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BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
. HE Democratic national con-
gressional committee is plan.
ming a desperate struggle to

" HE Democratic national con-
gresSional committee is plan
ming a desperate struggle to
Il wiring control of the House in
the Seventeen Congress from
the Republicans when the voters troop
to the polls November 2. Some of the
Democratic leaders insist they will sue
coed, among them the chairman of the
committee, Representative William A.
Oldf1eld of Arkansas.
A canvass of the situation today,
however, indicates that the best the
democrats can do is to cut down the
republican net majority from IS to
10 or 20. By net majority is meant
the margin of control of the Republi
can organization of the House over
the combined strength of the Demo
Gratis. Republican insurgents, Farmer
Labor and Socialists. The regular Re-
publican strength is 235. There are
IL lnSurgents-10 from Wisconsin, /
from North Dakota and l from Mime
sofa. The Democrats number 1888, the
Farmer-Labor and the Socialists 2.
Where vacancies are found, they have
been credited to the party whose rep
resentatives recently held them.
Recall 1922 Achievement.
The Democrats bark back to what
happened in 1922, the last "off year"
election. After the Republican land
slide of 1920 the Democrats had only
1872 members Of the House. Following
the 1922 election the number of Demo.
Gratis had increased to EOS. Joining
with the group of insurgents on the
republican side, the Democrats
formed a coalition in the Sixty-eighth
Congress which held up legislation adj
vocated by the Republican administra-
ton, and even prevented the House
from organizing for several days after
it first met. This coalition between
the Democrats and the insurgents did
not result in making Congress very
popular throughout the country,
which expected something more than
negative action
1t IS to be remembered in consider
ing the Democratic strength in 1922,
when the party was at it's lowest ebb
in the House, with only 1872 members.
that many of the districts which the
Republicans won in 1920 were nor
mally Democratic. Today there is no
such disparity between the parties.
Few of the normally Democratic dis
tricts are now held by Republicans.
III the Democrats are to win con-
troll they must win it in districts
which have been real battle grounds
or which are normally Republican.
the Republican party
stands better with the
country today than it did in 1922.
Taxes have been reduced and the
country is more prosperous. 1t may
prove far more Of a task for the
Democrats to win the 35 additional
seats which they must gain to have
218 members, or a bare majority of
the House, than it was for them to
gain % seats in, 1922. They did not
win party control of the House in
1922, incidentally.
Real Issues Lacking.
There are no real issues between
the two old parties in the present
in which the people gener-
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FILLING NIACARA'S "SORE TOOTH
is ADVOCATED TO SAVE FALLS
Cavity Diverting Water in Quantities That Imperil
Beauty of Scenic WOnder-HOover Would Build
Islands to Meet Menace.

The Department of Commerce pro-
! poses building four small islands near
the brink of Niagara Falls in order
to divert the water from Niagara's
sore TOOTH cavity in the edge of
the Canadian Falls which has been
gradually growing larger and which
has more and more detracted from the
beauty of the falls. Plans to build
these islands have been drawn up by
Army engineers and are under con-
sideration in the Niagara control
board. which is made up of Canadian
and American representatives. The
islands are to be made of concrete.
and in order not to spoil the scenic
beauty of Niagara they will be COW
cred with grass and trees.
Into Niagaras bad tooth thou
sa nds of cubic feet of water are pour
ing every second instead of being
spread out in a thin and even descent
over the entire rim of the falls. The
cavity is constantly becoming larger,
and more and more water is cOncen-
trating in this one spot, drawing the
water away from the wings to such
an extent that rocks which were COW
cred with water so years ago are now
plainly visible.
Falls Might Lose Beauty:
If the four remedial islands are not
built in the near future, or if some
other repair of Niagaras sore tooth
is not undertaken, the beauty of the
falls may entirely disappear. Mr..
Hoover has warned of this danger In
the following recent statement:
! Niagara must be saved. if for no
other reason than to give joy to the
thousands of honeymooners who come
to the falls every year. The great
scenic gem of our continent is slowly
losing it's grandeur year by year. I'm
less the enlargement of the notch in
the escarpment be checked. the time
will come when Niagara will become
a great rapids instead of a gigantic
waterfall.
1T appears from our engineers that
the remedy is not difficult, although
it is a job to be undertaken in CO.
operation with our Canadian friends.
1t would seem to me that the COM
paratively small expense by the two
countries needed to preserve Niagara
Falls. would give ample returns to
the millions of hOneymOoners to
which it annually contributes. A few
days of joy at that part of life is in
itself compensation for some of me
more serious things in life that will
haunt those young people through the
remainder of their days"
Niagara Wears Self Away.
1t seems that it is an old habit
Of Niagara's to wear away its edge.
In fact, according to- the reports by
Army engineers. it has been wear
ing itself away for ages. and about
thirty or forty thousand years ago
the crest of the falls was several
miles down stream at Lewiston.
Since the first engineering survey of
the falls by the British Royal Engi-
neers in 1854, it has worn away a
total distance of 500 feet, and 1t
continues to recede at the rate of
about seven feet a year.
The second map of the falls, pre-
pared by James Hall, an American
engineer. shows that during the rs
years from 1854 to 1912 the fallse
ssss6sa upstream total Of 47o feet.
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England Facing Crisis in Industry
Equal to Postwar Collapse in Russia

