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Evening star., 1924-08-24

to make the sport exciting.
ing with all their energy. Even when
the ball is safely in the net and the
goal is reached, the last shot has
to be made with eight men all dash
ting forward, straining every muscle
to prevent 1t going into the cup.
When one side has scored, the game
is called and the players ride from
the field. salutins the dignitaries as
before.
Evening star., 1924-10-17
Gov. Smiths Crusade.

Gov. Alfred E. Smith Of New York
is reopening and stressing advocacy
of the use of light wines and beer
and making it leading issue of his
campaign for the governorship. He
urges that Congress amend the Vol
stead act by authorization OF 2.75
beer and light wines, giving authority
to the States to decide whether they
will avail themselves of it or not. He
points out that under such amend
ment of the prohibition act kansas
could be as dry as the Sahara and
New York could have it's wines and
beer" He claims this would be more
effectual prohibition than exists un-
der the violation of prohibition so
prevalent at present. In the mean
time he would have the State authori-
ties enforce the law with such power
as is left them since the repeal Of the
State enforcement act.
This is no new stand upon his part.
but it's significance lies in the way in
which he is urging it, constituting Il
new drive for the policy. 1t is evident
he is to make it one of the main issues
of his campaign, while his opponent,
Col. Roosevelt, is contenting himself
with advocating strict enforcement of
the law Gov. Smith assails the Re
publican attitude as one of hypocrisy,
claiming that at heart many Repub-
licans agree with him. but have not
the courage Of their convictions.
The issue may be of importance in
the voting. The Republicans are de-
pending upon upstate New York to
supply Col Roosevelt with an offset to
the expected heavy Democratic vote
in Greater New York. Upstate New
York is we'll known to be dry. Gov.
Smiths reopening of the wines and
beer question will be calculated to
focus attention increasingly upon the
question and bring out the maximum
dry vote.
Evening star., 1924-10-17

cessful. 1t cannot be doubted now
that the dirigible has it's uses as car
rier over great spaces, with a wider
range of action than the plane,
though at slower speed.
The plane may yet be developed
to the point Of practicability as a
cargo carrier. though up to now it
has been used for only the most
concentrated materials of value and
for mails. 1t is not yet. strictly
compete with the slower surface
methods. Nor is the dirigible yet to
be thus classed. That it can carry a
much greater volume of material is
evident, yet there remains the ques-
tion of balance to be considered. The
gas bag device must be lightened by
its own flotation power to only few
degrees beyond the force of gravity
acting upon it's mass weight. To
overload it is to prevent it's flight
or it's safe management. The plane
can rise with relatively much
greater weight than the dirigible.
These questions are in the process
of solution as dirigibles and planes
are brought steadily onward in their
development. Since the war material
advance has been made. The next
decade will probably witness the COM
plete evolution of the aerial carrier
engaged in regular transport service
over great land and sea spaces.
Evening star., 1924-10-17
The Cargo Airship.

DR.. Hugo Eckener, skipper of the
ZR-3, now appropriately named Los
Angeles, says that with the use of
helium gas instead of hydrogen the
dirigible can be made relatively safe.
With a heavier fuel than gasoline it
can be made absolutely safe. Greater
size than that of the latest acquisi-
tion to the American aerial fleet is
not desirable, he says, as the present
size is sufficient for commercial pur-
poses. But greater speed is desir-
able, as by a slight increase in speed
any storm can be avoided.
Helium, an American product, will
solve the problem of explosive dan
ger. The heavier fuel is yet to be
satisfactorily developed. That it will
come is not to be doubted, in view
Of the remarkable advances that have
been made in the chemistry Of COM
bustion. The question of greater
speed lies with the designers.
The performances of ZR-3, to call
her by her original name for the
present, and Of the Shenandoah prove
the possibility of crossing great
spaces over sea and land in a very
short time. Neither airship suffered
serious mishap. Each had slight dam.
ago. but none to retard the voyage.
Both flights were, in fact, expert
mental and both were highly snc-
Evening star., 1924-10-17
The Canton Rebellion.

