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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
The Wilsnn-Vare Contest.

The contest brought by William B.
Wilson, Democratic opponent of Sena-
tor-elect William S. Ware of Pennsyl-
vaniG in the senatorial election of 1925,
for seat in the Senate has been de-
cided adversely by the committee on
privileges and elections. 1t is expected
that the Senate itself will take the same
view. When the ballots were counted
on election day three years ago Ware
was declared to have been elected with
a lead Of 173,507 votes ovc- Wilson.
Mr.. Wilson contested the election on the
ground that fraud had been perpetrated
and the election had been stolen from
him.
Mr.. Wilson came to the Philadelphia
city line a victor in the senatorial con-
test by $4,000 votes. But Philadelphia,
the ware stronghold, rolled up huge
vote for the Republican candidate, long
the boss of the Republican organization
there, and gave Ware the lead in the
State as a whole by more than 10000.
The relatively narrow margin by which
Ware had won the election in a State
that is Overwhelmingly Republican and
the reports that there had been wide
spread registration and election frauds
in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh led Mr.
Wilson to file the contest on which a
report goes to the Senate for the first
time today.
subcommittee of the Senate finance
committee examined, through it's own
experts, millions of votes cast in the
election. The verdict of the subcom-
mittee was that while there had been
a considerable number of irregularities
and cases of fraud, with all fraudulent
and irregular ballots eliminated, Mr..
Wilson still could not be considered
elected He simply did not receive a
majority of the ballots honestly cast.
This was the opinion of Democratic as
well as Republican members of the SUBJ
committee. 1t is expected that the
Senate itself will TAX. the same view
of the situation.
But the decision of the case against
Mr.. Wilson, who was formerly a mem
Der of the House and after that a
member of President Woodrow Wilson'S
cabinet, does not necessarily mean that
v.Gl:am S. Ware is to be seated in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
Sees Capital Becoming
New Getty of Churches
from the Kansas city Journal-Post,

From the Kansas City Journal-Post.
Inc distinction that Brooklyn once
enjoyed as the city of churches is about
70 pc shifted to Washington, through
no lack of religious spirit in BROOKLYN.
ana, we fear, through no corresponding
increase OF religious zeal in Washington
washington is fortunate in having
other people pay for the towering struc-
lures, which have been so important a
part of the City Beautiful" Most of
these have been erected at expense of
the taxpayers of the United States, to
mouse the various branches and depart
ments OF the Federal Government. The
1act that Washington is the Capital
and a place which many thousands of
Americans and foreigners visit is re-
spons1ble for many other edifices,
erected by great fraternities. with funds
raised throughout the country.
Inc movement for substituting
churches of the leading denominations
Is comparatively recent, but it has al
ready made great Roadway. Probably
the IneSt Protestant Episcopal cathe-
oral IN America will result from activi-
ties which have been in progress since
the most popular rector of Washington
was made bishop.
Otner denominations are raising huge
sums to build churches in Washington
IN keeping with the size and dignity of
the religious bodies, nationally. The
Methodists, the Christians, the Bap-
lists and the Presbyterians have
all been considering the matter. Dur
ing the week an anonymous gift of
S425,OOO for a great Presbyterian
church at Washington was announced
at the Chicago meeting of the general
council of the church.
But more than great edifices will be
necessary. 1t is highly probable that
endoWmentS will be made to maintain
pulpits which will command the respect
and attendance of Washingtonians,
official and private.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05

Senate. Far from it. The minority
members Of the Senate privileges and
elections committee hold that the cleo
ton was so tainted with fraud that it
should be asserted by the Senate that
there had been no election and that
the seat was vacant. The majority
members of the committee, however,
have reported that Ware was elected
on the face of the returns. Whatever
the decision of the Senate, Mr.. Wares
chances of being seated are considered
the slimmest A resolution has long
been pending declaring him not entitled
to be seated in the Senate because of
excessive expenditures in his primary
campaign and because of corruption.
This resolution, it is expected, will
prevail
The Ware nomination and election in
PENNSYLVANIA caused Nationwide indig-
nation. Attempts have been made to
reform the election laws of Pennsylva-
mia SO as to prevent excessive expendi-
lures of money and corruption in the
future. They have been partially sue
cessful. One of the reforms carried was
the adoption of voting machines
The gradual installation of these ma
chimes is expected to improve condi-
lions materially.
The settlement of the Ware case in
the Senate, which has hung fire for
three years, is essential. The Senate is
the final judge of the elections and
qualifications of its members. And the
Senate has determined, it appears to
do all it can to put an end to excessive
expenditures in election of its members.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
Shanghai, City Without a Soul,
Is Becoming Self-Conscious

