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The Washington times., 1924-09-13
In EverybOdy's Confidenee=s=e@s=s=s-
THE GATE-POST
by Harold Phillips;

AS dOg town. sOcaled by the predatory interests which
handle entertainment fare Washington pampered Pee
compared to- other scrub Cities Asbury Park, NJ j.
"With the departure of the Bringing Up troupe
the Bou Theater reporter things
of the resort this week. he will
the 1924 season."
There's wideopen opportunity enterprng
use his brains "What to Do During Inermisson
Don't Smoke"
Some authorities who however have never COM
itted themselves hold that the theaters should
tabloid sheets and racing charts in the Others
claim the only solution of this problem the serving
Of free buffet snacks by the ushers.
Strange difficult to get across to the
nanagerhe seems have the interests of
their patrons most heart
Roland Robbins has made faithful at problem but he
hasn't gone far enough The pile pituy
small There enough pals and shovels to go
around and the shootthechues always managed
one mud pie Wednesday night waiting lne and then
was crowded out by an impudent upstart n rompers
GOSSIP
Doc Pudy who extended the hand Of welcome Garric
Tor many years and who up until recently the
the main door at the will greet
the new Wardman Theater, which will shelter Head
Players Pudy brings heater experience thirty wears to
his new task manager of the intimate playhouse
The New York Journal Commerce thinks that "Wbt prce
Glory disgaces the American average dev dog
The critics generally it is picture of war times and
He-Men Arthur Hopkins producer satisfied to let e fight
while the money rolls in.
Madge Belamy who laundering around in ed;oc
films has at last found director shoot her beautiful a
SO that they are not She has hit of her
IN the new Fox masterpiece "The Iron Horse
Among the fearhaunted passengers will embark on the road
tour OF Outward Bound" Tom Nesb Eugene Powers Char
Aoe Granville Gerald Cornell Marcia Byron and Whitford Kane
Having just closed of stock in Montreal
enry Duffy will tempt the fates Francisco He has ased
1ne Aazar Theaer there for winter of repertoire
Helen Hayes in Dancing Mothers" will remain in that n
auction until the public tired of it. the Sel
advise discouraging the she will be in sbaw Mc
and Cleopatra"
Jerome Kern will do the The Bamboula" bv CIV p,
and Harry Vernon The production rights have already bn M
for Vienna where the work fooighted prior r. an A
showing.
Messer Marco Polo" the Dom Byrne Chinese warn L;h,
praised by James Branch Cabe will keep Harry Waeaff cb
busy presently. He will dill play from the fantasy
Bob Bell will do The Hero" with its author Cilbor+ E :.
the lead -
Rose Marie the Frim show has a Jimmy Oliver C,rd
Northwest Mounted Police background The show is a hit
Gene Buck the "Foles" boy, to produce on his own
new Mischa Elman show is slated one of his first
Bert Bloch has comedy ready.
"Oh Oh Madelne!" have change of title again Al
woods is thinking seriously several that have suO
gsed themselves to him since rehearsas started Time will tell
The Washington times., 1924-09-13

AMRASSADoR--AIany players
OF the first rank. including May
McAvoy, Marie Provost. Ronald
Colman. and Norman Kerry are
tcoAtinusd en- pAgo 10
Evening star., 1924-07-03

was sharply divided on the slavery
extension question. Fifty-seven bal
lots were taken without result.
Stephen A. Douglas. polling at the
outset las votes, held his strength
mistaken and even somewhat aug
mented to the end. On the fifty
seventh ballot. as for many preceding,
ISL delegates voted for him. For
James Guthrie sixty-five delegates
were voting at the time. of adjourn
ment, for r. M. T. Hunter Of Vir-
ginia sixteen were voting and for
Joseph Lane of Oregon, fourteen. OF
the 3O3 delegates registered many re-
Trained from voting. but 202 were
necessary to a choice. After ten
days Of sessions the convention ad-
journed to Baltimore, but not before
the southern delegates had withdrawn
and organized counter convention.
which itself adjourned to Baltimore.
In the latter city those calling them
selves regulars nominated Douglas on
the second ballot and the others nom-
mated Breckinridge on the first ballot
unanimously. Unless the present New
York convention effects a choice be-
fore today's recess the Charleston rec
ord may be reached.
Evening star., 1924-07-03
COURAGE
Il am the master OF my fate,
l am the captain OF my soul"
-HENLEY.

