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ScatterinG-TOtal, 30.

ScatterinG-T0tal,3 30.
Ritchie-Maryland l6. Pennsylvania "a; to-
al. 1S,2.
Saulsbury-Delawares g.
Raston-OhiO Az.
0wen-Illinos 4.
Rryan-Nebraska .. Ohio .: total. L.
Wsish-Coiorndo l, South Dakota ! total. ..
Cox-MichiSan l.
Baker-Nnnesota I.
SEVENTY-SEVENTH BALLOT.
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Prpxe.Winnine Roses.

American Beauty roses, carnations
and other specimen blooms. ms F.
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ScatterinE-TOtal, 4Sh.

ScatterinE-TOtal, 4Sh.
Robinson-Arkansas is. Illinois . Minnesota
l. total 81.
Ritchie-Maryiand 49, Pennsylvania y to-
tai. 161..
Saulsburv-Delaware 8.
Owen-'i,inoiS -
Rryan-Sebraska -
Walsh-South Dakota /.
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Scattered Tstal. -.

Total. SIS sss 7sM 4sA 2s rs
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head on can best handle communal
twitters. The other, full of bang and
anxiety. might we'll have the effect on
a frightened town that a blown bit of
paper has on a half-broken colt.
During the next few years he studied
cholera, plague, smallpox, beri-beri
and other communicable diseases and
the means Of transmission and control
in laboratories and the field. Then
the bubonic scare came to San Fran
cisco in 1901, with the same inevi-
table conflict between federal and
state and municipal authorities. So
DR.. Cumming was sent to handle it.
He never hesitated to clamp down the
federal thumb and finger when he had
to do SO, but he got along without
bands and flags when possible. Every
ripple was smoothed out of a situa-
ton that promised high waves.
BY this time it began to seem rather
foolish not to make wider use of his
knowledge of the pandemic diseases.
and he was sent to the orient to exam
inc the source. He Strengthened out
some of the complexes in our immigrant
examination service and set on foot a
movement which only recently came to
full fruition in the abolition Of the local
quarantine service at ports and the
substitution therefor Of a federal
Quarantine service. When the war
came on he was detailed as adviser
in sanitation with the surgeon general
of tho NAVY and following his excellent
service in that capacity was sent to
Europe to report on the health and
sanitary conditions in the ports used
by our troops. For some time he re-
manned in Europe studying the health
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precise part the federal government
played with the cities and states had
not been as definitely fixed as it is
today. Conflicts of authority and
jurisdiction were constantly arising.
When necessary, the federal govern
ment took unflinching charge, just as
1t does today when an emergency
arises, but when possible the effort
was made to soothe the ruffied feel
ings of the local administrators.
Fight Against yellow Jack.
He had had several years expert
ence in various health stations when
yellow fever broke out in the south.
Half a dozen states and numberless
towns and cities were affected and
the health officers were more or less
inexperienced. There was an inevi-
table hysteria, north as well as south.
The desired end was to permit as
free a flow of commerce as possible
without yielding an inch to Yellow
Jack. Regulations and orders and
ukases and laws combined with cour-
ageous but sometimes flustered Off
cialb to produce 4 tangled mess. DR..
Cumming was sent down south to
take charge of il.
Now he probably said, lets get
this Strengthened out"
1t isn't possible to conceive the
most gorgeous case of nerves that
would not calm down under his treat
ment. He is cool, calm. slow and
clear-cut of speech, and with a sort
Of twinkling humor in his eyes One
feels that he would never get ratified
and that he would always be entirely
competent. AS between two men of
equal ability, the one who keeps his
Evening star., 1924-03-16
The Story the Week Has Told

