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tually all the industries and factories
that prosper, down to the cattle
farms, the packing house and the
excellent dairy which supplies the
capital with its butter and pure milk,
and that he is also the owner of the
Venezuelan cement trust. to which
fact they point as being responsible
for the concrete highways. 1t all may
sound fair and reasonable to the
Anglo-Saxon, but the Venezuelan ex-
lie feels quite the other way. 1t is
not the object just here. however, to
discuss the merits or dement's Of the
Gomez type Of rule in Venezuela.
That rule Is solid, however, as solid
as the rule of Diaz In Mexico, even If
it be of a different caliber. No one
has ever questioned that, and the
worst that can be said of it is prob
ably that unless the problem of sue
cession is solved, it seems destined to
fall as the greater structure raised by
Diaz fell-and chiefly for the same
reason. because it is seemingly i'm
possible to pass on to others the
power and the peace that are centered
in one man. And that is apparently
true, even if that man has built. as
they say in Venezuela, upon a tripod
the strongest type of foundation--the
three feet being financial stability, a
concentrated and efficient army and
the approval and support of the
United States.
For at least 10 of the IS years of
Gen. Gomez's presidency in Venezuela
he has been giving attention to the
problem Of the presidential succession.
At one time it was settled that
his brother should succeed him.
And then his brother was cut down
by an assassin. Now, a vice presi.
dency has been created, with provision
for immediate succession to the .presi
dency if the President resigns, and
into that office has been indicted (by
the usual type of ''election') the son
Of the President, Gen. Jose Vicente
Gomez. The father and present ruler
is Juan; the son is Jose. A man in
his early forties, of less vigorous and
as some say, more Athenian manners
than the Spartan type of his father s
ideals and method of living, Jose
Vicente" lies under the cloud of the
innate and virtually universal distrust
of Gymnastics" in Latin America.
None of the giants of Latin American
politics, in any land, has ever been
able to pass his power on to son,
and hardly any even to a chosen
successor. Profirio Diaz, himself, al.
though he wisely avoided seeking to
make his son his successor, was un.
able to pass the power on to the man
of his choice. Today we know that
choice was a worthy one, made with
an eye single to the good of Mexico,
and that Ramon Corral would have
probably made great President, for
he was man of high ability and pro.
bity. But in those old days even we
foreigners who lived in Mexico were
r oisoned against him by the whispered
CONTINUED on Third Page.)
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On Being Too Careful
BY BRUCE BARTON

"HEY told me the other
day that a big, full
1 blooded friend Of ours
Il had broken down at the
age Of 43 and was in sani-
tarium.
This is not a remarkable bit
Of news unless you know the cir
cumstances.
The big fellow was one Of the
famous oarsmen of his time on
the crew Of an Eastern uni
versity. His fathers income
was sufficient so that our friend
has never worked. He has been
a traveller, a fisherman, a big
game hunter. His first and al
most his only real concern has
been to take care Of his physical
we'll being.
And he goes to smash at 43.
The father, on the contrary,
works every day as the president
of an important business in a
highly competitive field. He 10
still hitting on all six cylinders
at the youthful age of 81.
There is something to think
about.
Lord Leverhulme, the great
English manufacturer, in a re-.
cent letter to a friend, quoted
this story of Gladstone:
"During the early coaching
days, Gladstone used to inquire
from the coaches that went out
of London through Barnet and
st. Adams, whether il was not
hard on the horses, and whether
the altsrnativefro which, poas
through Slough and 10 fairly
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Dictator at Lisbon
Facing Many Tasks

A year has passed since the advent
Of the dictatorship in Portugal. The
military government has had a far
sterner fight for supremacy against
subversive forces than the Spanish
directorate ever had. In organization
Of government Dictator Carmona is
following closely in the wake Of Gen
Primo de Rivera. Spanish dictator, as
the latter initiated Premier Mussolini
Of Italy.
Moreover, Carmona. coming last,
has the benefit OF his colleagues ex-
perience, which has been unofficially,
yet freely, communicated to him by
special emissaries.
If he refrains from the depreda-
tons that sank Dictator Pangaios in
Greece and survives the violent polit.
ical manifestations. Carmona should
greatly improve the sif aation in Por.
tugal, ushering in an era of prosperity
for the country and her colonies.
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Surveys Being Made
In Palm Tree Regions