Railroading is difficult profession
with small return for the effort, and
should not be followed permanently,
declared William 5. Storey in his COL
lege days-but he could find nothing
else to do and had to stick to the
| transportation field.
Born in San Francisco, he went to
public school and found it necessary
to work with a surveying party on
a small western railroad to earn
| money while in high school. After
graduation he toiled for d year, driv-
! ing stakes, at $40 d month, so as 20
have funds to enter the University
of California Then he worked on the
railroad during vacation, SO thought
he knew the profession and its draw
backs.
But when he was graduated at
| twenty-three jobs were scarce and he
went back to the Southern Pacific
railroad. Slowly he made his way
upward from one job to another; then
when offers came to go into other vo-
cations he could not afford to change.
When he left college and again was
making $50 a month driving stakes
he decided to learn railroading.
Within a year he was made assistant
engineer, which position he held
eleven years. He served two years
as assistant engineer to the United
States debris commission and was
made chief engineer and general su-
perintendent of the San Francisco
and San Joaquin Valley railroad.
Five years as head of the little road
gave him lots of work and many try
ing ordeals. President Ripley called
him to the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe railroad to be chief engi-
neer. Six years later he was in
charge of engineering of the entire
Santa Fe system. Three years of
working and waiting made him vice
president, and for eleven years more
he kept at his task, which often re-
quired him to labor night and day.
In 1920 he was elected president OF
the Santa Fe. At sixty-six he still is
president and is considered one Of
the best railroad men in the country.
And now he believes that railroad
ing is a good profession for the man
who keeps everlastingly at it.
Copyright, 1924
Evening star., 1924-07-03
New York's Hospitality.

Much was said before the Demo-
cratic convention assembled at New
York about the "hospitality" that
was planned for the delegates. Elab-
crate preparations had been made for
their entertainment with free shows
and motor rides. trips to Coney Island
and guest cards at country clubs, and
OF thing. Then, of course, there was
to be 'hospitality' of another kind,
more fluid in nature Just how far
these programs have been carried out
Is not of record. But now another
sort of hospitality is being manifested
The convention has dragged itself
along to such a length that some of
the delegates are out of funds. Some
of them have gone home already for
lack of means of subsistence. Others
have wired for more cash. but some.
too proud to quit and perhaps without
home reserves, are looking about for
food and shelter. In this emergency
number of New York women have
thrown open their homes to woman
delegates and alternates who have ex.
hausted their wampum. If the con-
vention keeps up much longer these
rescued woman delegates may be the
only ones left. They might be charged
with the duty of casting the ballots
of their state delega tions under
blanket proxies. Perhaps New York
4 =
ding for the convention and planning
for it, that it might have to entertain
it all summer.
Evening star., 1924-07-03

forgotten that the 1924 Democratic
convention was held at New York.
1t was not long ago that a letter
was seven days in transit between
Atlantic and Pacific cities. Men not
| yret old remember when a letter was
eight or ten days on the way. though
it travelled on the fastest train and
the shortest route. The time of trains
was reduced a few hours here and an
hour there to about five days, and the
run by some trains between New
York and the Pacific coast has been
cut to four days and few hours.
That was the lowest time to be ex-
pected from steam travel.
At one stroke the mail time between
the two coasts is cut to less than a
day and a half Mail time between
intermediate cities is greatly reduced.
The postage between Washington and
San Francisco is "a cents for the or
dinary letter. but nobody will balk at
that when the speed with which the
letter travels is considered.
If the transcontinental air service
proves s'trustworthy-and there is little
doubt that it will-there will be wide
extension of plane mail service in the
United States. People demand speed
in the transport of letters, and the
postal authorities have always been
ready to adopt the fastest means of
transport they could command. 1t is
likely that all cities will be connected
by air mail routes.
Air passenger travel has made little
progress in the United States. but is
increasing in other parts of the world.
There are air transport companies in
Europe which are doing large and
presumably profitable business. 1t is
said that 10000 travellers now cross
the English Channel yearly by plane.
Evening star., 1924-07-03
Harrison's Keynote Rings True,
Say Some Editors; Others, ''No''

