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Evening star., 1927-11-30

fee. It Il within his prerogative IN
that capacity to discuss the party's
prospects, its claims for public ap-
proval, its campaign necessities, the
issues that may be declared. Yet q
discourse of that character could not
In the circumstances fail to have Its
implications OF a personal nature.
Nothing has been said yet regarding
the question Of publicity. The as
sumption Is that the full text of the
Presidents statement or address to
the national committee will be given
forth. 1t would, indeed, be unfortunate
il It were not, il it were left to be
the subject Of further speculation.
perhaps to filter out to the public
mind through the medium of the rec
elections of those present, who, 1t
can be almost definitely assured,
could not possibly all be bound and
held to secrecy. For this address will
be of great public Importance and In
terest, and in all the circumstances
it is virtually imperative that it should
be spread on the records in complete
text; whether for the final settlement
Of the question now uppermost in the
public mind or for further disputation
depends upon its character.
Evening star., 1927-11-30
Tornado Relief Funds Needed.

Fear is expressed lest the public
to the fund for the re-
of the sufferers from the
tornado which struck Washington
nearly two weeks ago will not suffice
to meet the necessities. The estimate
of the total requirement, made after
careful survey of the situation,
placed the figure at $4,000. With
this money, 1t was computed, adequate
assistance can be given to all whose
homes were destroyed or damaged and
who were not capable Of meeting the
obligation Of restoration and repair.
Some delay was met in the announce
ment of the public subscription, but
when it was finally launched there
was for the first few days a generous
response. Now the subscriptions are
dwindling in number and in size, and
the total Of ap gifts up to the close Of
the count yesterday was somewhat
less than $1,000. Probably If decision
to call for public aid in this matter
had been reached more promptly there
would have been no such slackening.
Indeed, it may be expected that the
full amount requested would have
been given in short order.
The point of Importance. however,
is not that the call for public aid was
delayed, but that the need remains,
that approximately $4,000 win be
Evening star., 1927-11-30
Alien Quota Urged
For Latin America
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Mexico's recorded immigration into
the United States last year was $3.50.
This does not include those smuggled
over the border to escape the head tax
Britain's quota, including Ulster, is
37,007; Germany's, 51,227; Irish Free
State, 2S,567. These are the three
highest quotas under the Johnson act.
England is the land that gave us our
democratic institutions. The popula-
ton of all three above nations, like
ours, is largely Nordic, Britain's being
overwhelmingly so. Being thus like
minded. they fuse easily into our citi-
Zenship.
The Mexican inflow is nearly 100
per cent peon. The very word ''peon-
age" means slavery. Though we
fought a Civil War over one color
problem, most thoughtful Americans
agree we have not vet solved it with
justice. Can we afford to inject an
other serious color problem into our
population mass?
The worst element herein is the diff
ferential birth rate. If Anglo-SaXon
families average 3 children and
the Mexican peon ones Z, one Ameri-
can couple will be. represented in the
fifth generation by only 243 children.
One Mexican couple in the same time
will be represented by 1896 children.
Thus American culture will disappear.
Greece and Rome both decayed
through not grasping this biological
law about such differential birth rates.
The remedy herein is the Box bill,
placing Latin America under the quota.
G.. M. GOETHE, President,
immigration Study Commission.
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DO Not Choose Held
Applying Only to 1928
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The much discussed announcement
reads, II do not choose to run for
President in nineteen twenty eight"
These II words, punctuation being dis
regarded, are spoken of as 12. Doubt
less in the authors mind they were not
only counted but weighed. The state
ment, to the last word, is fraught with
meaning. We should not, then, con-
slider that the year mentioned is not
particularly significant, as though the
sentence stood, II do not choose to
run for President"
Nineteen twenty-eight is without
prejudice to the generality" and is to
be strictly constructs: it does not touch
on 1882 or 1886. After four years of
Democratic rule or eight years of Re-
publican rule. Mr.. Coolidge might be
found responsive. This next campaign
is not his choice.
For all it's simplicity, this Delphic
utterance has proved somewhat per-
picking. In its uncertainty 1t is thus
true to form. Furthermore, it is true
to form in being prosodical; an iambic
pentameter is followed by an iambic
trimeter. Is there an invitation here
to bring out and match this quality
or verse and thereby elucidate the ad-
verbal phrase? The words are final.
decisive. But may they not be read
In the light of some implied preceding
lines? AS who should say:
OF some still spot I'd be resident,
One or two terms to wait;
/ do not choose to run for President
In nineteen twenty-eight.
NEAL Fl. EWING.
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necessary to meet the requirements.
It must be assumed that Washingto.
mans do not fully appreciate the neces-
sity, else they would be more prompt
and liberal in their gifts for the succor
of their unfortunate fellow citizens.
1t must be remembered that many Of
these sufferers from the tornado are
home owners. striving to pay for their
dwellings out of their slender means.
Some of them lost nearly everything
they owned. Their resources We're ex-
hausted. Not only were their walls
wrecked, but their household goods
were ruined. The Red Cross is care
fully supervising the reparations and
1t is to be confidently assured that
every dollar given to 1t for this work
will be carefully expended and limited
in application to those who are in
actual distress.
Evening star., 1927-11-30

