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A Dangerous Game.

Why make hard game harder? The
Republican party needs the West If It
is to retain control Of the Congress
and, eventually, the national admins
tration. It has been evident for long
time that there is q difference in the
breed of republicanism in some of the
States of the West from that which Is
found In Pennsylvania, New York and
New England, for example. It has been
the practice Of some Eastern Repub-
licans to refer to some Republicans Of
the West as radicals" and the like.
And Republicans Of the West have
dubbed the Eastern brand of Republican
the "standpat" and "old guard" type.
During the last presidential campaign,
however, the Progresslves and the
standpatters in the West and in the
East buried the hatchet and worked
together to elect President Hoover and
Vice President Curtis. Now, however,
owing to the developments Of recent
weeks, it appears that they are seeking
to bury the hatchet-in each other.
Senator George II. Moses Of New
Hampshire, chairman Of the Repub-
lican senatorial campaign committee. at
0 dinner attended by New England busi-
~ess men here Thursday night, referred
the members Of the progressive Re-
EabIican-D Democratic coalition as "sona
- v-AAA jaekasses." The Senator from
IANN IEamrslaiEe N celebrated 6eg haa
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Farmer Seeks Relief
For Handling Surplus
TO the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
A few days ago The Star published
under the heading, Background of
Events" by Paul v. Collins, a most
interesting short statement Of the prob
lem confronting Congress concerning
the proposal of President Hoover to
turn over to State administration all
Government lands Preserving parks and
mineral rights. May add to that
outline of this important project q
word in regard to what Mr.. Collins
suggests will possibly be argued in OPP
position to further opening of any farm
land in competition with that already
in production? He says:
I'VE have heard much of the need
OF farm relief and to some observers
the objection to developing more farm
land viii arise against adding produc-
tive acres where, it is complained, we
already have overcompetition. But
modern inventions of labor-saving ma
chinery for farming, together with the
increasing demands from world mar
kets, vitality change the situation over
night"
Mr.. Collins is right, and merely
want to emphasize the truth of that
statement Friends of agriculture are
not insisting on charity relief" but
on the adoption Of broader machinery
for the handling of the surplus crops
and getting this surplus into the world
markets. President Hoover's recent ap-
pointment of special board for that
purpose carries hopes of a new era
In marketing farm SURPRISES, and that
success will not be hampered by pro-
ducing liberal surplus to be so mar
keted abroad. Nor should such an
exportable surplus affect the prosperity
of the home market, but it should make
for broad plans for exporting, which
will not easily be disconnected when
local conditions vary the harvests. My
own State of Minnesota is greatly In
terested in the development of its un-
used resources of all kinds.
THOS. D. SCHALLI.
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A nameless world would be interest
ing at least.
Think of living in a state of society
In which nothing had name!
The tyranny of names has caused
us to wonder, to become slightly bored,
even afraid at times.
Consider the fate of the average per-
sons surname. Let us take hypo-
thetical Brown. When first he becomes
known to one he is always Mr.. Brown,
scrupulously Mr.. Brown.
One would no more think of ad-
dressing him any other way than he
would of poking the new acquaintance
in the ribs.
The next stage in the lamentable
progression IS a mere Brown. The
"Mr." disappears, no one knows exactly
where, but simply goes.
In the next step new name en-
tirely comes on the scene. 1t is
Brownie" This addition of the d.
minutive is supposed, according to ordi-
nary usage, to represent good fellow
ship.
Whether it does or not depends large
~ upon the man who uses it. Some
people possess the ability of thanking
one in a murderous tone One would
prefer to be damned by polite man.
The unexplainable thing Is that this
of just what he viii be called. If he
offends one who has been calling him
Brownie" he finds himself suddenly
transformed to a very severe "Mr.
Brown" again.
He never is quite sure just what his
name Is, or what 1t will be tomorrow,
since its form depends upon so many
outside factors over which he has no
control.
-
A name, then, is seen to be simply
a handy designation of varying utility,
which may or may not have a peculiar
form all its own. A good name is sup
posed to be greater than much treas
ure; maybe that is why men strive so
valiantly to achieve one by dropping
their first names and using initials
merely.
