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Evening star., 1924-03-21

not available to borrow in amounts not
to exceed $4,000.
Delegate George L. Edmonds Of Mont
gomery county introduced a measure de-
signed to exempt from state taxation
stock of any farmer, together with any
ploys, cultivators, sowing and reaping
machines, tools. implements and ma
chinery used in farming. The bill would
increase the present exemption Of $500
on farmers tools.
Two bills designed to require the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad to construct a
grade crossing along the Brookeville
road and to lower the tracks of the
Metropolitan branch of the system where
it crosses the highway connecting
Georgia avenue in the District Of Co.
lumbia and the town of Olney, Mont
Evening star., 1924-03-21
BOY FREED OF KILLING
MOTHER By MISTAKE
Bullet Had Been Aimed Ut Father,
When He Attacked His
Wife.

By the Associated PRES.
BALTIMORE. Nd. March 21.-Rus-
sal Gibson, sixteen. last night was
exonerated BY . coroner's jury in con-
nection with the shooting to death Of
his mother. Mn Barbara Gibson. We'd
Dict Of accidental death
According to witnesses Mrs. Gfbson's
husband attacked her at her daughters
home. where she had gone about q week
ago, claiming Gibson failed to support
her. Russell, In an effort to protect his
mother, procured q pistol and began
firing upon his father. MrA Gibson
rushed between the two, It u said, re-
ceiving a bullet under the heart. Gibson
was wounded twice and IL in a hospital.
Evening star., 1924-03-21
Green's Tax Return Late,

Chairman Green of the House ways
and means committee has been so
busy trying to get the new tax bill
in shape to pass the House that he
did not get around to making out
his own income tax return for the
first installment. due last Saturday.
When he was seen making out the
return yesterday he confessed that he
had been forced to ask for special
dispensation to permit a late filing
Evening star., 1924-03-21
S GUILTY OF ATTACK
ON MOUNTAIN CHURCH
Leaders Of Bishop Clan Win Be
Sentenced for Wrecking Of
Building.
Special Dispatch to rhe Star,


HAGERSTOWN, Nd. March I'll
For participation In the destruction
Of the Black Oak Church. near Han
cock Christmas eve. a jury at NO
Counelisburg yesterday afternoon re-
turned = verdict Of guilty against
David Bishop. leader Of the Bishop
clan; his son Charles and tho latter's
three sons. Walter. Wilbur and Will
liam.
Tho defendants are charged with
rioting, malicious mischief and as
sault. Sentence will be pronounced
later in the day.
While Christmas services were in
progress in the Black Oak Church, q
gang Of mountaineers swooped down
upon the building and wrecked 1t
from top to bottom. The pulpit and
pews were demolished, part Of the
roof torn on, windows smashed and
Evening star., 1924-03-21

damage done otherwise. Several shots
were exchanged and the CONGREGATION
generally beaten up. The attack was
made, 1t was charged, because of the
activity of the members OF the con-
gregation against boot1egginG.
Evening star., 1924-03-21

Simmons, federal prohibition agent, Is
In jail on . charge OF murder In con-
nection with the shooting.
An investigation into the shooting
will be conducted today by ]. II. Gadd
Of Charleston. state federal prohibi-
tiOn commissioner
Evening star., 1924-05-31

some members of the farm bloc will
resist the appropriation unless farm
relief Is extended. 1t is also COM
planned that there is not enough time
in which to pass the measure and ad
journ by June Z.
The suggestion as to lack of time
is not well founded. There is nothing
in the bill warranting or requiring
long debate. The House passed the
measure in one day. Neither is there
anything abstruse in the proposition
involved in the bill. 1t is purely
measure Of national defense, not Of
extrava gance or in any way smacking
Of militarism.
President Coolidge and the naval
authorities indorse the bill and urge
its passage. There is reason to believe
that the dominant sentiment of this
country approves the object of the
legislation. 1t has been shown that
the United States is weaker in naval
power than is authorized by the solemn
treaty Of the arms conference. That
should not be allowed to continue to
exist.
Adding the cruisers and rehabilitat-
ing other vessels. as proposed by the
bill, is only an act of fairness to our,
own nation. Senators. it is submitted,
will be taking long chance of incur
ring rebuke by their constituents if
this bill is allowed to fail.
Evening star., 1924-05-31

