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Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-07
STARR OUT AT 2 p. M. MONDAY

The S. S. Starr will depart for the
Westward Monday afternoon at p.
NJ, according to announcement by
Captain Johansen. Shippers are ad.
vised to load tomorrow if possible.
The next Westward sailing of the
steamer, following it's return, will be
on February Z.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-07
TO VOYAGE ON WARSHIP

LONDON, Jan. 7. P)-Work is pro-
ceeding on the cruiser Renown at
Portsmouth to make it smart for
the little Duchess of York and her
who leave on their Austria
Ian voyage today.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-07
WILL NOT PASS ON CASE

wAsHINGToN,Jan. 7. lR-The Sen
ate elections subcommittee to decide
to investigate the Gould bribery case
without passing or jurisdiction.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-07
MISSING AVIATOR IS
SAFE, LANDS OREGON
THIRTY iNFANTRYMEN ARE DIS
PATCHED FROM VANcOUV-
Err BARRACKS TO SEARCH
FOR AvIAToRs WHO WERE
ON HUNT FOR LOST H!KER.

PORTLAND, Jan. 7. P)-Aviator
Kelly telegraphed he had landed on
Long creek, Oregon, the night after he
was forced over the mountains in
fog
Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-07

Boy Scouts meeting tonight at 1880
o'clock marking the first meeting in
some weeks.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-07
SLIGHTEST BRITISH
PROVOCAT|QNW WILL
RESULT BLO0DsHE:D

PRESENTED TO
BRITISH CONSUL THRU MA
TIONAL NMENT-UNLESS
DEMANDS FULFILLED, BOYCOTT
WILL BE ORGANIZED-HEAV
STREET FIGHTING REPORTED +
Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-07
TUNNEY MAY FIGHT

ST. LOUIS, Jan. {. N-- Gene
Tunney agreed to fight in September
if "Tex" Richard selects his opponent.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-07
Scientist S Dream
Becomes Reality;
Talk Across Ocean

PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND
TELEGRAPH COMPANY, w. S. CLIFFORD, EX-
CHANGES GREETINGS WITH SIR G. EVELYN P.
MURRAY, SECRETARY OF BRITISH GENERAL
POSTOFFICE = OFFICIALS AND REPORTERS
LISTEN IN
Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-07
COCKTAILS FOR RICH
WHITE MULE IN DENS
YET j. 6. IMPROVING

EVEN WITH MISERABLE EN-
FORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION,
AMERICA LEADS WORLD PRO.
DUCTION IN WEALTH AND GEN.
ERAL STANDARDS, DECLARES
RAYMOND ROBINS OF CHICAGO
Evening star., 1927-10-10
New Traffic Light
Proposal Is Opposed

TO the Editor of The Star:
If an outsider may be permitted an
opinion | wish to state that If the
proposed new traffic light program as
recently set forth in The Star is put
in force, it will materially clog the
wheels of business in Washington and
put an added burden on transporta-
ton, which must be passed on to the
ultimate consumer" Already the
cost of delivery has been increased by
the numerous (many Unnecessary
'stop" signs with which the city is
dotted. Through traffic has been de-
fiected from Massachusetts, avenue to
Connecticut avenue and X street.
sixteenth street traffic goes up FIT
teenth. Now it is proposed to block
ade both these as we'll as Rhode Is
land avenue and Sixth street.
Washington was once called city
of magnificent distances" 1t should
now be dubbed ''the city of unneces.
sary stops"
The synchronized idea will not work
out in heavy traffic. Mr.. Harland can
learn this any morning or evening on
Massachusetts avenue. He can also
see cars make right-hand turns on
the red light and see cars run by his
stop signs.
/ believe In sane motoring and In
reasonable regulations. But / can't
see the necessity of relegating Wash.
ington traffic back to the days of
horse cars and the speed Of horse.
drawn vehicles. A. y. PHILLIPS.
Evening star., 1927-10-10

great majority of voters in their own
States are so opposed to MIR. Coolidge
they would turn him and his admins
ration down in 1928 IL the opportunity
presented. But it is quite true that
these same Progressives in 1924 were
just as violently opposed to Mr.. Cool
Idge. 1t is quite true that they as.
serted Mr.. Coolidge could not and
would not carry these Western States.
1t will be recalled that Mr.. Coolidge
carried them all. with the exception
of Wisconsin, which remained faith
full to Senator La Toilette.
What has occurred in the last three
and half years to rouse the country
against President Coolidge or candi.
date of his kind? Never in any sim
liar period has the country been more
prosperous as whole. Even in the
farm districts where there has been
distress. this distress has been allevi-
ated. The Progressives are giving the
American people credit for little COM
mon sense when they insist they are
now ready to kick over the apple cart.
Evening star., 1927-10-10
Progressive Dreams.

