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The Washington times., 1924-11-06

absolutely must do something"
about this or that incident, such as
tie Daugherty incident or the Albert
F. Fall incident
Sticks to Major Issues.
Stubbornly, consistently, the Presi-
dent has refused to give any promi.
hence to incidents and has held him
self to the great permanent issues,
such as taxation and the tariff and
the Constitution.
The event now seems to prove
his wisdom. The incidents have
wilted. The permanent issues have
won. Calvin Coolidge, on the record,
whatever may be thought of him as
statesman, would seem undoubt.
eddy to have proved himself to be
one OF the greatest political psychol-
ogists of all American political his
tory.
A consciousness of. success, and
consciousness that he won this
success by his own methods and
not by the methods Dressed upon
him by numerous advisers. ymust
presumably be present in the Presi-
dents mind.
1t would tend to account for the
manifest-or MISUNDERSTANDING of
the ice in this stream of puritanical
conduct from the hills Of Yer
mont.
The White House is going to be
gayer from now on. The master of
the White House has mastered his
job as administrator and he has
spectacularly proved his peculiar,
Individual, weird, subtle, simple
genius as political Ieader.
To Build "New Guard"
He now will go on inevitably
whether he so plans it or not, to
completing a Coolidge new guard
in Washington to take the place OF
the sold guard" which so long con.
Quoted the destinies Of the Repub.
lican party but which recently has
more or less in many instances be.
come weaker and less commanding.
The new guard" will differ
from the "old guard" in the follow.
ing respect:
1t will be less inclined toward
compromise. It will be more wed.
ded to what it's admirers call prin-
ciple and what it's. critics call
bigotry.
President Coolidge and his imnhe.
date friends--such as Frank w.
Stearns, Of Boston-believe that
compromise is the way to defeat
and that the thing to do is to
stick out for any sound proposition
Tor any proposition thought sound
to the 100 per cent limit.
1t will accordingly happen that
President Coolidge and his friends
will ally themselves to persons of
that type in Congress.
This writer accordingly, with
some considerable confidence, pre-.
diets that in the Senate the Cool
Hidge Administration will find itself
drawn to Senators like Wadsworth
Of New York and in the House Of
| Representatives to CongressInen
like Ogden Mills of New York.
Wadsworth differs from most
members Of the "Old Guard" in
that he never surrenders what he
regards as business principles tc
what he regards as mere political
considerations.
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LAF0LLETTE
LAYS 1928
PLANS
Three National Meetings to
Determine Progressive
Policy Soon
BY KENNETH CLARK.
international News Service.

MADISON, Wis. Nov. 6.-De-
spite the overwhelming Republican
victory, Senator Robert M. La Fol-
Iette himself is determined to press
forward vigorously with plans to
form a permanent new political
party that will place another Presi-
Dental ticket in the field in 1928.
That no time may be lost in get
ting the movement under way, La
Toilette announced today that he
had arranged conferences with sew
eral Of his most trusted lieuten-
ants. the men who headed the Pro
gressive organization that went
down to defeat before President
Coolidge
The first Of these meetings is
scheduled here this weekend, with
Gilbert E. Roe, of New York. who
managed LaFollette's eastern cam.
paign.
Coming 10 Capital Soon.
Before returning to Washington
next week, LaFolette also plans to
stop over in Chicago to discuss the
formation of the new party with
leaders Of the various groups and
organizations there which supported
him for the presidency.
I've just started to fight La.
toilette said today at his country
home, Maple Bluff, three miles from
Madison.
Tell them down in Washington
that 1t took ten years to break the
machine gang that ruled Wiscon.
sin, but we did it. And / want you
to tell them that now we are going
out to smash the gang that con-
trolls the Federal Government at
Washington and we will.
Il feel well, oh, very well. I've
got years of fight left in me yet. :"
Until he has talked with his po-
litical advisers and learned from
them the reaction of Progressive
supporters to the Coolidge land
slide. La Toilette himself does not
know what definite steps will be
followed in launching the new
movement. He declared he would
refrain from commenting definitely
until he has gone over the plans
thoroughly with his lieutenants, in
conferences that are expected to
extend for weeks. probably months,
after he returns. to Washington.
Although his forces have been
weakened by the apparent defeat
of Senators Brookhart Of Iowa and
Johnson OF. Minnesota, La Toilette
believes that he still will hold the
balance of power" in the Senate.
At three national gatherings
scheduled between now and Janu-
airy the question of forming a new
party as a permanent political or.
ganization is expected to be
thoroughly threshed out. The first
is the national convention Of the
American Federation Of Labor at
Ell Paso, Tex, beginning Novem-
Der II.
Son Wins Old Office.
Next will be the meeting Of the
executive committee of the Con,
ference for Progressive Political
Action on November rs and then
the conference itself in January.
\ Complete returns today showed
that Philip La Toilette, the Sena
tors youngest son, had been elected
district attorney of Dane county
by a majority of more than 10000
Just forty.four years ago Senator
La Toilette started his public career
In the same office.
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379 ELECTORAL
VOTES FOR
COOLIDGE
Figure Remains Unchanged
BY Latest Returns From
Doubtful States

