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Evening star., 1924-07-17
Hits the Communists.
Element Disavowed by Farmer.
Labor Party, Writer Declares.
To the Editor Of The Star

To the Editor of The Star.
In your issue of the 10th you carry
an Associated Press dispatch on page
13 with the headline Farm Labor
May Favor Ia Toilette" and state in
the body of the article, among others,
that the attitude of the National
Farmer Labor party formed in St.
Paul last June toward the presi-
Dental candidacy of Senator La Fol-
lette will probably be decided at a
meeting of the executives of the party
to be ratified by a conference of rep
reSeHtatives of the above mentioned
party. The general tendency of the
news article in question is to give
the impression that the organization
with which Foster, Ruthenberg and
some other well known communists
party of the United States. This is
wholly misleading and at variance
with the true facts. The Farmer
Labor party of the Cntted States has
Immediately. after Senator La Fol-
lette's unequivocal denunciation of
the St. Paul convention, withdrawn
from that convention almost to man
and completely disa~owed that con-
yention.
The communist element, whose pet
working hand in hand with the boil
sheviki, is to work it's way clandes-
timely and under pretense of giving
assistance and cooperation into lib
eral and progressive organizations
and labor unions, and once they are
within tactics and are not satisfied
until they either rule or ruin. The
same sort of thins was attempted
with the Farmer-Labor party of the
that they could not altogether smash
the organization, they formed what
is known as the Federated Farmer
Labor party with the manifest OBJ
ject of confusing the public at large
and to spread the belief that they are
States.
am sure that it will be of great
interest to you and your readers to
know that on July and last the
Labor party, representing thirty
states where the party is organized,
met at Cleveland simultaneously with
the Conference for Progressive Poll
tical Action and unanimously in
La Toilette and adopted his party
platform. Moreover, the following
resolution offered by the writer to
the national committee apropos to
the St. Paul conference was adopted
by acclamation:
"Resolved, That the convention as
sembled in the city OF st. Paul on the
18th day of June, 1924, purporting to
have been called by che Farm er-Labor
party and claiming the participation
In it's deliberations and actions of the
Farmer-Labor party, is hereby re-
undated as unauthorized and mis-
leading. and we hereby appoint a
committee to consist of Farley P.
christensen, Western Starr, Joseph
l. Topper, M. Rychnan and D. Rod
rigey to take such steps as may be
necessary to protect the name anu in
tsgrity of the National Farmer-Labor
party"
\ Il viii be clear fromrtha tAat
Evening star., 1924-07-17
Alvey A. Adee Wins Unstinted
Praise of Editors of Country

High tributes are paid by the Ma
tion's press to the memory of Alvey
Augustus Adee, Second Assistant Sec
retary Of State, whose recent death
brought to an end career unprece-
dented in the diplomatic history Of the
country. Scarcely heard of by the
public because he did his work quietly
and without personal ambition, Adee
had been the diplomatic expert as
Secretaries of State came and went
for more than 40 years.
When Mr. Adee was 2s, the Des
Moines Register recalls, "he became
secretary Of the legation at Madrid,
and in that capacity and others
served there for seven years. Return
ing to the United States in 1873. he
became chief of the diplomatic
secretary of state since 1882" Al
though he refused many offers of ad-
vancement during the 81 years of his
connection with the diplomatic serv-
ice. the Kansas City Journal is sure
''he has been universally recognized
as veritable mine of diplomatic his
torical wisdom in the diplomatic field,
whose invaluable services have been
eagerly sought by Secretaries of
State from Frelinghusen to Hughes; ;
been for the most part performed in
secret, and no one knows how much
of the reputation of some Secretaries
OF State is due to his unrivaled ex-
perience and his rich gifts as an au-
thority on international law and Dip
lomatic uSa ge.'
How many State papers took their
finished form from his facile pen and
gifts of expression the public can
never know. and how much trouble
has been averted and how much prog
ress has been made in friendly re-
lations with other countries through
his great knowledge of diplomatic
usage will never be recorded" in the
opinion of the Newark News, but.
"men in high office, inexperienced in
him to find out how to do the thing
they wanted to do and are indebted
to him beyond measure for his tact
and wisdom and expert Judgment
Mr. Adee was something more than
human phonograph, explains the
Minneapolis Tribune. because ''he
was adaptable to social and political
change; he kept pace with world
progress; he knew what paths to take
and what paths it were we'll to avoid
when crossroads were reached in the
Nations onward movement" So here
was man content to seem less
great than he really was" says the
Indianapolis News, doing his duty
in manner above criticism, and find
ing his joy in the satisfaction that
comes therefrom: one knows without
Evening star., 1924-07-17
Trains Held Up by
LOcusts.

