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Evening star., 1922-10-18

Time was when a county fair"
was chiefly week of junketing, with
hurdy-gurdies and blatant side
shows. thin Triggers and a small
after.
| Times have changed now.
| The county fairs. the parish fairs.
are now genuine expositions of the
best rural products. in grains and
minds and the best intelligence of the
| countrysides assemble there. Prize
cattle and hogs and poultry are
matched. There are worth while dis
| cussions of methods and systems.
| There are points Of interchange of
good ideas, distributing centers for
demonstration agents. state univer-
sity extension workers, experts in all
| forms of using the soil and in ham
| ding stocks, put their services at the
disposal of the farmers, planters, or
| chardists and dairymen.
Progressive thought radiates from
| them. The gospel Of good roads, of
domestic science, of community hy.
giene, of rural education. of more
| comfortable country homes, of rural
| community cooperation, is carried
out from them.
TownfolkS are Interested in them
| because town well-being Is builded
on rural Well-being. and because none
of US, who goes about his business
| in cities, can do SO In continued pros
perity unless his neighbors on farms,
in fields and orchards can live and
| work through the years with assur-
ance of fair dealing and the profits due
their harvesta-New Orleans Item.
Where in the world does a ruble
go when it drops?-Colorado Springs
Telegraph.
Defiation is what happens to Babe
Ruth in a world -Greenville
Piedmont.
The best way to study the Ameri-
can language Is to drive past traffic
cop when the sign says stop-Duluth
Herald.
Plans are being made to have coal
move faster" Leave it to winter. n
will move the coal fast enough
Seattle Times.
Two men and a woman are running
for the Senate in Minnesota, a new
version OF the eternal Triangle
Muncie Star.
A Colorado woman asks g divorce
because she's just plumb tired Of
matrimony. We knew that sooner
or later divorces would be demanded
for perfectly honest ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Star Eagle.
If we can believe what they say
about each other, the only genuine
United States "destroyers" are either
democrats or Cincinnati
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Evening star., 1922-10-18

nosing out Of the shelter, dragged on
the ground, the fabric torn and fire
started. with the result Of total de-
struction within few minutes.
When the war ended 1t was an.
nounced that the United States had
just developed the production Of
helium gas. and that If the conflict
had continued but a little longer this
country's dirigibles and observation
balloons in Europe would have been
immune from the danger Of explosion
and ignition, which so seriously less
ened the value Of those devices on
both sides in the campaign. That was
four years ago, and still helium is not
yet used for gas-bag aviation. These
three tragedies are consequence.
They have cost seventy-eight lives,
forty-four in the ZR-2 and thirty.four
in the Roma. The cost to the United
States is at least S1,5OO,0O0.
All three of these accidents show
that it is dangerously unsafe to use
large f1otation containers filled with
infiammable gas. The structure Of
the great dirigibles cannot be rendered
SO stiff as to be resistant to sudden
whips of wind. especially when near
the ground. If any break occurs a
non-inf1ammable gas may keep the
ship afloat long enough to permit the
escape Of the crew. With inflammable
gas. however. destruction is immedi-
ate and complete.
The funds of the Army and Navy
have been pooled for the production of
helium gas. but it is stated that not
enough is being produced to fill more
than a single blimp for each branch of
the service. Thus. evidently the eX-
pectations encouraged at the close of
hostilities in 1918 on the score of
helium production are not justified by
results, or else there has been some
slackness in appropriation or in use
Of funds in the development Of this in
dustry. Had the war continued it is
possible that the making Of helium
would have been speeded to the point
of actually sending American non
inflammable gas overseas for practical
use, yet in four years this country
has not turned out enough Of this ma
terial to fill it's experimental dirigibles.
This failure has cost dearly.
Evening star., 1922-10-18
Parties and the Future.
New York dispatch:


