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t THE EVENING STAR
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WEDNESDAY Jun« 6, 1988
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Supreme Court s Clear Calendar.
When the Supreme Court of the
United States adjourned yesterday for
the Summer, closing its present term,
it had accomplished the self-imposed j
task of bringing its docket up to date,
removing all congestion of cases. For j
the first time in its history cases were j
reached in regulai order for oral argu
ment during the term in which they .
were filed and were not required to
trait a year or more, as formerly, for
fin?.’ disposition.
This remarkable achievement has
been effected in part by changes in the i
ten-s relating to the right of appeal. j
which have reduced the number of j
eases reaching the highest court, and
•t the same time the court itself by ,
the most diligent endeavor on the part ,
es all of its members has kept the
docket from being clogged. During the
term just closed the court had a docket j
of 1,043 case* as compared with 1.183 (
during the preceding term It disposed
of E? 3 cares, leaving 190 to be carried ;
tr.tr.
Th» example of diligence and prompt- ;
nes? should stimulate every appellate
and trial court in the United States to
atmilxr endeavors to clear their dockets, j
This is particularly true of the appel- .
late courts, delay's in which are so pro
tracted as to cause the greatest laps? :
of time between the initial breach of j
the law and punishment in case of con- ;
fiction. If the courts of appeals were
to speed up as has the Supreme Court
this gap would be materially lessened, ,
perhaps reduced by one-half.
Changes in the law relating to ap- i
peals, particularly in reduction of the
length of time allowed for filing, would ■
greatly aid in clearing the dockets of j
these intermediate courts. This reform
la practicable without diminishing the
chances of justice for all litigants and j
defendants.
In the lower court* in which trials j
atre held there should be reforms that j
will prevent the undue protraction of
hearings, the duplication of evidence )
and the extortionate demands upon
the tipy of the courts for arguments, j
Some improvement has been made in
the manner of the selection of juries. ,
Trials are not as a rule as greatly de- j
lsyrd at this initial stage as in the past,
teat there is still room for reform in j
this respect.
If more judges are needed to insure i
prompt trials they should be* provided 1
It is conceivable that by enlarging the
bench the calendars of the trial courts
can be cleared, and when once they are ■
cleared the work can be kept current ■
by a smaller number of justices, the !
personnel to be reduced by the non- |
ewng of vacancies as they occur, to a j
certain limit.
It is encouraging to find the highest
court thus giving a practical demon
rraticn of the possibility of administer- j
tng justice promptly. Chief Justice Taft ]
ha* devoted himself to this endeavor, i
and the achievement of his objective, j
a cleared calendar, is In occasion of j
congratulation to him and his asso- '
dates of the court and of the country *
gratitude for an achievement that
makes for one of the most urgently
needed reforms in the American system
of government.
The 'car of Juggernaut" crushed
through the East Indians who pros
trated themselves in its path. It was
moved, not by mechanical power, but
by the fearful force of superstition. The
flying man. object of present worshin
thinks twice before making a hazardous
tending in a crowd and transforming
bus plane to a modern Juggernaut car. j
The “Btteim Holler/’
Wher. is a ‘ steam roller’ ? In pol
ities the machine precision of a party
organisation is frequently referred to
as the operation of the steam roller
Whether this operation is dubbed a
“steam roller" depends upon whom it
te rolling Out in Kansas City the
Hoover-for-President members of the
Republican national committee, worf-
Jng n harmony, have flattened out the
opposition in considering and acting
l.)pon the contested delegate rases aris
ing in -several of the Southern States
The Hoover opposition in the commit
tee te already talking about being
“steam-rollered" and some of the
members have sought to liken the op
eration of the majority of the com*
gate *m to the seating of Tift delegate*
in the Republican national committee
cf 1912
There p a vast, difference between
the two operations however The
Hoover -for - President member# of tne
rational commute* have it is true,
eea’ed Hoover d*l*ga*/t from Florida
Kentucky, Georgia and Louisiana in
preference to anti-Hoover delegates
5f the Hoover opposition had been in
Ih- majority In the national committee,
I rloe* any one believe it would have
■ failed to seat the anti-Hoover dele.
,{f gates? As a ms’.»r of fact, the hear*
H f ig# before tire committee in these
If rooter»*d cases have shown the Hoover*
*1 Instructed daiegates to be in a position
II gnore worthy of being seated in the
I rational convention The opposition
I tier failed to make otit as good rases
H Charles D H’iiet of New York, vice
| fheumtn ft 'ne Republican national
committee, and even William M. Butler
of Massachusetts, the chairman, not to
mention J. Henry Roraback of Connect
icut, are reported to be disgruntled
over the manner In which tl e Hoover
group in the national committee have
flattened out the opposition. Yet it
appears that it is merely a ease of
being in the minority. No minority
relishes the idea of being overridden by
the majority.
Most of these gentlemen who are
now inclined to protest the action of
the national committee have been
rather adept in the past at steam roller
tactics. Take Mr. Roraback of Con
* nectieut, for example. Probably no
I political machine In any State has
j been more efficiently managed than the
j Republican machine has been man
aged by the Republican national com- j
mttteeman in Connecticut. Mr Hllles.
as leader of the Republican ©rganlsa
j tion in the Empire State, has recently
given a pretty good demonstration of j
! steam roller tncties himself. Although j
many of the delegates to the Repub- j
lican national eonvention and their 1
barkers have desired tha the delega
tion go instructed for Hoover for Pres- i
•.dent. Mr. Hilies has successfully seated j
himself on the lid. demanding that the ;
delegation be uninstructed. And un- j
i instructed the New York delegation is j
today. Not unnaturally Mr. Hilies may j
' believe that hp can run the steam '•
roller over the members of the delega- i
tion favorable to Hoover when the j
: convention meets.
Mr. Hoover has a majority of the J
member? of the Republican national
I committee with him because he is fa
vored for President bv a majority of the
Republicans in most of the Stages of
. the Union. It is a fact that has been ;
] sinking into the pub’ic for some time.!
The demonstration by the Republican
national committee in Kansas City is
merely giving emphasis to the fact.