Proper names of all kinds might be
omitted from life without any particu-
lar loss, except in the making of more
cumbersome descriptiveS, which would
be necessary then on account of the
handy signs readily given by the old
names.
A name Is a sign, that is all. Instead
of speaking of that man with the big
nose" we say that man Smith" or
whatever his name may happen to be.
It is our present contention that the
longer phrase would do just as well and
might even cause men to think more
than they do.
Since 1t seems to be the secret ambi-
ton of every modernminded person to
be a writer, our plan of abolishing
names of all types would be helpful,
since 1t would cause closer observation,
and demand that every one select the
salient features or points Of avery one
and everything.
Fqaubert told MaupaSsant, 1t viii be
remembered, to concentrate on some
one trait for every character, scene or
whatnot he described. Select some
one feature that Is commonly overlooked
and so use it that the reader gets an
unforgettable picture in his head" So
he advised the young French govern
mental clerk, with the result that later
the stories of Guy de Maupassant had
a certain something" which distin-
guished them.
He was the kind of a man who al
WAYS entered a door first"
That was the way MaupaSsant intro
duced one of his characters-a red
headed man, by the way-and genera
tons of readers have admitted that 1t
was apt, unique.
Every one knows such . man, and
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WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

events, each of the three big companies,
which may be victims of the White
House ban, would have bagged orders
for several of the 10000 tonners.
4
RoIlin Kirby, brilliant cartoonist Of
the New York World, has just drawn q
cartoon dealing with the Capitals latest
political teapot tempest. The picture Is
entitled when Do We Eat?" 1t depicts
Mrs. Gam, Mrs. Longworth and Sen
ators johnson and Brookhart sitting
around more or less diSconsoiately IN
dinner clothes ostensibly waiting for a
summons from the White House. Kirby
won last years Pulitzer prize with his
epochal cartoon called "Tammany." 1t
showed the well known q. o. p.
patriarch going through an agony OF
horror over the Smith presidential can
didacy and deriving comfort from a
choir of lnaloed angels" labeled Forbes,
Miller, McCray, Sinclair, Fall, Daugh-
erty ct al.
AS the Ware senatorial seat is on the
eve of being formally and finally va
Gated by Senate action, Gov. Fisher OF
Pennsylvania Is buSily canvassing the
list of ayaiIables, from among whom an
appointed successor will be chosen.
Whoever it is will hold Office only until
his own successor can be elected in No
yember, 1890, but the place is no less
coveted on that account. Owen j. Rob-
erts of the Philadelphia bar and Fed
eral Government counsel in the oil cases,
is in the running. SO are Representa-
tive George G. Graham, chairman OF
the House judiciary committee; Judge
Robert Won Moschzisker, chief justice
of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and
Henry p. Fletcher, late Ambassador to
Italy.
Revelatory rumblings in washington
this Fall and Winter will bulk largely
at the Institute of Craftsmanship" at
Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla, in
January. The institute was founded
two years ago by endowment OF the
late Representative Cornelius A. Pugs-
ley of New York. It is sponsored by a
national council which includes Senator
Fletcher and Representative Ruth
Bryan Owen of Florida, John w. Davis,
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, George w.
Wickersham and other dignitaries. The
January program will concern itself
with "the formation of public opinion"
mainly in light of recent lobby, propa-
ganda and tariff developments in Wash
ington. 1t happens that the chairman
of the institute is Hamilton Holt, prest-
dent of Rollins College, whom Hiram
Bingham worsted for the Senate in
Connecticut four years ago.
(Copyright, 1920
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limit debate on many Of the sections Of
the bin that still awaits discussion and
action. Admittedly there are several items
In the bill which viii and should lead
to debate, among them the sugar sched-
ule. But there are few speeches an hour
in length which could not be just as eff
fectively delivered in ten minutes
Speeches more than an hour in length.
even in the Senate, become a bore and
are utterly ineffective, as a rule, on legis-
lation.
