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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

this year, which is doubtful-might turn
out to be the balance of power in West
Virginia next month.
y y 4
Nationalist China is on the verge of
seeking an elevation in diplomatic rank
at Washington, London and Paris. DR..
G. T. Wang, foreign minister of the
Marking government, Is credited with
the intention of making early requests
for the raising of Chinas legations in
the United States, Great Britain and
France to the level of full-fledged en-
basSies. Soviet Russia year or more
ago took the lead in sending an AM
baSsador to China. but since the Com
munist propagandists were kicked out
of Picking ambassadorial relations have
not been maintained. Washington has
more foreign missions Of embassy status
than any other world capital, due to the
fact that we exchange Ambassadors
with six Latin American governments
Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Chile
and Peru.
Nearly all the campaign snapshots of
Gov. Smith show him clutching cigar.
He's incurably addicted to stogies.
Smith told the writer not long ago that
the main reason he plays golf is that it
prevents him from smoking. He EVIL
IDENTIFY realizes he's in danger of favor
ing the weed excessively. Hoover, too,
likes his cigar, but he varies his smok-
ing by frequent tugs at pipe, an in
herited college habit. No one can ever
remember seeing the Californian putting
cigarette.
*
The jaded sidewalks of New York are
likely to see some campaigning what
is" when the National Woman's Party
unfurls It's militant banners In New
York City this month. They're going
to nap, as already announced, for the
Republican ticket. Seasoned picket
ers" who were among the old guard Of
the feminist movement will head the
drive in the big city. They include vet
Grams like Mrs Harvey w. Wiley, Mrs.
Richard Wainwright, Mrs. John Winters
Brannon, Mrs. John Rogers, Miss Maud
Younger, Miss Mabel Vernon and Miss
Anita Pollitzer. These crusading sisters
will wave the purple and gold OF the
equal rights" party day and night from
the Battery to the Bronx. They will
carry on a corner soap-box Stumping
campaign, in addition to one of the
National Woman's Party familiar house.
toulouse canvasses. Washington head
quarters has been tranSplanted almost
en- bloc from Capitol Hill to Fifth ave-
nue..
(Copyright, 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08
Lights on Airships.

Lack of sufficient running lights or
the monster dirigible Los Angeles has
resulted in a complaint being filed with
the Navy Department regarding the
menace to night-flying air mail pilots
Harold P. Pitcairn, president of the
aviation company which operates the
air mail route between New York and
Atlanta on a night schedule, has re-
ported to the department that If it had
not been for the fact that one of his
pilots picked the exact moment that he
was headed directly for the invisible
ship to test his landing lights there
would have been fatal collision. 9th
er pilots, 1t is said, have told of similar
experiences and lucky escapes. Despite
the justice of the complaint and the
seriousness of the situation, no reply
has been received.
The Navy Department should hasten
to take action on this matter. It can
not afford to countenance the flying
of its big dirigible in a manner that is
potentially dangerous to other users of
the air. Everything on the ground, on
the sea and in the sky should be suf-
flciently lighted at night to avoid the
dangers Of collision, and the United
States Navy should certainly take the
lead in equipping the Los Angeles with
enough lights to protect the flyers of
another branch of the Government.
Airplanes and airships will probably
never become as numerous as automo-
biles, but with the steady increase of
flying machines the thought has prob
ably occurred to every one that the
future congestion In the air will be
tantamount to wholesale loss of life
At present the night flyers chief worry
is that he will be enveloped by fog and
that his motor will stop. He thinks little
about the possibility of collision. But
when there are hundreds and perhaps
thousands of others shooting through
the ether at high speed the danger of
crashes will become acute. These prob
lens, however, are something for future
generations to solve. In the meantime
the Navy Department should comply
with the reasonable request that its big
ship be adequately lighted to avert
accidents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08
A Draw or a Decision {