Evidence by Wire Tapping.
‘The right of the people to b* se
cure in their persons, homes, houses, j
papers and effects, against unreasonable j
searches and seizures, shall not be vio- j
i lated. and no warrants shall issue, but j
I upon probable cause, supported by oath
jor affirmation, and particularly de
i scribing the place to be searched, and
the persons or things to be seized."
! Thus runs the fourth amendment to
the Constitution, one of that group of
ten called the Bill of Rights, adopted
shortly after the Constitution itself had
been ratified. Yesterday the Supreme :
Court of the United States, by a vote j
| ol five to four, decided that this amend- J
! ment does not prohibit the use in erlm
j inal prosecutions of evidence obtained
j by tapping telephone wires and listening
to conversations.
When the Constitution was adopted
and the Bill of Rights was added there
was, of course, no such thing as wire
communication. The writers of the
j Constitution had no concept of the pos
sibility of "wire tapping" as a means
jof obtaining evidence against those
suspected of crime. It is a question
beside the point of the legality of this
procedure whether had they so con
: reived such a situation they would have
i specifically prohibited it. as they pro
; hibited illegal entry without warrant,
j The courts of today must take condi
tions as they are and the majority of
i the Supreme Court, in deciding upon
this case, has in the language of the
j Chief Justice, who delivered the de
■ elision, considered a telephone con versa -
, tion as a projection of the voice. If
j holds that a liberal construction of the j
1 Constitution "cannot justify enlarge- J
ment of the language employed beyond j
| the possible practical meaning of
j houses, persons, papers and effects, or 1
tso to apply the words ’search and
seizure' as to forbid hearing or sight.”
It further hold* that "the reasonable
; view is that one who installs in his
house a telephone instrument with eon-
I necting wires intends to project his
| voice to those outside and that the
' wires beyond his house and the mes
| sages while passing over them are not
within the protection of the fourth
j amendment.”
In this case there is no question of
I the illegality of the practice, to check
which the telephone.wires were tapped.
By means of tapping the wires positive
; proof was obtained of a criminal enter-
I prise. The only defense possible was
that this convicting proof was obtained
in an unlawful manner. It was as
though the agent* of the Government
seeking this proof had listened at key
holes or peered through windows, with
out violating the premise* in a technical
sense.
Prosecuting officers may commandeer
the records of telegraph message* for
evidential purposes. It is difficult to
conceive the difference between that
process and the tapping of a wire to
obtain the evidence directly and im
mediately.
The Bill of Right* was adopted for
the protection of the liberties of the
)8v -abiding citizen, not for the protec
tion of the lawbreaker. It. U upon that
principle that the Supreme, Court bases
I it* decision, which, though given by a
I divided vote, stand* now a* the law
of the land, to the effect that those
* who violate the statutes cannot be pro
j tected by the technical construction of
a telephone wire a# part of the sacred
premises of domicile.
A goodly peach crop l# assured. The
farmer will continue to regret the de
| crease In demand when the supply 1*
abundant.
J/>ng-Di«tanc« Fuel Hmrdi.
Dispatches from Buva, w'here the
brave flyer# of the Southern Cross are
resting from their unprecedented hop
from Hawaii disclose the startling fact
that when they arrived at their laiand
haven In th* Booth B*a# only thirty
gallon# of gasoline were left in the
j tank# This amount would have been
sufficient to keep the big plane in the
air for less than an hour, a# the three
motors, to satisfy their thirst, require
nearly thirty-alx gallon# every sixty
minute*. When the Southern Cross
i took off from Barking Band* at Hawaii
, the carried thirteen hundred gallon*
! This was deemed sufficient for the
■ thirty*on*-hundred-mlla flight, but
head wind* and tropical storm# retard
• ed the plane # progress to *uch an ex
■ tent that in th* last few radio m«*
i sage# before Suva wa# reached the
aviator# expressed grave doubt whether
i they would be able to make it.
Despit* the fact that the four bird
• men performed a magnificent feat In
1 negotiating tha kmg*#t aU-watar flight
TTTE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. Tl. C l .. VM-.l ,X K*HAY. .TUNE 6. 1928.
in the history of aviation, the nar
rowneea of their escape from disaster
should serve as a lesson to future as
pirants for overseas honors. If they had
encountered one more tropical storm,
or if the wind instead of favoring them,
as it did most of the time, had per
sistently turned against them, the fly
ers might not today be receiving the
congratulations of the world, but would
have met the fate that has befallen so ,
many other brave souls In their quest
for fame.
A fifty-minute surplus of gasoline on j
n thirty-four-hour flight in which a j
landing means disaster is certainly too i
little. No pilot on a trip of this dura- ,
tion can foresee Inclement weather or
estimate with exactness the amount of
gasoline necessary to reach his destina- :
.tion. While his ship under normal con
ditions may be able to cover ninety
miles every hour, a strong head wind or
other abnormal conditions may cut its
i speed to sixty miles an hour or less. It
| was my probably this fact that pre
j vented the late Comdr. Rodgers from
i reaching Honolulu on his flight in a i
Navy seaplane. H* was forced down, j
due to lack of gasolinr. and drifted for j
1 more than a week before he and his j
1 crew were found by searching parties.
It would seem to be the part of wls
! dom. therefore, for all long-distance
! ffvers to allow an ample margin for :
! safety in the gasoline carried Os
| course, in most eases the plane is ;
I loaded to the gunwales" with fuel, but
! :t would seem that if this margin could j
| not be assured the length of the trip
I should be reduced to a point consistent j
with a generous surplus when the ,
destination is reached Aviators Rnd
planes are too valuable to lose when it !
j ,s simply a question of removing the ;
| danger of a fuel shortag*' while in
| flight over the water.
Th"re are apprehensions that in con
: sidering car fare demands the street
1 railway authorities will borrow the side
; showman’s ballyhoo—"A silver
: Ten cents! It. will neither break vou
j nor make you rich!”
His observations during hours of duty
| have shown the Government worker
| that it may take a large quantity of ;
‘ red tape" to release a smal\ amount of ,
"long green."
