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Evening star., 1924-04-07
This Weeks Primaries.

All persons interested in the presi-
dental campaign are watching with
deep interest the preferential primaries
Of today and tomorrow. Michigan
voters are going to the polls today to
express their preference of presiden-
tial candidates in both parties. Illinois
and Nebraska voters will signify their
choice tomorrow. 1t falls out that in
these three states the contest for dele
gates between President Coolidge and
Senator Hiram W. johnson of Cali
fornia is regarded az close.
But President Coolidges campaign
managers estimate that he could lose
these three states and still win the
nomination. Senator Johnson, how
ever, cannot afford to lose them. on
account OF the moral effect which
would be involved in such a loss. His
c. 2mpaign, which has shown but one
tory thus farm South Dakota
has been at standstill for weeks, and
his failure in these states to score
would be calculated to well nigh cause
collapse OF the campaign.
in Illinois, he will undoubtedly be en-
couraged to continue to lead what to-
day appears a forlorn hope. He is a
fighter for his own hand. although he
fights along lines of aggressiveness
peculiarly his own.
Evening star., 1924-04-07

the nation and these earthworks, camp
ing grounds and battle1elds should be
preserved. A.t
The last big act Of the American
revolution was at Yorktown and in
fields that lie around the village.
There the kings forces which were to
break the backbone Of the American
rebellion" were trapped and captured
There CORVALLIS, earl, distinguished
soldier Of king, and veteran Of cam
paigns that had brought great vic
tories to the royal arms, surrendered
to George Washington. Many men
have said that the American republic
was born at Yorktown.
On the centennial anniversary of
the surrender, October 19, 1881, the
corner stone of a national monument
was laid at Yorktown near the east
edge Of the village, overlooking York
river and in the midst of earthworks
which were British defenses in 1881
and Confederate defenses in 1862. The
house in which the articles Of surren-
der were signed in 1871 is standing.
There are many heroic American
memories about the place.
Evening star., 1924-04-07
COURAGE
II ana the master OF my fate,
/ am the captain of my SOUL"
-HENLEY.

Thomas GarriQue Masaryk, the poor
peasant boy in an oppressed province
of Austria Hungary, had the SEEM
ingly hopeless ambition to be a school
master. When he had climbed the
to free his country, suffered many
prosecutions and was condemned to
death.
Born in Moravia in 1850, he had but
two years schooling, when, at four
teen, he apprenticed himself to
locksmith in Vienna to earn bed and
board while studying. A task of
countless repetitions at single ma
chine was maddening, and he ran
away. Back home he was in dis
grace, and was glad to accept the
village blacksmith's old offer of a job.
asked him what had become of his
ambition to be a teacher, he welcomed
the chance to attend a school con,
Quoted by the instructors father and
to work for his tuition.
AT the University of Vienna and
later at Leipzig he was a brilliant
scholar. Becoming professor at
Prague, he defended Jew accused
of ritual murder" and was snuo-
bed by his students, who tried to
silence him. Persisting, he freed the
prisoner and was subjected to petty
persecution.
When forty-one years old he was
elected to the Austrian parliament,
became an author and founded
monthly, weekly and daily publica-
tions. Chosen to parliament again
in 1907, he kept up his fight for his
enslaved people. His fame became
continental, then international. AL
ways loyal to truth, he brought
down on himself a storm of scorn
and fury by proving certain papers
revered as ancient Bohemian histor-
ical documents to be forgeries. His
university lectures in the United
States attracted much attention.
At the outbreak of the world war
he was imprisoned by the Vienna
government, but escaped, made his
way to the United States and en-
gagged in active propaganda for the
allies. Austria-Hungary condemned
him to death and imprisoned his
daughter. After the war his influence
at the peace conference brought
Czechoslovakia into being, and he
was made it's first president
Copyright, 1924. by c. C. Poweil.)
Evening star., 1924-04-07
Yorktown.

