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Evening star., 1924-04-12

cordance with the Tyler plan, and
authorizes the Federal Water Power
Commission to make notifications in
the plan that in its judgment will in
crease the electric power. 1t is esti-
mated that this project will cost S45,-
100000, require ten years to complete
and that 10000 primary horsepower
and about twice that of secondary
horsepower will be developed. 1t would
be one of the large national projects
undertaken in the interest of the Ma
tional Capital and one of the large
power projects of America 1t would
be undertaken by the government in
the interest of the seat Of government,
for at Washington the government is
one of the greatest users of electricity,
and it's present coal-power plants
would be superseded by electric-power
plants.
Senator Norris said to the Senate:
It is estimated that with the expendi-
ture of this amount OF money it will be
possible to cut the wholesale price OF
electricity in two. Note, | say the who'e-
IL
price 10 the consumer will be cut in two,
because it has nothing to do with the
distr buting system. 1t would cut the
price for use by street cars practically
in two. but the electricity used in a
house, of course, has added to it the dis
tributing cost, which this does not in
t6'rfere with. 1t means that the whole
sale price of electricity will be cut in
two, and at that price they would be
able to set aside a sinking fund to pay
the entire expenditure in thirty years,
pay per cent on the investment during
that time and keep the entire plant in
first-caSs repair. In addition TO that
il will save the District of Co umbia
100000 tons of coal a year. Those are
the statemets made by the expert who
has made the investigation.
1t is gratifying that this highly i'm
portant measure has had the sanction
of the Senate. Development of cleo
trio power from the Potomac has been
since engineers found the way to
transmute water power into electric
power. Surveys have been made at
the instance Of private capital, and
the matter got into Congress a quar-.
ter of q century ago. Twenty years
ago Congress appropriated money for
the survey Of the river, with the aim,
possibly, of forestalling private enter.
prise and building a government
power plant. The War Department de-
tailed Col. Langfitt to make the sur
vey, and the Senate passed a bill TO
carry out the Langfitt plan, but that
bill died in the House. After a lapse
Of time the Senate passed the same
bill again, and bill of different terms
was passed by the House, and in con
ference it was decided, as so much
time had passed since the Langfitt
survey and report, that there should
be another survey. The conferees' re-
port was adopted by Congress, and a
bill passed authorizing the Secretary
of War to make a resurvey. Maj
Tyler was assigned to that duty, and
the Senate was told by Senator Nor
ris that the Tyler report lis probably
the most complete and detailed report
of the proposition that has ever been
made,''
Evening star., 1924-04-12
More Coffee.

II is known that we drink a good
deal of coffee in the United States,
and an energetic statistician has com
puted that the yearly average in this
country is 514 cups per person. The
statistician takes the number Of
pounds of coffee delivered from ware.
houses 10 roasters, finds that one
pound of dry coffee makes forty cups
Of liquid coffee and divides the whole
number Of cups by the estimated
population of the United States.
III, 100000. There are elements Of
error in the process. The population
Of the country includes several mil.
lions who have not reached the coffee
drinking age, several millions who
take tea instead of coffee and also
those persons who only take a cup
OF coffee at breakfast" who "only
take a small after-dinner coffee" who
never drink coffee at night" because
they would not sleep a wink" and
those who drink neither tea nor coffee.
The statistician takes no account OF
the coffee" consumed which never
came from a coffee warehouse and
which was not grown in the tropics.
He does not take into account those
cautious and conservative lunchrooms
and boarding houses in which pound
of coffee is forced to yield more than
forty cups. A statistician cannot get
at the number OF real coffee drinkers
who call for two cups at breakfast.
dinner and supper.
1t is shown that we drank more
coffee in 1923 than in 1922. Every
day statistics are published showing
that we are using more Of this and
that. We are using more sugar, more
tobacco, more gasoline, more silk
stockings, more candy, ice cream,
soda water and rouge. Perhaps If
the tea statistician would get busy
he would prove that we are using
more tea. On the other hand, sta
tistics might show that we are drink
ing less coffee made from the beans
of the Kentucky coffee tree, from the
chicory tangle and the sweet potato
patch than we used to. 1t might
surely be shown that we are drinking
less sassafras tea and spicebush tea
than our ancestors drank and that
we are consuming less maple sirup
and sorghum sirup than once upon a
time.
Evening star., 1924-04-12

