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EVERYDAY RELIGION
BY THE RIGHT RET JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. d, LII. D..
Bishop Of Washington

they adopt the motto. There is none
that doeth good no not one" Such an
one recently came to us and wanted to
have us debate in a public gathering the
question that Mankind is hopelessly
degenerate. The proposer Of this de-
bate was willing to assume the affirma-
tive and to maintain without qualifica-
ton that virtue was dead issue. Such
a sinister view of life makes no appeal
to us. We have witnessed too many ex-
amples that prove the contrary and that
disclosed mans capacity to rise on
stepping stones of his dead self to high
or things" When Thomas Edison saw
the work of his lifetime swept away In
a fire that destroyed his vast enterprise
in single night, he was unmoved and
indicated. AS he saw the walls 60
crashing down he turned to bystander
and said: we begin again tomorrow
morning" Out of the ashes of defeat
he was to rise like some Phoenix to a
day of better things. He literally COM
PEELED himself to assume newer and
larger task, and the whole world knows
what his accomplishment has been. The
defeat of his aims and purposes but
spurred him on to greater things.
Some years ago there came to us a
man who had, through evil propenslties,
paid the penalty OF years Oh SeTVltuue III
penal institutions. The hand OF society
was against him. and repeatedly he had
heard the stern suggestion, "Once a
criminal always a criminal" We shall
never forget this mans heroic endeav-
ors to right himself and to gain the lost
confidence of his fellows. His triumph
was complete and his whole after ca
reer witnessed to a life of high fulfill
ment and restored self-respect.
The attitude Of Jesus In dealing with
those who we're respondent and de-
spairing was inevitably one OF large
hopsfulness. He Is the restorer of con-
fidence and the bringcr-in of the new
day of better things To see In every
defeat. every misfortune, every great
sorrow the radiant bow of promise
means to give to life freshened impulse
restored confidence and new hope.
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A Gratifying Coincidence.

Although Uncle Sans public build
ing program in the National Capital is
being pushed ahead primarily because
of the need of providing better housing
accommodations for many of the Gov
crnment bureaus, it is a gratifying CO.
incidence that these in charge of the
work expect to see considerable part
Of the triangle plan under way by 1882,
the year In which the Nation will OBJ
serve the two-hundredth anniversary of
the birth of George Washington.
The chairman of the Public Buildings
Commission has just expressed the hope
that six of the buildings planned will
be either completed or well under way
by 1882. thus adding greatly to the
physical appearance Of the Capital City,
in addition to serving the main object
OF properly accommodating the Federal
Departments.
There are bright prospects also that
before the bicentennial year is ushered
in the long-awaited improvement of the
area between Union Station and the
Capitol viii be taking shape The legis-
lation needed to put this improvement
under way passed the House in the
closing days of the last session. and is
expected - receive the approval of the
Senate at the coming session.
The boulevard from the Virginia end
Of the new Arlington Bridge to Mount
Vernon is to be the specially planned
permanent memorial of the bicenten-
NAL anniversary. and, with more than
half of its total cost appropriated at
the outset, assurance has been given
that 1t win be completed In 1882
While the Federal building program
and the improvements in the vicinity
OF the Capitol Building are essential
projects In the development of the Ma
tional Capital that would have been
gone ahead with irrespective of the BIZ
centennial observance, il they can be
even partially carried out by 1882 they
will fittingly enhance at that time the
appearance of the city George Wash
ington helped lay out.
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NATIONAL MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY WILLIAM HARD.