Japanese and German films, and 05
cabaretS. The last number huctuates
considerably, as the popularity Of each
grows or WaneS.
Noted as the city is for its night life.
1t must not be thought that the day.
light hours are neglected or given over
to amusement. AS the commercial CEN
ter of China it houses the Chinese
branches of huge American, British,
German, japanese and French firms
whose names are household words
throughout the world Besides, there
are the great banking institutions and
the large Chinese hongS factories or
trade establishments, to say nothing of
the thousands of small shops or the
three large Chinese department stores.
X X X \
Nor is the residential section less
impressive, less substantial in its signs
OF modern progress. Streets are wide,
well kept and well policed. Trans
planted in the United States some of
the more pretentiouS mansions would
be pointed out to visitors and their
photographs printed in town-booSting
folders. But in Shanghai, where pow
erty and fabulous wealth rub shoulders,
they occasion little more than a passing
glance, save by the tourist who is struck
with the fact that the Far East does
nave modern conVenienceS and COM
pares more than we'll with the pro-
gressive facilities of his own home
town.
And yet these things have sprung
up. have been built and have ex-
banded, in spite of the fact that
Shanghai is surrounded by the uncer-
tainties of nation more often than
not in the throes of revolution. More
often than not this unique city has
had to assume warlike atmosphere,
It's foreign citizens have been formed
into ranks. bugle calls to arms have
been sounded down its main business
and residential thoroughfares, and an
attitude OF defensive neutrality" has
been assumed.
All of this to keep the looter from
the door and the rabble of defeated
Chinese armies from cleaning up the
clty-not figuratively but literally.
More than once Shanghai's peaceful
residents, Americans and others. have
had to doad rifles and patrol its streets
to protect their wives, their children
and themselves.
Copyright, 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
New Fashions Are Received
With Editors Reservations

other extreme, but no doubt extreme
measures were necessary If the line of
grace and beauty, shrinking for so many
years, was to be restored. We believe,
with them, that the march of progress
should be interrupted, say, four inches
below the knees in front and somewhat
more than that behind. We believe,
too, that compromise will be reached,
that the line of beauty will go so far
and no farther, that skirts will be Just
the right length for grace and freedom,
and that corSets and wasp waists will
never again be anything more than
bogies."
One result of what it considers an OBJ
vious change is mentioned by the Al
bany Evening News: 1T is reported now
that longer skirts are even changing the
manners of women. We read that
women are finding that the manners
that went with last years sport clothes
do not.blend with the new and longer
garments. From which we gather cyni-
cally that longer skirts make a lady
out of the girl friend or the good scout
OF yeSteryear. A girl can't be the same
IN long skirt. She has to go back to
the manners of years ago, so we are in
formed by the writer's. She even soft
ems her voice. All of which is interest
ing and beguiling, but some day the
short-skirted girl is coming back and
woman is going to be herself again."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
A "Bad Man" Quits Cold,

Usually when desperate, modern
bandit gunnan, wanted by the law, is
cornered he fights desperately to a
murderous finish. He is seldom taken
alive or. unwounded. But Frank Nc
Brine, who has long string of aliases
and rejoices particularly in the mon
mixer" of Jersey Kid" when trapped
in his New York apartment, concluded
that live gunman is better than
dead one, although there might be
five or six homicide charges against
him. So, with sixty policemen and de-
tectives surrounding his fiat. with every
exit covered, after few shots had been
fired through the door from and into
the hallway, he surrendered. He had
fifty cartridges in his pockets when
taken. Now there are several appli-
cants for his custody and trial, some
in New Jersey, some in New York, one
in Philadelphia and another in Chi
cago. The Philadelphia case involves
only prison term and McBrine has
offered to compromise the conflicting
claims by waving extradition and re-
turning to that city, a proposition that
has been rejected.
This man had little chance Of ever
escaping detection. He is a living
picture gallery. On the back of his
left hand is tattooed a f1ve-pointed
star in red and blue. On the wrist
is bleeding heart pierced by drip
ping dagger with the motto, Death
before diShonor." Distributed on his
chest and shoulders and arms are
two American eagles, the national coat
of arms, a liberty girl, and several of
McBrine'S names.
McBrine has been confirmed crimi-
nal for some years. He had his own
gang, which was rated as an exception
ally good one. At least three murders
were charged against him and his asso-
ciates and a long list of hold-ups and
robberies. The latest pursuit, which
ended with the capture in New York,
had cost some $4,000, leading through
Canada, Mexico and the Rocky Noun
tain region of this country. And when
it ended, this interesting young man
quit cold" with his pockets full of
ammunition, when threatened with the
explosion of tear bombs. Which goes
to show that courage is after all only a
relative quality.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