dorff is equally laughabIe as trav-
esty on Justice"
The field marshal wore. his med
als,' recalls the Norfolk Ledger Dis
patch, and his "Hoch der Kaiser
speech convinced all his hearers that
he was deserving of reward rather
than punishment" The occasion of
the trial. likewise, was "All Fools
day in Munich" says the Scranton
Republican, while the FL Paso Herald
feels lit suits the republican author
tiles to avoid severity toward the con-
takes a decidedly different view, be-
cause it feels the great industrial
lists, who at the present time are mas
ters of Germany and want a strong
government, may be expected to unite
with the royalist groups to secure it"
This is as well the opinion of the
Oklahoma City OkIahoman, because
"Ludendorff still is a hero in the eyes
of the German people"
The Brooklyn Eagle insists "if the
reactionary elements throughout Ger
many should consider the time ripe
for a movement toward Berlin they
will look to him for leadership The
result also, may be perhaps a useful
travesty," in the opinion of the Gin
cinnati Times-Star, while his "acuuit-
tai, after the forms and gestures of
Bavarian justice, may be a fitting end.
Pity has not supplanted humor. It is
difficult to realize that only six years
ago Ludendorff was rocking the world
with the impact of his battalions. To-
day he leads the beer cellar squads
and cannot rock even one of Ger
manys several states" Summing up
all of the suggestions, the Rochester
Herald feels that the outstanding
point is that "the worst thing that
the rest of the world would be a res
toration of the monarchy ,
Evening star., 1924-04-12

I iect to eviction from California un-
der the new land laws. are migrating
TO neighboring Nevada and settling
on the Newlands reclamation project
Oddie Is seeking an order from Sec
retary Work TO prevent such an
exodus. He has called DR.. Works
attention to an order by Secretary
Fall prohibiting Japanese from leas-
Japanese have again invoked the
California courts A couple OF crop
contractors have filed suits in Los
Angeles, one alleging that the 1928
Legislative amendment to the anti
alien land laws is unconstitutional; !;
feature attached to 1924 crop con-
tracts is valid. even If these were
entered into between Ineligible
aliens" and white lessons.
r 4 y r
Nobody in Washington, or any
where else for that matter, is closer
to Chief Justice Taft than Gus j.
Kargers veteran Cincinnati newspa-
per man. Gus helps Taft run the
Ohio Society of the District of Co
Iumbia and one of his duties is to
Keep the Chief Justice from becoming
absent minded about meeting dates.
The other night Mr.. Taft phoned
Karger and said: Gus, I'm just
getting into my dress clothes. The
society meets tonight, doesn't it?'
| Monday night" well, what'll / do?'
queried the Chief Justice. "Undress,"
said karger
There's kink in the indictment of
Senator Wheeler of Montana that in
| terests every congressman in Washing
! ton Technically, under the federal
statute invoked in Wheeler's case, it's a
Felony for any man elected to Congress
to accept professional business that in
wolves dealings with the United States
government, from and after the date of
his election. Now congressman arc elect
ed in November of one year, but don't
take office till December Of the next
year. Should they be debarred-if they
happen to make a living out of repre-
senting people with government bust
, ness-from benefiting for thirteen
months from what may be their chief
source of income?
In Mexico City there's a sprightiy pub
lication called the Anglo-American
| This Is its recent who's who of the
Americans who have been ambassadors
| to Mexico in cotemporary times:
Charles b. Warren, the new Ameri-
can AMBASSADOR, mas arrived. during MS
attendance on the special commission
here last year he made a good impress
sion. He strikes the average American
citizen as the sort of a person who de-
| ltyers the goods.
I'VE have had some frst-rate United
States representatives here, starting in
I with Joel r. POinsett, the first, and
Henry Prather Fletcher. the, last. Mr.
\ Nelson had an easy job. coming just
after the fall of the M;tximilian fasco
when American stock was high. because
| we had just finished doing something
! for the Mexicans. Mat Ransom was the
only minister who could walk on q
| basket Of eggs without breaking their
shells. Foster was a finished PROPOSE
ton, and Gen. Bragg, spectacu ar
| Powell Clayton was probably the bes,
poker player in the entire bunch.
"Conger was one of the few Iinguists
Washington ever sent down here, but his
| stay was brief Probably the best busi-
! ness man and most successful ambas.
sador was David E. Thompson"
tCopyri l924.)
Evening star., 1924-04-12

