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Evening star., 1927-04-02
Ritchie Indorsed by Maryland.

Gov. Albert c. Ritchie of Maryland,
by formal resolution of the State Sen.
| ate, is asked to declare his candidacy
for the Democratic nomination for
President next year. The action of
| the State Senate smacks of earlier
of Chief Executive were made by
State legislatures and our present
party national conventions were UNI
known. With the growth of the party
system in this country, the national
convention was a natural develop
ment. State legislatures today are
divided along strict party lines. The
Republicans in the legislative body of
a State, meeting separately, might
voice their choice for the presidential
nomination, and the Democrats do the
same. But the selection by an entire
State legislative body necessarily,
under present conditions, must be of
the political faith held by majority
of the legislature.
it comes to Endorsement by the State
Senate or the House of Represent
atives, over some of his prospective
Democratic opponents for the 1928
nomination for President, Gov. AL
fred E. Smith of New York, for ex-
ample, who has a Republican Legis-
lature on his hands.
The call to Gov. Ritchie by the
Maryland Senate is not likely to be
needed by him, for the present. Po-
tential candidates for the presidential
nomination are bit slow in announc-
ing their intentions, with more than a
year before the national convention
Perhaps some of them fear that if a
head is raised now it will become the
target of all the, rest of the candi-
dates.
Gov. Ritchie was the choice of the
Maryland Democrats for the Demo
cratic nomination for. President in
1924. Since then he has been trium-
phantly reelected governor, breaking
all records for continuous service. He
will go to the national convention
next year with the State delegation
in his pocket, unless he should for
mally announce that he had no in.
tention of being candidate or ac-
cepting the nomination il it came to
him. Such contingency, however,
is not expected. What the State SEN
ate wishes the governor to do is to
rustic up other State delegations to
the next Democratic national conven.
ton. That is rather delicate opera
ton, particularly in view of the mum.
ber of ''favorite sons Today Gov.
Ritchie stands among the four or five
Democrats most prominently men
toned for the Presidency. From now
until next June his availability" will
be carefully scanned by party leaders.
He is in the limelight, and the resolu-
ton of the State Senate will do him
no harm.
Evening star., 1927-04-02

| portcullis has given way to small
door, behind which stands formality in
| the guise of a severe butler.
The buffers frown is no less dead
ly weapon than the battle e-ax. 1t turns
back those who are not wanted--and
what more did the sword or pike
Men in possession of their own
souls-how many in the world are
not,-build themselves country places.
where they may be driven at the day s
end, there enjoy that sweet com
| munion with their own natures which
| is held by some to be the greatest good
in life.
The more sensitive a person Is, IN
the common acceptance of that term,
the more he feels the rawness OF hu'
man nature. All is not gold that gilt
ters, as the song said: humanity. in the
mass, is not lilylike. Take but one
instance.
Familiarity breeds contempt --
even more, 1t breeds familiarity,
Many men in positions of authority
are held by underlings to be stuck
up" when these very lesser lights
would be the first to take advantage
of the others if the bars were let
down.
Any one with experience in the
business world knows that men ir
than to call some one higher up by his
first name.
Give such a man a chance, he will
hail you by your first name as If you
were an old friend.
The thing to do is never give him a
chance.
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From these petty habits TO the
really nasty traits of humanity it is
only a step
Malice, office politics." sneering ill
humor, unfair criticism, various
forms of temper-these are but few
of the traits, that make sometime
misanthropes out of us all.
Much as a man will run from a
raging bull so the man of discrim-
ination will give those who possess
| these traits, named and unnamed, as
wide berth as possible, secure in
the feeling that discretion is, indeed,
often the better part of valor, and
that cowardice is such cases is en-
tirely excusable.
Men have been compared by vari-
Gus authors of antiquity to wild ami
mails. The traits of the pig, the
wolf. the fox have been freely at
tributed to mankind.
Yet, in a larger sense, the malice
Oh In6SG animals Is not 10 Ue
against them. for they know no bet
ter Even the rat, despised by man.
is acting in response to the dictates
of it's nature.
Man. of all the creatures, does
what he does in the line of i'll will
with more or less knowledge of just
how mean he is, SO that his nasty
traits cannot justly be called "ani-
mal,' since they are subanimal, or
more truly, simply human!
Mankind is, then. the epitome of
all the good and bad we know. Our
dreams are built upon the best. our
fears upon the worst To be less
than a decent man is to be much less
than an animal, to be better than a
good man is to become an angel.
Shall one, then. because he sees
and dislikes many traits in humanity,
shrink from his fellow men? No,
the answer must be, only such
shrinking as will allow him to be
himself. One may dislike humanity.
en- masse, but love many individual
specimens.
Evening star., 1927-04-02
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

