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Evening star., 1924-03-09
Missouri Democrats.

Missouri democrats voted yesterday
for delegates TO the state convention
to be held April Is. Senator Reed had
asked for Endorsement as presiden-
tial candidate at that convention by
the election OF delegates favorable to
him. Reports thus far received indi-
cate that his request has been denied,
hostile to him will be in the majority.
His strength lay in the two chief
cities, st. Louis and Kansas City. In
the smaller cities and townships the
sentiment against him appears to
have been pronounced.
Whether this is to be interpreted as
equivalent to McAdoo sentiment or as
merely opposition to the senator does
not at present appear, though one re-
port states that fewer than one-third
of the township and ward delegates
were instructed for McAdoo. 1t may be
that the state convention will make
no Endorsement at all.
This would seem to be a blow at the
La II A, HUI Ink,
first time that Senator Reed has been
refused Endorsement for the presi-
dency by his own state. Four years
ago he was denied election as a dele
gate at large to the San Francisco
convention.
Recently Reed and McAdoo have
been engaged in a sharp exchange of
personalities, and it would at this mo-
ment seem that the result is a sort of
kilkenny-cat outcome as far as the
Missouri democrats are concerned.
Just how this will affect the Missouri
vote at the New York convention re.
mains a matter of speculation. but it
would appear to have put a decided
crimp in the Reed prospects at that
meeting.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
Reappointments Assured.

Announcement that the President
has decided to reappoint Commission.
ers Rudolph and Oyster is made with
official authority, and is to be received
with qualification by the people of the
District. These officials. whose terms
expire on the 18th Of this month, have
rendered efficient, faithful service dur
ing the three years Of their incum.
bency and have earned retention In
the Offices. So long as they are will
ing to continue in the difficult tasks
assigned them in the municipal serv.
ice it is meet that they should be thus
indorsed with the stamp of Executive
approval.
The Office of District Commissioner
is difficult to discharge. 1t is filled
with problems and embarrassments.
1t involves wide range of matters
technical and complicated. A District
Commissioner, in addition to ordinary
administrative work, has to serve as a
member of the Public Utilities Com
mission, and also a member of the
zoning commission. He must be the
Districts representative before Con-
gress in the matter of the sha aping of
the annual appropriation act, and with
respect to numerous legislative propo.
sitions. A conscientious District execu-
tive has but little leisure. He must
concentrate diligently upon q multi
tude of matters requiring exact con-
sideration, prompt action and careful
regard for the welfare Of the COM
munity.
The District has been fortunate in
the course Of nearly fifty years in the
choice of it's Commissioners. 1t has
been especially fortunate in the case
of the ineumbents of the Offices who
are now, it would seem, to be con-
tinued in service, And the District
hopes for the prompt confirmation of
their nomination when they are laid
before the Senate so that the business
of the District government, SO eff
ciently managed. may be continued
without halt or confusion or uncer-
taihty, 1t is especially gratifying that
the official announcement Of the pur-
pose to reappoint Commissioners Ru.
dolph and Oyster has been made in
advance Of the expiration of their
terms, to give reinsurance to the Dis
trict and to put an end to speculation
and agitation in behalf of aspirants
for these positions.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
CONGRESS INVESTIGATES
BY FREDERIC J. H.4SKIN.

