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Evening star., 1927-03-28
Queries Court Ruling
On Texas Primary Law
From the Janesville Gazette.

From the Janesville Gazette.
1t Is not often that this question
must be asked about q decision Of the
Supreme Court of the United States,
but it seems necessary concerning the
recent one having to do with the pri-
mary election in Texas. A difference
of opinion has arisen as to the cover
age of the decision. If it means that
no matter under what circumstances
the primary election may be held as
1t relates to selection of Senators and
national administrative officers as well
as to Representatives in the House,
the Federal Government may take
cogniZance of a primary. 1t will settle
for all time the contention that the
Congress of the United States had no
Jurisdiction by which 1t or a commit
tee representing 1t could investigate
the primary elections in the several
States. In his defense of Ware and
Smith, j. NJ. Beck, one of the greatest
constitutional lawyers of this day,
held fast to the principle that Congress
was invading the rights of the States
when 1t attempted to go into any State
and inquire concerning a nominating
plan that was the States own law and
hence was not administered by, nor did
1t come under notice of, the Federal
Government. The Supreme Court ap-
pears to have taken quite an opposite
stand and declared that the State law
was subject to judicial notice by the
Federal Government. If this Ia to be
the Interpretation, then the constitu-
tional anchor which was supposed to
hold fast for the defense of the extraor-
dinary primary election expenses of
Ware and Smith in Pennsylvania and
Illinois Is worthless. 1t seems to pre-
sage the fate Of these two men when
the Senate gets after them in the
December session.
Evening star., 1927-03-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

There are handicaps to be over
come in popcorn eating in city.
| which make the event the more in
| teresting.
The man who suddenly gets the
| popcorn complex imagineS he may
| go down to the corner grocery and
buy barrel of it, but he finds that
the process is not as easy as all that.
| Give me some popcorn he says.
| Haven't got any" says the man in
the white apron, as if it were some
, sort of personal affront.
| Blocks are walked in the search
| for shelled corn. No one has it. yet
| every one says the place Just down
there" has barrelful.
At last the searcher finds a
groceryman who hands forth dubi-
ously a small carton of corn.
Keep this package in a moist
| place" says the label Evidently
the grocer had not seen that, for he
had this lone packet reposing on the
top shelf, high and dry.
Well, it would do. The enthusiast
| hurried home. Here's some pop
| corn!' Lack of a pepper did not
| deter. kettle with a lid on 1t. and
a big spoon to stir through one lifted
| side, did the trick very neatly.
Only about half of the grains pop
ped. 1t was not good popcorn, at
| all, but-gee, that smell.
Word came of q place that kept
the so called Japanese variety. The
| addict hurried there posthaste. Give
me some of your popcorn. ne
ordered
The girl came back shortly.
I'm sorry-it fell on the moor and
| the ants are in it."
well, how about selling me what
you have there in that machine?"
He pointed to the electric popcorn
machine. atop which was a glass hop
per filled with unpopped grains.
why, sure"
An hour later some real popcorn
was being brewed. The kernels came
out soft and fiaky, and every grain
popped. There were no bachelors
in this bowlful.
Melted butter, some salt---aWay went
bowl after bowl. 1t is astonishing how
much popped corn can be consumed.
Something like potato chips.
A variation on the method of pour
ing melted butter on the popped corn
is to put butter and corn in the kettle
together and then pop. This melts the
butter into the corn and gives some
| what different taste, which some con-
noisseurs prefer. 1t is well worth
trying.
Popcorn is variety of our Indian
corn, one Of Americas best gifts to the
world. The popping" arises through
the action of the dry heat of an open
flame on the oil content of the hard
kernels. If the kernels are too dried
out, they will not pop"
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the teeth, exercises the gums, and has
a securing effect on the inside of man.
Those who indulge in fasts break the
fast" with popcorn, it is interesting to
know.
Popcorn gives one "roughage," and
plenty Of it, with plenty Of vitamins
and that sort of thing. Despite its
being an old food, it is strictly up to
| date.
Evening star., 1927-03-28
Revolt i'm Fashions
Defes Paris ''Trust''
10 Louisville Courier-Journal.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The feminist movement Is approach
ing it's ultimate goal. Women threat
en- to design their own clothes. They
have entered business, they serve on
juries, they invade the smoking COM
partment. Now they are preparing to
drive man out of his last remaining
exclusive field-dictating fashions in
Women's apparel.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. provoked
by Paul Poiret's prediction that within
80 years women would be wearing
trousers, defies the French fashion
trust" in the name of her sex and the
liberty it demands. The shackles
forged at Paris are to be thrown off.
Mrs. Gait Is not insensible to the dire
consequences of such an uprising. 1T
may precipitate the world into bank
ruptcy. close factories, turn millions
into unemployment" Nevertheless, 1t
will be ruthless" coming with the
force and fury Of all movements long
overdue"
She doesn't know when or how it is
to come, or who is to lead in this new
freedom, but 'it Is bound to be sup
ported by the masses of women who
think" Paul may smile at that. He
may be confident that there are
enough of them who do not think to
keep the business going, or he may
not classify taste among the rational
functions. Anyway, taste will decide
the issue as between the SILLY. slavish
custom known as fashion" and the alb
stract ideal of freedom about which
Mrs. Gait summons her sex to rally.
The reward of this rebellion, Mrs.
Gait says. will be ito the average
woman a costume comfortable and
healthful, to all people a dress of
beauty and elegance combined with
utility to business stability" But here
again taste intrudes. Is each to de-
sign her own? Is this movement for
personal liberty or merely for emanci-
patton from thralldom under one mas
ter in order to submit to another? 1t
is a revolution indeed If standardiza-
ton is to be discarded.
The French fashion trust" may be
broken, but 1t will be when American
taste, skill and artistry produce de-
signs of recognized superiority. Slaves
of fashion are willing slaves, proud of
the badge Of their servility when they
can afford it, and feverish to copy If
exempted by birthright of poverty.
Evening star., 1927-03-28

