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Evening star., 1924-09-14
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In 1904 bankers Of the United States
Temporarily stopped lending moro money
to the automobile industry. explaining
that the saturation point Of the indus
try had. about been reached in their
opiniop. Today. 20 years after, one
maker produces more cars each month
than the combined yearly output Of al
auto manufacturers IN 13e6
Evening star., 1924-09-14
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COOLIDGE QUIETLY GAINS
AS RIVALS LOSE GROUND
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campaign, and to this extent he got
a long lead on his later competitors.
It is a cold-bloodcd campaign.
The voters seem to be studying
politics and proposed policies
without getting heated up" Pos
sibly the extensive radio dissent
nation has something to do with
his. Undoubtedly tho general
public is getting better acquainted
with public questions than in any
previous campaign. Public inter-
est will be aroused in still greater
degree as the campaign pro-
crosses. Senator La Toilette is
going to open up his batteries
very shortly.
their claims and the public is
thinking over their assertions and
weighing them in the balance of
its judgment The politicians will
have to make good on their claims
and their charges in the present
thoughtful disposition of the vot-
ers. There is likely to be less bun
combe able to get by" the voters
this Fall than in some former
campaigns.
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It Is tho subject of general COM
ment among politicians that Mr..
Davis has not got off on q running
start in his campaign. No one
seems able to account for it. When
he was nominated, on every, side
was heard the expression, TT was
the best nomination they could
have made" Then they appeared
to 'let it go at that for a. while"
He has not been able to get up
steam. His speeches are the fn-
ished products expected Of him,
his personality 10 pleasing, but
there Is noticeable lack Of an
thusiasm in the Democratic sup
port. It Is calculated 1t will re-
quife more enthusiasm based on
his attractive personality to put
the requisite speed in the cam
paiEn. -.
Senator La Toilette is rerard.
ed by most Of the politicians who
are neutral minded as being at
present President Coolidge's most
formidable opponent. This 3udK-
ment is based upon the expected ::
large popular vote Of tho Wiscon-
sin statesman, to come from 4
number Of groups representing
some elements OF discontent. which
appear to be rampant in the coun-
try. But 1t is said that Senator
La Toilette has not BEEN able TO
weld them into an effective work.
ing mass. Both Democrats and
Republicans have strong practical
working Organizations comprising
the most skilled political mauipu-,
lators In their respective. parties,
men to whom politics has been q
business for, many years. They
have highly organized machinery
for getting publicity. Not since
the days OF Mark Hanna have the
two major parties been, so highly
and scientifically organized, and
organization in. politics i, means !,
everything. =. :.
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Many thoughtfui palitieal lsad-:
ers are glad that the third party
is In action this ye1r. They say It
would be . good thing to have all |
the radicals gathered In one Group@
And get . showdown on Just how
much voting radical sentiment
exists In this country. sIAt -
Evening star., 1924-09-14

Many thoughtfui politieal lsad-
ers are glad that the third party
is In action this year. They say It
would be . good thing to have all
the radicals GSthsrsd In one Group
aud get . showdown on Just how
much voting radical sentiment
exists In this country. lat ~
Evening star., 1924-09-14
The Follies Girl at Home.

From the Harvard Lampoon
Lend you $40, Midge? But
thought you were fixed"
Not for a while yet. This year
breach of promise suit is dragging
horribly"
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west OF Shanghai. but some doubt
was thrown on these claims today
by \ report Of Chinese. who ar
rived from the Kiangsu line. lie
said kiangsu 10 forcing the lighting.
As usual, a good many OF the shells
nred by the rival artillery prove TO
be "duds."
srrnr srApns ,Sopnr
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Gifted, High minded Teachers
Are Held Essential to Nation