Earlier estimates of an electoral
vote Of 379 for President Coolidge
were unchanged by later returns
today. John w. Davis will have
1879 electoral votes, and Senator La
Toilette only the thirteen from
Wisconsin.
In Mr.. Coolidge's total at noon
today were included the States Of
North Dakota, Arizona and Mon
tana, where the final result was
still In doubt, but where the Re
publicans were leading. New Mex
leo. on the other hand, went into
the Democratic column on the face
of late returns.
The electoral vote stands:
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IN
STATUS IS
ASKED
Government Clerks Will Be
Affected by Civil Service
Survey

The fate of several thousands Of
Government employees, appointed by
the executive order of January Is.
1913, during the war scarcity, is be-
Ing decided by a survey conducted
by the Civil Service Commission, it
became known today.
This information Nis based on
communications made public today
by Gertrude M. McNally, acting
president of the National Fedora
ton Of Federal Employees, between
President Luther c. Steward and
the commission.
The principal object in getting
The Washington times., 1924-11-06

the federation that other workers
were willing to take the examina-
ton, but were already beyond the
age limit.
The federation asks the commits
sion to recommend issuance by
President Coolidge of an executive
order giving civil service status to
all employees in this group.
In a letter by John T. Doyle,
secretary of the commission, that
body stated that ''for Ithe past sew
eral weeks the commission has
been engaged in making a survey
of the situation in order to ascer-
tain the number of these employees
who are now in the service"
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the war workers under the classi-
fled service is to make them eligi-
BILE for the benefits of the retire
ment act, otherwise they would be
dismissed from the Federal service
without annuity.
A large percentage Of the work
ers affected are in the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing and the
Government Printing Office. Many
have qualified by examination for
regular civil service status, and
are on the register, but, as the
federation pointed out, there is no
certainty that they will be reached
In the near future"
The commission was informed by
The Washington times., 1924-11-06

between Congressman Madden, I'LL.
nois, and Nicholas Longworth, Ohio,
for the Speakership. Congressman
Frank D. Scott of Michigan is in
line for chairman of the Merchant
Marine Committee, with Wallace n
White of Maine as. a contender.
The committees are closely divided
In Republican and Democratic mem.
bership in the present House be.
cause of the narrow majority of the
Republicans. The reduced Demo.
cratic membership in the Sixty-ninth
Congress will result in loss Of com.
mlttee assignments to Democrats IL
make room on important committees
for the increased Republican repre-.
sentation.
The Washington times., 1924-11-06
cANADA'S WHIPPING TREE
2 FAST DISAPPEARING

ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, Nova Scotia,
Nov. Scandals famous Whip
ping Tree" is succumbing to the
q majestic willow, beneath the
spreading branches of which the
sentences of lashes on bare backs
were carried out. nothing remains
hut the trunk.
This tree, famous all over the
provinces, stands, or did stand, be.
tween the cemetery and the general
court building, in this town.
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ADVERTIsEME EMIT

For Colds. Grip or Influenza,
and as a. Preventive, take Laxative
Proven Remedy. The box bears he
signature Of e. w, Grove. SOC.
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"Nel0 Guord" VIII Be Ultra Conservative
Coolidge To Propose
Tax Cut On Big
Incomes

Reduction Of the surtax on
big incomes to % per cent win
be recommended 10 Congress
next month by President Cool
idge, it was learned officially
at the Treasury Department
today.
This was one of the features
Of the original Mellon tax plan
which Congress turned down
last winter.
The Washington times., 1924-11-06
cULPRlT AND DOUBLE
GIVE POLICE TROUBLE