The American labor party was Of
ficially launched yesterday at meet
ing presided over by Morris HilQuit
for many years active as socialist
He said that the new party is a politi-
cal partnership of the socialist party
the farmer-labor party and number
of local labor organizations.
He predicted that in the presidential
election of 1928 there will be only two
parties, one representing a property
owning class and the other prop
erty-rentins class.
Men of more consequence politically
than Mr.. Hilquit-some of them re,
publicans, some democrats-are talk,
ing in this strain. They are Of opinion
that the two old parties have lost, or
are fast losing, their usefulness, and
should be scrapped in the country's
interests. To take the places of the
old organizations they see arise two
new ones-one frankly radical, the
other as frankly conservative-and
then for gil Int tussle for full control
of the affairs Of the greatest republic
in history.
These men, however, are more con-
NQSIlC IlldN MT. I1liQull. LII luelI Oplll-
ion this change will take place as
early as 1924. The tide of discomfort,
as they think, is rising so rapidly, two
years will be sufficient to bring it to
the full.
Mr.. Hilquit, although radical In
other matters, is conservative in the
matter of a date for this great event.
He gives 1t six instead of two years
to ripen. He fixes the triumph for
1928.
Well, whether in 1924 or 1928. it
will be a big thing If it does happen
so big thing that the whole world
will sit up and take notice. For, in
effect, it will mark so momentous a
change in American sentiment as to
popular government that America as
a guidepost or beacon will lose the
character that has always attached to
it in the eyes Of the progressive por-
tions of the outside world.
Evening star., 1922-10-18
Unsolved Crimes.

Despite speeding up Of the inquiry
at New Brunswick, N. J.. into the
mysterious double murder that has led
to conflicts Of authority, and been
marked by much blundering in in
quiry, no actual progress is evident
toward a solution. New witnesses are
developed and old witnesses are re-
examined, and cryptic hints are given
Of arrests to be made or action soon
to be taken. Yet the case remains at
standstill, and it begins to look as
though it would drift into the limbo Of
the unsolved.
These unpenetrated mysteries Of
crime occur everywhere, though. they
are but a small percentage of the
homicides recorded. Washington has
one-that is to say. Washington in
partnership with Mary1and-in the
case Of Barney Mcbride, whose body
was found near the boundary line
nearly two and half months ago. At
this time no dependable clue has been
found to the circumstances of the
murder, and no one is under direct
suspicion. The crime remains at this
time one of the mysteries. In June,
1920. the body of a well known char.
acter was found In his home in New
York, Elwell, the whist expert and
sportsman. Several people were ar.
rested, but no one was finally held,
and to this day the killing Of Elwell
is unsolved.
Yet. eventually. these crimes arc
Evening star., 1922-10-18
Arlington County's Housecleaning.

a good work has been undertaken
in Arlington county, Va, where gam
bling houses and so-called clubs have
been raided and closed, and arrests
have been made on the charge Of
operating these resorts. Washington
is keenly interested in this endeavor
to clean up the county. for these es-
adjustments draw mainly upon the
population of the District for patron
age, and most of the money taken by
them comes from here.
Some years ago that part of the
former District in Virginia outside of
the city of Alexandria, known then as
Alexandria county. was in the grip Of
a lawless crew. who. holding directly
or through proxies the county offices,
maintained at the very threshold of
the capital most demoralizing array
of doggeries and gambling dens. The
law-abiding citizens of the county were
helpless. They were dominated by the
divekeepers and the promoters of gam
bling establishments. The county Ian
L
attractions for suburban dwellings few
would go there to make their homes
because Of the disgraceful and often
dangerous conditions. Finally the case
was carried to the attention of Gov.
O'Ferrall, who had been a member of
the House of Representatives and
knew the conditions. He sent a special
prosecutor, and in the course of few
months the county was purged of the
evildoers and lawbreakers. 1t then be-
gan to grow in population. and this
growth has continued unchecked since
then, during period of over twenty
years.
The people of Arlington county have
reason to be gratifed at the present
activity aimed at the demoralizing in
fluences that are seeking again to
dominate there. This evil must be
gripped directly and resolutely. The
county has had a bitter experience,
and while perhaps the major part of
its present population has no direct
knowledge of the bad times of the lat
ter part of the last century, the older
the sad state of affairs that resulted
from the gamblers grip upon the
county. With the indictments already
returned as start the capitals neigh
Dor should be able to clean house ef-
fectively.
Evening star., 1922-10-18
Lodge and Roosevelt.