produced a keynote which died away
in a vacuum and could not reach the
hearts or stir the blood of an as
semblage in which oil cannot aspire
to the status of major fluid and the
doings of the white-hooded gentry
are an omen of graver Importance
than any atrocities which may be at
tributed to the Mellon plan. On the
other exciting subsurface issue
entry into the league of nations-Mr
Harrison was equally evasive We
can recall no keynote speech COM
pletely negative and wholly lacking
In constructive appeal"
X X
1t was a stump speech, which the
Portland Express (RepublicanD con-
siders appeals to passions and preju-
dices and not to reason" AS a po-
litlcal TRADE of the old school, the
kansas City Journal (RepublicanD
declares, lit is a magnificent tumble
or words and accusations, but, as a
dlgnlhed presentation of party prin-
ciples. it is an utter failure that will
provoke more smiles than serious
tnousht To turn from the Repub-
lican keynote to Senator Pats, the
ohicago Tribue (Republican) claims,
IS TO escape from a session of the
chamber of commerce and go to a
revival of Pains fireworks, the Burn
ing of Rome"
Inc Baltimore Sun independent
with democratic leanings) feels that
Harrison's address was marred by
fippant, 'peppy' buncombe" This is
to be regretted, the Sun insists, be-
cause he had all the material at
hand wherewith to build up an un-
assaiiable case against the opposing
party and in favor of his own" AS
a convincing statement of Democratic
aims and opportunities, the Newark
News independently agrees, "the eff
fort falls fiat" In fact, the Detroit
News independently maintains, the
speech Is no guidance at all to the
democratic party, nor does it sound
any clear, bell-Iike keynote for the
party to chorus as its triumphant
ownUit was a very eloquent speech,
put IL aldnt mean anything" Some
what similar opinions are expressed
by the Springfield Republican, Duluth
hera.d' besara' Naea Beading Tribune. Salt Lake
Desert news. st. Paul Dispatch and
Detroit Free Press and other indie
pendent papers.
Evening star., 1924-07-03
No. HI-Hop Cows Last Song.

sometimes when there was a new
moon and the swift and purple after
glow of the sunset was suffused with
the zodiacal lights Hop Cow would
get out his old Chinese fiddle. He
would sit in the door of his cane hut
with Lorita and little Hop Toy, the
oatlk baby, and play and sing.
Lorlta sang, too, and Hop Toy beat
tlme with her pudgy little fist 1t
was always a sad, wailing song-part
shlnese, part Chocoi and part Qui-
chua, 1t seemed-for Hop Cow had
oeen in the jungle many years and
MS language had followed the lines
or least resistance.
The sky of deep purple. with the
rrohas or the palm trees against it..
rama, embra icing also the dark, jun
gle e-matted mountains-dank. poised
and impending. Hop Cows wailing
song seemed like an incantation
wnicn could stay this Unsuitable jun
gle only for a moment before II en-
guifed them all.
Better Than Gold.
"hen Hop Cow. like Homer. thus
struck from his Tyre the challenge
OF the human spirit to the inscrutab bIe
sods-who always triumph in the
! END, as they did here-he always had
at hand a gourd filled with his own
aguadiente. He could trade a gourd-
| ful for an ounce Of gold dust, but
~hen the ancient muse beckoned.
gold became of no account, and he
drank and sang recklessly.
On the night when we decided to
oegln our Mendelian research there
was new moon, and Hop Cow
played ana sang The moon went
fiddle squeaks died away to an occa-
sional plaintive wall; Hop Cows song
sank to a murmur, like that of the
| river at his feet; the fireflies came
out IN the jungle and Lorita put Hop
Toy to bed. Hop Cow slept in the
door of his hut with his fiddle in his
arms. -''
The next morning Hop Cow was
plainly uuder the influence of too
| much singing. He was red-eyed and
piragua to go down the river for a
boatload of yams. The piragua made
by gouging out bongo log, rolled
and bobbed perilously as Hop Cow
poled 1t away from the bank. Some
how he managed to keep af1oat
Fled From Camera.
We were intent on our plan. The
first thing to do was to get a picture
Of Hop Toy and her mother. The
natives were frightened and took to
the woods when they saw our camera,
an impressive affair. with a bellows
and bulb. But Lorita. with much
doubt and hesitation. finally allowed
us to take pictures Of her and the
| baby.
Gradually the natives crept back to
the village, but we felt that the dis
play of the camera had done us harm.
They watched US with fear and dis
| like.
That afternoon we were developing
the pictures in a dark room which
we had made out of a rubber-coate ed
tarpaulin, when we heard an uproar
in the village. Leonardo, /. chatter
ing little ape-like Jamaica man, who
Evening star., 1924-07-03
THE DARIEN DEADLINE
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