LEWISTON, Pa, Nov. Ser
geant M. A. Davis, of the Pennsyl
vania railroad police, found himself
In an embarrassing position when
Lieutenant Earnest ordered him to
arrest "a large colored woman on
a charge of larceny, take her from
the. train and return her to Mt.
Union
Evening star., 1924-01-13
PLAN TREE NURSERY
IN ANkC0STIA PARK
Bill Devoting Part of Reservation
to Use Favored by Senate
Subcommittee.
DEPUTY CORONER PROPOSED
Substituting Electrocution fol-
Hanging in D. c. Approved.

A subcommittee of the Senate ju-
dietary committee yesterday decided to
report favorably to the full committee
bill authorizing the establishment
OF tree nursery in Il portion of
Anacostia Park.
The subcommittee also authorized
q favorable report on Il bill providing
Tor a deputy coroner in the District.
A third bill on which favorable re-
port was ordered was that introduced
by Senator Dial of South Carolina
substituting electrocuting for hang.
ing in cases of capital punishment
Sn the District.
Three Measures Postponed.
Action on three measures before the
subcommittee was postponed. One
was a bill introduced by Senator
Fletcher providing for the bonding
of operators of motor vehicles to in
sure pedestrians against injury. which
had received an unravorable report
from the District Commissioners. The
two other bills on which action was
POSTPONED provide for the licensing
Of plumbers and gasfitters and for
1cvying of certain taxes on national
banks in which there are savings
departments.
The subcommittee held that the
last two measures raised revenue and
Cor that reason must originate in
the House under the provisions of the
Constitution.
Rudolph Explains Bills.
Commissioner Rudolph met with the
subcommittee and explained the rea-
sons for the enactment of the bills.
The three bills on which favorable
reported
TO the full committee on Wednesday
and il is expected they viii be re-
ported to the Senate by the commit
Tee,
Evening star., 1924-01-13
VIRGINIA DARE
BY CARROLL QUINN FRIGHT U. S NJ RETIRED