China is in a distressing state of dis
order and conflict. Rival armies have
been fighting for supremacy in the
neighborhood of Shanghai. with re-
cent suppression of one of them and
the restoration of comparative order
which, however, may be broken at
any time by a recrudescence Of rebel
lion against the Peking government.
Now at Canton warfare has occurred
between a so-called red army" of
workingmen and the merchants Of the
city, with casualties estimated at
1000 and a resultant cont1agration
which has swept the greater part of a
square mile of the city with a prop
erty loss of S7,000,000. The dispatches
regarding this catastrophe are meager
and leave the situation somewhat
vague. 1t would appear that COM
munism has developed among the Ia
boring classes and a group war has
developed. The merchants formed a
volunteer corps and secured arms, the
landing Of which was opposed by the
workers These volunteers have been
called "fascisu,' and thus the Italian
situation has been repeated.
That the Canton radicals have been
inspired by Russian agents is suspect
ed. Yet it does not follow, necessarily,
that the Soviet at Moscow has directly
attempted the corruption Of the pro-
letariat Of one Of China's busiest cen
ters. 1t would undoubtedly be highly
agreeable to the Moscow government
to see all China in flames. Suspicion
has not been lacking that the Russian
red influence has been one Of the
agencies Of the rebellion which lately
centered around Shanghai. The Soviet
government is intrenched on the
northern borders of China. and it is
known that it looks forward to the
possibility of dominating the great
Eastern republic. To infiame the
workers Of Canton would not be at all
out of harmony with the expressed
wish of the Soviet to start trouble in
all parts of the world for the spread
of red doctrines and the subversion of
all other governments.
Canton has been a disorderly city
frequently in the past. 1t is a hotbed
of intrigue, and this present disorder,
which has already proved so costly, is
but a symptom Of unrest and the
radicalism which have lately appeared
in various parts Of the great land.
China's we'll wishers will hope for the
prompt suppression Of the conflict and
the restoration Of order at that point,
as we'll as in other parts Of the coun-
trv.
Evening star., 1924-10-17
Denies Revolt Report.
Nicaragua Charge Declares News
Dispatch In Error.
To the Editor Of The Star.

~ tue EUltor OF Inc Star:
In your important paper OF veste,-
oay regretted to see the news you
received through a cable from San
Saisador, stating that a revolution
directed by Gen. Chamorro has broken
out in Nicaragua No doubt the per-
son who sent the cablegram was mis-
informed, as the dispatch is abso-
iutely wrong. There was an error
also IN a preceding cablegram from
San Salvador stating that Cen.
Chamorro was imprisoned And it is
Tor that reason that 1 address myself
to you, very respectfully, in my posi-
ton of charge d'affaires from Mica
ragua- asking you very kindly to
recti1y the news regarding my
The elections in Nicaragua have
taken place in the most perfect order
and freedom, without having had any
protest whatsoever. In Chontales
they had some local disturbances, but
they were of little significance, and
order was re-established Immediately.
The government, as a preventive
measure, was compelled to decree a
state of siege (eStado de sitio) in the
republic after the elections had taken
place, but once the situation is back
to normal, and the agitation Of the
electoral moment has passed, the
state of siege will be withdrawn.
This should be next week.
1t must be explained that in Mica
ragua state of siege does not in
terfere with the functions of the
Court of Justice, save in very excep-
tional cases, and that it is a pre-
ventive measure used especially to
calm the agitation and passions of
the revolutionary and sectarian press.
Nevertheless the fraadny, Of tho
press has been so respected in our
country by the Conservative party
that even under the state of siege
the case has been a. very unusual one
when the government has taken any
coercive measures against the press
The information I am giving you,
Mr. Editor, is official and truthful
which I have learned through cable
grams from my government, while
those sent from San Salvador are alb
solutely wrong and are perhaps taken
from unauthorized sources.
JOSE ANTONIO TIGERINO
Charge d'affaires de Nicaragua.
Evening star., 1924-10-17
Bold Crimes.