An organization calling itself the
Liberal Republican League of Massa-
chusetts has declared in favor of the
democratic candidate for United States
senator in the following terms:
The overshadowing moral and po-
litical issue of the present senatorial
campaign is the imperative need of
eliminating Henry Cabot Lodge from
the position of leadership that he now
occupies in the republican party and
the association of new, liberal, for
ward-looking leadership which will
redeem our party from its present re-
dictionary bondage and make possible
it's reorganization in accordance with
the principles of Lincoln and Roose-
yelt
Mr.. Lincoln is remote. He has been
dead nearly sixty years, and so many
changes in party issues have taken
place since his day placing him def
nitely as to the issues of this day is
but a matter of speculation.
But Mr.. Roosevelt has been dead
only a few years. and was so active in
politics up to the day Of his death he
can be placed with safety on the
issues now in evidence in the Bay
state campaign. Hence there is no
risk in stating that if living Mr..
Roosevelt would be in agreement with
Mr.. Lodge on the principles the latter
is advocating. and probably a stumper
for Mr.. Lodges re-election-certainly
one of his warmest well wishers.
The two men were in the closest re-
lationship. personal and political. On
one occasion when asked for an ex-
preston as to a presidential candidate
for the republicans Mr.. Roosevelt sug-
gested Mr.. Lodge. The eu1ogy Of Mr.
Roosevelt before Congress was de-.
hvered by Mr.. Lodge. at the joint re.
quest of Congress and Mr.. Roosevelt's
family.
1t is sort of outrage. therefore, for
this Massachusetts organization to use
Mr.. Roosevelt's name In an effort to
destroy the senior senator from that
state.
Evening star., 1922-10-18
Whipped Horses as a Jockey;
Now He Whips G.O.P.Senators

him out and won the race handily.
This performance led to the hiring
OF THE Indian" to ride Headlight. at
tnat time one of the fastest horses in
that part of the country. Headlight
mated the turns. bolted at them and
into the fence. smearing his rider if
he could. The jockey tried the same
tactics with Headlight on the turns
as he had tried with Bob On the
first turn it worked to perfection and
headlight Strengthened out well in
the lead of the field. But the second
turn brought a near tragic close to
Headlight and his jockey The horse
look the bit in his teeth and tore
into an eight-foot fence. Both Head
light and the Jockey rolled over and
down an embankment.
The Indian" was picked up for
dead. He bears the scars of the fall
today on his hands and arms ana
mead. And today he is Senator Charles
Curtis Of Kansas, fittingly republican
whip" of the Senate,
He rode as a jockey for some time
~@~S As~SS l..
he was under contract to ride for a
big horse owner in 1876 at the CEN
tennial celebration in PHILADELPHIA
At that time he was sixteen years
old. He had been riding horses for
eight years. and racing most of the
time. starting with his grandfather's
horses, and. after his death, riding
for other owners. His grandmother
told him in '76. however that if he ever
intended to make anything of him.
self he must quit the track and go to
school. The youngster went to the
man with whom he had contracted
to ride at Philadelphia and told him
what his grandmother had said.
That's the best advice you ever
got" was the reply. The contract
was Cancelled. Charles Curtis started
to school and dve years later was ad-
mitted to the bar
Evening star., 1922-10-18

OMETIMES now and then in that
thing we call the business
world there comes to the front
an individual who thinks not
alone of himself-a person who takes
time enough from his ordinary battle
of life to think of the little fellow
who has just started out to win his
spurs. This fact was brought most
forcefully to my attention the other
day by the statement OF a mother
whose son Is employed by a we'll
known brokerage firm in this city.
She said: You like to know about
the good things people are doing, the
things that are really worth while,
and I want to tell you what the en-
ployers of my boy are doing. not
only for him, but for many others,
because an effort of this kind is one
that should be given publicity. This
lad of mine has minor position
with the firm at a salary quite in
keeping with the services that he
renders. but. in addition to that, they
have voluntarily paid his tuition
through one Of our local institu-
tions. He comes home to dinner,
rests an hour or SO and then goes
to this night school. The only things
that he has to buy are the books he
uses. the other expenses the firm
pays. think it is really one of the
most constructive things that / have
heard of for some time"
X X X
NNE cannot help being amused at
~ times to listen to the comments
to be heard at the movies. The
other night l happened to be watch
ing that excellent production. The
Count of Monte Cristo," when 1
heard n woman in front of me say:
You know. this is a true film and
it concerns the early life of one of
the ancestors of Count -" and
here she named the one-time husband
of an American heiress.
X X X X
THE other night while walking up
i 14th street l happened to be at
tracted by beautiful window dis
play. which consisted merely of three
products that were displayed by a
certain firm. Save these and a hand
some wooden centerpiece there was
nothing else in the window, but from
the edges above there was cast an
attractive soft light. The man who
Evening star., 1922-10-18
The Tariff and 1912.