rod; Poland, Dana; in the Arabic Of
Egypt, Damah. The recurrence Of the
forms of Dame" is attributed to the
fact that part of the board and some
OF the draughtS of Queen HataSa,
daughter of Thothmes, who lived in
Egypt 1900 BIC, have been found.
@. Which States are officially desig-
mated as ommonwealths?-M. P.
A. Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania, Vir-
ginia and Kentucky officially bear this
title.
@. How much territory is one game
warden responsible ford. v.
A. In the best organized States in
this country, one game warden is ex-
pected to look after at least 100 square
miles.
@. Are the feathers worn as head
dress by women presented at court like
the Prince of Wales feathers?-H. G.
A. An official in the British Library
OF Information says: II do not think
that the plumeS now worn by ladies in
court dress have anything to do with
the Prince of Wales feathers, though it
is possible that the modern method of
arrangement, by which there is one tall
feather between two shorter ones, may
have more or less unconsciously been
ADOPTED from the arrangement of the
Prince OF Wales badge. Nor do think
that these plumes have any connection
with the old plume which a knight
wore as part of his full armour, of
which traces have descended into mod
ern heraldry. It seems much more
likely that it is merely a fashion of
about $50 years ago, which has become
Stereotyped."
@. Whose boast was GIVE me enough
power and I will fly a barn door"?-
M. H. S.
A. Eugene Ely, pilot of the Curtiss
Exhibition Co., used to boast thus.
@. What kind of wood is suitable for
the manufacture of fancy fansP-B. T.
A. Foreign woods that are commonly
used are sandalwood, lockwood and
ebony. Any fine teXtured wood that is
available may be tried.
Q. Where was DR.. Henry van Dyke
at the time that he wrote his poem,
America for Me"?-L. S. r.
A. DR.. van Dyke says that he wrote
it in Paris in 1909 at the end Of q
years service as American professor
at the Sorbonne.
@. When was the first commercial
dial telephone installedP-G. 8. p.
A. 1t was installed at La Porte, Ind,
in 1892.
@. How far north and south do the
Rocky Mountains extend?-E. @.
A. The Rocky Mountains are an as
semblage of mountain ranges, which
form the backbone of North America.
They begin in Mexico and extend
northward to the westernmost of the
Aleutian Islands. The length Of the
Rocky Mountain chain from north to
south is some 1000 miles and its width
between 400 and 500 miles. Within its
borders are several mountain systems
and large number of individual ranges,
together with several large plateaus,
numerous valleys, parks and canyons,
as well as multitudes of peaks and
ridges, meSas and buttes.
g. Is hi''h-nikns against the lAW'
A. A few States have laws against
the practice, and several others are
considering such a statute. Generally
speaking, drivers of automobiles are
warned against picking up stray pas
Sengers, since in case of accidents the
driver may be held liable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.


Always New Problems.
1t seems SO easy, when you read
OF some historic act;
A hero's bold, undying deed,
The statesman's thought exact.
The present task is still obscure;
But in some coming day
Those who endeavor and endure
The same old things will say.
The future, as 1t bids us try
Our common sense to please,
Will say, THE problems just gone by
Were not so hard as these"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
Credit Man Approves
Article on Wife's Debts

To the Editor of The Star:
1 want to take this opportunity to
thank you personally and also in behalf
OF our association on the very fair
article published in your evening paper
OF the I'd in reference to the opinion
handed down on Monday, December 2,
by Justice Charles H. Robb of the Dis
trlct Court of Appeals regarding the re-
sponsibility of the husband for the debts
OF his wife. Especially so, as the facts
IN this particular case were so different
from the general methods of extending
credit and should in no wise be con-
Strued as precedent to relieve the hus-
band of his common law liability for
necessaries, or as of principal and agent,
or where his credit is pledged.
ASSOCIATED RETAIL CREDIT MEN
OF WASHINGTON, D. c.
S. II. TALKES, Secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05