If you do not like the ways OF the
dog, you do not like dogs.
If you do not care for the hablts
of the cat, you do not care Tor cats
If you do not like the ways and
habits of mankind, you do not like
mankind.
Many persons instinctively do not
care for their fellow men. yet theS
are not to be called misanthropes III
any sense of that word
There is no morbid hatred OF man
kind in their characters, no aversion
or distrust of ones fellow men, put
rather. the feeling so well expressed
by the unknown poet in the CLASSIC
lines:
do not like thee, Or. FelI,
The reason why | cannot tell,
Rut | do not like thee, DIR. Fell.
There is no man alive who mas no.
held this thought at some tlme oi
other in his life, or more particu-
larly. at all times in relation 10 Ger
tain types of individuals.
Even the cheerful. so-called optl
mists lose a bit of their sunshine IL
the presence of those who run then
the wrong way.
To cali such bright souls "misan'
thropes" would be a gross lnJustlce
as well as a rank misuse OF the term
They simply represent, tof hioiiieh'
in their EXPANSIVE lives, the every
dav attitude of us who face the facts
of life with more common sense
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After all, is there anything partlcu'
larly astonishing about not hklhs
mankind?
Man is such a diffusive creature
and has taken unto himseH SO ihihS
guises, and engaged In SO many en-
deayors, with such resulting dlnereht
habits of mind, that 1t is no Woiiuei
every one cannot love every one Gdov.
The aggregate bad habits, vicious
tendencies. inimical deeds, OF man
kind as a whole, demand of every
sensible. thoughtful person a sense or
aversion.
This shrinking from the bad IN our
common human nature is not oniy
what makes the world what 1t Is
TODAY, but also what keeps the lndlvld-
ual decent.
Not every one in the world is SO
constituted as to be able to face evli
every day and still retain his beilef
in the essential good of human nature.
Fleeing from irksome things,
whether physical or of the spirit, IS
the best course for many men ana
women. This is the common sense
salvation open to every one.
Not for some souls is the heroic
work of saving others from them
selves. This great and necessary task
must be left to those whom Nature
land some call it God''-has constr
tuted for 1t.
The rest of us perhaps will be wise
to shrink from the evils we know OF,
as well as to flee from those we know
not of. despite Hamlet's plea.
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The most common everyday IN
stance of this good running away Is
to be seen in the exodus of CITY
dwellers to the suburbs and nearby
country.
If one is so constructed that the day
and night noises of the city. con-
stantly growing, beat upon the ears as
tympani, he will do well to move to a
place where the loudest noise is the
chirp of busy birds.
Wise men of today who have the
means live in impenetrable fortresses
no less than the barons of old. The
Evening star., 1927-04-02

Though lacking in official confirma
. ton, the report from China that the
Hankow government, which is con
troIled by the more radical elements
in the Nationalist movement, has dis
missed Chang Kai-shek from com
mand of the Cantonese army, may be
regarded as probably true. Evidences
have been coming for some time that
Chang has been meeting with increas-
ing opposition from the elements
ence of Borodin. the Russian His
seizure of Shanghai has given him a
stronghold of great value That he
has contemplated a separation from
Borodin as soon as he has consolidated
his position and gained dominating
influence in the YangtZe Valley has
been regarded as likely. Hankow
however. has become strongly Soviet
lied, and now it would appear that the
break has been forced, in advance OF
Chang's plans.
Meanwhile, the Cantonese forces are
advancing northward from Nankine
and are occupying positions OF
strength, with only a short distance
separating them from the Northern
army under Chang Tso-lin. battle
at Hsu Chow-fu is thought to be pos
sible. But before the forces meet in
conflict they may he brought into
some sort of harmony. 1t is intimatec
in today's dispatches that Chanl
Kai-shek may seek to patch up q
truce with Chang Tso-lin on the basi.
OF mutual demand for China fol
the Chinese" meaning the abolition
OF the foreign concessions, and OF op
position To Russian influence
Events move with strange incon
sequence in China. The foreigner VIII,
seeks to understand the course o
future is baffied by the secret intrigu,
which is constantly proceeding. !
few weeks ago such thing as a con
solidation of interests by the North
ern and the Southern war lords woul,
have seemed inconceivable. Now /
is being indicated as possible on,
come of the schism within the Nation
alist ranks, due TO the development
af radicalistn under Russian influence
Another triple partition of China /
suggested as result of these recen
kauaAexA Cl.-,An k<iznheh anSsssina 1
Evening star., 1927-04-02
The Broadcasting Wave Problem,