and odds and ends Of lumber pieced
together
. There was a beauty in bad roads
which most good roads, do not have.
They climbed hills and went down
steeply to brooks over which it was
not thought worth while to build a
bridge. With us the road was bordered
by cedars, by locust trees that were
gay and fragrant in spring, and with
persimmon trees whose tawny fruit
and colored leaves were among the
pleasures of fall. Wild grape, trumpet.
bitter sweet and Virginia creeper gen.
orally trailed along the roadside or
strung their vines from tree to tree.
There was beyond a view of fields if
the road did not happen to be passing
through pines or woods of oak. A few
tin signs were nailed to trees telling
OF tobacco, medicine for man and
horse and a few other things. Little
damage was done that way, but mapy
counties forbade the putting up of
those signs. Along the railways men
began to cover barns with praises of
pills, soap and paint, and then to
build long lines Of billboards across
fields. Objection to these rural bill
boards began to develop at about the
time when we looked with offense on
city billboards covered with alleged
likenesses of variety actresses. When
the good road came, and automobiles
became as thick as blackbirds and par
tridges used to be, there came what
might be called an orgy of signs. One
sign became taller and shrieked louder
than another, and the competition has
gone on until there are so many signs
they shut out view of the country,
and men do not notice any particular
sign.
Evening star., 1924-04-12
COURAGE
81 ara the master of my fate,
am the captain Of my SOUL"
-HENLEY,

After strenuous effort, Michael Pu-
pin reached America A stranger, un-
able to speak the language, he be-
came homesick, but could not go
back home
Born in Idvor, Banst, Hungary, he
was training at fifteen to be an off,
Ger in the Serbian army. The ideals
Of America appealed to him and he
ran away. %
Working his way to this country,
he landed, when seventeen, at Castle e
Garden Just one Of hundreds of i'm
migrants. His hat had blown into the
Atlantic and his headpiece was a red
fez. A bootblaGk jeered at him, news
boys and ragamuffinS followed him.
He could not speak English, so he
pummeled the leader into respectful
ness.
with other immigrants he found
menial work at Delaware City, Del.
He was lonesome. miserable. home
sick The foreman's- daughter taught
him English.
Homesickness passed and ambition
grew. New York attracted him.
cracker factory, in an iron foundry
and in a laundry. Then he became
clerk in a store and at night at
tended Cooper Union. He read, read,
read and went to the theater to
hear actors and perfect his faulty
pronunciation.
Five years in America and he had
saved $311: He entered Columbi
University, but kept his job. Making
mark ed progress in mathematics and
Greek, he soon was tutoring to pay
expenses. While a sophomore he de-
feated a Herculean freshman in a
wrestling bout, then taught wres-
thing
He won prizes in his studies, studied
higher physics in Europe and took
up electrical engineering When
thirty he married. and the next year
he became professor at Columbia. He
invented the Pupin coil, radio appli-
ances and other devices and was
awarded the Edison medal. IL
Now sixty-th he Is in his forty
fifth year on the Columbia faculty,
and he says: Men who are likely
to succeed are the ones who find In
spirationr in the necessity of doing
a difficult thing In new way and
the men who fail are those who bark
and sulk because the old way isn't
good enooEh."
tcasx<isss 1874 H G. 9. RoveA
Evening star., 1924-04-12
President Coolidge's Stand.