of twenty-nine States in which pri
maries were held.
| Under such conditions, and in the
light of the analysis made by Mr.
Michelet, can there be any real doubt
that the primary is actually q part OF
the election, a part so important that
what happens in the primary becomes
of vital significance to the Senate?
! And If the Senate. under the Consti-
| tuition, has the right and power to be
the Judge Of the elections, returns
| and qualifications Of its own mem
bers." must it not take cogniZance of
| the conduct of the primary elections
for nomination to the Senate? The
primary election is as much a part of
the general election as the egg Is nee.
| essary il there is to be a chicken.
1t is an old story that the primary
elections in the "solid" South have
determined the final choice OF Sena-
tors and Representatives in those
States. Mr.. Michelet's analysis of the
just as important in a number of the
States of the North and West. In
nine Republican States Of the North
and West last year the choice Of Sena-
tors was determined by the primary.
Those States were California, Illinois,
Iowa, North Dakota, Oregon, Penn
sylvania, Vermont. Washington and
Wisconsin. Mr.. Michelet points out
that the Republican vote cast in the
senatorial primaries in Illinois and
Pennsylvania was larger than the Re-
publican vote cast in the general elec-
ton. This is explainable, however,
because Of the entrance OF a third, in
dependent Republican candidate at
the eleventh hour In the Illinois gen.
eral election, and because Of the big
shift Of Republican votes to the Demo
cratic nominee, william B. Wilson,
and away from William S. Ware. the
Republican, in Pennsylvania. Charges
of corruption and excessive expend-
lures in the Illinois and Pennsylvania
Republican primaries were responsible
for these shifts in the vote cast in the
general election.
A new law dealing with corrupt
practices in the elections Of Senators
and Representatives will be proposed
in the coming Congress. That 1t will
take cognizance Of the primary elec.
tions for the nominations Of party can
didates for the Offices Of Senator and
Representative is entirely likely.
The Supreme Court Of the United
States has not yet passed upon the
constitutionality of such a law, writ
ten in the light Of the seventeenth
amendment to the Constitution pro-
viding for the direct election of Sena.
tors. If Congress has the right and
power to act to safeguard the purity
Of the election Of it's members has 1t
not the right to see that they are
properly nominated.
Evening star., 1927-03-28
Criticizes Questionnaires
On Personal Matters
To the Editor o. The Star.