Whatever may be the eonvention re
sults. Mr. Dawes will hold the distinc
i tion In politics of having been th"
busiest Vice President in many a quad
i rennial.
New York press agents are justified
• in assuming that neither of this Sum
mer's conventions will remotely rival
i the big show at Madison Square Gar
den.
The public has grown sufficiently wise
in aviation to reserve its cheers for a j
safe landing instead of lavishing them
on a precarious hop-off.
It is not easy to understvnd how !
China, with no bootleg warfare, ran I
have so many violent gang demonstra- !
tions.
Congress has departed with more than ,
the usual assurances of esteem. It may ;
even hope to find a doormat bearing
j the word “Welcome” when it returns.
Any SOS call believed to be from
| the Italia now becomes a message of
j hope rath n r than of foreboding.
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
■ ■ ■
The Audienee.
Frog? are hollerin’ by the stream
Where the stars so brightly gleam,
Showin' off thetr vocal tricks—
Guess they're talkin' politics.
Old Owl. listening from a limb.
Says this means a lot to him.
He's the Public; and anew
Gravely he inquires. "Who's who?”
Vigilance.
"Are you going to both conventions?"
"I am,” answered Senator Sorghum.
“I want to see for myself what's going
on. I find that, I have enemies in both
parties."
June Perfume.
The honeysuckle wafts its perfume soft,
Unto the moon, in her resplendent
flight,
And humbly in its reverence breathes
aloft
A gentle benediction on the night.
Jud Tunkins says many a family j
would be happier if they appreciated
their home as much a# the dog does,
Advancing Refinement.
"Guess we‘ll have to change the
of Crimson Gulch,” remarked Cactus
Joe, as he pinned ft rftrnntinn on the
lapel of his dinner roat.
"What'll we call it?"
"We ought to sacrifice the old name
entirely. We might rename it 'Pink
Rivulet.'"
It is easier to remember an enemy
than a friend,” #ald HI Ho, the sage of
Chinatown. "The friend is not so ready
with reminders."
At the Conventions.
J,et Literary Pride’insist.
On honor all complete.
Now every able Journalist
May claim a ringside seat.
‘ Don't git. yohself so egotistleall/ed,"
said Uncle Elxn, "as to imagine del
most of de trouble In dl# world was
invented specially fob you,"
I.ong-Kititge (iontempl.
grow Die New Vorfe Herald-Tribune
Mr Conlidge ran show just as much
contempt for Congress from the other
end of Pennsylvania avenue as Mr,
Wilson did to their face*
* -<•••► *
One Howl I ntln t’keH.
Em,in ills Atlanta • un*iiiiiijon
After five months of debate the flood
control bill ha# become a law It says
nothing about controlling the flood of
oratory.
*“• • —•
Always hi Demand.
Em,in ii>, Atlanta CtmsOtiuinn
The Democrats have a pacemaker
now it needs a peacemaker,
• «
His lest Siircrasfft),
grow th# l |#v«i#nd N#w»
Youth who climbed a porch at mid*
night to call on hi# gill friend and was
shot by her lather can now Jwl #ur«
she la well protected.
I THIS AND THAT ~|
f!Y CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
Necessary things often are only nui
sances. , . ,
When some bold person arises at
last to discard them, every one sees
I that their essence was essentially bunk.
Take that great institution the tel
ephone, for instance. For years sub
j srribers were forced to listen to the
i girls pronounce nine as “ntun and
five ns "fife."
This was necessary, it was said, to |
prevent confusing the number "5” with
if he number "ft.” Yet every one knew
that the thing was a source of irrita
! tion to mere male members of society.
I One could not help resenting the
j idea of an unseen but very much heard
girl deliberately correcting ontY* very
good pronunciation of perfectly simple
numbers.
Today all that is changed.
The girl merely says "Thank you
and lets it go at, that, and no more
mistakes are made What has become
of that horrible necessity which de
manded that she blurt out, such terrible
' sounds at “nlun" and "flfe"?
I Every one now knows —even the tei
i eplione company—’that what was ic
garded. in this ease, as a necessity was
! onlv a blamed nuisance, not only to
the subscriber, but also to the r.'tl who
| was forced to so butcher the . .iglish
language by official command.
** + *
Perhaps if firm? and individuals got
i to looking into things they would dis
| cover that many firmly seated customs
are equally unnecessary,
i Most travelers, for instance, have a
' deep suspicion that the porter's brush
! j., not only totally uncalled for. but also
i highly bothersome.
| He whisks off the collar of your coat
and the sides of one's trousers, w-hen
' both coat and trousers are immaculate.
| having just been brushed with mie s
I personal broom
Yet custom has made it necessary
i for one to tip the fellow with a shining
I quarter, at the least. The same custom
I holds with the boy in the barber shop.
There are very few men who would not
prefer to put their overcoats on un
assisted. but barber shop manners has
■ made it necessary for them to stand
! patiently while the boy yanks down
one's roat wUh the left hand at, the
sant" time he pulls the outer garment
up over one’s ears.
Come to think of it, tipping strikes
many of us as vilely unnecessary. Not
only'is there something in the custom
un-American, it hits at the very seat of
j pride in every individual. At best It. is
! onlv a nuisance. Yet, because it co
j ineides with human nature, perhaps it
i will never come to an end. It hits a
! men both coming and going. In a
! literal as well as a figurative sense: he
I ! - ashamed of It while he indulges in
! it.
** * *
Every change that is made in affairs
j either public or private runs the risk of
j showing the futility of some prior
action.
How important the action once
seemed, and how ridieuious now! It is
in this matter a.? it is in women's
i fashions—what once seemed the very
height of style, today strikes every one
i a* absurd.
Habits grow on human beings, and
! then sometime* wane, so that the
I necessary habit of yesteryear appeals
I to the emancipated one as something
! which some one eLse has done, not he
himself.
These changes are partly responsible
for progress. The modern automobile
offers an astonishing array of changes
from engine to bodies, to motor fuels
! and oils.