In a speech delivered at Denver
Monday former Secretary McAdoo
said:
The republicans have passed the
most extortionate and indefensible
tariff bill ever enacted in our his
tory. The Payne -Aldrich bill. which
destroyed Mr.. Taft politically and
feat in 1912. is outclassed by the
Fordney- bill.
The Payne-Aldrich tariff bill found
rough going in Congress, and caused
a serious division in the republican
party. Finally. however. it made the
grade, and was sent to President Taft
for his signature.
Then came two suggestions. The
first was that the President veto the
bill. and force Congress to go over
the business of revision again and
pass new bill, eliminating the fea-
lures that had made the one in hand
so Objectionable to its republican op-
ponents.
The second suggestion was that the
President withhold his signature and
copying Mr.. Cleveland's course toward
the Gorman-Wilson tariff bill in 1894.
President Taft signed. The bill was
not entirely to his liking, but as it
had received the Endorsement Of a
large majority of his party in Con-
gress he indorsed it, too, and took the
risk.
1t was not the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law that destroyed Mr.. Taft political
ly and brought the republican party to
defeat in 1872 but the overwhelming
desire Of Theodore Roosevelt to return
to the White House. The tariff law
had really little if anything to do with
the matter. The probability is that
had he been President at the time Mr..
Roosevelt would have signed the
Payne-Aldrich bill for the same rea-
sons that governed Mr.. Taft.
Evening star., 1922-10-18
Another Dirigible Burned.

Another big American government
dirigible has been destroyed in flames.
the third thus to be lost. First was
the ZR-2, an immense airship built in
England and wrecked with heavy loss
of life in course of q trial trip in that
country. Then came the destruction
of the Roma, built in Italy, dismantled,
shipped to this country. reassembled
and burned with many fatalities while
flying in a trial near Norfolk. Now
the CO, the Army's largest and best
''blimp." has been wrecked by fire
while emerging from a hangar at San
Antonio on it's return trip across the
continent and back. Fortunately no
lives were lost, though several Of the
crew were hurt by jumping. The blimp
vas hit by sudden gusts Of wind on
Evening star., 1922-10-18
Here and There in Washington
BY "THE MAJOR"

conceived the idea not only had the
soul of an artist, but also possessed
the theory of successful salesman
! ship.
II X \ \
TT is undoubtedly the desire Of hun
/ dreds of US to make suggestions
whenever possible for the better
ment of the present-day school sys-
tenn, and David Pike, who for years
has been paying much attention to
this matter. has suggested that a
half hour be set aside in the schools
for the perusal of daily newspapers,
for, as he says, 1t would familiarize
the intermediate groups. as well as
those who have reached the higher
grades, with events that are trans
piring every day in all parts of the
world, and it would also do much
to correct the silly saying that you
hear now and then when a person
picks up newspaper and, after
perusing it's columns for half hour.
remarks: There's nothing in that
paper. there's nothing in 1t at ALL" II
the average reader will stop and think
Of the effort, time and money that Is
consumed in preparing for them
what might rightfully be termed a
digest of the worlds happenings,
they would not utter such foolish
assertions. Day by day, rain or
shine, hot or cold, newspapers are
striving to give their readers the
news of the world. 1t is perhaps
only because they have not read
something that directly concerns
them that they make these state
ments.
7 OVERS Of the beautiful in nature
II should take a stroll or ride
through Rock Creek Park and down
the speedway to Hains Point. In
both places the hand of autumn has
touched the trees with gentle, caress-
ing fingers. There are greens of
many shades, thistle. nile, deep dark.
olive and bottle On some of the
trees the leaves have turned to tints
of ecru. while others show tints of
reddish brown; others are tans or
darker hues merging gradually into
the lighter shades. and it is, indeed.
an inspiring sight to watch from
day to day, or from week to week,
the changes that Dame Nature makes.
Evening star., 1922-10-18

