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Evening star., 1924-06-20
McAdoo-Smith Tactics.

For some reason closely Following
Mr.. McAdoo's arrival on the New
York battle ground talk about abrogat-
ing the twothirds rule ceased. 1t Is
intimated that he found that the op-
position to his nomination, expressed
mainly in the Smith boom, was def
initely determined to fight from the
drop of the hat on this point, and
that he could not perhaps muster his
entire delegate strength to support a
demand for the ma jority rule. 1t was
pointed out to him by friendly per-
sons, it is reported. that frontal at
tack on the rule would probably lose
and would cost him seriously in pres
tige. So tactics have been changed.
There is to be no direct drive against
the rule. Perhaps something may hap
pen to bring about an amendment.
However that may be, the new plan is
to concentrate upon the largest pos
sible showing of strength on the first
few ballots, gaining perhaps on the
second and third as ephemeral local
son booms are exploded. and thus pro.
ducing "band-wagon" effect. II
enough wavering delegates can be per-
suaded that McAdoo victory is prob
able the totals will be swelled from
ballot to ballot. The psychology OF
mass accretion is worth recognizing.
Claims of McAdoo strength are
strangely variable. Five hundred, $50,
600, 632 are mentioned. A majority is
$40. with 1872 as two-thirds. II McAdoo
has 600 votes assured he has a very
good prospect for the nomination. But
nobody knows exactly, it would seem.
how many are pledged, directly and
indirectly, to the California candidate.
The policy of the opposition. it
would seem, is to keep Smith, the
leader of the opposition, but not to
concentrate on him all the possible
anti -McAdoo votes. A straight-out tug
of war between the two might leave
Smith in such a decided minority as
to start the band-wagon movement
upon which the McAdoo management
is counting. A deadlock, to be effec-
tive, must leave a field of other pos
sibilities. So the Smith tactics will, 1t
is said, be to trail along with COM
pact and perhaps slightly increasing
vote until McAdoo's strength begins
to falter, then to pick up the strag-
glers and possibly gradually move on
to first place in advance Of the flag
ging Californian. The test, then,
would be of the fidelity Of the last
ditch McAdooites. in turn holding the
balance of more than third.
This is d game in which masters OF
political strategy are engaged. NO
body knows what the outcome will be,
or when it will be reached. Perhaps
the final factor in the case will be
exhaustion of the revenues OF the less
affluent delegates. II the weather is
hot and the prices remain high the
convention may reach decision sud.
denly after a furious contest OF few
days.
Evening star., 1924-06-20
Summer Drownings.

An eleven.year-old boy on the first
day Of school vacation, and close to
the first day of summer weather.
browns in the Eastern Branch. A life
Is lost. a family grieved beyond ex-
preston and a mother and father re.
ceive a wound from which they will
not recover. Yet boys will go a.swim-
ming. Shining water is a great tempta-
ton on hot days. The argument Is
for bathing pools and swimming
beaches. The experiment in building
a bathing beach has been an immense
success. 1t cannot accommodate the
thousands Of persons who go there. or
would go there, even from distant
parts of the city.
No provision has been made for pub
lie bathing and swimming in the East
ern Branch. Bathing pools are con.
tempiated in that part Of the Ana
costa Park to be built north Of Ben
ming bridge, but work on that part of
the park has not been begun. and its
completion is probably q good many
years away. In time we will come to
the point Of giving boys and girls q
Evening star., 1924-06-20
Thanks Expressed. for
Oratorical Contest

To the Editor Of The Star:
Ever since | returned from Wash
ington l have been trying to find time
to write a word of congratulation to
The Washington Star on its part in
the national oratorical contest and on
the wonderful achievement in Conti-
nenNl Hall where those seven young
people electrified the audience with
splendid addresses on the Constitution
inside the time limit of twelve min
utes. To one whose business it is to
write and speak on the Constitution
that time limit seems very short and
the achievement of the youngsters
all the more remarkable in that they
gave very good speeches in such
short period.
Wherever / go I come in contact
with people who listened to those
speeches over the radioiand who agree
with Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart.
mensely impressed with the value and
substance of the speeches. 1t would
be impossible to overestimatet the
lasting influence Of the cooperation
of the press with the schools in this
contest.
Mr. Lloyd Taylor, pioneer popular
izer of the United States Constitution.
who, as chairman of the National Sc
curity Leagues constitutional COM
mittee, has induced tWenty-eight
states to pass laws requiring Consti-
tutional instruction in all schools,
says the oratorical contest is splen-
did evidence that progress is be-
ing made in interpreting the Consti-
tuition, and that the cooperating
newspapers are entitled to the thanks
of every good American citizen for
their part in inspiring the youth of
our country to know and reverence
our fundamental law. The co-opera
ton of the newspapers in this event
is a service to schools and country
without parallel in our history.
ETA v. LEIGHTON, .
Civic Secretary, National Security
League. tss
Evening star., 1924-06-20
The Painleve Defeat
BY FRANK Fl. SIMONDS

