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THE EVENING STAR
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WEDNESDAY.September 23. 1925
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League and Arms Limitation.
The United States will in all prob
ability be given an opportunity to ac
cept or to decline an invitation to join
in a disarmament conference called
by the I-oafue of Nations. Announce
ment from Geneva that the Deague
will proceed with its plans for such
va conference is the most definite in
dication so far that the plan is really
to be carried through.
America took the lead in the move
ment for disarmament following the
close of the World War. The Wash- J
lngtffn conference on limitation of
arvn&ments, bringing with it the
declaration that the United States
was prepared to abandon its great
naval building program, thrilled the
war-worn world with new hope of
prolonged peace.
It became evident at the Washing
ton conference, however, that there
must be more stable conditions, must
be more assuranco of “security”
against aggression in Europe, before
the older nations would agree to limit
the size of their armies or of their
navies, except in the case of capital
ships. The administration at Wash- |
ington has waited patiently until con
ditions should improve abroad, in tho
hope of again calling an arms confer
ence.
The proposal of the League of Na
tions may cause a still further post
ponement of action by the Govern
ment here. The folly of attempting a
rival arms conference, with the bitter
ness and jealousies that might be j
aroused, seems apparent.
■ Whether it he the League or
whether it be the United States which
stands sponsor for the next arms con
ference it should he possible to wish
it Godspeed without doin<? violence to
the feelings of the most irreconcilable
entl-leaguers. The League has been
given a bad name in this country by
those who opposed entry of the United
States into that association of nations.
The mere mention of the League in
connection with any movement causes
the bristles to rise on some heads. It
is another case of “give a dog a bad
x name.”
President Coolidge has let it be.
known that he is sympathetic toward
the plans of the League for bringing
aV>ut disarmament, although he be
n*Aes that the Congress must deter
mine whether the United States shall
participate in any arms conference
that may be called by the League. In
this opinion he is correct, although
he would be entirely within his rights
to make recommendation to Congress
regarding it.
Should an invitation eventually ar
rive from the League to participate
In an arms conference, in what posi
tion will the United States Pnd itself
should it refuse? A declination might
be interpreted as notice to the world
that this country will have no part in
such discussions unless America be the
initiator, an interpretation which could
scarcely aid the cause of disarma
ment. There should be some way in
which the United States could partici*
pate in movements for the betterment
of the world, even with the League of
Nations, without America's becoming
involved In the affairs of the League
itself.
The United Air Service Issue.
President Coolidge’s aviation board
has begun its work by hearing the
statements of the heads of the War i
and Navy Departments and members
of the military and naval staffs. These
statements, carefully prepared and
treating of the subject of military
and naval aviation in broad and
technical terms, furnish the founda
tion of the investigation, which will
now probably progress to details of
administration. The outstanding fact
thus far elicited by the inquiry is that
there is a marked difference of opinion
on the score of unification of the avia
tion services. The heads of the two
departments are opposed to unifica
tion, likewise naval officers. Maj.
Gen. Patrick, chief of the Army avia
tion service, however, favors it, thus
supporting Col. Mitchell. It is clear
that on this point the President’s com
mission will have before it at the con
clusion of its research a positive con
flict of sentiment and judgment. It
will be called upon, therefore, to ren
der an opinion upon this mooted point.
In addition to being a statesman
Caillaux is no slight figure as an ex
pert accountant.
Republicans and La Follette.
The Republican organization of the
Senate is planning to exclude Robert
M. La Follette. jr., from the party or
ganization of the upper house in the
event La Follette is elected to fill the
Wisconsin vacancy caused by the
death of Senator La Follette. Such
action would be in line with that
taken last session, when La Follette,
Brookhart. Frazier and the late Sena
tor Ladd were all left outside the
party portals.
Those who favor such action declare
against “temporizing with the rebels."
But the efforts ‘in this direction of
regular Republicans, even of Senator
Watson of Indiana, Senator Butler of
I
Massachusetts and Senator Edge of
New Jersey, are scarcely hailed with
Joy by the more progressive Repub
licans of the Middle West and Wast.
Where, they ask, is the line to he
drawn? When is the next progressive
to be stood against a wall with a firing
squad to give him his political execu
tion?
Furthermore, it should have begun
by this time to sift into the under
standing of the most conservative
standpatters that they are doing lit
tle toward “regularizing” the people
of Wisconsin by throwing out of the
liarty fold the representatives elected
by Wisconsin as Republicans.
Mr. La Follette is standing on the
platform upon which his father was
elected to the Senate in 1922, as a Re
publican. The senior La Follette was
accepted as a Republican Senator in
the organization of the Senate at
that time. It will be remembered,
however, that Senator La Follette,
from the time of his entrance into the
Senate until the day of his death, was
the pet aversion of tho “standpat
ters.” He came to the Senate first in
1905, not because of the standpatters,
but in spite of them.
Within the Republican party there
are men and women of conservative
and progressive thought. There al
ways have been, and there always will
be, unless one group should be suc
cessful in driving tho other forth into
the outer darkness. But when that
day arrives the Republican party in all
probability will cease to be a dom
inant factor in the politics of the Na
tion.
American Dollars and Art.
London is chagrined at the arrange
ments Just made for the offering of
j the art treasures of the late Lord
Leverhulme for sale on the New York
market. This collection is rated as one
of the richest assemblages of paint
ings and art objects in England. The
fact that it is to be brought to this
country for said Is exceedingly annoy
ing to the British, who realize that It
signifies plainly that there is a better
market for art works in the United
States. Does this mean a keener ap
preciation of art here than in Eng
land? Or does it mean that there is
more money here, irrespective of
taste?
