Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-22
REPORT HORRORS
AT ST. ELIZABETHS
Officials Tell Committee on Appropriations OF
Needs of Twenty-Five Hundred
Insane Soldiers.

stances, are described as almost
frantic over the condition. but can
do nothing. Would it not seem thae
nothing is too good for these lads,
no expenditure of money to great for
their comfort and cure, if possible.
This is not case of errors of the
past to be checked up and investi-
gated. but an actual condition exist
ing at the moment these words are
being read.
The latest bit of important, if
true" political gossip going the
rounds of the
GOSSIP SUGGESTS Capitol is that
NEXT PRESIDENT. the wilson
admins
ton" forces. whatever that term may
imply. have a program for the presi-
dental succession along this line.
X x X
First. President Wilson. if he wants
it. or.
Second. William G. McAdoo. if the 60
ing looks good:
Third. if neither of those want the
nomination. then Acknowledgement
Palmer, to be the administrations
choice.
OF course. out of the pale will be
Champ Clark, William J. Bryan, Gov.
Smith of New York. ct al. ct al
X X X X
Those plutocrats who effect lord
ly indifference to prohibitions rigors.
saying that they will get theirs" in
Canada. Cuba, Bermuda. the Riviera,
and other foreign parts. would do
well to look weary; nemesis is on
their trail.
Representative Thompson, of Ohio,
has already offered in the House a
petition from
PROHIBITION TO the First
FOLLOW THE FLAG. Methodist
Epis copal
Church of Bryan. Ohio-ha, that name
Bryan sounds omnous.-asking for the
enactment of a law which will extend
prohibition to American residents in
any country with which this nation has
treaty Prohibition is to follow the
flag. in other words, and wherever the
Yank set foot in search of a drink. he
would confront the stern face of prohi-
bition peering through the treaty.
The question has been raised among
at Ca 10
is likely that
WILL NOT ADOPT any political
sEER-WINE sLoe4k. party will
take mp
light wines and beers" as a slogan.
The judgment is quick and sharp that
neither the democrats nor the repub-
licans will do it: that may be put
down as a certainty. If it is desired
to start new party with such
platform, the right to do so is latent
and inherent in every free American
bosom. But the old parties would
not touch the subject with a ten-foot
pole.
Here's a state of things-charges
that Congress was propaganda ed"
into pass
WHO PUT DAYLIGHT ing the
SAVINGS LAW OVER? daylight
savings law
in the beginning. Can such things
be, and Congress not know it,"
was asked. Under the heading
Who put one over on the
farmer" Representative king, of
Illinois, charged on the floor of the
House that the daylight savings law
was passed as result of three infiu-
ences-the New York Stock Ex-
change, the manufacturers of gar
den and canning tools and the pro
fessoriate." He charged that the stock
exchange found the change neces-
sary for convenient handling of their
dealings with London.
Under the second head, he charged
that promoter took up headquarters
in Washington, representing a num-
Der of manufacturers, named by him
in long list, and deliberately put
the bill through to enlarge the de-
mand for the manufacturers output.
The third influence" said Mr.. King
was the support received from the
impractical. the Utopians. the theor-
lists. political astrologers. medicine
men and the advance agents of the