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Evening star., 1924-07-06
Cost of Electing
Presidents of u. s.

How much does it cost to elect
President?
Some statistics on this subject have
just been made available by A. W.
Frye, supreme commander of the
Maccabees, whose research shows as
follows:
Total Republican funds since
Grant amount to s42,612,000, against
Democratic presidential campaign
funds of s12,4s0,000. Grants cam
paign managers had 100000 against
his opponents s125,O0O. Hayes had
ssCO, 900, Tilden $4,000 Garfield
had s1,100,oOO, Hancock. sS5S,0oo
Cleveland beat Blaine by 100000,
BAN siaine's n 81. 600 goo. 600. Next ELECTION
Cleveland lost to Harrison, sS55,00O
to S1,S50,000. but he came back the
following election and won, s2,35O,o00
to sl,S50,OO0. Then came Mark Hanna
with the mamoth war chests estI-
mated at s25 1000. 900 for Mckinley's
two campaigns. against which Bryan
could only muster s1,1n0,000 for both.
RooSevelt's managers had S5,5OU.-
900 against Parker'S $1,250.o00. TAFT
had sI.70O,00O against Bryan's $3.50
600. Even in the Progressive split,
credited with handing Wilson the
election on a platter, Wilson had
fund of 1926, 900 against Tafts $780,
600, and Roosevelt's s325,000. Then
followed the only upset. wilson's
S, 400, 900. winning against Hughes,
s2.012,O00. Harding's managers had
$2,7O0,000 against Cox's S1,11o,OOo.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
|URGESLAF0LLETTE
BACKING BY WOMEN
Denver Delegate Says Pro-
gressive Campaign Offers
Sex Its Greatest Chance.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 5.-An ap-
peal to the women of the nation to
turn a cold shoulder to the Republi-
can and Democratic parties and rally
to the support of 'the fiercest fighter.
the kindest gentleman, and the most
conspicuous progressive, Robert NJ.
La Toilette was made before
the conference for progressive polit-
ical action by Mrs. Edward P. Cos
tigan of Denver, delegate from the
women's committee on political ac-
ton.
Referring to the Wisconsin senator
as the little giant from the west,
who for twenty years has been on
guard for the people," Mrs. Costigan
declared 'he always advances, never
surrenders, conquers failure and
Scorns compromise
Women at last" said Mrs. Costi-
gan, ARE coming to realize that IN
order to help humanity they must
know and understand the economic
causes and effects which will enable
them to render serviceable aid in ap-.
plying proper remedies for the age.
old evils-poverty. sickness. monopoe,
high living costs and war.
This is a most important day for
the recently enfranchised women of
America, as yet untrammeled bs
party traditions: not yet bound 10
party regularity, placing principle
above party and ideals beyond COM
promise Women stand on the
threshold of the campaign free to
choose or to reject the party obllga-
tions which must be justified by pro-
gressive public service. These women
under spur of such cherished public
ideas have no DESIRE 70 promote more
business in government Instead
their aims are less selfshness in busi-
ness and more humanity in govern
ment."
Evening star., 1924-07-06
PICTURESQUE ENGLISH FARM.
Painting of Demesire at Great
Hautbois Hangs in Noted Gallery.

From the Christian Science Monitor.
One valuable lesson that many an
old English farm teaches is In the
Importance of preserving and embel-
fishing, whenever possible. features
of natural beauty. If farm Is PIC
turesquely situated, an effort is gen.
orally made to retain part of its nat
ural advantages and not to turn all
Of the available space to practlcal
account
The Church farm at Great Haut-
,bois, in Norfolk. England, is an ad-
'mirable illustration Of this point. The
farmhouse, built in 1640, appealed to
John Crome, who introduced this
Jacobean dwelling in his painting OF
Great Hautbois common. This picture
now hangs in the Metropolitan
Museum in New York. The house
itself has been carefully restored and
improved since Crome's day, but the
surroundings are very much as they
must have been in the eighteenth
century and even earlier.
Beyond the small garden, full of
old-fashioned, sweet smelling flowers
and herbs, is a slight rising crowned
with a grove of pine trees. Farther
on the tiny river Bure zigzags its
way through rich meadow land. Across
a stretch of pasture is another copse
where the foundations of Norman
castle are still visible in the thick
grass Near by Is the ivy-covered
ruin of a medieval church.
Evening star., 1924-07-06