OF aggression. Said the Boston Yam
kee: NO, let us have Navy large
enough to operate something on the
fears of others, but not to subdue
them. Let the magnitude of our
forces consist rather in the marine
we can create on given emergency
than in permanent establishment
Let tho jealous champion of our
rights be the lord of the soil, and not
the hired mercenary. Then we need
not fear that foreign powers will en-
croach on American rights"
y X
The Republicans in the new Senate
are going to miss the debating powers
of three men who failed of reelection
last year--Pepper of Pennsylvania,
Wadsworth of New York and Lenroot
of Wisconsin. Their disappearance
very materially decimates the fighting
strength of the G. o. p. in the Senate
wing Of the Capitol The best Re.
publican debaters there are all in
surgents-Borah, Norris, johnson and
the rest of them-and they're found
battling against the administration
about AS often as for it. The Demo-
Gratis are also minus tower of
strength, upon whom they long were
"ICuSloiIleu u uepenu, IN the person
OF Oscar w. Underwood of Alabama.
y n X
One of the facts developed by the
attempt to bring about Federal inter-
vention in the bituminous strike is
that it's cheaper for operators to buy
soft coal than to mine it in their own
fields at present cost of production.
The meaning, Of course, is that in the
non-unlonized coalfields bituminous,
on account of a lower wage scale, can
be cut. shipped and marketed at less
than it costs unioniZed mines to pro-
duce it. This, at least, is adduced by
the administration as the reason why
the bituminous industry must adjust
itself" and not seek salvation in
makeshift remedies from without. The
official view is that coal, like a good
many other industries, Is going
through a period of reconstruction;
that both producing and consuming
conditions are radically changed, and
that operators and miners alike must
face the new facts and make the best
of them.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-11-30
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

f, feel with a toothache, or Just to what
extent the whole bony framework of
| the body can ache when one is getting
the grippe.
! And now, at the office, the martyr
| receives the cruelest wound of ALL
beside which the Grass animal spirits
of the walkers is as nothing.
| Here no one puts much stock in his
| headache.
If he were visibly pale, they might
| believe him.
| If he were afflicted with the blind
stagGers, or showed any inclination
to go into a coma, or some other
such small symptom. kind fellows
would hasten to ease his aching brow.
If he foamed at the mouth, six
gallons of water would be poured
| over him instantly.
| A dozen large hands would pound
upon his back at moments notice,
| If he gasped for air and INDUCED in
| awful coughing.
Doing none of these things, the
man with headache is plainly "out
of luck" as the vigorous language of
the day puts 1t.
Hello, old man, how are you?"
greets Sam Jones, whacking him over
the head. "You got headache? Ypu
Just think you have. Forget it! Did
you ever try forgetting it? You
ought to try forgetting it. You only
think you have headache. Forget
it,"
Bill Smith is another one. "You
have a headache? Say, did you ever
try dose of Ease-em? 1t will brace
you up. Run over to the drug store,
they'll fix you up"
X X *
Despite the fact that every one
knows he must not expect too much
credence from others, or too large a
share of their sympathy, he never
thelesS harbors the belief that the
world of men ought to be tinged
somewhat by his own experiences.
This is why mankind reveres the
large ceremony of public mourning
when some one man, singled out by
life and events, is given the atten-
tion at his end which every one be-
lieves should be the right of every
man.
Thus men. in honoring one, vicari-
ously pay homage to all those count.
less millions who will make no ripple
in the active world when they pass on.
Life is a queer thing of self-interests
and community interests. The hopes
and aspirations of mankind are first
individual. then shared by the group.
The trouble comes in co-ordinating the
two.
This is an individual task, just as
life itself is individual. Some men
solve it by themselves. others need
help. Some have the solution placed
in their hands by kindly fate.
Those with a sensitive mental fabric
experience the most difficulty along
the way. Just as the skin Of one
man is more tender than that of
another, so the mental makeup of
one is more delicate, more impression
able.
Such a person will find his sorrows
multiplied, but he has some gain in
an equal increase tit is to be hoped in
his joys. Life has a way of evening
up. Those who put up with much
shall gain much.
One of the best gains of life as one
goes along is to come to humorous
realization of the situation he is in
that he is one amid millions; that he
must not expect too much interest or
sympathy from others at large; that
he must approximate the poets brave
picture and, to some extent at least,
be master of his fate and captain of
his own soul.
Evening star., 1927-11-30
The American Pie.

