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Evening star., 1924-07-27
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL

The campaign is on and a new Rich
| mond Is in the field. There has been
sort of hiatus in Democratic leader
ship, what with Mr.. Davis being up
on an isolated island in Maine and
Mr.. Hull and Mr.. Shaver swapping
horses AS past and present chairmen
| of the Democratic national committee.
But Democracy's cause has been
carried on. The gallant foeman of
| the q. o. +. is none other than our
old friend Senator tom" Hefin of
Alabama. He has leaped into the tenn
porary breach and kept the home fires
burning with broadside which
should knock the Republicans for a
Wlde row OF empty ballot boxes If
Senator Toms statement has not gone
| FAR and wide 1t is simply because a
subsidized press has not dared to give
| circulation to his clarion call. If
other sources have failed the senator
| the writer shall not.
I'm 1872" says Mr.. Hefin, Wilson
won, with Roosevelt running second
| and Taft third. This year Davis will
win with La Toilette running second
and Coolidge third"
And that is just the beginning Of
what the senator has to say He
warns up, naturally, as he goes along.
but most Republicans, after reading
thls opening paragraph, can go no
Iurther. They are done in; knocked
out, and otherwise fiabbergasted.
The Republicans should read fur
ther, however, for If they do they viii
hnd the junior senator from Ala bama
one of the famous "24 votes for
oscar w. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lust
niue in one of his paragraphs and
qualhes his prediction to the extent
or saying unless all signs fail"
Mr.. Helm calls his statement .'His-
| tory will repeat itself" but the broad
Slde really should be called the bonn
oardment of Butler. The Republican
national chairman gets at least 500
Woros OF bitter denunciation for saw
ing that ne does not think oil is going
| 10 cut hgure in the campaign Mr..
buffers words are called shocking
and astounding"
II Mr. Hefiin is to make a habit of
issuing statements from time to time
the campaign isn't going to be such a
SAD sort of thing after all.
X * X
The radio broadcasting agencies are
saying that they are going to do
everything in their power to protect
the invisible audiences" from too
much politics during the campaign.
But the radio bugs themselves are
anxiously inquiring when the "atroci-
ties are to begin. They want the
fun to start They think the whole
campaign is going to be a sort Of
continuation of the grand battle
waged in Madison Square Garden
1t has been figured there was more
sleep lost to the nation by reason of
the listenersin refusing to go to
bed while the Democratic tempest
was bowling than during any similar
period in all history.
Of course, the radio campaign is
going TO be nothing of the sort. 1t
will have its bright moments and its
dull ones The political humorists
proba bly, viii get a big play. They
Evening star., 1924-07-27

mon rather than fundamental causes
says that divorces are due to poverty
women wanting what they cannot
have, neglect of wives by their hus-
bands, naEging. drink, low mentality
and sexual mismating.
Stiii another expert regards phys
ical mismating and sexual degen-
eracy as the prime causes, and still
actions If you want to get at the
bottom of the trouble you should look
Tor the other woman or the other
man, as the case may be.
A frequent, II not fundamental,
cause of divorce that has been OBJ
served is the meddling of relatives
mothers Law and fathers in law
and all the others-in-la and hasty
and 1n-conSidered marriages are
found 10 result more often in discord
than in happiness. On this latter
point one judge says that it is the
height of absurdity for country to
refuse to permit immigrants to land
here unless they can make a show
ing that they are not likely to be-
come dependents while at the same
time It permits man to take unto
himself wife and assume the re-
sponsibilities of a family without
making the slightest inquiry as to
his ability to support them.
the growing economic independ-
ence Of women is generally recog-
nized as one of the reasons why there
not be termed a cause of divorce.
Not all women. but rapidly increas-
ing proportion Of them. approach
matrimony nowadays knowing that
II will not necessarily commit them
to Il life sentence if il should result
in unhappineSs, misery or any unen-
durable conditions. They know how
to take care Of themselves in an
economic way. and if husbands fail
them in any essential degree they are
not afraid to tackle the world by
themselves. Such women, when love
flies out the window, are likely to
give their husbands the gate-if il
may be permitted so to mix poetical
alluSion and modern slang
1t is interesting to note in con-
nection with the movement for a
uniform marriage and divorce law
that conditions in Russia may be
urged as an argument to Influence
American Legislators. Under the old
regime in Russia il was almost i'm
possible to secure divorce. Under
bolshevism divorce is practically a
matter Of mutual consent or agree
ment. However, it is claimed. under
1.-THE liberal divorce conditions Rus
sian marriages have Increased at the
| rate of almost 100 per cent while the
number of divorces has increased by
only per cent.
Evening star., 1924-07-27

