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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-18
French Sportswoman
Defends Her Language
From the Memphis commercial-Appeal.

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
Mile. violette Morris has been barred
from the French Federation Of Femi-
1ine Sports because Of her culottes and
her language and an inability to win
the gra1es of the sports writer's.
She is aggrieved. She is distraught,
she has been pilloried. Mile. Morris
Is known throughout sportsdom as an
automobile racing driver. She will prob
ably become better known as a result
of the French sports declarations, and
what did she do? She wore the panta-
Ions and she cussed in beautiful French
What immodestyl And in reply,
mademoiselle says: "Immodest; look
about you-not that you have not
consider the So-croSSed limbs of the
ladies. Are they of such modesty more
than my pantalons? No. no, mademoi-
selle; they are not. The condemnation
eeS terrible"
Bad language! I'm the name of lib
erty, in the name of La Patrie, my
father was general" replied Mile.
Morris. about the camps they did use
some of the language of the picturesque.
Do you bar the daughter of patriot?"
Dear mademoiSelle. no wonder you
cCCh tAAC ACuACCo Va IUO,UOV 1Ou
say look about you-am I more i'm
modest than these? Mademoiselle, we
ride the Madison Avenue car line and
we have become quite blinded.
France objecting to the pantalons
France objecting to the beautiful invec-
tive Of mademoiselle's pater, the Ian
guage of the tented camp.
Pantalons! Rather nice things, Mile.
Violette, SO much better than the bare
knees of the American street car line.
One hopes mademoiselle gets the francs
and that the language is forgiven. Mile.
Morris, come to America, where Ian
guage and pantalons are quite appre-
ciated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-18
The Democracy's Souvenir.

Judging from the manner in which
response has already been made to Gov
Smiths appeal for funds to pay the
Democratic party's deficit of a million
and half dollars, that financial opera
ton may soon be completed and the
organization given fiscal clearance. Let
ters and kilograms are now being
received from all parts of the country
ordering copies of the book of campaign
speeches, which is offered as a premium
to subscribers. Some of the contribu-
tors ask for as many as one hundred
copies each. No report is made of the
total amount of the first days subscrip-
tons, but the financial officers of the
Democratic committee are highly en-
couraged by the immediate reaction to
the candidates plea.
Some question has been raised regard
ing the book that is to be given in re-
turn for each two-dollar subscription to
the fund. Will it comprise the speeches
as written or the speeches as spoken?
There were differences between the two
forms, material differences in some re-
spects. Stenographic reports were made
OF the speeches as they were broadcast.
and SO presumably perfect copy is
kept Of the actual utterances of the
campaign. The chances are that the
souvenir edition. however, will be in
the form Of written speeches, and that
no attempt will be made to preserve the
moods of the moment that swayed the
candidate from his prepared lines of
comment.
Another question arises. Is the book
of speeches to be established and recog-
nized as the Democratic scripture? Is it
to be the declaration of principles and
of faith upon which the party is to pro-
coed to regeneration and ultimate VIC
tory? The governor candidate, who is
by every tradition still the head of the
party, calls for discussion, for frequent
and continuous activity in debate and
Is it to be accepted that
this discussion, all this recreative prop
uganda, will be along the lines of the
late campaign? There are some Demo-
crats-indeed, the returns of November
6 indicated good many-who do not
hold with the Smith formula
Of Democratic faith, and If the forth
coming book Of speeches is to be put
forth and accepted as the fundamental
law of Democracy, there may be some
continued demur and some difficulty in
So 1t would seem that this is not al
together matter of dollars and cents.
The coupling up Of the Democracy's
debt with the campaign speeches may
be effective financially, but embarrass-
ing politically.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-18
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

