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Evening star., 1925-04-06
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Evening star., 1925-04-06
Seven Nations in Balloon Race.

BRUSSELS, April 6.-Seven for
eign countries have entered balloons
for the Gordon Bennett Cup race
which will start here June Z. Alto
gether, II balloons, among them
from the United States, have been
entered.
Evening star., 1925-04-06
Turks Vote Big Naval Credit.

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 6.--The
Turkish National Assembly at An
CORA has voted an extraordinary
credit of 100000 liras for the
Navy, to be used over a period of
five years. 1t also voted 5000, coo
liras for the air force.
Evening star., 1925-04-06

Easter Excursion to Richmo ond,
April II, IL. IS. $500 round trip. Con-
suit R, F. &; P. ticket agents.-Adver-
tisement
Evening star., 1925-03-22
Still a Traveller.

The commodore Of one of the large
ocean ship lines, retiring after ranging
the seas for 40 years, will give the bal
ance Of his active life to travel. He
says: II want to see the world" Some.
thing unusual in this, Ordinarily when
a man has been crossing the oceans
for 40 years and retires it is to a quiet
place on land, and from studying
charts, sextants and chronometers he
turns to growing tulips and turnips.
One has been led to think of an old
salt. retired. as a short, broad shoul-
dered man with white hair, wearing a
cap and a pea jacket. carrying his
hands in his pockets and his pipe in
his mouth, strolling in garden paths
of his land home. Sometimes his cot
looks over the sea, and one thinks Of
him sitting in a hammock contemplat-
ing the waves, dreaming Of sunny seas,
stormy seas, thrilling voyages and
shipwreck and perhaps studying a far
off ship through binoculars or a spy.
glass.
This particular commodore of the
line thinks not Of settling down in a
placid village near the sea where
nishtingales and linnets sing and saft.
Evening star., 1925-03-22

sugar trust, the railroads or any other
| of the so-called interests" Honest
| men have differed with him honestly
over policies which he has advo-
cated-policies which, as they be-
| lieved, smacked of socialism and were
not in the best interests of the
country.
La Toilette has striven all his politi-
| cal life for what he calls progressiv-
ism. Now, at the age of ~, he is
entering a new phase Of the contest.
To all intents and purposes he is out
of the Republican party. and the talk
ing away of Senate committee assign
ments which he has held as a Re
publican is merely a surface indica,
tion Of the change. In the past he
has worked from within the party
fold to bring the Republican organiza.
tion into line with his views. He
succeeded in his own State. But in
the national field, he declared during
the campaign recently closed, he has
found the odds too great. 1t was this
which led him finally to abandon the
party ranks and seek new liberal
alignment.
The liberal forces were stunned, it
seems, by the result of the last
election. What a few weeks before
election day seemed a great move
ment toward a new political align.
ment of the people collapsed like IA
balloon which had felt the prick OF a
pin. La Toilette is now awaiting the
swing OF the pendulum, the reaction
which almost inevitably follows every
political landslide in this country. He
is biding his time.
The swing of the political pendulum
happened two years after the great
pened after the Wilson victory in
1916, although there was war to
bolster up the administration forces,
and it happened after the Taft
election in 1908. Republican leaders
will do well to study the causes which
brought about the change in senti-
ment of the people so quickly after
the popular victories to which refer
ence has been made. Another election
Is looming with a campaign little
more than a year distant Failure in
that campaign to elect a Republican
Senate and Republican House would
hamstring the present administration
of President Coolidge during its last
two years, a result little short of a
calamity.
Evening star., 1925-03-22
Naval Aircraft Carriers.