The question Of the American pie
versus the British tart is agitating
London. Ever since the days when
the Queen of Hearts. she baked some
tarts, all on a Summers day." Eng
land has been proud of her apple edi-
fees. Now 1t seems as IL the ubiqui-
tous apple pie, as invented in New
England, Is running the apple tart a
close race for first place in the hearts
and stomachs-of Britishers. If an
American may take the attack of the
London Evening News as typical, he
may believe that the tart is becoming
a poor second. for this is the way
the News discusses the situation:
American pie breeds dyspepsia, dys-
pepsia breeds restlessness, and rest.
iessness begets feverish but none
the less formidable material progress.
The American apple pie is the sheer
gastronomic equivalent Of an incen-
diary bomb" For an American to
learn that the beloved apple pie is the
sheer equivalent" of anything but an
apple pie is 'to laugh" as Americans
sometimes say. The apple pie Is sim.
ply the apple tart adapted to new
conditions. Conditions are different in
this country. and the apple tart evil
IDENTIFY believed in the old adage,
when in Rome, do as the Romans
do" So the apple tart became the
apple pie and has so remained to this
day, boldly, defiantly. proudly, and. if
one may believe all signs, trium-
phantly!
Evening star., 1927-11-30
PHILOSOPHERS
BY
GLENN FRANK

I can understand religious fanati-
cism by itself.
can understand racial fanaticism
by itself.
I could even understand fusion Of
the two IL the religion in question
were a primitive religion with tribal
god.
I confess, however, that am at a
loss to understand the attempt that is
made from time to time to drive Chris
tianity and the cult Of racialism
abreast, for whatever else Christianity
may or may not be. it is, in its basic
philosophy. non-racial or trans-racial.
One of the distinctive contributions
Jesus made to the spiritual future of
mankind lay in the fact that in the
higher realms of the spirit He wiped
out the frontiers that divide races.
In order to do this He had to pay
the price Of becoming a renegade to
the orthodox patriotism and the ortho-
dox religion of His countrymen.
TO him the Kingdom of God did
not mean. as it meant to many of His
cotemporaries. religious monopoly
with Judaism as the only stockholder;
He fatty denied any Jewish claim to
special privilege: He said that He had
never found among Jews such faith
as He found in certain Roman cap.
tain; He ventured the prophecy that
heathen would come from the ends of
the earth and sit down with the He
brew patriarchs, while some of their
own sons would find themselves in the
discard; and one day he did the impol.
ltlc thing Of setting up a Samaritan
rs q model of decency and chivalry He
had not found in Hebrew priest and
Levite.
All this, we may imagine, was rath-
er bitter medicine for the 100 per cent
Hebrews Of His time.
With one magnificent gesture Jesus
internationaliZed what had been until
then a racial religion.
One would imagine, therefore, that
Jesus would be the last figure in his.
tory any one would think Of relating.
even indirectly. to race consciousness
or race discrimination.
And yet, from time to time, the In.
credible attempt is made to unite the
non-racial religion of Christianity with
the cult of racialism.
1 find it difficult to believe that
Jesus, the Jew, flouted His own race
in order to fiatter even the Nordics.
And although my own ancestry has
been, for as many generations as I
am able to trace 1t, white. Protestant
and Nordic, I cannot quite concur in
the intermittent attempts to convert
Jesus into mere press agent for the
Pilgrim Fathers.
(Copyrieht. Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
Evening star., 1927-11-30
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Y 'ars Ago Today

