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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26

The Desert Rat" appears to have
won his long fight at last. Yesterday
the Supreme Court of the United States
refused to review the judgments OBJ
tanned by George Campbell Carson in
the California courts against copper
interests for infringement of his pat
ents and the sixty -one-year-old man
after continual struggle for more than
ten years seems to have within his grasp
the twenty million dollars he has sought.
A prospector and student of chemistry,
Carson discovered in 1915 that his
devices were being used in copper smelt-
ing. Having no money with (which to
fight these alleged infringements, he
secured the aid of California capitalists
and the struggle from that time to this
has worked its way through series of
court actions, to be climaxed by the
refusal of the Supreme Court to review
the judgments given III his favor.
If Carson finally gets his money, to
which it would appear from the
unanimity of the decisions he is en-
titled, he can sit back and enjoy life to
the fullest. Persistence if exercised in
a Just cause often brings rich rewards
and the Desert Rat" can doubtless look
back on the long struggle with feeling
OF satisfaction. 1t is not every man who
can win when faced with such handi-
caps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26
UNITED STATES
in WORLD WAR
Ten Years Ago Today.

In the battle north of Verdun the
American 1st Army inflicted on the
Germans total casualties in excess OF
70 900. including more than 10000 UNI
wounded prisoners. Today is
quiet in comparison with the past few
days of bitter fighting. Americans are
consolidating their gains and the enemy
appears to be resting. Gen.
March, in, his weekly review of the bat
tie front situation, today announced
that more than 1000 square miles of ter
ritory have been wrested from the
enemy since the middle of July.
Extensive gains have been scored on the
wide front between the Disc and AlSne,
the scene of the offensive started yes
terday by three French armies. They
pierce the Hunding line, storm forml-.
dable Notifications north and east OF
Laon and smash 2 miles through
strong German resistance on the Alsne
front. British win on the
Scheldt, occupy territory southeast OF
Courtrai and approach Valenciennes
from the south. Germany fears
national insolvency, as paper marks are
issued in floods and boarding OF money
grows. Turkish offer OF virtual
surrender" is reported and Austria is
said to be preparing to demobil1ze.
One thousand and flfty-f1ve
casualties on list given out today-254
killed in action and dead from wounds
and disease, 708 wounded and SO miss
ing. "a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26
The Yankee Doodle.