Whatever may be the merits in
the controversy over our air defenses
brought to a head in the recent con-
least it would seem that we certainly
are not tagging behind other powers
in the development of aviation. On.
April ! there will be launched ett
Saratoga. to be the biggest and fast
est craft of the kind in the world.
having displacement OF about
$4,000 tons, a speed OF 33 to IA knots
an hour. and deck capaciy TO ac-
commodate ~ combat. observation
and bombing planes. Thes Lexington.
a sister ship Of the Saratoga, will be
launched during the coming Summer,
and both vessels are expected to be
commissioned for service in the Fall
Of 1926 Ill
When these two vessels are added
to the fleet the American Navy will
lead the world in its ability to utilize
airplanes, both defensively and often
sively. The greatest guns today are
capable of. dropping a 2000-ton pro-
jectile uDon an enemy 80 miles away.
With the carrier ships to mother
them, naval airplanes will be able to
drop 2,000-ton projectiles upon an
energy 800 miles away--not 300 miles
away from base somewhere on
land, but 800 miles away from a base
with the fleet at sea.
The only other navy which is even
in sight in the matter Of airplane car
riers is that of Japan, which has
| under construction similar ships of
almost equal size but. of considerably
lower speed. The British navy is
working on plans for plane carriers.
but has not yet gotten nstruction
under way.
Under the Washington treaty for
the limitation of armaments the
American and British navies are each
allowed $4,000 tonnage for aircraft
carriers. 1t is announced as the
Navy's program to utilize the rest of
| the American allowance by the con.
struction Of three smaller carriers,
each Of about 10000 tons displace-
ment. but these additional vessels
| probably will not be authorized until
| opportunity has been had to expert
ment with the Saratoga and Lexins-
ton. 1t may be good policy not to move
| too rapidly in making full use of the
treaty allowance in this new arm of
defense but the only considerations
| which need hold the Navy back are
technical ones. The American tax.
payers will be found willing to pro.
vide the money as rapidly as the
| naval builders can use it wisely, for if
there is one outstanding fact in our
| national economics it is that the
people are thoroughly sold" on the
value Of aircraft for national defense.
Evening star., 1925-03-22

toned church bells ring. He is going
to travel and see the world" He has
been so confined in ocean ship lanes
5000 miles long and a few miles wide
that he wants to roam through quiet
hooks in the South Seas and visit re-
mote parts of the Atlantic, the India
and the China Seas. He has been to
all the seaports worth mentioning, and
many that are not, but there are other
cities he means to visit. Although he
does not say it, perhaps this retired
sailor means to climb the Alps, Andes,
Himalayas and the Rockies. He has
heard of "Antres vast and deserts wild,
rough quarries. rocks and hills whose
heads touch heaven" and he wants to
see them. He has heard of deserts.
and he wants to see parts of the world
where the eye may look for miles with.
out sighting water. This retired skip
per kicks aside the carpet slippers and
packs his grip. May he live long and
travel far.
Evening star., 1925-03-22
La Toilette and 1926.

Senator Robert M. La Toilette ha c
moved out Of his comfortable Quarters
In the Capitol Building. which he hold
by virtue of his long service in the
Senate and the chairma nship of the
committee on manufactures. 1t was
an involuntary move. The Republican
organization of the Senate decreed If
because OF Mr.. La Follette's abandon.
ment OF the Republican national ticket
In the last campaign and his indie.
pendent candidacy for the presidency.
But Senator La Toilette has takan
his demotion in committee assien.
ments without voicing protest. He
has never been a squealer. When no
has met defeat it has been with q
smile, perhaps a trif1e grim. because
during all his political life he ha, be.n
engaged in grim political battle. In
his youth Senator La Toilette entered
the lists against the powerful machine
which dominated his State. He he.
came the champion of the Deonle
against the bosses. Since that time he
mas become a boss himself-but with
difference. He has built up a politi-
cal machine in Wisconsin that has
been marvel in its efficiency. 1t is a
machine with a difference. He has
sought power, but his purpose has
been to use it for the people. He has
been denounced as a political faker. a
demagogue and finally as a radical of
the EXTREMIST hue. But no one has
ever charged that La Toilette was
working for the lumber trust, the
Evening star., 1925-03-22
Sings of ''Pot Likker. -