; Step by step improvements have been
,made. here a little, there a little, the
(design of each year bettering that of
[the last. Looking at the latest model,
side by side with the first, one won
! ders whv the makers i~ou!d not have
i jumped to this last at first.
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
i
BY FREDERIC WILL!AM I TILE.
I II ■ 111- HI ■■■'
"Hoover and Dawes" Is the brand- '
newest, strictly up-to-the-minute Kan- j
sas City tip. It emanates from the i
camp of the Vice President’s friends
Th" patentee of the idea is a Western
Republican, who probably had more to
do with making Dawes Coolidge’s run
ning mate four years ago titan any other
S man at Cleveland. It. goes without say
ing that the generals name at the
tail-end of a Hoover-headed ticket {
would give it strength In the exact, re- |
gion where reinforcement will b<s most j
needed—in the corn belt. Th** Vice
President could accept renominatlor
without the slightest damage to his po
litical dignity. Though his name has
been mentioned incessantly and con
spicuously in connection with first
place, Dawes himself has never lifted a
finger or an eyebrow' to advance his
presidential ambitions —If any. He has
made an effective presiding officer of the
Senate. He came to scold and remained
to become beloved. If he consented to
make the 1928 race alongside Hoover,
the farming West would be strongly
Inclined to forget Its grouch against the
Commerce Secretary. Wall Street,
which doesn't like the California en
gineer. might be better disposed to-1
ward him, too. If hfs fellow standrrd
bearer were ihe Illinois banker,
** * *
Watch out for n McNary-Hoover farm
program. Far less importance than it i
deserves-1* bestowed upon current com
' munings in Washington between Her
bert Hoover and Charles L. MeNary,
The Secretary of Commerce and the
Oregon Senator, co-author of the late j
lamented farm relief bill, have a com- ]
mon tie of which little is heard. It is j
woven of the fabric that fills about ns j
big a part in Hoover s life as any other
one thing his devotion to Stanford
MeNary and Hoover are both Stanford
men Though they are almost exactly ;
of the same nge the Oregonian will be
54 on June 12 and the Californian
reaches the same age on August. 10
they were not. at university together
But their loyalty to the Red and White
is a trait, that distinguishes them both, j
Oregon will be solid for Hoover at Kan- ]
sas City. Its national committeeman,!
Ralph E Williams, who is also one of j
the national committee’# three vice
chairmen, is leading the Hoover con- j
volition battles in that body.
** * *
It’s a long, long way to war-racked j
China, but in far-ofT Washington a j
dramatic, scene is being enacted that Is '
reflective, in its way. of exactly what's j
awning on the other side of the
d Nationalist China, about to In
herit the earth a! Peking, Is also "all
set" to "take over” here at the capital
of the country which bulks biggest in
her foreign vision For that purpose j
she sent Here a week or two ago Dr.
O. C Wu, brilliant young exponent of j
the iipw order, When the signal comes \
from Peking for recognition of Nation- i
alist China, and when Uncle Sam re
sponds to it a* eventually he must and '
will Dr. Wu will automatically stipei
sede Dr B*c, for seven years the repre
sentative in Ibe United Rtales of the
China that, was There seems to be an
entente cordial* between the two en
voys They are old friends, both are
American educated: each was brought
up in Washington Dr, Wu was cradled
in a prophetic atmosphere, for lie is
the son of Wu Ting-fang, the well re
membered hatter v of Interrogation
points, who was here at two different
timer, for a total period of seven years
Mine Wu, who is with her distinguish
ed husband, typifies the new Chinese
era whleh he personifies she wears her
imir In an ultra-modern straight bob,
♦** ♦ ,
President Oonlldge and Den lord
ate out of lurk for the second
year in succession s# ftr as public In
lerest, in the Mint-annual budget meet
ing Is concerned Last June their sd
dresses to the business organisation of
th« Government wera completely lost
Neither men nor automobiles, how
eve are made by any such short-ruts.
It would be positively Inhuman. Life
is n progression along the invisible road
of the years, leading from a place un
known to one even more hidden, with
stopping points chartered on the map,
but new to every generation.
Just as the "latest" in automobile de
sign cannot be evolved at the begin
j ning, so (he best in life scarcely can be
realized in youth. This is the happi
ness of growing older which Brown
ing tried to tail the world of in his
poem containing the Immortal lines,
"Grow old along with me. the b'st, is
yet to be. the last of life for which the
first, was made.’’
Character, the most, precious posses
sion of humanity, does not come ready
made from the factory of life, but must
be worked out by the human being
upon his own chassis, using the Im
mortal ‘‘gas" of the centuries and the
well known oil of healthy endeavor.
This is why it is so Important to rec
ognize the unnecessary a? soon as pos
sible. so that the builder may go on
to better things, each In its season.
The great brake on human progress is
often little suspected. Perhaps it would
be better to sav that there are two
! brakes, the one the check that, is likely
! to come in mental acquisition after a
; certain age. and the other the ordinary
| desire to b? satisfied with the old and
j the familiar.
These mental inhibitions, if they may
be called that. lead men and women to
! refuse to question what is Just because
I it, is. Like animals In thp Zoo. which
| are said to be content with their food
land shelter (although personally we
j have never believed this), men and
(women are lured into becoming sta
tionary simply because they resent
learning anything new, and refuse
to consider the likelihood of certain ac
tion? being nuisances, not necessary.
if * * *
Hence one may come to see the need
for the progressive spirit, in everyday
life. To be at, its best, however, it. must
be finely balanced by the appreciation
for the best of the old To be merely
progressive is nothing if it is not com
bined with common sense.
The French, as a result of their suc
cessful revolution of 1789, went into a
veritable orgy of change. They changed
everything, not because many existing
customs were bad. but simply because
they were customs. They wrecked the
habitual calendar, changing the names
of the months to others supposed to be
more in keeping with actuality and the
appearances of the world at the seasons
named.
The merry mon’h of May became the
Floreal. and all the new republicans
congratulated themselves on having ef
fected a wonderful change. Time, how
ever, showed that the progress in this
case was more imaginative than real.