in accord with the expressed views
of Senator La Toilette on the political
situation. The initial plank pledged
use of the power of the federal gov
ernment to crush private monopoly,
not to foster it, Another sharply
criticized 1.-The foreign policy under
recent administrations"
Specific recommendations for the
repeal of the Esch-Cummins act,
public ownership of railroads and
water power and for retention OF sur
taxes on swollen incomes were In
line with the position taken In Con-
gress by La Toilette and the other
Republican insurgents.
There was no specific reference TO
prohibition or the ku klux Khan.
There was a plank, however, for "un-
qualified enforcement of the conStltu-
tional guarantees of freedom of
speech, press and assemblage.'
Convention leaders emphasized that
concerned with economic issues rather
than with questions affecting per-
sonal liberty.
Just at the close of the convention
the organization slapped the COM
munists again by refusing to enter
tain a resolution which would nave
favored recognition of the Russian
soviet. Earlier the delegates had ap-
proved action of the credentials COM
mittee in refusing to seat William
Mahoney of St. Paul because of his
connection with the national Farmer
Labor party, formed last month in
ST. Paul with communistic elements
as units therein. This virtually read
Mahoney out of the conference or
ganization and Cancelled his member
ship in it's national committee.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
Habitants Rooted to Soil.
From the Toronto Globe.

From the Toronto Globe.
F'rench-Candians are devoted to
their families and their soil; there is
no doubt about that. They have been
told it for many years by politicians
and writers, and now they have
demonstrated it.
The proof comes through recent
awards by an organization of the City
of Quebec, which has discovered one
family that has been on the same
land since 1929, and it is believed
still occupies the original house. An
island of Orleans habitat has 27O liv-
ing descendants.
Louis Hebett, the first Candian set
tier. came in 1917, and his son-in-law,
Ovillaume Coullard. was first to use a
plow in this country in 1928.
A few weeks ago the Art, Sciences
and Letters Society of Quebac for
warded a questionnaire to parish
priests of the counties of Quebec
and Montmorency, at the heart of the
old colony of New France, asking for
information about the old families
1t was desired to know what family
had been on the same land for the
greatest number of years. The family
which had remained on the same land
for the greatest length of time in
Quebec County, was that of Ismael
Redard of Charlesbourg. 1t had been
there since 1929, and still occupied the
original house.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
GIFTS ADD TO BEAUTY
OF ST. THOMAS CHURCH
Memorials as Donations for Dec
Grating Interior of Edifice De-
clared Remarkably Effective.

ST. Thomas parish has recently
been receiving many memorials
which have greatly helped in it's in
terror church decoration-eSpecia
of its chancel-whereby it is today
frequently conceded to be the most
beautiful parish church in the Dis
trict. The most recent gifts are two
iron screens with double folding
gates before the two organ cham
bers on the north and south sides of
the east end of the church, presented
by Joseph McReynolds in memory of
his mother. These gates have added
greatly to the appearance of the
whole church, but particularly have
they improved the entrance to the
organ chambers. In one of these.
on the south side of the church, the
fittings up of a chapel has enabled
the church to provide a small sane
tuary for the services when few are
expected. The screen and gates
which have been given permit as
through a grillwork a view of this
chapel, and herein is another great
advantage.
Rev. Dr. C. Ernest Smith, the
rector, has just returned from
brief visit to Bermuda, where he had
the opportunity of meeting old
friends whom he had known there
in former years
Evening star., 1924-07-06
COTTON NOW GROWN ABLE
TO RESIST THE WEEVIL

From the Popular Mechanics Magazine
Cotton with bolls so thick that they
resist the attack of the weevil has
been produced on a Georgia expert
mental farm as a result of ten years
of breeding by ]. V. Cochran. Start
ing three hardy and thick boiled va
rieties of cotton, he carefully mixed
the pollen of each flower with that
of all the others.
Only the largest, best formed and
thickest bolls were used for seed. The
lint was taken off by hand and the
seeds again carefully selected, only
the hardest being saved for planting.
Each year the bolls became larger
and thicker. until now they are said
to be able to defy the attacks of the
pest.
Examination of the burrs in the
field a few weeks ago revealed that
practically every one had been pep
pered with holes around the stem. but
that the cotton had been left unhurt,
with very few exceptions. The thick
ness of the boil had defied the attacks
of the weevil. A few bolls near the
tops of the stocks, which were at
tackled when very small, were de-
stroyed or had lost one or two locks
of cotton, but these were scarce.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
rs STOWAWAYS ON SHIP.
Vessel From Philippines Has Rec
ord Numb