The country is entitled to action on
the tariff bill, just as it was entitled to
action on the farm-relief bill. Obstruc-
tive tactics in the Senate generally bring
that body into discredit in the country
Earlier in the consideration of the tariff
bill the report was to the effect that the
Democrats and Progressive Republicans
were seeking to delay. Certainly they
occupied far more of the time of the
Senate in the debate. More recently the
rumor has been to the effect that So
called "standpat" Republican Senators
would be glad to see the bill fail, and
that they did not care if it were never
passed by the Senate. The country is
not so much interested in political SPAR
ring as it is in constructive legislation.
One suggestion now advanced is that
the members of the Senate coalition are
seeking to build up similar coalition
in the House to deal with the tariff
bill. If that be the case, delay on the
tariff bill in the Senate may be nee
essary concomitant in the opinion
Of coalitionists. Whatever the facts
may be regarding this suggestion, the
country, which has been waiting for
months for disposition of the tariff revi-
sion, would be glad to see bill put
through without further delay. If no
bill can be put through, the country
should know it with as little delay as
possible. If eventually, why not now?
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Why Not Now?

Three weeks from today the regular
session Of Congress opens. Automatically
the special session, called by President
Hoover last April, will come to an end
at that time, unless the Congress should
bring 1t TO a conclusion earlier with
an adjournment resolution. Three weeks
Is suficient time for the Senate to
complete its consideration of the tariff
bill, provided it wishes to complete 1t
and pass the bill. Yet the consensus
today among the Senators appears
to be that It is not probable"
the bill will come to final vote before
the middle Of December or tie first Of
the new year. The bill has now been
before the Senate for actual discussion
for nearly two months. Many of the
most contentious provisions of i. the
measure have been passed upon. A
coalition of Progressive Republican Sem
ators and Democrats has demonstrated
Its ability to amend the bill at will.
The regulars" of the Senate finance
committee have admitted this. Why are
further delay and lengthy speeches nee
essary?
The House Of Representatives dealt
with the entire tariff bill In less tAne
than now remains for the Senate to pass
1t before the close Of the special session.
What the House does is. Of course. no
criterion Of what the Senate may do
But it does seem TO the layninded. even
when politics Is taken into consideration
and the desire to make political capital
back home" that It should now be pos
sIhle for an agreement IN the Senate to
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'wisecracking." He Is quick on the
trigger. Usually his scarcasm and BIT
ing characterizations raise . laugh
among his colleagues and are not long
remembered certainly not against the
Senator from New Hampshire. Probably
his "sons of wild jackasses" would have
created little stir had it not come IS q
SEQUEL to other remarks about the pro-
gressive Republicans Of the West In re-
cent weeks which have stirred these
Western Republicans and their con-
stituents to considerable bitterness.
Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania
and Joseph r. Grundy, president OF the
Pennsylvania Manufacturers Associa-
ton, in particular, have expressed their
opinions of the Western Republicans III
terms which have ranked. So Senator
Moses reference to the coalition mem
bers has merely added fuel to fire al
ready started, which may make cam
paigning by the Republicans in the
West more Of task next year than 1t
has been since 1916.
There is room in the Republican
party for men of progressive thought as
we'll as for those of conservative ten
denotes. If the Republican party is to
continue to hold the reins of admins
tration its leaders must recognize that
fact. A split party usually gives its
political opponent opportunity to seize
the control of governmental affairs.
The Democrats naturally are well
pleased with the evidences Of bitter
ness growing in Republican ranks over
the pending tariff bill, with Eastern
Senators failing their Western brethren
because they will not stand for the in
creases in duties on industrial tariff
rates desired by the Eastern manufac-
turerS. It was such a split twenty years
ago over the tariff, with Dolliver of
Iowa leading the revolt Of the West,
that gave the Democrats an opportunity
later to win control of the Government
It is such a condition among the Re-
publicans that the Democrats have
hoped for these many years. If they
can, they will foster such q break now.