Rivaling the famous Spirit of st.
Louis in performance the Yankee Doodle
Of Harry Tucker, the Santa Monica
aviation enthusiast, yesterday added an
other record to its rapidly growing list.
The Spirit carried the incompatible
Indy over the Atlantic to worldwide
fame and to Mexico as the unofficial
ambassador of the United States, be-
sides sundry other flights in this coun-
try and in Europe. Tucker, when he
descended to the ground from his spot
lessly white one-hundred- and-seventy-
mile-an-hour Yankee Doodle at Mines
Field yesterday, had completed his
fourth transcontinental trip, two of
them nonstop, and each of these two
setting new records for the fight. With
Art Goebel, the winner of the Dole race
to Hawaii, as its pilot, the Yankee
Doodle reached New York from Los
Angeles a month or SO ago in two min
utes less than nineteen hours, and with
Capt. C. B. D. Collyer, joint holder with
John Henry Mears of the twenty-three-
day record for circling the globe, at its
controls yesterday the East-West record
was officially added to the books in an
elapsed time of twenty-four hours and
6fty-eight minutes
Time and again it has been en-
phasized that flying West was slower
and more difficult than flying East, but
never has the difference in the two di-
rections been so wildly demonstrated
as in the record-breaking dashes of the
Yankee Doodle. A following wind aided
Goebel to push this fast plane across
the country eastward in ninsteen hours,
but the same ship, with the same motor,
was unable to buck the head winds en-
countered Jn the westward flight even
to approach this time and it needed
six hours more for the distance.
1t is becoming increasingly apparent,
therefore, that in the visualized future
of aviation, when airplates and airships
make regular passenger-carrying trips
over water and land, decided allow
snce must be made in fuel and time
for westward flying. The Graf Zeppelin
took one hundred and twelve hours to
make the fight from Germany. DR.
Hugo Eckener, its designer and navi-
gator, expects to make the trip back
in seventy-five hours, with a much
smaller fuel consumption. These fig
ures, which are subject to revision when
the return trip is made, show an esti-
mated difference of thirty-seven hours
between east and west Atlantic flying
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Refusal of the Electric Bond g. Share
Corporation of New York to testify be-
fore the Federal Trade Commission
about its operating expenses revives
point of controversy which has period
ically cropped up. When the commits
sion holds an investigation on a COM
plant filed with it, it has the right
under the law to compel attendance of
witnesses and production of evidence.
When the commission functions under
congressional resolution--as in the
pending case of the power trust-the
Federal courts have repeatedly decided
that testimony cannot be compelled. 1t
is apparently in this attitude on the
Bond & Share Corporation is taking
refuge.
Mrs Herbert Hoover is not addicted
to jewelry. The eXigencies of politics
have induced her to adorn herself with
about the only conspicuous trinket she's
ever worn. It's an elephant made of
rhinestoneS and is used as a modest
brooch, possibly two inches in width.
The G. o. P. emblem glitters as a
shoulder pin on most of Mrs. Hoovers
public appearances these days.
X X
Eugene j. O'Mara, Democrat, who is
trying to GUST Representative Frederick
r. Lehlbach, Republican, from the lat
ter's New Jersey seat, purposes singing
himself into victory. The other night,
at a big rally in Newark, O'Mara, who
was once in a church choir, made such
a hit with cluster of songs that he's
decided to make no more speeches in
the district, and say 1t with music in
stead. The candidates rendition of
"Oh, Promise Me" Che probably meant
votesl won five times as much applause
as the most eloquent spellbinding of
the evening.
X X x
Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, Democrat,
former Governor of Wyoming, is tell
ing people on her present stump
ing tour in the West that 1t won't
be long now before the First Lady
of the Land will be President, In
stead of merely the Presidents wife.
Eventually the right woman will
show up" predicts Mrs. Ross, and the
women of the country will elect her
President of the United States For my
part, l believe there is no office, po-
iitical or commercial, that the right
woman cannot fill"
Copyright. 1881
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26

When the Yankee Doodle arrived in
New York plenty of gasoline remained
in the tanks, but when it descended on
Mines Field yesterday. after starting out
loaded almost to the breaking point
with fuel, 1t had less than thirty min
utes' supply left.
The prevailing direction of the wind
explains, in the main, the many tragic
failures to span the ocean from Europe
to America 1t explains likewise why
the East-to-West transcontinental rec
ord of Macready and Kelly has stood
intact since 1923, although in the latter
case there have been comparatively few
attempts to break it. And it points I'M
mistakenly to the fact that the air.
plane of the future, to be commercial
success. must be powered with radi-
cally new and lighter motor or pro-
PEELED by new type of fuel. The range
of present-day flights is limited to the
amount of gasoline that can be carried.
The range of future flights cannot de-
pend on such limitations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26
Smiths New England Tour.

