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HOPE SEEN FOR
SUGAR BOWL
The national flood relief fund
Of the American Red Cross
climbed to $l4,624,OOO today.
By InternatIonal News servIee

bY International News Service
NEW ORLEANS, La, June H.
Hope for the salvation of much of
the eastern half Of Louisiana's
sugar bowl, which has been con-
sidered doomed, was expressed to.
day by DR.. I. NJ. Cline, local me.
teorologist.
The steadily diminishing flow
from the McCrea Crevasse, as yet
unexplained, is responsible for the
slight ray OF hope in the flooded
area. The McCrea break, now
1900 feet wide, is splitting less
water itno the sugar bowl than it
did when it first broke.
Flood waters on the other side
of the Atchafayala are falling north
Of Breaux Bridge and they are
beginning to recede south of Breaux
Bridge in the region west of the
Teche. East Of the Teche, however,
they are rising so rapidly that new
flood levels are indicated for Nor
gan City, DIR. Cline said.
An air reconnaissance by Major
Elliott showed practically all of
Pointe Coupe parish inundated ex-
cept the highest ridges along the
Mississippi river.
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BIRTHS
DEATHS

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Robbed by Trio of $1,000

PHILADELPHIA, June Three
armed bandits held up William C.
Smith, paymaster for the Bureau
Of City Hospitals, in front of the
Municipal Hospital here today, rob-
bling him of two payrolls amount.
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Chauncey NJ. Depew has just given
younger America-and all but a very
few Americans are younger than he
a striking lesson in thrift. Sixty-six
years ago, which was in 1861, he de-
posted in savings bank at Peekskill
the sum Of 800. It was the first
money he had ever saved, and he
wanted to make Of it nest egg" He
was able to leave 1t there, intact. His
earnings were such that he was not
compelled, nor was he disposed, to
withdraw it for any purpose. And so
1t has remained in that bank ever
since. The other day. recalling the
circumstance, he made inquiry as to
his account and found that through
the compromising of interest It
amounted to upward Of $1,100. That
first hundred has earned a thousand,
simply through use in other hands.
Many a fortune has been established
by just such means. though perhaps
ct hy sAAxaaR a Aea,taz ''hlAaEsd
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What's the Use?
to the New York Sun.

LeLter 10 the New YORK sun.
What Authorization" says recently
in the Sun strikes a responsive chord
in me which I feared was mute. I
sympathize with his protest against
the degradation Of the fine word mar
athon" in using it to describe gum.
chewing and fagpole-sitting endurance
contests. I am glad to know the cru
sader spirit still lives. AS one who
has fought, bled and died many times
and oft in the defense of good words,
1 am delighted to know there are
spirits still dauntless. Mine own, how
ever, Is daunted. My head is no long
err bloody, because it Is boWed-and it
is covered with scars.
Once I led a forlorn hope against
the sloppy word ''kiddie''-for child
and was. massacred. Again / struck
mighty blows against use Of the pas.
sive form of the verb in such phrases
as "he was cheered by the mob" in
stead of the stronger "the mob cheered
him." was routed and lost my heavy
artillery and baggage. Once I held
the bridge against the misuse of
'lurid," hectic" "giant," monster"
"cavalcade" and the like, but the Lars
Porsenas of reporterdom and the False
Sextuses of the copy desk pitched me
into the river, armor and all. Now I
am through. But I lean upon my
voice cry cheers for the few gallant
blades still going gay and careless to
the onfall. shall bespeak for Anti
Marathon" quartars next to mine In
The Old eslAisys SmA .--.---.--1i4aE.444t Z
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intact for nearly two-thirds of a CEN
fury. There was no get rich quick"
procedure here. Mr.. Depew might
have invested his century" in an al
Turing stock, In an Oil well or a gold
mine, promising rich returns at once.
He might have made many thousands
by good luck. Or he might, and more
probably would. have lost his hundred.
Actuaries may be interested to work
nut what that compromising process
would have yielded Mr.. Depew If he
had made it a practice to follow his
initial hundred with a similar deposit
each year during the entire course of
time. Without exact statistics 1t can
only be computed in the most general
figures, but the result would have
been assuredly a veritable fortune,
even in terms of modern wealth.
