Evening star., 1928-08-08

However large the radio hook-up next
Saturday for the Hoover notification
ceremonies may finally prove to be--and
1t 5 already established that 1t viii be
the largest the country has ever seem
it is apparent that the broadcast of the
Smith notification ceremonies will be
just as extensive. Indeed, 1t is quite
Eprobable that the hook-up. station for
sstation. will be Identical The National
Broadcasting Co. and the Columbia
chain. which together control more
than so stations. are donating their full
services for the notification speeches of
both nominees. They are asking no
compensation and playing no favorites,
So all the Smith folks have To do is
to take the hook-up arranged for Hoover
next Saturday and adopt 1t as their own.
But future radio service for political
broadcasting for either party will be on
strictly cash basis. Whether Repub-
licans or Democrats are on the air most
will depend simply on which side wants
to spend the most campaign cash for
be about a fifty-flfty break, with each
side matching the other, dollar for dol
lar The preliminary radio expense
budget OF the Hoover campaign direc-
tors is 100000. according TO published.
but unconfirmed reports.
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A widely known Bay State Congress-
man Is prognosticating the political fu-
ture by the same methods of statistics,
factors, charts, cycles and trends that
he applies to his financial horoscopes.
His prophecy is that AL Smith Is likely
to carry Massachusetts. but will lose
the election. He figures that political
cycles are not unlike business cycles.
He says that the Republican cycle of
supremacy In the ordinary course OF
events runs decade before II Is over
turned. hence 1923 Is much too soon
for a change, unless some decisive ad-
verse factors are present He does not
see any adverse factors" at hand this
year except In New England. He thinks
there Is no serious economic depression
that the farmers difficulties are over
rated-~~and that the personal factors
present In the campaign will operate
against the Democratic nominee In
many States But in his home State
he declares there Is a business slump OF
major proportions and the personal fac
tors operate the other way around. SO
he is sanguine Of Hoover's election, but
pessimistic OF Republican success In
Massachusetts,.
Though the prospective sale by the
Shipping Board of the United States
Lines, of which fleet the Leviathan Is
the flagship, is to be made to the high
est responsible bidder, bidders for $780,
100000 worth of ships, who are ready
and able 10 guarantee future operation
IN the transatlantic service, are few ana
far between The fleet would have been
been In sight. AS matters now stand, the
syndicate headed by Lawrence X,
| Wilder OF New York Is the most likely
| prospective buyer, Wilders principal
associate in the shipping venture ls w,
! +. Kenney. millionaire New York con-
| tractor and close friend and bncker OF
| Gov. Smith. kenney came forward
some months ago with tentative pro-
| posal 10 charter. but not 10 purchase.
the United States Lines, When This
deal did not go through, Kenney became
associated with Wilder The latter
| represented the Brown BoVeri Electric
Co, In his attempts last winter To ln~
| terest the Shipping Board and Congress
In a proposition to have the Govern
ment finance the building Of feet or
| express" liners 10 cut the time from
| New York 10 Southampton 10 four
/ days. Since then Wilder has acquired
| from the Brown Boveri Corporation
their Camden, N. j.. shipyards and all
their other shipping interests and IN
now operating on his own account, IL
Is reported that Wilder still intends 10
carry through his express liner plan to
augment the United States Lines, II he
acquires the latter from the Govern
ment.
| v
Ii Herbert Hoover is elected, his
| Quaker faith will not prevent him from
taking the presidential oath OF office
on March next In the manner and
language ot his predecessors and III the
| words Il solemnly swear" Cluakers ut
The early colonial days never took al
oath and never 'sWore," They Affirmed, -
distinction without difference,
which was as legally effective as the
oath MIR Hoover" Ii represented as be"
lleving that present-day Quakers take