revision of the Versailles treaty re-
specting Germany's responsibility for
the conflict of 1914. Chancellor Herr,
faced with the task of carrying on the
government pending new organiza-
tion, is threatening to call new elec-
tions If the requisite combination can
not be effected quickly. The National
lists. supporting Tirpitz for chancellor,
appear to have the whip hand now,
but they would be compelled in a new
national campaign 20 stand squarely
upon program of reaction which, in
the face Of the assured Socialist
strength. would not be assured of sup
port sufficient to return them to an
other Reichstag as strongly as at
present.
President Milerand refuses TO be
forced out of Office at the demand of
the Socialists. There is talk of a vote
in the Chamber of Deputies calling for
his resignation. But such action mist
be concurrent and the Senate is be.
lieved to he strongly opposed to such
action. Premier Poincare's resignation
is effective tomorrow. a provisional
ministry will doubtless be provided to
insure continued administration.
Neither France nor Germany can
take any comfort out of the parliament
tary deadlock in the other country.
Evening star., 1924-05-31
Parliamentary Blockades.

France and Germany are in political
situations strikingly alike at this pres
ent juncture. In both countries minis
suit Of recent elections. In both COM
binations Of parliamentary groups
have been proposed. without success
at this time. In both obstinate opposi-
ton has been manifested against GER
tain leaders, and their removal has
been made the price Of adhesion to
ministerial program.
In Germany overtures to the Ma
tionalists to join the Centrist party to
form a ministry under Herr. the pres
ent chancellor. were about to be ac-
cepted when new demands were made
by that group, including the right to
name the chancellor. In France, Her
riott, Socialist leader, was regarded as
assured of the premiership when some
of the members Of the extreme left
demanded that the premier should not
accept his portfolio from President
Millerand, and insisted that the execu-
tive retire.
There is no prospect Of immediate
solution Of the problem in either coun.
try. Herr Is firm against q coalition
which will give the extreme National.
lists the balance Of power in the min
istry or tee Reichstag, and Millerand
refuses TO be forced out Of Office at
the insistence Of the extreme Social
lists.
In Germany the fate Of the Dawes
reparation plan is in the balance. The
including the Monarch
lists. urge that there should be no rati,
Action without condition.. notably =.
Evening star., 1924-05-31
A Chameleon Candidacy.

Petitions asking Senator La Toilette
to be an Independent candidate for
President are being circulated in Chi
cago. and from that center elsewhere
by national committee organized in
the interest of his candidacy. In eX-
planning that the petitions do not ask
him to head third party, and that it
is understood that he will not consent
to do SO on national scale. s. j.
konenkampge. who is described in the
dispatches as county chairman of the
conference for progressive political ac-
ton. rather adds to the confusion re-
garding Mr. La Follette's status than
clears it, He says that whoever may
be nominated at Cleveland. La Toilette
will be the regular Republican candi-
date in Wisconsin," He says also that
he understands that La Toilette will
be the choice of the Farmer-Labor
party in Minnesota. and probably of
the same party in North and South
Dakota. But in other states, says
Konenkampge. La F'ollettes name
will be entered simply as an inde-
pendent without party designation.
According to this. La Toilette will
be a Republican in Wisconsin. a
Farmer-Laborite in Minnesota and the
Dakotas and an independent without
party designation elsewhere. 1t is diff
ficult 10 see how he could stand as a
Republican even in his own state, not
withstanding the large preponderance
of the primary vote in his favor. He
will not be the party nominee on the
national ticket. according to present
reckoning. The name Of Mr.. Coolidge,
assuming that he is nominated week
after next at Cleveland, will go on the
ballot as the Republican candidate,
with electors pledged to vote for him
in case they receive a plurality of the
votes in November There cannot well
be two Republican candidates for
President on the Wisconsin ticket.
Nor would it be entirely consistent
for the senator to be a Republican
candidate even in his own state when
he has so recently turned his back
upon both parties in his pronuncia-
mento.
chameleon candidacy is proposed,
it would seem. a candidacy taking its
color from the soil on which it rests.
This has been tried before, though not
in quite such frank terms. Gen. Scott,
in his ill-starred campaign for the
presidency in 1852 against Franklin
Pierce. made a tour of the country
and trimmed his speeches to the local
sentiment. He was Overwhelmingly
beaten, though the candidate Of the
Whig party. Should Mr.. La Toilette
go on the road under the various flags
that have been designed by him for
Chairman Konenkampge he will have
to talk like a Republican in Wiscon-
sin, a Farmer -Laborite in Minnesota
and the Dakotas and an independent
aloof from all parties in other cities.
This will be some task.
Evening star., 1924-05-31