Secretary Weeks has sent to Con-
gress a report Of the national military
park commission recommending es-
tablishment of a national park at
Yorktown, Va. and requesting an
appropriation Of 100000. The park
would include 1,100 acres and part of
Yorktown itself. This is not new
proposal and whenever it has been
brought forward has received. en-
thusiastic support from numerous
American associations. In the Sum
day Star. May 8, 1921, was this:
The fields OF Yorktown may be taken
over by the United States and held for
ever as a national park. A bill to do
this pends in Congress and its passage
is urged by the Daughters Of the Amer
ican Revolution. 1t is that patriotic
society which brought forth the idea
and inspired the drafting OF the bill
and its presentation to Congress. Moth
ing less than the enactment OF the
ownership Of the American people win
satisfy the D. A. r. Great numbers Of
persons not members Of that order ap-
prove the proposal. If you should walk
the streets of little Yorktown, see its
homes, many of which were built two
hundred years ago, and look out on the
acres Of land within and outside the
town, all tumbled with trenches and re-
doubts that were peopled by Amerf-
cans, French and English during the
American revolution and by Union and
Confederate troops during the civil var,
it would seem 10 you that this tragic
and historic ground should be held by
Evening star., 1924-04-07
Sportsmanship Ideals
Passed Up in Politics

Americans who have become lead
ers in the world of sport, who have de-
veloped every athletic branch of it to the
highest state of efficiency and sue
cess and who are so jealous of its
good name that in its base ball sec
tion commissioner watches over it's
ethics and general conduct have yet
to regulate the greatest sport in the
country, politics.
This game is played by more peo-
pie, from Maine to California, than
ever handled a bat or put on a
thing from the ward leader to the
President of the United States and
Ii enters in one way or another into
nearly every home.
But do we all OF us play IL "ac-
cording to the book? Are there any
rules to the game except to win; win
by hook or crook? And, usually, when
an investigation develops after
winning, it is made to appear that
the crook" is not a mere figure of
speech.
Republicans and democrats are the
Giants and Yankees of the political
game, but sometimes il seems that
there Is no such fine spirit of sport
men led by John McGraw or Miller
Huggins. Campaigns are not de-
voted to issues, but to getting some
thing on" the other man. The pres
tit Sttiitii III w dSnlllS x ION HAS DetE
brewing for two years. Much of il
was word-ofmouth gossip during
that time. 1t might have been
brought into the open at any session
of Congress. But it fitted better into
the unregulated rules of the political
game to Introduce 1t a few months
before a national convention. I'm
happily, much of its revelations may
be true; men in high office may have
stained their honor, and, undoubt-
edly, it is good for the national
health to clear some of them out of
public life.
But as part of the great game
OF politics it does not Seem like
good sport to play it as some Of the
Votaries are playing it. The mere
mention of a mans name in connec-
ton with the oil scandal is giving
the public mistrust of him. Judg-
ment has become inf1amed and un-
stable. The cry each day is for
new victim. Rome must have its
holiday, and Nero must fiddle
1t is all extreme unjudicial and
not according to the rules of good
sport The same thing is evident
In the discrediting of any officials
program by any opposition. The pro-
gram may be perfect. but il must be
made to appear "a raid on the Treas
ury," because no service to the ma
tlon or state is as worthwhile in ,he
eyes OF these political gamesters as
putting the other party in a hole.
A commissioner of politics might
be good idea for both of the major
part1es.-Albany knickerbocker Press.
Evening star., 1924-04-07
Campaign Contributions.