| the alleged extravaganza of the Ship
ping Board and the Emergency Fleet
Corporation, the alleged grab" of
the Matanuska coal fields in Alaska,
the accusations of waste, inefficiency.
extravaganza and fayoritism in the
bureau of internal revenue, the ad-
ministration of alien property affairs
the lease of the naval oil reserve in
Buena Vista hills, California;; the sit
uatieR in the PHILIPPINES, and possibly
The administration of Governor General
Leonard Wood: the manner in which
the prohibition enforcement bureau
has functIoned, the federal highway
aid system. the charges involving the
bureau of printing and engraving and
the Treasury Department in the mat
ter of duplication of government
bonds. the charges that the Treasury
Department juggled its estimates a
to the cost of the soldiers bonus
the charges that the Navy Depart
| ment has permitted first-Iine battle
.. ships to deteriorate, the negotiation
treaty with Colombia. the operation
of the various branches of the gov
ernment's air service. the immigra
ton situation, various phases of the
railroad problem, stock exchange
practices, and charges of Irregular
ties on the part of banks in lending
| money for speculative purposes.
Propaganda in all its visible forms
and varied languages has been fertile
| field for the congressional inquisition.
, Notably there was the demand by
certain senators that the public be
informed as to the true inwaxdness
of the Box peace award and other al
legged propaganda intended to in
United States. The committee failed
to learn how much Mr.. Box had spent
| in addition to his 100000 peace prize
{ but it did discover that he was will
, ing to provide another hundred thou
! sand or so if it would undertsha
! find a better peace -
Then there was - rnslstence t-ws
soviet propaganda be looked into and
the promise that it would reveal Il
Russian plot to raise the red flag over
| wanted to know all about the prop
aganda for and against the soldiers
bonus and the Mellon tax program,
and the propaganda of the big fer
tilizer interests against turning Mus
Gle shoals ,asu over ito. to Henry len rora; ).
| urged on the grounds that 1t will be
of direct benefit to the masses of the
people. That is the investigatSS7
into the alleged combinations and
eonspiracies to hold up the prices of
! flour and bread.
There are still other inquiries such
as that into the medical diploma mills,
, the one into the political activities
| of the Ku KluX Khan in Texas. that
into the efforts of American citizens
and corporations to acquire oil CON
cessions in foreign lands, that into
| the governmental contract for the
sale of sealskins, and that into re-
| ported land frauds Yin Texas, not for
getting the one to- dstarmine whc
was responsible for the world war.
Also it is not to be forgotten that
| President Coolidge himself asked
Congress to investigate the grant of
! 40. .060, eco acres OF public land In the
northwest to one of the big railroads.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

In view of the movements now in
progress for the purchase of Month
cello, the home of
moAumehts Thomas jefferson,
in Virginia. nrasaryatt % ~ ttnr '"f nf
Wakefield, the birthplace OF George
Washington. the following letter
printed in The Star of March 4, 1874,
from resident of King George
| county, Va, signing himself NORTH
ern Neck" and referring to a pre-
vious publication in The Star, is of
present interest:
You are in an error in stating that
the monument to the memory of
Mary the mother of Washington has
had nothing done to it since the i'm
posing ceremonies of fiayins the
corner stone. The design was to
erect an obelisk sixteen feet in
height on q pedestal, with a propor-
tionate base. The base and pedestal,
| a block somo five by six feet in di-
mensionA were finished and in place
when the funds gave out tho con-
tractor disappeared and the work
was abandoned. The huge block for
the obelisk was on the ground and
partly dressed, and now for a quarter
of century has lain overgrown with
and nearly buried in an accommodating
mass Of decaying vegetation.
"In an eastern or western village
of a hundred houses the Inhabitants,
on the disappearance of the con-
tractor. would have finished that
feeling that they had taxed them
selves very highly in the effort.
THE truth is, we are not monu-
/ ment-building people. The wealthy
on their large estates have private
cemeteries. in which a few erect
parted ones, but none cherish and
keep alive their loving remembranees
with flowers and evergreen decora-
tions. But the middle class and the
poor lay away their dead beside the
generations that have gone before
in uninciosed sedge fields, in un,
marked graves among the stunted
pines, We are not even a. monument '
preserving people
'"The founders Of these vast estates
a century and half ago, with Eng
lish pride, buried on their own do
main, hoping that their SUCCESSORS
for long years. as in England, could
walk among the graves of departed
kin. But these plantations have
heen exhausted by years of wasteful
culture, and abandoned, and are now
either barren wastes or in the hands
of strangers overgrown with thick
cts or cultivated in corn. Before the
association took hold of Mount Ver-
, non the tomb Of Washington itself
was In a state of shameful dilapida-
tion. His fathers tomb today has al
most nothing to mark 1t, and most of
distinguish their final resting place from
the common herd, and the place of
burial of his Immediate neiGhhor, one
of the trainers OF the Constitution
|, and one OF virginia's ablest sons. is
today unknown.
.aTheir lives are pointed to with
pride. their oonsorvatism ia initiated,
their doctrines snd principles, though
inapplicable to the present, are ad-
hered to, but their early monumen is
remain to be bailt by other genera
tions, and perhaps by people from
other climes."
Evening star., 1924-03-09

