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Evening star., 1924-07-13
Uncle Sam as q Tenant.

The government at Washington does
Every now and then a case becomes
public where the government is not
able to pay the rent it agreed to pay,
and where the landlord threatens to
set the government out on the side
walk if it does not pay. We now have
the case of the government hotels be-
tween the Capitol and Union station,
and which stand on land owned by the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com.
pany. 1t must have been two or three
years ago that the government failed
to raise the money to pay it's rent
There was talk in Congress Of closing
the hotels and having the government
retire from the business of running
boarding houses in Washington. Mean.
while the ground rent was long over
due. AS memory serves, Congress for
got to make an appropriation for the
rent, and the Treasury had no au-
thority to pay it, but asked the land
lord to have mercy on a poor and un.
fortunate tenant and to hold of until
enough members Of Congress could be
made to under stand that the govern
ment would have to pay it's rent or
get off the lot.
Something like that situation has
arisen again. The government should
have paid its rent on July /. 1t is pub.
lished that the Housing Corporation
has no money with which to pay the
rent. not being authorized to spend
any of its income for that purpose, and
Congress failed to make any provision
for paying the rent. The director of
the Housing Corporation is quoted as
saying that he does not know whether
the railroad will start eviction proceed
Congress will pay up.
The land on which the hotels stand
belongs essentially to the Capitol Park.
The railroad company wants the gov
ernment to have it, and the railroad
set price which property experts in
and out of government employ said
was fair based on sales of adjacent
property. But a member Of Congress
suspected that there was something
crooked in the matter, and with his
abnormal vision for crookedness
temporarily blocked the purchase Of
the land which the government must
have and which it now rents. When
the Capitol Park is extended this land
will be within it's lines. 1t would never
do to let people know that a railroad
corporation owns lots in the Capitol
Park within stones throw of the
Senate and Supreme Court. The gov
ernment should pay a fair price for
that land, get out Of the boarding
house business and tear down the
hotels. They were put up when the
government brought to Washington
thousands Of clerks that were not
needed. and when some one told the
government that there would not be
any place for those clerks to sleep II
the government did not set up board.
ing houses.
Evening star., 1924-07-13

came from an American scientific ex.
pedition that it had found white In
dams in the Darien country south Of
the Canal Zone, and between the Carib-
bean Sea and the Gulf Of Panama. A
cable message from Colon said that
these Indians appeared to be primitive
Nordics, or a Teutonic race, and that
eyes and white skins"
Soon after the report reached the
United States DR.. Aes Hrdlicka, head
Of the division Of anthropology Of the
National Museum and q man in the
first line Of anthropologists, said that
white Indians" from the Darien jun
gle could not be. There could be no
scientific basis for the claim, he was
quoted as saying. and that the white
Indians" would be found to be albinos.
The white Indians arrived at New
York a few days ago, and scientists
who looked them over were reported
as saying that they are not, aIbinos,
but the scientists wrinkled their brows
into an expression Of perplexity. Later
the white Indians were examined by
the anthropological staff Of the Ameri.
can Museum Of Natural History at
New York. Not much seems to have
been said by the scientists, but report.
ers have written that the experts
''were inclined to an explanation Of
the origin OF these people which differs
from that offered by the scientists who
had seen them the night before"
Laymen will be wise to discuss this
question in a conservative way and
with reservations until the scientists
have had their full nine innings. Ad-
ditional innings will no doubt be
played, and then it is most likely that
the game will be called on account of
failure Of the scientists to agree.
Evening star., 1924-07-13
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL

Davis and Bryan are not new names
| on Democratic presidential tickets.
The Bryans always have had the bet
ter Of 1t as to position up to this
| time. The Honorable William Jen-
nings Of the clan Bryan was thought
for a long time to have a monopoly OF
presidential preference, and there
| was talk even Of his being hopeful
the lightning might strike him this
year. During three strenuous cam
paigns he led the ticket to more or
| less glorious defeat.
In '1904 Mr.. Bryan took a holiday
and let Alton B. Parker bat for him.
| At that time a Davis came to the fore
as candidate for Vice President He,
too, was from West .Virginia-Mr
Henry Gassaway Davis. close relation
| Of the Elkins family. Like Mr.. Bryan,
Mr.. Davis assisted in leading the de-
mocracy to another glorious defeat.
This time, however, the Democrats
| say there is going to be change.
They have reversed the usual order,
putting Davis first and Bryan
! ed to shatter all the old hoodoos
| and all the old hard luck, and there is
| a feeling among the staiwarts of the
party that John w. Davis and Charles
w. Bryan will prove aiwinning COM
| bination.
Although he halls from the same
state as Henry G. Davis, the nominee
| OF the party for President this year
is Of an entirely different family.
There were dozens Of Davises in the
| thinking OF organizing chain OF
| Davis for Davis clubs throughout
| the country
| Any guns which William Jennings
Bryan might have unlimbered against
John w. Davis for President were
thoroughly spiked by the nomination
Of his brother, Gov. Bryan. for Vice
| President.
The Bryan influence has been a po-
tent one in the democracy ever since
his first rise to fame in 1896. Mr..
Bryan said more than once during
the New York convention that he
owed his all to the Democratic party
and his statements literally were
true. In effect he said THE Demo-
Gratis picked me up from obscurity
and set me down In plenty" AS to
the Democrats themselves. they can
Just about balance the ledger on Mr..
Bryan as an asset and a liability.
rather numerically for his connec-
tion with a law firm which handles
| some Of the business of j. P Morgan
& Co.. Mr.. Bryan feels that Mr. Davis
| is q man OF great ability and personal
integrity and he is proud to have his
| brother on the same ticket with the
distinguished son of West Virginia.
| who now lives in New York. So this
year Mr.. Bryan may turn out to be
| an asset after all.
| +
| At all hours Mr.. Bryan seemed
thoroughly at home in Madison
| Square Garden. Many times and oft
he has spoken there during the heat
Of political campaign. 1t was also
| there that he was welcomed home
| in 1905 after a long stay in Europe
| Mr.. Bryan came in on a great wave
| of enthusiasm at that time, but in his
| Madison Square Garden speech he
came out bluntly for public owner
ship of the railroads and there was
imme mediately a howl of protest from
| every corner Of the United States.
| A great reception had been plan
ned for Mr.. Bryan on his return from
Europe. The plans were almost
| knocked into a cooked hat when il
| was suddenly discovered the Com
moner's steamer was coming into
Evening star., 1924-07-13
No Wet Comfort.

There is no consolation for the vets
in either the platforms or the tickets
of the two major parties. At both con-
ventions they were in evidence, seek
ing the adoption of planks favoring
modification Of the Volstead act, but
the resolutions committees were not
to be persuaded. They brought in law
enforcement declarations that are ac-
cepted by the prohibitionists as entire
ly satisfactory. At Cleveland there
wasfno contest for the nomination for
President. Mr.. Coolidge. a pronounced
dry, was the foregone conclusion Of
that meeting. The vets had no chance
there to dictate the nominee. At New
York the issue was somewhat in evi-
dence in the balloting, and large mum.
bers of votes were cast for candidates
who were known to be at least friend
-ly to modification. But there was at
no time chance for the nomination
Of a man who could be suspected OF
such an affection. Mr.. Davis is hailed
by the drys as a man after their own
heart. So the 1924 chapter closes,
with hostility toward prohibition en-
forcement unencouraged. The drys
aver that there is no issue in the cam.
paign. The vets are saying nothing.
Much. however, was said before the
conventions about bringing this mat.
ter before the people this year. There
was even talk about referendum,
solemn or otherwise, on the subject.
But when the party leaders got down
to cases at the two conventions they
realized that there was dynamite in
the bare broaching Of such a proposal.
They wisely ignored it, knowing that
the least sign Of yielding on the sub.
ject would cause a powerful reaction
on the part Of the voters. They know,
il the advocates Of modification do not,
that certainly in the middle west, the
west and the south the prohibition
sentiment is strongly dominant, and
that reprisal would be visited upon a
party proposing any less stringent
measure of enforcement or tolerating
or excusing the faults Of enforcement
now evident.
Although tnlS matter Is not dt issue
as between the parties in the presiden-
.tia1 campaign, candidates for lesser Of
fees will be sharply scrutinized on the
score Of their leanings on enforcement
and modification. The prohibition Of
ficers are alert throughout the coun-
try. They will not rest upon the ac-
complishments already achieved, but
will persist in demanding full faith
toward the law on the part Of legisla.
tors and executives.
Evening star., 1924-07-13