Observing that our grandmothers,
though they knew nothing of vita
mines or carbohydrates, did know
that pot-likker contained those
things essential to the building up of
bone and muscle and BRAIN" the edi-
tori Lucullus of the Omaha Bee
pronounces upon that lusty and idyIlic
"ssence an encomium that will warm
the heart of every liegeman to the
memories OF the olden South. Pot
'1-i-k k-k-e-r,' he spells it, and not
l-i-q-u-o-r. a touch that proves him
to the manner born and a connoisseur
worthy of the best that ever bubbled
atop of a generous. grandmotherly
stove. His description is like the
Wand on which he dotes, honey, sue
culent and full of SAVIOR. Thus:
There is nothing mysterious about
pot likker. 1t is the water in which
vegetables are boiled or stewed,
sometimes blended with the Juices
stewed from meat. 1t SINNERS and
boils in the stock pot on the back of
the old kitchen stove, its savory odors
meating the atmosphere and caus
ing that inner longing that cannot be
described in words. 1t gathers in and
holds in storage all the valuable
properties boiled out of the yege-
tables. awaiting the time when they
may De taken into the human sys-
tenn to it's physical, moral and men
tai betterment. A delectable, life
giving, ife-sustaining beverage
Marse Henry Watterson was wont to
declare that pot likker enabled the
Confederate army to fight against
overwhelming odds for four years in
stead of going down to defeat inside
of six months"
If the author of those eloquent lines
succeeds in what is plainly a mis-
sionary purpose to arouse the West
to active appreciation of pot hkker
he will have rendered that vast re-
gion a service unexampled since Cad
mus carried the alphabet to Greece.
And If he who simply taught peo-
pie their a-b-c's won fame thereby
what greener laurels must await him
who teaches the joys and the virtues
of pot likker.-Atlanta Journal.
Evening star., 1925-03-22
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT r. SMALL.

Vice President Dawes thinks he has
found useful occupsti ton for a Vice
President during the "off days" He
will appeal to the people to save the
Senate. But somehow or other the
Senate doesn't seem the least bit con-
cerned. The Senate is as hard-boiled
as picnic egg. Woodrow Wilson
appealed to the people to save the
Senate. He broke himself down max
ing the appeal. He carried the issue
of the League of Nations and what
he regarded as the honor of America
over the heads of the Senators to
the people But the Senate didn't
mind. 1t just went right along. Pres
ident Wilson received a wonderful
reception wherever he went. He re-
ceived marvellous newspaper support
in most sections of the country.
But nothing registered back in
Washington. The battalion of death
rode on like the Four Horsemen of
was in vain. And 1t would seem as
Gen. Dawes is about to set forth
upon his campaign that his cause is
just about as hopeless. The Senate
feels its rules are sufficient as they
stand. A one-man filibuster can be
broken whenever the Senate Is ready
TO break it. No change ir the exist
ing rules can possibly make the Sen
ate move faster.
The Senate's feud with it's presid-
ing officer is not likely to be softened
by the publicity campaign Gen.
Dawes has outlined. The Senator'S
have not liked the way the Vice Pres
ident has absented himself from the
chair. After the first day or two of
the special session he was seldom on
the rostrum. He was even absent the
day that Senator Ernst of Kentucky
wanted an Interpretation OF the rules
that would permit him to call a
colleague "a willfu,, malicious and
wicked liar" Here was a situation
which 1t was thought would appeal
to Gen. Dawes. who but recently had
entertained the man who taught him
to "cuss." But when the general was
told of the turmoil in the Senate
chamber, he merely remarked That
Is interesting" and continued in his
chambers.
Gen. Dawes doesn't know the fun
that often goes with a one-man fill
buster. nor does he know that often
times the Organization" OF one party
or another deliberately puts up one
OF its number to hold the fort until
line Of general action can be de-
cided upon.
1t is also interesting to note in this
connection that Battling Bob La Fol-
lette, now an outcast so far as the
regular Republicans are concerned,
was not so many years ago pulling
the chestnuts out of the fire for his
regular" colleagues. This was in
the latter part of 1918 and the first
of 1919 when the Republicans still
were the minority party of the Sen
a u
useful AS an aid to a majority, how
ever, he is washout. Bob was be-
ing good" in 1918 and 1918. He was
fetching and carrying and often he
rode to and from the Capitol in SEN
ator Penrose's fiery red car. The
gentleman from Wisconsin amused the
Senate prodigiously just before March
Evening star., 1925-03-22
BY THOMAS r.. MARSHALL.
Former Vice PRESIDE ent of the Unftet
States.