A thousand like instances might be
j brought up from this same strange, aw
ful. glorious spasm of outraged human
ity foaming at. the mouth against abuses
and their outward signs, the attack
often being more against the signs than
the abuses.
Now this is the danger the Individual
still runs, of mistaking the appearances
of things for their essences, and work
ing himself into a stew over reform,
when all along the thing was perfectly
good as it was. This is the danger, but
the counter danger of being too smug
and satisfied is even worse, because it
makes the spirit of man fat. even as it
; does his body.
And a fat spirit, which is puffed up
with itself, is the most absurb and
ugly thing in the world, not only un*
j necessary but a terrible nuisance to
every one. It was to avoid this that
the ancient.? indulged in fasting and
prayer. Perhaps they were right, after
all. Those old fellows came to every
thing with fresh minds; you would
never have caught a Greek instructing
i his servants to say "fife" for five.
■" - ■
in the news shuffle, ewing to the simul
taneous arrival of Col. Lindbergh. This
year the budget feast Is scheduled for
the night before the Battle of Kansas
City. Unless the President, and the
grand kleag'.e of the "Woodpecker Club"
have some hot stuff up their
sleeves, they’re going to have a mighty
hard time making the front page th»
same morning hostilities open, out
where the Southwest begins.
** * *
William Howard Taft vs the National
Woman’s Party is the title of a rase
likely to become celebrated before Con
gress finally decides it next Winter. The
cause at issue is the site for the new
Supreme Court Building. Present plans
call for erecting it on ground opposite
the Capitol and on what is now' the
premises ot the National Woman’s Party.
The building is known as the "Old
Capitol," since James Monroe was inau
gurated President in front of it bv
Chief Justice Marshall. The militant
woman politicians arc grimly resolved
that their historic home shall not be
razed. They seem to regard the Chief
Justice as their principal foetnan. for
they credit Mr. Taft with an ambition
to preside in a new palace of justice
on the proposed site while he is still en
throned. Even the prospect that the
property, which was the gift of Mrs.
O H P. Belmont, would probably en
rich the Womans’ Party exchequer by
a round $650,000 in condemnation com
pensation doesn’t assuage Us grief
i Skilled and persistent in the ways of
I the lobby, it remains to be seen whether
the building project ran win over the
party’s protest
** * *
A Washington visitor is Mrs. Ray
mond G Bwlpg, wife of a brilliant
American newspaper correspondent sta
tioned In London. As Betty Oram she
achieved fame in the District of Co
lumbia during the Wilson administra
tion by picketing the White House with
sister suffragettes and going to jail for
! thus doing and daring on behalf of
! "Voles for Women,” A sister, Alice
i Oram, now Mrs. Norborne Robinson of
j Washington, was also thrown into
durance vile along with the beauteous
Betty, the twain did eight days' time
before release at the end of a hunger
strike, During her six years' residence
in London Mrs. Swing says she's come
to realise that the slings and arrows
American suffragettes endured were
trifling compared to the martyrdom of
their British sisters. One of her bosom
friends in England is Dorothy Evans,
who has to her credit 24 jail sentences
acquired In the crusade for woman ,
suffrage.
** * *
Senator Morris Sheppard, Democrat,
of Texas has a ready wit as dry as be
fit.'. the author of the eighteenth amend
ment A fellow convent ionite, who will
shortly descend upon Houston, said to
Sheppard: "I've been assigned a lucky
hotel room, No 55ft ” Quoth the Sen
ator "Watch your step. That's three
of a kind See that you don't pick up
two queens and make it a full Houser’
H otVVllxlll |!»"K i
Still Sounding.
Emm llif tin* Miiinf a Trilitiiii t'aiuisl.
We haven’t noticed a failing off In
the number of saxophones as a result
of the mean things said about them,
► *
\ Salt* I'lmn.
From tli- Term Haute Sia>
No one need worry lest sneak thieves
purloin those relic* dropped at Ihe
North Pole
Hmiglinle Saving.
Pram Ih- Biolnu
Raving is a good hahtt only ts prac
ticed at bung «• well a# spigot.
Politics at Large
By G. Gould Lincoln.
I
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. June fi.—lt has
been a question whether the Republican
and Democratic leader# were wise from
the point, of view of party harmony in
the selection of the national convention
cities this year. Kansas City. Mo, where
the Republicans are to open shop next,
Tuesday, is in the heart of the corn and
wheat belts, where the so-called rebel
lion of the farmers against t.h»* Coolidge
administration and the candidacy of
Secretary Herbert Hoover is said to be
at fever heat. The fever may not
be fatal, however, judging from the
number of Midwestern leaders, who are
not at all excited over the prospect, of
A1 Smith's carrying these farm States
against Mr. Hoover If they both be nom
inated.
The Democrats s n lected Houston.
Tex., for their quadrennial fracas, in
the South which has been particularly
hostile to the nomination of Gov. Smith
of New York for several reasons. Can
Hoover be nominated, or President
Coolidge if he will have the nomination,
in the heart of the corn belt? Can
A1 Smith be nominated in the sunny
South? A few weeks will answer both
these questions and deformin'' to some
extent, the psychology of staging such
fights in the enemy’s country. William
1 Gibbs Mr.Adoo of Georgia, California
| and other States, sought in vain to win |
the Democratic nomination in New
York Citv four years ago. He went to
New York with hundreds of delegates
instructed for him and approached a
majority of the convention vote, but he
1 was turned back. The East was strongly
hostile to McAdoo.
** * *
Three subjects, at least, are bobbing
up which may give the Republicans
some real knockdown fights in their
consideration of the party's national
platform next week. They are the farm
| plank, the wet and dry plank, and the
I oossib’e plank denouncing corruotlon
lin elections. Senator William E. Borah
! of Idaho, with the indorsement of his
own State for the presidential nominn
-1 tion. Is to be a delegate in the convcn
i tion. end he plans to raise his voice in
; regard to both the wet ?nd dry tilank
'•an'* the matter of political corruption,
| The platform, according to present
j plans, will be friyned and adonted be
j fore the Republican convention gets
I down to the business of nominating
! candidates for President and Vice Presi
dent. The adoption of the platform is
likely to give a real indication how the
contests for the nomination are going
The Lowden-Dawes-Curtis-Watson-Nor
ris-for-President boosters are demand
ing that the farm plank in the platform
shall give the Western farmers prom
ise of ihe passage of a bill similar to
the McNnry-Haugen bill, which was
vetoed bv President Coolidge twice.
