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Evening star., 1924-01-27

Spuds" You wish that the person
who names Pullman cars could find
cosnomens as appropriate.
4 4
The road winds its wav along
through sparse pine woods and the
landscape becomes a bit monotonous.
The Floridians are thinking Of besu-
tifying this northern stretch TO mai.
it fit in with the paradise later On
1t Is q. good scheme In a way, but
the tourist would lose the surprise of
the contrast that is to come.
1t is raining now, a nice, soft warm
rain without a bit Of wind. Prettv
soon the coral roads begin to coIlrCr
little pools OF chalk-white wat.l
When you hit big pool at tori
miles an hour, the spray makes ypr
think you are motoring along th"
milky way.
The scenery becomes bit Nor,
colorful. You whirI along through
rain-splashed thickets. A tali grace
ful heron is feeding at a pool. TIL
palms begin TO multiply. Occasion
ally the deeper foliage closes abov.
your head and you plunge through ii
tropical tunnel. You feel you reail,
are getting into the heart of Florida
now.
And the signs. They seem all t.
have been erected by private enter
prise Apparently there are no state
guide posts, The signs tell you to
go everywhere. Or rather theE
so ailurins You scarcely know which
turning to take next The Florida
, resorts are spread web-like to catch
the touring fly. Then they enmesh
you with d hospitality which seems
genuine even If the old pocketbooi.
does grow fatter in leaps and bounds
Ormond is the first stop. That l-
where John D. Rockefeller spends thc
winters. You wonder where and how
| the old eodger lives, or how he ca1.
live down here in Florida with only
dimes in his pockets. You already
! have learned you wouldn't get very
far on those thin bits of silver. But
! the original and greatest Of all the
oil cans doesn't have TO worry about
monetary details. He has a whole
flock of financial secretaries to dis
pense the dollars. He merely hands
out the dimes. You wonder where
John D: gets all those dimes he gives
away. From the bank, they tell you.
in OTmond. Then, why does he give
them away? Nobody knows the an
swer to that. Just the whim of a nic.-
old gentleman who soon will he
eighty-five and whom every one down
this way likes tremendously.
x :: x
Too bad it is raining. John L. won;
he able to come across to the hoiel
concert this evening. The clerks al
, the hotel are not native sons That is
, quickly evident. They tell you it has
been raining for four days. Truthful
souls. And rare specimens at a resort
/ hotel. Maybe they are novices. Per
haps the sun will shine tomorrow and
you will see John D. on the links. Mr.
| Harding used to play often at Or
mond. You always used to wonder
what the country would think il the
! President and the head of Standard
| Oil ever crossed niblicks. The coun-
| try might not have worried. but tn"
| radicals in the Senate would have
| added 1000 pages to the Congress
! Rressional Record. And so TO bed.
Evening star., 1924-01-27
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT r. SMALL
MIAMI BEACH. Fla, January 90
Motoring down tho Dixie highway n

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, January 2e-
Motoring down the Dixie highway IN
Florida
A multitude OF automobiles Just off
the boat at Jacksonville They have
come from New York, but they bear
the license plates of a half a dozen
northern states. A green one from
vermont gives you a shiver, Gosh,
II must be cold up there. You also
catch yourself wondering IL any Of
the machines have been seasick on
the way down and got their carbu-
rotor digestion out of order. Seem
tngly they roll Off the dock none the
worse for wear or weather. There
Is a filling station around the corner
and you are lucky If they have left
a. few drops of gas in your tank so
you can get there. Otherwise they
soak you six bits" service charge for
bringing five gallons over the tracks
In the balmy air of January aft
ernoon you get away from Jackson
Vile by speeding over the new bridge
which crosses the old St. Johns
river. Boyhood recollections of an
afternoon sail on that river come
back to you. You remember weeping
the night through because the sun
literally had parboiled you. l. is not
sunny today. Rain clouds are scud-
ding across the sky and with n grin
you recall the first time tourists on
the train who asked II it ever rained
in the land of sunshine and flowers"
x 4 4 x
A we'll kept brick road leads you
to st. Augustine, the Oldest city in
the whole United States. The land of
old George w. Ponce deLeon himself.
Before entering the ruins of the city
gates you pass the st. Augustine
links. This was President Harding's
favorite Florida course. He loved it
because it was difficult and because
it always fought him. You remember
that II was here you played your first
game Of golf with the late President
Freddie Mcleod of Columbia Club,
Washington, was your partner, and
long Jim Barnes. OF Pelham. just
about TO become the open champion,
played with Mr.. Harding. The Hard
ing Barnes combination lost. but
later in the year they wiped out the
defeat in Washington, after paving
on the first obligation with a White
House luncheon.
There should be some sort Of me-
mortal TO Mr.. Harding at the st.
Augustine links. 1t would be a fine
thing for the game and a tribute due
one of the foremost golfers the
country has ever known. The me-
mortal should be at the sixth hole.
The water hazard there. with cranes
Tapping about from time to time.
more than once was Mr.. Harding's
golfng nemesis. but he would never
give up. until he shot one across and
onto the green.
!: x x =
Also al St. Augustine there are
memories of the potato queen" a
lovely. athletic girl who could golf,
drive car and ride with the best of
the men. She owned a potato ranch
some eighteen miles away and her
potatoes were always among the
first and the best on the northern
markets. Some years she would
make as high as $4,000. The col
ored folks" on the ranch loved her
And so did some one else. because
last year she was married. You
wonder If there is a little potato
princelinR by now.
In little while you pass the ranch
itself. The railway station is called
Evening star., 1924-01-27
BY THOMAS n. MARSHALL.
Former Vice President Of the Unites
States.


