indications now are | that the district will remain Repub- | iican. The best estimates are that the | Democrats have about one chance in | three of carrying it. Senator Simeon | D. Fess, Republican national chairman, expresses confidence that the Republi- | cans will elect their candidate, and so | do other officials of the national or-, ganization. | Republicans feel that the debt mora- torium proposed by President Hoover will be helpful to them in the first Ohio district, where there is a large German-American vote. While Demo- crats deny this, and point out the Re- publicans” will not dare try to make political capital out of the moratorium before it is ratified by Congress, there is reason to believe the Republican view is correct. Economic Conditions a Factor. Little doubt exists that the debt holiday. has made a good impression on many German-American voters or that it will mean votes for the Republicin party. How far this factor will be off- set by dissatisfaction over existing eco- nomic conditions is problematical. The Democrats obviously are depending chiefly on the economic situation. ‘The loss of this district to the Re- publicans would be a bad omen for the 1932 camp2ign. The Republican leaders realize this and do not intend to be caught napping or to omit any precautions. Comparatively little notice has been given to the situation in the seventh Missouri district. It is not impossible for the Republicans to gain this district. It has generally gone Republican of late in presidential years. Mr. Major was el on the Democratic ticket there last November by a majority of 2,579 | over John William Palmer, Republican In 1928 Mr. Palmer was elected by 6, 485 over his Democratic opponent. and served in the House in the last Con- Palmer Is Renominated. Mr. Palmer has been renominated. while the Democrats have renominated Robert D. Johneton. Democrats are relying in large psrt on agricultural discontent, and the outccme is expected to be a fairly good indication of agri- cultural sentiment in the Midwest. Until the 1:st week or two there had besn no expectation in Washington of | & sericus contest in the efghth Mich- ! igan district. Republicafis are inclined to smile at the idea of the Democrats winning a district that Jong sent Joseph Pordney, former chajfrman of ways and means, to the House. Nevertheless, Michael J. Hart, Democrat, of Saginaw, who was beaten’ by 20,000 by the late Representative Vincent in November, has advised’ Jouett Shouse and other Democratie chiefs in Washington that condit are ripe in the district for a Dem itic vietory. Indications are that will be the Democratic nom- ntent_over ecomomic conditions | is_what the Democrats are basing their Exiled Lama, Hopored by Nanking, Seeks tol;’i{egain Lost Kingdom| ‘Who Cul- Garbed in &nu:m yellow robes of 175 devout. Tollowers, the arrived From Tibet in 1924. Lama was driven from by the Dalai Lama, the of Tibet The dispute the Panchen and Dalai Lamas, has received the indirect, if not the direct, support British authorities in India who, pi Panchen Lama. on the other hand, s the leader of those native Tibetans who favor closer rela- tions with the Chinese government. Birth Circamstances Probed. At the death of the Dalai or Panchen lama, the Lama priesttood made an investigation into the circumstances at- tending the birth of m2le children born at approximately the time of the de- mised Lama’s death. The names of | several children, whose arrival on earth jcould in any way be associated with | | some heavenly portent were selected Dalai Lama was not | chosen according to the usual custom. His birthplace. parents and his own imege were said to bave appeared to | the chief Lama of Golden Monastery in a vision mirrored in a lake. The Lama | eventually found the spot indicated by divine reveiation and identified the fu- ture “Living Buddha." ! China virtua'ly lost control of Tibet | {in 1904. The British sent an expedition | to Thassa and concluded a_trade agree- | ment, which was confirmed by China in | 1808. Russia was watching British eco- | nomic progress in Tibet with envious | eyes and in 1908 Britain and Russia | ed an agreement recognizing , China’s suzerain rights in Tibet, ! Fled to India in 1924. Meanwhile China was attempting to | regain actual sovereignty over her far distant_tributary. The Chinese Gen. Chao Erh-feng entered Ihassa with & thousand troops in 1908 and was ap: | pointed President. On Chao's arrival, | the Dalai Lama fied to Indis and his {title was conferred upon the then Panchen Lama. When the Chinese Revolution broke out in 1911, the Ti- betans revolted against their Chinese conquerors and in 1912, Yuan Shih-kal, President of the Chinese republic, re- | stored the Dalai Lama's titles, and a | year later he returned to Thassa In 1924, the Dalai Lama and the | Panchen Lama gquarreled and the for- | mer at the head of 2n army drove the spiritual Buddhist dignitary out of | Tibet. For seven years he has wan- | dered through Kokonor, outer and in- ner Mongolia, Manchuria and China rroper seeking temporal essistance to restore him to his spiritual post ! Rumania Tries to Placate Germans { In Transylvania W MEDIAS —This is an old German, or so-called Saxon, town founded among the