They insist that the equalization fee
principle must be included in the plank.
’ If they lose the fight for such a plank—
and it seems more than probable they
will—and the platform is adopted with
a farm plank more satisfactory to the
Coolidge administration, how in bally
' hack can they expect to nominate one
of the candidates who has made the
McNarv-Haugen farm bill an issue in
his campaign for the presidential nom
ination? That is giving sorrr of the
' managers of thc.se candidates no little
cause for concern.
** * *
In fact, the Hoover campaign has
: been aided to no little extent bv the
fact that the opposition has been forced
to line up solidly against President
Coolidge bv the vigorous veto of th»
farm bill, which Mr. Coolidge sent to
| the Senate a week or two ago In this
matter President Coolidge and his Sec
retary of Commerce seem to be tied
together The blasts which some of
the farm leaders in the Midwest have is
sued since the veto message was read
in th' Senate have been aimed as
strongly against the President as against
Mr. Hoover.
** * *
Ate the Republicans going to ignore
in their platform the charges of cor
ruption in elections and in the payment
of campaign deficits which have been
lodged against th-'m in the senatorial
’ investigation of the naval oil reserve
i leases and the investigations conducted
!bv the Reed slush fund committee?
They are not, if Senator Borah has
i anything to do with the matter The
i Democrats are much interested in the
manner in w hlch th* Republican na
! tional convention will deal with the
| corruption Issue. They are planning
to bring the issue into the national
campaign as vigorously as they can ;
The Republicans say, however, that if
the Democrats nominate a Tammany I
sachem, in the person of A1 Smith, they,
the Republicans, should worry about a
corruption issue. They will dig up
enough material against Tammany to
mnke th? Republican organisation look
like a pure white lily. Will th? Re- j
publicans repudiate in their platform
the us? of Sinclair bonds by former
National Chairman Will H Hays to *
pav off the campaign deficit of 1920 j
in the year 1923? So far there has
been no indication just what will go
into the platform Senator Reed j
Smoot of Utah is the choice for the'
i resolutions committee chairmanship and j
jhe is sitting on the lid He says iha? ’
I he hopes the platform will be drafted I
| and adopted without any s»rious rows.
I But he is optimistic, to say the least. j
** * *
j
The Hoover headquarters tn Kansas 1
i City are In the Baltimore Hotel, and !
| the Bowden headquarters are in the j
1 same hostelry. On the second floor
l Clarence F Buck, the Lowden manager, i
|is directing the early skirmishing. He
declares that the Lowden people arc
not particularly concerned with the re-i
suits of the contests for delegates from :
the Southern States. Nevertheless, the j
Hoover leaders are delighted with the
seating of Hoover-lnstrueted delegations '
S from the Southern States, .lames W
j Good of lowa, former member of the
j House and manager of the Hoover
| campaign, holds forth in an upper
1 story of the Baltimore Hotel In both
headquarters ere hung pie tares of
I President Coolidge
Mr, Lowden is due to arrive in Kansas :
I City on Saturday. He is a genial grntle
! man with an attractive personality. As
many delegates to the national conven
tion as possible will be made to feel t
the effect of this pleasing personality
Mr Hoover, on the other hand, is plan
ning to stick to his post in Washington
! during the convention, leaving the!
j handshaking to his principal Opponent
a* * *
C, nascorn Qlftnp, a power tn Re
publican politics of the south and na
tional committeeman for Virginia, is in
Kansas City working hard for the,
nomination of Mr. Hoover. Mr, Slemp |
does not take any stock In the "draft
Coolidge” movement, declaring that
the President has eliminated himself,
j He insists that the movement will "col
i lapse of Its own weight, Personally l
! do not believe it will be necessary for
the President to reaffirm his position, j
though he may do it With the Penn
sylvania delegation, Mr Hoover will j
have about votes on the first ballot ” j
It, takes only Mb to nominate in the :
Republican convention.
Notwithstanding the optimism of Mr
Slemp the unmet rue ted delegations
from the two largest States in the j
Union in matter of imputation, New i
York and Pennsylvania, are giving the
politicians something to think about
Charles D Mllles, tire Republican
leader from New York, Is sticking out
against Hoover, and demanding the
refiondnatlon of President Coolidge Mr
miles is fighting also to retain control
of the New York ovganlaation If things
go against him, lie may find himself m
an embarrassing position at home Mr
Htlles It la urged in ids behalf is
anxious above all things to bring about
the nomination of a Republican who
can farrv New York against Al Smith
next November He believes that either
President Coolidge or Charles Evans
Hughes ran turn the trick ts Mr
Hoover is nominated, however. Mr
miles will undoubtedly do his best to
hold New York in line for the Re
publican party in November.
| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
There 1* no other agency in the i
world that can answer as many legitt
mate questions as our free Informa- j
tion Bureau in Washington, D. C. This
highly organised institution has been
built up and is under the personal dl- i
rectlon of Frederic J. Haskin. By 1
keeping in constant touch with Fed
eral bureaus and other educational en
terprises it is in a position to pass on
to you authoritative information of the
highest order. Submit your queries to
the staff of experts, whose services are
put at your free disposal. There is no
charge except 2 cents in stamps for
return postage. Address The Evening
Star Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Haskin, director. Washington, D. C.
Q. What size must, a base ball be?—
A. L.
A. According to Spalding's Rules a
major league base ball may not weigh
less than 5 nor more than 51? ounces
and must measure not less than 9 or
more than 9'/2 inches in circumference.
Q. How many patent, medicines are
there on the market? —L. M. P.
A The number of proprietary pat
ent medicines on the market is more
than 50.000,
Q How long has the Women’s Bu
reau of the Department of Labor been
in existence?—A. N. L.