States.
Communists, we are informed by no
less eminent an authority than Trot-
sky. hold that 1t is necessary. In or
der to accomplish the purposes wnlch
they have In view, to deny the exist
ence of q God and to reject beiieI
in a future life. In discussing TASKS
lof Communist Education" Trotsky
stated the view of the Russian gov
ernment upon the subject.
"Religiousness,' he wrote. 'is ir-
lreconcilable with the MARKHAM stand
point. We are of the opinion that
atheism. as an inseparable element
Jf the materialist view of life, is a
necessary condition for the theoreti-
cal education of the revolutionist. He
who believes In another world is not
capable OF concentrating all his pas
sion on the transformation Of this
one"
This doctrine is being preached In
free America from soap boxes and in
secret conclaves by misguided souls
and their preachment Is troubling
Americans who still believe in old
|, ia ashioned government. The fear ex-
lists that the communists' belief may
find lodgment In the minds of those
who are weary. downtrodden and dis
Icontented. and that these disconsolate
souls, suffering under real grievances
may nave their minds unhinged and
become Reds" Then IL is that rev.
ioiutionists start out with torch and
bomb, with dagger and pistol, to re-
form through force that which they
despair OF reforming through the or
derly processes of law
/ have been convinced that such
a crusade in America against gov
eminent would miserably fail, that
II would be noise and fustian and
nothing else. that the sober men OF
second thought. even though they
held grievances. would see that ad-
justment. OF their grievances could
be more speedily and surely brought
about through orderly processes than
through revolution. But 1 canno;
get away from the thought that the
dangerous form Of government Is
the one that acknowledges no su-
perior. Most Of us who have thought
some about government, more about
the good or mankind and most about
our own peace and prosperity are
app TO wonder whether the really
hopeless outlook is not the one which
sees no moving force save that which
proceeds from the human intellect.
Whether the darkest future Is not
mat or the man who believes that
death ends all.
Out OF the strife and turmoil of the
world war. out of the effort of good
ana thoughtful men everywhere to
readjuSt conditions. out of the homes
ana fears and longings of human
kihd: slowly has permeated into the
minds or men and into the conscious
ness of the body polite one great
idea-that wisdom, culture. learning,
oralns. ordinances. laws. constitu-
tlons and treaties have failed To give
Evening star., 1924-01-27
Who Cracked the Crate?

The crook who cracked the crate
packed by DR.. Ales Hrdlicka Of the
Smithsonian last autumn somewhere
In Europe for shipment to the United
States Is probably by this time con.
WINGED that he is dumb beyond belief.
That Is, unless it was a scientific
crook looking for just what DR..
Hrdlicka had slowed away SO care.
fully in the crate. But scientific crooks
are not common. They may steal ideas
and sometimes credits-such as in the
north pole case-but they do not steal
collections. And it was collection
that the crate contained. Yet collec-
tion of no particular value save to the
collector.
If he looked for silks or precious
stones or priceless statues or other
works of art the cracksman who
somewhere in transit emptied the
crate of it's contents and replaced them
with rocks and pebbles must have
been vastly astounded and bitterly
chagrined. For what he found was a
lot Of old bones and some photographs
Evening star., 1924-01-27
Modern Assaults on Religion
PLAY Into Hands of the ''Reds'