A suggestion thrown out by the Fed
eral Radio Commission that the broad
casting wave band be widened down
ward to take in fifty meters of the
established amateur channel of from
$50 TO 200 meters has apparently met
its answer from all phases of the radio
industry, technicians, listeners and
manufacturers, and the proposal has
apparently seen it's defeat.
Expecting controversial differences
as to the widening Of the broadcasting
band. and assured of vigorous opposi-
ton from the amateurs who might find
their field of activity hampered by re-
striction. the Federal Radio Commits
sion has found broadcasters. radio en-
gineers and even the critical listening
public in unanimity that the present
broadcasting field, from 200 to $50
meters, is eminently satisfactory. In
fact, evidence has been placed before
the commission tending to show that
even in the infant days of this now
great industry. had the engineers de.
liberately chosen wave area in which
broadcasting was to be placed, they
would probably have selected the very
ether channels on which programs are
being broadcast today.
Even though the possibilities of
short waves have been exploited and
as encompassing the greatest posi-
bilities in future radio broadcasting
certain technical difficulties have not
| been overcome and there has been no
demonstration that they can be over
| come DR. Alfred y. Goldsmith, one of
radios pioneer engineers. holds that
short wave broadcasting is unstable
and cannot have the fidelity Of broad
casting i'm the air channels now in use
between 200 and $50 meters.
The upshot of the matter is that
| with the virtually unanimous agree
ment demonstrated in all branches OF
the industry that nothing will be
gained by increasing the broadcastine
limits in either direction, upward OIL
downward, the commission will prob
sRhiS tAiak laaS and ssSasssly bsS0gs
Evening star., 1927-04-02
The New Engineer Commissioner,

Announcement is made that Col
William E. Ladue will be the next En-
gineer Commissioner of the District
to succeed Col. ]. Franklin Bell. whose
tour of duty at the District Building
expires on the 21st of June. This ap
pointment comes as surprise. foi
Col. Ladue's name has not hereto
fore been mentioned as .that of one
OF those under consideration for the
assignment. 1t is, however, gratifying
that SO eminent a member of the En-
gineer Corps of the Army as Col
Ladue, who is one of the highest
ranking officers of the corps and who
has brilliant record of service and
performances. has been selected for
this duty.
The office of Engineer Commissioner
Is exceptionally important at present.
Under the new law he is the only
member of the Board of Commission.
ers to serve as a public utilities com.
missioner. There are in progress and
In early prospect exceptionally large
works of the greatest interest and
value to the District. Numerous ques-
tons affecting the physical welfare of
the community, relating especially to
the equipment of the District govern.
ment, are pending.
washington deeply regretted that
the law governing the assignment of
Army officers did not permit the ex-
tension of the term of Col. Bell. who
mas throughout his service here been
IN all respects and to the fullest de-
gree acceptable to the District peo.
pie. He has given the Capital an en-.
gineering administration of the high
est grade of efficiency. and in his par
uclpation in the general work at the
District Building has shown himself
animated by the broadest sympathy
with the community. Had the wishes
OF Washington been observed, had it
been possible under the law to do SO
Col. Bell would have been retained as
Engineer Commissioner for another
tour of duty
1t being impossible thus to continue
an administration so fully satisfactory
to the District. it is evident that
President Coolidge has in selecting a
successor to Col. Bell chosen an off.
Ger of high qualifications. whose vari-
ons assignments to duty indicate not
only his capacity as an engineer, but
abb: - to win the confidence of
those with whom he serves. Col. Ladue
stranger to Washington, for he has
served in this city in the past, but as
one who knows the Capital and to
some extent it's people
Evening star., 1927-04-02
Centralized Power Control
Attracts Increased Interest

