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Base Ball Still Popular.

Yesterday the base ball season
opened in circumstances TO promise
remarkably successful year, from
p business point Of view, for the
major league organizations. II there
was any question as 10 the continued
popularity Of the sport despite the
scandals and troubles Of the Winter
it was emphatically answered by the
Clink OF the turnstiles. Seven games
IN all were played. three in the Ameri-
can and four in the National League,
with rain preventing one Of the open
ers in the former circuit. The three
American League games drew total
attendance Of 11I,902, and the four
National League games drew 110,75S,
or q grand total Of 222 $50. A year
ago the total attendance on the first
day was 2l4.000 for eight games. Two
years ago the record for opening at
tendance was established at $4,000.
Had the weather permitted a game
in St. Louis yesterday without doubt
the 1927 premiere would have seen
that record broken.
1t is clear from these figures that
the game has lost none Of its hold
upon public favor in this country.
The troubles OF the Winter. the
changes Of managers, the charges Of
game throwing and the Investigations
have not shaken public faith in the
integrity Of the sport as it is now
conducted. There may have been
looseness in earlier times. The So
called Black Sox scandal Of 1890,
which caused a organization, with
the appointment OF Judge lands as
commissioner, effectually cleaned up
= sorry condition and from that time
on there has been no misdemeanor
that would be in any way a warrant
Tor loss OF public confidence. a
:. This present season opens in pc
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WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

the city's largest hail, which seats
5000. Admission will be by ticket and
every ticket was long since distributed.
>: x x
Walter Damrosch. the celebrated
concert conductor. was quoted at the
current hearings before the new Radio
Commission. apropos the contention
that the radio public demands high
grade programs furnished by top-notch
talent. as saying: AZ learned more in
40 nights on the air than l did in
40 years of travelling on concert tours
about what my audience liked and
what they did not like in the way of
music. got quick response from
the listeners-in. | found that the nu-
steal tastes OF the average listener
were little above the average.
X K X
The business of planning his sum
mer vacation is proving mighty
troublesome to Mr. Coolidge. Invita-
t!ons in many instances have resolved
themselves into insistent demands for
his presence. One Western Senator
has told the President that the Sena-
tors prestige is al stake and that If
Mr.. Coolidge fails to come to this
Senator's State. it will shatter the be.
lief of the folks back home in the
senator's ability to get whatever he
goes after in Washington When it
was reported that the President had
virtually decided TO go to Colorado.
there was a great howl for every other
quarter. Prominent people came long
distances to tell Mr.. Coolidge the many
different reasons why the choice Of
Colorado would be a fatal mistake.
Wisconsin, his next tentative choice.
came in for equal criticism. With the
La FOllettes and the green flies. Wis
consin was certainly not entitled to
consideration, according to Mr.. Cool
idre's callers. This is the political
side of the Summer vacation problem
* X * X
The old cartoon exhibited at the
W bite House last week, which pic
tured the troubles President Cleveland
had with political job.hunters. has
served to recall some of the many
stories current in Cleveland's days Of
his White House experiences along
that line. Typical of some of the alb
surd requests which came to CIeve-
land right after his Inauguration in
1883 for places in the Government
service is the following letter from
stranger then sojourning in the Far
West:
at is very dull here. There is
nothing to enliven things except
the possibility of being impaled
alive by a live Indian and 1 don't
want to be impaled. l amt got any
money to pay railroad fare, and 1
want to get out of this. / thought
if YOU could give me an office I then
could get mass / voted the Re-
publican ticket last Fall. but if you
think there will be any chance of
your being elected another term |
will vote for you-that is, If / get
an office"
(CopyriEht. 1927
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Chinese Complications.