On this point an art expert who
i negotiated on behalf of the Lever
hulme executors for the transfer of
the collection for auction in the United
States has expressed himself frankly,
saying: “Our art gems are going
steadily. The Americans are too
wealthy for us. We cannot compete
with them.” He conceded that thp
Americans are able even to pay duty
on pictures by living artists and still
i make a profit.
This collection, which is valued at
£250,000, is to be placed on sale at
auction in this country, probably to
be dispersed among numerous buyers.
It is not likely that it will be bought
as a whole, though it is worthy of in
corporation as a unit in some institu
tional art assemblage. That it will
find a market at good prices is taken
for granted in England as well as by
the promoters of the plan for the New j
York sale. The latter are enthusiastic
in their interpretation of this move as I
proof that the world art center is f
now located in America rather than in
Europe.
If the purchase of art objects and
their acquisition by private and pub
lic galleries constitute a “center” of
art, then assuredly the United States
is the world's artistic focal point. Eng
lish commentators on the Leverhulme j
collection sale, however, are pointing
out that the purchasing of art does
not necessarily make a nation an ar
tistic center. They urge that the place
of production rather than the place of
purchase is the source of art.
American art production, however,
has advanced markedly in the last
half century, and is still advancing at
an accelerating pace. The studios of
Europe contain more art stu
dents from this country than from
any other. Art schools here are filled
mostly with young Americans and
are directed by American teachers
and painters and sculptors and de
signers. Whatever their models, they
are creating an American school of
art.
Undoubtedly a great part of the in
spiration to American artists has come
from the paintings and sculptures by
i Europeans that have been brought to
this country by purchase, thus plac
ing them within the range of study
by those who are unable to go abroad.
Thus every acquisition of notable art
objects on this side of the Atlantic is
lto be welcomed. The unpleasant
things said about American dollars in
flict no wounds.
By adding another official to take
charge of air service the cabinet ses
sions would be provided with new
complications for conversations which
are already intricate.
Washington, D. C., has its housing
problems which are aggravated by the
ambition of so many people to live in
the town that has the greatest base
ball club in the world.
Complaints are freely made that
the Navy is not as cordial as It might
be in saying “Airship, ahoy!”
Civic Pride and Crime.
A New York clergyman recently,
in a public statement regarding the
prevalence of crime in Chicago, de
clared that he had personally wit
nessed two hold-ups in the street on
one day's visit to that city. A Chi
cago newspaper challenged him to
give details of these crimes and
offered to pay him SIOO if he would
comply with the demand for particu
lars, plainly intimating that his imag
ination had outstripped his Judgment,
though, of course, not questioning his
veracity. The clergyman accepted
the challenge and gave the particu
lars, which were verified by police
records, and it is now announced
that the newspaper has paid him the
SIOO. The money will be devoted to
a charity.
This incident is indicative of the
extreme jealousy with which tho Chi
cago people view' criticisms of their
moral state. They know that there
is much crime in Chicago. They are
constantly calling for sharper police
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1925.
work and speedier punishments. But
let a New Yorker go out there and
comment on the prevalence of law
lessness and another song is sung.
New York is bad enough itself with
out criticizing Chicago. It was es
pecially annoying to have a New
Yorker assert that he had been wit
ness to two cases of highway robbery
which had not resulted in successful
prosecution.
Every city is Jealous of its own
reputation, and when any one says
that it Is wickeder than the average
it resents the imputation. What is
needed in this country is an inter
state, intercity survey of crime that
will ignore local boundaries and local
sensibilities and seek the cause of
criminality. Such a movement has
been undertaken by a volunteer asso
ciation and the hope is that it will
not find obstacles in its path toward
knowledge and reform created by the
parochial pride of communities.
Peace and War in Chinatown.
Just as New York’s Chinatown
dolled up to celebrate the cessation of
the tong war, supposedly effected by a
treaty of peace between the Hip Sings
and th© On Leongs which had been
signed in the office of the Chinese con
sul general, three shots were fired in
Bayard street and a dead Chinaman
lay on the sidewalk while a live one
was running away, with a smoking
revolver in his hand. By inadvertence
he ran past a policeman, who prompt
ly felled him with his 'ifub and put
him under arrest. The peace was off.
Immediately police raided the district
and rounded up 150 denizens of the
quarter, and within half an hour after
the raid eight of them had been listed
for deportation and others were held
for further examination. Among the
prisoners were Influential members of
the tw'o tongs. This housecleaning Is
perhaps the most effective method of
stopping the conflict. The personal
prosecution of tong leaders for con
spiracy has failed, and nothing re
mains but to demonstrate that China
men who will not obey the American
laws have no place in this country.
The liberality of the United States
Government is illustrated l>y the case
of Gen. Mitchell. The most expert
press agent.could not have provided
such publicity as he has received
gratis.
Republics are forgiving as well as
ungrateful. Adulations are showered
on Henry Ford in spite of the fact
that he is the father of the parking
problem.
Many a small boy will lie the diplo
mat of the future. He is now return
ing to school and telling his parents
how he loves his dear teacher.
As a street railway expert Mayor
Hylan recognizes his arrival at a sta
tion where he is due for a transfer to
private life.
As September advances the coal
strike asserts itself steadily as more
j important than the beauty contest.
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Signal of Hope.