States.
Ever since / have known anything
about the United States Senate have
heard 1t sneeringly referred to as the
"Millionaires' Club of America" There
has been constant hue and cry to
weed out OF the body men of means
and leisure. This agitation was re-
sponsible in part for the change to
the direct vote. In the minds OF many
fingers the idea that a man cannot
be rich and honest. This Is preserved
by the popular warning, whether as
to legislative bodies, courts or ad-
ministrative offices, to beware of the
man who does not have to worry over
where his next meal is to come from.
The idea seems to be to debar from
public service any one who has been
successful in private life.
Whether as much danger to the
people may not arise from predatory
poverty as arises from predatory
wealth constitutes question that
deserves consideration. 1t Is not
axiomatic that he in political life who
has nothing is quite sure to want
nothing. Poverty is not necessarily
the hallmark of honesty in office
Instances of men without personal
fortunes using public place for private
advantage are too numerous to justify
the belief that the poor official always
is upright.
1t is quite natural, l suppose, for
one to suspect that the man who
has obtained something which he
has not been able to obtain procured
1t in a sureptitious way, for In a
democracy he is not a real Democrat
who is willing to concede that any
one is smarter than himself. II would
be happy state of society IL we
honesty Is not in a coat nor a bank
account but in the conscience This
may he asking too much. so / have
long thought that inasmuch as the
people are inclined to give the poor
man his chance in public service, the
people owe ii to themselves as a mat
ter OF self-protection to provide a
salary upon which the Office holder
can live without being tempted to en-
gage in speculation or in the stretch
ing of his conscience in order to add
to his income.
Everything had practically doubled in
price in the United States since 1913.
yet the salaries of public officials in
the City Of Washington had remained
the same. l was glad, therefore, when
the Congress voted to increase the SAL
aries of Senators and Representatives
Evening star., 1925-03-22
The Modern Beau Nash.

Clothes for males are steadily
| Frightening up. Only a few decades
ago the dark trousers. darker coat
and waistcoat, "cast-iron hat" and
starched collar formed about the only
proper masclline costume except when
extreme heat made somber seersucker
or mohair permissible. Men and
youths were as intriguing in appear.
ance as so many fireplugs.
Bit by bit the canons of acceptab BILE
dress lightened So-called "neglige"
shirts came in, and white flannels,
derisively called by conservatives ice
cream pants" might be worn on GER
tain occasions. Tropical suitings and
haberdashery appeared in moderate
shades, the excuse for which was an
immoderate temperature. Shoes other
than the conventional hard boiled
blacks and tans gained the approval
of respectable people.
Although the American man is vet
long way from the peachblows,
ecrus, the salmons, clarets, pinks and
sky blues of the period of Monsieur
Beaucaire, he nevertheless. is far, far
removed from the stiff and drab figure
he cut within the recollection of mil
lions now living. Much Of the progress
has occurred within very recent years.
and shop windows, holding outing
suits of palest shades, neckwear. belts,
handkerchiefs and shirts of hitherto
forbidden brilliant hues, and hosiery
reminiscent OF the Scottish rebellion
OF '45, give evidence that the Spring
OF 1925, officially and favorably
ushered in yesterday, marks an even
more radical departure from what a
man, or even youth. used to think was
bkhtting. Golf has had a great deal to
DO with it; the merits Of easy clothing
once tried made it's wider use a natu-
| raj sequel.
No field of inspira ton has escaped
the designers; the gay checkered
jumper of the lumberjac the pa ia mas
of the tropics, the flower garden. the
birds, the trout flies in the fishing
tackle catalogue. have all contributed
their bit. A sartorial tout ensemble
OF today in the last century would
have been hesitantly worn by a music
hall comedian, not that it is so funny.
but that the eye Of the observer has
been slowly and steadily adjusted to
it's merits.
In primitive mankind as in nature.
the male is the more gorgeous and
brilliant, just as he was in the days of
Beau Nash. Although civilization NAV
perhaps render inadvisable an entire
reversion to that state of affairs, a
! moderate reapproachment seems to be
giving general satisfaction not only
to the sterner. but to the fairer sex.
Evening star., 1925-03-22