SAN FRANCISCO. Calf. July g.
Twenty-Five stowaways, two Americans
and twenty three Filipinos, arrived to-
day on the United States Army trans
port Thomas from the Philippines and
established what local shipping men
said was a record for the number of
stowaways on one ship arriving here.
A man who said he was DR.. William
Cornell, X-ray expert, and who said he
was sent to the orient eight months
ago by a philanthropist organization.
was one of the Americans. The other
was George H. Ganvay, seventy-two-
year old negro, who went to the Phil
ippines twenty-five years ago as a
soldier and slowed away to get back
to the United States to spend his de-
clining years in his old home in the
south.
The Americans were permitted to
land. The FilipinoS will be returned.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
Mound Making Ants.
From the Popular Science Magazine.

r rUfH tHe VPuIaF ScIcIee 1h"s"1'te'
Investigating scientists spent some
months last year studying the mound
making ants that live in the Allie
ghenies and found much of interest.
The little. busy people had construct
ed some mounds that were thirty
feet in height, massive construction
for such tiny people, no matter how
busy they may have been, and many
other mounds from three to ten feet
in height and well proportioned.
Special interest was shown in the,
tiny mounds, only few inches in
height, close together, as if they were
prepared as Fairgrounds for the baby
ants, the mounds being in groups well
arranged and orderly. one group con-
tanning over 100 mounds of varying
sizes of fifty acre tract, each mound
apparently being the home of a colony
or ant family, an insect kingdom
complete and quite apart from others.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
new PASTOR INSTALLED
AT KENDALL BAPTIST
Rev. c. p. Ryland Assumes Charge.
Other Clergymen Take Part
in Ceremony.