the celebrated Judge McCamant swept
the old guard off its feet by suddenly
nominating the Massachusetts gov
appears, plans to launch Lowden's
If present plans are carried out
there'll be picturesque Pacific coast
contest over second place, for Cali
fornia is understood to be ready and
determined to offer Herbert Hoover
as the Presidents running mate.
About the time the bands are play
ing at Cleveland a new Coolidge
biography, third of it's line, will be
off the press. The author is Horace
Groen of Washington, who is writing
series of volumes on Contemporary
Statesmen" Borah was the subject
of his first volume. Senator Pepper
VIII be the hero of his next one.
Green says he has dug up a mass
of new material about the President
much of 1t of documentary charac-
ter. There's to be some inside stuff"
may throw light on an issue which,
1t is said, the Democrats are dis
posed to clear up" during the ap-
preaching campaign.
4 4
Count that day lost whose low
descending sun has not gone down
on a new vice presidential candidate
on both--or all three-tickets. The
very newest Republican suggestion
concerns James j. Davis. Secretary Of
Labor. Jim the Puddler," as his
stirring autobiography is called, hap
pens to have been born in Wales.
where Secretary Hughes ancestors
came from. Paragraph Of sec
tion / of article III of the Constitu-
tion says that the President of the
United States must be a natural born
vide that the Vice President must be
native born.
dependent candidacy for the presi-
dency is generally assumed, there
ought to be a Pulitzer prize for some
body who will explain tersely and
in words of one syllable just what
throwing the election into the
House" means. The constitutional
article on the subject and the twelfth
amendment, dealing with the presi-
Philadelphia lawyer. The twelfth
amendment is the longest piece Of
tinkering over done TO the Constitu-
tion. The present House of Repre-
sentatives (Which Will be the one
into which the election may be
thrownD is so close, too, that the
situation is more than ordinarily
complicated. Here's an offer of two
seats for abraham Lincoln" the su-
perb new patriotic movie of the hour.
as a reward for an elucidation which
a schoolboy can grasp
Copyright, 1924
Evening star., 1924-05-31
COURAGE
Il am the master OF my fate,
1 am the captain of my SOUL"
-HENLEY.

In the drab part of the poverty 4
stricken Whitechapel district of LonJ
don Samuel Gompers was born, and
made another little one for his i'm
poverished mother to care for
After four years t day school lie
was apprenticed, at ten, to a shoe
maker, but not liking the trade he be
came cigarmaker. He was thirteen
when his mother took him to New
York, where he obtained work in
cigar factory and went to night
school.
AS a boy in England he had seen
thousands of silk weavers, deprived of
work by the Introduction of machn-
cry, marching under banners bear
ing the words. I'VE are starving" and
the picture remained with him. At
fourteen he began the study of work
ers' problems. helped organize New
York's first cigarmakers' union, and
was given card No. l.
Married at seventeen, he continued
to study at night and to read to fel-
low workers at the bench. He was
twenty-one when he was naturalized
and twenty-four when he became sec
retary of the cigarmakers' local.
Later he was elected president and
served six years.
-
ton of the Federation of Trades and
Labor Unions in 1881, he was chosen
president, but declined. A year later
the leadership was forced upon him.
There was no salary connected with
the office, and many employers of
labor and government officials laugh
ed at his zeal and sneered at his
efforts.
Then came the reorganization of
the federation into the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. Gompers was elect
ed president at a salary of $1,000
year. After he had served nine years
he was defeated by John Mcbride,
leader of the coal miners. Gompers
was reelected the next year and has
held the office ever since, the salary
now being $1,000 q year.
With the growth Of the organiza-
ton there came the battles with fac
tions that sought control so as
to effect radical changes in its
policies. The war brought it's prob
lens, and at it's close Gompers was
rade president of the international
commission on labor legislation at
the peace congress, was consulted by
leaders of the world and feted by
royalty.
II. Today the American Federation of
Labor represents 10000 workers,
and 0ompers Ii called "the labor
Lnkh 49, ~ fta vvorld = ~
Evening star., 1924-05-31
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Hubert Work, Secretary Of the In
terror. may be permanent chairman
of the Republican convention at
Cleveland. His name is, at any rate,
usder consideration in exalted quar-
ters. Though a doctor by profession
and in public life more or less as a
pastime, Secretary Work has long
ranked as an uncommonly shrewd
politician. When Will Hays left the
Harding cabinet he recommended Dr.
Work for the postmaster generalship
as one of the real men" of the Re
publican organization, besides being
eXcellently equipped with organizing
and executive ability. Giving him the
permanent chairmanship at Cleveland
would be a gesture to the west, for
he halls from Colorado. In his day
Republican state committee of Colo
rado and a national commirte"ma
from the Centennial state.
+ y *
Former United States Senator
Thomas of Colorado. a stalwart Dem
covered the resemblance between Car
ter Glass and Samuel ]. Tilden.
Thomas says it is mark edly physical,
and in certain respects tempera
mental, too. The Democrat who near
ly made the presidency in 1876 was
about the Virginia senator's present
age, too-siXty- six. Glass, like Til
den, is short and stocky; has a smooth
face somewhat conspicuously adorned
with lighting nose, and can on oc-
casion turn on IL usefully irascible
temper If Glass should be elected
President therc'd be another news
paperman, like Harding. In the White
House. The senator edits AMI pub
fishes the prosperous Lynchburg
Daily News tmorning) and Advance
(eVening).
The marvel of the closing hours of
the Democratic presidential fight Is
the superhuman energy of William
Gibbs McAdoo. He has campaign
managers and leaders everywhere,
but he remains the Foch of his own
fight. His driving power is mex
haustible. Newton ID. Baker, who
Is officially and temporarily for Cox,
once said there was nothing to COM
pare with McAdoo's force except
locomotive. He steamS into things
full tilt just exactly like an engine"
BAKER put il. and makes for destina-
ton with the same irresistible dash" ="
Democratic politicians continue
those outside the McAdoo foId-to
pooh-pooh his chances of achieving
the magic and necessary 1872 at New
York. But they are gravely impress
ed by his "post-oil' primary achieve
ments just the same.
X
Calvin Coolidge himself was sprung"
upon the Republican convention at
Chicago in 1920 from Oregon, when
Evening star., 1924-05-31
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Strange, But True