1t contains vineyards producing 10
varieties of table grapes with yearly
output of 100000 pounds; some 300
acres in cotton; 200 acres in alfalfa |;
$50 acres in potatoes; 100-odd acres in
corn; 1870 acres in peaches; 90-odd
acres in watermelons and muskmelons;
80 acres in Spanish onions: so or go
acres in sweet potatoes, and 70 acres
in apricots. In addition the Hoover
sows and $50 cows. During peak har-
vesting seasons as many as 200 hands
are employed and the annual payroll
is about $4,000
Louis Ludlow, the Hoosier- Washing
ton newspaper man, who Is about to
degenerate from member of the press
gallery into member of the House of
Representatives from the Indianapolis
district, hasn't waited till the special
session to deliver what he calls his
maiden speech as a statesman" He
Wooster, Ohio, the other night. It was
devoted to an effort to point the way
out of the wilderness for the Demo-
cratic party, which Ludlow adornS.
But whether the donkey will see the
pointer, or not, is question:" the au
thor of From Corntield to Press Gal
lery" sagely remarks. There be those
out In the grass roots whence Jim"
Watson and Everett Sanders spring who
think that Indiana politics holds big
ger things in store for Ludlow. He has
the quaint humor and genial graces of
Tom Marshall.
X X
Washington politicians found AL
Smith in old-time fighting form and
voice when he broadcast his appeal for
Democratic party funds on the night of
January 16. Most of them were disap-
pointed that the late standard-bearer
didn't give some indication of his own
intentions in the continuing battle he
urged Democrats to wage. Smith did
say that he will "be heard from time
to time on the radio'-hes pronounc-
ing it radio now-but he completely
ignored the subject of party leadership.
National Democratic leaders at the
Capital think Smiths high spot" was
his hint that prohibition is not a closed
incident.
(Copyrght. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-18

We see by the paper that the garden
clubs already have begun to make their
plans for the Spring.
It Is well.
No matter how cold the weather is
now, it is safe to say that it will not
always be so; it is pretty safe to predict
that balmy weather is closer now than
at any other time this year.
One Is reminded-we hope not irrev-
erently-of that lugubrious and great
that simple yet beautiful hymn of one
of the sisters Carey in which she
speaks of being closer to the Father S
mansions than she ever was before.
In that triumphant and essentially
brave declaration, filled with divine
faith, the lover of gardens recognizes
his own simple faith in the soil trans
figured. The forests were mans first
temples, said Bryant; surely farms and
garden plots were the second where
man worshiped unknowingly, and there
fore truthfully, with his labor. DR.. Van
Dyke has beautiful poem on the SUBJ
ject.
The gardener at this time of the year
needs all the poetry, all the faith, all
the faithful work OF the clubs, to keep
him from forgetting his rightful hertz
age. The lover of theatricals will have
little sympathy for him; the theater is
open and no day or night is too cold for
presentation. The amateur gardener,
on the other hand. finds his garden
stage bare and empty. Winter has pulled
down a bleak, bare curtain, or, rather,
Winter keeps down what Autumn
brought to view with its frosty snuffer.
turning green leaves into brown and
gold and reds, and Transforming glowing
branches into lifeless sticks. That was
what Autumn did, such was the poor
trick played by the buffoon Of the sea-
sons, the pitiless Fall. which wears its
motley for all the world as If drunk and
reeling. The true April Fools day
comes on Halloween.
X X X X
The light is ahead, however.
No matter how filled with colds and
coughs, the Winter cannot last forever.
The time will come, and perhaps not
so many months now, when out of
the very old but still unfathomable
mystery called Nature will start up in
all it's splendor the most beautiful
flower of all, Spring herself.
Is not Spring the most beautiful
flower? Where Is there a rose SO beau
tiful, a violet so sweet, a perfume so
delightful as the very Spring herSel1 as
she comes wrapped in her mantle of
morning dew and chilly evenings, redo
lent of earth and things earthly, yet not
ashamed of them, but unabashed i'll the
vigor of her quenchless Immortality?
All the wayside flowers, from the
trillium to the jack the pulpit, the
early blooming shrubs. the Forsythia,
the lovely lilac, all the roses, all the
glory of tulip and narcissus, of hya-
cinth and the little crocus and snow
drops that nestle in the grass, all of
these are but the jewels which Spring
wears.
She has a silk scarf of fantastic de-
sign thrown over her beautiful Shout
ders and we are so in love with the
Colors that we forget to adj
mire the lady herself This is the dan
ger of the amateur gardener, that he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-18
Large Donations Aid
Shenandoah Park Fund