CAPE TOWN.-Millions of locusts
are swarming into South Africa from
the great central desert. Trains go
ing to Rhodesia have been help up
by thick swarms of the pests
on the metals. Motor trolleys have
been rushed to the infested areas with
supplies of poison, which will be
used to exterminate the locusts. In
the meantime farmers have been
forced to trek with their cattle else
where. There is hardly blade of
grass left in their land and all the
winter feed has been devoured- The
same conditions prevail in the Orange
Free State, where the locusts are
eating all the sweet grass. This
means starvation for hordes Of
cattle. All schools are closed and
children are helping to scare the
pests. In Naboomspruit swarm five
miles wide passed over the district,
the noise of the locusts' wings re-
peublinS the hum Of sn aeropsaRe.
Evening star., 1924-07-17
Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
aIaryIaud and VIRGINIA.
All Other States
Member of the Associated Press
Wheeler's Bolt.

Detection of Senator Burton h.
DenrvGrd.ic ticket brings a notable
supporter to the La Toilette side and
may be the beginning of series OF
declarations separating other mem
bers of the upper house Of Congress
from their normal party affiliations
The case of Mr.. Wheeler is somewhat
peculiar. For some time past his
name has figured in the talk about
the La Toilette ticket" He has
been proposed for the vice presidency
o in that connection. But now he de-
clares that he would not accept the
nomination if it were rendered him.
But he will abandon his own party's
nominee for President and support
the candidate of the amalgamation of
dissent. He will at the same time
work for the reelection of his col
league, Senator Walsh, and will like
wise support Senator Borah in Idaho
Senator Norris in Nebraska. Senator
BroOkhart in Iowa and other candi-
dates whom he describes as repre-
sentative Of the progressive thought"
of the country. Does this reference
to the other Senators who are candi-
dates for reelection mean that they
likewise and perhaps others of the
senatorial progressive bloc may be
found in the La Toilette following?
Montana has been rated as one of
the probable La. Toilette states. The
detection of MIR. Wheeler does not
therefore, materially change the sit
uation in that particular area. But
il cannot be a cause of any comfort
whatever at Democratic headquar-
ters. Nor would the news of the de-
fection from the Coolidge support of
such men as Borah. Brookhart, Nor
ris, Ladd and Frazier bring any joy
to the Republican campaign manage
Johnson, who held his Republicanism
straight to the point of his defeat at
the primaries Of his party. Will he
cast his fortunes with La Toilette and
gressive melting pot, or perhaps 80
split the regular party votes out there
that Davis may carry the state?
This is evidently going to be
year of some surprises and many
changes The Wheeler bolt is the
first on the card. Will it be the signal
for other defections?
Evening star., 1924-07-17
Campaign Expenses.

Correspondence between Senator
Borah, chairman of a select Senate
committee on campaign expenditures,
and Chairman Butler of the Repub-
lican national committee, leaves no
doubt that the revenues OF the Re-
publican party for this contest will
be fully reported. At regular inter-
walls, beginning in September, the
chairman of the campaign committee
will furnish Senator Borah's commit
tee with a statement of the receipts
and the sources. This is not quite
what the Senator suggested. He pro-
posed a ten-day report, but there can
be no ground for rejecting the fort
nightly plan. What is desired is that
the Senate committee should, as a
clearing house, be kept advised Of the
revenues Of the political parties. The
purpose is plainly to secure informa-
tion scrying to show whether the -elec~
Evening star., 1924-07-17
Opera and the Prize Fight.

An opera is to be produced in Lon
don in which the leading character is
a prize fighter. The idea is so out Of
the ordinary that one might call it an
original idea if there were such a thing
as an original idea. So far as can be
called to mind no grand opera has
been sung in Washington in which the
central figure of the story is prize
fighter. A bullfighter is the hero IN
Carmen and clowns, bandits and
poor, but enthusiastic, lovers are
heroes in several popular operas. 1t
seems strange that no American COM
poser has thought to- give US q ma
Evening star., 1924-07-17
The McLeary Murder.