For two days this week Gov. Smith
toured through Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island and Connecticut, speaking at
length in Boston and making numerous
brief stops elsewhere and participating
in a procession His progress was
marked by an unprecedented outpour-
ing of people and an enthusiasm Of
greeting that became at times veritably
riotous. The longest memories fail 10
recall any such scenes as those that
were enacted at all points of the Demo-
cratic candidates journey, and in con-
sequence a feeling of higher confidence
prevails in Democratic circles on the
score of New England support for the
nominee of that party.
The election in Maine in September
unquestionably dampened the expecta-
ton of the Democratic organization
that the New England States were dis
posed to support Gov. Smith. The baro-
metric value of that contest was dis
puted by the party leaders, but it never
theleSS stood as significant token of a
leaning toward the traditional repub-
licanism of the section. That Gov.
Smith is strong in certain portions Of
New England has been accepted from
the outset of the campaign. The recep-
ton just given to him in three States
demonstrates that this is true to a de-
gree that may prove to be sufficient to
give him the thirty electoral votes OF
those States.
In point of barometric valuation the
rousing reception granted to Gov. Smith
during the past few days in New Eng
land may be more significant than the
vote in Maine in September. There
was never any Democratic hope OF
carrying Maine in November. There
has, however, been decided hope OF
carrying Massachusetts, and Rhode Is
land and even Connecticut. AS an ex-
perienced campaigner, Of course, he
knows crowds do not always mean votes,
that few thousand people can raise
tremendous rumpus and yet prove to be
only a minority on election day.
The most distinct impression made by
the New England receptions given to
Gov. Smith is that his personality
makes strong appeal to the people. He
Is a remarkable campaigner. He has the
magnetic quality that arouses enthu-
siasm. This has been displayed at prac-
tically all of his stopping points in the
course of his tours in this contest.
Whether the emotions aroused by his
presence signify dominant support in
the three States he has Just visited can
not be determined until election day.
Unquestionably, however, there is sub
stantial ground for the revival of Demo-
cratic hopes of victory, which have
somewhat siackened during recent
weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26
Medical Soldier Held
First u. S. Death i'm War

To the Editor of The Star:
An article appearing in The Evening
Star of the goth from the Associated
Press entitled Bridge Dedicated in
Honor of First World War Victim" by
name James Bethel Gresham, is er-
roneous The first American soldier
killed was a medical soldier. A hand
book for the medical soldier has been
dedicated in memory of Oscar C. Tugo,
by Arnold Dwight Tuttle. major, Medt-
cal Corps, U. S. A., as being the first
enlisted man of the United States Army
killed in the World War.
On September 4, 1917. at Dannes-
Gamers, France, while serving as pri-
vate. first class, of the Medical De-
partment, Base Hospital. No. 5, U. S. A.
Cfunctioning as General Hospital, No
IL, of the British expeditionary force), ,
he fell at his post of duty and met
heath at the hands of the enemy from
a bomb dropped during an air raid
JOHN A. VELKE.
Sergeant, Medical Department,
u. S. Army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26