Extensive investigations in the
palm tree regions of North Africa are
being conducted by Walter T. Swingle,
eminent American botanist and agri-
culturist. DR.. Swingle, who is con.
nected with the Bureau of Plant In
dustry Of the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture, is known for his
researches throughout the world in
plant culture. He is responsible for
numerous discoveries and innovations
in his field, as we'll as authoritative
works on plant pathology, date Gull
ture and other divisions Of botanical
science.
He has been in this part of the
world for some time. Accompanied
by six French colleagues, he has al
ready visited several Algerian and
Moroccan GASES about the Sahara,
making particular studies in the large
palm tree gardens Of southern Mo-
rocco.
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DOUBTS THAT PRISONS OF II. s.
AFFORD ALL COMFORTS OF HOME
Crowded Conditions Give Anything But Pleasure to
the Men Confined in Federal Institutions,
Writer SAYS.
To the Editor OF The Star:

TO the Editor OF The Star:
find in my clippings one from the
Washington Star Of May 26 which
contains the following statement: "A
visit to one of the big Federal peni.
tentiaries will demonstrate conclusive
ly that living conditions are better in
these institutions than probably one.
half of the inmates have ever before
experienced"
l am personally familiar with the
conditions In the two Federal prisons
at Atlanta, Ga, and at Lcavenworth,
kans.
IT you will refer to the report of the
Attorney General for 1925, page So,
you will find the following statement:
THE Federal penitentiaries are
crowded far beyond their normal ca :
pacity. Every available place Is used
to furnish some kind of sleeping quar-.
tiers. In order to provide accommoda.
tons 1t has become necessary to place
two prisoners in cells intended for
one; and many prisoners are COM
PEELED to sleep in Easements. This
overcrowding Of the prison population
endangers the health of the inmates
as well as the safety of the institu-
TONS"
The Atlanta Penitentiary has a
normal capacity of about / 800 prison
ers, and on June 80, 1925, it contained
1888 prisoners.
On page 335 Of the same report the
warden at Leavenworth makes the
following statement:
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ny WALLACE THOMPSON.

| 1T Is now 20 years ago that the
question of the presidential sue
cession in Mexico first became the
all-engrossing subject in the land
of the Aztecs. 1t also became a
| topic of academic Importance to a
| world blissfully ignorant of the hor-
ror and chaos into which Mexico. and
| by reflection all who watched Mexico,
were to be thrown by the solution
of the question of who was to succeed
| Porfirio Diaz. In those old, still gold
en-, days in Mexico, one of the vigor-
Gus young editors who watched the
failure of the plan Of President Diaz
to bring Ramon Corral down to Mex
leo City to become Vice President
and to succeed Gen. Diaz when he
should resign was Nemesio Garcia
| Naranjo. And in the tragic years
which have followed, Mr.. Garcia Ma
ranjo, now the honored dean Of Mex.
lean journalism, has been vigorous
and appreciative defender Of the great
| Mexican dictator, Diaz, in the face
of almost universal anathema against
| him throughout Mexico herself.
Now there comes, in Spanish and
English, book, published a fortnight
ago by Mr.. Garcia Naranjo. on the
, life and works of the dictator Of Ven.
ezuela, Gen. Juan Vicente Gomez. 1t
is appreciative and adulatory, both of
of the man and of the system of his
rule in Venezuela. But it does not
discuss the presidential succession in
,A1n t0I Ss or1N @
vivid and important an issue as was
the presidential succession in Mexico
from 1907 to 1911, when Gen. Diaz
left Mexico for the last time. The
lack is one which will be noted by
such newspapers as review the book,
which is obviously published as sort
of apologize for the muchcriticized
executive of Venezuela.
* X X
There is no more vivid political
issue in Latin America today than the
question as to what is going to hap.
pen next in Venezuela. More, per-
haps, turns on the result Of the three.
cornered presidential campaign in
Mexico, and certainly there Is a more
the fortunes of President Machado of
Cuba, while the Argentine elections
Of 1928 will be profoundly important.
But for color and vigor and the pleas
ant excitement of intrigue and deli
cate political balancing, the situation
in Venezuela is more appealing than
them all.
Mr.. Garcia Naranjo has given some
thing of the background, in his own
beautiful Spanish, and he has wisely
quoted in part the most outstanding
OF the many clever apoIogists for
President Gomez-Dr. Laureano Val
lenilla LAM. the author of Demo
cratic Caesarism." Both have pointed
out that Simon Bolivar-the great lib
orator Of half of South America and
the founder of Venezuela, in whose
capital city he was born-that Boil.
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School for Workers
On Indian RAILWAYS