Fear was general that Maj. Samuel
II. McLeary had been murdered. The
mysterious disappearance of the
officer and the publicity given it
caused deep interest to be taken in
the case. 1t is now reported that d
man arrested as a suspect has con-
fessed to killing Maj. McLeary, and
the confession shows that the crime
was most revolving. 1t involved
treachery, ingratitude and greed, and
the greed was for paltry things. 1t
is reported that the prisoner says
the major took him and another man
in his car to give them lift 1t is
likely that they asked for a ride.
While in the car these men with
pistols forced the officer to stop and
get out, shot him TO death, stripped
him of ''valuables'' and left his body
in the brush near the roadside 1t is
not evident that the victim had much
that was Of value His clothing and
some shirts have figured in dis
patches as the principal plunder. No
doubt he had a watch, perhaps a
ring and a small sum of money. At
this time the accomplice ce-murderer
has not been captured, but the chance
that he will be taken is hopeful. II
the crime was as the prisoner con-
fessed, there can be no extenuating
circumstances and these are men Of
most depraved, vicious and dangerous
instinct.
So many robberies and assaults
have been committed by men after
getting a lift in cars travelling
along country roads that drivers are
less inclined to take in strangers
encountered on the way. 1t seems to
have become a dangerous form Of
hospitality.
Evening star., 1924-07-17
Figuring on Electoral Votes.

Political prognoSticators are already
at work on the electoral college. Re
publican eStimators are figuring out
Coolidge states and Democratic
forecasters are proclaiming sure
Davis states" La Toilette wiseacres
are not definitely claiming large num-
bers Of electoral votes, but are talking
in broad terms of large ma joritieS
and even Of sweeping the country"
A consideration of all the calculations
leads to some interesting results.
1t is asserted on the Coolidge side
that 1o states are certain. with a
total electoral vote of 224. The Davis
computers claim 20 sure states, with
200 electoral votes. To La Toilette
are, for purposes Of argument, con
ceded for the present I states, with
so votes. The total of these three
estimates is A. states. with 474 votes.
This leaves 6 states with 81 votes
that are in doubt These = states
are Ohio. Indiana. Colorado, Oregon,
New Hampshire and Delaware.
The states accredited to La Fol
lette, for the purpose Of this pre-
liminary survey. are Wisconsin,, Min
nesota, North and South Dakota,
Montana. Idaho and Washington.
The 10 states attributed to Coolidge
are California. Connecticut. Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas. Maine, Massachusetts,,
Michigan, New Jersey. New York,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah.
Vermont and Wyoming. Those that
are given in the reckoning TO Davis
are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky. Louisi-
ana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri,
Nebraska, Nevada. New Mexico, Okla
homa, South Carolina. Tennessee,
Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
Inclusion of New York in the Re
publican column doubtless challenges
Democratic denial. Inclusion of Ohio
elicits Republican scorn. Democratic
hopes for New Yorks support Of
Davis are based, it is understood,
upon the prospect that Gov. Smith
will run for another term. which is
calculated to aid the presidential
ticket of the party. If New York
should go Democratic the calculation
that gives Davis only 200 sure votes
and Coolidge 224 votes. with La Fol-
lette holding so. goes awry.
But if this calculation is correct
it is evident that Davis could not win
a majority of the electoral votes,
while Coolidge could. Giving Davis
all six Of the doubtful states would
yield him a total of o57 electoral
votes, or 9 less than majority.
Giving Coolidge all of them would
yield him 2S1, or Is more than a
majority. For Coolidge to secure a
winning margin he must carry, in
addition to the Is states rated as
assuredly Republican, Ohio, Indiana
and New Hampshire, with their 43
electoral votes, giving him a total of
267, or one more than enough.
For La Toilette surely to blockade
the electoral college he must win, in
addition to the seven states named,
Iowa and Kansas, or Iowa. Utah and
Wyoming, on the basis of the reckon
ing just given. He must get. in short,
about 70 electoral votes. which means
that he must carry at least nine
states.
These computations are interesting,
but not necessarily guiding. Condi-
tions that make for bedrock" elec-
toral returns are always subject to
change. If there is in the making a
tidal wave it is likely to overwhelm
even the certainties of July.
Evening star., 1924-07-17
!Copyright. 1921

the Farmer-Labor party of the United
States not only dissociated itself
from the organization consisting
principally and essentially of several
well known communists, who are inn
portant only in tho noise they can
make and the aptitude they show for
spreading misinformation. but openly
repudiated them aid is prepared
through a committee of lawyers
headed by Farley p. Christensen,
presidential candidate in 1920 to
wage battle for ita name and in
tegrity. jos. L. TEPPER.
Treasurer, p, G. naach Farmer--Labor
Paxt1s
Evening star., 1924-07-17
GIVE THEM A JOB
Bv DENIS A. MCCARTHY.