When tho goldenrod’s flaunting so
fair in the field,
A hope for the future once more Is
revealed.
i For Congress is coming, with zest un
concealed
With a bundle of laws to be made or
repealed.
The blossoms will fade as the birds
hush their song,
But we know that new joys will ar
rive before long.
With hope for the weak and reward
for the strong.
Friend Congress Is coming to right
every wrong.
Who says that the Autumn is somber
and sad?
It bids us rejoice and not go to the
bad.
New courage we take amid foible and
fad,
For Congress approaches to make us
all glad!
Trying to be Consistent.
“Would you care to become a mem
ber of our law firm?” asked the enter
prising attorney.
“No,” answered Senator Sorghum.
“I have been he-lping to make laws all
my life. I don’t see how I can con
sistently interest myself in enterprises
which contemplate their evasion.”
Tenacious Disguise.
“What’s the matter with this
chowder?” asked the indignant diner.
“I nearly broke a tooth on this shell.”
“Sorry!" exclaimed the waiter.
"You must have gotten hold of a Ku
Klux Klam that refused to unmask.”
Jud Tunkins says there’s only one
thing more picturesque than a boy in
a new sweater, and that’s a tattooed
man.
Standardization.
My Radio! My Radio! I tune you for
the dance.
I blame you for the way in which wild
men and women prance.
For, even if a classic lay displaces
measures rough,
The static makes it sound just like
the syncopated stuff.
Losing Ground.
“The world is getting better every
day.”
“Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne. “But
my limited observation tempts me to
think it is growing worse every
night.”
Physical Encounter.
The duel is entirely out of date.
An enemy—you dare not even
thrash him.
But with your flivver you may lie in
wait
And in a rush of reckless traffic
smash him.
The streets are full of prescriptions.
For health and happiness take Doc
Eldridge's Flivver Regulator.
“An argument ’bout d© Bible,” said
Uncle Eben, “la an effort to make
smartness take do place o£ religion.’'
| THIS AND THAT |
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
Templeton Jones was feeling sleepy.
The prospect of going to bed early
appealed to him with all the force
Morpheus has exerted on sleepy mor
tals since the beginning of time.
In his yawning state, nothing but
1 sleep would do the trick. Templeton
Jones knew that for a certainty, and,
knowing it, determined to uct upon It.
“I’m sleepy,” he announced to the
entire household, although it was only
8 o'clock. “I’m going to bed." he
added, to the consternation of all, for
9:30 was Jones’ usual time for retir
ing, and he was a methodical man.
Templeton Jones believed that good
habits are the Itest things In the world
for us. He liked his life to run on
schedule, as far as possible, although
he made no foolish attempt to trans
form it into a time table. He had a
rather better opinion of life.
Templeton Jones, when he got
sleepy, wan sleepy all over. His mind
sagged, his body wilted, he felt as if
he could not keep awake a second
longer.
Do you remember that time when
some caller stayed—and stayed—and
stayed w'hen you were a child, and
you were suffused with sleepiness, yet
were equally determined to stick the
visitor out?
How minutes seemed hours, and you
became numb all over, and the hands
on the big clock went slower and
slower, and you knew at last what
the preacher meant when he talked
about Eternity?
"Well, that was the way Templeton
Jones felt that evening when he told
his family he was going to bed at 8
o'clock.
* 5jC * *
“I suppose," said Jones, half to him
self, “that I will be waked as usual at
4 a.in. by old Git Up Dar, by I don't
care. I haven't missed old Git Up Dar
for years, and I suppose I never will.
I would like, however," he continued,
ruminating, “to miss hearing him hol
ler at that horse once in my life.”
Old Git Up Dar, as the Jones family
called she milkman who came through
the alley, rain or shine, perhaps needs
a word of explanation. No one "had
ever seen him. He was, like Words
worth's cuckoo, a voice.
The Jones family agreed that the
man had missed his calling. He should
have become an actor, instead of a
milk wagon driver, and ought to have
essayed the role of Simon Legree.
Surely only the celebrated overseer
of slaves could have possessed such a
mean voice as the milkman, or such j
an unnecessarily loud voice, either. !
Simon was only a book character,
after all. and perhaps had u right to
scream at the slaves in the middle of
a big plantation—at least be kept no
one awake b>* it, thought Jones-—but
this milkman, now. roared and
screamed at his poor horse to no good
at all. as far as he could see.
“Git up, dar!” he grated, a block j
away. Every time the horse stopped j
he screamed. “Git up. dar!” Then, no
sooner had the faithful animal "got
up, dar.” than the man roared at her
to stop.
It was all very confusing to Jones,
and it must have been to Dolly, the
horse, too, for the milkman was per
petually bellowing at her, all down
the alley. You could not blame any
horse for not minding a voice such
as that man was afflicted with.
“If I were that horse,” often
thought Jones, “I would bite his darn
head off." t
Jones himself had often thought of
shooting the fellow, but, being a very !
mild-mannered man. had dismissed
the idea as a bad dream, and had
tried to block out the awful voice by j
clapping his ha mis up and dowm over
his ears as children do with sea shells.
** * *
"Pretty soft.” breathed Jones, tum
bling in at 8:05 o'clock. He pulled the
sheet up over him, and settled down
for a quiet run.
After a few confused moments of
equally confused thought, he went to
sleep in that mysterious way we have.
One moment we are a” ake. the next
asleep, and, for the life of us, next ■
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE.