The fate which overlook the Pain
leve candidacy for president of the
French republic is precisely the fate
which might befall the Macdonald
government In Britain in one of two
conceivable contingencies, IL, by any
chance the Tories and Liberals could
agree on any common action, or II
the extreme radical faction of Labor
should break away. BUT the real
skill of Macdonald has so far lain
in making no fatal mistake, which
would produce a Tory-Liberal alli-
ance to oust him, while he has. with
some difficulty to be sure, held his
extremists so far.
The defeat Of Painleve also car
ries a definite warning to Herriot,
who will now step into Poincare's
shoes Herriot quite clearly saw that
It was hardly the wise thing to pur-
sue Millerand. His own inclination and
Judgment opposed the step, but he was
dragged into 1t by two different forces'
by his Socialist allies. who have been
cunning for Millerand for years. ever
since he left their ranks to slide into
conservative quarters; by BRAND and
his moderate group ever since MIL
lerand called him back from cannes
and upset his last ministry.
Driven to attack Millerand. Herriot
risked defeat, had the Senate stood
by the president. But the Senate
while disappearing of the whole pro-
ceedings. decided against real con-
would have
resulted had there been break be-
tween the two chambers, one backing
the other, attacking the president OF
the republic.
Rut. having yielded gracefully. the
Senate took its revenge prompIiy "
eIecting it's own president AS chiei
executive of the nation. A comolnd
tion hetween the Senate, Which Voteu
soI;diw for Doumergue, and the bloc
National in the Chamber OF Deputies
thus brought disaster to Herrlot ana
his coalition on the morrow OF tneir
supreme triumph in the battie Win
Millerand.
tation as a political general, now
comes to power with his prestige
hadIy shaken. Moreover. he is weak
ened in two directions. First, oeSa
he has failed in his frst consIoeI
able effort to achleVe SoHiethlns poS
tive. namely the selection OF
Ieve and secondly, because he has
been driven by the extremists IN MS
coalition to expel Millerand. France
was apparently willing to get RIO
Of Poincare, but saw the attack upon
Millerand with disQuiet. accentuateo
by the emphasis to the AFFAIR given
by the Communists.
X
One must recall that while the
bloc of the Left was surprisingly sue
oessful in getting members In the
Chamber of Deputies. it did not actu-
aIIv obtain a majority in the cleo
torate and it therefore hao sinai
Warrant for any extreme course. YET
without the 1O4 votes of the Social. .
lists, Herriot, with l41 Radicals and
Evening star., 1924-06-20

sight. out of mind" But now it is
never out of sight. for the drug ped
dlers of the big cities have nothing
on the bootleggers of st. -Marys. The
liquor is carried into the fields to
the farmers, to the mail boxes to the
rural carriers, to the banks of the
roads for the passersby, and so on.
Together with being sold in regular
saloons, it is sold in private homes in
the presence of little innocent chill
dren, who have begun to regard the
drunken wretches who patronize
their iawbreaking fathers as some
thing to be expected In everyday life.
The writer was born and reared in
old st. Marys, and j am sad to say
that men who were never known to
drink before prohibition are habitual
drunkards now. Boys fifteen and six
teen years of age hang around so
intoxicated and their senses so dulled
til at ambition or work has no attrac-
tion for them.
ask The Star to print this for the
sake of the suffering mothers and
sisters of old st. Marys, for if some-
thing isn't soon done to rectify con-
ditions there. then upright manhood
will be something unheard of in that
section in a few years hence.
J. MERLE A. -CLAGGETL
Evening star., 1924-06-20
Republican Platform Goes
Through Editorial Mill