go Detter on the air than the serious
takers and any one who can set the
"hoIe nation laughing at some per-
s1h or some thing Will have accom-
pliShed a very great deal
The old-time politicians are not -O-
ING 10 md the radio so much to their
,lhinS as some of tl&em seem to think.
III the first place YOU can't keen on
aylne the same thing over ana over
every day the air Where a poIi-
slcian travels from place to place and
Iaces an entirely new audience every
night, ne can pull all the old stuff
anu ger away with it. Not so on the
arr They will have to think nm
something new all the time and thai
Is rather difficult over a run of two
solid. months
Even presidential candidates who
make grand tours have TO say
p,eIty huch the same thing over ani
over again. They get certain SCI
speeches. which they deliver with a
lew variations now and then Some
times these candidates have made as
hlgh as 10 or u speeches "A day.
Nanifestly it would be impossible IL
find different theme on every oc-
caslon. But unless the orators have
something new to say on the radio
they Will fnd themselves tuned our
all along the ether.
1t is to be hoped that both PreSi-
dent Coolidge and John W. Davis
have sense of humor as well as a
sense of proportion. Otherwise il
would be difficult for them to digest"
some of the election news which is
being brought to their respective re-
treats by the politicians. The cam
paigns haven't started yet, for neither
the President nor Mr. Davis has been
nf in. rfy,,,
and therefore can take no official cog
niZance of anything. But the poll
licans are bringing in the results
Thus far, Mr.. Coolidge has carried
everything west of the NisSiSsippI
River and has an excellent chance in
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi
Mr.. Davis has only carried Maine.
New Hampshire, Massachusetts. Con-
necticut, New York, Indiana, Illinois
and Wisconsin.
| Nobody seems TO be bringing Bat
Ting Bob La Toilette any good news
He doesn't need any. He has his own
dreams.
Apropos of the story told on Gen.
John J. Pershing that because of his
grim dicipline in the A f F. il was
decided by a certain war correspond
ent that nobody would ever call him
Papa" Pershing. some of the old-tine
politicians who have been interview
ing Chairman Butler of the Repub-
lican National Committee. have an
nounced the conclusion that nobody
will ever call him Bill"
Some of his Democratic colleagues
have been thanking Senator jim
Watson, Of Indiana, wheelhorse OF
the G.. o. P, for bringing new issue
into the campaign this early. Senator
Jim has been talking about the Demo-
cratic "mesalliance" in referring 10
the Davis and Bryan ticket.
Keep il up. Jim" say the Demo-
Gratis Nobody will know what You
are talking about, but it sounds
good
downright, 1924
Evening star., 1924-07-27
Get Rid of Superfluities,
MarshalPs Advice to Nation

make the real fight Of life. He may
become so engrossed over watching
his fortune grow that he would lose
even simple fight for the finer
things of life. Kindly deeds and
become well nigh impossible under
the deadening influence of selfish
wealth. 1t is not question at
all of governing men by laws. The
"Thou shalt nots'' of civil and rei-
and sometimes valueless. Reverently
speaking, God Himself found this out.
He turned the Thou shalt nots" of
His old dispensation into Thou
Thou shafts" found Judgement in
the hearts of men that real civiliza-
tion began to take it's upward trend.
TOO much wealth is calculated to
destroy the owners usefulness as an
American. 1t establishes between
himself and others a gulf that is diff
ficult to bridge. Less money would
probably mean more friendships. more
resultant happiness, greater content
ment. Large holdings of property
undoubtedly constitute superfluous
fat which well could be eliminated
to the benefit of the holder.
Can Attain Superiority.
DESTROYS of becoming proficient in
athletics, the young cadet on whom
l conferred a medal voluntarily sub
mitted himself to the regime of Gull
yer. and came out not only fit but
superior to his fellows. Our country
can become eminently superior to all
other countries. 1t is a giant when
all its muscles are co-ordinated. But
whenever we put into it or on it any
thing that hinderS the perfect work
ing of this organism. we reduce its
usefulness. impair it's value. lessen
the assurance of its ultimate triumph.
This is not question of regulation
by law, but a question of voluntary
refusal to retain anything, do any
thing. say anything when retention
or act or word will weaken this great
body polite. And such a. voluntary
refusal is very apt to require courage.
None but a courageous too rich man
could be expected to say: Il will
get rid of part OF my riches for the
common good" None but n cour-
ageous politician will pledge himself
not to impair his usefulness to the
state by thought Of personal ad-
vantage. None but courageous
working man will toll merely because
he is needful to perform the work
of his country. All this is supre me
conservation to one great ideal-that
of eliminating the superf1uous in
thought and word and deed il there
by the essential may be made strong
er for the common veal. Since my
experience at Culver ! am convinced
that what need today as much
as anything else is treatment for
too much fat.
Copyright. 1924, by 21st Century PressD
Evening star., 1924-07-27
Canada in First Pact
With European Nation