With the Northern Chinese armies
| in continuous advance to and even
beyond the Yangtze and with fierce
factional struggle within the Kuo-
mingtang. or Nationalist organization,
the situation Of the Cantonese govern
ment would seem 10 he one of the
gravest difficulty 4 general strike
has been called al %h; rghai. not iu
antogou!sm to foreign interests. bu-
in expression OF the dissent o. the
radicals Of the Kuonlinstang against
the policies Of Chang kai-shek and
the conservative faction Of the South
ern organiza ton. The strike is spe-
cificany called as a protest by the
labor unions against raids that We're
made by the Cantonese n1oderates on
union halls. Several deaths occurred
during the raids. In the course Of
the disorders following attempts wee
made by mobs to force the barriers at
the International settlement, but with
out effect and fortunately without
bloodshed.
1t is evident from the news of the
military operations along the Yangtzc
that Chang kai-shek's s forces are in
adequate to hold the long front which
he established after the capture Of
Shanghai and Nanking. A reorgan.
ization Of the Northern armies has
apparently been effected. For the
present, at least, hitherto unfriendly.
if not actually hostile, Northern
forces are united and are putting up
an efficient fight to regain ground lost
recently. In view Of the disorders
within the Southern lines and the
sharp factional division between the
radicals and the conservatives It
would not be surprising if Chang
kai-shek were forced out Of Shanghai.
1t is reported that documents We're
found at the Russian legation at Pc
king, in the raids recently made by
the Northern authorities there, dis
closing an established Russian plan
to supply military munitions and even
troops for an all-China campaign
against the foreign interests. It may
be that the discovery of proof Of Rus
sian completely has served TO solidi1y
the Northern, anti-Cantonese forces.
A reply from Foreign Minister
Chen Of the Southern government TO
the five powers whose identic notes
we're delivered the other day relative
to the outrages at Nanking will
shortly be handed to the repre-
sentatives Of the signatory govern
ments, and the report is that while
conciliatory replies will be given TO
Japan, Italy and France, sharp re-
ioinders will be made to the United
States and Great Britain on the score
of their use Of force at Nanking. This
would be a decidedly impolit!c pro
cedure, for the five powers are of one
mind regarding the necessity TO secure
adequate reparations and at the same
time are in unity respecting the EN-
pIoyment of British naval forces at
Nanking. In point Of fact. the Brit
ish and American warships at that
point of danger were the agents of
all Of the FIVE powers that are now
protesting and the attempt Of Chen
to differentiate between the two groups
of powers is likely to cause conplica-
tons unfavorable to the Cantonese
cause.
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Coming and Going

NULIInk anu UolHS,
Catching them coming and going
has been the dream Of many a poll
tician since the world began. How to
balance 4 national ticket which shall
hs acceptable 70 the vets and to the
drys is giving certain Democratic lead
ers much worry today. While the
Democrats are still scratching thei,
heads over the problem, that stalwart
Republican. Senator Frank B. Willis
Of Ohio. has announced the 1928
Democratic ticket for them. He pre-
diets that Gov. Al Smith OF New York
will be the choice OF the Democrats
for President and Gov. Vic Donahey Of
Ohio the choice for Vice President.
Perhaps the Democrats will select
such ticket. bur more likely they will
not. It would scarcely please all
hands. Gov. Smith, a recognized wet.
and Gov. Donahey, a recognized dry,
in double harness might not pull TO-
Gether. Suppose, for example, Gov.
Donahey delivered q dyy speech in
Ohio during the national campaign.
and Gov Smith should be hailed at
the same time as the wet hope of
America. Where would it leave the
voters?
The candidate and, indeed. the politi.
cal party which seeks 10 carry water
on both shoulders, or water on one
shoulder and whisky on the other,
rarely gets very far. Straddling issues
which involve principles, or issues in
which the people are really interested,
have brought the downfall of many
men in public life. Try as they may
10 keep the prohibition question out
Of the next national campaign. the
Democrats must in the end please
either the wet section of their party
in the North and East or the dry
Democrats in the South and West.
The Republicans so far have avoid.
ed any great party division over the
prohibition question. The Republican
party has been dry in nearly all the
f'SaSO2s CAitiSS ~ Alllds new DIX anu
New Jersey excepted. Even in those
States the wet Republicans have not
been successful in imposing their will
on the drys. William S. Ware, to be
sure, was elected to the Senate in
Pennsylvania last year. But his nom
ination came after a split in the dry
Republican forces, and his election
was narrow thing for a Republican
in Pennsylvania because hundreds of
thousands Of Republicans supported
his dry Democratic opponent, William
B. Wilson
DR., Nicholas Murray Butler Of New
York. a militant wet Republican, al
most alone in the party is seeking to
raise the issue among the Repub-
licans. He has received some assist
ance from Senator Borair Of Idaho,
taking the dry side, in a recent joint
debate in Boston. But a prediction
may be safely made that the Repub.
licans will name no vets, either for
President or Vice President. next year,
and that their platform will be salts
factory TO the drys.
Evening star., 1927-04-13
A Moscow Fantasy.