Rear Admiral William S. Sims, re
tired, although a fervent believer in
air power, is an opponent of a sepa
rate air force. Writing this observer
from his home at Newport, R. 1., the
gallant commander-in-chief of our
naval forces in the European war
zone, says:
At present public opinion is ap
preciably in favor of a separate air
force. It is not understood, how
ever. that a thousand efficient
planes manned by perfectly effi
cient pilots trained by a separate
air force would be of almost no use
to the fleet in war operations. To
be useful the machines must be
designed to suit naval conditions,
the pilots must live with and be
trained by the fleet, and the whole
naval force must be handled by
naval officers (flyers) thoroughly
familiar with naval strategy and
tactics. The same thing applies
to the Army’s air force, though
in less degree. There is, of course,
no objection to a separate air force
whose function is the regulation
of air routes and ports, supply and
manufacture and that sort of
thing, but without military func
tion or authority.
** * *
“The President’s special board,”
adds Admiral Sims, “is the hope of
the future. It should be able to dis
sipate the fog of official conservatism
(ungentle critics call it pigheadedness)
and point the road to progress. I look
for excellent results from -Mitchell's
criticisms, and believe that the shak
ing up of dry bones will result in a
definite policy. The President’s spe
cial commission will make a report
that will boos great value. A congres
sional investigation is not likely to
accomplish much. The real facts
should now be brought out and a def
inite public opinion created.”
** * *
Charles MacVeagh, who is to he the
new American Ambassador to Japan,
resides in New Hampshire, and will
be officially credited to that State in
the patronage records. He was strong
ly backed for the appointment by
Senators Moses and Keyes. Mr. Mac-
Veagh lives at Dublin, N. H., though
he i%a member of John W. Davis’ law
firm in New York and lists his home
as 1800 New Hampshire avenue,
Washington, D. C. For a good many
years the Ambassador-designate has
spent his Winters In California, so he
is fairly familiar with the coast's view
of Japanese questions. MacVeagh has
never before held public office. He
and Secretary Kellogg have been
brother lawyers and friends for 30
years. The new envoy is a passionate
devotee of Harvard, where he got his
A. B. in 1881. MacVeagh has no
known affiliations with, or special in
terest in, the Far East. But during
the Russo-Japanese war 21 years ago
he was active as a sympathizer with
Nippon.
** * *
There was more than the usually
spirited competition for the Japanese
ambassadorship, though many de
serving Republicans were in the list
whose claims to diplomatic fame were
very nebulous. It may be remarked,
in passing, that there was no founda
tion for the report that William V.
Hodges of Colorado refused the ap
pointment, because it was never of-,
sered to him. There was a strong de
sire to send to Tokio one of our ca
pable "career diplomats." One or two
it them were definitely is mind. In the
morning we cannot recall th© exact
second of the transition.
No man has ever caught himself
going to sleep.
Jones was awaked at 8:30 by a tre
mendous crash of thunder. A big
storm had broken over Washington.
The lightning was on .a plan not com
mon in these parts. It seemed as if
some celestial being was Hashing a
light—flip—flip—flip—flip—one flash
after®inother flash flash flash —
Hash.
The thunder rumbled, cracked,
broke and echoed. It did everything
that thunder can do, and then some.
Now and then would come a crash
that made Jones say to himself, “I’ll
bet that struck some place.”
Beating rain on the roof, lightning
in the heavens, thunder on the left
and right—it was such a high old
night as Dickens loved to depict. He,
indeed, would have taken u thousand
words to describe the rolling of those
thunders, and another to set forth the
flashing of that lightning.
it would have been worth it, too.
■ Templeton Jones, sleepy in his bed,
had to admire the display, although he
was a trifle 111 at ease over the llght
tdng. Bine© his youth he had pro
gressed from being frightened at
thunder to being afraid of lightning.
“Can’t go to sleep with all this go
ing on.” philosophically he told him
self. He lay there, hoping it would
soon end. but It did not cease in any
form. “It,” the ambiguous "it” of ail
weather conversation, continued to
rain, thunder and lightning.
800-oom! Crack! Jones fell to im
agining a battle was in progress. He
hoped old Git Up Dar would be among
the first casualties, but that the horse
Dolly would escape, after giving her
tormentor two good kicks, one for
herself and one for Jones.
t ♦
When he finally got to sleep again,
well after It o’clock, for it was a
long storm, Jones thought he was
going to make a night of it. He did
not know, of course, that the family
down the block was "throwing a
party.”
It seems, in a big city, that some
one must be. “flipping a party” ever
so often. Some of these parties are
more familiarly called “drunk par
ties.” Nothing outrageous, you konw,
but Just a little liquor on the side,
and all that sort of thing.
Usually there are one or two gentle
men in the party who imagine they
are drunk. These make more noise
j than those who actually are soused.
It was about 1 o’clock when Jones
' rolled over uneasily, and awoke
1 again. Somebody was executing an
!Indian dance on a back porch.
"Whee-ee!” broke the silence of the
night. “Whoo-oo!”
The merrymakers decided to sing.
; They always do.
“Just a eor.g at twilight,” they
j sang, although it was much nearer
dawn.
"Love's o-Id sweet song!” they bel
lowed. “Love's o-old svvee-eet s-o-n-g!”
The party broke up at 3 a.m.. much
to Jones' delight, for by this time he
was sleepy with a vengeance. "Thank
God!” he breathed, fervently, as the
last loud “Good-bye!” rang out to the
accompaniment of chugging cars.
Jones was no sooner asleep again
than two tom cats got to fighting In
the alley. Nose to nose they worked
themselves, with the cries peculiar t©
their kind, into battle fury.