1t was inevitable that President
Coolidge should take n stand against
congressional encroachment upon the
executive branch of government. Had
he failed to do so the presidency would
have been on the way to utter dis
credit in the eyes of the American peo-
pie, and Mr.. Coolidge would have stood
convicted of supineness and incapacity
for the high Office he occupies. In
times past Con gress has been prompt
70 resent executive encroachment
upon Legislative functions, and it was
right in doing SO. The country ap-
plauded determination of the law
makers to resist coercion. The country
will equally applaud the President
when he stands for the rights and
dignitieS of the executive.
There has been a vague feeling
among the people that the Senate's
mania for investigation has gone far
beyond the bounds of usefulness and
reason. There has been about it too
much of an atmosphere of political
seeking and personal yindictiveness.
They have felt that it was time to call
halt but have realized that any one
i'll authority who protested would be
accused of seeking to cover up cor
ruption. So the public mind is pre-
pared for the accusations which will
be brought against President Coolidge,
and therefore his accusers are fore
stalled. The American people do not
believe. and cannot be made to believe,
that the public service generally is
corrupt. There are few Americans
fatuous enough to think that Presi-
dent Coolidge has any sympathy for
corruptionists. Political opponents
who try to plant such thoughts in the
public mind will overreach themselves,
and their insincerity will react upon
them.
The specific point upon which the
President calls a Senate committee to
account is the employment of privately
paid counsel to conduct the inquiry into
the operations Of the internal revenue
bureau, which serves to make it non
official investigation in official camou.
f1age. Here the President stands
upon secure and unimpeachable
ground. But the country will recognize
that the issue goes much beyond the
illegal employment of counsel. Secre-
tary Mellon put his finger on the crux
OF the problem. when he wrote the
President that if there was to be con-
tinuance Of unnecessary congressional
interference with executive functions
neither he nor any other man of
character can longer take RESPONSE
bility for the Treasury" And what is
true of the Treasury is true of all the
other eXecnti.e Ge:lavtmau.s.
Evening star., 1924-04-12
Potomac Power Bill.

The Potomac power measure moves
along it's legislative course. A bill to
carry out the plan made by Maj. M. c..
Tyler, Corps of Engineers, has been
considered by the Senate as in COM
nittee of the whole, its terms briefly
explained, reported to the Senate with
out amendment, ordered engrossed for
q third reading, read a third time and
PASSED. And all this in a few minutes.
No word was spoken against the meas
ure and no vote cast. against it. The
bill, introduced and sponsored by Sena-
tor Norris of Nebraska, authorizes the
Secretary of War TO construct the
hydrQ-elscric power works II &C,
Evening star., 1924-04-12
Senator Johnson's Statement.

Administration republicans are re-
ported to be at a loss to understand
the aim of Senator Hiram w. Johnson
of California in so bitterly attacking
the republican party as he did in his
statement published yesterday. The
violence of the language he used in
assailing the partI was inexplicable to
them What is he driving at, they
ask? It seems at this time that his
nomination is impossible. on account
of the lead the President has obtained,
but he is regarded as certainly seeking
to undermine the confidence of the
country in the republican party, lay
ing the foundation for trouble for that
organization next November.
The query is heard, is he thinking
possibly of a third party developing,
which he might be called upon to
head? If he has that in mind he may
have to contest with Senator La Fol-
lette, it is thought. The Wisconsin
statesman is looked upon by poll
ticians as the logical candidate Of a
third party, although he has not de-
cIared his attitude toward such move
ment. At the same time he does not
say anything to dampen the ardor Of
his friends. who are talking about him
and possible third party.
Senator Johnson's attacks upon his
own party furnishes water over the
wheel for the democrats, and they
must he enjoying themselves hugely
as he lays so Justify about him with
criticism and invective. In the cam
paign they can just quote his state
ments and submit them without com.
rnantn
Evening star., 1924-04-12
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