Strange, But True.
Love is a sentiment so strange
1t leaves mankind perplexed
Long centuries have failed to change
The tenor Of this text
Joe Jubbins, a devoted swain,
Is gentle, good and kind.
His idol treats him with disdain
And cruelty refined.
Bill Blubbins pulls a lassie's hair
And slams her on the floor
She sighs. though others speak her
fair,
"It's Bill that I adore"
So sages puzzled still appear
And vow in phrase involved,
Love is a problem ever near:
Yet one that can't be solved"
Evening star., 1924-05-31
Pat Harrison Is Considered
Ideal Democratic KeynOter

sees it, Harrison is "a good talker,
skillful debater, bold and resource
full in action, has won both the lik-
ing and respect of his party breth-
rem in and out of Congress-" be-
cause they have confidence not only
in his ability as a 'keynoter,' but in
his fairness and impartiality"
II may be that Senator Harrison
will measure up to the greatness of
the great hour which his party faces,
but there is ground for the fear that
he Will not, if his theme is to be
merely criticism of New England
domination in the opinion Of the
Baltimore Sun Independently. which
insists 1T would be little short Of
a calamity bIunder to 'keynote' This
campaign is a sectional basis"
Evening star., 1924-05-31

Unemployment remains a matter of
serious consideration by the British
government. Yet in England, as else.
where, there are people in need Of the
industry that supplies food, clothing
and shelter. Labor is a natural re-
source which economists are still seek.
ing to utilize to proper advantage.
Evening star., 1924-05-31
A legislative Objective.

why do you insist on introducing
this brand-new bill when we already
have more laws than we can enforce?''
inquired the solicitous friend.
"The question Of enforcement didn't
figure so very strongly in my mind"
replied Senator Sorghum. THE prin.
cipal object in introducing that bill
was to show my constituents that my
heart is in the right place.
Evening star., 1924-05-31

The eightieth birthday of Anatole
France is celebrated in Paris with
great enthusiasm. Voltaire was ac-
claimed by the admiring masses at the
age of eighty-four. France does not
allow the proverb 1.-The good die
young" to apply invariably to her
good writer's.
Evening star., 1924-05-31

Sentences of two liquor sellers in
Rockville We're postponed till October
80 as to give them an opportunity. to
do their farm work. IF more law vio-
lators could be compelled to connect
with plow and harrow some OF the
questions relating to agriculture might
be easier.
Evening star., 1924-05-31

The calmness with which few
prominent people permit themselves
to talk of the next war should COM
mand serious consideration to every
proposal for a peace conference. The
war habit is a dangerous possibility
in civilization.
Evening star., 1924-05-31

The japanese who contemplate a
protest against United States immi-
grafton Legislation may as well bear
in mind that they have come into re-
lations with one Of the most obdurate
Congresses on record.
Evening star., 1924-05-31

Comments on Congress by the
President have at times been lacking
in regardful enthusiasm, but Congress
may at least feel hopeful that none of
them will get into the Cleveland plat
form.
Evening star., 1924-05-31
Pass the Naval Bill.