| struggle of Gov. Smith the same fight
| that was made by Theodore Roosevelt
in his day as President. BY veto"
that paper recalls, "he killed power
bill granting water rights in California.
| accompanying his message with
warning that monopoly of water
| powers would be the most powerful
| and colossal monopoly known to his
tory"
Mr.. Pinchot's appeal to the gov
ernorS of all the States is viewed by
the Peoria Transcript independently as
unlikely to produce results. He need
not be surprised" states that paper,
If the governors find it exceedingly
difficult to establish their facts as the
basis of legislative reform. If the
electrical trust needs busting Mr..
Pinchot and his associates have post
poned their campaign until it is too
late for effective regulations. Certain
1T is that the next Congress will be
indisposed to attack a giant industry
which boasts of customer-ownership
and which has been known to finance
political campaigns upon a reciprocal
basis
On the New York phase of the sub
ject the New York Herald Tribune
Republican) says: 1.-THE mind of the
voters is set against bureaucracy and
socialiStic invasionS of the field of
private enterprise. The disastrous
conduct of the Nations railroads un
der Mr.. McAdoo's governmental opera
tion is still fresh in the public's mind.
Mr.. Smith has already been driven
back long way from his original
water power plan. If he persists in
his present folly. he will end in a
rout."
The Elmira Star-Gazette Gndepend
ent. however, referring to both
Boulder Dam and New York, declares:
IF the Government undertakes this
great constructive project (Boulder
Dan), as 1t assuredly will, it should
control the switchboard The
spectacle of the great power interests
working to block this great undertak-
ing because the bill gives the Govern
ment the right to develop the power
has direct bearing on the effort to
wrest from the people of this State
their control of the st. Lawrence.
Among the individual States, Ala
bama is deeply interested in its local
power problem. The Birmingham
News independent Democratic) refers
to the Alabama Power Co. as "a cor.
poration which is enabling thousands
of other great and small concerns to
make money and at the same time
create here in Alabama one OF the
greatest industrial regions in the
world" The News adds: Public
opinion in. Alabama has evolved from
the provincial idea that corporation
wealth means tainted wealth to the
point where it demands only that
great public utilities. such as the
Alabama Power Co., shall be properlv
regulated by the Public Service Com.
mission without throttling it, leaving
it free to go ahead and develop the
splendid resources of the State, legiti. Z
mately."
OF the problem In Maine, which 1,
involved in general New England
plans, the Portland Express Repuhli.
CAM says that ''the basis of the wata,.l
power agitation can be traced preftv
we'll to the Western conservatism
movement, but it contends that .so,,,.
waterpower situation is unique ana
peculiar to US, and must be setti~s
accordins u opr QUA nsaAA,'
Evening star., 1927-04-02

any change in the existing broadcast
ing limits is made. Much is to be said
on the side of the radio amateur, from
whose patient and painstaking expert
ments have come many of the ad-
vances in the art of radio transmission
and reception. On the other side of
the picture, the manufacturing branch
of the industry would be hard hit were
present receiving sets to be rendered
virtually obsolete by extension OF the
broadcasting limits. For few CONNER
cial sets are built today to go down to
200 meters and practically none goes
beyond the upper limit of the broad
casting range.
Evening star., 1927-04-02