Republican Progressives will con-
tinue to "bore from within" Even
those who stepped outside the party
lines three years ago to support a
third. hybrid ticket, with the late Rob
ert NJ. La Toilette at the head and
Senator Burton K. Wheeler, a Demo-
crat, at the tail. appear now to have
abandoned all idea of third ticket or
third party for the national campaign
of 1928.
But the lesson, so clearly demon
strated in recent years in this country,
that organized minorities can be made
I powerful politically, has not been lost
on the Progressives. The Progressive
group in the Senate is planning to
launch presidential boom of it's own,
with Senator Norris OF Nebraska as
the likely choice of the group. Sen
ator Norris, however, is proposing the
nomination of Senator Borah of Idaho.
who has remained somewhere in the
No Mans Land between the ultra Pro-
gressives and the regulars of the
party.
The Progressive group does not ex-
pect to be able to nominate the presi-
Dental candidate OF the Republican
party. What it does hope, however,
Is to show such formidable front
that its wishes win have. to be con-
sidered in the Republican national
convention, both in connection with
the nomination of a candidate and
with the drafting of platform.
Already Senator Norris and others
of the group are predicting dire re-
suits for the Republican party if it
dares to nominate a ''reactionary'-
President Coolidge, for example, or
Charles Evans Hughes of New York.
They visualize the great States of the
West turning from the Republican
party to support Democrat for Presi.
dent under such circumstances, even
Gov. AL Smith of Tammany Hall, New
York. The Progressives in their ef-
forts to frighten their more regular
brethren of the G.. o. p. are over
playing the role Of prophets of evil.
Probably they know as well as an
other that the Democrats of the West
themselves have no such hope.
1t Is no secret that the Progressive
group does not like Mr.. Coolidge or
his administration. 1t is not difficult
Ito understand they would be glad TO
have the county believe that the
Evening star., 1927-10-10
st. Louis. wonder whether the

st. Louis. Wonder whether the
Yanks will win again next year.
1t was only twelve days ago that
news of torna1o's terrible achieve
ment in the capital of the lower Mis-
sissippi Valley reached the rest of the
world. OF dead there were nearly a
hundred; estimates of the property
damage ran to nine figures. For
day-two days--there was a vivid
sense of horror and sympathy in the
minds of all of us. How is 1t today?
Word comes to us and is carried on
the inner pages of our Eastern press
of the steadfast and undismaved
spirit with which ST. Louis has gone
about the business of repairing the
havoc wrought upon it. The story is
one typical of the afflicted city. Dis
aster is not new to st. Louis; 1t has
faced it before with a fortitude and
gallantry born of its unshakable
faith in its destiny. 1t is triumphing
and will ultimately completely triumph
over this latest savage blow.
To st. Louis there must seem, in
the surface casualty of the rest of
the Nation, something inhumanly un-
sympathetic. Facing the stnpendous
task that is hers--facing it with the
ruins of ten thousand homes about
her--the outward indifference of those
but recently so articulate in their ex-
pressions of sympathy must be diff
cult of comprehension. Yet this she
must know: That the surface is not
the heart. And that deep within us
is a definite sense of pride in the in.
domitable spirit of a gallant Ameri.
can community, which. by its quiet
courage, lends new significance to
phrase already dear to the world
The Spirit of st. Louis.
Evening star., 1927-10-10
The Spirit of St. Louis.

1t is an extraordinary quality of
that vague amalgam popularly desig-
mated rs the public mind that the
leading topic of popular interest of
today is, almost literally, the inspira-
ton for day after tomorrow's yawn.
Events crowd thickly about us--so
thickly that the predicament of a.
seven.year-old lad at a three.ring cir
Gus, with the lovely lady in pink
tights on his left somersaulting upon
the back of her prancing steed; the
trained seal band playing "There'n
Be a Hot Time in the Old Town To-
night" on the extreme right, and the
muscular lion tanner facing imminent
mastication in the center, is, to our
more mature bewilderment, relatively
simple. There was a flood on the
Mississippi and an announcement
dealing with somebody's choice of
action; a lad with a vivid smile few
across the Atlantic; fight in Chicago
sgd five minutes of hell on earth in
Evening star., 1927-10-10
Heroism of Cities in Disasters
Recalled by St. Louis Tornado