Rev. c. P. Ryland, new pastor of
the Kendall Baptist Church, was in
stalled Wednesday evening, at a
largely attended meeting. Grants E.
Dunkum was in charge of the ar
rangements.
Rev. DR.. John e. Briggs, pastor of
the Fifth Baptist Church, gave the
Scripture reading, and offered prayer.
Miss NJ. Wilbur sang a solo. The
charge to the church was given by
Rev. DR.. n. w. o. Millington, ex-
ecutive secretary Of the Columbia
Association of Baptist Churches
Rev. John Compton Ball, pastor of
the Metropolitan Baptist Church,
gave the charge to the pastor, while
Rev. DR.. e. Hex Swem, pastor of the
Centennial Baptist Church gave the
hand of fellowship to the pastor.
Rev. Mr.. Ryland made a brief ad-
dress. Benediction was pronounced
by Rev. C. v. Van DerLinden.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
His Time Had Not Come.
the San Francisco Chronicle.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Charles Standen of Brooklyn, N. Y.
was sailor on the Standard Oil
tanker F. w. Willer. On a day when
the sea was very rough he slipped
as he was going off watch and fell
into the sea- He caught the life pre-
server which was thrown to him. but
never saw his ship again. 1t could
not stop in less than a mile, and
while presumably it turned and
searched for him, it is easy to un-
derstand that he could not be seen
in the rough sea in the night
This was in the open sea 1000
miles south of Panama. The aston
ishing thing is that the man kept
alive twenty-four hours in the water
land that, a freighter coming along,
the lookout happened to see him, a
mere speck, on the water.
1t is the most remarkable case of
rescue in the annals of the sea.
Standen was taken to Wellington,
New Zealand, and brought back to
this country by the Union steamer
Maunganui. He will always have .
story to tell
Evening star., 1924-07-06
Halls LAFOLLETTE
AS SAVIOR OF i. S.
Senator Shipstead Says Wis
consin Leader Can Answer
Peoples Cry for Relief.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 5.-Giving
his approval to the movement to
bring Senator La Toilette Of Wiscon-
sin into the field as a candidate for
the presidency, Senator Shipstead.
Farmer-Labor,o of Minnesota, declared
in an address before the con-
ference for progressive political ac-
tion that the call of the times is per-
sonified in the Wisconsin senator.
1--WE have reached the condition."
said Senator Shipstead, under which
men are deprived of the products of
their labor under the forms of law,
and under judicial DEGREES that are
at variance with the fundamental
American system of government and
of life. Our farmers are gradually
becoming tenants on the land tnelr
fathers cleared and titled. Our
me rchants have ceased to have any
real control over their business They
are permitted to continue in business
ostensibly their own. while the prices
they shall charge are determined Dy
those who furnish the good or make
them.
Congress Is Scored.
"Our working men are depri' OF
their equal rights under the law and
are made subjects Of the irresponsible
will, sometimes called the conscience
of our judges sitting in our courts OF
equity. In other words. government
by injunction is displacing govern
ment by law. Economic autocracy Is
growing, while economic liberty is
passing away. Individual initiative
and voluntary cooperation. which lie
at the foundation of all success, in
America as elsewhere, is being de-
stroyed, necessarily resulting in the
growth Of dependents and poverty
among our people.
THE control of money and creolt,
and therefore the control OF all
wealth, having been concentrated in
the hands of a few by acts of Con-
gress, our people are gradually be-
coming dispossessed not only of the
property which they have saved. but
of the property which their labor is
capable of producing in the future.
so again, we find our people IN
distress, longing for and struggling
toward rebirth What could be
more fitting than that this new birth
should take place in this convention.
l believe the time has come; l be-
lieve the call from the people is mere,
and that we have the answer perSonl-
fed in Robert Marion La Toilette.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
REDS LOCKED OUT
BY PR0GRESS|VES
Communist Tactics at CIeve-
land Convention Beaten
at All Points.
RADICALS MAKE THREAT
Declare La Toilette Seeks to Lead
Workers Backwards From -
True Progress.
RADICALS MAKE THREAT
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, July 5.-Communists S
and Communistic activities appeared
from a number of angles during the
session today of the conference for
progressive political action, but in
every instance the attempt to keep
was successful.
The credentials committee began
the onslaught when they pointedly
refused to award credentials to Will
liam Mahoney of St Paul. The COM
mlttee stated that the Farmer-Labor
Federation of Minnesota, whose Gre
dentialS Mahoney carried was enti-
tied to representation, but that Ma
honey had been instrumental in form
ing third party at the St. Paul con-
Nent1on of June i and was not a fit
person to be seated as a delegate in
this convention. \ protest against
this action from Delegate r. d.
Cramer of st. Paul was unavailing.
Previously Cramer had attempted to
get the floor on numerous occasions
but could seldom get the recognition
Of the chair, and when he did he was
invariably sidetracked with counter
motions.
Brings Counter Attack.
The decision on Mahoney brought a
sharp counter attack from the Com
muniSts when the Workers party of
, America, represented in the galleries
by William Z. Foster and c. 4. Ruthen-
berg, had circulated a statement at
tacking La Fallette and the convention.
In an economic sense. this is the
most reactionary political convention
held this year." the statement said.
The real struggle is between the
great capitalists and the workers.
added the statement THE capitalists
nave clear program, expressed by the
Republican and Democratic parties.
Against this there must be clear-cut
workers program for the specialization
of industry"
This convention stands for an i'm
possible middle program.
Never Stands for Progress.
This social group never knows what
1t wants. 1t never stands for progress
To this bewildered group Senator
La Toilette hands down a decision to
run as an Independent Progressive
The king has spoken. The convention
must swallow it.
THE workers party will fight
against the attempt of Robert M
"a Toilette to lead the workers
backward"
The statement was signed by Fos-
ter and Ruthenberg.
Finally. just before the end of the
convention, Cramer got the eye OF
the chairman, who recognized him
but asked that he permit few an.
nouncements to be made before max
ing any motion. Cramer agreed, but
after the announcements were made
Representative La Guardia moved to
adjourn. and the convention voted it
favorably over Cramer's protest that
the steamroller was working He
stated that he wanted to offer a reso-
luton to recognize soviet Russia.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
Thought Only Of Reward.

From the Boston Transcript
The old tradition concerning Scotch
canniness when there's a penny in
sight receives a new boost by the fol-
lowing story: A sportsman who had
been shooting on a highland moor
became lost in a sudden mist. He
tramped about hopefully until the
light failed and at last when he was
beginning. to become really anxious
he heard the sound of footsteps near
at hand. The sportsman shouted:
"Hallo! Halo, there! I'm lost"
For answer came a cautious voice
out Of the gloom: AYE = but is
there any reward for f1ndin' ye?"
Evening star., 1924-07-06
BRlDEGROOMS WARNED.
Seven Who Paid for Licenses With
Bad Checks Face Action.

ASHEVILLE, N. c., July AL
though he has issued warning that
legal steps for collection will be taken,
the seven bridegrooms who gave
George A. Digges, register of deeds.
bad checks for marriage licenses last
month have not made good the
checks
Mr.. Digges said today that he will
wait until sufficient time for compile
tion of the honeymoons and then take
necessary steps for collection.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
.U.S DYE INDUSTRY
MENACE IS SEEN
Department of Commerce
Warns of Ruinous FOREIGN
Competition After Survey.