An instance of the absurdty Of
much foreign criticism Of American
affairs is reported by the publication
in a newspaper at Moscow of story
20 the effect that Sacco and Nanzetti,
convicted and just sentenced TO death
.or dual murder in Massachusetts
seven years ago. were subjected dur
ing their long imprisonment to torture
in a padded cell. The device by which
these unhappy men were tormented
OF bright spot in the ceiling of their
cell room, which glowed and increased
in size until il became the face Of a
hideous monster with terrifying open
jaws. A voice would then constantly
demand that they name their accom-
plices and confess their guilt. This
description Of itself renders the tale
ridiculous, but IS brought to a climax
Of nonsense by the statement that
this torture occurred at Charleston,
S. c. The name OF the inventor of
the device is fumblingly given as
Jockston. jackson or Johnson.
Somebody IN Moscow has perhaps
been reading a translation Of Edgar
| Allan Poe's story, The Pit and the
! Pendulum" But lie has not been
coming his geography Of the United
/ States recently. The idea OF the
transfer Of Sacco and Nanzetti from
Massachusetts to South Carolina for
purposes of torture reaches the
height OF the ridiculous. These men
have at no time been kept incom-
municado. They have at all times
! friends. They have not left the State
of Massachusetts fnI. one moment
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cepted and returned to the donors
$7l,000 in gifts that had been mailed
to this fraudulent society.
Charity organization societies in
general have been Of great value in
organizing and stabilizing relief and
III putting stop to fraudulent ap-
peals. Unfortunately, these societies
cost money and there are so many
sentimental people in the world who
want to give for the mere pleasure of
giving, without a thought of the pos
sible ill effects of their generosity, that
the societies have been but imper-
fectly supported. Some day the pub
lie will learn that it is just as i'm
portant to prevent fraud in charity
as 1t is to relieve distress.
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SHOOTING STARS.
81 PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Same as Usual.

Same as Usual.
Old world rolls securely on,
In it's accustomed way.
The sorrows that seemed past and
gone
Revive from day TO day.
A threat of war is in the air;
The crime wave grows apace--
And yet the trees are blossomins fair,
As Springtime sets the pace.
They tell US that the fruit will fail,
Despite the blossoming glow
Offenders are consigned to jail
Aud bootleg torrents flow.
Although the critics fill their scrolls
With comments fierce and free,
Securely on the old world rolls,
Just like it used to be
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since their arrest. They. have been
taken from jail to court many times
IN the course of the trials and various
hearings and in any case they could
not have been spirited out of the
jurisdiction for even the shortest
line without the fact being known.
1t was suggested the Sther day that
the demand" of certain British par
liamentarians for the release Of these
men is calculated to injure rather
than help their cause. Certainly the
Russian accusation of torture will
not be TO their advantage.
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Fraud Prevention
in Charity Is Urged

From the Lincoln State journal.
1t is a commonplace among men Of
wealth that it is almost as hard to
keep money as ii is to accumulate it.
1t is equally well known among phi
lanthropists that it is hard to give
money away without doing more
harm than good The Charity Organ
ization Society of New York City has
maintained for Is years a bureau of
advice and information to aid people
who want to distribute money without
damaging the social fabric. An in
vestigation is made of all public APP
peals and the giyers are warned of
unworthy efforts. Not long ago the
Crippled Children's Relief Association
set up in business and began asking
for funds. Within four days the
bureau Of advice had exposed it as a
bare-faced fraud and it was forced out
of business. The astounding state
Evening star., 1927-04-13
UNITED STATES
IN WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today
APRIL IL. IqI1.