Prince Potenziani, former Governor
Of Rome, has proved that he Is no
CRATER. He effected this proof with his
sword, by pinking slightly man who is
said to have said that he was CRATER
and that his recent displacement from
his position by Premier Mussolini was
due to the discovery of irregularities in
his administration. According to the
code duello, which still obtains in Italy
despite Mussolini's ban, the drawing Of
a single drop of blood by Prince Poten-
ziani from the person of his traducer
definitely settles the question. If the
sword of Prince Lancelotti, who is said
to have said that Potenziani was
CRATER, had touched the cuticle of the
former governor doubtless the verdict
would have been otherwise. But the
case is somewhat complicated. Lance
iottis remark about Potenziani was
heard by Count di Sambuy, the ex-
governors friend, and the count imme-
diately challenged the speaker. A duel
was fought and di Sambuy was wound
ed three times. Did that prove that
Lancelotti was right and that Poten-
ziani was a CRATER? If so, does the drop
of blood that Potenziani has just drawn
| from the person of Lancelotti overrule
the judgment and establish Lancelotti
as slanderer and Potenziani as pure
and upright public Official? AS the
ease stands, Lancelotti first won, then
'ost the argument. But PotenZiani may
claim that the first bout with rapiers
was not and could not be conclusive
because it was not fought between the
real principals. But now some friend
of Lancelotti's may challenge Poten-
ziani, in order to balance the series,
which really stands at a draw in point
of the number of engagements. The
score of the first bout was three to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08
UNITED STATES
In WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today.

In driving cold rain and hail Amer
lean forces today won a fierce hand
to-hand fight with Germans in the
Argonne Forest. Strong German forces
drove them from the crest of Hill 223,
west of Chatel Chehery, but the Amer
leans countered with reinforcementS
and ousted the enemy after two and
a half hours of bloody fighting. More
than 1000 German dead were left
behind. Fighting during the
past three days has been very trying
to the men on both sides. Almost con-
slant rains have forced great suffer-
ing ana tested the limit of the physical
stamina of the men in the front lines.
British and American troops,
with the cooperation of French
Army on their right, early this morning
opened a terrific attack on 20-mile
front from Cambria southwark and
shattered the remnants of the Hinden-
burg system of defenses, advancing to
an average depth of miles. The
violence of the British artillery fire
was almost unprecedented, the guns be-
ing massed wheel to wheel, and the
barrage lasting throughout the night
and part of the morning.
President Wilson today sent notice to
the German imperial chancellor that
there can be no cessation of hostilities
no armistice, so long as the armies of
the central powers occupy the soil Of
the allied governments Five
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08
PHILOSOPHERS
BY
GLENN FRANK

War invariably means, in the end, a
serious setback to the social and spir-
itual ideals of a generation.
And yet, while it is going on, war stirs
mems spirits to the depths, shakes them
out of their usual SNUG satisfaction
with their catch-words, and makes them
freshly sensitive to the issues of their
own lives and the issues of their civili-
cation, thus giving social and spiritual
leadership great opportunity-whi
1t usually let's slip.
C. E. Montague gives this moving de-
scriptlon of the state of mind of the
men in the world war and the chance
I it gave to their leaders:
1.-THE men came under their hands at
the time of most dramatic experience
in most of the mems lives, immersed
in new and strange life of sensations
at once simple and intense, shaken
roughly out Of the world of mechanical
habit which at most times puts a kind
of bar between ones mind and truth,
living always among swiftly dying
friends and knowing their own death
at any time to be as probable as any
ones. To get rid of your phlegm. 1t was
said, is to be a philosopher. 1t is also
to be a saint, at least in the rough; you
have broken the frozen ground; you
can grow anything now; you can see the
greatest things in the very smallest,
so that sunrise on Inverness Copse Is
the morning of the first day and a
spoonful of rum and a biscuit sacra-
ment."
This was a great moment for social
and spiritual leaders, let us say, to get
men to think of values to the call of
which they had been cold in the hum
drum days of peace.
want to suggest that modern science
is creating this same troubled and re-
ceptive mood in mems minds.
Modern science, like modern war,
makes necessary an extensive readjust-
ment in mems lives.
The explosive power Of new ideas and
the distant rumble of new doubts pro-
duced by science are stirring men to
their depths as the roar and destruction
of war stirred men to their depths.
Modern science, like modern war, Is
tnmersing men In new and strange
life of sensations that are intense If not
always simple.
Science is breaking the frozen ground
OF mems completeness.
Science Is shaking men roughly out of
the world of mechanical habit which
so often shuts the doors of the mind
to the visitation of truth.
Modern science, like modern war, is
making short work of many mems dog
mas. and raising thousand and one
battling questions about the purpose
and management of a universe that no
longer seems as simple and as manage
able as 1t did to their fathers
The lives of our children will be pro-
foundry affected by the way leadership
meets now this troubled mood modern
science is creating.
(Copyright. Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08
An Austrian Attraction.