Tribute to "two supremely impor-
tant professions in the United States,
one the profession of the school
teacher and the other that Of the hon
est, able, high-minded, public-spirited,
fearless editor" was paid on the floor
of the House last week by Represen-
tative Henry Allen Cooper, who Is
serving his thirtieth year in Congress.
While the legislation establishing
a new schedule of salaries for school
teachers in the National Capital was
under consideration Representative
Cooper emphasized that "a teacher
takes a little boy or a little girl at
the habit-forming age, and, as was
said generations ago, habit is a Ca
BILE, we weave a strand a day and at
last it becomes so strong that we can
not break it."
Then he quoted "the noble and true
conception of the vocation of a school
teacher held by one of the noblest.
wiSest men this republic has ever
known, William Ealery Claiming" as
follows:
"The dignity of the vocation of a
teacher is beginning to be understood;
the idea is dawning upon us that no
office can compare in solemnity and
Importance with that of training the
child; that skill to form the young to
energy, truth and virtue is worth
more than the knowledge of all other
arts and sciences; and that the en-
couragement of excellent teachers is
the first duty which community
owes to itself. 1 say the truth is
dawning and must make it's way
the whole worth of school lies in
the teacher. You may accumulate the
Evening star., 1924-04-06

This may seem to be ancient his
tory. But Maury's theory is honored
by every seafaring nation today. 1t
has been amplified and elaborated,
but in no particular has it been found
faulty. Deep-sea commerce is mostly
carried in steam-1riven vessels now,
but Maury'S wind roses are stiff on
the charts for those who sail. And it
was Maury who uplifted the hydro
graphic Office from a mere depot for
wornout chronometers into the place
in naval estimation which it occupies
today. He made it worth taking. Mr..
Hoover would not want to take over
a dusty garage for old clocks.
Nowadays it has half a dozen func-
tions. For one thing the naval OBJ
servatory in Washington is under its
direction. The naval observatory
time signals are relied on as far away
as Australia. Its astronomers check
up the sun, the moon and stars and
have recently published what is to the
lay reader the most intensely unin-
teresting book in the world. By it a
sea captain can find the exact position
of his ship without resorting to the
odious pursuit OF mathematics. For
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The Story the Week Has Told

, nocent completely" Farce attained
its apogee at that trial: imaginative
genius must ever strive in vain TO
produce anything so side-s splitting:
left is very caustic on the verdict:
but whether that verdict is destined
to help or to main the nationalist
cause is a very doubtful speculation.
On April 8, in the beer hall which
was the scene of the famous revolu-
ton, Gen Ludendorff launched his
campaign as candidate for seat in
the reichstag. Infinite was the ap-
plause, infinite were stems OF
MuenSchner.
The German political scene takes on
an aspect more and more bizarre.
Chancellor Marx makes a speech at
Hanover declaring that victory at the
coming elections of the extremists of
the right would cause Germanys ruin.
On the same day in the same city
Foreign Minister StreSemann declares
himself for the peoples kaiserdom,"
with other remarks which seem to
denote him-well, anything you please
except an enthusiast for the Weimar
constitution and the republic.
The press of the world, and esp4-
cially of the United States, manifest
ing surprise at such utteranceS from
a member of the republican govern
ment, Stresemann issues an elaborate
apology" to the press. He and his
party, it seems-the peoples party,
the party of industrial magnates-
are monarchiStS at heart and con-
slider restoration of kaiserdom the
ultimate goal of their Efforts" but
this is to be achieved by the means
and methods outlined in the Weimar
constitution" He adds that this
fundamental monarchical attitude
stretches far to leftward into the
ranks of members OF tho "oentrist
and democratic parties" Quite so;
but one cannot help thinking that
such utterances might be Of help to
the restoration of kaiserdom by
means and methods not outlined in
the Weimar constitution. 1t is Ger
tainly very hzarre
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Real Workers in the National Capital