Jones awoke with a start at the cat
• erwauls, then grinned to himself, as
| he got up to watch the Imttle, for he
j was a friend of cats. The set-to:
! proved good, and, to cap the climax,
’ a dog jumped the fence and ran down
j the alley after nothing.
“Some night!” grinned Jones, as he
lapsed into slumber e.gain. When he
awoke the sun w-as shining.
"Did you hear old Git Up Dar?”
asked his wife. "He made more noise
than ever.”
“By George!” said Templeton Jones,
with a huge grin. “I missed old Git
Up Dar! I slept right through him.
for once in my lifa. What do you
know about that? I missed old Git
Up Dar!"
case of a man now on duty as a Min
ister in Europe, and who would have
made an ideal Ambassador In Japan,
an appointment was out of the ques
tion for the reason that he is not rich
enough to do what a niggardly Uncle
Sam expects his diplomatic represent
atives to do out of their own pockets.
Economy that deprives United States
of adequate representation at a capi
tal like Tokio some day may turn out
to be extravagance.
* # * * *
Two of the most distinguished jour
nalists of France are in the Caillaux
debt-funding party that will have the
center of the stage in Washington
for the next fortnight. They are An
dre Geraud, the internationally cele
brated “Pertinax” of the Echo de
Parts, and Stephane Latizanne. edi
tor of Le Matin. An equally distin
guished French newspaper man. Sen
ator Dupuy, is an official member of
the French mission. He is the proprie
tor of Le Petit Parislen. which claims
to have the largest circulation of any
daily newspaper in the world—a baga
telle of a couple of million. "Pertinax”
and Lauzanne were here for the arma
ment conference four years ago. The
former nearly broke up the confer
nce on one occasion by a too faithful
account of what happened in the
French delegation when reduction of
land armaments was under discussion.
"Pertinax” is a real factor in French
politics. His specialty is calling
spades spades. He is likely to indulge
in his favorite journalistic pastime
before the Coolidge-Caillaux duel has
passed into history. A New York
Newspaper, defying the President’s de
sire to have only the American view
point reflected while negotiations are
on, has arranged to reproduce daily
the dispatches which Messrs. Geraud
and Lauzanne send to Paris.
** * *
John C. Kirkpatrick of the manu
script division of the Library of Con
gress has just edited a four-volume
edition of George Washington’s diary.
When published later on it will be the
final and authoritative work. Cotem
porary historians are looking forward
to Mr. Kirkpatrick's compilation with
keen interest. They expect it to throw
some new light on the life and charac
ter of him who was first in war. first
in peace and first in the hearts of his
countrymen.
** * *
Sometimes a faithful servant of an
ungrateful republic has to travel far
afield to gain public recognition. That
often happens in the cases of scientists
slaving away their busy lives in de
partments of the United States Gov
ernment at humble salaries. Recently
Dr. L. O. Howard, consulting entomol
ogist of the Public Health Service,
attended the International Congress of
Entomologists at Zurich. The maga
zine Nature of London has just paid
him this tribute:
Always in a position to help,
and using his position to help, Dr.
Howard has earned the gratitude
of entomologists everywhere. Ca
pable and kindly, always with the
right word, and with tact as his
middle name, Dr. Howard gives one
the feeling that were there a dozen
representative ambassadors like
him in the political world, we
would soon have what some of us
long for, the United States of Eu
rope. with eath nation no longer at
enmity with the other, but working
out its own salvation, following
the lines of lta own culture and
p»ycholo*r»
Politics at Large
By G. Gould Lincoln
The abandonment of his proposed
Western trip by Senator William M.
Butler of Massachusetts, chairman of
the Republican national committee, in
a measure is an acceptance of the rea
soning that Western Republicans
should have free rein In the handling
of their party’s affairs In the great
States west of the Mississippi. Demo
crats and other enemies of the present
administration have not been slow in
•suggesting to the West that New Kng
land proposes to dominate even in
tne more or less local campaign issues
of these States. New England domina
tion does not make an appeal to the
West. Naturally, with the control of
Congress at stake, the Republican na
tional committee, the Republican
senatorial committee and the Repub
lican congressional committee will do
their utmost next year to re-elect or
elect Republican Senators and Repre
sentatives in all parts of the country,
the policy now seems to be hands
off, at least until the primaries have
been held in the States of the West.
An Easterner, not altogther familiar
with tlie political feuds and factions
of the Western States, takes a long
chance when he enters that territory,
as evidenced by the fateful visit of
Charles Evans Hughes, Republican
candidate for the presidency In 1916,
to California In that year.
♦ * *
Senator Butler is to stand for re
election himself in Massachusetts next
year, with the probable Democratic
nominee against him former Senator
David I. Walsh. Not only does Sena
tor Butler have the advantage of
warm friendship of President Cool
idge. in Coolidge's home State, but he
has also the prestige of the chairman
ship of the national committee, and
he has the field to himself, so far as
the Republicans are concerned, lie
will be. It is confidently expected, the
only candidate for the Republican
nomination. Jle will have a united Re
publican party in the Bay State back
of him. When Senator Walsh was
elected to the Senate in 1918 he ran
against John W. Weeks, then Sena
tor and now Secretary of War. Mr.