pretty kettle of fish. The prospect
IN every direction is discouraging.
Another Hellenic invasion is in
Gicated."
The CaIiphzte-Abdul-M de-
posed caliph by the Angora as
sembly, is now at Territett, Switzer-
land, with a suite Of ten persons, in
GLIDING at least two wives. This
plurality of attendant wives is some
thing of a trial for the moral olfactories
of Calvin's adopted country, and
there is a possibility that the ex-
holy gentleman may be requested to
move on. If he moves on, it probably
will be in Paris. He is lover Of art
and an artist. Some Of his paintings
have been hung at the Paris salons;
but whether in recognition of their ar
tistic merits of his rank there seems
to be some question.
The .ex-caliph incidentally abusing
Swiss hospitality has manifestly de-
clared the action of the Angora assem-
bly, deposing him and abolishing the
Ottoman caliphate Fundamentally sac
rilegfous and void" and calls on the
world Of Islam to pass on the matter.
The Egyptian ulemas doctors of sa-
tion Illegal and are for a general Is
lamic congress to settle the question at
issue.
Two of the sons Of King Hussein of
Hejaz-namely, King Feisal of Irak
and the Emir Abduilah of Transior-
father for caliph. King Hussein re-
ceives from the British government
an annual subsidy of 100000 so that
the French claim that London. though
formally not interested in Hussein's
candidacy. really has a certain ac-
tual interest therein is not without
pIausibility.
The Indian MoSlemS are indignant
at the action of the Angora assem-
bly,. The British are hoping for in
stailation. of non-Turkish caliph
agreeable to them, further hoping
time cordial relations with the Brit
ish raj, which would mean finish to
the swaraj movement
1t is reported that the Angora as
sembly has vested itself with the pre-
negatives of the caliphate, an ar
perhaps preliminary to something
sensible.
X X X X
United States of America.-The SEN
ate has voted down the Norbeck Burt
ness bill, which proposed an appro-
priation of $50,0o0.000. from which
loans would be made to unfortunate
wheat farmers to enable them to di-
versify their activities by purchase
of dairy cattle and other live stock
and poultry. Amendments to the
bill proposing an appropriation of
$20, ,000, 900 to boost the credit of
banks in the northwest wheat sec
tion and one of $5,000,000 to assist
in financing distribution of fertilizers
had previously been defeated.
The President has nominated Cur
tis Dwight Wilbur, chief justice of
the supreme court of California, to
be Secretary of the Navy. Judge Will
bur fs q graduate Of Annapolis.
Evening star., 1924-03-16
BY HENRY w. BUM.


The following is a brief summary
Of the most important news of the
world for the seven days ended
March Is:
The British Empire.--The British
government delays to announce it's
intentions with respect to the prof.
ect advanced by its predecessor of
a great naval base at Singapore. Aus
tralia and New Zealand rightly con-
slider such a base essential to their
security. The action, therefore, of
the government in this matter will
have the highest imperial signifi-
canoe. Does Ramsay Macdonald think
in terms Of empire or does he not?
The report is abroad that he will con-
sent to creation of a base, but only
on a scale far below that recommend
ed by the naval experts and approved
hv the late government. The original
project was framed with jealous con-
sideration of the necessity of econ
omy, and the strength contemplated
| by it would appear the minimum for
pressed by the super-pacifsts of his
party who would be quite content to
see the empire 60 to pot.
A number of officers of the Irish
Free State army, including general,
mutinied and deserted the other day.
The Immediate cause was resentment
of an order for rehabilitation of nine
hundred officers, including the mu-
tines. The chief of the latter, Gen.
Tobin, who is still at large, has made
parently charging that the elimina-
tion order unfairly Disseminated
against officers known or suspected
to entertain republican sympathies.
X 4. + +
Ffanee.-The most interesting af-
fair of the week was the recovery of
the franc. On March 8 the franc had
fallen to the equivalent of 3.42 cents
the lowest ever; on March IA, it
had risen to 40. leave it to the
economists to explain the fall of the
franc during the month or so prior
to March 10; whether due chiefly to
a skillful attack inspired. If not di-
whether chiefly to the operations of
the speculative ring" of financial
vampires already sufficiently well
known in connection with the misfor-
tunes of tho German mark, the Ital-
ian lire, the Polish mark, the Aus
flight Of French capital in sudden loss
Of confidence in the policies of the
French nsc, or to a combination Of
two or all three OF the above causes.
with, perhaps, others also. Whatever
the explanation Of the fall OF the
franc, the explanation Of it's recovery
is simple.
The Bank of France got into action.
Credits in its favor were established
in all tho principal exchange centers.
Most important Of all, a credit OF
$ieo, ,0oo, 900, with assurance that
more, IL necessary, would be forth
coming, was extended to the Bank
Of France by q New York banking
group headed by J.-P. Morgan &
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BY WILL p. KENNEDY