pretty hills of Translyvania by Germans from the Lower Rhine in among the pretty tills of Transylvania then belonged to Hungary, but Hun- gary never made Hungarians out of the German colonists during the long period of more than seven centuries and Rumania probably will not make Rumanians out of them either. The fear is everywhere prevalent that many German schools and churches would have to be closed because of the ever-decreasing financial support on the part of the Rumanian govern- ment, but today faces are brighter and hopes are higher because the daring Prof. lorga, Rumania’s new prime min- ister, has created a new department of state for the minorities and placed the well known German leader, Rugdoiph Brandsch, at its head with the title of und Ty of state. The inhabitants here say that during te and other minority groups—a kind of balance of power—bargaining with both sides for all they could get, but never joining either. The move of Prof. lorgs in them into the direct administration of state affairs at first rather took them off their feet ing, tude, Fopes derstanding. How- ever, they have never exhibited the hostile attitude of the Hungarian group, many of whom dream only of the day when Transylvania will again be shifted the in side of the frontier. is interpreted to mean serious attempt will be ith New Department made to come to & mutual agreement on outstanding minority questions. Mr Brandsch has already announced that the department would handie all minor- ity questions of all groups with im- partiality Should the experiment succeed. it will g0 far toward solsing an outstanding problem. one which is not pecullar to Rumania The Germans, and to a great extent the Hungarians, have looked to King Carol to come to their aid ever since his return last Summer. I happened to be in Transylvania when Carol's sir- plane passed over on its eventful flight. As s00n a5 the people received the news streets were decorated. The Germans were mindful of the fact that Carol is of Germian origin, and believed that he would not forget them, while the Hun- garians at least believed that an op- | ponent of the oid party Many people are now wondering why some other leader did not have the courage or the generosity to do what | Prof. Torga bas done. , Air Travel Data Show | Canadians Air-Minded | OTTAWA —Canadians are very much air-minded. | An indication of the progress that civil |aviation is making in Canada in dis- THE SUNDAY New Eyes on the Universe Astronomers Everywhere Are on Qui Vive as | BY GEORGE W. GRAY. latest bulletin from the outer iches of space is a report of the universe in explosion, of its confines racing away at incredi- ble speed in all directions. And with this news of an expanding cosmos comes news of an increase and ex- CAUSES OF CHILE REVOLT ON TO LATINS ARE COMM Charges of Ibanez G BY GASTON NERVAL. SPECIAL ccmmittee of 11 men prominent in Chilean politics #nd economics i« investigating the acts of the recently over thrown administration of Pr Following suggestions from the news- papers and the leaders of the move- ment which succe=ded in custing Iba- nez from the presidency, the provisional government of Chile has appointed this committee to take up the study of the outstanding financiai operstions carried out under the old regime. The com- mittee, similar t that which convicted former President Leguia of Peru. is to investigate the charges of maladminis- tration. graft and misuse of public funds which have bsen insistently men- tioned against the deposed Chief Exec- utive and his political associates According to press dispatches. fhe investigation is to include the scts of former members of cabinets, foreign representatives. the secret police. the government newspaper. La Naclon. and the private funds of ex-President Iba- nez. Probe Nitrate Ageney. Another special committee, appointed by Congress, is checking up the charges made by 10 members of the Lower House against the former premier. nor Castro Ruiz. in connection with the or- ganization of the Cosach, the govern- mental agency for the sale of Chile's nitrate In the meantime. one of the strong- est opponents of the Ibanez rule, Senor Augustin Edwards, former Chilean Min- ister to London. former president of the League of Nations and owner of the leading newspaper in Santiago, El Mer- curio. openly accuses the ousted ad- ministration of squandering £82,000,000 during the four vears of its tenure Senor Edwards, who voices the sen- timents of a large part of Chilean pub- ilc opinion, charges Ibanez with im- poverishing the country and concealing the critical economic situation for po- litical purposes Thus the Chilean revolution has one more characteristic in common with the | political changes which have taken place in other Latin American coun- tries during the last 14 months. When the Chilean movement suc- ceeded in overtrowing the dictatorial j rule of Gen. Ibanez I had occasion to point out the similar characteristics iand likenesses it had with the recent revolutions in the other Southern re- publics A survey of the i ceding all those circumstances pre- A movements showed that the causes underlying them were jcommon. A repudiztion of dictatorial |and personalistic regimes, widely spread | by