In an address in this city yesterday
before a body of students interested in
law enforcement, Senator Borah in
vited consideration of Il problem which
has long caused concern to all
thoughtful persons. He emphasized
the dangers inherent in the vicious
system under which party managers
solicit and receive large contributions
to campaign funds from men and in
terests who seek in return selfish IA
vors at the hands Of the government.
1t is in this system that invisible gov
ernment" largely has its beginnings
and most secure intrenchment.
There has been much crying out
about the pressure brought to bear on
Congress by organized minorities, ad-
vocat!ng this or that measure which
the minority SO organized seeks to i'm
pose upon the unorganized majority.
Such a method of influencing legisla-
tion undoubtedly is wrong in theory
and more or less to be deplored. But
the method is open and aboveboard,
and much less sinister than the in
fiuences which are brought to bear as
a result of large contributions to party
campaign chests. There is this much
to say in favor of the organized
minority method: There is nothing to
prevent those who oppose a measure
from forming counter organization
in opposition to it. The opponents of
measures which are influenced by
huge campaign gifts have no adequate
weapon with which to fight back.
1t is recognized that somehow or an
other funds must be raised to pay the
expenses of national political cam
paigns, but it is much open to ques-
ton whether there is any real neces-
sity for such enormous sums as have
been raised in recent years. The pres
ent fashion dates back to the cam
paign Of 1896, when Mark Hanna went
out and "shook down" the business
and financial interests Of the country
under the threat of Bryan's currency
imitation. Since then a campaign man.
ager has felt poverty-stricken unless
he has had millions at his disposal.
In earlier days. when campaigns Of
education were much more difficult
because communication was less ade-
quate, Presidents and Congresses were
elected without such huge outlays of
money. To assert that elections could
not be more economically conducted
today is an insult to the intelligence
Of the American people. Both the
great parties have been equally guilty,
if not in ability to collect, at least in
desire to collect. It is rivalry between
them which has increased campaign
funds from modest to immoral proper
tions. Congress and the states have
seen fit to limit the amount which an
individual candidate for Office may
legally expend. Is there any logical
reason why the expenditures of ma
tional party organizations should not
be limited?
Evening star., 1924-04-07

modelling the Utilities Commission has
ward the end Of March the Engineer
Commissioner proposed q plan that
was embodied in the bill which is to be
proposed as an amendment OF the law
creating the Public Utilities Commis-
sion, and which has just been sane
toned by the budget. Before being
sent to the budget the measure was
approved by the District Commission
ers, and was favorably spoken Of by
the chairman Of tho Senate District
committee. At that time The Star
said: "The District Commissioners
should not be overloaded with work.
Beside this there are many questions
which come before the Public Utilities
Commission of a character to call for
the services of lawyer and engineer.
all one man can do, and it often hap
pens that neither of the civilian Com
missioners is a lawyer. The Public
Utilities Commission has functioned
we'll, but the proposed plan ought to
make for more satisfactory handling
of public utility questions, which have
come to be among the highly impor-
tant questions with which the District
government has to deal"
The District Commissioners are
willing to continue as the Public Utili-
ties Commission or they are willing
that it should be SO reorganized that
they shall not be members of it. The
Engineer Commissioner, who has
taken the lead in this matter, makes
a strong argument that the Commits
sioners should continue as members
of the Commission, but that there
should be two members especially
qualified to deal with legal and en-.
gineering questions who shall devote
their whole time to the work of that
commission.
Evening star., 1924-04-07
Finding What You're
Looking For
By JOHN CARLYLE

The other day I read a. letter
from boy who is away at school.
Like almost every other boy of sew
enteen, he is going through a period
of unrest, discomfort, positive unhap-
piness.
Like every other boy away from
nome, for the first year he wants to
change schools or come home or do
something quite different He is seek
ing contentment, just as we all are
but he doesn't know where to find it.
He doesn't even know how to look
for it.
This boy, like so many grown men
and women, is seeking the answer to
his restlessness, his unhappiness, in a
change of circumstances, instead of
in a change of self.
The boy in his letter says that the
other fellows are Indifferent to him.
They seem to snub him. He imagines
they do not like him. He thinks his
teachers are not interested in him.
They, too, seem Indifferent
OF course the answer to all this is
simple enough. The lad is getting
just what he is looking for. He is
inevitably attracting to himself just
what he gives off to others.
Failing to take sufficient interest in
his work and in his fellows, failing
to make the best of circumstances
which are new and strange to him,
he, himself, is Indifferent. He with
draws into himself. He snubs every
body without deliberately meaning to.
We find what we are looking for
We get what we hunt. Though we do
not consciously admit even to our
selves that we are looking for it. We
imagine we are hunting happiness.
We are not at all. We are Just shut
ting ourselves up with discomfort. BY
our own free will we are choosing
miserable company.
All this can be cured just as soon as
We make up our minds to meet other
folks half way-or a little more than
half way. All this can be cured when
we make up our minds to forget
about our fancied rights and our fan
cied Sights.
There is such a thing as always be-
ing on the defensive in our search for
happiness. We are forever looking
for an attack and forever imagining
that 1t is coming or that II has come
We must get or the defensive and
get on the offensive In the pursuit Of
happiness. We can frame our minds
and our habits to attract the lovable
interest of others We can go after
the things we want. We shall find
what we look for.
There used to be q little boy in a
certain village home whose mother
taught him q new prayer. He never
used any other. 1t was q lovely prayer
and it went like this:
Lord, look upon my heart, will
you, and find 1t sweet and ready for
the days work"
fou0righf, l124A
Evening star., 1924-04-07
Borah Arms Parley Proposal
Evokes Divided Editorial Views