To the Editor o. The Star.
Recent questionnaires sent out by
newspapers, periodicals and religious
organizations clearly indicate how the
standards of the countinghouse have
invaded the religious and moral fields.
Students and investigators in the
fields of religion. ethics and sociology
seem unable to come to decisions until
they have accumulated sheaveS of
statistics. counted hands and noses.
jotted down rows of figures. added and
subtracted, and made debit and credit
columns.
The statistical method cannot be
applied with success in cases where
it is desired to ascertain peoples
characters, religious and ethical be-
liefs and practices and the inmost
thoughts of their hearts. Very few
persons wear their hearts upon their
sleeves. AS rule, people guard and
cherish their deeper and more highly
priced thoughts and feelings-those
thoughts and feelings that most in
fluence and sway their lives-and
either keep them to themselves or
reveal them only to relatives. friends
and intimates. They do not speak
familiarly to strangers upon these
topics, and they resent. particularly.
any personal prying into their affairs
and hearts.
Persons who ask gratuitous and
personal and intimate questions of
strangers either will not be answered
at all or they will be put off with a
jest, or with another question, or with
rebuke. or at best they will re-
ceive an answer that either puts the
answerer in as good light as possible
or else merely reveals the answerer's
limited knowledge or misinterpreted
experience.
The best way to get to understand
people and to get at the thoughts of
their hearts $50 far as this is possible)
Is for each one quietly and unobtru-
sively to observe and study people In
the ordinary course of life and expert
ence, and to make the most of ones
intimacies with relatives and friends
and of ones relationships with bust
ness associates, acquaintances and
strangers encountered in daily life.
The reading of books. newspapers and
periodicals will also give one a knowl-
edge Of life if read with discrimina.
ton. CHARLES HOOPER.
Evening star., 1927-03-28
Training Camp Vacations.
.om the New York Herald Tribune.

From the New York Herald Tribune.
The youth Of the country is to be
congratulated upon its immediate and
enthusiastic response to the War De-
partment's call for applicants for the
Summer military training camps. For
some years there has been no diff
Guilty in filling the quotas and 1t Is
unlikely that there will be any lack
of volunteers this Summer. But the
ease with which $4,000 young men can
annually be induced to take "a
months vacation at Government ex-
pense" should not lull the public into
too profound a sense OF security
against war. Invasion has seldom
been repelled on the principles Of
Summer vacation, nor is the national
security very often maintained upon
a. mixture of athletics and lessons
in citizenship" The camps supply a
good foundation for military training
But In the first place they do not
afford true military service and in
the second place they reach only
81, 900 young men a year, of whom
only a part are new material.
Evening star., 1927-03-28