The saving of a hundred dollars was
a greater achievement in 1861 than it
is today, for the hundred of that time
was in reality a bigger sum than it
now is. But most men can save a hun.
dred a year, by dint of economy, by
going without some luxury or some
indulgence. and with cooperative
thrift on the part of the family. II
every one were thus to start saving
at, say, twenty-five, putting the same
amount aside annually and letting it
all remain to compound in interest for
several decades. there would be no oc.
casion for old-age pensions, for char
ity or for suffering.
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Redfern Reported Seen
In Region of Grave Peril
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
It is very doubtful that any one who
has not had personal experience in
the territory where the aviator Red
| fern was last heard from can have any
conception OF the dangers and diff
culties which he must face even If he
has come down unhurt. If he came
down in the Orinoco Delta. cannot
see how it would be possible for him
| to escape unless he were fortunate
enough to alight close to one of the
| little villages in the tree tops belong
| ing to the Guaraunos Indians.
The Orinoco is now in flood and, in
all the hundreds of square miles of its
delta, with it's bewildering labyrinth
| of intersecting streams, there are only
a few small and isolated spots which
are not under water. Whenever the
river begins its annual rise, the Delta
! Indians build platforms in the tree
| tops which are daubed with clay so
| that fires can be built for cooking food.
Canoes furnish the only possible means
of travel in the delta whether the
Orinoco is in flood or not. Six or
seven Of the principal outlets of the
Orinoco are great rivers a mile or
more in width, but most of them are
narrow creeks which it would be easy
to swim if it were not for certain
| reasons.
One reason is alligators. The
largest one seen by our party was
more than 25 feet long.
Another reason is electric eelS.
There are plenty Of these and the dis
charge from one full-grown specimen
6 or z feet long and or inches thick
would kill man instantly.
The greatest reason of all Is the
carib fish which fairly swarm in these
waters and which are probably the
most bloodthirsty Of all created
things. The explorer Schomburg says
that a man attacked by them would
have every scrap Of flesh cleaned on
of his bones in less than 10 minutes.
If he got beyond the delta, the two
most needed items of equipment would
be mosquito net and machete. There
are countless millions Of mosquitoes
and one must either have a net to
shut them out or live in an atmos-
phere Of smoke IL he expects to sur
vive.
One who travels through the jun
giles Of Venezuela or the Guianas gets
blisters on his hands instead of on his
feet, for, after he has taken one step,
he must cut vines and DuSneS Ior d
while with his machete before he takes
the next one. The Imataca Noun
tains south Of the Orinoco are densely
wooded clear to their SUBMITS. One
who travels south from the Orinoco
would be continually going up and
going down over a series of practically
parallel ranges and the rivers which
run down the narrow valleys between
these ranges are nothing but sue
cession of rapids and waterfalls, being
utterly unnavigable even for canoes
except for or miles above their
| junction with the Orinoco. The only
course which would offer any hope
of reaching settlement would be to
cut ones way step by step along one
of these rivers all the way to its
mouth. If, as every one hopes, Red
fern comes out alive. he will have
story to tell that viii be worth read
4pga e...aa4 IL. Il 9. 4. THOMPSON. !.
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seem to favor its final repeal. or
rather, inasmuch as each convention
adopts its own rules of procedure, Its
| omission when the convention Of 1928
comes to the point of defining it's
mode of operation. But it Is to be
noted that only thirty-eight Of the
ffty-seven members of the committee
addressed responded to the inquiry.
It may be that many of those who
are disposed to stand pat on the rules
did not answer. Perhaps the twenty
seven who expressed themselves as
in favor of the majority rule are the
maximum that can be mustered for
the change.
The two-thirds rule was adopted in
the following terms by the 1882 con-
vention:
Resolved. That each State be en-
titled, in the nomination to be made
of a candidate for the vice presidency,
to a number of votes equal to the
number to which they will be entitled
in the electoral colleges, under the new
apportionment, in voting for President
and Vice President; and that two
thirds of the whole number of votes
in the convention shall be necessary
to constitute a choice.
While this applied then only to the
vote for the vice presidential candi-
date, owing to the fact that the con-
vention was all set for the unanimous
nomination Of Andrew Jackson for a
second term, 1t was readopted in later
conventions as applicable to both
offices. Every four years since in the
successive conventions the two-thirds
rule has been rewritten as the law
governing the meetings. 1t led to the
deadlock in 1850, which caused the
break of the party into two factions.
It likewise caused a protraction of
the Baltimore convention in 1912. 1t
came to its highest point Of obstruc-
tive efficiency in 1924.