Opening of training school for EN-.
ployes of the Indian railways is an
nounced by the Indian Railway Board.
which for the past several years has
been considering schemes and propos-
ais for the training of STATS in
transportation duties and other tech
meal matters. Both primary and ad-
vanced courses will be given. the
former to provide training for proba.
TONERS who have commenced their
railway service.
Advanced courses will provide In
struction for probationary officers as
well as refresher courses in the work.
ing Of such mechanisms as the vacuum
brake. electrical train lighting. the
principles OF locomotives and theory
and Ma Of the telegraph instrumsllr.
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DRpEDpo MANUEL APcAYA JOSE VICENTE GOMEZ

can SOIL In Porto Rico. The great
material advance, the construction of
thousands of kilometers of concrete
highways, the building of factories,
the improvement Of cattle and the
steady effort toward union under
President Gomez are all set forth
in the excellent colors they deserve.
The other side is not shown, although
that has been freely presented by the
exiles from Venezuela here, who have
told us many times that President
Gomez himself Is the owner of vir.
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war said that Venezuela must be
ruled by dictators in order to insure
sound and just government. Both
point out that every stable ruler of
Venezuela has been a dictator, in
Guiding the great Guzman Blanco, the
gentlest and probably the ablest of
Venezuelan rulers.
X X
Mr.. Garcia Naranjo then tells Of
the IS years of Gomez, since he over
threw President Cipriano Castro, who
died not long ago in exile on Ameri-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17

~ ISQUIETING as have been GER
tain details in recent Euro
pean history. the past weeks
~ have seen two encouraging
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Balance Against Farmer.

But Notwithstanding the improve
nent in the actual condition Of the
farmers, due to good crops and in.
creased prices, the balance is still
against them when it comes to COM
pairing the dollar OF the farmer to the
dellar of the industrialist. Further
more, the farm leaders point out thar
there lie nothing to prevent the farm
srs from facing another terrible slump
and starvation prices for their prod
uce. They want some definite plan
which will prevent great fluctuations
in farm prices and consequent disaster
for the farmers. They want some sys
tenn that will do for the farmers what
the Federal Reserve system has done
for the bankers and financial inter
ssts. aaas want some aystem thai
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17

Continued on Third Page.)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-23

No Breakfast Complete without
The Dispatch.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-23

counties, and the Monday following
for public hearing on any protests
that may be received. After action on
protests, the budget will become final.
1t is now tentative only and at today's
sessions State Engineer Lefebvre said
that no lecision was taken on any OF
the projects listed in the construction
program submitted.
: Wages were raised by the commits
sion from q base rate of 81 a day to
$3.50 and Secretary M Clay HankinS
was instructed to get into touch with
tne Tucson chapter of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, which has
Just completed survey of municipal
engineering surveys, for its recon-
mendations on just salaries for the
departments engineering force. Fl
State Engineer Lefebvre becomes the
highest paid officer of the state gov
ernlnent. His salary is fixed at $500,
an increase of $1,5OO, and Chief Engi-
neer Lanes becomes $780, the same
amount paid to the governor.
E. M Waitworth, newly appointed
superintendent OF the motor vehicle
DIVISION will receive $4,000, the same
dluOulC CA1u W ~. M. AdA1uCA II oCOAC-
5ary and purchasing agent of the board
of directors of state institutions, whose
connection with the highway depart
ment was terminated when the high
way bill became effective earlier this
month. Secretary Hankins' salary was
placed at $4,000.
After consulting counsel, the COM
lnissioners voted to notify State Treas
.urer Callahan's office that unless the
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-23
WOMANS BODY,
PAJAMA CLAD,
FOUND In BAY