continued from First Pacel
the proportionate burdens. He could
force the laborer to work and the
capitalists to pay in accordance with
the realities Of the situation. But
Bfitaln Is traditionally and inCurablv
hostile to dictator. 1t is even more
bound fundamentally to the principle
OF laiSSeZ faire. The state cannot in
terfere I" make coal miners produce.
TO make coal owners pay Aud it
Jacks the FUNDS to continue a subsidy
which might bridge the gap between
the demands of the miners and the
profferS Of the operators
Situation Grows Desperate.
And such being the case. who can
tail to perceive the rapidly worsen.
ang Brush situation, worsening not
merely @" mainly because the losses
incident 70 the coal strike are colos-
sal, bat because there * Steadily
being accentuated that class hostility
which must in itself be fatal to all
british recovery if il persists and de
TelopS sufficiently?
On the twelfth anniversary of the
outbreak of the World War the
BRITISH situation is on the Whole-and
regard being had for fundamentals.
not SupertiCialities - the worst of any
OF the great comhatants. Germany
snClNdfd. cutie as much as Russia
IT j. the worst because Britain is the
one country whose ultimate recovery
up L. 'he condition of 1914 remains
utterly problematical. And. on the
whol". ihc largest element in the in
1elroGaion as to British recovery is
the relation bowen !capital and labor
enormous revolution in Russia and
Drought almost incalcuable temporary
mtseiy hut there. after the floods
pass ANA the storms subsiGe, will be
The vast area and the enormous pop.
Olatlon. sufficient to provide food and
Salor for far greater numbers. Ger
many. 10 he sure. lost territories lost
sources Of wealth and prosperity But
she kept her great machine practical
ay intact and her coal supplies in
adequate measure, while her future
Teconquest Of markets and even Of
some territory is at least likely.
politically Germany'S loss IS enor-.
tnous ana in parts perhaps permanent.
but economically, particularly when
she has come to terms with France
Rnd Belgium in the matter of coal
end iron, her recovery is undoubted.
France Is Better OF.
As for France, her troubles are
fotally financial. Economically the
war brought her vast iron reserves:
the devastation forced her to recon
FtruCt her factories on modern lines
knd she is approaching a period of
Jndustrialization coupled with the de-
Selopmeut Of her water power. Her
financial embarassmentS are great
at the moment and will continue for
a. time. bat the bases Of her pros
pertty We're not only not shaken but
actually We're broadened In the mod
tarn sense of the word. France WAS
not great power III 1914. and il may
sbe doubted II she will ever be again,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08
BY HENRY w. BUM.
= HE following is a brief sum-
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended August l.:

The British Empire-On
August Parliament adjourned to
November 3. AT the closing session,
member having deplored the con-
troverSy of the British debt to the
United States and in particular the
utterances of Winston Churchill, Sir
Austen Chamberlain, the foreign min
lister, defended Mr.. Churchill in the
following language:
A statement was attributed. rightly
or wrongly, to the Secretary of the
American Treasury which wholly or
largely mlsrepresented the character
OF our borrowings and the purposes
Tor which they were applied. 1t was
rightly felt that it would not be to
the interest of good relations that
such a misrepresentation should be
given currency and credence because
no notice was taken of it, and Mr..
Churchlll, accordingly, stated the facts
and correctly"
Construction will begin in the near
future, at Belfast, for the Interna-
tlonal Mercantile Marine, of a liner to
De slightly larger than the Leviathan,
at present the worlds largest ship,
and to have speed about the same as
that of the Majestic, fastest of liners:
/: e., about % knots. The tonnage of
the Leviathan is 59,975.
Despite the many prophets of woe
compared with whose utterances the
Book of Job seems blythe and THE
City of Dreadful Night" jocund. the
port of London authority is about to
start work on a magnificent program
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During the next 33 years they receded
1870 feet, and in the next 81 years
they moved back 40 feet. Recession
has been almost doubled recently, the
total erosion during the last 10 years
being 10 feet. The old gorge was
worn away in a Southwesterly direc-
ton, but now Niagara is taking
new twist and is sheering off to the
southeast. The sides of the Falls
are scarcely affected by the erosion.
most of the wear being concentrated
in the V-shaped notch in the center
of the Horshoe Falls.
More Wear in Canada.
The American Falls are not wear
Ing away at nearly the same rate OF
speed as the Canadian Falls, due to
the fact that much smaller vol
ume of water is diverted to the
American side. and also TO the fact
that the water is spread out in q
thin and even stream instead Of
being partially concentrated in a V
shaped notch. Only 5000 cubic feet
a second flow over the American
Falls as compared with 10000 cubic
feet over the Canadian
Three methods of remedyjnc
Niagara's sore tooth have been pro-
posed. One is to build submerged
concrete weir in the water Just above
the Falls. which would divert part
OF the flow away from the V-shaped
notch. Another plan is to reinforce
the edge of the falls with concrete
and so retard the erosion. The final
method and the one which is ia
vored most at the Department of
Commerce is the building of four
islands. carefully placed so that they
will divert the water evenly over the
entire Horseshoe.
The plan cannot be acted upon
until after the Canadian elections,
when the Canadian members of the
Niagara control board will be in u
position to act with more authority.
Copyright. 1921
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transportation ana Its mani
| Il Y fold ramifications which were
initiated in Chicago recently,
and are scheduled to be held at vari.
GUS centers during the coming months
will serve to draw public attention
to a national economic factor of
growing significance, and an element
which, with the passage of time, is
destined to assume expanded impor-
lance.
These hearings, held by the Inter
state Commerce Commission, will
delve deeply into the whole broad
question of motor truck and bus use
and the problems to which it has
given rise, and one immediate result
will be an increased realization by
the public at large of a new" trans
pOrtatiOn factor and of it's relation
ship to the whole economic scheme of
things.
1t is not the purpose here to at
tempt to outline what the conclusions
of these hearings may be or to ex-
plain in detail the many technical
problems which will come up for
consideration, but rather to indicate
what these meetings probably will ac-
complish in awakening interest in this
modern mode of transportation and
enlivening the public's general con-
ceptlOn OF the factor.
Focus Public Attention.
If these hearings do nothing else
they will serve to draw to the notice
of the public at large the dominant
position to which the motor bus and
truck have risen during the past few
years. And they will bring home to
all users of transportation. in a very
graphic and pointed fashion, the real
status of the automotive unit as a
common carrier of freight and passen-
gers. But they will do more than
this
1t is queer that progressive eco
nomic movements are so often attend
ed by such little recognition on the
part of the groups most vitality af-
fected by them. 1t is not only so
in this movement, but always has
held true to a greater or a, lesser de-
gree. Battles. political conflicts
these are spectacular movements and
they become the cynosure of all eyes
But the basic and underlying ele-
ments, those factors which are funda-
mental to all movements, remain so
hidden that casual public passes
them by without attempting to dig
them out
Transportation is. of course. a pri-
mary economic consideration 1t
always has been and always will be.
Without the means of moving goods
or persons stagnation is inevitable.
For that reason the material success
and wellbeing of community, a ma
ton or a continent can be gagged by
the progress of it's transportation ia.
cilities.
Need All Available Means.
In a country the size of the United
States it is absolutely essential to con-
tinued prosperity and advancement
that every available means of trans
portation be taken advantage of, that
every possible link in the chain be
utilized and utilized broadly and eff
GENTLY.
The autOmotive vehicle has within
itself the power to supplement the al
ready established modes of transpor-
tation in a manner so important as
! to constitute a unit which should
commend itself to certain types of
shippers and users of transportation
in every section of the country
Where there has been some hest
fancy in accepting the motor bus and
the mOtored freight carrier. these In
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Highbrows and Golf.