the world a glimpse of the millennia!
dawn. Business men, diplomatists.
scholars and statesmen are beginning
to feel that the danger of the world
Is not political bankruptcy nor eco
nomic bankruptcy. but spiritual bank
move for Righteousness are moving
toward this spiritual concept Of in
dividual and governmental life. The
meeting point of all contending
forces. when it Is set up. will be a
spiritual meeting point. If men once
agree upon some great fixed princi-
pie. agree not with mere lip service,
but agree in actual life conduct, then
the lesser irritations which disturb
individuals, singly and collectively,
can be eliminated.
Moro and more the preachment has
been going on that the truths con-
tanned in the Holy Scriptures must
constitute the principles by which
men and governments must control
their relations with each other. And
many Of us who long for nothing save
justice and peace have had our hearts
gladdened by the idea that the world
finally had found that the spiritual
cord was the only one that could bind
the hearts of men together in com
mon concord and produce among the
nations of the earth a state of peace.
But just when we laymen were ready
to accept the gospel OF the Nazarene
as the golden metewand. as the only
duct of men, individually and COL
|lectively, the preachers who have
made gods for themselves and, conse-
quently deny everything that does
not square with their conception of
divinity. begin hammering and pound
ing at the sacred writings OF God and
the Son of God, pretending that they
are seeking to find the truth, but in
reality trying to prove to the world
that they are wiser than all the gen.
erations which preceded them; that
their conception of God is the true
dares to imagine a God Of more power
than the one which they have created
Is essentially mistaken and doubt
less. a foolish man.
Those of us who believe in the eter-
nal verify of the Scriptures place our
reliance upon our conception of a
God who is Infinitely greater and
more powerful than the human intel
lect can comprehend. Our intellect
even the best of it, Is always proving
that things which are and have been
cannot be. The wisest men of all
ho uohieu tiat lHiise WnicH
subsequently, came to pass could be
possible. The assault Of present day
preachers upon the truth OF the things
that have been making for a right
outlook in life the world around is OF
vast moment in view Of the fact that
they are tearing down a faith and
setting up nothing in it's place. 1t is
well up to them to explain TO the
American people how the things they
are doing differ essentially from the
things which Trotsky is doing in Rus
STA. IL they are going to persist in
limiting the power of God. they ought
to get out of their puipits and get on
soap boxes or creep into the nests of
communists who are striking at the
foundations Of our republic.
Copyright, 1924, by Twenty -frst Century
Press.)
Evening star., 1924-01-27

North Carolina forbids the teaching
Of the theory Of evolution in the pub
lie schools. The idea Of evolution is a
fascinating one. The fact that it is
not permitted TO interfere with early
education will not prevent any normal
individual from giving it mature con.
sideration and forming his own opin-
ion.
Evening star., 1924-01-27

The British labor cabinet proceeds
to business in a methodical way that
may be disappointing TO lovers Of the
picturesque To be successful In poll
tics a man must know how to adapt
himself to his environment.
Evening star., 1924-01-27

The President will go to New York
by train. In a few years these little
dinner trips will be made by airship.
And a few years later the guest OF the
evening may stay at home and be
seen as well as heard by means Of
wireless transmission.
Evening star., 1924-01-27

A frequent demand for five.cent
fare may at least help to prevent the
street car token from going up in
price till It can be retired in favor Of
the ordinary ten.cent coin.
Evening star., 1924-01-27

A Wagnerian opera company has
sailed for Germany after a disappoint.
ing season. Wagnerian opera is one
thing that a large number Of people
positively refuse to forgive.
Evening star., 1924-01-27
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Era Of Recklessness.


They told me when l was boy
To shun the fashions nifty,
And seek my money to employ
In enterprises thrifty.
"a penny saved-a penny earned
All, that is what they taught me.
Alas, the lesson that learned
But little joy has brought me!
I have the penny still. I'll say.
But what seems rather funny
The ones who have most cash are the!
Who toss around their money!
Evening star., 1924-01-27

The public has been advised that
both national party conventions will
be absolutely dry. The bell hops will
be authoritatively notified in due sea
! son.
Evening star., 1924-01-27

| The farmer continues to insist that
| he wants relief to tide him over until
the Muscle Shoals fertilizer factories
all get started.
Evening star., 1924-01-27

reduction plans would be good If it
could secure undisputed right Of way
Evening star., 1924-01-27

The prospects Of new oil develop
ments have not sent the price OF gaso-
line down as yet.
Evening star., 1924-01-27

Confidence men are now selling fic-
titious parking space instead Of gold
bricks. Methods change, but men do
not.
Evening star., 1924-01-27

Reciprocity.
Don't you think we ought to go
to the assistance Of Europe?"
YES" replied Senator Sorghum.
"But IL we are expected to read all the
manuscripts in every prize contest I
also think that Europe, while she isn't
working, ought to come to our as.
sistance.'
Jud Tunkins says the difficulty
about trying to 1ovs your enemies is
that you're always liable to feel that
you are showing darn poor taste.
Evening star., 1924-01-27
Pull.