The incoherent and turgid and timid
plank is an affront to farmer fntelli-
gence and to the intelligence of every
citizen who realizes the seriousness
of the situation" The Milwauke ee
Journal (independenD takes much
the same position.
The viewpoint of the Democratic
papers of the country generally is
much the same as that of the New
York Evening World independent
Democraticl which maintains: The
platform will impress those who have
the patience to plod through an in
terminable document of high-sound-
ing words and few clear-cut state
ments as a public confession of the
irreconcilable differences in the party
for which its speaks. Not a word
on prohibition enforcement. There
is not the slightest reference to the
Mellon plan. Not word on the
sacrifice of Teapot Dome. Not a word
on the infamy of Forbes. Not a
SYLLABLE on the multitude of nauseat-
ing scandals in the Department of
Justice This the declaration of
principles of a once great, self-re-
specting party on which it has the
teme rity to appeal to the people for
a vindication at the polls.
1t is chiefly remarkable, according
to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
independent Democratic) '.for the
greater or less degree of skill and
naiveness with which its formulators
attempted to steer clear of 'touchy'
questions" although lit is a Coolidge
made platform in so far as it reflects
the attitude of the Executive upon
certain matters, notably the world
court, but # fails to follow out this
direction in other matters. such as
tax legislation, the soldiers bonus
and the immigration BILL These
views are approved by the New
Orleans Times Picayune Gndepen-
dent Democratic), the New York Times
independent DemocraD, Cleveland
Plain Dealer Independent Democratic),
Little Rock Arkansas Democrat
(Democratic) and the Knoxville Sen
tinel Independent Democratic).
The Independent viewpoint is some
what pointedly put by the Newark
News independently, which holds the
gospel of the platform lis a belated
promise to follow the leadership of
Calvin Coolidge" but "as to the rest
1t is for the most part words" The
Indianapolis News independently sees
in it "the usual mixture of good and
bad. of true and half true, or false"
The Detroit News independently is
confident the platform is entitled ito
lIe conservative SyHnpdlHleS Oh tHe
nation, for it is a document made up
equally of generalities, platitudes and
speciouS evasionS." The Wichita
Eagle independently holds a similar
view, while the Duluth Herald (in6e-
penden) concludes President Cool
idge could have written a better one,
using less than a quarter as many
words but. after all. this is about
the only time anybody pays any at
tention to a platform any way"
Evening star., 1924-06-20
IN TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT
BY PAUL y. COLLINS

a., cause of historical truth that one
| records that all the Mississippi bub-
| bles have not been blown by John
Laws. Who can hold John Laws re-
sponsible for What's the matter with
Kansas Or Nebraska or even Wis
consin? Is not the state of Senator
Brookhart and Secretary Wallace
''bubbling"? Are not Minnesota, the
Dakotas and Montana playing iri-
descent rainbows afioat?
Hercules cleaned out the Augean
stables, but Gen. Dawes proposes to
clean out all the demagogues from
ploitation, The general evidently has
| in mind the famous motto of our
Navy: 1T can't be done. but here
| it is,"
Another great demagogue of his
| tory was John Wilkes. who was called
| the pioneer of radicalism." Wilkes
had been disgruntled by expulsion
| from Parliament for seditious libel
and obscenity. He had sought in vain
the appointment as Governor of Can
ada. He used his personal grievances
to appeal to popular support.
Says a historian: wilkes saw in
| the public discomfort a chance of re-
| newing his traffic in popularity. He
| always kept in view what he avowed
to Gibbon-the making Of fortune
by his popular agitation"
| Wilkes was expelled from Parlia-
ment for seditious libel and obscenity
yet he was reelected. and Samuel
| Johnson says: Every artifice OF
sedition. since then; has been prac-
flame Indignation. The papers every
| day have been filled with exhorta-
| tions and menaces of faction. The
madness has spread through all ranks
and both sexes: women and children
simplicity has been cheated into fury
and only. the wise have escaped
| Infection"
1t would have been jas difficult a
task for Gen. Dawes to drive out
the demagogues" in wilkes day as
| it is today.
There was great discomfort amongst
farmers in America near the close
of the revolution-especial in
Massachusetts,. Owing to the absence
| from home of farmers who were in
the Army, crops had been neglected
and so there was no money in farm
| ing. Then rose demagogues who de-
| clared that the United States was a
, failure and urged return to George
III. There were profiteers in those
days-and demagogues. Shays re.
bellion resulted, together with a de.
mand for imitation of cheap money
What a chance that would have beer
for Banker Dawes to drive out the
demagogues," Were not these
demagogues telling the people thai
the rich were plotting to establish
lordship over them "by the monopoliz
ing of power and position of famil!
cliques? Americans were arrayeC
against Americans, because thu
demagogues supporting Shay's arm,
were not driven out of power and
influence.
What is the cause of all thes,
commotions?" asked Washington in 6
letter to Col. Humphreys, Ts i
licenttousness, British Influences dis
seminated by the Tories. or rea
grievances which admit of redress p
Col. Humphreys attributed then
to all three causes" But Gen. Dawes
seems to sum the three causes int,
one: Demagogism.
Copyright. 1924. by Paul V. Colins.)
Evening star., 1924-06-20
Retired Teachers June Pay.