Democratic national convention at
Houston. He served on the resolutions
committee. He was large part of the
pressure which put into the Democratic
platform at Houston the clauses provid-
ing that our new prospective Federal
Farm Board should do for farmers what
cur United States Shipping Board is
now going to do for sfipbuilders and
what our Federal Reserve Board has
long done for bankers.
Mr.. Silver designed those clauses as
an absolute alternative to-and substi-
tute for-the equalization fee"
Mr.. Silver thinks that the "cqualiza-
ton fee" is dead in the dust on the far
side of hill gone by.
Mr.. Silver Is a true Illustration Of
completely and variety OF rural revolt
thought.
Another illustration could be observed
passingly from the Hoover train IN the
rural revolt conference at Des Moines.
Iowa.
That conference was meant to bring
the whole rural revolt to a head. 1t
did. indeed, represent large part Of it.
1t was wholly unable, however. to at
tract certain other large parts Of it.
For instance. the agricultural CO.
operative societies, of which there are
many thousands in the United States.
marketing many hundreds of millions
of dollars worth Of agricultural prod
ucts. were in great bulk conspicuousIy
absent from the Des Moines conference.
They-many of them-are utterly op-
posed to the equalization fee," and they
never, by and large, and in sum- have
given to the equalization fee" any big
effective support. -...
The rural revolt thus is going to be
split right down its whole length.
Hoover will have a farm program from
which the equalization fee" viii be
wholly absent. Smith. if he follows the
inside history and development of the
Houston convention. will have a farm
program in which the equalization
fec" will be nothing but sort of reni-
niscent fading trailer Some rural re-
Yolters will then vote for Hoover and
some for Smith; and the rural revolt,
instead of smashing one party. will PEN
citrate both and pervade both
Thereupon Calvin Coolidge, no mai
ter who is elected in November. will
in all probability begin in December to
try TO crown his administration By pass
ing concerted farm relief legislation.
minus the equalization fee, in January
CT February, and by this terminating
the rural revolt before he leaves Office
on March next.
Moral: We are probably all going to
work for Calvin for awhile yet.
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at large. A third one tried to get
away. but was later found hidden In
one OF thu outbuildinss Not long
ago here in Washington a man con-
demned to die for murder succeeded
in getting poison on the eve OF cxecu-
ton,
The most rigid supervision even In
Stoutly built and isolated places of de-
tcntion is nullified by the humane con-
sideration accorded to inmates, whose
detention is demanded in the interest
OF public security OF late years there
has been much moderation OF prison
rigor. Prisoners have been allowed lib
critics and privileges. have been permit
ted to see visitors, TO talk with them
freely and without close observation.
Again and again these advantages have
been abused.
Ingenious methods of Jail escapes
have been adopted. A war is in pro-
sress between those incarcerated and
their keepers. II is battle of wits.
The inmates of the prison have their
allies on the outside who are scheming
and plotting for them, They render
aid in ways that show high inventive
ability. In this latest case in New
York an elaborate schems was devised
for the cutting of the wire mesh, the
use of the vacant Office across the area
way and the passing of the weapons
over the space and then the conceal
ment of the hole in the mesh. Now the
authorities are in search Of those who
passed the guns to the prisoner, If
found they may be convicted of murder
as accessories to the killing of the two
keepers. But they must be found be-
fore they can be charged and tried,
and that will be difficult thing to do.
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PALO ALTO. Calf, July 21.-One
broad political conclusion stands out In
the mind of this traveller on the Hoover
train from Washington to the Golden
Gate-Herbert Hoover Is likely to have
en- easier time graphing with the rural
revolt of the West than with the rum
revolt of the East.
The rum revolt has a straight-away
definite direction Hoover will have TO
meet 1t head-on. He Is committed. He
is against all fundamental changes IN
the basic principles of the eighteenth
amendment and the Volstead law at
this time. Nothing is surer than that
the fight between him and AL Smith
on this point will be a fight between
blunt Yes" and fiat mo"
The farm fight will be entirely differ
ent. Leading rural revolters are going to
campaign on Hoover's behalf in great
numbers. Nelson of Minnesota, Repub-
lican, nominated candidate for the
United States Senate, tells this writer
he will campaign for two things: A
The McNary- Haugcn bill. 3. Hoover
~ *
1t is difficult to imagine man cam
paigning for 8 per cent beer end
Hoover. Lots of Republican candidates
In the agricultural West, however, are
going right along with McNary Haugen-
ism and Hoover both. Moreover, ano
this is the thing that many city people
seem to find it hard to realize, there i:
absolutely no unity among rural revolt
leaders on the subject of McNary.
Haugenism and the equalization fee.
The impression seems widely to pre-
vail in cities that if you are going tc
be rural revolter you must do it with
the equalization fee" in your mouth
and the tip Of your tongue. This is
not so. You can be first-clas:
A-number-one revolter and be against
the equalization fee" just as Hoover is
For instance. while this writer wa:
on the Brule River ne observed that
President Coolidge had a considerable
conference with Gray Silver of West
Virginia. Mr.. Silver is rural revoltel
of great uprisingness and belligerency
He is prominent in the large agricul-
tural cooperative enterprise called
something like the Federated Fruit anC
Vegetable Growers. He was chief legis-
lative representative a long time at
Washington of the American Farm
Bureau Federation and took big hanC
in the passage of most of our recent
progressive" farm legislation. He ha;
never given any advocacy whatsoever
to the equalization fee and has fire.
quently conveyed that fact about his
views to President Coolidge.
y r X
Here the plot thickens. Mr.. Silver
was delegate at large to the recent
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The South and Smith.