A.
We've given them flowers, we've given them cheers,
Smiles joyous, and tendercst tears;
Voices thrilling and hearts aglow;
Blushng bit meath the old tin hat,
AS day after day sweled the strain
OF pride for vaor and pity for pain.
But that's past Are proud of them still:
Then give them place that a may fill.
This hero stuff isn't going to last,
The is the past is past:
And they stand in crowded
Asking for neither pity praise,
Heroes and dem gods, neither, now,
With medaled breast and with laureled brow,
But Just And they seek place
In the daily toll and the daily
Just this. No Neither cheer Sob
But the chance for living that goes with job
So give them job For the job they had
Was a man-szed job And the youngest lad
That knew the horror the struggle, the stencil,
Is boy He henceorth plan
And look on life with the eyes of a
Tested and tried, and found be
And he's not begging from from YOU
No. they're asking for easy snaps
These stalwart- spirited soldier chaps,
But they, there, have given the best
That their lives worth that their souls possessed
And that the cheers and the songs die
Don't leave them looking and loafng about.
You liked the that they worked in France
When they stopped the of the foes advance.
Well, take the fellows who turned that trick,
Who ended the and ended it quick.
. And give tIem-leatherneck. doughboy and COB
Your last best gift in the shape of job!
Evening star., 1924-07-17

American athletes have scored in
the Olympic games with great credit.
Europe is frank in admitting that
when Uncle Sam interests himself in
any enterprise he does so whole
heartedly.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

No slight difference of opinion
among the Republican campaign
managers will overshadow public con
f1dence in the fact that the really
responsible parsonage in the enter
prise is a gentleman by the name of
Coolidge.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

The atom was once regarded as in
divisiL le. The electron is announced
as the ultimate conceivable entity. Its
turn I.lay come. The scientist. like the
realto,'. finds nothing TOO small to be
incapable of possible subdivision.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

Aviators who went To sleep at the
Paris "FOlieS' were a diSa ppOint-
ment to the press agents. A weary
airman is not as easy To thrill as
tired business man.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

1t may take the country some time
to. get as well acquainted with the
new Tammany chieftain as it is with
Gov. Smith, whose convention speech
implied an impression that he is
something Of a leader himself.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

II is, Of course, scarcely expected
by Mr.. La Toilette that the vote he
receives will be limited TO the num-
ber of people VINO send dollar each
to his campaign fund.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

References TO the Teapot Dome af-
fair are no longer numerous; not
because it has been forgotten, but
because it is too unpleasant to talk
about.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

Many voters will note with regret
that a careful scrutiny of all the
party platforms reveals no reference
whatever to the parking problem.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

While fearing that John W. Davis
has had his faults in the past, Will
liam Jennings Bryan is proud to see
him keeping good company.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

Publicity is recognized as one of
the great assets Of present times. The
only man who is making real effort
to evade it is G. C. Bergdoll.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

Both vice presidential candidates
are prominent in the public eye. After
the election neither ia likely to be so
to any great degree.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

1t may be Mr. La Follette's fate to
find himself compelled to assume the
responsibility of being bigger than
several parties at once.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

The La Toilette ticket does not
compel delegates to linger away from
home while engaged in deliberations.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

The new leader of Tammany may
find ii no easy matter to take the
Democratic spotlight away from Gov.
Al Smith.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

Preparations discussions should at
tain results soon. Everybody is tired
OF deadlocks.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

The name of Bryan still continues
to make Nebraska famous.
Evening star., 1924-07-17
SHOOTING STARS.
BIZ PHILANDER JOHNSON.