the psychological influence of men- tal contagion, and precipitated by the failure of those regimes in solving the | serious economic ~ crises confronting | them. Like Other Revolts. But not only in principle and theory w2s the Chilean revclt similar to those which Latin America had witnessed during the last year. As I remarked at the time, the way in which it was carried out also resembled the upsets previously taking place in Boiivia, Peru, Argentina end eisewhere. The attitude of the students, com- Ing to the rescue of dsmocratic ideals 2nd giving the first indications of trou- ble: the final action of the armed forces deciding the outcome of the crisis by sympathising with the poplar | clesed in the federal official report for 1930, which states that a total of 124,875 | passengers were carried by mirplanes in the Dominion last year, -mcg flew a miles. ear was 156,574, and the number of ‘{wn'llovm was 92,093, demands and placing the constitution above loyalty to a political personage, | and the nation-wide indorsement of the latest in the STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 30, = =) pansion of man's facilities for observ- ing and measuring and perchance, some day, understanding the phenomena. West and East, astronomers are on the qui vive perhaps as never before gince Isaac Newton's time. Rich re- sources for astronomical investigation are being made available in helf a dozen important centers. In both the raft Probed by Spe- cial Committee—Accused of Squan- dering 82 Mil lion Pounds. Now the charges of maladministra- ton of public funds make the resem- blance complete. Charges of misuse of netlonal income and personal profiting in government by the ousted executive and his closest friends have been in- separzble from the downfall of the old Continued on Fourth Page.) 7 4””/’;“'). FROM THE DAWN OF HISTORY THE MYSTERY OF THE HEAVENS HA S FASCINATED MANKIND, Northern and Southern Hemispheres new outposts are being established and cld outposts are being reinforced for a grand attack on the cosmic riddles. Significant among these advancing forces is the Harvard Observatory, which recently received gifts aggregat- ing more than $1,000.000 for enlarge- ment of its activities. During the last JAMES M. COX UNLIKELY TO BE DEMOCRAT CHOICE Defeat in 1920 Presidential Race Is Ob- stacle to Renomination of Prohi- BY JOHN C. O'BRIEN. LMOST a year before the na- ticnal convention, James Mid- dleton Cox of Oflo is looked upon by members of his party as one of the darkest of the herses among the unofficial en- in the Democratic presidential A dark tries PRAYER . BY BRUCE LADY from Kansas sends very personal ques- n: “Have you,” she ever known of nce of the efficiency 9 A any ins of prayer The answer this is the story Years ago when my revered friend Dr. William Goodell Frost left his comfortable pro- fessorship of Greek at Oberlin College to take the presidency of the struggling little college at Berea, Ky. his friends thought he had made a ter- rible mistake The buildings were old and dilapidated. The faculty was underpaid. There were plenty of debts, and no income. The president, in addition to his scholastic duties, was expected to ride the rails from city to city and beg for funds to meet the current expenses. Frost .was a scer and a prophet. He knew the sterling character of the Kentucky mountain pecple; he was thrilled by the vision of what Berea College could mean to them. Full of courage, he journeyed up to Cincinnati and called upon the pastor of the leading Protestant church. “Will you invite some of the génerous people of your city to a meeting and let me tell them about the needs of the mountains?” Frost asked “Oh. no.” replied the pastor. “I'couldn’t think of that.” “Will you let me preach in your pulpit Sunday morning?” “No. We have a positive rule that the Sunday morning service is never to be devoted to any charitable appeal.” “Well, I don't suppose you get many people out in the evening,” Frost persisted. “Will you let me speak Sunday eve- ning?” Again the preacher refused. is, Yes. And BARTON “How about the Wednesday evening prayer meeting?” 0. “Well, then, will you pray for the mountain people and the success of the college?” Frost demanded he preacher said he thought it would be hypo- critical for him to ask the Almighty to help a cause to which he could give no aid himself. Without the slightest show of impatience or discourage- ment, Frost made his final tack. “My brother, since you can do nothing to help us, will you join me in prayer for your church and your ministry?” The pastor could not refuse Down on their knees they went together, and Frost pro- ceeded to send up to the Pearly Gates not only a prayer for the church, but a most eloqguent and moving presen- tation of the needs of the Kentucky mountaineers and the 'little college that was struggling to help them. When the prayer was fin- ished the preacher’'s eyes were full. “You must come to my church Sunday morning,” he said. “My people must hear you.” Frost went, and so began the friendship of many people in Cincinnati for Berea Col- lege. There prayers. Often when a prayer is not answered it is cause the man who utters it doesn’t act as if he expected it to be. The prayers of Mary