Evening star., 1926-06-11
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

creme. Democrats, respectiyely in
Illinois and Ohio. and Ware and Wads.
worth, Republicans, respectively, in
PENNSYLVANIA and New York. Tn.
doubtedly, therell he others as the
campaign season continues. If those
-FOUR commonwealths. which happen
to be the most populous in the Union.
overwhelmingly elect vets to the Sen.
ate, 1t will be a demonstration re-
gartlng which the drys will have to
sit up and take notice. 1t will not
automatically repeal the eighteenth
amendment or modify the NoIstead
law, but it will show that anti-pro-
hibiuon sentiment. like Representa-
tive John Philip Hills Maryland home
brew. is steadily fermenting.
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Secretary Kellogg isn't getting all
the results he wants from President
Gales but there's one spot in Mex
lco-the State of Yucatan-where
friendllness and accommodation to
Americans are 100 per cent complete.
There, amid ruins believed to be the
seat or the most ancient civilization
In the two Americas, the research eX-
petition Of the Carnegie Institution
OF Washington is at work. Led by 10
American archeologists. the expedi-
facility for its explorations. DR.. John
c. Merriam. president of the institu-
1on, speaks enthusiastically of the
cooperation the Yucatan authorities
are extending him. They even built
railroad to help things along. The
expedition has hopes not only of un-
earthing q civilization believed to date
| back to SO B. c., but of assisting the
present residents of" Yucatan to re-
store, for modern purposes. some of
the features of their ancient and an
ceStral past.
Greenville, Ohio, the late Comdr.
Zachary Lansdowne's native town,
has decided to erect monumental
memorial in honor of the aviator-hero
who was lost. with his ship, the dirigi-
BILE Shenandoah, last Fall. The school
children of the State are to be asked
to contribute funds to a memorial de.
signed to stand as symbol of pa
triotism and duty. The Shenandoah
was wrecked over Ohio soil, not more
than 100 miles from Lansdowne' S
| birthplace.
| Station VIGIL, the new 100000
broadcasting station of the Chicago
Federation Of Labor, is going to have
one more peace conference with Secre-
tary Hoover before "piratically" TAX
ing the air. WCFL planned to utilize
Chicago wave length 491, beginning
June 6, regardless Of Hoover's refusal
to issue license. But on calner con-
Sideration it was decided to appoint a
committee to parley with him on June
10. If the Secretary of Commerce is
still Of opinion that the Chicago ether
is too cluttered up to justify the licens,
ing Of another station, VIGIL an
noCnces it will begin operations not
withstanding, and, if necessary, ask
the Supreme Court to say whether
''the air is not as free in this country
as speech"
The War Department hopes the
Coolidge economy program will not
wreck it's plans to devote $110, 100000
to housing for the United States Army
Careful surveys have shown that mill
| tary posts in this country and else
wherein the Canal Zone, Hawaii and
the Philippines-are so badly and sad
ly in need Of CONSTITUTIONAL improve
ment that nothing less than the sum
indicated will give proper shelter to
our troops. Congress has authorized
the sale of World War surplus prop
erty belonging to the Army and
gradual use of the proceeds for Army
housing needs. But it will be a long
and tedious story if the whole pro-
gram has to depend on those sineWs.
Copyright. 1926.)