Daring crimes in other parts of the
country are told of in news dispatches
every day, but criminals are not
overlooking Washington in their
get-rich-quick efforts. From many
cities and towns come reports of pay
roll holdups in big Office buildings
and busy streets. There are startling
bank robberies and cases Of highway
robbery which recall lawlessness in
the West when that part Of the
country was wild. Instances are re-
ported where thieves enter a bank
in Office hours, intimidate officers and
patrons with threats of death, take
plunder and make off in an automo.
bile. In numerous cases the bandits
have carried out the threat to kill
and lawabiding persons have been
murdered. There are numerous hold
ups in cities which are bolder than
the classic stage coach holdup in the
West.
Washington Is a relatively quiet
and well policed city, but several star
Ting robberies have been committed
Evening star., 1924-10-17
Editors Condemn Attempt
To Censor SWhat Price ClOry''

What Price Glory" may overdo
realism in some of its language, but
the press has little sympathy for the
semi official attacks upon this play of
American army life in France. "One
need neither to have seen nor read
the work to realize how thoroughly
ridiculous these self-anointed censors
have made themselves by their ILL
judged action" in the opinion of the
Baltimore Sun, which says: what
Price Glory is the work of two young
Americans Of literary reputation.
Both of them are veterans of the
World War. The majority of the
actors in the New York cast are ex-
soldiers, and there has been no sug-
gestion, until Rear Admiral Plunkett
got hot under the collar about it,
that the play in its obvious aspect
was anything more insidious than n
strikingly faithful presentation of
one realistic side of army life behind
the lines in war time. But
to a certain type of military mind
devoid Of humor, devoid of artistic
appreciation, ridiculously anxious to
the gaudy colors of recruiting post
ers, such a play is Immediately Wis
ualized as 'unpatriotic.' Because it
shows the mental reactions of some
of the soldiers as they really were
and not as they were pictured by
wartime orators, it is set down as
'pacifist propaganda If two
men who did the work in the
trenches cannot depict their view of
war and army life without being de-
nounced as 'unpatriotic,' then has
that word been debauched so that
we need another to make clear what
love of country really iS
'If What Price Glory is propa-
ganda. either paci1stic or anti
Marine Corps" the New York Herald
Tribune agrees lit appears that the
naval intelligence officers have estab-
lished new definition for the word"
This paper characterizes the play as a
fine achievement in dramatic real
ism," and declares further, there is
something absurd in the idea that our
services must be defended from the
effects of realism If they are to get
recruits; and there is something dense
in the idea that all the occurrences
and the behavior Of the characters
were intended, or would be taken, as
typical of conditions throughout the
whole Marine Corps" If the language
used is fairly common, the Omaha
World Herald sees no reason why it
should be so modified for stage use as
to appear like the conversation one
would expect to hear at a ladies' aid
society meeting" $50 long as an ef-
fort is to be made to depict the life of
an American soldier in France" the
World Herald adds: TT might as
we'll be depicted truthfully and there
doesn't seem to be any one quite
so able to do the job as one who
shared in that great adventure.
Beneath the surface of What Price
Glory" the Louisville Post finds
good soldiers, and a good soldier,
whatever the idiosyncrasies of his
vocabulary may be, Is good man in
a tight place" The Post continues:
Even If the soldiers are not so good
as in the novel of Dos Passos, there
y no JUSTIFICATION for censorship. for
Evening star., 1924-10-17

here. The latest of these crimes was
the breaking into of five places of
business late Wednesday night or
early Thursday morning, the blowing
open of two safes ard the theft Of
$4,000 worth of property. Most Of
the so-called bold crimes here have
been solved by the police and the
lawbreakers caught, and 1t is be-
lieved that those who committed the
latest crime will not escape.
Evening star., 1924-10-17
Shenandoah Second
Of Type to Cross U. S.
To the Editor Of The Star:


In a recent issue OF your newspaper
a story was carried by Junius b. Wood,
newspaper man aboard the diribile
Shenandoah. stating that the Shenan-
doah was the first airship to cross the
continent. This is an error, as the
Army Air Service in 1922 sent the air
ship CO, with a crew Of six. from
Langley Field, Va, to Ross Field, Calf,
in 81 hours and "a minutes, this being
the first time an airship crossed the
United States While in the great
amount of material which large
newspaper naturally gathers, it is quite
natural for some errors to creep in,
the chief Of Air Service has directed
me to inform you of this discrepancy,
fact which you will, no doubt, ap-
preciate knowing.
WILLIAM H. GROIN,
Captain, Air Service. assistant to chief,
Information Division. 49,
Evening star., 1924-10-17
Campaign Funds.