to which the hot and cold currents
are shifting icebergs in the summer.
Then the coast guard sends out its ice
patrol and, so to speak, bangs a bell
on each berg. If the master OF the
Titanic had obeyed the II. O.'s warn
ing that great steamer would not
have been lost eleven years ago.
Thanks to it's familiarity with the
antics Of the currents Herbert ].
Browne is able to tell US year or so
ahead whether or not we will have
wet or dry season.
Laws That Govern Weather.
'I am working out the natural laws
that govern the weather." says
browne. So far 1 have been 100 per
cent right"
The fly in the cup of the hydro
graphic Offices happiness is the de-
bate whether it shall swallow the
coast and geodetic survey or be swaI-
lowed by its rival. The photographic
Office is charged with the duty of
charting waters and the coast survey
with that of mapping those of the
United States and its possessions. The
photographic office is of the United
States Navy and the coast survey is
an organization of civilian seamen
and engineers. The Browne plan for
the reorganization of the government
departments calls for the absorption
OF the photographic Office by the
coast survey.
1t is freely admitted that there is
duplication of functions. One eff
cient organization could do the work
of both, with presumably less motion
and a gain in economy. But the hy-
geographic Office says that charting
the seas is a navy job. Seamen, it
says, will not talk freely to civilians.
1t has more than 5000 correspondents
afioat, in consequence of which it is
able to publish a daily newspaper In
which those tidal and lighthouse and
floating dere1ict items, which are of
such vital Importance to mariners,
are published. It's Sailing Directions"
are the seaman's Bible.
The decision rests with Congress,
and seems apt to continue to rest
there.
His men say that Capt. f. B. Bas-
sett is human" Capt. Bassett is the
present chief photographer. He is a
tall, kindly, affable naval officer, who
is intensely interested in every detail
of his work. Quires OF letters from
scientists come into his desk. They
want the volunteer correspondents of
| the photographic Office to report on
odd bugs on a distant island, on the
! cannibalStic practices of a shock
headed tribe of savages, on the prev
alence of fish-eating humming birds
, in the mandates, on everything else
that may seem to be interesting to a
scientist. And Capt Bassett does his
best
During the war he was a rear ad-
miral in command of the destroyers
along the Atlantic coast, and during
his forty years sea service he has
served on fifteen ships and had almost
as many shore assignments, covering
/ almost every branch of naval activity.
One would say that he would retain
his self-command under any circum-
stances, after such an experience.
Doubtless he would. But / did not
ask him about the coast survey.
Evening star., 1924-04-06

The following is a brief summary
of the most important news of the
world for the seven days ended
April ):
The British Empire.-Debate in the
house of commons on April 2 brought
into vivid relief the precariousness of
the labor governments tenure of
power.
A rents bill was before the house,
one clause of which provided that a
tenant out of employment should not
be evicted. No relief was proposed
for the landlord; he could whistle for
his money. The discussion, which was
violent, made it clear that should the
bill, as presented, come to a vote, the
liberals would join the conservatives
in opposing it and the government
would be badly defeated. Therefore
Mr.. Clynes, the labor leader OF the
house, announced that, though the
ciple of non-eviction of an unem-
ployed tenant, it proposed to amend
the bill so as to provide for relief of
the unfortunate landlord out of the
public funds
Discussion was therefore suspended,
pending recaSting of the offensive
clause. Most people will agree with
Mr.. Nevil Chamberlain's characterize
tion of that clause as not merely so
cialistic but revolutionary.
Amended as proposed, the bill will
yet retain a rich socialistic bouquet,
and the renewed discussion will be
important.
That same day, April 2, a conserva-
tive resolution condemning the prin-
ciple of the capital levy, was debated
in the commons. The object of the
resolution was to bring out definite
statement of the labor governments
attitude. Mr.. C1ynes observed that
his government had no intention
of processing a capital levy to the
present parliament: But declared
1T to be his conviction that ulti-
mately a. capital levy would be recog-
n1zed as necessary. 1t Is a plausible
the present system of taxation, a
sufficiently drastic capital levy
(though lacking so sweet a name) is
actually in operation. The resolution
was carried 325 to 1S0.
The labor government continues to
move with utmost circumSpection. All
in good time, when 1t feels confident
of winning a. majority of parliamen-
tary seats in a general election. it will
put it to the teeth" and court defeat
in parliament. And then we shall see
what we shall see.
Certain interesting amendments to
the annual army bill were proposed
the other day by labor members of
the house Of commons, but defeated,
of which the most curious was one
which called for insertion in the con-
tract of enlistment of clause per-
mitting the soldier to refuse to serve
Evening star., 1924-04-06