Owing to the failure of the deficiency
bill at the recent session Of Congress
there is a deficit Of funds available to
pay the annuities Of the retired teach
ers of the District schools for the cur
rent month of June. Unless some ex-
traordinary measures are adopted.
possibly by the business men Of Wash
ington, or sbme executive authority is
given for the use of other funds for
this purpose, sixty-nine Of the elder
ex-teachers in the District schools will
be without money with which to meet
their expenses at the end of the
month. In most cases these annuities
teachers. Failure to receive their
monthly pay checks means acute dis
tresS.
Without question this deficiency will
be made good next winter. perhaps
Immediately on the reconvening of
Congress in December. Beginning the
fiscal year monthly pay checks will
be forthcoming under the new appro-
priation act. But the August payment
and the December deficiency allow
ance will not pay the bills on the 1st
Of July.
Is there not some means by which
this fund can be raised as a loan to
the teachers by the people of Wash
ington? The active teachers are hard
ly in a position to contribute to such
a fund. They have need Of every
penny that will be coming to them at
the end of this month to meet their
ordinary expenses and to carry them
over the vacation period.
The amount due is estimated to be
$5.600 a veritable trifle for the com.
nlunity. but large sum for the an.
nuitants. Can it not be raised by pub
lie Subscription, with the assurance
that every dollar will be reimbursed
when the deficiency funds are voted
in December by Congress and the re
tired teachers get their belated checks:
Evening star., 1924-06-20
Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
MARYLAND and virginia.
All Other States.
The Districts Plank.

Delegates from the District Of Co
lumbia to the Democratic national
convention will endeavor to secure the
adoption in the party platform of a
plank favoring national representa-
tion for the citizens of Washington
They will not be deferred from this eff
fort by the failure of the delegates to
the Republican convention, but will
perhaps work the harder because OF
that failure. They have good case,
a better case even than four years
ago, for the District has just been
treated in Congress with ruthless dis
regard for equities and without the
least measure Of representation.
What is wanted is simple state
ment of the fundamental American
principle that the people who pay
taxes and conform to every require
ment of citizenship. contributing to
the cost of the federal government
and to the defense Of the country,
should be represented in the law
making body and in the procedure of
electing the federal Executive.
The formula has been succinctly
stated on repeated occasions: Repre-
sentation for the District in Congress
and the electoral college. The process
of obtaining this right has been like
wise definitely and briefly put: Pro
posal by Congress and adoption by the
states of an amendment to the Consti.
tuition enabling Congress to enact
legislation granting these rights.
The specific thing required at this
stage is the submission to the states
of an amendment to the Constitution.
Resolutions to that effect are pending
before Congress. The hope is that the
party platform adopted at New York
will declare in favor Of the adoption
of the amendment.
There is no controversy on this
question. There is no partisanship in
1t. The people Of the country, as far
as they have been informed of the
matter and have expressed them
selves, are uniformly favorable to the
enfranchisement of the District. We
of the District are confident that when
the question is submitted to the people
at large, in the form Of an amend
ment, they will answer it overwhelm
ingiy in the affirmative. We only want
that the chance be afforded our fellow
Americans to render their verdict. To
that end hope is felt that the Demo.
cratic party will recognize the prin-
ciple in specific Endorsement Of the
national representation proposal.
Evening star., 1924-06-20