I Democratic presidential candidates
will be as thick as flies at the Jeffer-
son dianer of the National Democratic
Club in, New York tonight. No fewer
than six of them are on the list of
speakers. They include John w. Davis.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas. Senator
Copeland of, New York, Gov. Smith Of
New York, Gov. Ritchie OF Maryland
and Gov. Silzer of New Jersey. The
banquet will be a monster affair of
1900 covers Democratic presidential
campaign keynotes are to be sounded
in stentorian tones. strongly mingled
with a militant optimism. Party lead
ers from all over the country will
attend. In addition to the full demo-
cratic membership of the United States
Senate and national committee, the
club has invited as guests Newton D.
Baker. Josephus Daniels, David r.
Houston. cambridge Colby, Represent
ative Garner of Texas, Gov. Donahey
of Ohio and Joseph p. Tumulty. The
magnificent new wigwam in Madison
avenue, where the National Democratic
Club is now established, will be the
scene OF important campaign con-
ferences during the week end.
p - =
Are the voters back home" wreck
ing vengeance on Congress, and the
Senate in particular, in the spring
primaries? Various senators were
roughly treated by their supposedly
loyal and grateful constituents. Jim"
Reed fell by the wayside in the
presidential primaries in Missouri
! feated by the republicans of North
Dakota. Senator Ferris ran behind
Henry Ford in the democratic presi-
DENTAL poll in Michigan. Medin McCor-
mick has been overcome in his native
johnson, except for South Dakota, has
been shown the cold shoulder every
where La Toilette is the one member
of the Senate who has recently soughc
vote of confidence in his own state,
and obtained it.
x \ X
Opinions differ as to whether radio
is going to prove n boon or a bane
to politicians in the 1924 campaign.
Senator George H Moses, who faces
the stern ordeal of trying, as chair
man of the senatorial campaign COM
mittee, to keep the upper house safe
for the q. O. p, thinks radio is more
likely to prove a nuisance. He
doesn't believe ii will at all take the
place of the front porch, the rear
platform, the courthouse square or
the ward meeting. Folks. says Moses,
| are going to keep on wanting to
see the fellow they're asked to vote
for. He imagines that Calvin Cool
idge, because of his conspicuous
prominence and the fact that man
running for President cannot meet
! the voters OF every state, may be
able to use the radio advantagsousIy
from the White House. But comm on
folks, like senator's, governors and
lesser aspirants for office, Moses is
convinced, will have to canvass in
| the old way-face to face with an
inquisiuve and discriminating cleo
torate.
+
One of Albert B. Falls unremem-
bered rulings while Secretary of the
I, Interior has just been invoked by
Senator Tasker l.. Oddie of Nevada.
1t appears that Japanese. now sub
Evening star., 1924-04-12
Summer Military Training.

The Army is making ready to re-
ceive young men in the citizens mill
tary training camps, and invitations
are already out. Camp Meade will be
the training field for young citizen SOL
diers of the District, and the time will
be midsummer-July. 1t is the season
when ones thoughts turn to vacation,
and when most persons rest from rou-
tine work to play or otherwise engage
themselves. The Army offers to capa-
BILE young men a stirring vacation with
free board and lodging. The beard it
calls "mess" or "rations,'' and the
lodging may be in barrack, pyra-
midal or a pup tent. One sleeps most
comfortably on an Army cot with an
sflwool quartermaster blanket wrap
ped about him. A man generally
sleeps so well that first call sounds
100 soon. The bugler is an early bird
Tho Army guarantees that acceptable
guests will be entertained free of
charge, and many persons know that
Army chow is good and filling. Dur
ing, this vacation the guests will get
a reasonable share Of military train.
ing, and there will be athletics in many
and in manly forms, including base
ball and swimming. There is also the
patriotic side. One can learn the ele-
Inepts Of a soldiers Job and proceed
TO greater heights or greater lengths
in study Of the military art If he have
within him talent and the martial
urge. The purpose of the citizens
military training camps is well under
stood. There is military training to
help fit a man for what may happen.
There is body building and there are
some mild lessons in discipline. The
camp officers are laying plans to care
for 5000 guests, and it is certain that
a regiment Of District boys will an
swer, Here, when the roll is called.
Col. John Scott, in his Office in the
Graham building, will answer all ques-
tions put to him about the camp.
Evening star., 1924-04-12
SHOOTING STARS.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.
A Long Enterpfisc,

A Long Enterprise.
When you go delving in the past
With mingled joys and fears,
Investigations sometimes last
For years and years and years.
We find an old Egyptian king
Who gathered lavish pelf,
And didn't seem to do a thing
Except enjoy himself.
He made the working man afraid
To own a union card,
And built big pyramids that made
The housing problem hard. Sc.
He would not look for any way
To have the taxes cut.
We're busy even to this day.
Investigating Tut. ~,
Evening star., 1924-04-12

The report that the former Kaiser Of
Germany is not on speaking terms
with his wife is depressing. The popu-
lar sense of the picturesque is Jared
at finding the discussion Of a man who
once figured large in world affairs mar
rowing down to mere neighborhood
gossip.
Evening star., 1924-04-12
Restrained Enthusiasm.

"Do you believe republics are un-
grateful?'' ,--.
'Not exactly ungrateful." answered
Senator Sorghum. ''But a republic is
more or less like an intelligent person.
After it has been imposed on a few
times it gets kind of suspicious"
Evening star., 1924-04-12
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Investigation Of an investigator may
lead to investigation on new lines, In
vestigator's investigators. There is no
limit to the possibilities Of a very re-
markable situation.