Announcement permitted today that
National Guardsmen from every State
in the Union have arrived in France.
Not q man lost out Of all those who
have sailed from America to the
front. Rainbow Division got away
quietly during week Of October 15.
y This brief dispatch covers a
large troop movement that has been
in progress for several weeks. The
next stage will be actual occupation
of front line trenches. Work OF
American Army engineers on British
front calls forth highest praise from
British authorities. The men worked
in shifts "a hours a day and no such
amount of track had ever before been
laid alcng the front in so short time.
British lost 120,0S9 men during
November, a 56 per cent increase over
October's total. " -" Coming session
of Congress likely to authorize two
more Liberty loans between February
/ and July l. 1918. for total OF $s..
delaying shipments of food to give
coal priority. and takes vigorous stand
against railroads order issued at
Fuel Administrators request.
Gen. Pershing reports FIVE more deaths
in American forces.
Evening star., 1927-11-30

Why the world does not change
| when we do is always something OF
a mystery, one which we often re-
sent.
A man becomes i'll, but his friends
remain healthy. A storm hits the
neighborhood, but the remainder OF
| the city does not mind 1t a bit.
Everywhere one finds strange
apathy in the sufferings and misfor-
tunes of others, as we'll as queer in
difference to such happinesses as may
visit one.
ones joys and woes are strictly
ones own. 1t will not do to expect
too much interest from others. al
though there remains the easily un-
derstood feeling on the part of most
persons that others should take an
interest in everything.
We speak, of course, of the indi-
vidual. When It comes to question
of groups, modern civilization has
done better by humanity.
Great relief organizations, such as
the Red Cross, are the first to re-
spond in case of calamity. Here the
mass consciousness of humanity
speaks out, puts itself into action.
Those who suffer together will find
that the world recognizes their ex-
one can overlook 1t.
He who bears his cross alone, how
ever, does not always have the spot
light of attention put upon him, or
find himself buoyed up by the kindly
words and acts of others.
X X y X
Nothing in the everyday life can be
more harassing, for instance, than
severe headache, yet 1t is common
experience that no acquaintance can
grasp what our colored friends pic
turesquely term THE misery in the
head"-when it is in some one else's
head
Every football seems twice as
heavy, every touch more forceful,
every sound magnifed. when one has
a headache. especially of the variety
usually termed "sick."
Then one should be in bed, but often
finds life remorseleSs. Duty calls.
Work must be performed, whether
ones head aches or not.
So the sufferer goes down to the
office, only to be met by the utter
Indifference of the world, or at least
such part of it as he personally comes
into contact with.
Not a soul is interested in his head
ache.
No one can see it, or smell it, or
grasp it. A headache has no handle
by which others can take hold of it.
Unless one has it himself, a head
ache is only a name.
Often. alas, it becomes a matter for
jest! Perhaps this lukewarmness on
the part of the public toward ones
pet headache is the cruelest blow of
all.
One could forgive the bus driver for
hitting every rut and bump in the
road from home to the office.
Equally one is willing to overlook
the fact that every pedestrian one
sights on the way down seems sur
charged with good health.
How the healthy beggars strut as
they swing down Connecticut avenuel
Listen to that brute whistle!
Willingly one could wiring his neck
as the saying is, were it not for the
fact that the bus is whirling along out
Of sight Of him.
This motion gives no mental relief.
Every street corner shows scores of
lusty persons, fit for treason, strata
gem and spoils, who seem never to
have suffered from such a thing as
headache in their lives.
One wonders IL these exuberantly
healthy persons know what cold is,
or how miserable human being can
Evening star., 1927-11-30

