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Evening star., 1926-10-31
EVERYDAY RELIGION
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, d. D., LII. d.,
s.. Bishop OF Washington.

in the most intimate way with the life
and teachings of Him who was cruel
fled thereon.
The English poet Oxenham relates
in one of his charming volumes an In
cident that was related to him by
his son at the front during the World
War. The boy wrote the following:
''In the evening l went for a walk
to a village lately shelled by heavy
guns. Their effect was awful
ghasty. 1t was impossible to imag-
inc the amount Of damage done until
one really saw it The church was
terrible. too. The spire was sticking
upside down in the ground a short
distance from the door. The church
itself was a mass of debris. Scarcely
anything was left unhit. In the
churchyard again the destruction was
the place. But the most noticeable
thing Of all was that the three cruci-
fiXes-one inside and two outside
were untouched. How they can have
avoided the shelling is quite beyond
me. 1t was a wonderful sight, though
an awful one
It was but the recital of an expert
ence that frequently repeated itself
during the days of the great struggle.
1t was quite universally true that the
men who hitherto had disregarded its
place and power were in the days of
trial and suffering strangely drawn
to it. 1t represented to their con-
sciousness the one thing they most
needed. 1t stood for all that was
heroic and noblest in life.
The Cross Still Stands" is the poem
that OXenham wrote as the result of
his sons letter, from which we take
the following verses:
The churchyard stones all blasted into shreds
The dead reslain within their loWly beds
The Cross Still Stands '
His holy ground all cratered and GREY assed
All failed TO fragments by the fiery blast
The Cross Still Stands.
His church blackened run; scarce one; stone
Left on another-yet. untouched. alone
The Gross Still Stands !!
Love. with the lifted hands and thorn
crowned head.
Still conQuers Death, though life itself be
His Cross Still Stands .
Yes. Love triumphant stands, and stands
for more.
In our great need. than e'er it stood before
His Cross Still Stands
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A New Market.

"IIot Dogs, Ltd "Wienies' in
England. Who would have thought
II? Something new? Yes. indeed,
something very new. Hot Dogs,
Ltd" has just been registered in
Great Britain, "A company TO manu-
facture. import, export and deal in a
comestihle known in the United States
OF America as hot dogs reads the
application and certification blank and
the new company is now in full OPP
GRAFTON.
No longer will American motorists
in England be forced to eat just sand
wiches when they park for lunch
The familiar sign of Hot Dogs will
stare them in the face just as il does
outside Of any city in this country
with no exceptions thought of at the
present moment. The British, TOO,
may get the appetite and Hot Dogs.
Ltd" may yet become one Of the
booming industries of dear old Eng
iand.
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The Worlds Greatest Magnet.
"I. II be lifted up, 1ciI dra1c all
men INTO Ne"

"I. II I be lifted up, tciH dra1c all
men INTO Ne"
No single fact in human history is
more striking than the prevailing and
continuing power of the cross. That
symbol of torture and shame should
occupy so commanding a place in the
affections of mankind the world over
is phenomenon without precedent.
1t SymboliZes supreme sacrifice and
supreme love. 1t prevails by q power
that is indescribably great and in
creasingly compelling. 1t has come
to be related to those incidents in
human experience that bear most
vitality upon our personal and indi-
vidual' concerns. 1t is so intimately
identified with the person of Christ
and His ministry that it stands for
all that is noblest and highest in
human life. That it answers and
solves more riddles than any other
single agency or instrumentality is
demonStrably true.
Men have sought repeatedly to dis
place 1t and to furnish substitutes for
it, but it has proved to be so perma-
nent and powerful that it has resisted
and overcome all opposition. What it
has meant and means today to the
individual in hours of supreme need
and suffering it would be impossible
to say. Where every other remedy
seems to fail, it brings solace and
healing and comfort. When shadows
gather and the problems of life be-
come fnsuperable, its influence pre-
walls with a power that we cannot
adequately express. Even intellectual
difficulties and doubts find them
selves arrested in the presence of
this mighty symbol In one form
or another it occupies a conspicuous
place on the national emblems of
many of the great world powers. Dis
played upon a little flag, it is the only
emblem that takes a place of preced-
ence on the ships of the American
Navy above the Stars and Stripes. TO
men and women who lack the intelli-
gence to understand the deeper teach
ings of Jesus it conveys a meaning
that overcomes all prejudice and re-
sistS all racial bias. 1t is identified
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Voting by Machine.

