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Evening star., 1926-12-10
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

brother, Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati
newspaper maEnate-is held respon-
sible for the lone Republican who sits
in the Lone Star delegation. He is
Representative Harry Mel. Wurz-
bach of Seguin, Tex, just elected
to his third term. The Tafts own
what is said to be the cOuntry's big
gest cotton plantation, situated in the
Wurzbach district, and their vast in
terests there, it appears, have caused
the conversion of that particular cor
ner of Texas into solid Republican
territory. The Taft plantation
sprawls over more than half a mil
lion acres. Railroads run through
it, and two or three towns are scat
tered within its borders. WurZbach
is only the third Republican Congress-
man elected from Texas since it's ad-
mission to the Union, in 1S45. If the
TaftS follow President COOlidge'S ad-
vice and reduce their cotton acreage,
WurZbach may turn out to be not
only the first, but the last, son of
the G.. o. P. to cast a Texas vote on
Capitol Hill.
Senator James A. Reed, Democrat,
of Missouri, has been devoting a lot
of time since he left Washington last
Summer to preparing Henry Ford s
Jewish agricultural conspiracy" case.
Reed is the motor kings coun-
sci in the S1,000,000 libel action in
stituted against the Detroiter by
Aaron Sapiro, cooperative marketing
expert. Ford secured not only a
change of judges in the Michigan
until March Z. 1927. in order that
Jim" Reed might be liberated from
senatorial duties and able to devote
himself exclusively to the case. Sa-
piro's friends declare that, under
Reeds guidance, Ford has spent a
million dollars assembling evidence
that cooperative marketing is an un-
sound economic principle" Sapiro
expects that Reed will seek to justify
Ford's conspiracy charge on the
ground that cooperative marketing
contrary to the Coolidge-J -Jardine
theory-is the ruination, and not the
salvation, of relief-seeking agriculture.
There are a couple Of wealthy spin
sters prominent in Washington So
ciety known for their passion for
circulating political tit.bits. They've
just become the butt of a quip on
Capitol Hill which runs like this
Uheir name not being SMITH, eff you
want to start something going in
Washington. there are three different
telegraph or tell a
Smith"
X X X X
Congress is more inclined from ses-
sion to session to think that Gen.
Lord" is a particularly appropriate
name for the director of the budget.
Some cabinet ministers think so, too.
1t developed before a certain sub
committee of the appropriations COM
mittee of the House this week that
the secretary of the department in
question wasn't aware, until he saw
it in the Presidents budget message,
that Gen. Lord had ripped a tidy
50 900 ,000-odd from estimates punctili-
ously prepared in Secretary IS
branch of the administration.
Copyright. 1920
Evening star., 1926-12-10
Eve Tests and Driving.