A 6squtotlng suggestion comes
that the appropriation bill recently
passed by the House. authorizing ad-
ditions to the Navy to restore the
s-5-3 treaty ratio. may be defeated if7
the Senate. It is reported that Demo-
cratic opposition II at hand. anAn11nl
Evening star., 1924-05-31

Political matters are shaping up in
a manner to permit the public tempo
rarily to forget the days when there
seemed nothing to talk about except
Teapot Dome.
Evening star., 1924-05-31

A crime wave is psychologically in.
evitable when public interest conspires
to convince weak-minded criminals
that they are picturesquely impor-
tant
Evening star., 1924-05-31
The Incessant Brook,

The Incessant Brook.
Where wildflow'rs lightly dabbled
Their petals at the dawn,
A little brook once babbled
On and on and on.
Into q stream It hurried
Far from the woodland flow'r.
Its murmur where it worried
Told Of water pow'r.
For years its echoes gabbled
Into debating drawn,
That little brook that babbled
On and on and on,
Evening star., 1924-05-31

Before solving fertilizer problems for
agriculture Muscle Shoals will have a
few preliminary sessions with the an
cient question Of government owner
ship.
Evening star., 1924-05-31

In view Of painful historical asso-
Citations the communists in Europe
might at least have found more en-
couraging name for themselves
Evening star., 1924-05-31

Motor speeders are most to be feared
when they are in position to regard
occasional fines merely as incidents of
the regular running expenses.
Evening star., 1924-05-31
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Evening star., 1924-05-31

One or two eminent entertainers are
in danger of depicting the box office
by giving too much free courtroom en-
tertainment.
Evening star., 1924-05-31
War Inventions.

At peace inventors lightly scoff.
Why can't their genius lead 'em
Instead OF killing people off.
To find new ways to feed 'em?
Evening star., 1924-05-31

Jud Tunkins says some of these
classic artists leave him wondering
whether their motto is "On with the
dance" or "Off with the clothes
Evening star., 1924-05-31
Like q Book.

How well do you know the duke?"
Like a book" answered Miss Cay
enne. "He has a very attractive title,
but very few ideas of Importance to
communicate
Evening star., 1924-05-31
Misnon1er,

why do they call 1t bootleg
Hcker?"
Il dunno" said Bill Bottletop. "All
the fellers that sell 1t around here has
got SO prosperous they wear patent
leather shoes"
Evening star., 1924-05-31

Patience said Uncle HSen. sis
whut you's liable to give yohse'f credit
fpr. whsn yeas:e 11ilw lQaldcsa
Evening star., 1924-05-31

A. The Naval Observatory says that.
the number of satellites known at
present is as follows: Mercury. none;
Venus, none: Earth. one: Mars. two
Jupiter. nine; Saturn. nine: Uranus
four; Neptune, one
Evening star., 1924-05-31

The Eve,inG Star, with the Sunday morning
edition. 70 delivered by carriers within the
city at 60 cents per month: daily only, Al
cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents per
month. Orders may be sent by mail or tele-
phone Main 5000. Collection 10 made by car
riers al the end of each month.
Evening star., 1924-05-31

Q. Please decide very heated
argument as to whether a mouse de-
velops into a rat?-H. p S.
A. The Department of Agriculture
says that there is no truth to the
statement that a mouse develops into
rat. There is a difference between
rats and mice. Both rats and mice
belong to the Rodentia, an order
which comprises more than a third
of all living species of mammals.
Evening star., 1924-05-31

Q. How many moons has each of
the planets of our solar SYSTEM
NJ. H.
Evening star., 1924-05-31

Q. When 1t is said that a horses
stride is twentyfour feet, how is il
mea assured M
Evening star., 1924-05-31

A. The stride is measured by the
entire distance covered from the
point the front feet leave the ground
to the point they strike the ground
Evening star., 1924-05-31

Q. What has been the increase in
the cost Of living in Canada?-A. c.
A. In June, 1911, the average cost
of food and shelter for a family of
five was $l4.Ii per week. In 1928
this had risen to $212l