SANTA ANA, Calf, Aug. % R-
The pajana clad body of woman
found floating in Newport Beach bay
today, was identified tonight as that
of Mrs. Beatrice B. Wittmeir, 38, by
her mother, Mrs. Isabelle Burleigh.
The latter advanced sleep-walking as
the cause of her daughters death in
the sea.
The drowned woman had the habit
of walking in her sleep, her mother
told authorities, expressing the opin-
ion she had walked off the wharf in
front of their Balboa Beach cottage
during the night.
The water is about ten feet deep at
the wharf end, she said.
The coroner, who had stated an
inquiry on murder theory, said to-
night that, no inquest would be held
as he was satisfied the Woman's
drowning was accidental.
Mrs. Wittmeir, who diNDrced her
husband some time ago, left IL year
old son.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-23

$121,OOO appropriated for the depart
ment in Governor Hunts emergency
proclamation is set up for immediate
use, a writ of mandamuS will be asked
in the state supreme court. The
treasurer IS absent from the state and
Acting Treasurer Sml las not yet
given the commission a final answer
as to the intentions of his office.
Formal demand on State Secretary
Kerby for the records and books of
his motor vehicle division, which the
new highway act turns over to the
highway commission, has not yet been
made and Secretary Kerby said today
that until it has been, he has no COM
ment to make on persistent reports
that he intends to institute legal pro-
ceedings resisting that portion Of the
act which devests him of his duties
under the act to protect the title OF
motor vehicles, sessions laws of 1925.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-23
By BIosser
S5,7O0,OOO IS The
STATE HIGHWAY
BUDGET TOTALS

PHOENIX, Aug. % (R-For the re-
naming 10 months of the fiscal year
1928, the state highway depart
ment's construction program, as sub
mitted to the highway commission to-
day, contemplates expenditures ag-
greagting $5,7OO,OoO, the highest total
in the history of Arizona. OF this
sum, $2,3OO,OO0 will be provided out of
federal aid funds, leaving $3,4OO,OOO
of state funds to spend.
The commissioners Gid not receive
the final budget sheets until nearly
3 o'clock this afternoon and were not
able to pass on it in the few hours OF
the business day then remaining.
AICer a continuous all day session, with
no intermission for luncheon, adjourn
ment was taken until tomorrow morn
ing, in the hope of being able to con-
clude their business before nightfaH.
Next Monday probably will be set
for publication of the budget in full
! in one newspaper of each of the IA
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-23
Wife OF Alex Williams
Dies After Long Illness

Mamie B. Williams (colored) wife
of Alex. Williams, proprietor Of
the hotel at the corner Of Eleventh
street ard H avenue, died at the
family llome in Fairview addition
yesterday.
Deceased was native of Texas
but had lived in Douglas for many
years. The body is at the Porter
Ames mortuary. Interment will be
in Calvary cemetery. Funeral ar
rangements have not been conlplet-
ed.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-23
JAP GRADUATES SEEK JOBS

TOKYO, R)-Only 94 per cent of
Japanese university graduates who
come to the central employment bu-
reau looking for jobs find work to do.
OF business college graduates, ,>16 per
cent of the applicants find employ
ment, while AZ per cent of the grad
yates OF 9eool4.. grade schools get work
Starting salaries for university grad
yates are, about $40 month, for col
lege graduates $34 and for second
grade graduates $21.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-23
( Used Furniture "a
"a READ WGAkssE', AIS ., =, J

No Breakfast Complete Without
The Dispatch.
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INDIANAPOLIS RADIO
TIME TO BE DIVIDED
WFBM and WKBF Will Share
Hours on 1000 Kilocycles.
Chicago Change Made.

Radio broadcasting stations WFBM
operated by the indianapolis Light &
Power Co., and WKBF, operated by
NJ. B. Watson of Indianapolis, were
ordered by the Federal Radio Com
mission yesterday to share time on
1890 kilocycles and to operate with
80 watts power each. The order
came as the first step toward clearing
mp a congested broadcasting situation
in the Middle West
When the plant OF the two stations
is moved to the outskirts of Indianap.
oils. WFBM will be permitted to have
900 watts and WkBF' 500 watts
To make room for these stations on
the lower broadcast bands, the COM
mission directed station WTAS at
Chicago to switch from 1000 to ,04O
kilocycles and to share time with
WBCN and WENR of the same city
on the lower frequency.
An order was also issued requiring
station WORD. Peoples Pulpit As
ISOLATION. at Batavia, Ill.,, to change
from 900 to 1910 kilocycles. to use
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ARLINGTON ZONING BODY
ELECTS HARDING HEAD