AS the case stood at the close of the
nrst day of inquiry, the Senate COM
mttee's campaign fund probe revealed
three distinct facts, that the Repub-
mean resources to date have been
about S1,114311, that those of the
Progressives SO far as disclosed have
been S190,532 and that the Democratic
expenditures in the West have been
sS2,50O. while the national committee
OF that party has received $500 900.
AS for the organized labor contribu-
tlons, it would appear that the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor has been con-
Quoting its own campaign for La Fol-
iette and the party has no knowledge
OF how much has been raised or spent.
Thus far, water haul. Further de-
Veiopments are hinted. The charge is
that a certain group of influential and
wealthy men have contributed a great
fund for questionable uses in behalf
of the Republican party. Yesterday
produced no evidence to support it. A
representative of the party testified
that a certain letter had been sent
forth asking for a particular sum- of
money from a particular State. but
that that was in conformity with the
general plan of allocating the con-
tributions by State divisions. That is
not unusual. In fact, in every cam
paign parties have called upon their
State supporters for funds.
The solitary question involved in
this matter is whether any Of the
money subscribed, however large or
small the totals in the various funds
has been used or is designed for use
for corruption o: the voters. For cam
paign purposes, of course, there may
be some capital in the showing of
larger contributions in behalf of one
party. Already doubtless Progressive
stumpers are pointing to the $1,700, 900
fund of the Republicans as against the
meager 100000 fund Of their own
party as proof of Republican dis
honesty. Perhaps Democratic orators
are pointing to their own trif1ing
100000 war chest as evidence Of COM
plete Democratic honesty.
Money may be the means of arousing
the people to the importance Of vot-
ing. Party speakers and workers are
all striving to that end. The party
that has the greatest resources can
put the largest number of workers in
the field to stir the citizens out of
their lethargy and to inspire them to
go to the pills. Inasmuch as the man.
ayers of all three parties are contend
ing daily that they will surely win "if
the people turn out as they should"
arousal is to the advantage of one side
as VIII as to another. Republican cam
paigling may work to the benefit Of
either of the other parties.
The figures thus far given before
the Borah committee have not been
strikingly large. The Republican fig.
ure looks large by comparison. In
reality it is moderate, with reference
difference of s1,500,0OO between the
Republican and the Progressive totals
and of $1.40O,000 between the Repub-
1ican and Democratic sums may strike
some observers as perhaps an indica-
ton of a trend of public sentiment
Unless the charge Of corruption is
proved at later sessions of the commit
tee the effort to besmirch the honesty
of the electorate is likely to result dis
astrously to those who have brought it.
Evening star., 1924-10-17

Funds are being raised in Shanghai
to send to rioting soldiers. AS usual,
the final solution of a difficulty de-
wolves on the people, who have an
indefinite idea as to what the fight
ing is about and whose chief desire
is to be permitted to attend to their
own legitimate business.
Evening star., 1924-10-17

Every member OF the victorious
base ball club has had an ovation,
not only in this city but in his own
home town. Washington is a city
representative of the Nation in sport
as we'll as in politics.
Evening star., 1924-10-17

1t is referred to as 1.-The world
series" regardless of the fact that the
world outside the L. S. A. takes very
little intelligent interest in base ball
The national game unquestionably
suggests a certain tendency to isola.
ton until the countries abroad con.
sent to interest themselves in our
lines of demonstration.
Evening star., 1924-10-17

A charge Of plagiarism has been
brought up in connection with a play
about Edgar Allan Poe. II there is
one thing Poe himself, with a passion
for originality, would have hated, it
would have been to be associated even
innocently and remotely with an en-
terprise involving such an accusation.
Evening star., 1924-10-17

Mr.. Dawes has demonstrated more
interest in sustaining his reputation
for constructive craftsmanship than
in satisfying a popular taste for super
fetal rhetoric. A versatile man must
know which Of his gifts are required
for different occasions.
Evening star., 1924-10-17

There will be an election next
month. Washington base ball fans
will endeavor to display proper patri-
otic enthusiasm, although the event
nature Of an anti-climax.
Evening star., 1924-10-17