the following day. INJURY aooue ooo
revealed the fact that he ran with
his ears straight up instead of lying
h.ck as in the case of other horses;
that he hated the roar of the crowd
and when he heard it had a trick
Of stopping short and throwing his
Jockey over his head. But first Bob
laid his ears back.
The jockey made his preparations
He bought long, sharp spurs and an
unusually heavy whip. He knew the
side from which the roar of the
crowd would come and knew which
way Bob would finch. The horses
got away to a good start. with Bob
runnfne strong. Just as the Jockey
had expected, however, when Bob
heard the crowd begin to yell, back
went his ears. Jabbing in the spurs
and crashing down on Bob's side with
the whip. '.Tha Indian" straightened
Evening star., 1922-10-18

Two hundred and forty-eight miles
per hour constitute top speed for air.
planes at present. Locomotive speed
is far less but, as there are no tele-
graph poles for the aviator to pass.
the difference is not so easily noted.
This earth, as well as the rest of the
universe, has "relativities' of it's own.
Evening star., 1922-10-18

City. He knew
horses. He could
ride an OUTLAW"
when other jock
eys failed.
Late in the even
ing a horseman
turned UP with
Bob, known to be
fast, but mean.
The owner had
watched "The In
dian" handle other
horses. He made
the youngster an
offer to ride Bob
in a match race
T-o,,;- about pah
Evening star., 1922-10-18

The Minneapolis lawyer, Rome G.
Brown, says that the devious laws
relating to water rights resolve
themselves into the one essential
law for humanity, the golden rule.
Such a simplification of the law offers
little encouragement to the attorney
who relies upon artificial complication
for the collection of fees.
Evening star., 1922-10-18

References are being made to con-
templated aerial attacks on Berlin,
which lead to the startling suggestion
that even the great world war was not
so terrible as it might have been.
Evening star., 1922-10-18

England does not seem to be in es-
pecial fear Of labor government"
Any good government involves genu-
inc labor. An idler government is the
kind most likely to cause embarrass.
ment.
Evening star., 1922-10-18

New Brunswick has made it clear
that something more is necessary to
safeguard the morals Of New Jersey
than an occasional raid on the Allan
tic City cabarets.
Evening star., 1922-10-18

A mob attacked the mayor in Cof-
feyville, Kans. AS the home town of
one of the most distinguished pitchers
known to base ball. Coffeyville should
be more careful Of it's fame.
Evening star., 1922-10-18

Despite the self-conf1dence of Mus
tapha Kemal, there is no widespread
reliance in his ability to come out best
In dicker with Lenin and Trotsky.
Evening star., 1922-10-18

Chicago bandits no longer use the
salutation, "Your money or your life!
They desire neither. They demand
glands.
Evening star., 1922-10-18

Great mechanical inventions do not
necessarily improve conditions for hu-
nlanity. They make peace more pleas
ant and war more woeful.
Evening star., 1922-10-18

The fact that Wilhelm HohenzolIern
can afford to get married may be
taken as evidence that he did not in
vest heavily in paper marks.
Evening star., 1922-10-18
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Evening star., 1922-10-18

Discussion of the three-mile limit
gives John Barleycorn occasion to be
grateful to John Bull for a few kind
words.
Evening star., 1922-10-18

American politics has a way Of
maintaining in attention men who are
active though unemployed.
Evening star., 1922-10-18

4 DARK, slender youngster, pro-
~ fessional jockey of several
~ years standing. but still a
mere boy, known on the race
tracks of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska
and other western and southern states
as "The Indian" in the early seven
ties of the last century was booked
to ride a number of races at Kansas
Evening star., 1922-10-18
EDITORIAL DIGEST

constitutionality objection points out
that in the Capper bill. which is to
furnish the model for the states. IAN
effort evidently has been made to
bridge this constitutional gap by per-
mitting the citizen to obtain firearms
by merely Identifying himself, the
record of identification being fur
nished the local police" while the
Meridian Star adds that "the Capper
measure offers a modicum of relief
at least. Perhaps it would be well if
states throughout the Union were
to adopt it or a similar measure"