For the first time in it's eventful
history, the Dominion of Canada has
negotiated a treaty with a European
nation. Belgium and Canada have
exchanged signatures to an agree
ment granting each nation special
! tariff privileges. A new door to Ca
madam commerce has been opened by
the action Of the Canadian govern
| ment itself, without the intervention
Of the London diplomats.
Canada has contended for many
years for the right to be represented
in foreign capitals and the privilege
of negotiating treaties in it's own
name. With the reorganiza ton of the
British Empire. by which the separate
colonies. dominions and dependencies
| became parts of a great federation of
states, the ambitions of Canada were
given recognition. Negotiations be-
| tween the United States and Canada
are now being carried on directly
between Ottawa and Washington,
| instead Of through London. A Cana
dian envoy in Washington has the
right to speak for his country regard
| less of what may be said by the Brit
| ish Ambassador. The most important
subject of discussion between Canada
and the United States at present is
| the improvement of the st. Lawrence
| River for navigation and power de-
| velopment, and that question is likely
| to be settled by Americans and Cana
dians without the assistance of Lon
| don.
Like Ireland. Canada has all the
essential elements of independence
and freedom of action as a nation. In
| some respects, the status of Canada
gives that country great advantage
over absolutely free nations. such as
| the United States, for Canada is not
obliged to maintain defensive force
of any consequence. The Dominion
also has the advantage of trade priv
i1eges within the British Empire and
| is beginning the negotiation of
| treaties that will obtain entrance for
Canadian exports to other countries.
From the American point of view,
| Canada's new freedom is of great
value, for the reason that controyer-
| sizes between Canadians and Ameri-
cans can now be settled by direct
negotiation, and cooperative efforts
can be arranged similarly. Also any
commercial advantages that Canada
may obtain will be reflected indirect
| ly in benefits to the United States by
American exports through Canada
and by American Investments in Ca
| madam manufacturing for export
The Rochester Hera1.
Evening star., 1924-07-27
Naming the Babies.

The season is opening for giving the
names of presidential candidates to
babies Fewer boys will be christened
or baptized John Henry. Samuel Egg
bert and James William, and more of
them will be named Calvin Coolidge
Smith, John w. Davis Jones and
Robert Marion La Toilette Brown.
The candidate style in boys names
comes around every four years. There
is news that a man in kanawha
twin babies Coolidge and Hell-and-
Maria. Evidently he is an earnest
Republican. In the matter OF the lat
ter name. though it has force, it may
be said by some that it lacks euphony
and gentleness. and it may finally be
revised as Helen Marie. In the late
eighteenth and early part of the nine
teenth century we had a large num-
Der of George Washington Robinsons
and Thomas Jefferson Johnsons. 1t is
believed that no presidential candi-
date and no President, except George
Washington. has been honored by so
many parents as was Andrew Jack
son. Abraham Lincoln Smiths and
Robert Lee Jones became numerous
between 1860 and 1870, and an army
of babies were named Grover Cleve.
land and Theodore Roosevelt. We are
entering period when each impor-
tant candidate for the Presidency will
receive notes from parents saying:
I'VE have honored you by naming
our bouncing boy Calvin Coolidge, -
or John W. Davis, according to the
politics of the house.
Evening star., 1924-07-27