W eeks was the victim to a very con
siderable extent of party factionalism,
with tho late Oov. Samuel McCall a
bitter foe. Senator Walsh lost last
year to Senator Gillett, although he
ran many thousands ahead of the
Democratic national ticket in the
State. Senator Butler firmly believes
that he can defeat Walsh, and many
reports now coming from the State
indicate that such is the case. Even
if lie does defeat the former Demo
cratic Senator there will lie a fly in
the ointment—for it may be- said that
tic- President’s popularity in Massa
chusetts pulled him through ”
** * *
In Indiana, so frequently a political
storm center, clouds are rising on the
horizon. Senator “Jim” Watson, as
sistant leader of the Republicans in
the senate, is confident that he will
be renominated and re-elected next
> ear. But some of the younger gen
eration in Hoosier politics are looking
aruund for a candidate who is some
what more progressive to run against
Senator Watson for the nomination.
One young man is being groomed in
particular, it is reported here. Fur
thermore, disquieting reports are ar
riving regarding the possibility of a
combination between Oov. Jackson
who was elected with the Klan sup
port last year, and former Senator
Beveridge, which would put Bev
eridge into the Senate in 1926 and
Jackson in 1928 to succeed Senator
Ralston. But whether a Republican
could be elected if Watson vyere de
feated for the nomination after a
hitter primary struggle is another
question.
The Democrats of Indiana are be
ginning to look about for a candi
date to seek the seat now held by
Senator Watson. Robert J. Aley,
president of Butler College, State su
perintendent of education during the
' administration of the late Vice Presi
| dent Thomas R. Marshall when the
latter was governor, is considered a
| likely candidate. President Alev left
j Indiana to become president of the
L nlversity of Maine a number of
years ago. and while there he was
urged to make the race for the Sen
ate on the Democratic ticket, but de
clined to do so. But back in In
diana he is more inclined to be a
candidate for the upper house. He
is very popular with the school people
throughout the State, it is said, and
at one time was president of the
national association.
Others who are mentioned as pos
sible candidates for the Democratic
nomination for Senator are Evans
Woollen. president of the Fletcher
Trust Co. of Indianapolis, a banker
who at one time was tentatively
offered the job of Secretary of the
Treasury by President Wilson, but
who declined for personal reasons,
and Dan W. Simms, a prominent
lawyer of Lafayette.
** * *
A tribute to the late William Jen
nings Bryan as the greatest moral
force of his time comes from an
old friend and admirer of the Com
moner, Judge W. H. Thompson, for
mer Democratic national committee
man for Nebraska. Judge Thompson
was in California at the time of the
death of Mr. Bryan. Speaking his
admiration for Mr. Bryan, Judge
Thompson said:
"His life work left so many bril
liant and worthy outstanding achieve
ments, appreciated by a multitude so
vast as to render eulogy fulsome and
comment futile. His Christian char
acter will inspire and point the way
for generations unborn. To each
potent problem he applied but one
searching question—is it right? If
determined in the affirmative, then
the one quick answer was, do it now'.
He strived to leave work better than
he found it —man's purpose In life.
He was the greatest individual moral
force of his time.”
** * *
The Republican national commit
tee has a number of vacancies that
must .be filled, if the committee Is to
be representative of all the States.
The State of Wisconsin, for example.
Is without membership In the com
mittee, for when Senator Butler,
chairman of the national committee,
last year Invited the national com
mitteeman and national committee
women from the Badger State to come
to Chicago to discuss plans for the
campaign, they both handed In their
resignations. They were both La Fol
lette people. Unnder the rules of the
national committee, vacancies so
created must be filled by recommen
dations from the State central com
mittee. That committee, it happens,
is now and has been in the hands of
the La Follette progressives. Selec
tion of Wisconsin national commit-,
tee members will wait, at lea9t until
after the sensational election next
week, when “Bob” La Follette, Jr.,
is slated to be chosen to fill the un
expired term of the late Senator La
Follette. The death of Lincoln John
son, national committeeman from
Georgia, has created a new vacancy
which must be filled also. Out In Il
linois the State central committee has
recommended Allen Moore for national
committeeman in place of the late
Fred W. Upham, and his selection
has been virtually recognized by the
national committee. Mr. Moore has
come forward now as sponsor for the
candidacy of Frank Smith, chairman
of the State central committee, for
the senatorial nomination next year
against Senator William B. McKinley.
This may prove a little embarrassing
to the committee.
Were It not for ‘the flat statement
Issued by Senator Butler a week ago
that the Republican national commit
tee would not recognize Robert M.
La Follette as a Republican even If
nominated In the Republican aena
| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKjy.
Q. How often does some one die ,n
this country?—S. I*.
A. Popular Science says that during
1924 2,654,000 babies were born and
1.333,000 persons died in the United
States, or one death was compensated
for by two births. If the number of
births and deaths retn.ains the sarne
in 1925. as this rate seems to indi
cate, ten babies will be born every
two minutes and live persons will die
in the same time.
Q. What material advance, if any.
has been made in the art of weaving
In recent years?—N. L.
A. Practically a complete revolution
in loom construction and in productive
ness has been brought about through
the introduction of the automatic
weft replenishing principle. Formerly
when the weft thread carried by the
shuttle of a loom broke or became ex
hausted the loom was stopped by the
action of its weft-fork devices and re
mained at rest until the weaver no
ticed the stoppage and refilled the
shuttle or remedied the failure due to
breakage. Various attempts were
made by yarly inventors to avoid such
stoppage through the employment of
devices which would automatically re
place the spent working shuttle by a
filled reserve shuttle. This finally was
accomplished by the so-called auto
matic bobbin-changing 100/n, which
was first placed on the market about
1896. Automatic looms operating to
effect replenishment of weft without
stoppage, either by quick insertion of
a fresh bobbin of weft into the working
shuttle or by quick change of shut
tles, have replaced at the present day
a very large portion of the looms op
erating according to the old principle.