abroad, the Chattanooga News claims,
ARE impressed with the great need
of Americas unprejudiced advice and
cooperation" AS further reason for
the conference, the Little Rock Ar
kansas Gazette calls attention to the
fact that American naval officers
think the best course would be for
America, Great Britain, Japan. France
and Italy to repair the defects of the
Washington treaty by an agreement
deStroyers as battleships have been
limited" Admitting that the practi-
cal difficulty in the way of consider
ing debts and reparations along with
now be sure Of adequate support by
their home governments, the Rich
mond News Leader suggests this
does not mean that informal agita-
tion is not possible and should not be
undertaken"
The Sioux City Journal maintains
''if it could be held with the leading
powers participating and cutting
down their actual military strength
in all branches, it would be a long
reports of the temper of Europeans
are true. the step is unlikely" The
Seattle Times considers 1T unlikely
that Great Britain would agree to the
proposition that France should domi-
nate the air for all time, which makes
il seem improbable that an arms limi-
tation conference could succeed"
Unless a good measure of success
comes out of the efforts OF the Dawes
continues, a conference for further
Limitation of armaments would end
only in failure, and failure in such a
matter at present would leave the
situation worse than If no attempt
had been made Because Congress
deliberately has pursued scuttling
policy till the effectiveness of the
American Navy has fallen far below
the ratio of five to three" with the
Japanese fleet, in the opinion of the
Detroit Free Press. "is a practical
reputation of the Washington naval
compact" hence there is neither
rhyme nor reason in talking about
already in existence is kept effective" ="
The Newark News recalls that a
year ago the Navy Department circu-
lated among the higher naval officers
an attack on the Limitation treaty,
which the News regards as a confess
sion that I'VE had been 'bunked' by
the Washington conference, and few
will challenge the statement that
Britain and Japan got most of the
benefits, and were another naval dis
armament conference called now,
there is no chance that we could re-
gain what we bartered away three
Granting that the Washington con-
ference did not go far enough, be-
cause it did not touch the most essen
tial elements which enter into the
subject of peace, the Springfield News
refers to the recent attempt of the
league Of nations to pursue the sub
ject in all countries, and 1t asks has
it come to pass that the league is SO
hated in Washington among admins
tration leaders that even good things
it attempts must be frowned upon or
ridiculedT'
The Pittsburgh Gazette Times ana
lyzes the situation further and con-
Evening star., 1924-04-07

The amendment to the naval appro-
priation bill introduced by Senator
Borah requesting the President of the
United States to Invoke such nations
as he deems wise to send representa-
tives to a combined economic and
disarmament conference has been
adopted by the House. Although this
was done in spite of a statement of
Secretary Hughes in letter to Rep
resentative Fish that it was not fea-
sible to call such a conference "at the
present time" many American editors
believe something is gained for the
cause of further limitation of arma-
ments by such an expression of
feel the time is not ripe for such
conference,
The New York Times is decidedly
limitations of the Washington naval
treaty obviously stopped short of the
full purpose in view," but "a cause
so fraught with considerations of the
to be kept at the front of human
activities" AS the Reading Tribune
sees it, France, facing the necessity
of curtailing her expenditures, must
economize on armaments; Great Brit
ain, in the hands of a pacifist govern
ment, and Japan, after restoring the
loss occasioned by the earthquake,
will probably be only too glad to
"the conference should be called at
the earliest possible date" for peace
is the thing most earnestly desired
by the world as whole
The big question, according to the
Buffalo News, els whether France is
ready to enter upon negotiations di-
rected toward that end, but the fall
ure of the Ruhr adventure and the
fall of the franc have somewhat chas-
tened her spirit, and she might not
be averse to such a proposal, which
would come more agreeably from the
United States than from any other
source" The Birmingham News feels
"if Borah's resolution results in moth
ing more than another International
pow-wow to keep alive this same
business Of talking common sense to
a world filled with hate, a very great
deal will have been accomplished.
would deserve the scorn of every
level-headed American"
r r y X
Although there may be difficulties
in the way, the San Francisco Bul1e-
tin declares "some good may be
achieved by letting the world know
where the United States stands in the
respect Of the most effective Of all
means Of aholishing warfare-every
reduction in armaments reduces the
temptations to make war and brings
the world court a step nearer" But
whatever success or lack of success
might attend such a conference, the
Great Falls Tribune thinks sit could
do no harm and might do some good !;
for nations to sit around a friendly
table and talk over their differences
and mutual interests is always good
thing and tends to better understand
ing of each other"
Those who study the situation
Evening star., 1924-04-07
Would Have Navy
Do photographic Work
To the Editor of The Star;