his physician to desist from shaking
the hands of the patriotic multitudes,
but the Executive Mansion police
force has just directed that the White
House grounds shall be barred to au.
tomobile traffic until the contractors
have put a new roof over the Presi-
dents head. Motor tourists are al
ways fond Of driving through the
White House gates and getting a close
up of the Nations most famous
colonial residence. 1t was decided that
trucking and the other necessities of
the big repair job now under way
make 1t desirable to have as little We.
hicular traffic as possible passing in
and out of the presidential area.
X Il y X
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt
struck a suggestive note in an after.
dinner talk at the recent housekeep.
ing conference in Washington. Among
Portla's' duties as Assistant Attor.
ney General of the United States at
the Department Of Justice is super.
vision OF national prison affairs. "In
the course Of watching the parade OF
roundly 100000 men and women who
annually emerge from prison all over
the United States" Mrs. Willebrandt
| said, II think I have come to one in.
| teresting and fundamental conclusion
that is, that in innumerable cases
these delfnquents have to thank for
their misfortune the fact that in youth
| or childhood they had inculcated In
them a wholly wrong concept of law
Too many of them were taught that
| law Is q medium Of restraint, instead
OF what 1t is-an opportunity for en-
larged liberty"
| M X NJ NJ
Representative Sol Bloom, Demo.
crat, OF New York, is one of the few
| members OF Congress who are remain
| ing on the job long after adjournment
He says it's his opinion that a mem.
Der or the House or Senate can be
heaps more useful to his constituents
when ne mas time to look after their
business than when trying to do SO
While Congress Is speech making
Bloom claims he's putting in eight.
hour days at Washington answering
| letters from people in his district. Wis.
hlng tne departments on their behalf
ana, In many cases, personally con.
ductlng them through the Federal
land or stalilng and buck passing at
washington. The pugilistic Gotham.
ite, who's known on Capitol Hill a.
the man with a new idea every min.
ute, plans some day to put the Con.
gressional Record out of business, at
least In Its present verbose form. He
thinks 1t wouldn't be bad idea If
the record were confined to a tabu.
iation OF votes on congressional meas.
ures. As it's published now" saws
Bloom, It's misprint. Hundreds OF
words get into 1t that are never ,,t.
tered. and as many hundreds are left
out that were uttered. That's because
members have the right to edit their
stuff for the Record" o'A
tCopyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-03-28
Fight Over Parole for Cook
Revives Oil and Polar Tales

lnealth-which, prison reports strange
ly Indicate, Is first rate" The Column
bus Ohio State Journal also contends:
If the law provides all Judge Wilson
claims, 1t is a radical departure and
without parallel. In State and Fed
eral courts in the past, a prisoner
might be released on probation after
sentence had been imposed. but be-
fore Imprisonment had begun. After
the prisoner was locked up in prison,
release was possible only by pardon,
communication or parole after a portion
or the sentence had been served. But
more radical than all else is the claim
! that the court has control of the
prisoner until the end of his sentence"
X X x
Just why it is harsh and unjust 10
keep in the penitentiary a. man who
mulcted credulous people out Of a
great amount OF money we do not
know" says the Lynchburg Advance,
while the Waterbury Republican agrees
that there has appeared no convinc-
ing reason why he should be released
now." The Butte Daily Post finds it
significant that ''his false pretenses''
in relation to the ascent of Mount Nc.
Kinley were first effectively exposed
in Montana" and that Ibis claim was
the boldest kind of bunk" The
Buffalo Evening News suggests that
the immediate effect of the courts
action probably will be a reopening of
the North Pole issue by DIR. Cook;
that lit will be just like selling oil
stock again" The Reno Evening
Gazette advises that "he should be-
kept off the lecture platform and be
prevented from writing for publication
as far as possible
On the other hand. the Charleston
Evening Post interprets "the move
ment for his release on parole" as
probably one of sympathy, and, after
four years in prison, he may have
been sufficiently punished. At least
he is not likely to put over any moro
geographical fictions upon a credulous
world" concludes that paper. The
Pasadena Star-News feels that "it Is
fair and reasonable to assume and
expect that DIR. Cook, given probation.
would live properly; that ''he should
have his chance to redeem himself"
"On the theory that prisons are
made to reform prisoners" observes
the Seattle Daily Times, eft Is likely
that the ends of justice have been
served in the case of DIR. Cook. He Is
probably cured of any desire to sell
worthless oil stock and there Is rea.
son to expect that he would lead a
normal, useful life, IL given another
chance. His offense Is rather easy to
forgive, especially IL one did not In
vest in his stock. No one
will object much IL DIR. Cook Is re.
leased. As both poles have been dis
covered. he could not fool the world
again with false claims. Also his abil.
ity as q vendor Of worthless stock Is
somewhat Impaired"
Evening star., 1927-03-28
Increasing Tension in China.