New Jersey traffic authorities have
adopted eye examinations for appli
cants for automobile operators per.
mits. After February first of next
year every prospective driver must
be given a strict test as to vision be-
fore being granted permit. The test
will include general strength, color
blindness and distant chart reading.
One hundred and eight optometrists
have agreed to serve on an examining
board without pay.
Although the functioning Of the
eyes is an important part of motor
car driving the number Of persons af-
flicted with poor vision, Spoor to the
extent of making them a menace to
traffic, is believed to be relatively
small. Statistics of accidents attribu-
table directly to bad eyesight have
never been compiled, but the percent
age of accidents of this kind, COM
pared to other causes, is so infinitesi-
NAL that it would be almost a waste
of time to work up such a table of
figures.
If it We're possible to give thorough
examination to every applicant for a
drivers permit as to judgment of dis
tance, ability to look straight ahead
all the time and to follow the road
with the fullest concentration, in
pearance of another vehicle at an in
tersectiOn, many accidents would be
avoided. These things directly con-
Germ the eye and the mind. Also if it
were possible for further eXamina-
ton to be given to ascertain whether
the applicant displayed signs of poten-
tial recklessness, mulish propensities
and smart-aleck traits, another batch
Of casualties would never be written
on the fast-growing ledger.
The best pair of eyes in the world
cannot penetrate the darkness behind
a set of dazzling headlights; the finest
optics contained in the human head
cannot find instantly some of the
crafty placed traffic signals in a
strange city, and one hundred per
cent eyesight will not save the motor
ist who drives on the railroad track in
front of an oncoming train, needless
of bells, watchmen and visual signals.
Attacking the small percentage of
really poor vision in automobile
drivers is like pricking an elephant
made more strickland the country
has got to come to it eventually-then
the Notwithstanding potentialities of
the prospective motorist must be dis
covered and the applicant denied a
license. The road-hog, the speeder,
the reckless, the stupid and the
hysterical, that class which daily and
nightly is responsible for the big per-
centage of accidents, would never be
allowed to drive if examinations were
as strict as they should be and as
they will be at some future time.
New Jersey may well go ahead with
it's program of eye examination. Per
haps an accident or two a year will
be avoided, and it is worth it on those
terms alone. But the real cause of
mishaps is not in the eye; it is in the
mind, and the time will come, sooner
or later, when the mind will be ex-
amined, not with silly questions and
answers as to how long after sunset
lights on a car should be switched
tributes of successful motor car opera
ton.
Evening star., 1926-12-10
Lauds Judges View
Against Borland Act
Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
thank God that I am living under
the protection of the Constitution Of
the United States!
I never had the fact that said Con-
stitution is bulwark Of protection
of some of us from tyrannical op-
preston by others Of US brought home
to me more forcibly than when
read in last nights Star the decision
of Judge Van Orsdel in the case Of
William G. Johnson ct al, trustees,
VS.. the District commissioners, who
had been forced by the vicious, un-
just and oppressive Borland law to
assess property lying along Rhode
Island avenue northeast for the en-
tire expense Of paving that avenue
along the frontage of that property.
Justice Van Orsdel's decision Is
worth a close perusal by everybody
who owns home in the District. and
by every Representative and Senator
yet in office who was a member of
Congress and voted for that offensive
and opprobrious law at the time it
was passed. The decision is, a. fine,
clear-cut statement of the unconsti-
tutionality of any law that declares
that one man shall be forced to pay
for improvements for the benefit and
use Of another man.
We all know that the Commission.
ers have done all they could year
after year to have this unjust law
repealed, but the gentlemen of the
Congress paid no attention to their
appeals until last session, when the
House of Representatives repealed it.
But it has been allowed for eight
years to wreak injury to home-buyers
and many an earnest and ambitious
couple have been brought to the verge
of losing their home by the un-
expected and heavy assessment. put on
them by the application of the noxious
Borland law. Now let the Senate
repeal it and complete wiping out the
blot. E. c. PALMER.
Evening star., 1926-12-10

and 1t Is certain to be given the
most convincing explanation before
committees and chambers-it should
be as easy of passage as one of the
regular appropriation bills.
Rostponement of consideration and
action to the next session will cost
whole year at least, perhaps two
years. For there is no more as
surance of action at the long session
than at the short 1t is usually the
case that the calendars are even
more crowded at long sessions than
at short ones, and though there is
more time there are fewer oppor-
tunities for action on matters outside
of the required annual appro-
ations.
This is a matter to which there
is no objection, which aims at the
saving OF a large sum of money to
the Government, which insures an
immediate satisfactory solution of
problem that has awaited action for
many years, largely because of this
same disposition to relegate it from
session to session and from Congress
to Congress. do it now" is a sound
business injunction. Congress should
apply it to the bill to provide at
one stroke for the emplacement Of
all future Government buildings.
Evening star., 1926-12-10
Exit Xmas"

Ina. e opposition to the use OF the
word Xmas" for "Christmas' has
n,.aJe .rystalliZed A New York man
has 4 covered widespread disapproval
of t. custom on the part OF metro
po;f-s clergymen and editors of reii-
s.ou- publications. y campaign against
the ,breviation has been sponsored
by r gious organizations and church
COT. S.
= does not mean that those who
us> tac shortened form are guilty OF
In. -ere-1s so much as Of lack OF good
raz-a -'h- fact that the ''N' is not
the ai-a rom the last letter of the
-. IL alphabet, but is the Greek
"C1,- O. he first two letters of the
1tNe 3f ne Founder of the Christian
r,.s On. aas nothing to do with the
cyse 4 nabit Of ancient chroniclers,
formed when all inscriptions were Ia
torsous'v done by hand and when
rar,1reat and other recording ma
ler4- we're either costly or-tedious+to
Evening star., 1926-12-10