Lyon, founder of Mount Holyoke College, were usually an- gwered. Her motto wa “Trust in God, and do some- thing.” are prayers and (Copyright, Never Before Since the Time of Newton. Drawn for The Eunday Star by J Seott Willlams 1931—PART TWO. ' IZEAL FOR COMMON GOOD BY FRANK S. HACKETT, M. A. MERICA is not alone in her need | to revise the emphasis on edu- | cation, but hers is a wonderful | opportunity for leadership. The | ©Old World is full of admiration | for our skill, our technical proficiency. | and our idealism in the war and the | early post-war periods, ‘but puszled by | our transition from unprecedented | prosperity to surprising unemployment. | Wherever abroad 1 talked | thoughtful school men, they wanted m‘ know what steps we are taking to pre- pare the next generation to handle | things better. They wondered whfl.her‘ the new progressive educational move- | ment, which they are watching with | keenest interest and in which they| themselves in many isolated instances | are making strides, may point the way. | One thing, ck . has influenced us—the idea that these are matters of economics and not of education. We have been taught to believe that economic forces are apart from human | beings, that though people are inti- | mately affected by them. they cannot control them. Nothing is more com- mon than the attitude of the business man that the college professor is likely to be a mere theorist, and that it is the job of the schoolmaster to deal with the immature only and to refrain | from opinons upon affairs of the real world. It is perhaps this very uncon- cern with education which lies back | of these recurring cycles. Certain it tion can be evolved, there must con- tinue to be a recurrent alternation of | prosperity and want. | The widespread poverty of today in contrast with the plenty of yesterday affords perhaps the clue to our chief | educational deficiency. i Public Little Considered. | During the period of inordinate profits through industry and through | speculation, was it not the rarest ex- | ception that corporations or individ- uals made provision for the future of all concerned? To be sure, many| feathered their individual nests, but the fact that such vast numbers to- day are dependent for their very lives upon Government subsidy and upon | private charity, indicates h: rare was any consideration for the group. | How well private charity has re-| this present consideration. now dwelling upon those relatively few pecple of church, ssttlement and other | philanthropic associations upon whose | good hearts rests the graciousness of | life. They afford a superb example of | the possibility of meeting the supreme | need of modern education. Too much | credit cannot be given to the influences ‘ which have molded their lives—re- ligion, good homes, fine communities. | | They, however, are’ the shining excep- tions, far too often scorned. Were it not for them, what would | become of our hoepitals, our work for | | prison reform, our agencies for civic | | betterment and even our schools, | | which they serve as members of boards of education, or as trustee? It is this | |type of men whom we headmasters | | often cite to our boys as the kind we | { hope they become. Though we must | remember _that into modern education | week announcement has been made of the establishment of a new Harvard cbserving station on a hilltop near Cambridge and of plans for the erec- tion there of a 60-inch telescope It will be the largest astronomical eyve in the eastern part of the United States—a_twin to the 60-inch reflector (Continued on”Fourth Page.) out his public career he has been wet. As between Gov. Roosevelt and Mr. Cox, if wetness were to be the sole measure | of availability, the latter would have the advantage. | But, despite the stress laid upon the | wet issue' by former Gov. Smith and Mr. | Raskob, fRere are many Democratic | leaders who believe that repeal will | enter into the 1932 campaign, if at all, | {only as a collateral issue. Unless the | | country experiences in the next few | months an amazing economic recovery, it is rather generally conceded by the party strategists that the business de. pression and unemployment will be the | controlling issue. | On this issue Mr. Cox has had some- | thing to say in onme or two public | speeches, but no one knows what rem- | edies, if any, he has for the situation. | In this respect he is in the same posi- | tion as most critics of the Hoover ad- | ministration. but Gov. Roosevelt has thrown out hints that he has a program | which departs sufficiently from tradi- | | tionz] conceptions of the relaticn of Gqvernment to business to cause busi- | ness some uneasiness H Mr. Cox, on the otner hand. has con- fined himself to criticism of the present | nomination swespstakes. - In such un- official polis of sentiment as have been taken he yenks far down on the list. In his oWwh State Democratic leaders are doubtful of his strength as a favo- rite son, Gov. George White, former | national chairman, and Newion D Baker, Sedretary of War in President Wilson's cabinet, Faving a greater hold than he on the support of the Ohio Democracy, with | gom, is that unless a better type of edua- | port | as HELD BIGGEST NEED TODAY