| many years before had made his way
| into this region, had come up the
river with the news that Hop Cow,
starting home with his boatload OF
yams, had tipped over and had been
drowned.
1t was all clear enough to us. To
perch on a load of yams in plragua
is hard enough job, even for man
the he door Of Hop COWS nut told the
whole story.
We looked down the river to see
that CASTOR, our black boy, had
taken a piragua from the bank and
was padding like mad. with crowd
of angry natives shouting and ges-
ticulating on the bank. Then we
knew! At about the time Hop Cow
was drowned we had been taking
, the picture of Lorita and the baby
1t was the curse from which the
others had escaped by fleeing to the
woods.
We had a sO-30 Savage, a Win
| chester and several small arms. We
loaded them and sat in the door of
our hut awaiting developments. They
came fast enough. We were soon
| surrounded with ring of bowling
dancing spotted people.
They did not venture very near.
| We had demonstrated our Savage to
| them and had shown them how a
soft-nosed bullet would tear a hole
| in tree in which one could almost
| put his fist.
Found Agundiente.
AT dusk they brought up Hop
Cows body. A tall, 1.-THE pinto man
poled the funeral barge up the
| stream. They had built over it a
| canopy of savannah leaves. Rush
| lights were lighted on the river bank
he /,
| their foreheads on the ground and
their heads covered Lorita sat in
| stolid misery in the door of her hut
holding the babbling little Hop Toy.
| Just as Hop Cows aguadiente had
got us into trouble. it also got us
out again. AS the pallbearers laid
Hop Cows body on mat in his hut,
| they saw his supply of liquor.
| The tumult waxed, and at one time
became really menacing, but by the
time the moon was down half of this
weird. spotted town was drunk. By
midnight it was all drunk save for
d sentry, who paced back and forth
| across the path which led from our
| hut to our canoes on the river bank.
We had a bottle of gin. | ventured
sentry. The temptation was too
much. He, too, was soon asleep.
We got away at dawn. But we
did not dare go down the stream. as
we knew there were watchers below.
SO we poled and padded up stream
into the deep wilderness. up to the
Rio Coass, branching off from the
Balsa, hoping to find legendary
trail over the mountains to the head
waters Of the Rio Atrata, in Colombia,
and thence down to the Atlantic.
Then came some interesting expert
ences with the Indians, which only l
am left to tell about. But that is as
near as we ever came to learning
anything worth while about the
spotted people. Perhaps Marsh with
his white Indians has now stirred
things uD so the scientists will really
find out something.
The moral of this tale is, of course,
for the prohibitionists. But it must
be remembered that, after starting all
the trouble, it was Hop Cows aqua
diente which saved us.
Both moral and scientific general
izations are dangerous in the tropics.
Copyright, 1924, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance.l
Evening star., 1924-07-03
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
A Broadway Pathos.