House today begins consideration OF
$1,000. 100000 war loan bill, character
lied by Democratic Floor Leader kitch-
III as most momentous project ever
undertaken by our Government"
Washington gets report Of
peace move by Germany
Reported that German government
has requested King of Sweden to offer
In its behalf 10 abandon ruthless sub
marine warfare as an inducement 70
the United States to resume friendly
relations with Germany
Bolivia hands passports TO German 1
minister Argentina crowds
clamOr for war Mines found
at League Island Navy Yard
Placed there for purpose OF blowing
up interned German war vessels Eitel
Frederick and Kronprinz Wilhelm
Russia greatly heartened
by entrance of this country into war
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the Elementary School Journal says.
Manuscript writing involves both q
style Of letter and a mode OF produc-
ton. The style of letter resembles
printed letters more than does custu-
mary script. Furthermore. the lct-
ters are written separately. without
the connecting strokes. which are
common in script writing. The writ
ing is ordinarily produced with "a
broad-pointed pen and all the STROKES
are made IN a downward direction.
This makes the lines broad i'm certain
directions and narrow in others Eese
OF learning. legibility and beauty are
claimed for this method.
Q. Who invented the windmill. vs..
McC
\. 1t Is not known who invented the
first windmill. Devices based or the
same principles have been in use FROM
very early times. The windmill i'm it,
present form was in Use as early as
the twelfth century
Q. When such commodities as flour.
sugar and cement are exported 20
England, how many pounds do the
sacks weigh?--R. \.
A. The Department OF Commerce
says that -four exported to England is
sent in regulation flour sacks. weigh
ing 196 pounds: sugar In t00-poHud
sacks and cement is exported in sacks
Of 49 net pounds.
O. Are the telephone systems of
Hawaii. the Philippines and Porto
Rico privately owued9-N. q.
4 In HaWcii the telephones are
operated 10y private companies. In
the Philippines and in Porto lJco
there are both private and GuFerum" tt
operated telephones.
O. Are there singing mice in ttis
country? +. H. 6.
a. The Bureau Of Biological Survey
| says that some house mice have
peculiar infection OF the vocal cord
/ that causes them 70 make a kind Of
/ singing note. These sp-called singing
mice" may be found in Western
/ States.
/ Q. What is the origin Of The word
mother X W.
\. Sanskrit contained the word
"matr": Latin. mater. German
/ changed it to "mutter'': Anglo-SaNou,
''modor''; middle English, 'moder
/ Modern English, "mothcr."
/ .. Where are the largest oak trees
+ in the United StateS?-A. j. y.
A. The largest oak trees are iu The
+ Mississippi Valley region and range
1 from 100 to 160 feet i'm height and
! from 10 S feet in diameter.
I @ why is a bonfire SO named?-
/ s. P.
/ a. Bonfire was originally bouedre,
literally fire of bones and was ap-
piled to a funeral pyre.
Q. Were airplanes used in the
/ Boer War? When were they first
used commercially D. Il.
A. They were not used in the Boer
/ War They We're first commercially
used about 1906 907 and 1908. How
ever. they had not been used extern
sively in this field until recent years.
When az doubt-dsE HdSkiH IL
/ offers himself as a target for the
/ questions Of oUr readers. He d0rces
/ to furnish facts for all 1ChO ask. This
is large cOHtrGct-OHe that has
Herer been filled before II lcOUld be
possible oaIy in Washington. aud
OnlB to one ichO has spent life
/ time in locating sources Of in
/ formdtiOH HdSEhI does not EH0iC all
the things that people ask him. but
| he EHOIcS people 1ChO do 6nOlc. TTB
| him. state DOUr question briefly, acriie
| plainly and iHclOSe cents IN stamps
/ for return postage address Frederic
| j. Hdskin. director The EreHiRG star
| Information Bureau, Washington,
= u. C.
Evening star., 1927-04-13
Medals Public Reminders.

From tbs Boston Herald.
Those Theodore y. Vail medals TO
telephone employees for conspicuous
bravery render their best service in
reminding the public of the unpub.
lished undertone of courage and self
sacrifice among the workers in all our
industrial organizations.
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Demands have often been made for
more suitable housing for American
diplomats abroad. The question Of
providing defense equipment looms
above that OF supplying dignities Of
architecture and furnishings.
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A disarmament program which
would pledge every nation to disarm
completely might look favorable 10
universal peace.
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Mechanism permitting a telephone
subscriber to be seen as well as heard
will require him not only to speak
gently, but to smile.
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No nation abroad has been SO dis
appointed in conducting its own affairs
as TO feel any hesitancy in endeaVor-
ing 10 conduct those Of the L. s. \.
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His success in lodging a recklessly
driven motor vehicle calls attention to
the only instance in which President
Coolidge has been known to side-step
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Senatorial Courtesy.