the third under John White and his
: twelve assistants-which arrived in
the summer Of the following year,
as we have seen. SO it was of right
brave, hardy and honorable stock
little Virginia was born that hot
August day on a sandy island along
the wind swept coast Of North Caro-
lima. She was in the bosom of
good and well-to-do family, neigh
bored by friendly and wholesome
colony of niEety-one men, seventeen
women and nine children. Ten Of the
women were married and six or seven
of the children were with their
parent.
The first noteworthy event which
occurred after their landing was the
christening of the savage Manteo,
one of the two chiefs who had been
carried to England, and who had
returned with this expedition. and"
Hakluyt says. called lord thereof"
(Rcanoke) and of Dasamonguepeuk,
lin reward of his faithful services"
, Ihis took place on the 18th of
August, five days before the birth
of Virginia Dare. who was christ
ened on the following Sunday, so
they must have observed regular
church services from the start.
1t has been remarked that this is
the only instance of the comforting
iof nobility upon a native American
and that these were the first christen-
lngs recorded as having taken place
the thirteen original colonies
Virginia had not been long born
before her grandfather, Gov John
j White. was prevailed upon by the
unanimous vote and urgent prayer of
the entire company to hasten back to
England on fleet which had hap
pened by that place. 1t was desirable
that his employer, Raleigh. should
know what had occurred in America
and that new items, equipments and
supplies should be sent over immedi-
ately in order that the colony might
prosper and remain content 1t was.
/ therefore, with bright prospects and
all good cheer that he took leave of
his dear grandchild at Roanoke.
The return voyage was an adyen-
turous one, but "on the 18th of Oc-
tober he arrived on the Irish coast
! and. coming TO England straightway.
made efforts to carry succor to his
people. but never again did he look
upon the faces of his daughter or his
! granddaughter or of any of their COM
panions. Three years elapsed
before White returned to Roanoke.
and when he came he found il de-
serted and the settlers gone-whithcr?
No one was left to tell. and their fate
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was enshrouded and will ever remain
in mystery pathetic. The dead past
will not give up its dead"
or his return, White says: The
Goth of March, 1890, the three ships
put to sea from Plymouth. The
18th of August we came to an anchor
at Hatteras and saw a great smoke
rise in the Isle of Roanoke, near the
place where l left the colony in the
year 1887. The next morning
our two boats went ashore and we
saw another great smoke, but when
we came to it we found no man or
sign that any had been there lately
AS the colonists had failed to leave
certain signs agreed upon before the
governors departure, he had nothing
to guide him in his search and, find
ing the word "Croatoan" on one OF
the posts of the palisade, he concluded
they had gone southwark to the coast
of that name, where was the home OF
Manteo, tho friendly chieftain.
Raleigh, who had never visited
these shores himself, had failed in
his Iaudable and brave efforts at col
onization in the new world. And so
the curtain fell. And no hand has.
with any certainty, lifted 1t these $50
years. What became of Virginia
Dareo This pathetic question has
been asked by the heart Of the Eng
lish-speaking world ever since her
story. brief as it is, was heard. Did
she die early, while yet at Roanoke,
land does her dust, mingled with the
soil of her birthplace. blossom there
into flowers that blush unseen? Did
her little feet join in the wanderings
OF the settlers? Did she grow to
womanhood in the second home, and
did her life end in tragedy amid the
darkness which enshrouds the fate
OF the colony? \ faint echo,
a possible trace of the lost White
Fawn, comes to us which may have
reference TO her. and with it the rec
ord closes forever: I'm his first vol
ume Of The History of Travaile,
william Strachey. secretary OF the
jamestown colony, writing in 1912, of
events that occurred in Virginia in
160S-10, says: AT Peccarecommek
and Ochanahoen, by the relation OF
Machamps, the people have houses
built with stone walls, and one story
above another, SO taught them by
those English who escaped the
slaughter at Roanoke, at which time
this, our colony. under the conduct Of
Capt Newport landed within the
Chesapeake bay; where the people
breed up tame turkeys about their
houses and where, at Rita
noe, the Weroance Eyanoco pre-
served seven of the English alive
four men, two boys and one young
maid, who escaped the massacre and
fed up the River Chanoke tChowan.
This young maid may have been Vir-
ginia Dare. who, at the time men
TONED, would have been about twen-
ty-one years OF age"
BY this reference II viii be seen
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her death her spirit assumed that
form, and at times. hung fondly about
the place of her birth, and often
gazed wistfully over the sea; and
that, IN that gentle form, she was
slain by her lover, g. young Indian
chief. who had been persuaded that
the enchanted arrow he used would
thus restore her to him in the flesh
he had known and adored.
Around such beautiful traditions
as these two novels have been writ
ten or woven, and, presumably they
have been read by many thousands
who fondly sought to trace in them
the thrilling and pathetic story of
Virginia Dare. But that story,
beautiful or tragic. brief or long,
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lifted-the veil of mystery hangs
down persistently.
Naturally, about such a character.
tradition has been busy-never in
supplying the particulars Of her life
one wound wish SO much to kaow,
but in weaving a gauzy web Of
romance about her and hers which
many have family believed and
passed along from generation to
generation, even to this day.
the mother of Virginia Dare was
known, in their figurative and dis
criptive way, as THE White Doe"
and her baby. the first white child
they had ever seen, "The White
Fawn." 1t was also said that after
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III UGH interest was aroused by,
tN the unearthing, week ago
i'll Washington, of a leaden
plate about the size of an
automobile license tag. with the
legend:
Virgin Dare
Died Here
Captif Powhatan
1890 Charles K"
Whether the tablet has any his
toric value will be determined by
the authorities in such matters, to
whom, it is said, the slab has been
handed over for thorough iIfvestiga-
ton.
The known story of Virginia Dare
is one of the briefest in all the vast
volume of human history. 1t runs
as follows:
"On August IS. 1887, Elenor, daugh-
ter OF the governor and wife to
Ananias Dare, one of the assistants
was delivered of a daughter in
Roanoke, and the same was christ
ened there the Sunday following. and
because this child was the first
Christian born in Virginia she was
named Virginia. This is absolutely
all that is certainly known of her.
1t was written by her grandfather,
Gov. John White, to Sir Walter Ra-
leigh. who had sent him out in
charge Of the colony. This colony
was to have been located on Chesa-
peakc bay and its capital city or
town named Raleigh. with this John
White as governor. and twelve as
sistant governors. OF whom ms SON
n-law. Ananias Dare, was one. Thus
il came near being Raleigh instead
of jamestown as the center of the
first successful English settlement in
Virginia.
Little Tirginia's mother was Elyo-
ner White. daughter of the governor,
and presumably married to Ananias
Dare at her native place in England
Newton in Hylmore, and she had
arrived a month before Virginia was
born. The governors report of the
hasty settlement at Roanoke gives
US some idea of the situation-home
and environment-of the wee girl
born there some three weeks later.
Her father, being assistant to his
fatl:er-in- law. would probably have
been allotted one of the best of the
quarters in the stockade or fortifi-
Ca ton, and they would have been
esteemed as one Of the first FAM
we might say, of the IF. +. VS.
Two previous attempts at coloni-
zation in America had failed. But.
nothing daunted, Raleigh began at
once fitting out another expedition
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that the history Of the Raleigh col
onists was known to the people of
jamestown. John Smith mentions
scattered parties of these colonists,
and the Virginia Company speaks of
some of them as yet alive. within
fifty miles of our fort" and they sent
searching parties to find them
But none of these parties was
ever able to get into actual touch
with them. The Indians. appar-
emily, were determined that their
fate should not become known to the
others of their countrymen. But we
learn that they found crosses >
and assured testimonies Of Chris
tians newly cut in the bark Of
trees" But still. the curtain is un-
Evening star., 1924-01-13
FIND BODY ON ROOF.
Buffalo Police Believe Woman
Jumped From Apartment Window