| BY WILL r. KENNEDY,
YILL the entire patent sys-
| NN/ tem-which underlies all
| v v manufacturing industry in
| this country and even
agricultural industry since so much
work on the farm and getting the
farm product to market is being done
by machinery-have to be changed.
| This is one of the big questions
| which the House committee on mer-
chant marine and fisheries is facing
as result of hearings covering four
days on the White bill to regulate
radio communication.
Emphasis was made during the
hearings that a certain big FIVE" are
| endeavoring to achieve a monopoly
! in radio communication, the big five
being named as the American Tele-
Phone and Telegraph Company, the
| Radio Corporation of America, the
General Electric, the Western Elec-
trio and the Westinghouse Electrical
| companies.
rocused sharply on the fact that it
would be extremely difficult to leeis-
Iate against monopoly of this sort
when the statutes clearly intended to
grant monopoly in the issuance of
Spokesman for these big concerns
made 1t clear to the committee that
any steps which have been taken
and suspected Of being toward a
hlnnopoiy were necessary to protect
Dasic telephone patents in such a way
as me patent law itself required.
1t Is because of such considerations
tnaf the merchant marine COMMITTEES
VIII go very slow on adopting any
sussestlon which means a change in
the patent law. 40
No International MONOPOLY,
The committee was much impressed
oy the argument of David Sarnoff.
vice president and general manager
or the Radio Corporation of America.
10 the effect that there is no mo-
Ropoly in International radio and can
not be because it comes into COM
petition with the cable system. His
thought was that such monopoly as
exists in International radio is only
a natural monopoly.
1t will come as relief to the
hundreds of thousands of Iisteners-in in,
thousands of them with homemade
receiving sets, that the committee
will not recommend any legislation
which will at all interfere with the
receiving end of radio. They will be
greatly interested also in the fact
that the committee applauded Mr..
Sarnoff's contention that grand opera
should go free to the poor every
where in the world without charge
by the radio route, and that he saw
no necessity for collecting revenue
from radio receivers in order to sup
port the broadcasting industry.
1t was frankly admitted that broad
casting, as now done by the Amer
lean Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, the Radio Corporation of
America and others. which gives free
entertainment to any one who has
a receiving set, is good business. de-
signed to sell receiving sets, equip
ment and parts, and in this way is the
very best sort of advertising.
Regulation Impossible.
So the committee will not spend
very much time in considering legis-
lation to regulate the receiving end
of radio, for one very good reason
because any such regulation would
be practically impossible.
The real question with which the
| committee aust wrestle is with re-
gard to broadcasting-how to provide
for needed regulation, but delicately
balanced as between the benefits of
private initiative, the evils of de-
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sands of them refugees in Bulgaria.
They are a sort of Sim Feiners; only
more so. The komitajis. or semi
robber bands, of Macedonian Bulgars
| in the Turkish days; their animus
| against the new. masters of their
| country, the Serbs, is even more
violent. They have received much aid
from the Macedonian refugees in Bull
garia and from Bulgarians (for the
| their Macedonian kinsmen amounts
| to paSSion), including refugees in
| flight from the Serbian soldiery; and
no doubt komitajis have been organ
ized in Bulgaria to operate across the
border.
Stamboulisky's dearest aim was
close friendship with Serbia; he
dreamed of a Serbo-Bulgarian fedora
| tion which should dominate the Bal
kan peninsula. In February, 1928, at
Pashitch. premier of Jugoslavia,
which was long step toward the
latter. The agreement pledged the
two governments to cooperate in
suppressing the komitajis.
But the overthrow and death OF
Stamboulisky and the seizure of the
power in Bulgaria by the bourgeois
parties, including elements by tradt<
tion violently hostile to Serbia,
harshly suspended. if it did not an
garian federation and komitajis got
busy again. Premier Zankoff, Stam-
| boulisky's successor, has been in
an extremely difficult position. Con-
Serbia, and the military impetence
of Bulgaria, it seems absurd to sup
pose that he has encouraged the ko-
mitajis.. On the other hand, 1t is to
| be doubted that he has gone much be-
yond moral suasion in discourage
ic
| tain that he has available force
adequate to police the border. (The
treaty of Neuilly forbids conscription
and enlistments are not popular) II
he had, would he dare to use it enec-
lively in face of the ro-Macedonian
sentiment of his supporters? More
over, he cannot but reflect that the
J MacedonianS are famous TOT assaSsl-
nation. Pressed hard by the Serbian
! government, he has recently made
| more than a gesture, one suspects
| 1t is, indeed, a thoroughly Balkan sit
uation. Is the Macedonian question
destined to provoke another little
Balkan war?
Greece.-On> March the cabinet
headed by NJ. Kafandaris resigned.
On the 10th Venizelos, despairing Of
being of assistance to his unhappy
country, left Greece. On the 11th
the republican leader, NJ. Papanasta-
sion, formed a cabinet. Tomorrow
the new cabinet will ask the con-
stituent assembly for a vote of con-
fdence. Should that be refused there
would be a pretty kettle of fish.
Should it be granted, presumably the
new cabinet will propose to the as
sembly that the latter dethrone the
Gluecksburg dynasty, proclaim a re-
public, and refer that fait accompli
to a plebiscite. Should a plebiscite
denounce this action (aS we'll might
be. should tho elections be conducted
fairly, then there would likewise be b
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Co. These credits reflect the
confidence Of the bankers that Poin-
cares financial measures will be pass
ed by the French senate, and, when
enacted. will be faithfully carried out,
and no less confidence that the French
authorities will accept the joint re-
port of the Dawes committee. The
Morgan office has been flooded with
offers from all over the United States
of participation in the good work OF
saving the franc.
X X x
Germany.-On March IS the. first
reichstag under. the republican con-
stitution of Germany was dissolved
by presidential decree. General cleo
tions will be held on May 4. The re-
suit will be awaited anxiously by
the world. All signs point to gains
by the extremists of right and left.
The immediate occasion for dissoiu-
tion was the refusal of the reichstag
to ratify a number of important de-
crees issued under the 'authoriza-
tion act" which conferred on the
cabinet dictatorial economic, finan-
cial and social powers" which act
high time, anyway, that the reichs-
tag, which had ceased truly to rep
resent the country, should be dis
solved.
y y
Austria.-The Austrians want to get
rid Of league supervision. Their budget
is balanced. Not only so, but there is a
surplus, and only about half Of the
international loan had been expend-
ed. The Austrians would fain blow
in this surplus and what remains of
the loan on Austrian enterprises" Of
sorts. DR.. Zimmerman, the league
commissioner, advises them to go
slow. The proceeds from taxation
have far exceeded expectations. 1t
which is far too high. Moreover, far
from making a splurge, the Aus
trians should make it their study
how to retrench down to the bone.
so to speak. 1t was nominated in the
bond that league control should con-
tinue till permanent equilibrium" of
the budget had been secured and
financial stability" put beyond per-
adventure. One years balancing of
the budget, in a wave of enthusiasm
and through overtaxation, doesn't,
says DR.. Zimmerman, fulfill the re-
quirements. But the jolly Austrians
still insist on a jamboree. They go
over the commissioners head and
complain to the league council. The
council rebukes them. The doctor, it
seems, was too efficient.
X X X
BulEafiA.-Of late weeks there had
been a considerable increase of ten
sion in the relations. hitherto suffi-
ciently tense, between the Serbian
and Bulgarian governments due to
developments relating to the Mace
donian question.
1t will be recalled that, as a re-
suit of the Balkan wars and the great
war. Serbia acquired the greater part
of Macedonia, with population
language Bulgar. There are about
Q million Macedonian Bu1garS in
Macedonian Serbia and many thou
Evening star., 1924-03-16
= HE life of the midshipman in
the U. S. Naval Academy has
alwavS fup~ad pouerfu11v 1,non