Warning that the great new American n
dustry born of necessity during war
oays-the production of dyestufrs and
coal tar products-must be closely on
guard against ruinous foreign competi.
ton is given by the United States De-
partment of Commerce after a careful
survey abroad
FOR example. as a result of the survey
in the Belgian market made by Com.
mercial Attache S. H. Cross. with head
quarters in Brussels, it was found that
about 80 per cent of the Belgian dye-
stufrs required are furnished now by
Germany. The competitive position of
american dyes has been impaired by
the exchange situation and by low
prices fixed by the French authorities
on reparations dyes, which have fire.
quently been sold in the local field as
much as so per cent under the world
market price.
1t is doubtful whether any means
other than direct sales organizations
could greatly stimulate the sales of
American dyestuffs under present condi-
tlons. the Department of Commerce
survey indicates. The whole trade is
under the real control of the govern
ment and will undoubtedly remain so
as long as deliveries of reparations dyes
continue
Summarizes German Field
As guide to the American industry
in its fight for preservation of this
great enterprise that was shown to be
so essential to the national welfare, and
which must be preserved to make this
country Self-Sustaining and to keep it
freed from German commercial DOM
1nation, the Department Of Commerce
has had a summary of the German
dyestuffs industry prepared by Thomas
w. Delahanty. assistant chief of the
chemical division, bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce, setting forth
the history, composition and function
ing of the Unforeseen Germanschaft, or
German Dye Cartel.
This report records the production
of each member of the cartel, with an
analysis. The factors which aided the
success of that industry and the limita-
tions placed upon expansion are pre-
sented for the purpose of serving as
a guide to our domestic dyestuffs in
dustry.
All of the basic principles which have
characterized German success in the
dye industry-centralized control and
amalgamation. elimination of wasteful
practices, specialization by plants, COM
plete lines of products, utilization of
by-products, cooperative buying, SELL
ing, production and competition in
world markets-are presented with a
concerned in this country to properly
interpret information emanating from
that country.
These warnings to the American dye
stuffs and allied industries is being
transmitted through the branch offices
of the Department of Commerce in all
the large cities of the United States.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
Nine Given Commissions.

been appointed second lieutenants in
the regular Army as a result of the
examination held last April. Their
names and designations are-Wllliam
F. Bullus, Signal Corps; Malin Craig,
we'll. Infantry; Paul r. Greenhalgh,
Air Service; Thomas ]. McQuade, In
fantry; William c. Saffarans, 1nfan-
try; Winfield w. Scott, Field Artll-
lery; Duane G. Warner, Air Service
and Thomas c. Wood, Infantry.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
Meanings Long Forgot.
From Capper's Weekly.

From Capper's Weekly.
Heels were put on shoes to prevent
a horeman's foot slipping in the STIR
rup. Buttons on the coat cuff date
sharp buttons there to stop soldiers
using their cuffs as handkerchiefs.
The wedding ring originally symbol
lied a chain. Thousands of the things
we use and things we say and do are
Habit keeps them alive, even though
their real meaning is as obscure as
their origin.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
Famous Mirrors Of Venice.
From the Chicago News

The worlds most famous mirrors
were made In Venice, with the very
frames OF transparent or colored
glass.
It appears to have been a German,
who, in the sixteenth century, took to
Venice the fact that the looking glass
might be made by backing it with tin,
to rediscover the secret of the an
clients of making transparent glass.
The Venetian art was introduced into
France and England in 1873.
Mirrors OF that time are still to be
seen set In the walls Of the great
palace Of Versailles, scene Of many
famous conferences and balla,
Evening star., 1924-07-06
Qualify as Marksmen.

Word has reached the War Depart
ment that Lee. T. Corbett. Takoma
Bethesda, Md. and Kenneth j. Gro
theirs, North East, Nd, have qualified
as marksmen at the Reserve Omcers'
Training camp at Plattsburg bar
racks, N. Y.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
Wins Richmond Shoot.

RICHMOND. Va, July 5.-Lieut. H.
C. Lizard of Norfolk, was high gun in
the two-day shoot held by the Rich
mond Gun Club here yesterday and
today. His score was 239 out of ESQ.
r. D. "Klondike" Morgan, with 96 out
of 100, was high gun of the final day.