Washington, the National Capital, Is
In constant process of Identification
not only by patriotic, liberal and far
sighted Americans in of1cial positions,
but by the nations of the earth. Build
ing after building, adequate, impressive
and In good taste, has sprung up here
In the last few decades to house
Ambassadors and Ministers Of foreign
powers. These structures have been
important factors in the identification
Of Washington.
The news that Austria Is to add to
the number of these handsome homes
will be received with qualification. Her
Minister has just announced the acqui-
sition of q splendid site for the con-
0truction Of a new home for legation
which is to cost $150,000. Washington
will first benefit by the completion of
the great new British embassy and
shortly thereafter by this latest addi-
ton. Other similar projects are in
contemplation.
The Capital and the Nation should be
grateful to these far-sighted and liberal
governments and should without reser-
walton go and do likewise wherever
high United States officials abroad are
housed In rented or In Inadequate or
inconvenient quarters, or wherever
accommodations suitable to our dignity
come out Of the private purses Of oul
diplomats. I'VE have come to the con-
clusion that renting" states Minister
Prochnik, aside from the difficulty oil
impossibility of finding building which
would fully answer requirements, i
most unecononlie" Austria. he points
out, at present must be governed by
tales OF strictest economy, but has de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08
The Last Four Weeks.

Four weeks from tomorrow is cleo
Zion day. The campaign is now in its
final stage. The candidates for the
presidency are both in action. Gov,
Smith more fully than Mr.. Hoover,
with a longer schedule of speeches al
ready made and yet to be delivered
Minor speakers are now giving voice
throughout the country on both sides.
Press publicity is at full food. Charges
and counter charges, accusations and
HenialS, arguments and rebuttals are In
vast volume In print, and the air
Vibrates daily and nightly with discus
hion, assertion and rejoinder.
Saturday Mr.. Hoover spoke to the
South In q speech delivered at Eliza
bethton, Tenn. His address there was
plainly designed as an invitation to the
States of that section to support him,
despite traditional Democratic fealty.
Next Saturday night Gov. Smith will
speak at Louisville, KY, the first OF
series of addresses In the course Of his
second tour. It is now stated that he
viii not enter the solid South" but
will confine his tour to the borderland,
though he may make visits below the
Kentucky line.
It has from the beginning OF the
campaign been evident that for the
frst time in modern political history
the South Is "debatable." This contest
Is exceptional in the spectacle OF num-
bers of speakers for the Democratic
party addressing meetings in the States
that have heretofore been virtually free
of campaign activity. 1t is also note
worthy that numbers of newspaper cor
respondents have, for the first time
since reconstruction days, toured the
Bouth in search of news of the situa-
tion, and have reported that it is pos
sible that one or more Of the States
In the area of supposed solidity may
this year break away from the Demo-
cratic column.
There are three areas Of question in
this contest, the Northeast, the South
and the West. In the Northeast. which
includes Massachusetts,, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, New York and New Jer-
wey, the prohibition question dominates.
In the South the prohibition question
is In evidence, and likewise the religious
issue, the two being mingled and some
what confused. In the West the farmer
question is causing anxiety to the Re-
publicans and giving hope to the Demo-
Gratis. In the middle area. the States
like Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky,
Tennessee and Missouri, there Is q con-
fusion Of questions. Indeed, this same
confusion prevails through . broad
stretch of the country from East TO
West. In these last four weeks there
may be some clarifying tendency to
show the drift Of public feeling. But.
after all, no campaign is settled until
election day, and on that day, Novem-
Der 6, when "the shouting and the
tumult dies" the votes win be cast that
will determine the result.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08