Voting machines Will be used in
New York City next Tuesday and this
first experiment in mechanical ballot
casting will be watched with keen in
terest The installation of these ma.
chimes has been the subject of sharp
controversy and has been resisted.
hut finally they We're secured and
SIs OF them have been installed. with
others in reserve. 1t is expected that
80 Use of these machines will greatly
facilitate the counting, SO that the re-
turns will be complete and available
for public information at an early
hour. The time allotted 10 each voter
to cast his ballot is two minutes. but
experiments have shown that even
with a complicated ballot a person OF
average intelligence can register his
choice in less than one minute. At
each polling place there Will be a
model machine for the instruction of
voters before they enter the booths
Voting machines are not new in
this country, having been used in
various cities heretofore Their ad.
yantages are obvious They make
for a more complete and satisfactory
expression of the will of the voters
than any of the old forms OF printed
ballots. The voter has just as much
range Of selection of candidates as
with the paper ballot. He can vote
for individdals without regard to
Evening star., 1926-10-31
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

in tho House. His colleague, Cousin
Tom" Hefiin. did the same thing. but
declined to let the staid atmosphere
of the Senate rob him of any Of the
informality OF expression and freedom
of comment he had enjoyed in the
lower branch.
Senator Curtis of Kansas. Republ-
can leader, also came up from the
House; Senator Joe Robinson of Ar
kansas. Democratic leader. reached
the Senate via the same route. One
could go far down the line. Yet there
Is a disposition to get away from ethe
old practice. The direct primary is
largely responsible. Vice President
Dawes says ii is responsible for many
things.
Still and all, one cannot overlook
the fact that two senatorial candl-
dates standing out most prominently
in the news of the last two months
are attempting to graduate from an
apprenticeship in the House. One ot
them is Mr.. William S. Ware of Penn
sylvania still a member of the lower
branch, and Col. Frank l.. Smith uf
Illinois, who served Il term or so some
six or eight years ago. Conclusions
may be drawn from any angle.
To one who recently sat on the tail
of a West Indian hurricane and had
what some might call q bit Of a buggy
ride. it was interesting to read that
"a hurricane" recently blew at New
York and other Eastern cities and
lasted several minutes" Whatever
else may be said of hurricanes, they
are no several minutes" visitors Tn
wanted. uninvited. they come and sit
on your doorstep or batter in your
house for hours and hours at a time.
The first hurricane which swept over
southern Florida lasted something
like 10 hours. with about 30 minutes
of calm as the center of the whirl-
ing storm moved on. The second
hurricane blew with gale intensity for
at least six hOurS-and that was only
the fringe of the thing A hurricane
is no amateur windstOrm. 1t is n"
passing cyclone. When it bites,
takes a. bulldog grip and seems as .
it would never let go. That Is wh;a
is so wearing on the nerves l"'
feel like a battered Dempsey in tn;
ring with eight more rounds TO sc
Yet, if you really want to avoid 81
hurricane and you know an hour o.
two in advance just where the whirt
ing dervish is, YOU can outrun II. =
hurricane spins like a giant top on it's
own vacuum center. The wind blows
ter-clockwise. Although it MAJ
blow $50 miles an hour in this circular
movement, the whole storm mass
moves forward at a pace Of ONLY
s or 9 miles an hour. Thousands
of persons motored out OF Miami
during the second storm and then
came streaming back to town when
the misty moon broke through the
storm clouds.
1t may he a shame to rob the
North Atlantic cities of their hurri
cane experience. but even as some of
the veterans of the first storm Of
Miami said to the nervous refugees
in the second blow, You amt seen
nutin' yet"
One of the amusing bits Of the
Florida hurricane was the soliloquy
Of a lonely soul clinging to- a bit OF
wreckage which once marked his
place of abode.
BE it ever so fragile" he opined.
there is no place like home
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party alignment. He can cut land
cross and double cross his ballot' as
much as he wishes. The process con-
sists in setting a small trigger oppo-
site the name Of the individual can
didate and when all is ready pulling
lever which records the combina-
ton.
The tabulation of the vote is much
simplified by the use of the machine.
1t is indeed automatic. There can be
no contested votes II voter
makes mistake in his choice of trig-
gers or levers the fault is his and
must stand. 1t cannot be corrected
when he has made the concluding mo-
ton and left the booth.
The universal use of these machines
is desirable. In the past election re-
turns have been long delayed owing
to controversies over the count due
to the improper marking of ballots.
Contests have resulted, as notably in
the case of Brookhart of Iowa, who
was unSeated by the vote of the Sen
ate on the face of the returns, despite
his plea that the intent of the voter
was that he should be elected. 1t is
possible that confusion of mind may
be caused by the mechanical as we'll
as by the blanket ballot, but in any
case, the record of the machine is
conclusive and definitive.
1t remains to be seen whether the
introduction of the unfamiliar mech
anism for vote recording will cause
many Of the voters to remain away
from the polls for fear of mistake.
There are some people who are mech
anism shy" who dread to manipulate
an unfamiliar apparatus. They balk
at an arrangement Of dials, levers,
cogs and cams. But the chances are
that fewer mistakes will be made
with the voting machines than are
made with the pencils in marking
crosses opposite names or In the cir
cles at the head of party columns.
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Cotton.