A It was organized by act. of Con
gress in 1920, following Nation-wide ap
peals from women's organizations.
Q Is the death rate from tuberculo
sis increasing?—M. C.
A In 1900 the death rate was over
200 per 100,000 of the population in the
j United States registration area. In
1925 the Census Bureau reported for
the same area 86.6 deaths per 100,000
population, while for 1926 and 1927 the
indications are that the rate may be
well down in the 70s per 100.000.
O Give me a good definition of
| “clean milk.” —J. J.
I A. While a rigid application of the
I definition of th r word “clean” would
' exclude milk which contains foreign
i matter or any bacteria whatever, for
ordinary purposes we may understand
i that, clean milk is milk of good flavor
from healthy cows, that is free from
j dirt, and contains only a small num
ber of bacteria, none of which is
harmful.
Q How many horses are there on
farms now? In 1926?—8. M, O.
A. On January 1. 1928, there were
14,541.000 horses on farms, as com
j pared to 15,830.000 on the same date
I in 1926
Q What are the uses of the Ameri
can blue rabbit?—F. T.
A. Its meat is excellent and its fur
is very good.
Q Where are Waring’? Pennsyl
vanians?—B. S.
A. Thev sailed for France on April
29. The band will appear at Case
Ambassador for two months and then
will make a tour of European cities.
Q.. Is mine gas. known as black
damp, heavier than air?—R. H. G.
A. Mine gas. or black damp, has a
| specific gravity of from 1 to 1.05. It
Popularity of Anti-War Pact
Attested as Japan Approves
With Japan's formal approval of the
proposed multilateral treaty to outlaw
war. the American people have found
reason to express their gratification that
the nations' to which the treaty was
submitted have indorsed its principles.
There are some warnings against ac
: ceptance of any undesirable conditions,
but the general attitude is laudatory of
the efforts of the American Govern
ment.
•Japans ren’.v to Secretary Kellogg’s
j proposal fot/the renunciation of war as
jan instrument of national policy’ fol-
I lows much the same line as the replies
! from Great Britain. France and Ger
many." says the New York Herald Trib
une, characterizing the reply as "near
; cst the German answer in its phras
! ing," particularly in its suggestion that
the pact should contain nothing "in
compatible with the obligations of
i agreements guaranteeing the public
peace, such as are embodied in the
covenant of the League of Nations and
Locarno.” The Springfield Daily Re
publican describes the answer of Japan
as "both cordial and guarded." since on
the one hand it states "it will be happy
■to collaborate.’" and on the other an
nounces its firm belief "that unanimous
agreement on a mutually acceptable text
! for such a treaty as is contemplated is
well capable of realization by discussion
i between the six powers referred to ”
f That whatever finally becomes of this
! treaty, the discussions concerning it
! have "disclosed some significant facts.”
is commented upon by the Louisville
, Courier-Journal, which says: "Os these
, the primary one is the strength of the
i League of Nations. The replies have
almost unanimously asserted that com-I
mitments under that organization shall.
tnko precedence over the pledges in the !
Kellogg pact." Continuing its remarks
jon the Kellogg proposals, this paperl
says of them: "If there were any in-;
i trntlon of pre-empting the province of
the Geneva body by setting up an out
! side agency for International amity, it j
has been immediately frustrated. The j
League has lost none of its prestige; in
fact, it has gained in strength ”
j** * *
Expressing quite a contrary opinion. ’
‘the Reno Evening Gazette announces:]
i The most whole-souled support of the
American proposal comes from Gen
Smuts of South Africa. He declares
that the League of Nsßions. of which he
was one of the creators and a principal
supporter in the beginning, has failed
to Timctton, and that a new treaty on
i the lines proposed by the United States;
jis absolutely necessary.” The Gazette j
further quotes the general as having
given In a public Interview his opinion
! "that the proposal of America was more
practicable than the League conception
1 of himself and President Wilson."
That, "all things considered," Secre
tary Kelloggs plan "has met with a
surprisingly favorable reception." Is the
I opinion of the Hartford Daily Courant. >
So also says the New York Times, which
| notes that "the principle of the Kellogg
plan Is everywhere acclaimed," and re- j
marks that "there remains the duty, j
which may prove to be slow and tedious,
of translating the Ideal into the prac
; ticable realltv." The Pasadena Star-
News exclaims that Mr Kellogg "has
originated a movement that ts raptur
i ing the minds and hearts of civilised
; men and women everywhere." and
thinks if ts "not too much to hope that |
jail the leading nations of the world j
i ultimately will be found under the ban- j
ner of war outlawry "
That we are witnessing history mak-i
ling is the opinion of the Wheeling In-{
j telligencer. which says: It may’very:
j well be that In watching the excellent]
progress of the Kellogg proposal we are ,
seeing developed ihe greatest, most ben- j
j cfictal and far-reaching work of world ;
j statesmanship »n all history," Express
ing a similar thought, the Sioux City j
Journal calls the efforts of the United *
States at this time "the most compel- j
ling diplomatic move ever made In hts- j
tory In » time of peace." and thinks it;
"will be nothing less than astonishing, j
in view of the heavy toll Europe has I
paid In the past, if that section of the j
world overlooks Us main chance for
salvation ’
But this acceptance must be sincere,
H must not be accompanied oi based on
a superfluity of "reservation*," in the
opinion of the Providence Journal,
winch savs "It must become increas
ingly cleat to sagacious statesmen that
ts the European nations are Interested
in using Ihe anti-war treaty primarily
as a means of involving the American
Government in the affairs of European
governments. rather than of employing
!i* dangerous to human life when
j breathed for any length of time
Q. What is the average life of rall
| road ties?—D. K.
A. They usually last from 10 to 20
! years.
Q. What President appears! in car
! toons the oftenest?—M. C. H.
A, Theodore Roosevelt was probably
| the most often cartooned.
Q Where was the Knights of Co
| lumbus organized’—G. A. T.
A It was founded by Rev. M J.
MeGlvney i n 1882 in St. Mary's parish.