There is an organization IN Ne"
York. with a most formidable name,
which has undertaken to soiVe Iiroet M
formidable problem. 1t is the Ne"
yorL state Crime Commission SUD
comnission on Causes. This organiza-
tion has lust filed a report showing
that it is the press which is the cause
Of much that is wrong in the Worio.
II undertakes to censor the press ior
it's policy in publishing the detaiis OF
the news of crime and scandal, ana IL
seems to sweep within the scope Oh
it's condemnation all the newspapers
rather than to differentiate between
such as delve in cutters ana others
which but publish "all the news" that $
fit to print"
The accusation lies chiefly against
the publicity given to divorce ana
murder cases, on the ground that the
filth of the divorces will besmlrch the
minds of unreasonable youth, ana
the notoriety of such murderers VIII
confuse the youthful ideals as TO Wnat
Is heroic and what is coWardly. rev,
If any. murderers there are, or ever
have been. who were not impelled to
crime by contemplate cowardlce or
weakness of sef-control, with no ele5
ment of the heroic, but it is con-
tended that publicity eNaltS thelr ueeus
as If they had dared be great and
noble.
One criticism of the yellow press
may well be taken seriously. 1t is
against the publication of portraits OF
officers of the law connected with ar
rests. The less familiar the criminal
public is with the identification Of de
tectiyes, the better may the officers
succeed in contacts with the Crime
world. Detectives often seek clever
disguises, but their makeup may
easily be defeated if the men they
are seeking are acquainted with their
normal appearance. No detective who
is worth his salt desires to betray his
own identity by too much newspaper
publicity of his portrait, although it
may be his due to be given full credit
for making important arrests.
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The subcommission put up to ex-
perts the following qquestion:
do you think that the methods
used by newspapers of securing and
presenting crime news are i'm any way
a factor in the present crime situa-
tion?" The replies followa
Evening star., 1927-04-02

| Growing interest in the possibility
of centralized and pyramided control
of hydro-electric power in the United
States is revealed in recent press com.
ments on the efforts that are being
made by Clifford Pinchot and others to
bring the matter to an issue before
/ the country. 1t is even suggested
| that the power question may play an
| important part in the next national
campaign.
| That Mr.. Pinchot has hold of a
very real issue" is the belief of the
Harrisburg Telegraph Republican,.
which says of such combinations that
in the long run not only the outside
investor is bilked by overcapitaliza-
| ton but the consumer is made to pay
the freight in rates high enough to
guarantee a return on the face value
of the inflated stocks. One of these
days" continues the Telegraph, "the
electrical power issue is going to loom
very large in the public mind The
Indianapolis News independently OBJ
serves a tendency on the part of the
public to assume that 1.-The merger
policy and attendant recapitalization
are designed to avoid sharing ade-
quately with patrons the benefit of
cheaper generation of current. Nor
paper, "as to production costs having
declined"
Power interests have literally linked
the power lines of the Nation into one
great net," says the Houston Chron-
icle independently, with the comment:
THAT all this represents great scien-
tific and economic advance and offers
the opportunity of development to
many sections of the country no one
can deny. But it seems that along
with the concentration of the plants
even greater. The concen-
tration of so much power in the hands
of persons whose own wealth is not
greatly involved in the properties that
they control raises a question of pub
lie policy about which there probably
will be great deal of discussion"
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Before very long" in the opinion
of the Providence Bulletin Gndepend-
ent), ''the entire country will be sup
piled in some way with power from
huge central plants. 1t would sur
prise many people to know what ex-
tensive connections already exist.
Sooner or later the decision of control
will confront the voters. 1t behooves
us all to give the matter earnest at
tention." The Buffalo Evening News
(Republican) suggests that Senator
Norris and his friends are likely to
talk the question of power policy into
the platforms in the 1928 campaign"
and that paper holds that 'it is not a
pleasant prospect to contemplate, for
the issue is not one that lends itself
easily to a reasonable public decision"
Senator Norris is quoted by the Day
ton Daily News independent Demo
cratic) as stating that 1.-The average
price of household electricity in the
United States is four times as high as
in Ontario. where they employ the
system favored by him for Muscle
Shoals and by Gov. Smith for New
York power. Of course, that compari
son is questioned" admits the News.
In the questioning there is evidently
room for a hot political issue. Into
that issue the country, whether on
party lines or some other, is evidently
headed" The Portland Oregon Journal
independent Democratic) sees in ''the
Evening star., 1927-04-02
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON
Eg0isiil.

EgOism.
/ stand at night
And look into the distant marvellous
skies.
The stars in flight
Shine in their beauty on my wonder
ing eyes.
And here below.
AS through the night the travellers
| see,
Lights come and go
In the pursuit of sorrow or of glee.
So, each man views
The luminous expanses, near or far,
And waits the news
From a near neighbor or d distant
star.
Each man makes bold,
Peasant or poet, rich OF poor in
purse,
To say, Behold.
] am the center of the universe!"
Evening star., 1927-04-02

"A study OF the general weather re-
ports justifies the high esteem in
which the climate of Washington,
ID. c., is held. 1t extends no promise
Of immunity from weather variations
but it never threatens intolerable ex-
tremeS