/, thirty-five Republican Socialists, can
not stay in power, and even this COM
bination does not give him an abso-
lutte majority. although he was able
with the Communists to muster 3z9
votes against Millerand.
The tactics of the bloc National
are quite clear. They were not able
to save Millerand, they would not
have been able to defeat any candi-
date who could command the united
support Of the bloc of the Left but
when the bloc of the Left quarreled
and split up. the majority support
ing Painleve and the minority Dou-
mergue, then the bloc National had
votes enough to elect Doumergue.
And in electing Doumergue they not
only defeated the Left. but they got
for president q man much more mod
crate than Painleve.
Herriot starts his premiership now
with the obvious handicap Of having
presidency and having been disclosed
as more radical. from necessity rather
than choice, than the country or the
majority of Parliament. Any moment
when the bloc National can make
combination with any moderate fac
ton in Herriots following he will
fall and his successor is bound TO be
more conservative than Herriot Is
able to be.
Since Germany has declined to con-
tinue the Ruhr economic agreements
pending the application of the Dawes
plan, Herriot will find himself with
foreign crisis on his hands the day
he takes office. If he does not bring
Germany to terms promptly he Will
invite a terrific attack from the
bloc National. perhaps soon reinforced
by deserters from his own party But
IL he does take a high tone, he will
be instantly in hot water with ms
Socialists, and the target for a vlo-
lent attack from the Communists
who count thirty-one votes
All of which makes for uncertainty
in foreign policies and delay II not
confusion in the settlement OF penu
ing International problems. frahce
domestic politics. She is for the mo
ment in the hands of a combination
of incompatible political partles'
whose only real interest in common
was to get rid of Poincare.
Had Painleve been chosen presIoenii
of the republic the French upheavai
might have been comparable to the
British. for Painleve, because or tne
Nfyelle episode. is as bitterly naleu
by the bloc National as RAMSAY
Macdonald as pacifist was despIsea
by British patriots during the war
Rut the French swing evidently halt
ed on the wrong side of Painleve. so
Far as the bloc Of the Left was con-
cerned. and now we have to look
for the further swing OF the penou-
lum back.
some foreign success. concessions
made by Britain, surrenders made by
Germany. these are the only thlnes ;
which can save Herriot for long or
give the bloc Of the Left any con-
tinued lease of office. AS resoi. or
the decision at Versailles the new
cabinet begins with its future already
compromised. Millerand is already
avenged and Poincare may OBTAIN
vindication only a little less prompt
ly
Copyright, 1924, by the Mcclure Newspaper
Evening star., 1924-06-20
Rhode Islands Deadlock,

Rhode Islands legislative deadlock,
protracted for several months and
marked during the last few days by
violent disorder and finally by chlorine
gas attackG,. is reminiscent Of ia.
nous affair of more than eighty years
ago in the same state. That was
DORIS rebellion. which, though a local
Incident. nevertheless had an effect
upon the fortunes Of the Whig party
of the period. The Dorr revolt, like
the present blockade in the state Legis
lature,- grew out Of an effort to effect
a change in the constitution of the
state. Thomas w. Dorr headed a
group of citizens who were discon
tented with the existing government
and its limited suffrage. The state
bad after the Declaration Of Inde
Evening star., 1924-06-20
The Trees of Washington
To the Editor of The Star

To the Editor Of The Star:
When Joyce Kilmer penned his i'm
mortal lines, Poems are made by
fools like me. but only God can make
tree," could he not have been think
ing about the trees of Washington :?
To a lover of trees this is a paradise.
Man has planted them sing1y and in
groups fortunately very few in
rows), the Lord has watered and
given the increase" Now they
abound in all their beauty. glory and
Infinite variety. The giant oak, the
stately elm. the spreading chestnut,
the broad beech, the silvery maple,
the cooling sycamore. the decorative
poplar, the lacy cottonwood. the slen-
der tulip, the purple beech. the frag-
rant magnolia. the towering pine, the
dignified fir. the silver-plumed bal
sam and many others indigenous to
the temperate zone. Perfect speci-
mems of leaf and body, under whose
refreshing shade countless numbers
cttx WILLIAM Rs-WATERS
Evening star., 1924-06-20

The idea Of pleading insanity is
emphatically rejected by one of the
defendants in the Franks case. This
attitude may be mentioned by the
alienists as strong evidence of defec
tive reasoning powers and a morbid
indifference to the instinct of self.
preservation. 1t is difficult to spoil
the argument Of an alienist, no mat.
ter which way it is going.
Evening star., 1924-06-20

When Mr.. Thomas r. Marshall is
quoted as saying that what the coun-
try needs is a good five-cent cigar, he
enrolls himself among the philos-
ophers whose work is not complete
until the commentators have had their
fling. A learned chapter could be
written in the Interpretation of Mr..
Marshall's metaphor as protest
against reckless expenditures and in.
sincere valuations.