tempted to tear away her veil and at
the same time expectorated upon her.
A policeman. 1t Is stated, witnessed
the affair. but made no attempt to
p. .ect Mrs. Imbrie or to interfere
with her assailant. In consequence Of
this latest outrage strong representa-
tions have been made by the State
Department to the Persian govern
ment. demanding that immediate
measures be taken to protect Ameri-
can citizens in that country.
There is no occasion, SO far as
known here, for an outbreak of anti
Americanism in Persia. On the con-
trary the relations between the two
governments have always been cor
dial, and many Americans have taken
a helpful interest in the development
of Persia and her protection from at
tack and oppression. 1t was a young
Washingtonian, Morgan Shuster, who
rendered an invaluable service to Per-
sia in the management OF her finances
at the time when Russia and England
We're rivals in seeking to subordinate
that country to the role Of q depend
ency. Shuster's name Is highly re-
spected today in Persia, and until the
Imbrie affair there was every reason
to believe that all other Americans
were held in esteem.
Without doubt the Persian govern
ment will give assurances of such pro-
lection as can be afforded, but the fact
remains that there is an evident dis
position on the part of the soldiery
and the police to permit outrages
against Americans. Is there a serious
schism at Teheran and throughout
Persia Of which these hostilities to-
ward the people of this country are
symptoms? If so, the government at
Teheran may be greatly embarrassed
by the demand Of the State Depart
ment.
Evening star., 1924-07-27
Automatic Train Control Checked.

There would be a sounder sense of
public security on the score of rail-
road dangers if the order just issued
by the Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion suspending the order for the in
stallation of automatic train controls
had fixed a new time limit instead Of
merely voiding it without further date.
AS the matter stands it looks as
though the commission had with
drawn entirely from the requirement
that the railroads named in the orig
inal order should within a specified
time install automatic train-control
devices for the protection of the pub
lie. 1t is explained that one reason
for the suspension is to permit the
adoption Of a mechanism whereby the
engineman. If alert, may forestall ~
Evening star., 1924-07-27
Defense Day.

r. President Coolidge replies to a letter
received from a representative of
. pacifist organization in terms that
bring sharply to the attention of the
people of this country the difference
between militant war seeking and war
breeding preparations and true ma
tional defense. This correspondence
refers to a proposed National Defense
day to be observed on the 18th of Sep
tember. The organization in question.
the National Council for the Proven
ton of War, has been protesting
against the day" as move toward
mobilization and as Il military gesture.
The President points out that it is not
c mobilization. nor is it mlitaristic
= gesture. 1t is simply an alignment of
the people of this country in the in
terest of national defense. and defense
alone. Its purpose is TO keep down to
the lowest possible point the profes-
sional military organization of the
country. 1t is an emphasis of the prin-
ciple of reliance upon the patriotic
manhood of the United States for pro-
lection in case of assault.
1t is, as the President points out. un-
fair that the plans for Defense day
should be condemned through msrep-
reSentation. Il can hardly be believed
that the real purpose of the demon
stration of September II is honestly
misconstrued. 1t has been frankly
excuse for misstatement or misrepre-
sentation. Pacifism professionally or
ganiZed seeks, however. TO mislead the
public. to point to military training
camps as preparations for offensive
warfare. to denounce the natural rea-
sonable and necessary maintenance of
the patriotic spirit of readiness for
national service as war-breeding.
Back of the prevention of war
camouflage is internationalism anti
nationalism. world socialism. This
country cannot prevent war. Even if
1t were member Of an international
body it could not guarantee against
conflict. 1t could not lessen the chance
of militant aggression. Those who
favor unpreparedness on the score Of
lessening the chance of war do not.
perhaps, quite realize that weakness,
unreadiness and reliance upon right
and logic alone are invitations to dis
aster
The President says that he pro-
foundly hopes that the outlawing of
war from this world may be accom-
plshed. Everybody joins in that hope.
save those who may seek to make war
for the sake of profit or for gain in
territory. But there is. as Mr.. Cool
idge says. no inconsistency in approx
ing a program of Defense day and
such an aspiration. He is by the
highest law Of the land the Com
mander- -in-chief Of the Army and Navy
Of the United States. He would be
derelict in duty to the last degree if
he were to fail to encourage that pa
triotic spirit of readiness for service
in time of need which. it is ardently
hoped. will be expressed fully and
generally on Defense day.
Evening star., 1924-07-27
More Friction at Teheran.