From the Lexington tKyD Herald.
The trouble is that well,nigh all our
real intellectual lights who know how
this country ought TO be run can't
stop playing golf long enough to help
us infekors to handle the Job.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08
BY WILLIAM ULLMAN.

3;. :: !: Is: {; ;:;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08
BY REX COLLIER.

. HE rise of the American jazz
orchestra, with it's resultant
imitation of the musicians
4 wages. is threatening the
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experienced in supplying Uncle Sans
soldiers with tie musical zip adj
vocated by Commander Sousa.
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Luncheon Sets
1922

b0x60 inch, fancy
weave pure linen cloth,
or bSx72-inch hem
stitched, m ere r ised
damask cloth. 9 nap
kins to match.
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| thought were mine' for years.
Loved and missed by the ones who
loved you best. Their mother, Mrs.
Prank ThurIoW, nee Rose CartY.
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WANTED-Cesspool cleaning at any
time. Henry Moody. Abseeon, N. J
r. f. ID. Box 60 D1
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SECTION 1. BE 1T ORDAINED
by the Common Council of the City
of Somers Point that there be and i:
| hereby appropriated the sum o
$4,000 for the use of the Board o
Education for the purchase of land
as certified by the said Board o
School Estimates of the said Schoo
District With which cer.iaca ~ ..1 shi'
body fiefSpy concufS ana tiiaC siii1a !
there are no funds available for said
appropriation, it is hereby deter
mined that it is necessary to borrow
the sum of $4,000 on temporary loan
school bonds of the said district.
SECTION 2. BE IT FURTHER
ORDAINED that there shall be Dor
roWed the sum of $4,000 and the pay
ment thereof, together with interest
thereon. shall be secured by the issu-
ance of temporary school loan bonds
of the City of Somers Point, in the
corporate name of said City, pursu-
ant to the provisions of an act of
the Legislature of the State of New
| Jersey. entitled: AN act to estab-
| lish thorough and efficient system,
| IF free public schools and to provide
for the maintenance. support and
management thereof" approved Oc-
tober IL. 1928, and the acts amenda-
tory and supplemental thereto.
SECTION 3. That said bonds
shall be designated temporary loan
school bonds" and shall be issued in
! the aggregate principal sum of
! $90o0.o0. number from one to nine,
both inclusive, of the denomination
of One Thousand Dollars, each, dated
February Is, 1926, bearing interest at
a rate not exceeding six per cent per
March Is. 1926. Said bonds shall be
signed by the Mayor or acting Mayor
and sealed with the corporate seal
| of the City and attested by the City
| CLERK. Said bonds shall not be sold
Tor less than par and all other mat
tiers, with respect to the issuance.
annum, payable semi annually on
August IS and March Is, and shall
/ thereafter, pursuant to the statute
| made and provided be renewed from
! year TO year for a further period and
not exceeding three years from
sale and form thereof, shall be deter
mined by resolution of the Common
| Council.
SECTION A. That the proceeds of
the sale of said bonds shall be APP
piled solely for the use of the Board
of Education of the City of Somers
Point, as provided by the said certi-
fication of the Board of School Esti-
mates and the said City of Somers
Point shall annually in it's tax levy
raise money sufficient to pay the said
bonds.
SECTION 5. BE IT FURTHER
ORDAINED that his ordinance shall
take effect Immediately upon final
passage and publication.
Passed first reading March IL at
a regular meeting of the Common
Council of the City of Somers Point,
N. j.. and will come up for further
consideration of said Common Coun-
oil at a regular napfinp tn no hold
March &c, city council chambers, at
o'clock in the evening.
JAMES G. SCULL,
| City Clerk.
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In loving memory of my little girls,
CATHERINE T.. THURLOW,
March goth, 1922. HELEN NJ,
March 21st, 1923.
My life is lonesome, my home is sad,
My heart is filled with pain;
| feel like | will never know,
A happy day in life again.
How sad today my truobled heart.
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ANNUAL MEETING