Notwithstanding the fact that Ar
thur r. Gould won the special cleo
ton in Maine for the United States
Senate seat made vacant by the death
Of Senator Fernald and that this
Republican victory was normal for
Maine, the election furnished some
features which have interested the
rest Of the country. Opposition OF
the Ku Klux Klan to Gould and
charges against the SenatOr-elect, in
Guiding alleged excessive campaign
expenditures, combined to attract un-
usual attention.
The reported activities OF the ku
Klux Klan inspire the Des Moines
Tribune Gndependent Republican, to
approve the rebuff administered to
the Klan" and to declare that "the
attempt to draw hard and fast lines
on a basis Of race and religion is dis
integrating."
The Portland Evening Express Re-
publican) says: when men meeting
in secret places and covering their
faces from the eyes Of their fellows
take oath to act together at the polls
on orders from one or more 1ndiv1d-
uals, possibly from outside the State,
free government is threatened. The
electorate of all Maine, Democrats and
Republicans alike, arose to this men
ace and stamped on it and crushed
1t to earth as B. strong man might
crush a viper raising its ugly head to
strike"
"Gould's overwhelming victory in
dicates" to the Binghamton Press Tin
dependent) that "the Klan has ceased
to be a political factor, except In so
far as a Klan brand may bring a
nominee for political Office into dis
niv,fO nR hn
ton Evening Transcript independent
Republican,, which states that "the
hooded order has exercised in Maine
q degree Of influence it has not at
tanned in any other New England
State" the recent election has dealt
the Klan a blow which, it would
seem, would permanently put it out of
business as a factor of any Importance
in Maine politics" The Albany Eve
ming News independent Republican,
considers it notable that the people
Of Maine took particular pains to
show their opinion of the ku klux
Klan, which was reported as opposing
Mr.. Gould" The Worcester Telegram
Republican, says the order needed re-
buking, and Maine did 1t"
***
Characterizing the election as a
Coolidge victory" the Harrisburg
Telegraph Republican adds: ''The
voters put party before personality
and went to the polls firmly deter.
mined to make sure of Republican
control of the Senate and, as 1slr as
possible, success Of Coolidge policies. y
AS the st. Joseph News-Press Qnde-
pendent) puts it, "the question was
as to whether Maine would better the
party's status in that body. 1t did,
says this paper.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Gndepend-
ent Democratic) stresses the point that
it was a Senator who was being elect
ed and remarks: Each State has two
Senators in the upper house at Wash.
ington. So great Is their possible in
f1uence on economic as well as party
policies that, in voting for Senators,
the personal element largely disap-
pears. Maine is Republican. AS be-
tween Gould and a Democrat for six
years her Republicans pick Gould.
Criticisms are waived. Psrsonalism is
Evening star., 1926-12-10
Maine Election Interesting
Despite Normal Vote Cast

swept aside. The vote of Mr.. x for
six years on the Republican side is
what Is wanted"
While considering that cit Is mis-
| fortune that this strong faith in
Republicanism should have been
marshaled for the election of can
ddate for the United States Senate
whose claim to the seat probably will
be contested on grounds of personal
unfitness," the Buffalo News Repub-
lican) thinks it very much to the
credit" Of Maine voters that they
want government by the Republican
party and in accordance with Repub-
| lican principles
AS to this question of the personal
| fitness" of Senator-elect Gould the
Roanoke World News Democratic),
thinks he will match up very well
with Ware and Smith," The Chatta-
| nooga News Democratic) remarks Ia
conically, Counting Mr.. Gould, there
will be 4S Republicans of one kind or
another in the new Senate" Noting
| that Fulton j. Redman, the defeated
Democratic nominee, has declared he
will push a contest" the Newark Eve
ming News independently, suggests
that later the news from Washington
may not be such pleasant reading for
Republicans as the news heard from
Maine" concerning Senator Gould's
election.
Discussing the fact that "men of
the type Of Smith and Ware and Gould,
with their peculiar idea of the use Of
money in politics." can be elected to
| such a body as the United States
| Senate, the Omaha World Herald Gn-
| dependenD says: 1.-THE public con-
science still sleeps, and that vigilance
which is the price of liberty apparent
ly has gone on a long vacation. Six
years ago the American people grew
weary Of ideaiism and devotion. To
what further depths must we yet
descend before we respond once more
to their saving and inspiring influ-
ence?"
| AS to the control of the Senate by
the G.. o. P, the Columbia Record
| Democratic) thinks "the Democrats
could ask nothing finer" since in this
way the Republican administration
may be held responsible for all the
sins of commission and omission that
a lame-duck Congress, particularly on
the eve of a stellar contest, may be
expected to make" Concerning a Re
publican majority Of the next Con-
gress, the securing of which is said
to have made the Republican gentle
men of Washington happy" the st.
Paul Pioneer Press independent Re-
publican) says: "Considering the un-
l orthodox inclinations OF at least seven
of these champions Of orthodoxy, they
must be uncommonly easy to make
happy"
| The New York Sun independently
affirms that "the Democrats in Wash
ington are secretly pleased with the
Maine result. 1t is more politically
advantageous to them to remain a
minority and, by attacking the admin
istration, prepare for the battle Of
1928" The Columbus Ohio State
Journal Republican, sees the 'Repub-
lican majority as painfully nominal"
however, and the Wichita Beacon lin
dependent Republican, surmises that
"forty-seven Democrats are feeling
pretty chesty over what they can very
likely do to spill the Republican beans
| II they 50 desire"
Evening star., 1926-12-10
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Santa Claus Stuff.