A man of CHEEKY temperament greeted
an Office associate.
Hello" he said.
Hello" replied the other.
Later in the day the cheerful man
again met the other.
Hello" he said, 1t being his custom
always to speak to those he knew.
The second man glared at him.
That's twice you've said it" he
yrowled.
This anecdote brings to mind the per-
ennial question:
How many times should one greet as
sociates in the ordinary course of bust
ness?
There seem to be two schools of
thought in this matter.
The first holds, with our cheerful
friend. that it is ones duty, If not priv
ilege and pleasure, to speak every time
one meets an associate, no matter how
many times during the day.
The second believes that once is
enough.
Between these two extremes there are
many degrees, according to sociability,
early training and ideals of those in
volved.
This country of ours might almost be
divided into two sections on this very
proposition. Generally speaking, the
Middle West and West adhere to the
perpetual greeting plan. 1t makes no
difference how many times you meet
during the day, some sort of Salutation
il necessary in each and every case.
m CERTAIN sectors of this country any
one who would refuse to acknowledge a
greeting from an associate would be set
down then and there as snob. The
thing is so much custom that no man
would think for a moment of refusing
to say "Helloi" to another just because
the two of them had engaged in that
pleasant practice four hours before.
The East seems more inclined, as
general proposition, to overlook the
necessity for the continued daily greet
ing. It seems to be felt by many,
especially in business establishments of
all sorts, that much greeting is wasted
effort. Many think that once is
enough If they speak pleasantly, upon
first seeing an associate, their duty for
the day has been done. Henceforth
they may pass him without a word, If
it so pleases them. They reserve to
themselves the right of speaking or not
speaking. In some extreme cases, such
as the one given. they actually resent
even go so far as to fail to see associ-
ates after the first greeting of the morn
ing. Perhaps they flatter themselves
with the belief that their attitude be-
speaks efficiency. If man is so busy
that he cannot speak, he must be very,
very busy, eh?
X X X
Then there is the average sociable
fellow who honestly feels that once is
enough. Maybe it is. Who knows?
Any way, this man specializes in just
one cheerful greeting day.
Another would be redundant, as 1t
were. He speaks as good naturally as
any man in the world the first time he
sees you. Often he speaks first, in this
pleasant task getting the jump on his
associates.
The remainder of the day he will
not know you. though you walk by him
with the smile of angels, with saluta-
tions fairly dripping from your lips.
If he has need to speak, he will do
it with the best will in the world as If
he had but turned away from you for
a moment, although he might not have
seen you for half day.
His extreme is the man who never
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26
Objections Are Made
To Child Labor Laws
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Your issue of the goth instant car
ries an account of a 16-year-old
Chicago youth who has sued to recover
his right to earn livelihood for him
self and widowed mother. One wonders
what will become of them If the youth
is not allowed to work-and, of course,
he will not be allowed to work. From
observation it is likely they will become
more laboratory material for profess
sional social workers and uplifters.
Your paper has consistently approved
the attempts to raise the child labor
law limit to Is years. and the attempts
to secure a constitutional amendment
granting the Federal Government power
to regulate this question. The brief
item mentioned above, carried in your
injustice that will inevitably follow such
regulation. That is not just an iSo-
lated case it is typical.
I have never as yet heard any one
deny that such law would bear down
hard on poor families. The parents
of such families cannot support al
most full grown children in idleness;
the children must work, or else some
agency must intervene That means
again more laboratory material for pro-
fessional social workers, who, of course,
must have something to work on, or
lose their own livelihood. So. In one
sense, such a law on this subject as
we have in the District of Columbia,
where there are no factories or sweat
shops. means simply additional hard
ship to the families, and plenty of good
cases for the thousand and one pro-
fessional uplifters of family conditions.
The main argument I have heard
advanced for the child labor law per-
petrated upon Washington is that 1t
should serve as model to the States.
This is the main argument aside from
the one that we should have it because
the social workers want it because they
want it. OF what is it a model? 1t
tends strongly to State control of chill
dren. State control has always been a
model tenet of socialism.
SAMUEL G. THOMPSON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26