HUN AND X. NT-VTD,
Dated March 90, 1926. Sheriff.
Moore & Butler, Solicitors.
PRS fee. S22. 6S
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WILBUR REED. SeCt'Y,
No. 220 North Main Street
SOMERS POINT SCHOOL
DAN ROND

An ordinance authorizing the issu-
ance of temporary school loan bonds
of the City of Somers Point, in the
amount of 100000.
WHEREAS on September nth,
1925. the Board of Education of the
School District of the City of Somers
Point and State of New Jersey. de-
cided that it was necessary to raise
money for the purchase of lands for
school purposes in said school dis
trict in the sum of 100000. and pre-
pared and delivered to each member
of the Board of the School Estimates
of the said school district. a state
ment of the amount estimated to be
necessary for such purposes, and
WHEREAS the Board of School Es-
Inmates of said school district, there
after duly fixed and determined the
said sum of $4,000 as being necessary
for the said purpose and made two
certificates to such effect, one of
which was delivered to the Common
Council of the said City and the
other to the said Board of Educa-
ton; therefore
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FOR SALE.-NeW house, i've rooms
and bath. sun parlor. all convent
ences including hot water heat. Any
one interested in real nice home,
it viii pay them to investigate. For
particulars inquire Pennsylvania r.
r. freight station or rs East Charles
IF
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NOTICE

Notice to Mr.. Spencer and all
others concerned that l shall at the
Public Auction on April 10, 1926, at
IL a. m. sell one Hudson touring car,
series number 21704-10216, at T.. S.
plement thereto 1922, 1924-1925.
Frank Giaquinto bill for e. S. Par
sells. 2w7
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CARD OF THANKS

wish to extend thanks and ap-
probation of the many kind acts
of neighbors and friends and for
the floral tributes sent for the fu-
neral of my wife.
JOHN C. FOWLER.
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SHERIFF'S SALE

BY virtue of a writ of fieri facias,
to me directed, issued out of the New
Jersey Court of Chancery, will be
sold at public vendue, on
WEDNESDAY, THE FOURTEENTH
DAY OF APRIL, NINETEEN
at two O'Clock in the afternoon of
said day in the Court Room on the
Seventh Floor, Guarantee Trust
Building, in the City of Atlantic City.
County of Atlantic and State of New
Jersey.
All that certain tract or parcel of
land and premises situate, lying and
in the County of Atlantic and State
of New Jersey, bounded and de-
scribed as follows:
Beginning in the Northwesterly
line of Columbia Avenue at a point
distant sixty feet enthusiastically
from the Westerly corner Of Colum-
bia ana F'ernWood Avenues: and *
tending thence "a enthusiastically
along said line of Columbia Avenue.
thirty feet; thence (2J Northwest
wardly parallel with Fernwood Az
enue, one hundred and forty feet to
twenty feet wide alley; thence go
Northoa stwardly along said alley,
parallel with Columbia Avenue,
thirty feet; thence ca Southeast
Wardly, parallel with FernWood Az
enue. one hundred and forty feet to
the place of beginning.
Being Lot 30 in Section II as
shown on Map No. 3 of the Pleas
antville Land Company.
Decree approximately $2,7lS.33, be-
sides interest costs and fees.
Seized as the property of Paul w,
Moore and William Davidson and
taken in execution at the suit of
David r. Lake and Albert f. Boss
Ter, trading as Lake e Bossler, and
| to be sold by
HOWARD r. CLOUD.
| Dated March 90. 1926 Sheriff
Moore & Butler, Solicitors.
PRS fee. 500 6S
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made, Locks installed. Lawn Mowers
sharpened and repaired. Scissors and
Knives Ground. Phone 26S-W w. Shop,
Ingersoll Ave.
| AM PREPARED to do hauling,
blowing or earting in general. Ellis
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52-W e