Evidence increases that the Situa
ton in China from an international
point of view is becoming more intense
and dangerous. An anti-foreign pas
sion is sweeping the southeastern prov.
inces now under control of the Can.
tonese government, which itself is
apparently fomenting this feeling. 1t
is at least not checking it. Prop
uganda by students and by labor or.
ganizations is permitted. perhaps in.
cited by the government. Most ex-
travagant stories and charges are cir
culated. One of these is to the effect
that in the recent shelling of Marking
by British and American warships
which effected the rescue of the be.
leaguered foreigners there 100000
Cinnamon were killed. This obviously
impossible tale is doubtless believed, as
is that of the wanton slaughter of Chi.
nese by a British naval expedition
against pirate colony at Bias Bay a
short distance north of Hongkong
The news report states that while
much property was destroyed in the
clearing out of this nest of sea looters
who have been preying on coastwise
merchantmen no lives were lost.
The immediate necessity is to get all
the foreigners out of the danger zone.
Efforts to this end are now being
made. Orders have ~been sent to all
Americans in Fukien Province to con-
centrate at Annoy for security and pos.
sibly for return home. Request has
been made to the State Department
that the missionary organizations in
this country be urged to order their
forces in the Chinese field to make
their way as quickly as possible to the
coast. These devoted people will not
abandon their posts without such or
ders.
A serious problem is presented in the
rescue Of these people. Their only
practicable means of travel in the
present conditions is by the rivers; and
ships making their way up country
and back for the relief of the mission
aries and trade representatives are un-
der fire from the shores, and even the
warships escorting them are being
fired upon by uniformed forces. A
veritable state of war prevails.
Meanwhile at Shanghai the refugees
are being cared for in increasing num-
bers within the foreign concessions,
which are in state of siege Every
means possible has been adopted to
make them secure. Steps must soon
be taken for their evacuation. In a
late dispatch it is stated that efforts
appear to have been made by the Can
tonese government to check a mass
attack upon the international settle.
ment, which would cause heavy loss
of life on both sides. 1t is evidently
realized by Chang Kai Shek. the Can.
tonese commander-in-chief, that di
rect assault upon the settlement would
probably precipitate strong interna
tional movement against his govern
ment.
Evening star., 1927-03-28
Unnecessary Ugliness.

The building of unnecessarily ugly
buildings IN the District of Columbia
is to be frowned upon by all elements
Of civil and governmental life.
Note, for example, the gymnasium
completed last year for the Western
High School.
Just why such building, devoted
to the upbuilding of the body beauti.
full, should be such a hopelessly ugly
affair has never been satisfactorily ex-
planned.
Lack Of funds cannot account for
It's sheer frightfulness of exterior. 1t
is simply series of brick boxes. with
scarcely an attempt at decoration.
The small plot of ground at it's north
face on r street is still mud, as is the
land to the west on Thirty.sixth
street.
There are many fine examples of
gymnasium buildings throughout the
United States, but one would have to
travel long way to discover a more
unprepossessing example than that at
the Western School.
This is all the more to be regretted
since the old Western Building pos
sesses many possibilities of beauty,
with Its classic design and broad lawn
amounting almost TO "A campus, and
Its many ancient trees.
Tho teaching of civil government In
the schools might properly include @
practical application of duty toward
ones city. Planting of grass seed
around the gymnasium would be ar
easy task. and funds surely might bt
found for 1t.
The thought that Washington 4.
the most beautiful city in the United
States has been so broadcast to th'
Nation that no stone should be lef
unturned by its residents to make 4
30, not alone at the chief points o
public interest, but as much so a
eLAcrs. especially at and aroun'