Use more cotton, is the rising
slogan in the Southland, where the
market price for the white staple is
measure Of prosperity, and at pres
ent is causing grave concern by it's
downward tendency. Use more cot
ton, cry the economists, to stimulate
the consumption of an over-a bundant
crop. That is a much more sound
precept than suggestion that every
other bale of cotton be burned to
reduce the supply. Destruction is
the worst possible remedy for an
oyerstocked market.
At Columbus, Miss, the 1900
students of the State College for
Women have sworn off on silk and
have pledged themselves to wear
nothing but cotton garments until
cotton prices recover. If this ex-
ample is followed throughout the
South, the women of that region
can perhaps save the staple from
bankruptcy. But that is not all.
Along comes Mrs. Virginia Mayfield,
judge of the Domestic Relations
Court at Birmingham, advising the
women Of the South to wear more
cotton. She believes that if they
would return to their native fabric
there would be more contentment in
the home and less work by the di-
vorce courts.
1t was once said that if the manu-
facturers of cotton goods should add
one inch to the end of the China
mans coat--or was it his shirt
the worlds cotton crop would be
saved from stress forever. There are
so many Cinnamon that an inch
more on each garment would make
4 difference of millions of yards.
There are not as many women in
and certainly not as many who wear
silk. But there are enough silk
wearing Southern women to make an
appreciable difference in the con-
sumption of cotton goods if all would
boycott the finer fabric and adopt
cotton as their wear.
During the war the cry buy bale
of cotton" arose in the South in a
time of somewhat similar distress.
Now the cry is wear cotton dress"
Perhaps the men can help in this
movement.
Evening star., 1926-10-31
Science and Justice.