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLARENDON. Va. September IS
Orga MIA ton of the Arlington County
Zoning Commission, recently named
by the Board of Supervisors. under
authority of spetial act of the Legis.
iature was completed last night at a
meeting at the courthouse with the
election of John r. Harding rs chair
man and A. J. Webb as secretary.
Cooperation of the various civic
organiza tons Of the county. it was
decided. will be necessary for the COM
mission to make a complete success
of laying out the desired coming recG.
lations. The secretary was instructed
to communicate with these groups re-
uuesting that committees be appointed
to assist the commission. AS soon as
this is accomplished the commission
will meet with the committees and
nlan for future activities and co.
operative effort evolved.
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INDUSTRIAL GROUP
.SELECTSpLATFORM
Flood Control, Waterways
and Agriculture Listed for
i 1923 Campaign.


NEW YORK. September 15.-Flood
control regulation of the Federal Re
serve Bank system. tariff and taxation
are among the issues selected yester-
dav for planlls in the 1928 platform
of the American Industrial Commit
tee 0f one Hundred
The platform will he submitted 10
the Republican and Democratic con
yontions next year and presented
next month AT the annual convention
of the National Association of Manu-
facturers at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Fourteen subjects were chosen at
Yesterdays session When all issues
to he covered by the platform have
been decided upon. they will be turned
over 10 a subcommittee, which will
draft the platform.
OF the II all but 3 were included
in the 1924 platforms of both political
rarties and of the association. Those
three are waterways development
food control and agriculture. Other
subjects selected were Government
and business. taxation. regulation of
combinations, private employment re-
lations. transportation. immigration
and naturalization. international rela-
tions tariff. foreign trade policies.
merchant marine and the Federal Re-
serve Bank system.
sixty members Of the committee,
representing 81 States. attended yes
terdaN'S session.
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Guinea Fowl In Park, Missing Feed,
Peck in Anger at Innocent Visitors

at an innocent stranger who had seat
ed himself on the bench.
Those who passed along tn, wind
ing walk were astonished to be &C.
tually attacked by the birds. who
threw themselves against passershy,
peckinc and scolding as If holding
them responsible for the failure Ct
their benefactor to appear.
One elderly woman, wearing the
voluminous skirts OF a bygone day,
was fairly driven from the walk and
retreated in disorder before the on.
slaught of the birds.
The sun went down to the tune of
the G'lineas' squawks and they were
forced to go to roost without their
sumner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15

became Infatuated last night when a
kindly passerby who feeds them each
evening failed TO appear at his GUS
tomary hour.
Promptly on the dot of $40. the
usual time at which he is wont to re-
pair to a bench in the southeast cor.
ner of the square and scatter his
bounty of grain, the fowls strutted
close by the bench, but their friend
was not there.
At first they took out their disma V
in raucous cackles. hut dismay soon
turned to anger and they vented their
disappointment by pecking savagely
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not more than IL hourssa week and
to divide time with WBBM, WHIT
and WAAF In Chicago.
The changes were in line with an
announcement by Commissioner Bel
lows that the policy of the commission
from now on will be in two directions,
to eliminate interference wherever
possible and to revoke licenses of sta
tons declining to adhere to their as
signed wave lengths. He predicted
that high powered stations would
grow in number and declared the com
mission would favor such stations be-
cause of their ability better to serve
the public.
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Gets New Plane.

CTRTISS FIELD. n. Y, TENDER
Is LP).-Thea Rasche, German woman
stunt flyer, who hopes to attempt a
transatlantic fight next year, yester.
day received her new Flamingo plane,
sent from Germany to replace the ship
that was damaged in crash at
Poughkeepsie. n. Y, last month.
The new plane will be given a test
flight today or tomorrow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-15
his wife for a short vacation with

his wife for a short vacation with
relatives.
He is survived by his widow. his
mother. Mrs. V. f. Lipscomb. and one
sister. Mrs. Sib Brown. OF Client.
Norfolk. Va. Funeral arrangements
have not been completed.
Mr. Lipscomb was president of the
Realty Publishing Co. with a plant
at Boynton, Fla. The company pub
lished the Palm Beach World, the
Lake Worth News and the Del Ray
Post In addition. he had estab-
lished the Florida Real Estate and
Tourist News Of Palm Beach and
Miami
Several Of these publications sus.
pended at the collapse Of the real
estate activity and more recently he
has been successfully publishing a
labor organ.