cided in this case that the expenditure
of great sum of money is genuine
economy.
The representatives Of this great
country abroad are far better housed
today than they we're two decades, or
even one, ago. There is undeniable
room for improvement yet, however.
The best is none too good for this peo-
pie and the best is likewise none too
good for the capitals of our friends, the
other members of the family of nations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08
Republicans Attack Opponents
Stand on immigration Issue

Discussion of the immigration issue in
the presidential campaign develops Wig
orous attacks by Republican champions
on the proposal of Gov. Smith to use a
| later census than that of 1890 in fixing
quotas. 1t is commended that such q
change would shift the source of immi-
grafton so as to vastly increase the in
flow from Southern Europe.
On the other hand. in support of Gov.
Smith, the Roanoke World-NeWs Cinde-
pendent Democratic) argues: Both
parties, In their platforms, declare for
restricted immigration. Both declare
against undue hardship In the separa-
ton of families. It might be argued
that the Democratic pronouncement is
little the more definite, but the pur-
port of the two platforms is sufficiently
similar to leave no real ground for argu-
| ment." The World-News refers to the
fact that the governor favors "a later
census IN determining the quotas" and
recognizes that there may be difference
of opinion as to what census is best to
be used" but contends that whether
one prefers the census of 1920 or the
census of 1890 as the basis for forming
the quotas, the total number of immi-
grants who may be admitted is not in
creased. Mr.. Smith favorS Civ
ing to each nationality quota proper
| tlOnate with the number already in this
country. MIR. Hoover favors an arbi-
trary quota system, based on census
taken 38 years ago. and which results
In giving Germany 81 per cent of our
immigration, when 1t has contributed
16 per cent of our population, and Civ
Ing the British 20 per cent of our i'm
migration when they have contributed
"a per cent of our population"
Speaking of misrepresentation
which enemies Of Gov. Smith have
circulated about him is that he believes
in letting down the bars and going back
to unrestricted immigration, the Lynch
burg Advance (Democratic) declares:
ceptance speech to justify the circula-
ton of that charge. but he plainly stat
cd that he was in favor of the principle
involved in our present immigration
laws, Again. in recent speech, he
made his stand plain"
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Among those who deny that the two
candidates are in agreement is the
Kansas City Times independently,
which holds that the census of 1890
was selected as a basis for the present
immigration law for a very particular
reason" and that up to about 1890,
the great bulk of immigration had been
from the old parent stock represented
in American citizenship, from the coun-
tries of Northern and Western Europe"
The Times adds: IF the quota basis is
to be shifted to later census, one less
than '38 years old'-Gov. Smith has
not indicated which later census he
rrefers-and the discrimination is to
be removed. the plain and unacceptable
result would be the admittance Of much
larger numbers from Southern European
countries. at the expense Of countries
to the north and west"
Smith is on the wrong side of that
issue" insists the Ashland (Ky.) indie
pendent independently which recalls
that, In its editorial position, II "haS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08