Arrangements have been made, it
Is announced, for the broadcasting
by radio of the proceedings of the So
called Hall Mills murder trial in New
Jersey, which is soon to begin. The
transmission of the testimony to- the
listening world" will not be made
directly from the courtroom, how
ever. the presiding judge having re-
fused to permit such an intrusion in
the temple of justice, so that the
broadcasting will consist of a recital
of the words spoken and probably de-
scriptive matter from nearby point,
with the report being furnished by
stenographers.
There is no conceivable occasion for
this innovation. Public interest in
this sordid tragedy is keen, but is GER
tainly not at a pitch to require the
instantaneous and complete spreading
forth of all the details. Those re-
sponsible for the promotion Of radio
as a means of public diversion and
instruction, who are chiefly the manu-
facturers of radio instruments, should
reconsider the proposal thus to fill
the air with the gruesome recital.
The radio is valuable addition to
the public equipment. 1t fills a useful
purpose in entertainment and in edu
cation. But it will be a sad misfor
tune If 1t is utilized to satisfy a NOR
bid curiosity in the intimate details
of crime that however notorious is
yet only of local Importance and that
acquires it's appeal to prurient inter
est chiefly through the misconduct of
a minister of the gospel and the So
cial standing Of the defendants &C
cused Of murder.
That there is a legitimate line of
use for recent scientific developments
in courts Of law Is shown by a case
in q Brooklyn court where a separa
ton suit was being tried. The hus-
band defendant presented on a small
pictures showing that he and his
wife, contrary to the 1atters con-
tentions, were happy in their re-
lations These films were taken
by one of the new small indi-
vidual "cinemas' and showed the
couple enjoying themselves at one of
the beaches near New York City last
Summer 1t is possible, of course,
that these We're poses" for social
publicity purposes, but in any case
they were admitted in evidence and
taken under consideration by the
court, which has not yet announced
its decision.
The motion picture camera will
probably play part in the Hall-Mills
trial Doubtless films showing the
scenes outside and inside of the court
house will be projected on countless
screens throughout the proceedings.
Without question, if not restrained
the intrepid operators of these ma
chimes Will undertake to grind their
cranks while testimony is being given.
But the presiding Judge, who has
already banned the radio, is likely to
t.r3ia tie ta;;irg of films during the
trio al
Evening star., 1926-10-31

Although Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen.
daughter of the great Commoner, is
one of the most progressive and for
ward-thinking of women, she still has
old-faShioned ideas about the United
States Senate. She even has q modi-
cum Of respect for the once great de
Lucrative body. Mrs. Owen recently
ran for the congressional nomination
in her district of Florida and while
she carried every big city from Jack
sonville to Miami, the rural districts.
not yet free of their prejudice against
women in politics, counted her out.
This prejudice led Florida to refuse
ratification of the amendment to the
Federal Constitution granting equal
suffrage.
Since the last primaries. Mrs.
ovens friends have been talking of
running her for the Senate.
II shall not do that" Mrs. Owen
said to the writer. II may run for
Congress again. l may not. 1t is
difficult for one to tell what cOndl-
tions will be two years hence. But l
am not prepared for the Senate. No
one should be sent to the Senate with
out a great deal of previous expert
ence with politics and possibly with
public office. The Senate is our last
legislative reliance. 1t should be de-
Lucrative in fact as we'll as in theory.
1t should be safeguarded against mex
perience. 1t should have the dignity
and respect Of our Supreme Court. 1t
should not be q. kindergarten of poll
tics. Some day 1 might feel myself
fitted to try for the Senate, but not
now. l want to know more
Mrs. Owen is a woman of appealing
charm and gifted with personality and
ability, and should go far if she re-
mains in politics. For five years or
more she had devoted her Summers
to the Chautauqua platform, having
inherited from her father the gift
for public speaking and the power to
sway an audience. She has a vastly
broader point of view, however. and is
devoid of prejudice as to science, re
ligion or the other compliments of
life in this modern day and age.
Mrs. Owens views on the United
States Senate are interesting. If one
did not know of her ultra-modern way
of thinking in general. the particular
I thoughts might be put down as re
dictionary, for the Senate has changed
from it's once deliberative character
and has become the radical branch of
the National Legislature, it's member
ship being in a mood to try anything
once.
There was a. time not so far in the
past that the States as IL whole agreed
with Mrs. Owen. They seldom sent
man to the Senate without first CIV
ing him thorough trial in the House
of Representatives. Men sent direct
to the Senate from private or semi
private life were selected because they
had achieved and acquired a knowl-
edge which would fit them to wear
1n r-tr1 r-tt
some shining examples of the old GUS
tom of graduating q man from the
House into the Senate, while Senator
Gillett of Massachusetts shows that
even under modern direct primary
conditions the old rule occasionally
obtains. Mr.. Gillett served many
years in the House, finally becoming
speaker of that body. Senator Tn
derwood of Alabama, about to retire
after a full life, and after having
many times received something like
"a votes. served long apprenticeship
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struck a match on entering the work