Were there no single outstanding
candidacy at present the two-thirds
rule might be considered by the 1928
convention on its merits or dement's.
But its rejection in favor of the ma
jority rule Is certain to be coupled
with the candidacy of the Governor of
New York, against whom a substan-
tial body of opposition has formed
within the party. and it may be that
when the time comes to adopt the
rules of procedure, whatever may be
the recommendations Of the national
committee. the party in convention
assembled will not deem 1t wise to
break a tradition for the benefit OF a
favorite.
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

All the world loves good dog poem
here is one from Munsey's, via the
poetry column of the Literary Digest,
which catches the fancy:
Stray Dog.
BY CHARLOTTE MISH.
Your wistful eyes searched each one
as he passed,
Stray dog-so lost, so starved and
starkly thin
And yet your gallant hope held to
the last
That there would come heart to
take you in.
Some came who jeered at your
beWilderment,
Some kicked you, shouted, threw
things till you'd gone:
But, oh, more cruel was the one who
bent
And petted you, and murmured-
and went on!
Sentimental?
Well. not if you like dogs. The
word sentimental" is too much
loosely used by those who do not care
for animals.
Those who detest dogs are very
likely to declare that those who do
are sentimental" thereby fondlv be-
lieving that they have damned the
dog lovers for once and for all.
Yet just exactly what is it to be
sentimental?
Inc nrst meaning, according to the
Standard Dictionary, is: Character
lied by sentiment or intellectual emo.
ton; involving or exciting tender emo
tons or inspirations"
Inc second meaning, Of course, is
h.,
ers OF sentimental" and here Is WHY:
Given to emotional feeling: expert
encing and displaying sentiment, often
IN an extravagant or mawkish man.
ner; as, sentimental girl"
And what is sentiment?
According to the same authority,
sentiment is noble, tender or artistic
feellng, or susceptibility to such feel
ing"
The third, or psychological, defini-
ton is as follows:
me class of complex feelings of
the higher sort, such as are aroused
and cultivated by ideas and ideals of
intellectual, esthetic, moral or religious
objects, relations and values; emotions
awakened by things that appear to
have worth"
All in all, 1t would seem that the
sentimental man or woman has decid-
edly the best of it.
y X
A dog is creature that appears to
nave worth, to most of us, and the lost
dog makes distinct appeal to various
feelings of the higher sort.
This is why Miss Mishs poem ap-
peals.
1t is a better poem, indeed, than
William Blake's "a Child Lost" be-
cause it is better done in a poetical
way.
The conclusion of the poem raises an
interesting question, which would ap.
ply equally well to the stray cat.
Is it true that the man or woman
who pities lost creature, but who
finally goes on, is more cruel than he
or she who pays no attention to it, or
who even goes out of their way to
kick It?
At first blush, the climax might
seem an overstatement, which, of
course. would be allowable, anyway,
since a poem does not aim to be a
precise statement of fact.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-05
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Toms" rivals are broadcastlng that
the Wares have kept him in Office UNI
interruptedly since 1895. In the in
tervening 80 years Cunningham has
drawn the tidy sum of $259,000
salary.
Wheels revolve within wheels in
connection with the reported-and de-
Notwithstanding designations of
Dwight F. Davis and FHanford Mac
taryship and Assistant Secretaryship
of War. Political gossip has it that
Davis doesn't habitually hit it off
with President Coolidge. He's ac-
counted a sterner advocate of the
Army's requirements than the admin
istration economy program usually
sanctions. It's predicted that some
day Davis may be transferred to a
foreign Enthusiastically, which some
of his friends think he would prefer
to cabinet life. Col. MacNider ranks
as likely inheritor of the Secretary
ship of War. The young Iowa Re-
publican is constantly touted as a
future presidential candidate. He
could wait until 1895 for his chance,
and still be on the sunny side of so.
The American Legion, Of which he
was national commander in 1922,
long ago anointed MacNider it's IA
vorite son. He has made himself a
real power at the War Department
through his supervision of the indus
trial equipment, militia and reserve
corps bureaus. All these contacts,
plus his Legion affiliations, have built
up MacNider machine" of no mean
qualifications.
X X X
There's a certain youngish United
States Senator whose vote will be
essential to whichever party seeks to
organize the Senate in the approach
ing Seventeen Congress. The attrac-
tive solon in question is now receiv-
ing warnings from friendly quarters
to beware of the insidious influences
Of the Washington social lobby"
The latter Is said to have discovered
that both he and his charming con-
sort have recently become enamored
Of the exclusive life from which
radicals" are customarily banned.