IN addition to its fees, the societv
is supported by contributions. These
range from a dollar membership 70
the salary OF a nurse for year In
iact' at the last drive one contribu-
tlon or 10 cents was received A
number of individuals have donated
the salary OF nurse for a year. some
'he salary for part of year. and
everal local churches and organiza
tions annually contribute the amount
OF me salary of one nurse Miss
luckerman. one of the founders. re-
Gently died and left $4,000 as an en-
COW 1ent toward such a salary
Ihe Army Nurse School at Walter
Reed Hospital this year is sending
lO OF Its senior students to take a
four-month course in public health
nursing under the supervision of the
Instructive Visiting Nurse Society.
This experience includes field work
with the visiting nurses and other
social and health agencies in the Dis
trict
Other local hospitals are becoming
interested in this work and are also
sending students for such a course.
Members of the United States Public
Health Service are giving lectures to
these students on control of COM
municable diseases and public health
Q
health ard social work are also CO.
operating in the lecture work on par
ticular phases.
During 1924 the nurses of this So
ciety paid $4,000 visits and cared for
5000 patients. OF this number 10 go
per cent were women and 29.0S were
men. This does not of necessity mean
that women are more prone to illness
than men, but it does indicate that
these nurses have made it possible
for the sick wife to have proper care
and still not necessitate the wage
earner's loss of time from his busi-
ness. Children under the age of Is
comprised IS per cent of the patients
visited. while 23.2 per cent of the
total were children of less than
year.
There are three cOlored nurses on
the staff and these care for patients
in the congested negro areas They
are graduate registered nurses the
same as the white members of the
staff. They serve only the colored,
whereas the white nurses serve any
who need care regardless of race, re-
ligion or color.
The society also does health educa-
tional work, which is exceedingly i'm
portant, as every one will agree that
1t is better to prevent than to cure.
However, the shortage of nurses is
so great that during seasons of the
year when there is the most illness
this work must be curtaiIed to meet
the imm Mediate emergency. The So
ciety hopes that as it's work becomes
better known it will be so well sup
ported that the staff may be increase sed
to sufficient size to carry on the
educational work without break.
Evening star., 1925-03-22
Holds That Public Officials
Are Worthy of Their Hire

to $4,000. The increase was eminently
just Our lawmakers in Washington
are worth $4,000, and IL those who
are there are not worth that salary
the people would better keep them al
home and send others who are. The
way to improve the public service and
to eliminate the CRATER who gets into
politics for private gain is to reduce the
number of officials to the lowest point
and pay those we retain such compen-
sation as will enable them to devote
their entire time and thought to the
public business
This Is no new experiment OF the
Congress in endeavoring measurably to
make compensation of it's members At
the cost of living. The salary grab"
of Grants day Is yet remembered by
many. 1t created a great furore. The
clatter In the public press alarmed
many of the Legislators who voted for
1t. Numbers of them never drew from
the Treasury the increase which they
had voted for themselves. Among
those who voted for the grab" was
Daniel w. Vorhees. one of my dearest
friends. Indiana never had a greater
orator; America never had a cleaner
or finer servant. He told me the cir
cumstances under which he had sup
ported the increase. The very morning
OF the day he was called upon to vote
he had received word from home that
the old family horse and phaeton had
been levied upon to pay the butcher s
bill. The horse had been ridden by all
his children. For many years his wife
daily had driven 1t to market He
reached instant conclusion then and
there, he told me, that he would save
the horse and family IL he broke the
Treasury of the United States.
n
Any amount of scrutiny of the pub
lie record and private life of Daniel
w. voorhees, would not reveal a flaw.
A microscope would not disclose a speck
touching his honor or integrity. His
public service was invaluable. Yet he
was serving the people upon a starva-
ton salary. 1t was only such sturdy,
sun-crowned officials like him who could
resist the temptation to add to their
income in surreptitious ways
L wish we could get away from
classes in American life. 1 wish we
could put under scrutiny the brain and
conscience OF a man rather than his
financial condition. But until that fair
cream OF democracy comes true II will
De Wen FOR US to insist that we have
only as many public officials as we
need and that we pay them such sal
aries as will enable them to devote
themselves exclusively and whole
heartedly to the public service.
Copyright 1925. by 21st Century Pre.sl