In the May, 1928, issue of magazine
devoted to business interests there was
published an article undertaking to
forecast what Congress would or would
not do at its next session, the one now
under way. With other things, the
article predicted that Congress will
indulge in a. lot OF what is graphically
termed hell-raising,' the method of
that particular line of activity to be
the instituting of numerous and va
ried probes and investigations.
With the session barely three
months old. Congress has made good
that prediction with a record of in
yestigations started or threatened
that is unprecedented in the annals
of the government.
No effioial compilation has been
made, hut it Ia possible to enumerate
at least thirty such Investigations,
and the end is not yet. Scarcely a
day passes that some senator OF rep
resentative does not offer a resolu-
tien for a new inquiry or serve pub
lie notice of his intention to do so
at an early date.
The field of these Investigations
extends far beyond the confines of
the URited States. 1t includes every
conceivable subject of congressional
inquiry from the alleged misconduct
and corruption of public officials to
the mornentous question as to who
started the world war, and If all the
Investigations proposed are carried
through with any degree of thorough
ness Congress will do little else but
investigate for the next four or hve
sessions.
tions the Teapot Dome inquiry easily
ranks first to date by reason OF its
sensational disclosures and wide
ramifications Oil is proverbiaily
potent in two ways. First, 1t is sup
posed to have great efficacy in sitting
said that 1t will make a hotter fire,
with more smoke, than almost any
other known substance. In the
present instance 1T has done little Of
This Investigation already has in
volved more people, brought forth
more sensations, ruined or damaged
mere regulations. biighted more
careers. thwarted more ambitions. and
given the public more of an insight
into what the late President Roose-
welt called "the Invisible government
Of this country than any Inquiry ever
conducted by Congress. What 1t will
lead to ultimately Is matter for
conjecture, with a virtually unlimited
fsaa ,1sad for those who care to indulge in
Running q close second to the oil
inquiry Is the probe into the admin
istratien of the Neterans' Bureau.
under Director Forbes. The cong res,
sional committee has practically con-
cluded its work in this case, and the
grand jury and the courts are now
raking their turn at it.
The investigation of Attorney Cen
era1 Daugherty and his conduct Of
the Department. of Justice attracted
widespread attention and interest in
it's preiiminartes. Whittier II will
lead and what 1t will amount to
eventually with come out in the wash
Somewhat similar inquiries already
authorized Or requested are those inta
Evening star., 1924-03-09
Parking, Day and Night.

An effort is being made to check
the all-day parking in the downtown
section Of the city by a stricter en-
foreement Of the rule which prescribes
a time limit on cars within the bust
ness district, This 10 all right, and a
full enforcement would undoubtedly
correct much Of the trouble that is
now experienced by motorists in find-.
ing places for their machines while on
errands downtown.
There remains the question Of all
night parking, which has grown to a
point that constitutes a menace to
traffic in the residential sections of the
city. There are certain blocks that are
solidly lined with parked machines
Evening star., 1924-03-09

seeds, bulbs. trees, kittens. puppies,
babies--surpass.,s that most modern
miracle-radio.
Springtime brings anew the oldest
miracle in the svorld-the miracle of
birth and growth.
For a week the National Capital put
on the garments OF real spring, seem
ingly. March came, in like a lamb.
will it 70 out like a lionf
CHARLES e. TRACEWELL.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Stunned.
We're sittin' round in silence now,
Down to the village store.
We used to join in every row
An help the people roar.
The news that keeps a-comin' out,
More startlin' every day.
Has left all hands oppressed with
doubt.
We've nothin' much to say.
We used to be Vox Pepuli,
With courage all aglow.
We signed cur sentiments SO high
PRO Bono Publico.'
Just now We scarcely make a sound.
We sit in dumb dismay.
There's talk enough a-goin' round.
We've nothin' much to say.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