Just why there should be 50 pro-
nounced spirit Of hostility toward
Americans in Persia is difficult to un-
derstand. The attack upon Maj. I'm
brie, the vice consul of the United
States at Teheran, seemed to be due
to an indiscretion on his part in at
tempting to take photographs Of a
holy place and Of Persian women
there gathered. But now comes an at
tack upon Mrs. Imbrie, his widow,
who, it appears, was assailed by Per-
sian youth in the capital who at
Evening star., 1924-07-27
stopping of the train by the automatic
application of the brakes.

stopping of the train by the automatic
application Of the brakes.
The records Of the Interstate Com
merce Commission are filled with cases
of wrecks caused by the failure Of the
signals or of the enginemen to heed
them. Inspectors Of the commission
have pointed out in numerous in
stances that If automatic train-control
devices were in service ghastly
tragedies would have been averted.
There can be no question of the need
of such device on every trunk line
operated on short headway. Yet the
order requiring installation of such a
device on at least one locomotive divi-
sion of each of the roads named by
February l., 1926. is vacated. and no
body knows when it will be renewed.
The railroads have spent a good
deal Of time protesting the order
which they might better have spent in
trying out devices. While they have
been arguing wrecks have been oc
curing of the very nature which
these devices are supposed to prevent.
Now they have succeeded in persuad
ing the commission that time limit
is not desirable. VIII they proceed
more rapidly to find the ideal method
of preventing collisions now that they
are under no direct compulsion? 1t
hardly seems likely.
The travelling public can only pray
that collisions will not continue to
occur through the faults of the exist
ing signal system and the failures of
engine crews. Meanwhile on those
lines where automatic train-control
systems have been installed the per-
centage Of disasters has fallen to the
lowest point in the records of Ameri-
can railroading.
Evening star., 1924-07-27
Transfers by Machinery.

1t is to be hoped that the automatic
transfer machine that has been ex-
perimentally installed on one of the
lines of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company in this city will
prove a success. This apparatus is
supposed to issue quickly transfer
properly punched with a minimum Of
action by the conductor. 1t is plain
that if it works satisfactorily it will
greatly facilitate the collection of
fares and issue Of transfers at the con-
gestion points. When a number of
people board a car together the con-
ductor must make change. sell tokens
and issue transfers in addition to
watching the fare box and the door
simultaneously. The result is that the
car is held up unduly because of the
crowd at the fare box. The use of
change holders has already facilitated
cash transactions, and tokens are pro-
duced in the right quantities from
compartments. But unless the con-
ductor ignores the rules about trans
Lei puiShiHs he 10 SoiiPelleu " holu
the line while he carefully designates
the hour and point of transfer on the
printed slip. The type of cars used
chiefly in Washington makes it impos-
sible to start the car until practically
the last fare has been collected. In
some cities cars are run Of a style
that permits the people to enter in a
crowd and the doors to be closed and
taken and before transfers are issued.
Any device which permits a car to
load and unload quickly and to lessen
the time of halting is desirable. This
new transfer-punching machine may
be one Of these aids to rapid transit.
Evening star., 1924-07-27

tramp through the country. The sapient
Mr.. Dick, after looking the young man
over. at once replied, Wash him The
perplexed question now is, What shall
be done with young Pomeroy. the Massa-
chusetts boy murderer And the popu-
lar response is Hang him The finding
of the body Of another of his victims
has added to the intensity of public feel
ing against him, and it is safe to say
that had these crimes been committed
in the West the boy fiend would long
since have been lynched by the indis
nant citizens 1t is safer and more
charitable in this case however, to be-
lieve that the murderous youth is in
sane, since there is an absence OF mo-
tive in his crime except the mere brutal
desire of shedding human blood. As his
insanity takes the form of murder
mania he could hereafter be placed in a
position where he will be incapable of
harming others Imprisonment for life
would seem to suit this particular ca&e.'
Evening star., 1924-07-27
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Badinage.

Badinage.
Bad money is thicker
In Europe, we hear;
And bad is the licker
They sell over here.
But who's condescending
In sorrow to think
Our hopes are depending
On lucre or drink?
Well smile with persistence
And never be sad,
Nor fear that existence
Has gone to the bad.