Did you ever try to stop bootleg
ging In Crimson Gulch?"
mo-" declared Cactus Joe. "The
local undertaken has such political
pull we're afraid to interfere with his
business" t.
Evening star., 1924-01-27

Its gineter be hard" said Uncle
Eben, "to pervent people FUN fightin'
jes' as long as dar is de human in.
stinct foh pervidin' a purse .foh Dc
winner
Evening star., 1924-01-27
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Evening star., 1924-01-27
Louuacious Bird,

Oh, Dove Of Peace-you are 80 free
With conversation wondrous wise,
sometimes half expect to see
That you're a parrot in disguise.
Evening star., 1924-01-27

Chang and Eng, the famous STA
mese twins" died at their home 8
Evening star., 1924-01-27

- 4hE :
In The Star of January "a, 1Sj is
given an account of an experiment
Evening star., 1924-01-27

Tie Evening Star Newspaper company
Business once. 1lth ST. and Pennsylvania Ave.
New York Office: 110 East 42nd st.
Chicago Office: Tower Building.
European Offce: l6 Regent St, London England
Evening star., 1924-01-27

Had Gen. Pershing used a red
nostriled war horse at st. Mihiel in
stead of reclining on soft-cushioned,
| out-of-sight limousine, he might have
been President today" thus writes
Gen. Isaac r. Sherwood, who is the
oldest man in Congress, who went
| into the civil war as the first volun-
teer soldier in northwestern Ohio as
q private and came out a brigadfer
general, who is today the Oldest living
general of the civil war and who has
always been a great lover OF the
horse.
For many years Gen. Sherwood
drove about Washington one OF the
best spans of horses ever driven in
. this country. He has made notable
| speeches in Congress on the part that
the horse has played in civilization,
| which have been reprinted into al
| ''In the world war we read of no
| 'Pickett's charge or 'Sheridan's ride
| The chugging motor car may aid and
abet in romance and as as. an n. accessory ce,ss
, is not historic and its tragedies are
erals i47s) rode no horses to the
battle 'front.' Gen. Sherwood reminds
and file were not inspired by their
presence. The world today does not
conjure up a vision of Foch or Haig
| or Pershing astride a battle charger.
Gen. Sherwood points with pride to
the greatest dramatic poem of the
| war. 'Sheridan's Ride" by his fellow
| state-man, Thomas B. Read. which
came white-hot from the poets brain
at a single sitting" describing in
| thrilling language the perilous ride
| on the thoroughbred stallion Rienzi
I that carried Sheridan from Winches-
\ ter to Cedar Creek. twenty miles
i n
| staggering battalions and turn de-
| feat into victory.
| <"Sheridan never would have evoked
| a great dramatic poem or won the
victory ut Cedar Creek had he gone
| in an automobile with q busted tire"
comments Gen. Sherwood.
The Washington times., 1924-07-14
s T0GKs SHOW
BULL|SH
ZONE
Industrial and Speciality
Shares Inclined to Higher
Levels in Early Trading
~ IntarnatlonaI Newa servlee.

NEW YORK, July 1.-THE bull
ash demonstration in the stock mar
ket was continued in the early
trading today and, with the excep.
ton Of the oil stocks, prices were
generally inclined to higher levels.
Spectacular jumps In few OF the
speciality stocks like Phillips Jones,
Dawson Chemical and Jones Tea
were due TO special influences at
fecting these particular stocks, but
the buoyant tone Of industrial stocks
as a whole reflected the growing
confidence in the immediate future
Of American business and the pre-.
DOnderance Of buying orders accu-
mulating over the weekend.
The railroad stocks were not as
active az the industrials, nor as
prominent In the early trading as
they were q few weeks ago, but
quiet strength marked the dealings
In carrier stocks today. st. Louis.
San Francisco, Pere Marquette,
Northern Pacific and New York
Central were the most active In this
group.
The Industrial specialties were un-.
usually active and buoyant. Phillips
Jones continued its forward move.
ment and gained IA points which,.
added to its 30-point gain OF Satur-
day, represents an advance Of 43
points since Friday This is the
result Of the Galway decision award
ing heavy damages to the company.
Dawson Chemical spurted u point;
international Paper rose to to
55%; Jones Tea 8 to ~, and repre-
gentattveS issues like American Elk
press, Mack Trucks, Industrial AL
cohol, Gulf States Steel, Allied
Chemical were about point higher.
United Railways Investment and
Philadelphia Company, which have
been conspicuously active and buoy
ant in recent weeks, were also
prominent performers on the bull
side OF the market. Al new move
in shipping stocks carried Ameri-
can international, American Ship
and Commerce and international
Mercantile Marine preferred frac-
tionally higher.
Broader public participation in the
stock market is indicated in the
increase Of about k25 900 900 in brok.
ers' loans since May, and in the
reported scarcity Of high grade I'M
vestment stocks. The severe decline
In money rates and the abundance
Of loanable funds has naturally in.
creased the demand for investment
stocks Of the better grade, and com
mission houses report a steady with
drawal Of such stocks from the
market.
There was no important change
In the industrial situation, and spec
ulative sentiment remains moder.
ately bulIish. Sterling exchange con.
tinued its upward movement and
corn gained another cent per bushel
In the Chicago market. Call money
was in good supply at per cent,
and time rates were unchanged.
The Washington times., 1924-07-14
Chicago Live Stock