BY the accident of juxtaposit;on of
names, the reader of AR. Herbert Co
rey's sketch of Capt. f. 3. Rassett
hydrographer of the Navy Depart
ment, in The Sunday Star, might be
misled into thinking that am an a
vocate of the proposed transfer of the
photographic office to the coast and
geodetic survey. Mr.. Corey's refer
ence was to the plan embodied in the
so-called scheme of reorganization
sored by Mr.. Walter F. Rrown
chairman of the joint. committee. The
misprint of his name caused the CON
fusion.
Personally ] am strongly in favor
of placing all marine, harbor and
coast chart work in the hydrogranhi,.
Office under the Navy. Then we car
have unified chart system based on
maritime usage and requirements
HERBERT ]. BROWNE
Evening star., 1924-04-07

cludes that Great Britain, France.
Italy will not consider limiting their
submarine or air forces nor their land
armies, because they do not see any
way in which this could be done
advantage possessed or handing to
another advantage that might be
used against the giver. They do not
trust one another. They do not trust
the United States. They are not sufi-
ciently hard up to do anything noni-
nally for mankind, for their interest
is solelAseltish-"
Evening star., 1924-04-07
A few statesmen are afraid that thi

A few statesmen are afraid that this
country will fall into anarchy or at
least bolshevism. The fear is a pass
ing one. After the next election the
successful party will announce the
usual assurance that the country is
absolutely safe, and an alert voting
populace will see to it that the pros
pectus is made good.
Evening star., 1924-04-07

Monoliths and pyramids have been
found in British Honduras, marking
the site OF an ancient Mayan city. The
American hemisphere is referred to as
the new world, but it can. on demand,
produce traces of ancient civilizations
worthy the attention of any scientist.
Evening star., 1924-04-07

Prehistoric relics are always in
teresting, even though too modest in
pretension to be worthy of learned dis
cussion. In a nearby community there
was recently unearthed a cigar store
wooden Indian and a bock-beer sign.
Evening star., 1924-04-07

Positions carrying extraordinarily
large salaries have been offered the
former Attorney General. Very few
men have spurned so many different
kinds of inducements to return to pri-
vate life.
Evening star., 1924-04-07

An interesting radio feature might
be provided by allowing the general
relating to the pecuniary relationships
and restrictions as they develop.
Evening star., 1924-04-07
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Evening star., 1924-04-07

Among the doubtful assets Of Sena-
tor Hiram Johnson's campaign are
the occasional bouquets his remarks
elicit from democratic sources.
Evening star., 1924-04-07

When the Wheeler committee takes
up the question of antitrust enforce.
ment it opens up long vistas of his
torical research.
Evening star., 1924-04-07

At present a brief case may interest
anybody from a senatorial investi-
gator. to a prohibition agent
Evening star., 1924-04-07

The interesting phase of the contest
For the republican nomination is the
fact that there will be no contest.
Evening star., 1924-04-07
Useful.

"You are fond Of radio?'
VERY" replied Miss Cayenne. ''Even
If the program isn't very interesting
you can use it to discourage the caller
who wants to recite poetry or play the
ukulele."