insufficient Precedent.
Imagination makes our ills
Seem greater than they are.
From fancy we derive our thrills
More than from fact. by far.
The chance that 1 might see a ghost
In childhood made me fret.
The things that terrified me most
Have never happened yet.
l hear folks prophesy anew
Conditions of dismay,
Unless we undertake to do
Exactly as we say.
And still I cherish hopes of cheer,
Remembering how I've met
So many shivering shapes Of fear
That never happened yet.
Peace.
"Of course you are in favor of
world peace"
"Emphatically,' answered Senator
Sorghum. "In a reasonable time l
hope to see our part of the world 80
peaceable that prohibition agents and
bicycle policemen won't have to carry
revolverS'
Jud Tunkins says he guesses capi-
tai and labor are getting toward
some kind of sociable understanding,
being as only the rich can afford to
hire plasterers.
Billions.
Some figures are too big and grand
For most of us to understand.
In history my mind can go
Perhaps d thousand years or so;
But when our science lightly dwells
On billions as mere bagatelles
l cannot follow; SO, l flee.
1t doesn't mean a thing to me.
If / can figure up my debts
And pay them all without regrets;
If I, like fairly favored men,
Can count my years three score and
ten,
shall admire with meek content
The intellect on billions bent
That floats with a poetic grace
On mathematics into space.
Evening star., 1924-07-17
Matter of Location.

''Is there any money in wheat?"
Some places" replied Farmer
Corntossel; Chicago Board of Trade,
for instance
Evening star., 1924-07-17

Its gineter take powerful sight
Of daylight savin'," said Uncle Eben,
ito keep UP wit mooushine Mastin..' =
Evening star., 1924-07-17

@ Was iron ever used as money in
this Country"-P. ). w
A. After the first successful iron
works in America was established at
Taunton, Mass. in 1853. some of its
products were used as money.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

Q. Who painted the tiny portraits
OF the king and queen in the throne
room Of the Queens Doll House at
Wembley?-A. V. r.
A. One of the most celebrated of
cotemporary portrait painters executed
these portraits-Sir William Orphan,
Z. A.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

=. What Confederate general is
buried in New Orleans?-W. c. G.
A. Confederate Generals G. T.
Beauregard. A. G.. Blanchard Harry
T. Hayes and John B. Hood are buried
in New Orleans.
Evening star., 1924-07-17

q. If a comet ever touches the
earth, will it explode?-M G..
A. The Naval Observatory says that
the mass of a comet is never large;
and the material is, for the most part.
exceedingly tenuous. 1t is probable
that the earth, If struck by a comet,
would witness nothing more than a
meteoric shower The explosions, if
any, would be similar to those hither-
to observed in the case of large
meteorites
Evening star., 1924-07-17

9. Why is Little Rock. Ark. So
called M l.. S
A. The city derived its name torigi-
nally lie Petit Roche" and THE Lit
tie Rocko from the rocky peninsula
in the Arkansas, distinguished from
the Big Rock the site of the Army
post. Fort Logan H. Roots, one mile
west of the city. The big rock is
said to have been first discovered
and named lie Rocher Francais" in
1872 by Sieur Bernard de la Harpe.
who was in search OF an emerald
mountain: the little rock is now used
as an abutment for railway bridge.
Evening star., 1924-07-17
Real bobbed hair

In car which has just drawn up
to the curb sit two beautiful children.
Why don't some of the women take
the little ones with them to the
beauty parlor, and say, Cut mine just
like this!'
Two fat ragamuffin children stop
to look in at the silk-clad little ones.
The rich children look out with
wonder at the raganuffins, and the
ragamuffins look back with wonder
at them. This is a mysterious world.
folks.
Evening star., 1924-07-17
Gave Way to Electricity.


''The famous service-which Of
ficially was The Central Overland
California and Pixies Peak Express
Company'-lasted only Is months.
In 1861 the transcontinental teie-
graph was pushed ahead rapidly and
at the same time the Federal govern
ment started subsidized daily stage
mail line over the pony route. For
the last few months of it's existence
the pony express operated between
the fast approaching ends of the tele-
graph line. On October "a. 1861, when
the wires met and 1t became possible
to flash messages Immediately from
ocean to ocean, the pony express, as
romantic an enterprise as American
history discloses. gave up the ghost y
1t had hankrupted it's promoters but
1t had helped win the West"
Evening star., 1924-07-17
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Evening star., 1924-07-17

=. Are there many bears in New
York State?-N y. S.
y. Statistics are not available az IT,
the number of bears in the State. but
the report of the State conservation
commission shows that 232 bears were
Killed in New York during 1920 and
ga during the preceding year.