Santa Claus Stun.
Here is a present from Me unto You,
The era of holiday fancy is through;
The pace becomes swift and the going
is rough,
We haven't the time for the Santa
Claus stuff.
And yet how we long for those inno-
cent times,
When we hung up our stockings and
caroled quaint rhymes;
With autos unknown, sleigh and deer
were enough
To bring us our share of the Santa
Claus stuff.
We're proud of the motor, we're proud
of the spark
That calls down the lightning to ban
ish the dark;
Yet we long for the fireplace, so sooty
and rough,
And the stockings that stood for the
Santa Claus stuff.
Evening star., 1926-12-10
Salvation Army Boxes
On Corners Defended
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
I would like to inquire why it is
that the Salvation Army is denied the
privilege of placing kettles on street
corners for passers-by to drop in
coins?
The Red Cross is allowed to place
booths in all stores and hotels, and
equal advantages are given for the
sale of tuberculosis stamps. Is not it
an organization that is doing an
enormous amount of good amongst
a class whose needs are not met by
any other society?
Why restrict them in their phil
anthropic work?
MARIA WALKER CARTER.
Evening star., 1926-12-10

Americans are criticized for a frivo-
lous attitude toward European cur
re.u;. When debts come under con-
stderation they are also charged with
taking European financial matters too
seriously. 1t is always difficult for a
creditor. however forbearIng, to be
popular.
Evening star., 1926-12-10
Permanent Considerations.

1--WE have forgotten some of the
words of immortal Washington"
I'VE have not forgotten them" an
swered Senator Sorghum. Some of
us statesmen have only revived the
equally immortal proposition that
there are two sides to every argu-
ment"
Evening star., 1926-12-10

Crime fiction is alluring. 1t pos
sesses an advantage over the news re-
ports of a homicide in being always
able to provide satisfactory solution
of the mystery.
Evening star., 1926-12-10

English authors write contemptu-
ously of America, but revel in royal
ties from the T.. s. A. They lack the
moral courage of Paris walters who
refuse to accept tourist tips.
Evening star., 1926-12-10
Little Scotch for the Face,

From the Baltimore Sun.
Our esteemed beauty authority says
for those whose faces make up slowly
a treatment Of hot and cold water is
urged Still, O little Scotch would
perhaps do the Same thing.
Evening star., 1926-12-10

Merchants always say that business
ing statistics never bear out the asser-
ton. A prudent man refrains from
boasting of his prosperity.
Evening star., 1926-12-10

Main street" has been much ridi-
culed. 1t is equipped with electric
lights and stands higher, with all it's
commonplace interests, than De Rus
sey lane.
Evening star., 1926-12-10

The price of gasoline is to be slightly
reduced. Motorists welcome the It'd
ings. In comforting Christmas cheer
the oil interests are in a position to
take the place Of Santa Claus.
Evening star., 1926-12-10
Might Use EN- at Curves.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Maybe the Automobile Club of
America could use the Russian crown
jewels. which are coming to- this
country, for signals on curves.
Evening star., 1926-12-10
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Evening star., 1926-12-10
In the Passing.

From the Boston Herald.
If things go on as now, the last
man will be neither an automobile
driver nor a gangster.
Evening star., 1926-12-10

Senate rules may reveal more diff
Guilty in applying a Dawes plan to do
mestic considerations than to interna-
tiOnal affairs.
Evening star., 1926-12-10

Russian art is in ascendency. The
"bear that walks like a man" also dis
plays talent as tenor singer.
Evening star., 1926-12-10
Cause for Thanks.