tower of the mind and soul that may
give him connected and harmonious
view of his human life.''
The Providence Bulletin suggests
that against the sudden might OF
these spiral storms there is scant
protection that startled man can
erect" but the Ann Arbor Times News
concludes: Mature has been conquered
in many spheres; there remains this
challenge to mans inventive genius.
The sorrow attending such storms as
that which struck ST Louis ought to
be sufficient incentive"
The Santa Barbara Daily News
assures it's fellow community that
when the damage caused by earth
quakes is compared with the havoc
that tornado can produce In a few
seconds, the quake seems a trif1ing
thing" The Columbus Ohio State
Journal finds that "a special horror
attaches to such visitation. It is so
sudden, SO unforeseen. so relentless. "
and the Binghamton Press offers the
Judgment that mo terror of Nature
on this continent is more to he dreaded
than the tornado before which mans
strong buildings crumple."
Such catastrophes. it is suggested
by the st. Paul Dispatch, never fail
to recall Voltaire who. without a
thought of frivolity and in real
earnestness. protested against the
Lisbon earthquake of 1855 as an
cnense against reason. Nature has
blnd forces against which all tba
proud little devices of men. who like
TO plume themselves on their mastery
over circumstance. amount to inst
nothing at all. There is
httie drama in these great catastro.
phes' rot half as much as there is In
the loss of single aviator who
throws himself out into oblivion. ana
me mind does not easily grasp their
human meaning" %~iA
Evening star., 1927-10-10
Another Pan American Conference.

The conference on simplification
and Standardization of consular pro-
cedure which opened in Washington
today. rs another of the many steps
taken under the general guidance of
the Pan-American Union to overcome
the smooth flow of commerce between
the American republics. Consular pro-
cedure, determined as it is by each
nation to meet its own requirements,
becomes so technical and complicated
at times that it's mastery and under
standing by shippers react to the dis
advantage of all concerned. That
these requirements differ widely, and
often conflict, causes further difficult
ties. The purpose of the present
gathering, in which twenty-one re.
publics of North, South and Central
America and the West Indies are rep.
resented, will seek a standardized and
simplified procedure which may be
adopted by all the countries. The rec
concentrations of the present confer
ence will be transmitted to the gov
ernments concerned and submitted
for adoption to the Sixth Interna-
tional Conference of American States
which meets in Havana, Cuba, jan
uary is.
The conference meeting at the Pan
American Union is an outgrowtl1 of
the Third Pan-American Commercial
Conference from the meetings of which
in the past have grown a number of
commercial conventions relating to
trade marks, customs procedure and
kindred subjects, all of them designed
to make the business of commerce be-
tween the neighborly republics of the
two American continents flow unim-
peded. Devoid, as they are, of political
complications or radically differing
points of view, they have been success
full. Continuation Of conferences be-
tween the American republics is indie
ative of mutual striving toward the
friendly relations to which they are
dedicated. Removing the barriers of
trade and commerce takes down, at
the same time, obstacles in the way
OF friendship and good will.
Evening star., 1927-10-10

This column is indebted to e. w. w.
for a clipping from the current issue
of Science. as follows:
During recent tests made in Berlin
by DR. Victor Mendel, animals and
birds showed a rather surprising lack
of response to moving pictures.
THE pictures were especially
selected for each animal and animal
group, and the experiments were
made in an exhibition room especially
adapted to the purpose.
1.-THE response of dogs was prac-
tically nil. Only a little mongrel of
doubtful origin evinced momentary
interest by shifting at the human
figures on the screen.
THE experiments with cats were
much more favorable. OF five sub
iects, three responded actively. show
ing fight upon %the appearance of a
big dog on the screen.
Experiments with birds were
rather negative. Geese and ducks
chickens and pigeons paid some at
tention, while owls showed great in
terest. Small birds and barnyard
fowls showed anxiety when a hawk
appeared In their line of vision.
"A squirrel displayed interest when
d
screen, but reptiles and fish were, as
might have been expected, quite indif
ferent."
The surprising thing, it seems to us
is that any of the creatures paid any
attention at all to the pictures.
Human beings of today are so uset
to going to the movies that they com
H. L.
ton they are, with their use of a fiat
surface to depict both depth and move
ment, the latter by the consecutive
throwing of slightly different poses
upon the screen, giving the illusion oi
motion.
Mankind has been bred up through
the centuries to contemplate the fiat
page, both in reading and writing
and in pictures and drawings of al
kinds, so that even children have q
sort of instinct for perspective anC
that sort of thing.
The animals. birds and fishes, how
ever, know nothing of books. Their
school is the forest, the uncharted
sea and the limitless air. Such things
as humanity deals with as common
place are utterly outside the knowl
edge of the creatures.
n y X X
If they display any interest at all In
motion pictures, then it is striking tC
degree.
There are popular legends to the
effect that a dog or cat tried to eat
some article of food depicted in a
painting, but such tales are of doubt
full authenticity and scarcely come
within the scope of common knowl
edge.
One may rather suspect that they
are clever bits of propaganda put out
in favor of the individual artist by his
loving friends.
Certainly the dogs and cats we have
been privileged to be acquainted with
never displayed the slightest evidence
of taste for art, either pure or ap
piled.
A picture on the wall to dog Is
nothing. or less than nothing, il such
there be.
Even the mirror leaves an impres
sion upon the average animal which
may be properly termed negative. AS
far as our observation goes. neither 8
dog or cat really seems to grasp a
looking glass"
The animal. while he sometimes will
Evening star., 1927-10-10
Invites Open Fight
on Prohibition Issue