New Haven. Conn It now has a mem
-1 bership of about 700.000. It, operates
j United States and its posses
; sions. Canada, Newfoundland. Mexico
and Cuba.
!, Q Poi Cooper Megrue living?—
I L. 1.,.
!» w Thi * American plaj'wrlght died
, i February 27. 1927.
Q. What is the best, way of storing
corn meal?—K. B. O.
A Since corn meal spoils rather
, easily, special attention should be given
K a V n whlch u stored. It
in a cool, dry place
and should be closely covered to ex-
Thl ‘ a PP ! > p s to the mill
and the shop as well as the home. The
' r^rr und m , pa! Apoiis m ° re pa,^v
than the granular meal. When con
venient. therefore. it should be milled
only in small quantities as needed.
Q- Wow did the use of yeast as a
i S!,la?’-S. m G dy E hBPPPn t 0 ° fC ° me *°
1 Public Health Service says
■ chat the present period of popularity
1 was probably to a large extent due to
! the announcement of tlr> discovery of
! | vitamins, one of whibh was early shown
to be present in yeast. Indeed, the
early workers in nutrition used yeast
almost exclusively as a standard with
which to compare the quantity of vita-
I min B in other things, and yeast and
| vitamin B were practically synonymous
terms. Although it is now known that
veast contains many things other than
this vitamin, and that this vitamin is
a very complex substance, it continue;
jto serve a very important and useful
place in nutritional research.
Q. Are the streets of any la re*
j Italian cities laid out on a rectangular
plan?—E. D. C.
A. The Lincoln Library says that
Turin is the only one so constructed.
Q. Are the judges in the Philippine
Islands Americans or Filipinos?—R. A
A. The lower Judicial officers are all
Filipinos. The Judges of first instance,
with but few exceptions, are Filipinos,
and of the justices of the Supreme
Court four of the nine are Filipinos.
The chief justice is a Filipino. Os the
heads of the executive departments,
i six in number, five are Filipinos. The
attorney general Is a Filipino. Prose
cuting attorneys throughout the island
1 are Filipinos.
Q Was Caruso, the tenor, ever in
; the movies?—T. L.
A This great tenor played In two
, pictures. “The Splendid Romance" and
: ' ”My Cousin.” both made in 1918.
11 it as an instrument?litv for th® preven
•! tlon of war in any circumstances, th®
l United States will no*, b- inveigled ir.'o
: any such arrangzmerr.”
1 i * * * *
The Philadelphia Record in Its edi
torial analysis of the replies of th-: geo -
’ ernments to date considers that a fair
summary" of the situation is that "Eu
rope is ready to join in prohibiting star
; except as war is permitted or provided
,! for under ifs existing treatise, which
, ] means,” according to the Record, "that
i the Kellogg formula, while expressing a
,! noble and perhaps useful aspiration.
.: would not change the situation at all."
• The Charlotte News, while recognizing
. i that Kellogg Ls honest.” voices the be
lief that he is also a "weak man. We
j believe him too weak to keep the wily
gentry of Europe from emasculating the
pact, from writing in their threadbare
sophistries, from making it a paper
dummy to trick the masses.” declares
this paper. The thought of the Buffalo
Evening News in regard to "reserva
tions” is that "great care must be exer
cised to hold them within limits that
will not do violence to the fundamental
principle of the proposed treaty."
The fundamental principle Ls unani
mously considered to be embodied in the
words of the treaty in which the sign*-
, torv governments would renounce war
as an "instrument of national policy In
their relations with one another." Re
ferring to this seemingly simple phrase,
the Ann Arbor Daily News says: "Down
through the ages war has been recog
nized by governments as an effective
means of reaching decisions, and any
thing that was effective carried an ap
, peal which made it seem logical and
1 therefore legitimate. During the past
few decades war has been frowned upon
! as a last resort, but nevertheless it has
! been accepted as legal and In some
cases inevitable. Now an agreement be
tween the powers admitting war to be
, out of harmony with governmental poll
cies and ethics will constitute a whole
seme practice, if not an actual guaran
tee that peace will prevail in many ,
situations where the sword might other
wise be unsheathed ”
The Topeka Daily Capital declares
: that "the Kellogg proposal, so far as it
! rocs. is a clear and definite statement
jot the aims of this country and of the
! world’s peoples generally, who are likely
to see to it that it does not degenrra'e.
as Lord Reading remarked, into a ny>re
platitude.’ ’*
The significant thing as it appeal* to
the Oakl»nd Tribune, is that * broad
I proposal was made, and after a brief
period In w hlch many men pooh-p<whed
! the possibility of any such agreement
the entire group to whi'h the letters
wore addressed returned acceptances "
; Th» Tribune believes that “the words
which are written on the paper are not
so important as Ls the initial mova of
| six nations in the right direction,"
!
UNITED STATES
IN WORLD WAR
Tew Year* f|e Tndav
American Marines attacked Ihe Oer
mans at dawn and gained more than
I 2 miles over a 2't-mtle from and cap
] tured 100 prisoners in the Chateau
j Thierry • 1 ♦ The Americans sang
i and whistled "Yankee Doodle" and
! cheered as thev wwnt over the top In
• addition to the prisoners, the. Ameri
j cans captured isl machine guns Oer
i man prisoners say that they had had
j little food for several davx owing to
j the deadly Are from French and Amet •
I lean guns, which prevented bruising u »
j supplies • • * The American fore*'
] have been pressing the Germans so
hard that they have been forced to
; throw three new- divisions of their be.',
< troops Into the luics during the pa-
I three days. The American* are varlta
i ble tigers and their commanders have
, all they can do to hold them back
j * * • Tuesday the Americans faced
a Savon division, on VVcdnesdav, a
guard division; today, a crack Prus
sian division and also a battalion of
famous Jaeger sharpshooters • * •
The British front Is quiet save for
small raids and spasmodic shellfire
* * * Official communique for Mav
Sives a total of 3A* German plan* '
rought down by British airmen. 3fl
brought down by anti-aircraft gun Br
and I hfl driven down out of control
making a iota! of 311 planes dekhroye,;
w damaged.