BUFFALO. y. Y. January 12.-The
body of Jessica Thayer. thirty-five
wears old. who came here recently
from Newton Falls. Ohio, was found
on A roof three floors below an open
apartment window at Main and Carl
ton streets She had been dead several
hours. The open window gave rise to
a polce theory of suicide.
Police today were questioning j. b..
Shippe. in whose name the apartment
WAS leased two months ago.
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as it may have been, has remained
buried to this day--lost till the
judgment day. when we shall know
as we are known" and all the mil
lions of dark mysteries in human
history shall be uncovered and made
plain.
Old Roanoke.
4 song Of the fair
In the soft, still Air.
80 tender and rare
OF the memry there
Pathetic and bare,
OF Virginia Dare
Ten -elevenths of the worlds popu-
lation are north of the equator.
The tongue of seventy-foot whale
has been known to yield as much az
a ton of OIL
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TudOr-the Lifetime Finish

Tudor" is not varnish finish, either
dull or shiny, that shows every finger
mark and where scratches show up white
but dull subdued tone, open-g grain
lacquer finish that brings out the natural
beauty of the wood
Evening star., 1924-01-13

Tudor the new artistic finish applied
to our furnture-is as permanent as the
Lifetime construction Of our furniture.
It's finish that brings out the rich,
mellow tones of the wood-a finish that
improves with years of service.
Evening star., 1924-01-13

Single Pieces
If you need just a single
piece or two come into the
Lifetime Furniture Store
and select what you want.
for there are lots of good
looking single pieces always.
Good looking Four
poster Bed. in beautiful
brown mahogany; full
size ..................... .SS4.IS
Cape Cod Dresser in
imitation mahogany, with
mirror ..................S4 $3.50
Ivory Enamel Dressing
Table, with drawer and
triple-wing mirrors. .$36.5O
Comfortable Cane Seat
Chamber Rocker, in
combination walnut; very
good-looking .......... $3.50
Evening star., 1924-03-24
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
TO SUBMIT ESSAYS
45O Participating in Virginia Con-
test of the American Chemi-
cal Society.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, March 24.-The
students of the foar-hundred-and-
fifty public and private high schools
of Virginia, invited last November
through the state department of edu-
cation to participate in the prize es-
say contest of the American Chemical
Society, will bring their work to an
end April l.
In the contest six prizes of twenty
dollars in gold are to be awarded
to Virginia high school students and
six scholarships to Yale and Vassar
will be given for the six best essays
in the United States. These scholar
ships will carry with them tuition
for four years in chemistry or chem
ical engineering and $500 year in
cash. In addition to these awards
many other scholarships will be Of
fered through various universities
and colleges.
The high school students of Vir-
ginia and other states are writing on
the relation of chemistry to health
and disease, to enrichment of life,
/ to agriculture and forestry, to ma
tional defense, to the home, and
to the development of the industries
and resources of your state. One
state and one national prize is to
be awarded for the best essay on each
of these six topics.