lated twenty.four rules for simpltfica-
ton of English spelling, ana presented
list Of about 5000 amended spellings.
Perhaps the rule which would amend
the spelling Of the largest number Of
words is that which calls for dropping
the silent "e" when "foneticAlly" USE
less. and which would spell live"
liv, ''single" singl. eaten" etn.
"rained" raind." theatre" theater. etc.
Another rule would drop "a" from
lea" and make weather" wether.
feather" fether and leather" lether.
The silent ~" after ''g'' and "a"
would be dropped. and guess" would
become CESS and guard" gard. 20"
would be dropped from "ou" and
trouble" and double" would become
trubl and dubl and rough" would be-
come ruf. Double consonants when
not needed would be done away with,
and "bailiff" be bailif. battle" batl
and traveller" traveller. Traveller"
has generally come to be spelled with
one ~" The seventh rule Of the re.
ioi COoc oi 1000 Wouiu
change ID" and Anal led" into It" and
looked" would be lookt. Rule 8
would change "gh" and "ph" into "f''
when SO sounded, and enough" would
be enuf and phonetic" would be
fonetic. The amended spelling "foto-
graph" but not "fotograf," and
''filosophy," but not ''flIosofy" have
come into limited use. The 1T" in
Itch" would be dropped and catch"
and pitch" would be each and pich.
"S'' would be y" when we sound 1t 80.
as in the verb abuse" and in "adver.
tise."
There is plenty Of ripe scholarly sup.
port for reformed spelling, but since
1S83-forty-one years ago-educated
men have stuck pretty close to the &C.
cepted spelling Of fifty years ago. A
few changes have come, but II we look
back a hundred years one will see
that many changes have been made
Though the reformed spelling is some.
times called new" spelling, it really
goes back to the spelling Of many
English words 500 years ago.
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Third-Party Preliminaries.

Senator La Toilette and his cam
paign managers are now figuring out
ways and means Of getting their ticket,
when it is completed, before the peo.
pie in all the states. Having no or.
ganization, and being a new party,
they must get their nominees for elec.
tors on the ballots by petitions. 1t is
going to take a good deal Of hustling
to accomplish this. There must be an
organization in every state to circulate
the petitions and get them filed in
time. There must be consultations
with the other party groups more or
less affiliated with the La Toilette
movement to effect the largest pos
sible combination.
Recently Mr.. La Toilette remarked,
in one Of his formal statements, that
third parties are not easily organized,
low rather than precede an election.
He knew then how difficult it is to get
the machinery created and in motion.
He is a practical politician. and has
been dealing in political merchandise
for many years. So he is well aware
of the fact that parties do not spring
; into being at the mere dictum Of an
individual, or even the clamor of a
group.
In 1912 Mr.. Roosevelt's followers
managed to get wide spread Of elec.
tor nominations in short order. But
they had at least a coherency Of per-
sonnel. They were the major faction
OF the Republican party, as events
proved, and, fired by great zeal for
their chief, they went to it promptly
and put their tickets all through the
field Of possible contention. The La
Toilette movement is somewhat diff.
ferent. 1t does not spring from a sense
Of disappointment on the score Of q
nomination, as sprang the Roosevelt
movement in 1912. 1t may be formida.
bic or otherwise, but it is still rather
a state Of mind on the part OF singu.
slarly diverse assortment Of political
elements. and to get concerted action
in season to satisfy the election laws
is certain to prove a heavy task.
Evening star., 1924-07-13
Finds Too Many in Back Seat
Teaching Driver to Run Car