To the Editor of The Star:
A statement something like this is
frequently seen in the press: PRO
hibition is not. and should not be made
a political issue in the campaign of
1925"
In some instances the person using
the statement is evidently confused
as to its real meaning. In other cases
the writer is endeavoring to quiet the
drys in his own party while encourag-
ing the wet element everywhere to
proceed as though there were no such
thing as the eighteenth amendment.
Senator Walsh of Montana is more
rational in his views, as expressed in
the interview with him published in
The Star for October 3. This out.
standing dry Democrat says:
"One need only refer to recent tests
in both houses of Congress to satisfy
himself that, in so far as public senti-
ment Is reflected there, the country is
Overwhelmingly dry. An exception
ally accurate correspondent says Con-
gress Is as dry as 6 to J., and that in
four Congresses since constitutional
prohibition was adopted there has
been no retrogression. There must
be, therefore, a. very substantial
change of sentiment before repeal be.
comes a live issue. The wet and dry
question undoubtedly will enter many
congressional contests, but it is un-
thinkable that either party will de-
clare in favor of repeal in whole or in
part or for reversal of the policy"
1t may be true that no one party
will venture plank calling for re-
peal, and that no other party will do
more than to incorporate in it's plat
efa
enforcement of all laws. But these
two policies will still leave large sec
tions in both parties unsatisfied.
If there is a considerable group of
citizens that is determined on the re.
peal-or at least the nullification-of
the eighteenth amendment, let that
group so declare, making it's nomina-
tions and conducting it's campaign in
the open.
AT any rate, in view of the actiyi.
ties of the wet group, it seems i'm.
perative that any party expecting to
make successful appeal to law
abiding, moral and temperance voters
should unequivocally declare, both in
it's platform and in the persons and
characters of its nominees for Office,
that at this particular stage of the
prohibition fight it stands for the
eighteenth amendment.
Senator Walsh is undoubtedly cor
rect in his judgment that the country
is overwhelmingly dry, but the sense
of this win get to the vets much more
effectually through the right sort of
platform and candidates. especially if
the vets themselves are in the field
with a wet platform and wet cand-
dates who go down to ignominious and
deserved defeat.
LUTHER X. LONG.
Pearson, Md.
Evening star., 1927-10-10
.Honking Pedestrians.

A new scheme for pedestrian pro.
lection in crowded present.day traffic
has made it's appearance in London
in the shape of small horn carried
in the, walking stick. The other day
in the busy metropolis pedestrians
and motorists. too, stared with amaze.
ment at nattily dressed man from
whose cane. at every intersection, a
prolonged blast issued.
If this unique walking-stic horn
should become a fad, it is logical to
believe that the next step on the pro-
gram would be to equip all pedes-
trians with lights and possibly bump
ers front and rear Then they could
wander at will through the streets
honking at each other and immune
to all ordinary collisions. 1t would,
indeed. be a strange sight.
Evening star., 1927-10-10
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