The dry churchmen OF the ooulh'
Democrats all. are organizing to pre-
vsnt the election of Gov. Al Smith to
the presidency. Instead Of undertaking
70 place in the field a third and indie
pendent Democratic ticket, they have
declared their intention or working for
the election of Herbert Hoover. the Re-
publican nominee for President, This
is something new for Democrats OF the
South. II is so revolutionary that 1t
gives a real impression Of the depth OF
feeling against Smith. Tammany and
wet. in the Southern States.
The movement against Smith, started
By the conference at Asheville, N. C., is
undertaken without the aid of the reg
ular political organizations in the South
ern States represented. Indeed. 1t is
undertaken In spite Of the politicians,
who have agreed to swallow their dis
Ike OF Smith and to support him in
III, coming election. 1t is a question
how far any political movement can go
IN this country against the regular
Political organizations. The church
men and drys are relying upon the an
taronism of the women of the South to
Smith in the coming election. 1t is no
secret that Senator Simmons. veteran
Democrat and anti-Smith leader in
North Carolina before the Houston con-
vention nominated the New Yorker for
President, has been afraid for months
that the woman vote In his State would
Turn it over to the Republican party If
Smith were the Democratic standard
bearer.
A crusade against Smith, preached In
the paspits of the South, may not have
the effect OF throwing the States Of that
section into the Republican column. In
deed. the best Judgment of observers
so far is that it viii not do So But 1t
may give the Democrats q good deal
to think about before the campaign is
over. There are several Of the States
Ii which the Republicans have made
a respectable showing in recent cleo
tions. among them North Carolina and
Virginia. In Florida there has been
great influx OF new citizens from the
North and Middle West. which has given
rise to predictions that that State may
some day turn away from its Democratic
allegiance. In the border States. like
Tennessee and Kentucky, which have
gone Republican In the past. the Re-
publican cause appears strong this year.
particularly under the leadership OF
Mr. Hoover. who has been described by
a good many Democrats as good
enough for woodrow wilson"
Some of the dry Democratic women
are asking Gov. Smith TO give his views
on equality for the colored and the
whites. They are charging that ne ap-
proves of racial equality and they are
spreading the word through the South.
The women are no mean antagonists.
They are more earnest than the men,
as a rule. The women had great
part In bringing about the adoption OF
Nationwide prohibition, which Gov.
Smith has frankly criticized. II they
become thoroughly aroused. as they may,
they may make Of the next election
n real political slaughter.
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UNITED STATES
IN WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago To-day.

A battle of great intensity developed
today north of Chateau-Thierry. where
the Germans have made stand ON the
line running In front of Grisolles and
eastward into the Bots de Barhillon,
After withdrawing before the Americans
and French. north TO 10 kllometers be-
You'd Chateau-Thierry, while maintain
ing partially their line eastward to the
north of Mont st. Pere. the Germans
last night placed In position guns which
they had pulled back with them ana
opened their hombarciment early this
morning. The roads up which the
Americans and French are advancing
are targets now OF both German ar
tillery and daylight homhers, and they
are dropping bombs from great heights,
Their machine gunners and infantry are
making a determined stand, Guns
on both sides keep up deafening roar
and both asesssS tayQwlng fresh troopS
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Riding Into Battle.

Lest false hopes be raised in the
breasts of weary doughboys of time
when every hike will be an automobile
ride. the Army should take pains to ex-
plain to its infantrymen that its ex-
perimsnts in motorized transportation
are not designed wholly toward such an
end. There may come a time when
regiments of infantrymen, fairly COM
fortably ensconced in trucks or pas
senger-carrying motor vehicles, will
hear the command. Forward, march, -
replaced by the toot of whistle and
the grinding of gears. But such rosy
clouds are always tinged with the black
realization that, despite the advance of
science in the field of motor vehicles.
there are still lots of places where only
an infantryman. with his pack on his
back and his rife in his hand, can 60.
And in battle nothing is so much de-
sired by the high command as that in
fantrymen reach such places.
The European war brought the trans
portation Of infantrymen by motor
truck over long stretches of territory to
rather well developed art. But as
fine as it may have seemed to the gen.
erals. there must be thousands of re-
tired doughboys who remember those
automobile rides with q sinking feeling
around the equator The trouble in
France was, and 1t probably always will
be. that there were so many more In
fantrymen than there were trucks Can
any one VINO ever rode in one of them
in France-pacEed like sardine among
his fellows so that standing room was
at q premium and sitting room unheard-
| of-forget those long hours spent
traversing the roads?
In the first place. the trucks never
seemed willing to meet the Infantry
even half way. The Infantry always
had to walk for miles and miles and
miles before the long line of nghtless
trucks was reached. Then followed the
business Of getting aboard. Demons in
the form of second lieutenants were al
ways there to see that at least one more
soldier got aboard than there was room
for. And then followed the ride; rides
that sometimes lasted from the setting
of the sun until its rising the next day.
and after the riding there was march
ing-oh! so much marchingl Trucks
absolutely refused TO advance from shell
holes. through forests or along roads
under fire. Tnfantrymen would like TO
refuse. But infantrymen cannot.
From the standpoint of the soldier.
the prospect Of motorized army is
not so bright. Motors transport the
soldier to the battle line much faster
than the soldiers feet. But what of It?
The war horse of old may prance sniff
and otherwise register extreme delight
upon smelling powder or hearing guns.
But the infantryman does not. The
less there Is OF that sort of thing. the
better he likes 1T. The longer 1t takes
to reach the front. the happier the
soldier Hiking with a rife and pack,
has its Disadvantages But there is
nothing in the thought Of being rushed
speedily into battle, riding in trucks.
that will cause the infantryman's heart
to beat faster with Joy. 1t may beat
faster. but not with JOY.
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October, but most of these have expired.
The action Of the policy committee
means that individual district unions
may negotiate for the best scale OBJ
tainabie. Undoubtedly this will be be-
low the former scale. but union miners
who have not worked for months viii
have a chance to 60 back to the pits.
Perhaps the non-union fields win cut
their wages. but most OF the operators
are reluctant TO do this, and. besides,
there Is minimum below which they
cannot so and retain workers.
Under the new agreements 20 be
made in the unionized fields, some mines
which have been closed win reopen.
But demand Is of this year. and pro-
duction is below last years. There
fore, many shifts In marketing are In
prospect, condition which brings un-
easiness % capital invested In an In
lustry which Is none too stable at best,
specially as stocks In hands of con-
sum~rs are relatively large,
Prices OF soft coal are appfeclabl9
lower than year ago, The outlook
is distinctly for = continued downward
tendency,
tceryFsht, iesAl
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into the battle. with the allies pressing
on relentleSsly. The Germans are
deyoting their whole energies 10 the pro-
lection of the retreat and are tinding
their position untenahle under. the
pressure Of the three allied armies.
the German tine 1t Ss evident that the
enemy are burning great quantities Of
munitions and supplies rather than have
them fall into The hands Of 10 allies,
= A German prisoner cap sAed by
the Americans says that since the re-
cent drive Yves broken up hy ehe Amer
leans the Germans have eonclussad that
the announcement that i.00A0ea Amer
leans were In France was false, and
runerS among the Germans on this
font are that there must he l0.0ee.00
Americans In Franco
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-22
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILASDER JOHNSON.
The Fire Fly.