Boys who were technically guilty
of desertion because they left Army
or Navy service without discharges.
when the fighting ended, are restored
to citizenship. Fate's irony would be
too great if they were to be per.
maneutly humiiiated while BergdolI
goes unpunished.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

Europeans looking for assistance in
serve that the U. s. A. at this mo-
ment, while not unsympathetically
aloof, is very much preoccupied.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
Heard and Seen

4
the west front of the Capitol.
If you are Il resident of Washing
ton, and feel that the thrill of the
city lies in the forgotten past, try
this:
Approach the Capitol from the
Peace Monument side. Walk along
the paths, mount the steps, stop just
before you enter, and, turning. look
back over the way you came.
Your heart will throb with the pride
of membership in this, the greatest
and only true fraternity in the world
the United States of America.
:: =
When Chairman +. j. Bailey of the
Personnel Classification Board took
his seat at the second day of the
hearings on Representative Lehl-
bachs bill to abolish the board, he
was gJeeted by Luther Steward. pres
ident of the National Federation of
Federal Employees.
1t was half an hour before the
hearing was scheduled to begin, but
early arrival was necessary to get a
seat. as the committee room of the
House committee on civil service is
not as big as four postage stamps,
figuratively speaking.
When the hearings are in full blast
the room resembles the inside of a
can of sardines That is why it is
necessary to keep window open,
blowing upon some body's neck.
The day before that neck had been
Mr.. Bailey's. and this day Steward
took occasion to call his attention to
the fact.
We'll, you had lot of everything
yesterday" he smiled to Bailey. NOW
the only thing left. is to serve tea.
The chairman of the Ciasslncahon
Board smiled.
mittee of Congress attending to that"
he said.
Two workmen were walking down
the alley. when they ehaneed to see
a householder handling spade.
He piled the ground SO elumsily
that they grinned broadly at his eff
forts.
Yet had they known the man was
welding the spade for the first time
in his life their grins might not have
been quite SO broad:
1t is easy enough TO laugh at
another, hut 1T is only possible once
in a lifetime to wait until you are
thirty years old to attack the ground
with spade for the first time.
For the first time!
You old-tin,e gardeners, with years
of experience, envy the man who dur
ing the week just past stuck spade
into the ground for the first time in
his life.
It's "old stuff to you to put your
foot on the top side of spade, put
your weight into it and then heave
up section of terra more or less
firma.
But to the man to whom a spade
is new thing in the world 1t was
an experience.
X Il
What a week for the amateur gar
dener!
The eld-timer was not fooled. He
knew it was too early.
But the youngster felt the call of
the earth. He must needs be at it..
with spade and rake betimes, carting
all the rocks out Of his new back
yard. preparing the bed for the rose
bushes that ought not to be set out for
month yet. at the earliest.
Angle worms as big as snakes came
up with every Spadeful of earth.
They coiied themselves into tight
knots, and finally united themselves
70 70 sliding off across the yard
The miracle Of growing things
Evening star., 1924-03-09

AS the 18th of March approaches in
dignation naturally increases toward
the people who have prevented Con-
gress from giving exclusive attention
to the urgent matter of tax reduction.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

The absence of a campaign fund for
Hiram Johnson was announced just
at time when political poverty is
likely to be rather popular.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

The oil disclosures reveal the first
time in the history of finance that
slO0, 900 was ever allowed to wander
around SO completely unchaperoned.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

The average citizen will regret that
the income tax cannot be reduced as
promptly as the tariff on wheat can be
elevated.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

Fears are now general that there
has been a modernist movement in
politics that is not proving a success.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

The present Congress will go On rec
ord as the most inquisitive that the
nations history has yet developed.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

The fact that the value of oil stocks
goes down does not prevent the price
of gasoline from going up.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

II there is any merit in that new
truth-compelling drug now is the time
to have carload shipped to this city.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
Close Calculation.