are on the way and in some cases al
ready in operation. This whole sub
Ject is Of intense interest and signifi-
canoe to the United States" the Lead
err adds. Mr.. Hoover long ago saw
the trend and pointed out the mean
ing of it. American business will find
the way to meet the developments,
concludes the Leader.
y X * n
Emphasis is placed by the Canton
Daily News on the fact that Amer
lea is, of all countries, the heaviest
consumer of sugar." and that paper
argues: with less than one-twelfth
the population of the earth, we con-
sumo more than half the worlds out
put of sugar. And we produce only
one-fifth of the quantity which we
consume. When the chief sugar-pro-
ducing countries form a combination
to fix prices, America is deeply
touched in its pocket nerve. In the
case of rubber, such a commodity con.
troll threatened for a time to i'm.
pair the friendship of the two great
English-speaking nations. We
have long permitted ourselves to be
taxed terriffcally for the special bene.
tit of our own sugar producers. Being
hit by outsiders are, however, senti.
mentally two very different things.
These national and international
trusts, backed by governments, are the
newest development of this age OF
organization. 1t puts government into
business in an unprecedented meas.
ure."
In reply to the tariff argument, the
st. Louis Times states: "In Colorado,
Utah, the Dakotas. Michigan and other
States which might be named, sugar
corporations exist but only as re.
finers and marketers. The sugar beet
itself, however, Is produced by indi'
vidual farmers, and the seizure OF the
market by low-priced cane sugar
(which would be inevitable If the tariff
were effected) would mean that this
group Of American farmers (and 1t Is
q. very considerable group would be
absolutely eliminated, and their fleldf
would become simply idle acres"
y X y
"The sugar situation will bear
Watching" advises the Chicago Daily
News. "It is significant that the i'm
mediate effect of the public announce
ment of the plan to apportion sugar
exports was to advance the prices OF
shares of sugar-refining companies.
The sugar industry is entitled to fair
profits and living wages. 1t has been
in urgent need of stabilization. In
Cuba the situation has been particu-
larly critical, and an emergency law
was passed giving the President OF
the republic power to control produc-
ton. The United States has
a great and growing beet-sugar In
dustry to foster. A foreign combine
in sugar might have the result OF
greatly increasing American produc-
ton of that valuable food, IL intelligent
use were made of the opportunity.
The necessity or desirability of hav-
ing an adequate domestic supply or
cane and beet sugar is emphasize by
several papers, including the Kala-
mazoo Gazette and the Martinsburg
Journal The New Orleans Item
states that the cartels of trusts. popu-
lar in Europe, "seem now to be ex-
tended to sone Of the staples in which
Louisiana used to be greatly con-
cerned and we hope viii again be
greatly concerned. 4---.--------------
Evening star., 1927-11-30
What Will Mr.. Coolidge Say?

Announcement at the White House
Yesterday that President Coolidge will
address the Republican national COM
fnittee when 1t meets in this city next
week has led TO the deduction that
he may take that occasion to amplify
his statement of last August to the
effect that he does mot choose to run
Cor President in 1925" There Is no
positive basis for this, however. Moth
ing in the present statement made at
the White House indicates the trend
Of the remarks the President Will
make to representatives Of his polit-
ical party. They will be meeting here
for the purpose of making the ar
rangements for the next Republican
national convention. to be held, pre-.
sumably, in June, in a city then to be
chosen. The specific business In hand
As to provide for the nomination OF
presidential ticket for the campaign
of 1928. The President may not
cchoose" to talk about his own posi-
tiOn in the matter. Inueeu, lhc iosie
of deduction is that he will not deem
It necessary to amplify or in any way
10 touch upon his August statement
unless he feels that it Is incumbent
hpon him, in view of the persistence
ks demand for his candidacy, to be
more explicit. either in elimination 0,
himself or in recognition Of the pos
ability Of his being drafted" for duty
hgain.
There are many matters upon
which the President may talk tt
the national committee members nexi
week without touching upon per
kcnal questions. He is the heal
9f the party by virtue Of his q
Evening star., 1927-11-30

That the tariff will be a campaign
There Is no economic controversy in
which the tariff cannot be made to
figure as an important factor.
Evening star., 1927-11-30
Totals .355 81 or 4 I

1t will be seen from this that the
lowest vote was 2 to /, the highest
was % to / and the average was over
4 to /. There is not practical man
or woman in the United States that
does not know that drink reduces the
reliability and the dependability Of any
man who uses 1t, except in the most
abstemious manner. and even when
used then 1t does not help or make q
man more Industrious or more depend
able or more efficient. Every trained
executive knows 1t. Every laboring
man knows 1t. Every other man
who Is not economically cross-eyed
knows it. CHARLES p. NELSON.