The Fire Fly.
The fire fly again calls for greeting!
As on wonders Of nature We ruminate
1t Is surely a JOY TO be meeting
Such generous plans to illuminate.
For no propaganda" you're praying,
Nor tell us each month with great
skill o'wot,
Wen have to prepare TO be paying
For your service at SO much per
kilowat.
Your benefits you do not measure.
We're grateful for all your civilities,
AS you add to our comfort and pleasure
With no word of public utilities.
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nnumerabie airplane flights are ac-
ccmplished without the slightest acct
dent or evidence Of danger. 1t is the
crash caused too often by recklessness
and inadequate preparation that begins
to associate aviation more and more
with sense Of tragedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-22

Human nature is paradoxical. II
every responsible citizen had been re-
uuired at any time to indicate whether
he was in favor of abolishing war. 1t
must be assumed that every one would
have held up his right hand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-22

So long as the public does so much
listening in by radio, some of the liberal
funds to be on hand might be in
fiuentially expended not for bigger but
for better brass bands
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-22

The oId-time campaigner who boosted
Of a barrel Of money looks like
srnaIl-tirne performer In comparison with
the modern manager who counts it by
the carload
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-22

A man who resigns from the present
administration in order to give close
attention to Republican campaign de-
tails is doubtless confident of being in
line for rapid and much higher promo
ton later on.
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Tammany Hail has never been ac-
corded credit for invariably punctilious
political morals. But as an organiZa-
ton of high-power efficiency 1t has al
ways been accorded profound, even If
cynical. admiration.
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Anticipated.

Anticipated.
did you ask the lady to stop smok-
Ing cigarettes7"
mo" answered the Boy Scout She
had no matches and said that 1t would
be a kind act II ! would give her
light"
"A loud voice" said Hi Ho. the SO -
OF Chinatown, lis a gift not to b.
wasted He who has it, II no musician
viii become All orator"
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Getting Action.

UELCIUk AEETUU,
Are you In favor Of big campaign
funds?"
Yes answered Senator Sorghum
Private airplanes have been found too
risky for luxurious lavishness. Men of
large fortunes should have some new
way OF getting thrill from an invest
ment"
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One enormous campaign expense is
that of keeping all the card index de-
tails in order.
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Fault -findin' is wrong" said Uncle
Eben, but de man who goes on day
IN an day out pertendin h9 admire
de climate ain nuffin' but hJpocrit."
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Cruel Merriment.

Cruel Merriment.
When fierce July controls the sky,
The Merry Sunshine laughs anew.
Because he sees us Ill at ease
With August still to worry through.
Jud Tunkins says the man who keeps
thermometer on his desk is glutton
for bad news.
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Illegal Fortune.

The pirate said, Il made my pl2.
could have made II quicker,
II had waited for awhile
And simply peddled liekerl"
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