The improvement enables one weaver
to run from C to 12 times as many
looms as formerly.
Q. Os what material were the sails
of earlv Kgyptian Vessels made? —
S. E. G.
A. From Herodotus we learn that
some were made of papyrus. Beauti
fully ornamented colored linen sails
were early in use.
Q. Explain the right of eminent do
main.—L. F. A.
A. It Is the inherent sovereign pow
er of the state of controlling private
property for public purposes by mak
ing compensation. The purposes for
which property may be taken are
usually limited by law or by the Con
stitution.
Q. Is there a plan to make use of
the great tides of the Bay of Fundv?— ;
M R.
A. A $100,000,000 project for har
nessing the great tides of the Bay of
Fundy«so as to generate from 500,000
to 700,000 horsepower and supply elec- j
tricity to the eastern section of this ,
country and Canada apparently has
been Indorsed by the voters of Maine.
The plan conceived would store up the j
waters in Passamaquoddy Bay, re
lease them through turbines in a 15 ;
to 20-foot drop into C'obscook Bay, and
supply. It estimated, 3,268.000.000 i
kilowatt hoi>rs a year, or four times j
the capacity of Muscle ißhoals.
Cf How many refrigerator cars are )
there In the United States and Can- i
ada?—K.. J.
A. According to figures compiled In '
1924 there were 149,755.
Q. How did the term "roof rabbits” 1
originate, and what does it mean?— !
G, M. M.
A. In some European countries cat !
meat is sometimes fradulently eubsti- 1
tuted for that of rabbits, and the ;
term "roof rabbits” is used sometimes !
In referring to cats.
Q. How many motion picture houses
are there in the United States? —A. H.
A. There are approximately 17,000
motion picture houses in the United
States, having yearly receipts of SBOO,-
000,000.
Q. “What sort of a machine is Ezra
Cornell Supposed to be leaning against
in his statue on the campus of Cor
nell University at Ithaca, X. Y.7 —
B. E.
A. The secretary of Cornell Uni- i
versity says: "In the statue of Ezra
Cornell at this university the sculptor
(Herman Atkins Mac Neil) copied in
bronze the original Morse telegraph !
instrument—the receiving instrument I
on which the message ‘What hath
God wrought’ was received by Alfred i
Vail at Baltimore on May 24. 1844. ■
The instrument itself is in Sibley Col- I
lege, Cornell University, having been j
presented to the college by the late 1
•
Power From Ocean Tides
Accepted as Possibility
Maine's proposal to harness the
tides for production of electricity
stirs the imagination of the country
and leads to serious discussion of
the wonderful possibilities, though
many observers are disposed to em
phasize the big "ifs” that lie ahead.
The experiment, already approved by
the voters of Maine, will be tried
in Passamaqnoddy Bay, at the north
eastern border of the United States.
Passamaquoddv is an arm of the
Bay of Fundv, remarkable for its
tides.
A description of the project, as con
ceived by Dexter P. £ooper, the en
gineer who built the Keokuk Dam
across the Mississippi River and who
has had a part in the harnessing of
Niagara, is given by the Newark
News. “He proposes.” the News
says "to build sea walls aggregating
more than a mile in length and as
much as TO feet high. These would
retain the waters of the sea as it
fills the 100-square-mile reservoir of
Passamaquoddy and keep the tides
out of Cobscook Bay. a connecting
body of 50 square miles area. The
water impounded in Passamaquoddy
would be permitted to flow over a
3,600-foot power dam into Cobscook.”
The News points out that “approval
of the United States and Canadian
governments and of the provincial
government of New Brunswick must
be obtained, but this is expected to
involve little difficulty.”
** * *
"Steady old Maine is excited over
a possibility,” says the Columbus
Ohio State Journal, with the com
ment that “there are so many ‘ifs'
in the situation that it appears well
nigh ludicrous for the voters to be
jostling one another at a referendum
over what they may do with the
power, if the plan is good, if funds
are secured, if the plant is built and
if all the estimates are found de
pendable.” The conclusion that "the
success of the plan is not assured”
is drawn by the Providence Bulletin,
with the remark that “sometimes 4 he
most pleasing of theories, when
tried, do not give the results desired.”
The Asbury Park Press says the plan
to “produce 700,000 horsepower by
utilizing the rise and fall of the tides
staggers the imagination” and “were
the idea to be put forward by any
other person than Mr. Cooper it
would be laughed to scorn as ail Im
practical dream.”
“It certainly is a man’s job," accord
ing to the New York Herald-Tribune,
torlal primaries there might he a sus
picion the regulars had in the back
of their heads some kind of compro
mise plan with La Follette later on.
The national organization has refused
absolutely to allow Itself to be mixed
up in the senatorial race in Wiscon
sin! as the backer of any of the stal
wart candidates. The prophet who is
to lead the stalwarts out of the wilder
ness has not yet been developed in
that State.
X
Hiram Sibley, the first president of
the Western Union Telegraph Co.
Ezra Cornell was associated with Prof.
Morse In the practical development
of the electric telegraph and was
one of those who formed the West
ern Union Telegraph Co., and it
was through the development of this
company that Mr. Cornell accumu
lated the fortune which he devoted to
the founding of Cornell University.”