Only delegate! No place to go.
Except to a lengthy political show.
At home he was hailed as star in
the troupe.
At Madison Square he is rated a
''supe"
He's prompted for shouts that ring
into the arch;
He's given a banner and told when
to march.
He's made to report for rehearsal
each day;
When he looks at his part. he has
nothing to say;
And yet he's supposed to be happy
and bright,
Like all merry villagers, filled with
delight.
At home he held rank as a citizen
proud.
Whose word must be held in respect
by the crowd.
But even the waiter will here pass
him by
AS he calls for a ration Of sandwich
or pie.
He is told by hotels. when he'd rest
for while,
That the fire escapes full; he must
sleep in the aisle.
And 80 through the white lights they
leave him to roam
Only delegate, longing for home.
Evening star., 1924-07-03
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Bryan's Latest Ia; lure.

Mr.. Bryan's speech yesterday aft
ernoon in Madison Square Garden
was more no.able frr the manner in
which it was received than for the
matter that il contained. He was
addressing the Democratic national
convention but he was answered by
the galleries, packed with local ad-
herants of the candidate against
whose interest he spoke. Those gal
ieries have from the outset been the
bane Of the party that Eas been for
several days trying to organize for
the campaign. They have confused
the proceedings. delayed the schedule,
added to the complexities caused by
numerous conflicting interests Yes
terday they made Bedlam while the
most conspicuous Democrat in the
past tWenty-eight Years of the party S
history, sought to point the way. ac-
cording to his lights, to way out
of the wilderness.
Whether Mr.. Bryan's effort in be-
half of McAdoo waa wise or other
wise, it emphasized the definite achisn
that has occurred in the Democracy.
1t showed clearly that the party is
divided into two hostile camps. AS
harmonizer Mr.. Bryan failed, for
he has been too s;anchly an adherant
of one OF the opposing forces through
out the convention. The role of
peacemaker belongs t. a non partisan.
But. unfortunately for the party,
there is no outstanding man of at
tention-compelling force who is not a
partisan of one of the aspirants.
The speech itself was out Of the
ordinary course of convention events
1t is most rare for a delegate to take
the Platform to talk for his candi
date, or for substitutes. while the
balloting is in progress. 1t can only
be done by unanimous consent. Ac-
cording to the stenographic report of
the proceedings, when the chairman
asked if there was objection d chorus
OF noes" arose. yet the chairman
calmly exclaimed: The chair hears
none" and permitted Mr.. Bryan to
proceed. This was perhaps a courtesy
to the man who has been thrice his
party's nominee for the presidency.
1t was perhaps a despairing effort to
get somewhere. 1t had the effect,
however, of precipitating most un-
seemly clamor of Interruptions, turn
ing the convention into a riot of vo
ciferation and even vituperation.
OF course a result will be reached
Everything has amend. Perhaps the
end will have been hastened by the
Bryan episode. If so, it will have
been worth while. But today Mr..
Bryan stands with another failure
marked on his record.
Evening star., 1924-07-03
Allies Make 1t Easier
For Berlin to Toe Mark

Germany's decision to accede to the
allies demand for a final inventory
of the German military establish
ment IS certain to incline them
favorably toward having a German
representative at the conference in
London iSI 1, in the middle of July. 1t is
Herriot to trust Germany-with the
wise proviso that if Germany then
shows bad faith the allies will be all
the more disposed to cooperate in
that a friendly atmosphere "fe is being ehns
created should make it easier for
those Germans who are earnestly de-
sirous of working with the allies to
attain their object.
no longer disposed to offer serious
opposition to the Marx -Stresemann
government in carrying out the
necessary measures to insure the
matter of fact, the extremists find
themselves deprived of their fayorite
ammunition by the evident wish of
the French and British premiers to
be conciliatory. Much as they would
like to paint Herriot and Macdonald
as ogres of the Poincare type, it is
hard to convince the moderates that
this is true picture. To be sure,
it is becoming clearer to all con-
alteration. of the main lines of the
allied policy toward Germany But
1t Is also plain that the more genuine
the harmony between the French and
British leaders, the more difficult
will 1t be for the Germans effectively
to Withstand their wishes.
Thus is the situation in Germany
clearing. The Marx government is
now strong enough to take definite
steps in advance. In negotiations
with the allies 1t will know that 1t
speaks with authority, and at the
same time it will be conscious of
dealing with persons disposed to CO.
operate with 1t in return for German
compliance. Bit by bit the forces
created BY the parliamentary over
turns In Europe are taking new
shape.-New York Times