Training of Young Through Closer Co- | operation for Welfare of All Tomorrow Urged Upon Nation’s Educators. - | there go countess other elements, M= cluding newspapers, curvent literature, drama, social and amuse- ments of all kinds, I am 5 consideration here to the one which supremely affects our the schools. Today's world is. of course, the P uct of yesterday's lcm.’ l‘! something we are prone to forget. is also ly true that todsy'sy a:ho:l.l are the reflection of today'ss Molding Power of Scheois. It is this failure to the. molding power of our_scl which: marks prevailing lack of edues- tional st and college both as means ing youth to make a living. more, we hail the individual and every effort to see that his needs, even his idiosyncrasies, wre. heeded. No one could quarrel with this indi- vidualization if it were producing en the whole an improved type of .map, Business cycles, however, among a2 other problems, certainly m“.‘g- question as to whether this is so. One. wonders why the immense research fa- cilities of American universities are not' concentrated upon this type of prob- lem rather than upon many fut!’iies. It is not because in the progress of the individual to = we have not yet succeeded in- American education, as European ers feel they have also failed, in buing students with a sense of common good. In Europe service is bred in the bone. tions hold that out as a reward. Pive thousand young Eng! are every year for “the Empire.” i many go wholeheartedly and aevorsdy into this service, 5 inconsiderable number take it as the simplest and best means of security. z the chief de- the kS On ths Continent it is sire of perhaps most who sttain highest grades in school and university to become a permanent En of the E. ailing bureaucracy. too, are the armies with their military training. These f-g youth to recognize service to the state 85 a necessary part of his education. e and little or none from within either the state or any one elge. an is well that we have * om.” Compulsory service of would tend to kill the back of our vances. Purthermore, it the growth of the we must set about to develop. we realize this, almost the be ready for such educat as the world has never sense even more is drifting into more cracy as a means of meeting ism and Communism most oppressed and suppressed, are #aining strong footholds. i Back of both of these plans, lies the- compulsion of the individual to live according to what the leaders conceive to be the needs of the group. Both ars an answer—a blind answer, as I be-- lieve—to the excess of individualism. There is a growing tendency in mfiynhwmm of ition, it flustrates trend. It arose from cure these, American ceeded to try to wipe is another instance of ure of our education to with a sense of the have them realize tha ends where public in; * . Clearly, then, the g:" ican education include with the eff ;:;e:ly an efllclel;.t. ite pus that be imbued with sense bf mon good. Educational be developed who will who will get away from silly platitudes, and set of teachers and children tainable ideal, and then working toward means to £33 % 3" H & l R st i H L ; i g i Judging from present indications, Mr Cox would become a contender only if the factiohs opposed to Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt's candidacy found it im- possible to unite on one of the more prominently _considered compromise candidates. Still, a political situation ean change considerably in 11 or 12 months, and stranger things could hap- pen than the nomination of Mr. Cox. Should tre three-time Governor of Dhis find’ himself a formidable oppo- nent of Gov. Roosevelt in the Demo- cratic convention, a situation would be presented_in which running mates un- der the Democratic standard in 1920 would be striving for the main prize, 1920 Defeat Is Obstacle. The defeat suffered by Cox in 1920, more decisive from the s the popular vote than Smith's, is one reason why Cox cannot at this stage be regarded as a serious contender for the nomination in 1932. Although there is precedent for it, party leaders are reluctant to nominate a defeated can- didate unless they are forced to because of the candidate’s exceptional personal strength, as was the case when Wil- am Jennings Bryan seized the banner in 1912 after having suffered two defeats. Aside from the handicap of previous defeat, however, Mr. Cox does not seem to labor under disadvantages more nu- mercus than those attached to the can- of any other Demoeratic possi- except trat at present there is | no movement in his behalf. If, as has been objected, Mr: Cox is identified with onan ideals which aroused so ntagonism in the Democratic in 1920. so, too, is Gov. Roose- 1t. who campaigned on the same plat- form and was Assistant Secretary of the Navy in Wilson's war-time cabinet On the positive side, Mr. Cox is com- paratively young (he is 61 years old) and vigorous, Since his defeat he has not tiken a prominent part in politic: hence he has avoided alignments with any faction. He was said to be behind th: Smith-Ras leadership in the attempt of the present national chair- man to place the National Committee on record in advance of the national convention as in favor of repeal of the eighteenth amendment, but when