Q. Are there any public playgrounds
throughout tho United States for
negro children?—C. N. L.
A. Two hundred and thirty play
grounds and recreation centers, about
one twenty-eighth of the total num
ber of 6,601 such centers throughout
tne entire country, are maintained for
the exclusive use of negroes, accord
ing to the Southern Workman.
Q. What are the dimensions of the
largest seine used for taking fish?—
K. E. M.
A. The Bureau of Fisheries ears
that the largest haul seine is found in
North Carolina, used in the shad and
herring fisheries. It is 1,800 yards
long and 20 feet wide.
Q. Were the Arabs the first to use
the numerals known as Arabic?—x. T.
A. While they are Inherited from
the Arabs, they coine from old Hindu
forms of uncertain origin.
Q. Is it possible to see the plane -
Uranus?—T. B.
A. Uranus Is on the limit of visi
bility and may be seen without the
telescope during Spring and Summer
if one has a keen eye and knows
where to look.
Q. What is the candlepower of tl >•
most j towerful searchlight?—J. H. li
A. Probably the most powerful is
I the one in Oakland. Calif., which ha>
j 50u.000.00u candlepower and projects
j beam 10 miles long.
I Q- Why don't Indians die from
snake bites received in a snake dance'
—R. C.
A. The Bureau of American Eth
nology says that the Hop! Indians of
Arffeona use In their dances snakes of
a large number of species, among
which are certain itolsonous rapCios,
such as rattlesnakes and blue racers
but these snakes are so treated and
handled by men in secret orders.
sembling our lodges, that no Hopl It
dian has ever been known to die from
| the effects of th° bite of these snake,
i It is along the line of the study of the
method of treating the snakes rather
I than that of the character of tic
herbs used hi their so-called medicine
] that we may arrive at an explanation
; the fearless manner in which the
i Indians handle venomous reptiles.
j Q- What is done with the mom
I taken but of the Bead Letter Office"
' H. .J. M.
A. The Post Office Department savs
j that no money is kept in the Division
: of Dead Letters indefinitely, but re
! mains there a reasonable length of
J time awaiting reclamation, if nor
claimed such moneys are turned ov<
| to the Treasury Department as mis
i cellaneous receipts.
Q. Are amplifiers such as we have
; in use in this country in use in Ger
. man Catholic Churches?—P. B.
j A. The first amplifier in a German
j Catholic Church was recently Install
j cd in St. Severein's, one of the ancient
j churches of Cologne, after great op
| position to the innovation.
Q. Whose idea was the Stone Mour
' tain Memorial’—L. P.
. A. The idea for the Stone Mour
I tain Memorial was suggested by Mrs.
Helen Plane.
Q. Was the daylight saving law
before or after the war? —S. F. C.
A. Daylight saving went Into es
feet as a congressional act, March 19.
1918. It was repealed in the Fall of
1919 over President Wilson's veto.
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| direct reply. Address The, Star Infor
mation Bureau. Frederic ■}. Hash-in,
i director. Twenty-first and C streets
' northwest.J
j "to harness the wildest tides in the
world. Although the enterprise is not
I visionary, it appeals to the most siug
! gish imagination.” The Flint Daily
f Journal believes that it "transcends
other schemes of similar nature as
far as the locomotive outclassed the
wheelbarrow," while the Roanoke
World-News thinks “it becomes more
and more apparent that we are en
tering a superpower age. even a
giant-power age.”
** * *
The enterprise, as viewed by the
Kalamazoo Gazette, “is man's first
serious effort on a large scale to re
duce to a dry-land beast of burden his
old implacable foe and mysterious
friend the ocean," and the Gazette
also draws a comparison: “Gold, the
dream of sixteenth and seventeenth
. century explorers, has been replaced
by power as the chief source of Inter
nationa 1 rivalry, hut the new com
position, unlike the old. will provide a
field for the engineering genius that
creates, rather than for the military
energy that destroys."
"Lake levels may recede," observes
the Columbus Dispatch, “rivers may
dwindle in volume with the passing
of the years, but the tides will con
tinue to rise and fall as long as the
ocean itself endures.” Nevertheless,
“tho scheme involves herculean La
bor,” according to the San Antonio
Express, “beside which the sea walls
already built shrink to small propor
tions, and it would cost many millions
—but once completed there will be no
further occasion to worry about coal
! strikes or a gasoline shortage.”
“The export of power has been sanc
tioned,” the Boston Transcript states,
with the explanation that “Maine has,
in this case, made exception to the
rule laid down in the statute of
that hydro-electric power generated in
the State shall not ho exported.”
.** * *
Maine has “done a real service to
America,” it appears to the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, for “this will be the first
serious, well financed attempt to make
the tide work for man on a large
scale.” It points the way, declares the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, “to simi
lar action elsewhere along our Atlan
tic coast and to the final realization
of the long-cherished dream of man
kind to utilize a mighty potency that
now goes chiefly to destroy ships and
to pound and mold the shore with
results that are scenic, but not Indus
trial.”
“There will be no feeling of jealousy
or chagrin over this project from
other sections of the United States
which can expect no benefit from it.”
! the Lincoln Star concludes. “On the
| contrary, the Middle West will extend
: r best wishes to New England for its
• success. While that section lias de
j rived its prosperity in the past, large
i ly from tariff protection and diserim
; inatory transportation rates, which
enabled it to live off the rest of the
country, the people of Alio Mississippi
i Valley do not want to see New Eng
land go backward, nor do they desire
prosperity for themselves through
the destruction of its industries.”