Instead Of playing the game and try
ing to bring about compromise tariff
legislation which will more nearly ap-
proach the limited tariff revision"
by the President, the
Eastern Republicans have taken to
hurting epithetS. It is q game that
will not get them very far.
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Victory for Canadian Vets
Wakes Tempered Comment Here

perance. or prohibition law, they voted
dry by 61,872 to 56,024. But on the
specific issue of government liquor con-
troll they went wet by 89,757 TO II, $780,
The government will have to make its
own Interpretation"
$50 complete has been the rout and
so convincing the demonstration that
the Canadian public, having tried pro-
hibition, viii have no more Of 1t" de-
clareS the Charleston Evening Post
that the dry partiSans have concluded
trate hereafter on educational methods
for accomplishing abstention FROM
strong drink"
"It is entirely possible the Ontario|
people peeped over the line and saw oil
horrible example," remarks the Tulsa
World, with the further conclusion as|
to the election of Conservatives, that
people over there are not quite so
prone as We are to get excited over one'
issue and forget all the Others" point
ing out that "the Ontario principle o
strict governmental control of all liquor
sales is about three years old in prac-
tice." The st. Louis Times holds
that the Canadian population, "when
it perceives a good thing holds to ii.
tenaciously," and the Green Bay Press
Gazette thinks that government control
as practiced in Ontario may not have
solved the liquor question, but it is max
ing progress"
Interest in the outcome on this side
of the border, because OF the light that
ington, is attested by the Syracuse
Herald and the Boston Transcript
Denying that the Ontario system has
been an aid to temperance, the Santa
Barbara Daily News feels that sit viii
be interesting to watch the results Of
the further test of that system" but 4
asserts that cutting out the saloon
and permitting practically unlimited
buying Of liquor under the permi
system has done what might hav
been expected-it has increased con
sumption"
Observing the result IN Nova Scotia
the Cincinnati Times Star RECALLS tina
this Jurisdiction '"iS-or waS-one
the last surviving strongholds Of pro
hibition in Canada" The Fort Wayn
News-Sentinel calls the Nova Scott
vote ''the really outstanding develop
ment" in the election. The Dulut
Herald emphasizes the uncertainty
that province as to the mixed question
on the ballot, and concludes, las mos
OF the supporters Of the present govern
ment were for government control,
is likely that the government wi
read in the returns a mandate froI
the people authorizing the govern
ment to go into the liquor business
Comment of the Toronto Star do
not indicate entire appreciation of I'll
Canadian solution of the liquor prol
lem. "The law" it declares, will hal
to be better observed, there viii have
be q much lessened use of liulor-h
stead Of an increased one-or Il
present law will not long have populi
Endorsement"
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASK1N.

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@. How many airships has England
had?-R. H. S.
A. England has had four. two of
them still in existence.
@. Why is the foot ball field at
Georgia Tech sometimes called the
Flats?-E. r.
A, Originally Georgia Tech was To-
Gated on small hilltop, about which
there was a bit Of low ground, which
was used for athletic purposes. In the
early days this low ground got the
name of the Flats, meaning fiat or level
ground. The present stadium was built
on this location. Sometimes sporting
writer's use the old name.
@ Is the transatlantic telephone much
used?-B. A. B.
A. It's use Is steadily increasing. About
so per cent Of all the communication
is with London, rs per cent with Paris,
and between and 10 per cent with
Berlin.
O. How did the trade mark, 4711,
originate ?-V. N.
A. The firm Of Muhlens & Kroff
began using ALL as trade mark in
1892 to designate cologne water made
from a family recipe. Its address at
the time was All Glockenstrasse,
Cologne, Germany.
@. What is a plaice?-E. M.
A. It is European founder or nat
fish which grows to a weight of or 10
pounds and is good food fish. In
America the name is applied to Sum
mer founder and some other flat fish.
@. Who was known as the Lady of
Fears?-F. E. N.
A. This was q name used in reference
to the late Empress Marie Feodorovna.
Dowager Empress of Russia, because of
her numerous tragic experiences begin
| father-in-law and ending with that OF
her son, Nicholas II, and his family.