struck match on entering the work
ing chamber.
Judging from their names all Of
the dead men were foreigners; Novak
Kaminsky, Maharecyk, Kuckinsky.
Wadas, Boboburka and Miklewski. 1t
is possible that some of these men,
perhaps all of them, were poorly if
at all acquainted with English. Yet
the instructions and warnings to the
miners are in practically all of the
workings printed in Various languages
so that there is no reason whatever
for the miners to fail to understand
them. Even those, unable to read
are carefully taught the rules of safe
ty. Yet they ignore them and thus
bring disaster upon themselves and
upon others.
The best managed mine in the world
cannot be made foolproof. The great
pity of the matter is that the careless
act of one man may mean death to
scores.
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Entanglennents.

Didn't George Washington warn
us to beware of foreign entangle-
ments?"
"He did" said Senator Sorghum.
"But George lived a long time ago;
before a foreign ENHANCEMENT had to
be considered when you paid your
bill in Paris cabaret
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FORESTRY'S SENlI.CENTENNIAL
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

and like products reaches 100000
every year.
At our present rate of consumption,
waste and replacement, the United
States will be poverty y-stricken. so far
as timber is concerned, in 1876, when
the centennial of American forestry
is to be celebrated. The conservation
idea terminated half a century ago,
but it grows with exceeding slowness.
Five years after DR.. Hough was
started in his work officially, the
Division of Forestry was created by
Congress, and in 1886 a professional
forester. DR.. Il. f.. Fernow. was
placed in charge, but for a long time
Congress appropriated less than $780,
600 annually to carry on the activities
Of the division
Evening star., 1926-10-31

The ancient custom of requesting
a President of the United States to
express himself in local campaigns
has been suspended by President
Coolidge. The country has become
very large in century and a half;
far too large TO permit an accurate
in each community.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Swimming the Channel

Swimming out into the starlight,
On fancy's intangible wings,
Floating out into the far light,
Where a planet its messages filings.
Dame Science brings no advertising,
Nor show of athletical grace,
When prepared with a vigor sur
prising,
For swimming the Channel of
Space,
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Money spent in violating prohibit
ton laws is far greater than that
available for their enforcement. The
way of the transgressor is hard, yet
often highly financed. The term
"malefactors of great wealth." in
vented by Theodore Roosevelt, is not
obsolete
Evening star., 1926-10-31

The use of money in elections is
a practice that may destroy itself.
No candidate can feel sure of being
comfortable and happy, even if he at
tains office, if he has behind him the
record of a million-dollar campaign.
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Perhaps Aimee Mcpherson would
have found her story easier to man.
age If she had provided herself with
a case of amnesia so complete that
she could not remember most of
what happened.
Evening star., 1926-10-31

Every country has a tariff ideal
which looks to low prices for foreign
goods and high prices for it's own.
The old problem grows more difficult
as time passes.
Evening star., 1926-10-31

Jud Tunkins SAYS he wishes the
little old German band" could be re-
organized to play the Blue Danube"
instead of the rest Of the Blues"
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MonOlOgue Artist.

A base ball player gets a stake
And keeps the public Guessin'.
He stops the game and has to take
His elocution lesson.
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The Sporting Instinct.

You were going sixty miles an
hour" said the cop.
'It's worth the fine" answered Mr..
Chuggins. Il didn't know the old
fiiv. had it in her"
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The old court crier fades into the
background in New Jersey and the
radio announcer takes the spotlight.
Evening star., 1926-10-31
Primitive Music.

When Orpheus was a careless lad,
The Tyre he tinkled daily.
Said he. "Oh, how / wish l had
"A real ukulelen
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"Sumpin' seems wrong" said
Uncle Eben. DE reformer gifts a
cold shoulder, while foh de bootleg
ger it's Welcome TO our city."
Evening star., 1926-10-31

WISDOM" said Hi Ho, the sage
of Chinatown, ''is something never
conspicuously assumed by those who
really possess it"
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