The message being wigwagged to
the Senator and his lady is, 1.-THE
social lobbyl getcha if you don't
watch outp'
FoeIltLOT Duran, DdCk III WaSAln&-
ton unabashed after having been
photographed and rotogravured fish.
ing for trout with gloves on, says the
only affair. domestic or foreign, now
keeping him awake at nights Is
name for his new Virginian Swear
old thoroughbred" He bought him
from man named Jones, and thinks
Jones" might do.
fCopyright. 1927
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The Two-Thirds Rule.

Ever since the Madison Square con.
vention OF 1924, which was protracted
to unprecedented length and which led
to a serious confusion in Democratic
ranks, a persistent effort has been
made by the leaders of the party to
seek a solution of the deadlock prob
lem, by modification or repeal Of
the rule of order adopted originally
in 1882 at Baltimore and continued,
through successive readoptions at the
quadrennial Democratic gatherings.
In view Of the fact that one poten.
tial candidate for the nomination is
generally regarded as easily the IA
vorite in the running, this endeavor
has come to be viewed as in his be.
half. Steadily the inquiry Ii being
pressed among eminent Democrats,
and particularly among the members
OF the national committee, whether
they favor the abolition Of the two
thirds rule. The other day results Of
that inquiry were assembled, and dis.
closed the fact that a majority Of the
committee members who responded
favored the majority rule as against
the two.thirds rule, the vote appear
ing to stand ~ to II, while there
seemed to be a majority, 20 to 10. in
favor of the abrogation Of the unit
rule, which has likewise come to be
feature Of the Democratic proceed
ings in convention.
II 30 large q percentage Of the ma
tional committee favors abrogation Of
>. the two;thiEds Eule The shApaae Eighl
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A scientific brochure does so aim,
and anything short of clean-cut fact
is less than scientific. A poem, on
the other hand, aims to arouse GER
tain mental states, and If 1t achieves
this result, little exaggeration makes
no difference.
Yet when some one says that pity
which leads to no action Is worse than
plain case of cruelty-what shall
one say to that?
Actually and practically, then, one
Is inclined to tell Miss Mish that she
is wrong. A man who strikes or KICKS
a dog on the street is cruel in a Oh
rect, tangible way.
There is no subtlety in his deed.
What he needs is a good poke in the
jaw, followed by several swift Kicks
to the place where 1t hurts most.
To say that the good woman who
stops in pity, pats the forlorn head,
and then goes about her way, Is the
more cruel of the two. is nonsense.
Perhaps she has no place to keep
the dog, no way of caring for 1t.
Maybe she feels that the dog is bet
ter off, taking it's chances with free
dom, than in the care Of persons with
whom she might place it.
X y
Yet there is a feeling of a higher
sort which Miss Mish invokes, and, If
one views the episode from that clear
light, the truth Of her statement may
be admitted.
One admits it to be somewhat the
oretical. yet, within that limitation,
precisely true.
The point is that most Of us lose
our divine opportunities to do good.
We are timid souls, afraid of what
others will say, afraid to spoil the
easy comfort Of our lives, fearful lest
we might catch germ or something.
The smooth tenor Of our ways is
preferred to plain duty.
The duty Is to ourselves, not to the
dog.
This Is selfishness to good purpose
The writer has been kicking himself
for two years for having failed to help
a kitten in the rain.
1t was, without doubt, the worst
looking cat any one ever saw. 1t was
merely bones and skin, almost COM
pletely without fur, unable to walk.
Really, a horrible sight. Death was
but a few hours away.
We Solace ourselves with the
thought that at least we stood there
for Is minutes, torn between a desire
to try and help the creature and a
feeling that any aid whatsoever would
be useless.
A plan to go home and return with
a bottle Of warm milk flashed through
our head-and then we wondered what
persons we had never seen before
land would never see AGAIN. would
think Of us.
After all, 1t was no concern of ours
and so we passed on.
We had failed in a plain duty, call
it sentimental if you choose, because
we had discovered something wrong
and had not done what we wanted to
do to right it.
If every person would do what
plainly comes right under his nose to
do, the millennium would be here.
1t is not necessary to go half around
the world to save and help. Oppor-
tunities come every day to all Of us,
right where we are.
And we. may God forgive us, stoop
down, and murmur-and pass on!