From the Roanoke World-News.
Two gifts, amounting to $550,000,
have been made by wealthy persons
living outside of the State of Virginia
toward the Shenandoah National Park,
1t is announced by the Secretary OF the
Interior, Roy o.. West Toward the
acquisition of $4,000 acres of park lands
the people of Virginia have subscribed
$1,200,000, Of which $l,00O.ooo has been
paid in. The State of Virginia has APP
propriated $1,000, 1000. Probably a mil
lion to q million and half more dol
lars will be necessary to complete the
purchase. The names of the out-of-
State contributors to the park. fund
were not made public.
Definite surveys of the park area are
now being completed and offices will
be opened shortly at Front Royal and
other points to begin definite negotia-
lions with the landowners. With 81
ESQ 900 out Of possible $4,000,0 900 now
in sight, 1t is believed that the rest
Of the money needed can be raised In
and out of Virginia as soon as the exact
price of the land needed can be estab-
liShed. Preliminary estimates of this
price place the land needed from
Waynesboro to Front Royal at from
$3.500,000 to 100000. The average
assessment of the land for taxation is
81 an acre, the park lines including
$1,000 acres.
The problem in Virginia is somewhat
different from that in the Great
Smoky area Of North Carolina and
Tennessee, where a gift of $4,000, 900
from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller
fund has been made available to sup
plement the funds provided by the two
States. Tennessee and North Caro-
lima have already raised through sub
scription and State bond issues enough
to match the donation of the Rockefel-
Ter fund. The matter of acquisition of
property has been temporarily halted by
suits brought over timber rights in the
Federal courts.
In acquiring the Shenandoah Ma
tional Park, Virginia will have to deal
with some 5000 separate landowners,
while the chief owners of the Great
Smoky regions are about 40 great lum-
Der companies. The lines of the Shen-
andoah Park have been redrawn to ex-
empt from the park area some valuable
orchard and grains lands,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-18
Congress by April /.

Senator Shortridge of California has
urged Mr.. Hoover to call the proposed
special session of Congress at the ear
Hest possible date this Spring. This is
sound advice. If the session can be
opened April /. with the House ways
and means committee ready to report
q tariff bill at that time, why not open
1t then? Why wait until April Is, as
has been suggested? Those who are to
be members of the new Congress will
have had from March 4, the close of
the present session, until April / for
o rest.
A call issued by Mr.. Hoover immedi-
ately after he becomes President will
give more than three weeks notice to
the Senators and Representatives-suf-
ficient time In which to reach WASH
ington from the farthest parts of the
country. Already the fact that there is to
be special session has been broadcast
throughout the Nation. Newly elected
members of Congress, who are not now
members and have not yet come to
Washington, have the information that
they will be called to the Capital in
the Spring.
The House ways and means COM
nittee began its hearings on the pro-
posed tariff bill January 7. 1t does
seem that practically three months in
which to hold hearings and prepare a
bill for submission to the House should
be sufficient, although tariff revision
Is a big job, with many interests to be
considered. However, in this particular
case q Republican Congress is to re-
write Republican tariff measure. In
o degree, the tariff revision is to be
merely supplementary to the present
law. There will be no complete change
Of the tariff schedules. No effort is to
be made to change the principle of the
existing tariff law. Urgent demands are
being made for greatly increased duties
on many articles, it is true. But the
Republican party leaders will scarcely
fall into the error of acceding to any
increases unless it can be shown that
they are really needed. The consuming
public must be considered, particularly
with q congressional election in the
offing.
The Republican leaders expect to
have the farm relief bill dealt with in
the Senate while the House is working
on the tariff. Senator McNary, chair
man Of the committee on agriculture
has done vast amount Of. work on |
farm bills. He will have before him, if !
he has not already, Mr. Hoover's views
on farm legislation. 1t is expected that |
ne will be able to whip bill into shape |
by April / for introduction in the |
Senate.
The new Congress will have two big |
Jobs on its hands, farm relief and a !
new tariff bill. The sooner it can get |
down to work and pass them, the sooner |
the country will have an opportunity to
adjust itself to these proposed new
laws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-18
Greene Appointment
Pleases New Workers
rom the Schenectady Gazette