IN HE life Of the midshipman in
the U. S. Naval Academy has
always tugged powerfully upon
the imagination and spirit OF
Young America. Rear Admiral Hen
ry B. Wilson, superintendent of the
Naval Academy, has just given Con-
gress an interesting insight into the
training of youth at the academy. g.
You have Naval Academy gradu-
ates in Congress and in the cabinet.
Senator'S Weller Of Maryland and
Howell Of Nebraska were graduated
from the academy" Admiral Wilson
points out.
You will find them among our
most eminent scientists, among ship
builders and steamship managers.
Tho man who invented the trolley
car got his fundamental training in
electricity at the Naval Academy,
and the man who invented the elec-
trio drive from battleships got his
fundamental, training at the acad-
envy" .
Admiral Wilson emphasized that
there are few institutions Of learning
in the country today that turn out
young men inculcated with honor,
loyalty and obedience, in addition to
the fundamentals of their respective
professions, as the Naval Academy
does.
High Principles lnstilled.
Briefly sketching the life Of the
midshipman at the academy, Admiral
Wilson says:
when the midshipman comes to
the academy in the summer we first
indoctrinate him with the traditions
of the place The mission of the
Naval Academy is ito mold the ma
men, thoroughly indoctrinated with
honor, uprightness and truth, with
practical rather than academic minds,
with a groundwork Of educational
fundamentals upon which experience
afioat may build tho finished naval
officer, capable of upholding when
the honor Of the United States, and
withal giving due consideration that
healthy minds in healthy bodies are
necessities for the fulfillment OF tho
individual missions Of the graduates,
and that fullest efficiency under this
mission can only be attained IL,
through humane yet firm and just dis
cipiine, the graduates carry into the
service respect and admiration for
this academy" F
Admiral Wilson explains that the
midshipman Is taken around the
buildings and over the grounds,
where he is shown all Of tho his.
torical things connected with the
academy in the way of nags, monu-
ments, etc. 1T may appear to be .
O,.plO,IS <.uStom" saws Admiral Viii.
SON, "but we start him In with sing
ing, and every midshipman in q very
short time will learn to sing two
verses Of 'The Star Span4led BAN
ner." We hold regular singing COM
petitions, in which they sing patri-
Evening star., 1924-03-16
High Traits of Character
Instilled Into Midship pmen