if called on to aid the civil power in
connection with an industrial contro-
VerSy.
France.-The makeup of Poincare's
new cabinet is still the talk of
France; in particular the fact that
five of Poincare's eleven new col
leagues were chosen from the mod
crate left OF course, Poincare's idea
was to conciliate the support of the
moderate left, or at least to forestall
important opposition from that quar-
ter: partly with view to the coming
elections. still more with a view to
the negotiations which will follow
submittal of the Dawes NICK emma re-
port to the reparations commission.
But whether his proceeding in this
matter displayed high statesmanship,
or. rather, INSCRIPTIONS political cum
ming, that is what people are debat-
ing When partially explaining the
motives of his choice to the chamber
the other day Poincare was certainly
glancing at Loucheur and Francois
Marsa1 when he said: Il thought 1t
would be most useful to have at my
side men acquainted with the conver-
1920 and 1891"
Poincare's record justifes the in
ference that his motives were mag
unanimous. In his speech of March 81
to the commons Premier Macdonald
of Great Britain gave the coup de
grace to French hope that he would
consent to a treaty whereby Britain
should guarantee French security.
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Germany.-The Munich court which
tried Ludendorff and the other par
ticipants in the beer hall revolu-
ton" acquitted Ludendorff. 1t found
his co-conspirators technically guilty.
but imposed merely nominal Sem
tenceS.
Ludendorff's connection with the
affair was discovered to be one of "in-
Evening star., 1924-04-06

merly he shot a star or the sun at
noon and then went into the great
silence with his slate pencil. Now he
steps on deck at almost any hour,
shoots almost any star, turns to the
right page in the book and logs his
place on the sea He only needs to
find the star. The rest has been done
for him. Logarithms have been
abolished.
Sun Spots and IceberEs.
Another thing the naval observa
tory does is to spot sun spots. Just
what a sun spot does to telephone and
telegraph wires, and probably also to
the radio sets which have done so
much TO keep America at home lately,
is not understood by the writer. Only,
the nearer a spot gets to the center
of the sun the worse grow the wires,
and so the observatory notifies the
wire companies by telegraph as the
spots move. The photographic office
keeps tab on ocean currents, too, for
they are continually changing place.
By a system of radio communica-
tion with ships at sea it identifies the
precise place in the North Atlantic
Evening star., 1924-04-06

or brilliant futures painted by imagi-
native patriots.
Peace in peace has become as insist
ent a demand now as peace even in
war was becoming when at last vic
tory came to our cause.
What strikes one is that in the pres
ent state of the French mini, states
men or politicians could not lead the
masses very far by blowing up the
dying Goals of the wartime flames.
France NAV not be too tired to fight.
I do not believe any nation is ever
quite that, but France is 50 deathly
tired of fighting and the talk of fight
ing that her statesmen must observe
utmost caution in their interna ational
dealing to survive national feelings.
bast man to bring a, settlement. But
that is the sole reason he has lasted
So long and may last iittle longer
before he faces the final test Of sue
cess or failure in settlement.
Copyright. 1924. by the Mcclure Newspaper
SyUdicate
Evening star., 1924-04-06
BY HERBERT COREY.