From the Topeka Capital.
Army meals, the War Department
finds, cost II cents. But Thanksgiving
Is coming.
Evening star., 1926-12-10

A lame duck preserves his dignity
as he recalls the old definition of a
true statesman as a politician out of a
job.
Evening star., 1926-12-10
Evening Star Newspaper Company

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Evening star., 1926-12-10

Some ideas of "Christmas cheer"
would relentlessly identify Santa Claus
as bootlegger.
Evening star., 1926-12-10

There is still a Santa Claus-thanks
to the store window decorator.
Evening star., 1926-12-10
Christmas Wishing.

Johnny wants a sled,
Mother wants a gown, she states;
Father mods his head
AS each a preference relates.
Figures hard to find
OF cash the requisite amount,
The wish that haunts his mind
Is for a proper bank account.
Jud Tunkins says politics is liable
to become a game in which the man
with a loud voice wins and the still,
small voice of conscience loses.
Evening star., 1926-12-10
A1ta by Mail-PayabIe in Advance.
AIarYland and Virginia.
&u u.ber States and Canada.

7a,lv ~ unday.. yr.. ST. 90: mo-, 81 90
sunday D..y ..... l yr, $500: mo. 3oc
Evening star., 1926-12-10

Mue eo,ini speaks English and other
lsnsu ..s. But he always thinks
strict. Italian.
Evening star., 1926-12-10
The Muse in Harness.

Are you fond of music?'
mot very" answered Miss Cayenne.
my radio set has spoiled my taste.
Music used to be an art. 1t is now an
advertising medium"
Silly Season.
The SILLY season" vanished, so we
hear,
When Autumn banished Summer heat
severe;
Yet Winter fashions we observe and
VOW
The silly seasons with us even now.
"a philosopher" said Hi Ho, the
sage of Chinatown, lis usually a man
who hates regular work and who
writes voluminously Of his reasons for
going on strike"
Shop early" said Uncle Eben, sis
good advice foh everybody, 'ceppin' de
gemmen dat patronizes a bootlegger.
Evening star., 1926-12-10

(Copyright. 1926.)
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-05-06

lower level than before. 1t was the
tragedy of accepting the place on the
plateau instead of pressing on to the
heights. Again death stirred the spirit
of the pioneer and tears washed away
the obstruction across the great di-
vide, Abram found his soul and Jared
forth, mot knowing whittier he went, !"
but knowing why-it was the new
heard call of God.
THE FRIEND.
He had rare capacity for friendship.
It was not lonely journey for not
many years later he could muster 318
lighting men born in his own house,
SO that it was the immigration of
clan rather than a single individual.
He was in company with Mamre, Amer
and Eschol at the time Of the foray
of the lesson. He had taken Lot with
him and when they returned from
Egypt with extensive herds, so much
so that pasturage was difficult to find,
there came the struggle that threat
ened dissention in the face of Canaan.
Internal trouble spelled outside disas-
ter. Abram was clear-headed enough
to see the truth of it but he was sac
rificial enough also to prevent a
breach. That is something that the
world is slow to learn. At Locarno the
I ,,C-4yo,c Of LT,,roy,o ,,I11,,o,od into +Lo ~,
known land of national Brotherhood
but when they reached Geneva and
the strife between conflicting interests
arose there was no Abram to suggest
a surrender road except Sweden, and
her voice was that of one crying in
the wilderness. The internal cleavage
foretells world peril. Churches and
communities are of the same sort
where UNCONVENTIONAL and industrial
differences plunge the entire body into
chaos for the exploitation of every
evil force DESTROYS of doing it. Abram
said the keeping of friendship is
worth any cost. That Lot took ad-
vantage of his spirit does not dis
count it as a world solvent. Abram
kept the peace with man and God and
was friend to both. And from him
earth took new beginning and the
morning star hung its signal in the
night sky of that ancient day.
THE CONQUEROR.
There came the war in the plains
where on the hills there had been
peace. That's just as true of the soul
attitudes. A painting runner flung
himself before the old sheik and
shouted out the story of Lots disas-
ter and the cities defeat. 1t was no
concern of the pioneer. Lot had chosen
the plain with its peril and was mere
ly getting the pay for his bargain.
And he had shown scant enough con-
sideration for easy" uncle. Why
should he risk his skin in repairing
the damage his nephew had brought