@. How much did the expedition of
| Columbus cost, and how does 1t COM
pare with modern expeditions?-C. H.
A. Fitzhugh Green calculated that it
cost hackers of Columbus about So, Is
| to discover America in 1892. The Scott
Antarctic Expedition cost $500,000; the
Amundsen- Ellsworth Expedition about
| 5000, 900; the Mobile Italia" Expedt-
| ton, $500, 900, while the cost of Byrd's
Antarctic Expedition will probably be
81, 100000.
@. How much daylight Is lost IN
New York due to smoke?-A. G. T.
A. In lower Manhattan the loss OF
daylight due to smoke was IN 1927 es-
timated to be AZ per cent at 8 am. and
| Is per cent at noon on a sunny day in
January, and 80 per cent at 8 am. and
per cent at noon In June. On foggy
days the loss Is much greater.
Q. Do you know of an award given
| for q good speech?-M. E. N.
A. You probably refer to the gold
medal Of the American Academy of Arts
and Letters for excellence in diction.
The 1928 medal was awarded to Otis
Skinner. Others who have received
this distinction are Walter Hampden
and Edith Wynne Matheson.
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9. When was stenography invented?
Il. S.
A. The early history Of shorthand il
closely allied with photography and it
has been traced into the mists OF an
tiquity. Antiquarians have tried to
connect it with hieroglyphics and to
show that 1t was used more than 1000
years BIC. by the PerSians, Egyptians
and Hebrews. The first modern short
hand work was printed In London in
1888 and dedicated by its author, DR..
Timothy Bright, to Queen Elizabeth.
Gurneys is the oldest living system of
English shorthand. 1t was first issued
by Mason in 1872 and improved by
Thomas Quincy in 1850.
@. Why are joints put In concrete
pavementS?-N. A. l..
A. Highway engineers are not in COM
plete agreement in the matter of pro-
viding longitudinal and TRAVERSE joints
IN concrete pavements, but in all except
States longitudinal center joints are
provided, and in all but IL States, trans
verse expansion joints are provided.
The longitudinal joints are to prevent
irregular center cracking due to the
Warping of the slab, and the transverse
joints are designed to prevent trans
verse cracking and blow-up due to the
contraction and expansion of the slab
with changes of temperature and
moisture.
@. How did La Sale meet his
death?-J. A. B.
A. Sieur de La Sale. the early ex.
plQrer, while endeavoring to discover the
source of the Mississippi, experienced
q muttny among his men and was shot
from ambush by one of them, Novem-
Der 10, 1887.
Q. How long do grasshoppers live In
the tropics where there is no cold sea-
son to destroy them?-M. M.
A. In the tropics the natural span
OF life OF grasShoppers and other insects
may be somewhat heightened by the
fact that death is not fastened by the
coming of cold and freezing weather
as 1t is in temperate or frigid regions
and also because the period of meta
morphoSiS extends over an average
longer period of time. But as a rule
the life of single brooded insects is not
over year in any climate.
Q. What does Kyrie Eleison mexnv
A. 1t is Greek and means 1.-THE Lord
have mercy"
Q. Is a puncheon and a slab the
A. A puncheon Is split log or heavy
SAaD WILL Tile lace SInOObQed. "A SAD
is the outside piece, with or without
the bark, taken from a log. In the
days when floors were made of
puncheons, in some localities only In
side pieces were designated with this
| name.
Q. Was a son of Daniel Webster's
killed in the Mexican War?-C. G. L.
A. Maj. Edward Webster, the son OF
Daniel Webster, was killed during the
Mexican War in 1848.
Q. Who was the goddess Of health?
RI. S.
A. Hygeia, the daughter Of AescuIa-
! Plus and Epione, was the goddess Of
health. She was represented as a
young woman giving a serpent drink
out OF a saucer. the serpent being
tWined around her arm.
Q. What makes railway cars rock
| from side to side when running
rapid1y?-W. H. B.
A. The Bureau of Standards says
| that unevenness Of the track and poor
condition of the running gear cause
the rocking of cars from side to side.