otic songs and the cheer songs. They
are then taken in hand and given
! athletic training, in rowing boats.
etc, and they are given the manual
doctrinated with the traditions or tho
Naval Academy
Character Is Made.
The academy does not try to sim
ply teach what goes into the head,
but it makes every endeavor to i'm
plant certain good principles in the
midshipman's heart. and think that
one. Of the great assets of the acad-
emy training consists of character
making. Anything involving moral
turpitude on the part of q midship-
man is Immediately reported, and in
every case, so far. as I have ever
known. such a midshipman has been
dismissed. If he has not been dis
missed nj he .t3a has been been required to sever
addition to the scholastic work. we
also have them take part in all sorts
of entertainments, musical and other
wise: In connection with the sing
ing I might say that that is done In
ships as officers they will be able to
handle the men and get up entertain
ments. 1t is part Of every mans
duty to learn to be an entertainer.
Then. when the midshipmen come
are started in, with their studies, and
they go through with all forms Of
athletics in addition. We have
adopted the rule that during his first
year no man can get upon the
the foot ball team during his first
year: He cannot get on the team
academy and has dug, himself, in
Every one Of the $500 midshipmen
ct the academy has to learn sports.
basket ball, foot bail, base ball, etc
That is In the regular course Of in
struction.
Activities Are Varied.
We have 1900. midshipmen that 60
ont voluntarily for all forms of sport,
while the other 700 are given up to
such things as editing the. paper,
looking out for the shows, as they
call them. looking out for tho Lucky
Bag, which is the annual publica-
tion. OF course. some Of them do not
20 in for anything. but they soon
drop by the wayside. During the
course OF the year We have public
speaking twice a week for the first
class. They attend dinner, which
is q regular set dinner. and every
midshipman when he comes in must
! turn in the opening paragraph and
last paragraph, with his notes in be-
tween hts speech. Each one in turn
gets up and makes his little after
dinner speech.
the academy are q very happy
bunch. They go out in the town OF
Annapolis, but they never leave AM
napolis during the year, excspt for
their Christmas leave Of ten days, for
month Of Saptembef.n -
The present. Naval Academy was
established October 10, 1876.