Gov. AL Smith will doubtless regard
the commentator Of Theodore Roose-
welt by Secretary of State Hughes as
a high-brow symphonic expression
with nothing of the popular appeal of
East Side, West Side"
Evening star., 1924-10-17

if any class in the community were
allowed to have plays stopped be
cause they did that class an injustice.
We should have nothing but Polly
anna plays-false and sugared pro-
ductions in the romantic style" Re
ferring to the danger of censorship
in a country committed to the free
dom of the press, which also includes
the drama, the Providence Tribune
says, the danger is not in its being
exercised, but in it's abuse. Who is
the better judge of What Price
Glory" Army and Navy officials or
competent civilians who have been
trained in their Judgment of what
comprises decent and indecent drama?
If books and plays are to be sup
pressed whenever they do not jibe
with the sentiments or the viewpoints
of a certain class of men. then the
fact must be admitted that we, in the
United States, are not allowed 10
think Independently but must think
according to this class of men who
set their ideas up as a standard for
everybody to abide by"
* i: =
AS the Flint Journal views it: This
play probably would not interfere with
recruiting. Young men who want to he
soldiers or sailors will enter the mill
tary profession whether it seems to bt
attractive or not Objections of Navy
officers will only advertise the play. The
other criticism, that the drama is OBJ
scene, is far more important. The
author and producer should be per
suaded, if the play his this demerit. to
change it: meanwhile, the public should
not allow its moral sense to be Of
Tended"
One feels that COLLECTIONS against pro-
family and kindred material on the stage
are well aimed" declares the Nashville
Banner, because "a lot of playwrights
and producers seem to have the idea
that the public must have realism, and
that realism consists Of all the pro-
family and obscenity that can be more
or less artisticaly presented.
No doubt obscenity and profanity are a
part of life, but that is all the more
reason why they should not be en-
couraged by being paraded behind the
footlights for the public to laugh at, and
blush over and vent its inherent dia-
bolical instincts upon. Certainly it
should be the duty of the stage to ele
vate humanity instead of preying upon
it's baser instincts"
The Worcester Telegram also thinks
''the defenders of profanity on the stage
go too far in the pursuit of realism"
and while, perhaps some of the critics
of What Price Glory are prudish, the
simple fact that men, and some women,
do certain amount of swearing does
not make swearing on the stage nee
essary thing The Savannah Press,
however, is confident the play win not
be taken off, for while 'it may lose
damn or two and have some of the in
tensity cut out of couple of the situa-
tions, the box office sales will go right
aIong-the advertising it has secured
fixes that"
Evening star., 1924-10-17

The splendid new dirigible ZR-3 has
reached it's destination in New Jersey.
The next matter to be considered is
that of making it peacefully and prac-
tically useful.
Evening star., 1924-10-17

The presidential election is very
near. If several formerly illustrious
orators in both parties expect. to be
heard they should arrange for dates
Immediately.
Evening star., 1924-10-17

John w. Davis is not inclined to ap-
prove denunciations of La Toilette as
a violent red. A man who expects to
be President of the United States can
not afford to be drawn into an attitude
of partisan unfairness.
Evening star., 1924-10-17

A Zeppelin is an imposing speci.
increases on computing how many
swift and well manageable airplanes
might be built for the same money.
Evening star., 1924-10-17
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANpER JOHNSON.

Serious Effort.
Tried to take life serious.
The effort was in vain.
The laughter all mysterious
Came echoing once again.
Laughter of the bitter kind
And laughter light and mild,
And laughter that expressed the mind
So trustful of a child.
Tried to take life serious
And wore solemn frown.
Such assumptions weary us
And Life will call us down.
Whether things go i'll or well
And we are grave or gay,
This world of ours, the truth to tell,
Goes laughing on its way.
Evening star., 1924-10-17
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Evening star., 1924-10-17

Money is talking in European af-
fairs, mentioning more frequently
than anything else the name of J. P.
Morgan.
Evening star., 1924-10-17

Rumor has it that DIR. Alexander
Meiklejohn, former president of Am
herst, is to start college of his own.
If he can organize a first-class foot
ball team, the rest ought to be easy
Columbus Dispatch.
Evening star., 1924-10-17

The parking police have not yet sue
ceeded in proving the old maxim that
the way to get rid of unpopular laws
is to enforce them.
Evening star., 1924-10-17

Usefulness.
Il suppose you will remain in poll
tics until you feel that your useful
ness is over?"
IT shall not call my own usefulness
into question. I shall remain until
no longer feel the need Of a political
job