! consistently advocated retention Of the
1890 base of the present law" The
New Bedford Standard Republican,
argues: Gov. Smith wants quotas fixed
on the basis of the foreign born in the
country in 1910 or 1920. The result of
the adoption of this policy would be to
decrease the quotas of England, Ireland,
Germany and the Scandinavian coun-
tries. and greatly increase those of
Greece, Russia. the Balkans, Italy and
Poland. No quota plan can be devised
that VIII be satisfactory to everybody.
But II the policy of numerical restric-
ton IS to be maintained, and both the
candidates favor 1t, We doubt whether
any better plan can be devised than the
one now IN use. There is a rational
ground for favcring the policy which
draws our future immigrants from the
races that had most to do with settling
and developing the country and that
best Mt into the American scheme of
things"
eff Gov. Smith is against basing the
quotas on our entire population today.
and If he is against basing them on our
foreign-born population in 1890. he
must be for basing them upon our for
eign-born population today" asserts the
Cincinnati Times-Star Republican,
after taking note of the fact that both
candidates are against the national
origins provision, which was put into
the immigration law because Congress
recognized the undesirability of basing
quotas upon the number of foreign
born in the United States at any par
tlcular time, and wanted to base them
instead upon the character of the en-
tire American people today" The Gin
cinnati paper continues: 1T NAV be
that the national origins plan will not
work. But quota system based upon
the foreign-born population IN 1890 viii
work, and it happens that that popu-
latlon was fairly characteristic Of our
entire population today"
Gov. Smith knows" states the Tn
dtanapolis Star independent Republi-
cam, that 1t was not until after 1890
that the hordeS of immigrants from
Russia and Southern Europe poured
INTO this country. They are the alien
elements so prominent in his home
city. Gov. Smith knows that what he
proposes is to change the quota basis
so that more of these will be admitted.
ana Tor every one of them added to
the immigration list one must be taken
rom the list OF eligibles that might
Wy 10 get In from Great Britain. Ger
many; pcandinavia and the other North
ern European nations. He does not
seek TO increase the tide of innicra-
ton, but to lower the quality"
Ralph G. Dulen, chairman of the
grievance committee OF the Brother
hood OF Locomotive Firemen and En-
gmemen, says the South Bend Trib-
une independent Republican,, "re
ports after a tour Of Western States
tnat employees Of railroads in that sec
ZION are awake to the Importance of the
immigration issues. II Gov
smith were elected and his immigra-
ZION policy made effective. the brother
mood official observes. there would be
increase OF competition in the labor
held Tor the American workman"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08
Says Gene Should Drop
High.Sounding Phrases

From the New York Sun.
Looking over the Bay of Naples from
the vantage point of Posilipo, Gene
Tunney said, 1T is truly a spectacle
of fairyland." Such a remark can only
add to the suspicion with which the
boys in the upper reaches of the Gar
den have regarded a champion who
was on terms of familiarity with Shake
speare and Thornton Wilder.
At the time that he spoke the words
Gene probably did not know that he
was among those whom the Reserve
Board recommended for promotion to
the rank of captain in the United States
Marine Corps Reserve. Even if he has
no regard for the traditions of the ring
that he has deserted, now that he is
a Marine Corps captain. Gene should
have some respect for the precedents
and fashions of speech set by the IL
lustrious Capt Flagg and be done with
talk of fairylands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08

nothing In favor of Lancelotti and that
of the second was one to nothing in
favor of Potenziani.
So it is all very complicated. not at
all like world series of base ball
games. If the impetuous natures of
the Roman nobility follow the tradi-
tional course there may be veritable
epidemic Of duels in and around the
capital. But II Duce will probably have
something to say on that subject. He
has already frowned upon the spectacle
of good Fascist facing each other in
mortal combat, and his frown may
become a forbidding scowl If any signs
appear Of further disposition to settle
the grating question at the point OF
the sword.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

-IntOxicant.
Here's to the ukulele's lay!
Welcome the saxophone!
Oh, let us cherish, day by day,
Each dulcet jazzy tonel
The music soon must touch the heart
Upon emotion bent.
The dance brings forth q subtle art
Which stops the argument.
It offers relief complete
AS each new tune is sped.
The rhythm all goes to the feet
And never to the head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08

A vice presidential candidate does
well to present himself as prominently
as possible. Whether his ticket succeeds
or not, he is rehearsing for a long
silence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08

There Is an old-fashioned little song
purporting to portray the progress In
acquaintance Of a Quaker lass and lad,
beginning. Reuben, Reuben, I've been
thinking" Musicians looking forward
20 Inauguration festivities are undecided
whether to rehearse this or THE Side
walks of New York"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08

Trotsky, i'll and no doubt discouraged,
very probably looks back to the days in
the Bronx when he wrote and dreamed
of the future. He has attained much
of what he attempted; yet the dreams
were the best part Of the experience.