From the Schenectady Gazette.
Selections made to appointive State
officers by Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt
appear to be meeting with much ap-
prevail on the part of the people. One
which wins emphatic Endorsement from
the riding public-in other words. the
automobiliSts-is that of Col. Frederick
S. Greene to the position of State
superintendent of public works, which
place he has held for years.
1t is as commissioner of highways
that Col. Greene is perhaps best known.
He assumed that Office at the time
Gov Smith was first elected, and has
held it continually, or a supervisory
post ever since with the exception of
the two years Of the Miller administra-
ton.
Superintendent Greene might we'll be
called the father of the modern system
of highways in New York State. He
inaugurated and carried out to a sue
cessful conclusion the method of con-
crete road building, supplanting the
macadam highways that could not
stand up under today's traffic demands.
Whereas in the past. roads had been
built and then, going to pieces, had to
be reconstructed within year or two,
with inevitable delays and detours. I'm
UcT wi. OTccIlE tIlcy were UullG W 1dSb,
they were widened and detours became
almost thing of the past
A notable feature of his administra-
ton has been the abandonment of
political highways. Customs had de-
creed that in State, counties and towns
roads should be built to please the
politicians. Big sums were spent run
ming an improved thoroughfare to some
supervisors or Justices front door, end
ing there, just so he might have good
surface to travel on.
Other roads. where traffic was heavy,
were neglected. Commissioner Greene
put road building on a businesslike
basis. He refused to listen to the pleas
Of petty Office holders, or even of more
influential ones. He saw that dead end
roads were connected, that no more of
that kind were built, and that impor-
lance, not the buying of votes, was the
way to Judge whether highway should
be improved.
Politicians of both parties frankly do
not like Col. Greene. He has refused to
play with them. But he has served the
public faithfully and continually An
absence of scandal has marked his con-
duct Of Office. The roads he has built
stand as a monument to his Efforts
and as constant source of satisfaction |
to the riding public.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was
he declared 1t to be the duty |
of governor to represent all of the |
citizens. not party. He promised to be |
guided by that principle.
Already he has given evidence Of a |
determination to carry out this idea |
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-18
Chain System Applied to FarAl
Raises Question of Home ]

, Is the gifted and the glib organizer,
with plenty Of pep and industry, who,
II We do not decide to do for ourselves,
Is going to do all our buSienss for US in
all lines OF endeavor. Self-reliance. in
| duStry, Self-discipline and the will to
| win by ones own exertionS seem to have
| become lost virtues in these days of the
| supereminence of legislation as the
cure-all of our moral and material ills"
Advantages are distinctly on the side
Of concentrated capital and manage
ment," in the opinion of the Olean
! Herald, land the Soundness of the new
method lies in the fact that these ad-
vantageS are passed on to the buying
public. II the chain farm can be added
to the list of such successful products 1t
should aid measurably toward
healthier economic adjustment. Ameri-
can agriculture could adopt the plan
widely without entailing an unwhole-
some growth Of tenantry on farms, since
the method can be applied to farms
operated directly by the owners. It can
scarcely be doubted. in any event, that
the chain farm will become a recognized
economic factor"
Quoting a prediction that 1--WE shall
see more and more instances OF great
businessmen farmers assembling under
their control IS to so farms, putting
these farms into the hands of able
tenants or neutenants who will conduct
them, on a basis of profit-sharing, the
Roanoke Times holds that this idea
does not necessarily mean future given
over to generation of great landowners
surrounded by landless peasant-tenants,"
and concludes: IF grocers can effect
fnIA rx,tzx 4Af 60,
ton is an interesting one, to say the
least"
Reference to an experiment Of a
similar character in Iowa is made by
the ST. Paul Dispatch, with the COM
ment: THE tenants are said to be con-
tented with the novel arrangement.
They are relieved Of worry and much
responsibility; they have comfortable
homes and smartly kept buildings,
fences and equipment. a certainty of
income and improved living conditions.
The chain farm idea is in the expert
mental stage. 1t has yet to show its
possibilities through a comparison Of
one years results with another. AS a
combination of modern business with
agriculture 1t will attract wide attention.
But the chain farm idea Is regarded
with alarm by students of economic
questions. It requires the sacrifice of
the farmers independence. It contains
. distinct threat against the national
fabric"
1T seems logical development"
comedies the Charleston Daily Mail, but
that paper feels that whether it will
work out successfully remains to be
demonstrated. There NAV be many
hidden disadvantages or even evils"
the Mail, "that will not be-
'ome evident In the early stages of the
experiment. But whatever the even
ual result may be, American agricul-
ure seems destined to undergo radical
'hanges In the not distant future. 1t
must be brought up to date and in line
WIN the progress of other industries.
The Illinois experiments show that
forts In this direction are being made
eor that reason. as well as because of
heir possible results. they win bear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-18