Of power Our ideal. is law and
order, which is the ideal Of the
Anglo-Saxon race. Law and order is
strong in Great Britain-stronger by
. good deal than in America. Here
we seldom hang q murderer. There
one seldom escapes hanging. II the
Volstead law had been enacted in
England there would be no Britisher
building still by the side Of the
nil. One reason is that England
does not enact a law until 1t 10 de-
manded by an unmistakable and
overwhelming majority, while in the
United States laws are made at the
another difference. In England when
man is successful they knight him
over here we indict him.
Just because we do not like new
violate 1t. We don't like taxes or
death. but none of us presumes that
he can avoid them. 1t is all right
for us to be for liberty and for life
and the pursuit Of happiness, but
our liberty must be controlled by
far too many laws I would that not
another one might be enacted in
twonty years and that many OF those
we now live under might be re-
pealed. I hope that some time We may
be governed only by the ten COM
mandments and the golden rule.
have never doubted that, so far as
the principles Of civil government are
concerned, the pillars Of Hercules rest
upon the Declaration Of Independence
and the Constitution Of the United
;,
The forms under which the principles OF
the republic are administered may need
changes to meet changing conditions
but the underlying idea does not. and
will not, for truth Is unchanging and
eternal.
This also I venture to express: A
government dedicated to the inalienable
rights of man can find its perfect ac-
complishment only in representatives
brave and strong enough to rise above
the ambitions, passions and prejudices
Of individuals and groups. Representa-
tive government was intended to guar
antee these inalienable rights through
the enactment and enforcement of laws
calculated to preserve and promote equal
and exact justice to all men. Religions
die because priests humble their creeds
but have no faith in their gods. Gov
ernments go to wreck because their
statesmen shout aloud their shibboleths
but let friendly enemy pass the ford.
l freely grant the right OF this people
to change their form OF government and
to adopt basic principles, but. if it is to
be done, let it be done decently and di-
rectly SO that all of US may know Of it.
The old faith has already too many
sleek and smiling Joabs asking. rs IL
we'll with thee, my brother" While the
old order endures. let representatives
represent the old ideals. Let it be under
stood that they are not mere bellboys
subject to calls for legislative cracked
ice every time the victims Of a debauch
of greed. gambling or improvidence feel
the fever Of frenzied need.
Copyright. 1924, BY 2lst Century Pren.)
Evening star., 1924-07-13
in proportion to existing farm prices.
Recover Agricultural Prod dactivity.

mand, or to lower production costs
in proportion to existing farm prices.
Recovers Agricultural Productivity.
Meanwhile Europe is definitely re-
covering her agricultural produc-
tivity. as result of government
policies and the efforts OF individuals
and promises to be on pre-war
basis in the near future, If, indeed, it
does not exceed that basis. However,
industrial rehabilitation in Europe is
not a good home market for even
such home products of the farm as
are available, and this condition has
been made worse by poor transporta-
tion facilities and tho collapse of
paper currencies.
In the circumstances what is there
in the overseas situation to encourage
the farmers Of the United States? II
European countries recover fully in
an industrial way they may need
more wheat, but such a demand will
probably work to the advantage of
Canada, Australia and Argentina
rather than to the advantage Of the
farmers Of this country for tho rea-
son noted, that the cost OF raising
wheat in those countries is lower
and they also need Europe's surplus
manufactures. At the same time in
creased live stock production in Eu-
rope would probably be particularly
effective in the case Of swine and
would touch American agriculture on
one Of its most sensitive spots. The
outlook for our growers of cotton and
tobacco is more encouraging, but not
sufficiently so to justify increases in
those crops based primarily on the
export market.
Furthermore, in any event the
American farmer is at a disadvantage
with respect to the European market
in that the foreign exchange rate
handicaps him and that his exports
must be hauled long distances in this
country. at high freight rates.
Europe stands on the brink Of econ
omic dissolution, nor does he sug.
gest "the desirability Of an airtight
self-suff1ciency for an economically
isolated United States" But he does
say that in the present status OF
world trade the United States falls to
q position of small importance as
markets, the tendency being toward
flour for the tropics and the orien,
rather than wheat for Liverpool and
HamburE; toward pork products
rather than grain, and toward can.
ned and dried fruits. and vegetable.
and possibly canned and powdered
milk for the orient and the tropics
and probably more rice to Japan and
even to China or India in times OF
The mere fact Of a 1essened and re-
directed export trade in the future
permanently sound the knell OF pros
porous American agriculture.
Evening star., 1924-07-13
BY THOMAS r.. MARSHALL,
Former Vice President Of the United
States.