condescend to look at himself, does
not really see himself, we are con-
vinced. Once we saw a dog turn, at
the sight of another dog entering the
room, as he viewed the entry in a
mirror. but we are convinced that it
was scent of the second dog, and not
the sight of it in the glass, that
caused him to turn.
y X X
Perhaps there is no owner of a pet
who has not wished that he might
take the creature to a motion picture
theater, especially when one of the
| popular dog actors is on the screen.
| Similarly, many fond owner of
| dog or cat has wished to take the pet
to the Zoo, in order to watch the re.
actions of the animal as it was led
or carried past the Gagged creatures of
many lands.
| Once we saw a domestic cat at large
in the Zoo. Evidently it could not read
the signs. AS far as we recall, it paid
| no particular attention to the crea-
lures, but went on its. solitary way,
which way evidently was stalking
expedition.
| AS to DIR. Mendels experiments, the
brief account given leaves many in.
teresting details to speculation.
Showing of a big dog on the screen
was well done, in the case of cats,
but one wonders if the dogs We're
| treated to the sight of a cat in full
| flight?
| If such a picture was shown, and
tn. dogs failed to respond. certainly it
showed bevond peradventure that dogs
are no movie fans!
| 1t Is to be presupposed that the ex-
perimenter took every care to make
the animals feel at home at their first
movie" Certainly animals suffering
from fright or even plain embarrass.
ment could not be expected to display
much interest in the f1ittering figures
of the silver sheet.
| One also wonders IL the dog spec.
tators were not a. bit handicapped
through the, universal necessity of
showing the pictures in a darkened
or scmi-darkened room.
Would not this give the cat de-
cided advantage?
| y u X y
That the house cat seemed rather
the winner in the novel experiments
will not be surprising to the lovers
of this creature.
| A dog at movie, one might
| imagine, would act the part of a
naughty child, running up and down
aisles, barking at the operator in his
loft. and probably displaying great
deal more interest in the path of the
| light than in the picture itself.
| The dog would want to caper up
and down. just as child who is
taught toe dancing is forever pranc-
| ing in public.
| The cat, on the other hand, finds
| quiet contemplation more in it's line
| 1t is used to sitting by the fireside
and gazing at the leaping flames for
| hours at time. Perhaps it even sees
| pictures there.
| SO it is only natural that cats at a
movie would outdo the dogs as specta
| tors. For all the prating that has
| been done about the companionable
ness of the dog, the cat is just as com
| panionable to its friends, and since a
| theater resembles a home more than
an open field does, the cat would be
more at home in the former than in
| the latter.
| Towser, on command, might sit
! quietly enough in box at play. but
| Puss-in- Boots, IL he were there, really
| would enjoy the performance.
Evening star., 1927-10-10
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today

Secretary Lansing produces mes.
sages showing that Germany was en-.
gagged in acts of war against this
country and was officially encouraging
and directing sabotage here Is months
before the United States entered the
World War. President is
sues proclamation setting forth the
terms under which the Food Admins.
tration, after November /, will con-
troll the manufacture, storage, i'm
portation and distribution of prac-
tIcally all of the essential foodstuffs.
y News just leaks out of a
recent mutiny of the crews on five
German Warships in a widespread
plot for peace. 1t is thought that
drafting for submarine service may
have been a leading cause. with
morale further affected by war weari-
ness. Col. House confers
with President and cabinet officials
regarding the systematic collection of
data to be used eventually in peace
negotiations, staff of experts 70 be
used.
Evening star., 1927-10-10
Stronger Protection
Asked for Pedestrians

IT, the Editor Of The Star:
In a recent editorial on care,ess
automobile driving. Won ment;or tbo
fiagrant case of the Countess Kin.
nouil' which is said to have happened
IN London. and in which the countess
presumably gentle by birth. but in.
different to polite verbiage, was ar.
rested for nearly running over a ne.
destrian. after telling him to go to the
place where fires burn fiercelv
FedestrIans in Washington have an
equally dltficult time. They are SUM-
posed to have the right of wav in
crossing between two lines called bv
courtesy. parallel" Here are waiting
frequently children, or older people
WHO NIo are not so active and cannot
move quickly.
TO hold up ones hand for drivers
TO stop. and advance boldly. invites a
near Heaven. or. at least, mutilation.
IN most cases the drivers do not stou
at al, but drive recklessly past. with
a look on their faces, impatient. vim.
dlctlVe, patronizing. which seems to
say In many instances, what the
countess expressed in bold words.
VIII not Maj. Hesse consider a
stronger protection for the pedestrian.
him?
The pedestrian does not walk as
much as formerly. His condition
seems more often static one be.
tween parallel lines. The driver of
the automobile. on the other hand,
mas more wildly happy time. His
interest Is to find place where he
can reSt-and park
If the rigid authority of the law
would support the uplifted arm of the
pedestrian in places which should be
safe for him. better conditions would
result. OTTO TORNEY SIMON,