What do you understand by the
term senatorial courtesy"
ITS a time-honored institution,
answered Senator Sorghum, designed
to make polite sarcasm take the place
Of pugilism" ="
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Many missionaries have been sent
abroad Their services. however yalu.
able, do not usually dispose of the
problem of getting them safely back
home
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THE Associated Press is exclusively entitled
70 the Use for republication OF all news dis
patches credited to il or not otherwise cred
tied IN this paper and also the local news
published herein All rights OF publication
OF special dispatches herein are also reserved
Evening star., 1927-04-13

The Chinese situation begins TO
sound like a game of mah-jong in
which the players carry arms.
Evening star., 1927-04-13
Having Their Inning.

From the Greensboro News.
Political application in Iowa of an
cient wheeze: "Who was that Repub
lican ] seen you with last night?
THAT wasn't no Republicap---that was
Q farmer"
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No matter what happens, the great
American game OF base ball goes on
as an assurance that the public holds
it's accustomed interests regardless Of
efforts at sensational agitation.
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Some Of the colleges are evidently
fearful that the students are accumu-
lating q share Of worldly wisdom with
which the professors cannot keep up.
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The greatest enemy Of China was
the native patriot who invented the
phrase, foreign devils
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Dissensions are arising in so many
parts OF the world that there may not
be enough United States Marines TO
go around.
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No Money Marrier.

Would you marry man for his
money!"
mo" answered Miss Cayenne. "A
man who would permit himself TO be
married for his money would be too
foolish to be companionable."
"An imitator," said Hi Ho. the sage
Of Chinatown. "is man who lacks
the courage to steal outright"
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lete. No nation at present employs
SO much publicity.
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&c. c. Ruling ON Railway Values
Subject of Press Comment

est consequence to investors and
shippers alike. If the court should
| reverse this policy, the effect would
be almost cataclysmal, for it would
mean an entire reorganization or
the rate structure" The Rochester
| Times Union assumes that the COM
mission was unwilling TO upset the
whole process of rate making"
IF the Supreme Court of the
United States does not reverse pre-
yious decisions" in the opinion of the
Spokane Spokesman Review. 1t Will
substantially confirm the views of the
majority of the commission. In
decision several years ago involving
this same issue, the Supreme Court
decided that a number of facts should
be taken into considerauCn-the cap
ital really invested. the original cost
OF construction. the cost of reproduc
tion the quantity of water i'm tie
capitalization. and, as the decision is
recalled, regard also should he had for
the capacity Of the country To pay
transportation charges" The Spring
field Republican observes that the
Supreme Court has never ruled that
reproduction cost is the sole measure
of value"
Critics Of the decision cite the pos
sibility of condemnation proceedings.
"If the Government sought 10 con
denim a piece of railroad property"
argues the New York Herald Trib-
une. would it claim the right TO
condemn it on the basis OF its value
in 1914? Even Congress has recog-
nized In n most intimate way the fact
Of the dollars depreciation since the
war. It's members voted themselves
a 33is per cent increase in salaries a
couple of years ago
The Providence Journal contends:
NO one can purchase q piece of real
estate today for the cost of the prop
erty . or 4 years ago plus improve
ments and less depreciation IT Is
just as fallacious to apply that sort
Of reasoning to the railroads" That
there has been change IN the Gtti-
tude of the railroads impresses the
st. Paul Pioneer Press, which states
that 'in the nineties the railroads
preferred using the original cost, be-
cause it was much more than il
would have cost TO reproduce their
lines. After prices had risen. and
particularly after the war sent them
sky high, the companies took the on
posite view" The Swapping Of
positions" is pointed out also By the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle. which refers
to decision of the Supreme Court I'm
1898, by which the smaller reproduc-
ton value was rejected.
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Parking Space Paramount.

From the New York Herald Tribune.
Newfoundland has been granted
about half of Labrador, which will
be highly valuable soon as a site for
parking places.
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It appears probable that the Chinese
had no idea Of what kind of q fight 1t
was going 70 be when they started it.
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Work" said Uncle Eben, ought
to make a man happy instead Of MAX
in SO many people simply scrappy.'