Former Vice Prealdent OF the United
states.
Too many Of US who know nothing
about automobiles and trafic rules
sit In the back seat and drive. We
can't see the road nor gauge dis
tances, but seem to delight In divert
ing the mind OF the chauffeur to
imagined dangers. We would have
him apply the brakes when the thing
to do Is to go ahead, and step on the
gas when he ought to stop.
So 1t is in the affairs of govern
'ment. There are too many back seat
drivers of the nations machine. We
all have good intentions and are quite
sure that we know what ought to be
done when something seems to be
going wrong. But we are not up
against the wheel from which the
whole roadway with its difficulties
and dangers is visible. The driver
alone must make decision between
the accelerator and the brakes. He
cannot encourage the hazard of being
ditched by listening to back-seat or
ders.
When the enlargement of suffrage
in England brought forth the cry
that the leaders must be educated. Ii
voters were to be the leaders, their
education was the important thing
Similarly, we of America are more
and more placing our reliance upon
the voter as the ultimate ruler, and
consequently, we are calling for more
and more education.
This all is as it should be, but
there Is = lot Of loose thought and
half-baked ideas being fed to the
American voter. We cannot educate
properly unless we put forward prop
er educators, and we can obtain
proper educators only by drawing ex-
clusively on those men who are
rooted and grounded in the princi-
plies of American government They
must exemplify the courage that is
needed to adhere to basic principles
circumstances. They must be evan
gelists who will tell the people the
plain truth and differentiate clearly
and strongly between principle and
nterest-self-fnter class interest,
party interest
Ours 10 a government of laws and
not of men. We are supposed to
have gotten away from interest and
discretion and reached principle.
Not who does, but what Is done. is
that which counts. theoretically, at
least. We have representative
democracy under a republican form
of government of three co-ordina ate
branches. the legal rights and duties
Of each Of which are specifically de-
fined. Along the lines dividing the
equal and coordinate branches are
constitutional branches marked mo
trespassing."
y
Greece was built around the ideal
of beauty and Rome around the ideal
Evening star., 1924-07-13
White Indians.

We are probably in for a battle be.
tween scientists on the subject Of
white Indians. 1t is not matter
which Is apt to divert the interest Of
many millions of men from the presi-
Dental campaign or of many Washing.
tonians from the matter Of the Mats
eminence in base ball, but while the
weather continues hot. mad-dog news
is prominent and the dog star rises to
visibility in the evening, we may hear
a good deal Of the white Indian con.
troversy.
About. the middle Of June a report
Evening star., 1924-07-13

The La Toilette party is compelled
to consider the need Of a campaign
fund. The question Is one to be han.
died with tactful delicacy. These days
too much Of a campaign fund may be
almost--not quite. but almost-as EN-.
barrassing as none at all.
Evening star., 1924-07-13
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PH1IANpER JOHNSON.
Mutations

Mutations.
The man whose heart grows faint and
tired
Will never make q hit,
For they who are the most admired
At first are hazed a bit.
We sneer at men whose brows are
high;
Inventors we neglect.
II they keep striving, by and by,
We hail them with respect.
And 50 q big man goes his way
Unmoved by thoughtless jeers.
The disapproval Of today
Tomorrow turns to cheers.
Evening star., 1924-07-13

American chivalry has set a new
pace. The ordinary bonbons and
bouquets, even jewels themselves, be.
come insignificant tributes when ad-
miring craftsmanship unhesitatingly
flings a vice presidential nomination at
the feet Of a charming woman.