H00sR Receipts $4,000; iSc ID "a
I hNs.. agll, 7:eo@ 7.loi tor. 1so;
J.eo @7.46: light weight, e.oe9T "a: HIM
s.5aa s;Ss@1;soi heavy packing soWs,
s 4 Is ~ e.E0@1.10; packing sowa' Yough'
CATTLE ReceIpts, $4,000. ata.av
e ~ steers choice ana prime, 1900
a aas medium and good, 0.00@O.S0:
8ood and choice, O.Tg@i0'7g:naeoSny,n,
eng medium. I60@s.GO. Butcher cattle.
hh ,,1Is 100 s;eo $50: cows. AooGs.00;
COWS ana hsifers. a.Ss@ ais: M ~
s s $50 1850. Veal calves (iirht ana
nendywsightl. e.600l1.0O; feeder steers.
NV Ws.1bi atocher steers 6.BO@s,60:
stocxer COWS and heifere, S.6066.Se:
stcoker CALVES 6.60@s.5O.
!. FL Receipts. $4,000: strong to
100 higher. Fat lambs, la.OODi4 ri.
I .n fst ibn. upl, 100000; yesriinEs'
!0 .bo 1900; yearling wethers. 1000
$50; ewes. S.00@6.0O; ewes, cuIls and
common. l.bo@s.60; breeding ewes ago
W1V.bO; feeder lambs. 1900 1900.
The Washington times., 1924-07-14
Chicago Grain Market

CHICAGO. July IA The grain
market opened strong today.
wheat was up ! to ~ cents.
Corn was unchanged to X cents
up. Oats was Is to v cents up.
Opening prices:
Wheat July. $l.105s 0$1.2o: Sep.
tember, $I.19ls @21.2Oik December
$1.221k l$1.23H; May, $1.275z.
Corn--JuIy. $1.O81h @$1.09; Septems
Der. $1.O1M 0$1.031k; December, SO
@86N cents: May, S85s @3sA cents.
Oats-July. IS cents; Septembers
461k @46A cents; December. 4SA@
4Sh cents.
Lard September. $11.90@$11.a2s
October. $12.02@$12.O5: Novembers
$I2.16.
The Washington times., 1924-07-14
SANK STATEMENTS.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF The
SEVENTH STREET
SAVINGS BANK
WASHINGTON, ID. @.
~ the close of business June so, 1924
WASHINGTON, ID. o.

- SoSAhSoe S0ho oVt 1SIAp
RESOURCES
]. Loans and discOunta in.
Guiding rediscounts ac-
ceptAnces Of other banks
and foreign bills Of ex-
change or drafts sold
with Endorsement Of this
Z bank :st,2ss,ssS Is
unsecured 40 7fa Ak
.. u. 8. Government sectirI-
ties owned. :......~... sS.4so 90
,, Other bond stocks
ssseu,TitieS. etc. 1a7.7s1 40
Furniture and
fixtures .... IA040O la.a7g II
~. Cash In vault ana
amount due from ma
ti0na1 BANKS. lee as ~
-. Exchanges for clearing
:. house .....:;...:....... 44.171 IS
the same city or town a.
reporting bank (other
than item 49, ....:.. A.003 ~
Total Of items
10. -, ~. .S114,ls3 -
Total ............. i,070. a4s n
The Washington times., 1924-07-14
Foreign Exchange

tTuEnlnhed 81 y. II Hibbu 3 3.
The Washington times., 1924-07-14

LIVERPOOL. July i4.-spots
quiet. Prices steady. sales, 5000
bales.
American middlings, fair, 1884;
good middlings. 17.74; fully mid
Idlings, 1903; middlings. 1919; low
middlings, 1854; good ordinary.
14:64: ordinary. 14.74.
Futures opened quiet.