service with radio from the days when
it was known as wireless" and Mr..
Caldwell points out that about eighty
five per cent of the work Of the COM
mission has been completed.
President ELECT Hoover, as Secretary
of Commerce, expressed opposition to
the permanent establishment of another
commission to handle radio, and urged
that after a year its powers lapse back
to the radio division of his department,
but he has not made any recent pro-
nouncement on the matter, and it Is
not known whether his views have
changed Meanwhile, bigger and
broader solution of the whole matter
seems to be approaching, in what Rep
Davis refers to as the "in-
evitable" formation of communica-
tons commission, with authority over
all wireless and wired communication
systems.
Mr. Caldwell's viewpoint is refreshing
to those who listen to pleas for extern
sion of existing agencies. whether he
wants to get back to private life or not.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-18

all well enough to pull a few dozen
small operators, make a show of en-
forcement and then pass on to other
things. But there must be some discre-
ton in the raiding, some restraint In
the enforcement. The whole thing is a
matter of well adjusted balance. These
five well dressed crooks may be fair
prey for the police. If SO they have left
precious little in the way of clues by
which they can be pursued. 1t is all so
provoking. When the crime is really
and truly beyond the pale it proves to
be undetectable. Just such happenings
are calculated to make Commissioner
Whalen pine for the good old days
when his official job in New York con-
sisted in welcoming aviators and Cham
mel swimmers and foreign dignitaries
and celebrities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-18
An Unusual Condition

An unusual condition was unfolded
before a congressional committee the
other day when Orestes H. Caldwell. a
member Of the Federal Radio Commits
sion since its organization nearly two
years ago, recommended that the ad-
ministrative life of the commission be
cut on IN few weeks. Mr.. Caldwells
plea Is unusual, at least, for Congress
mas heard many items of testimony
from experts Of all branches of the
Government for many years, but almost
always on the other side of the picture.
Ordinarily the Government expert, tes-
tifying before a committee of either
house, appeals not for adjustment of
the commission or agency with which
he is identified, but for its continuance,
and frequently urges broadening of its
bowers.
Mr.. Caldwell's background, however,
Ss different from that of the usual Gov
ernment expert. Brought to Washing
ton two years ago from civilian life, to
take place on one of the most highly
technical commissions through which
the Federal Government functions, he
had no glittering illusions about the
-sacredness Of Federal control. Nor does
he believe that the commission form of
radio control Is a matter of good adj
ministration. He holds that the radio
commission having successfully piloted
the bark Of Federal radio administra-
ton through the troubled waters of
legal entanglements and through the
shoals of public interest" and benefit;
should now permit control of radio to
lapse back to the Commerce Depart
ment's radio division, from which it was
taken to find way out of the chaos Of
1928. The inherently technical nature
of the task of radio control should
properly rest with the highly skilled
pen who grew VI IN toe Government