Two days before the presidential elec--
ton in the United States the voters OF
the little republic of Nicaragua will
choose new national officials, balloting
under supervision of American Ma
rines. The experiment is watched with
profound interest here by those who
approve the American policy in Mica
ragua as we'll as by those who oppose
and condemn 1t.
Among the most severe critics of the
Washington policy. the Louisville
Courier journal independently says Of
the situation: Instead of being
another American election, this is
strictly an un-American affair.
Two days before the American people
go to the polls Nicraraguans will pass
through lines of foreign troops and
face American officers before they can
exercise their right of suffrage in what
claims to be, and has right to be, a
sovereign republic"
On the other hand, the Atlanta Jour-
nal (Democratic) declares that Mica
ragua'S election is approaching under
peaceful auspices with all signs indi-
eating that folk in that republic will
have the chance to decide calmly what
manner of government they want here
after. The American Marine forces"
the Journal continues. "are vigilant to
detect and circumvent intrigue, which
is said to be remarkably scattered for
a prediction season. The provisions
of the Stimson agreement are being
carried out to the letter. The
choice for the Nicaraguans is clearly
between Conservative and Liberal can
didates. They will be honor bound to
enter upon a period of harmony when
fHo ;ev,1a DC cnft1ed y1ovf V1anY1fh
1t is contended by the Minneapolis
Tribune Republican, that 1.-THE Cool
idge action as regards Nicaragua
almost precisely paralleled the Wilson
action as regards Haiti. Americas
Caribbean policy has been continuous,
whether a Democratic or a Republic
can administration is in power" says
the Minnesota daily. Essentially it is
not a party matter at ALL 1t never
has been in practice. The President,
as custodian of the Monroe Doctrine,
carries on the presidential tradition.
His right to employ the mailed fist, in
extreme emergencies, on foreign soil
rests not on the constitution but on
the Monroe Doctrine tradition. The
President naturally is expected to use
discretion in exercising that power.
"Nicaraguans of whatever party
affiliation.' as observed by the San
Antonio Express independent Demo-
cratic), appear satisfied with the ar
which Gen. Mccoy and his
co-workers have perfected to assure a
fair election. The United States desires
to withdraw its forces from Nicaragua
at the earliest practicable moment The
republics people can help greatly to
that end by voting as quietly as they
registered, and also by accepting the
result in good faith"
Referring to the fact that "the
Marines who are presiding over the
election boards of the Nicaraguan pre-
cincts have undergone three months
intensive training in the Spanish
language, in the laws of Nicaragua, In
registration and balloting procedure"
the Buffalo Evening News (Republican)
makes the suggestion: IF their train
ing has been anything like that given
recruits in the Marine Corps, it has
been thorough5ethorou enough. per-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26
Thirty-Mile Pace Fast
Enough for Fire Motors
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
I read with a great deal of interest
in Wednesdays Star your editorial upon
the deplorable accident which took
place at Fourteenth and B streets a
few days ago. when fire chiefs car
crashed into and killed one young lady
and seriously injured another, and
noted the suggestions which you made
to prevent similar accidents in the flu
ture.
AS you state at the conclusion of
your editorial, this is matter in which
every citizen is deeply interested, and
so I am tempted to write you not only
to approve what you said in your edi-
torial, but to suggest for your conSid-
Grafton a thought that has come to me
quite often in the past year or so,
when I have been walking the streets
and have seen the fire engines and
other fire apparatus. likewise the hos
pital ambulances, go tearing down at
terrific rates of speed through the
crowded business sections, and, to be
perfectly frank, my greatest surprise
is not that one of the young ladies was
killed and the other injured a few days
ago, but that more people have not
been killed or injured by the fire ap-
paratus and the ambulances.
My thought for some time has been
this. and I am submitting it for your
serious consideration: That the aver
age run of the fire apparatus and the
ambulances today is less than 2 miles;
that vehicle making 30 miles an hour
can run mile in 2 minutes; at 40
miles an hour, in a minute and As Sec
fN1 AfYlJfH "a
and SO seconds: at so miles an hour,
in a minute That rarely, il ever, will
the small amount of time saved by in
creasing the speed of the fire ap-
paratus and the ambulances above 30
miles justify the risk of human life
incident thereto.
A vehicle running at 30 miles. es-
pecially with the right of way, is I'M
der control even in the crowded dis
tricts. but beyond that rate of speed
even in less crowded districts cannot
be stopped or handled quickly.
When we had horse drawn fire APP
paratus and ambulances the runs were
a great deal longer than they are al
present and these vehicles, going at
their greatest rate of speed, did not ex-
coed II miles an hour, and yet the fires
were controlled just as we'll then as they
are now probably.
1 would suggest that in view of the
crowded conditions of the streets an
ordinance should be passed prohibiting
a speed greater than 80 miles an hour
of either fire apparatus or ambulances
and to be kept down to IS under or
binary circumstances with the right of
way at all crossings and over other
vehicles. At this rate fire apparatus
can reach the scene of a fire in ample
time and not risk human life.
The few seconds, represented by the
f1guration above, of SO and 66 certainly
will not often be of any great value
either in the case of the ambulances
or the fire apparatus.
F. S. KEY SMITH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26
Was Due Care Exercised?

Of course, there will be inquiry into
the accident which occurred yesterday,
causing the death of two workmen on
the site of a new hotel in this city. 1t
is always in order to investigate mis-
adventure of this kind to determine
whether there was carelessness on the
part of any person in responsible po-
sition at the work But very rarely
does any such inquiry lead to action
that will assuredly safeguard human
life in subsequent operations.
Work of this kind is always danger
GUS. just as danger always attends the