r VENTS come crosswise in this
- world. If Matthew Fontaine
Maury had not broken his leg
eighty odd years ago the
United States Navy might not now be
shifting at Secretary Herbert Hoover
because he wants to put its hydro
graphic Office in his Department of
Commerce.
1t was the age of canvas and clipper
ships when Maury was a boy. Sea
captains left port with Bible, a cask
of rum, a few odds and ends of in
struments and a conviction that ulti-
mately they would blow into the port
at the distant end of the route. Little
was known of the dependability of
the trades and monsoons and other
winds. Then Lieut. Maury fell
through a hatchway.
Let us give him a nice, easy job"
said the Navy Department of that
day, where he can stay until his leg
knits and he is fit to go to sea again."
The easiest job possible was to be
found in the bureau of charts and in
struments. 1t was a sort of ware
house, in which chronometers and sex
tants were deposited with recluses
when a naval vessel returned from
a cruise. Instead of sitting back in
his chair, Maury exhibited irritabil-
ity. He said that he had an idea that
at certain seasons certain winds were
invariable. Mariners might take ad-
vantage of them if they only knew.
1.-THE poor boys leg must be hurt
ing him." the naval officials of that
day probably said
But they gave Maury permission to
spend his time as he saw fit, doubtless
reasoning that game-legged man
could not be of much service anyhow.
He examined the logs of more than
5000 sea voyages into almost every
Ipatch of salt water known and worked
out his theory of winds, on which the
science of deep-sea sailing has rested
ever since. Not steaming. mind you.
Steaming is a horse of another color
The wind-roses which decorate the
pilots charts of the seas are due to
him.
Sailors Called Maury Crazy.
THE man is crazy" said the sailors
of that day when he made known his
discovery.
So other sea captains were started
on a deep-sea race, with the result
that those who followed Maury s
revolutionary ideas saved forty-five
days over the sailing time of the con-
servatives on the voyage from San
Francisco to New York. That estab-
lished his theory firmly, and in 1912
he was made chief of the hydro
graphic Office of the Navy, nee the
bureau of charts. The National
Academy of Sciences adopted a reso-
luton twenty years later to the effect
that because Maury, who was a
southerner had taken the side of the
south in the civil war, his trumpery
ideas about winds should thereupon
! be dismissed by the navigators.
| Whereupon the heary shipmen gave
the scientists what is now known as
the raZz.
Keep your scientific snoots out of
our business" they said, or words to
that effect.
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most expensive apparatus for instruc-
tion, but without an intellectual, gift
ed teacher it is little better than rub
bish, and such a teacher without ap-
paratus may effect the happiest Ie-
suits
What we want is a. race Of teachers
acquainted with the philosophy of the
mind, gifted men and women, who
shall respect human nature in the
child and strive to touch and gently
bring out its best powers and sympa-
thies, and who shall devote themselves
to this as the great end Of life. This
good. trust, is to come, but it comes
slowly. This good requires that edu-
cation shall be recognized by the
community as its highest interest and
duty.
1T requires that the instructors Of
youth shall take precedence of the
woman of fashion shall fall behind
the female teacher
Evening star., 1924-04-06
MEN OF VISION.

- is no vision, the people per-
ish."
We have come to associate
the men of vision with things purely
visionary and impossible of accom-
plishment, and yet, startling as it
seems, the whole forward progress of
the world rests with those who have
dreamed dreams and seen visions. It's
the man who dares to project himself
into the future, who seeks to discover
how certain causes must produce GER
tain effects, who eventually leads
hesitant world into finer and better
conditions. True, the general public
has tendency to refuse leadership to
the man who is moving too fast, look
ing too far ahead, concerned too much
with the future.
Listening recently to a very strik-
ing and suggestive address on Thomas
Jefferson, we were struck with one
thing in this great statesman's work
that seemed to disclose his dominant
purpose; it was his unfailing habit of
dealing with every question with q
view to its influence upon the future.
He refused to legislate for today
without reference to the bearing it
might have upon life of tomorrow.
Practical as he was, he had the ge-
MUS of the seer, he was essentially a
man of vision. 1t was this that made
him as an individual force one of the
greatest this country has ever known.
a study of his life and work, a work
of Incompatible value, makes it per-
fecuy clear that he was no opportun-
ist, seizing for the sake of political
advantage every plausible device that
No Of
gency.
Far-seeing FOrefathers.
1t is remarkable when we study
these men of our formative period,
how far-seeing they were in project
ing the plan of the new republic. Far
seeing, that is fine definition of the
man of vision. Over against men of
the type of jefferson and Hamilton,
Washington and Marshall, as we
measure ourselves today, do we seri-
ously feel that our so-called mental
alertness and cleverness. are d fair
match for their extrao rdinary ge-
MUS? True, conditions change, and
new conditions call for different quail
tiles of leadership but are we certain
that a jefferson would not serve the
purposes of our present age? Re-
peatedly in recent years we have
given Scant recognition to the man of
vision, the man who Seeing for an
end sublime" has been willing to ac-
cept the jibes and, sometime, scorn of
a misunderstanding present, in orde
that he might lay more secure the
foundations for happy and peaceful
and prosperous future. We have an
unusual facility in this country for
eXtolling the men of the past who
had vision, whose vision has made us
what we are; we have a like facility
for criticizing and condemning those
of the present who are seeking to
emulate their virtues.
Abandonment of Idcnls.
1 was greatly struck recently by
the talk of a Clear-visioned, singular
ly efficient, young newspaper man,
who remarked that in his observation
of men in public life (and his oppor-
tuRitieS for observation are wide and
intimately he had again and again