the committee met last March he made a conctliatory speech. Favors Prohibition Repeal. Although former Gov. Smith and Mr. Raskob have thus far maintained s |lence concerning their choice for the 11932 race, both have stressed the desir- ability of a wet candidate and a wet platform. If this is the criterion of availability for the nomination, former Gov. Cox should be considered among | much Mr.l Caxhukl: “I unhesitatipgly favor the repeal of the eighteenth esmendment.” i As Governor of Ohio he was opposed by the Anti-Salcon League because it was felt he had given -aid and comfort to the enemies of & stricter excis law. He was outskopen against the ment of the eighteenth amendment in A. E. F. His position in 1920 was one of favoring light wines and beers, ifled by a proncuncement in l“&“fi law eg.&cnt. Consistently through andpoint of | | administration. He has attributed the | depression, in part at least, to the tariff | bill passed by the last Congress. He has said he was against unwilling un- { employment. In place of the “technical | eng'neering” now guiding the country, he has insisted “we must provide the human_ éngineering, which will assume | the burden of unemployment as the social tisk it §5.” He has spoken sympa ! thetically of old age pensions and | “lieral poliey toward public utilities. | “still, nothing like a definite pro- | gram has come from Mr. Cox, and if | it develops that the Democratic leaders are forced to take a compromise candi- date they will find nothing embarrass- | ingly definite in the record of Mr. Cox's | recent utterances. Mr. Cox has taken no position on the | power issue, a high card in the Roose: velt hand. What Gov. Roosevelt pro- | poses to do about water power and the control of public utilities, although ! thus far presented only in half-lights, is the question that concerns a power- | ful investment group in the approach- |ing campaign. There was nothing on |the 1920 Democratic platform relating |to power: there was a mild protest | against the abandonment of the Muscle Shoals nitrogen enterprise. Utilities ! have no rezson to fear Mr. Cox unless | he develops ideas on the subject which he has not yet uttered. Entered Journalistic Work. Born in Jacksonburg, Ohio, March 31 1870, James M Cox, after little form: schooling, ght school for a while before entering 2 journalistic | career, which became his life work. He ; worked as a reporter on a weekly news:- paper and later joined the staff of a | Cincinnati daily. After serving as sec- |retary to a member of Congress'from {a Cincinnagi district, Mr. Cox in 1908 was elected to Congress. Before that | he had acquired the Dayton News, the first of a string of four newspapers | which he had built up into flourishing properties by the time he was called to lead his party in the gubernatorial race in 1912. He was defeated after bis first term as Governor by Frank B. Willis. Cox was re-elected again in [ 1916 and was serving his third term | when he became the national standard bearer of his party. Mr. Cox as Governor made what is generally conceded to be a good record. He reorganized the State government, brought about the passage of a work- men's compensation law, a child labor law and a model school code. Prior to mea . °1°m fe néh;:‘bue-n as a_ fairly sa stronghold. Although he was elected by narrow margins, Cox's repeated suc- cess in turning the State into the ic column tewide ‘tions contributed largely idential candida stal elec- tallll strength enact- | be | Social Zeal Much N The greatest need in modern tion is undwmd]my a zeal f |mon good, & purpose to socially useful. Add this to |dom of the individual powers to the utmost, and we the type of man who ffairs with a wisdom now apparent. It is of coursé one see and to state this need, and another to suggest how it may be The main principles seem fairly Once these are accepted, details l-methods will follow as the night the. | Parents, teachers, administrators students themselves will become co- | operators in a vast educational enter- | prise—even the development in our country of finer and better men and' | _The principle toward this result | which needs most emphasis 5t 113 ¢ i gl i 1§ i 1 eoreticall: | ps a good many educational lead- ’er accept this, but actually they lav the . stress upon methods and devices | which elevate the interests of the in. | dividual as over against those of the oup. 400,000 Unemployed - Reported in Japan ‘TOKIO.—Officially recognized unem- ployment in Japan has now passed the ' 400,000 mark, according to statistics for May, just made public by the soeial burgau of the home ministry, the larg- est number ever recorded. Comparison- with the fijures for April show that & decrease in the number of jobless day laborers has been more than offset by an increase in other laborers and s} aried men. Unofficial labor and social tions claim the actual amocunt of uners ployment is mueh larger than the gov- ernment figures reveal. Not included are the many men and women who find no more than one or two days of work " during a mcnth, nor the thousards of | school graduates who have been umable to find even their first jobs to qualify them as workers. Unofficial figutes un - unemployment are between 800,000 and *