You have quit playing poker?'
For the present" answered Cactus
Joe, I've got my income tax blank
about filled out, and ! don't want to
be obliged to change the figures.''
Evening star., 1924-03-09

"Tain' no credit" said Uncle Eben,
"foh a. man to tend close. to business
IL he's done picked hisself out de
wrong kind of a business
Evening star., 1924-03-09
Sning Cleaning.

Spring cleaning soon will be required,
And let us hope ere long we may,
Although the work has made us tired,
Find all the grease spots scrubbed
away.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
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Ancient Frane-Up.


''They put all kinds of treasure in
King Tut's tomb
"His enemies probably did that
commented Senator Sorghum. "They
didn't want posterity to say he left
public life poorer than when he en-
tered it,"
Evening star., 1924-03-09

Jud Tunkins says he's losin' faiti,
in human nature so fast that he don't
feel like believing anything except
the dates In the almanac.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning
edition, IS delivered by carriers within the
CITY at 80 cents per month; daily only, 10
s-.-r;a indr month; Sunday only, 20 cents pes
month. Orders may he sent by mail or tess.
,rh1ne Main 5000. Collection is made by cAy-
rieTs at the end of each month.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

Business Office. 1th st. and Pennsylvania Ave.
New York Office: 40 East 42nd st,
Chicago Office: Tower Building.
European Office: 16 Regent ST., London England.
Evening star., 1924-03-09

mGht Ok hiS pcopho ooSfN inothCs
e \ X
REPRESENTATIVE Jimmy" Galliyan
picked UP his morning paper recently
and read. that one Paul Howiand, per-
sonal counsel for Attorney General
Daugherty. had been at the White
House for a conference. This threw
Mr.. Gallivan's mind back nearly two
score years-7te f8SS--wheR he played
second base on the Harvard base ball
team, ON which Rowland was catcher
and center fielder. and when Repre-
sentative Samuel Winslov, now chair
man of the committee on interstate
and foreign commerce, was coach.
Representative Gallivan says he had
not seen Howland In all the inter-
ysnins yearR although he had often
heard of him. Rowland came to Con-
gress nearly twenty years ago and
served for several terms.
There are two native sons of tho
Capital city in Congress-RepFesentA
tive Henry r. Rathbone OF Illinois
and Representative Richard s AID
rich Of Rhode Island. The former
was born on February IL, which 10
the anniversary of Iineoln's birth,
WHICH is d pccuHdT cOlnClue1lCe, SINCE
Representative Rathbone's parents
were with President and Mrs. Lin
coin in the box in Ford's Theater on
the night of Lincoln's assassination.
representative Aldrich, son OF the
famous Senator Nelson w. Aldrich,
who was author of the reciprocity
provisions in the Mckinley tariff act,
and who originally proposed q ma
tionai reserve association, was born
here while his illustrious father was
in Congress. on February -. ten leap
years ago.
Evening star., 1924-03-09
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

In view of the movements now in
progress for the purchase of Month
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-04
Proposed Action

A number Of courses Of action
were suggested informally. Among
them were the following:
That the commission be asked for
mally to disapprove the new rates;
that the commission be asked to
take a new valuation of the com
pany's property for rate-making pur-
poses: that the commission be asked
to proraulgate rates within the scope
of the Page injunction decree, but
lower than, the rates set by the
company; that Congress be asked to
enact a law denying utilities right
of appeal to Federal Courts until
every chance of relief had been
taken in the State courts; that teeth
be put in the Indiana Municipal
League by supplying the league with
lawyers. experts. engineers and &C
countants to fight rate battles.
Reynolds expressed the senti-
ment Of the committee when he
said: 1.-THE telephone company has
lifted itself out of the jurisdiction
of the State of Indiana"