The resources Of our free Information
Bureau are at your service. You are
invited to call upon it as often as you
please. It is being maintained solely
to serve you. What question can we
answer for you? There Is no charge at
all except Q cents in coin or stamps for
return postage. Address your letter to
The Evening Star Information Bureau,
Frederic j. HaSkin, director, Washing
ton, D. G.
@. Is Nick Lucas an American or an
Italian?-N. r. C.
A. Nick Lucas, who sings in Gold
Diggers of Broadway" is an American
born of Italian parents at Newark, N. j.,
August %, 1897.
O. How many statues of James
Madison are there in Virginia.
G. L. M.
A. There is not one statue of James
Madison in the State of Virginia.
Q. When did the Jazz Age" begin9-
d. w. W.
A. The Jazz Age is name applied to
an era in American life which began
relatively between the years 1911 and
1914. Among the most popular jazz
dances have been the Bunny Hug, the
Grizzly Bear, the Charleston, the Black
Bottom ana the Shag.
@. What business were the Packards
in before entering the automobile busi-
ness?-E. E.
A. Two Packard brothers we're manu-
facturers of electric lights and electric
supplies in Warren, Ohio. In 1899, they
decided to go into the motor car BUSH
ness.
@. Why do some Of our soldiers wear
a cord looped about the left arm and
fastened at the shoulder?-G. T. r.
A. It is French military decoration,
presented to a unit of troops for dis
tinguished service or conspicuous gall
lantry in time of war. It is worn by
all the men of the troops thus hon.
ored and borne on the colors. Four
rageres are in three colors, red, green
and yellow, corresponding to the color
of the ribbons of certain French mill
tary medals. Combinations of these
colors are used to form the double
fourragere.
Q. Who was the first Protestant bishop
of the Episcopal Church in the United
States?-H. A. C.
A. The first Protestant Episcopal
bishop to be consecrated after the break
with the English church was Samuel
y,
be consecrated Bishop of Connecticut,
but the English bishop found diff
Guilty in consecrating any one unable to
take the prescribed oath (Which in
cludes fealty). Thereupon Seabury re-
paired to the non-juring Bishop of Scot
land and was consecrated November,
1874, at Aberdeen, Scotland, by Bishops
Robert j. Kilgore, Arthur Petrie and
John Skinner. Later Drs. Provost and
Wood were conSecrated by the Arch
bishop of Canterbury in 1887.
@. What flags are flown on the three
fagpoles in front of the Union Station
at Washington, D. CIV. G. T.
A. The Bureau of Public Buildings
says that when distinguished foreign
visitors come to the city the flags of
their countries are displayed from the
poles mentioned. Some functions re-
quire the display. of one foreign flag,
some of two foreign flags, some of
three American flags.
@. What names do other countries
give to the game of checkers?-M. j.
A. In England the game is known as
draughts; in France, Jeu des Danes;
Italy, das Damenspiel; Holland, Dam
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05

"Quo Vadis," 1.-The Last Days of
Pompeii," "Ben-H ur'-with these three
great historical romances of ancient
times must be placed Dmitri Merejkow-
skis THE Death of the Gods"
This story of Julian the Apostate
is too little known by those who ap-
preciate the merits of the other works
mentioned above. There can be little
question that novels laid in Rome,
Greece, Jerusalem 1000 or more years
ago exert a strange fascination on
many readers, but when they come to
find really great examples of the art
they often are disappointed, since the
truly magnificent ones may be num-
bered upon the fingers of two hands.
Just what is the huge charm of those
days and places to these readers is
not altogether easy to say. To explain
| it by the influence of the exotic will
not do, there is a great deal more to
it than that. Perhaps some readers
bring with them from their remote an
ceStorS more traces of the past than
do others. Perhaps he who finds him.
self devout admirer of ancient Rome
had an ancestor in Brittany who stood
in amaze on a chalk cliff as the
Roman legions came in. It may have
been that this same ancestor was free
enough from the spleen of racial diff
1erenceS to recognize at their full
worth the various abilities and ac-
compliShmentS which made the Romans
one of the two-or should we say
three?-great peoples of antiquity
Then, too, there is the heritage of
beauty. Lovers of beauty have been
called Hellenes for all these centuries,
not because Greece exhausted this di-
vine commodity so essential to the well
of t1n INYV,na 1n,,k
their aims and aspirations ever since
have been the same. If there has been
a residue of Sophistication, mingled
with tendencies toward immortality, it
must be blamed on man himself, not
on his quest for beauty. The abuse
OF great things but makes them the
greater If they come out of the fire
with their essential heart unSeared.
* x *
"The Death of the Gods" is based on
sound research into the early Christian
eras, ending in that inexplicable deba-
Gle, the fall of the mighty Rome in
410 AID. 1t is said that peoples on
the deserts, thousands of miles from
the Tiber, thought that the world had
come to an end when they heard the
news. We of today cannot understand,
except Intellectually, the effect of the
catastrophe upon the minds of civil
liZed and uncivilized. The complete
sacking and destruction of such a city
as London, for instance, would not be
comparable now to the fall of Rome
then.
For the fall of Rome Christianity
has been held responsible by some his
torianS, few even going to the extent
of giving it full credit. This would
seem to be an overstatement, as all
such single solutions of great historical
events must be. Who or what caused
the World War? Few historians in
1929 are as willing to say they know
as they were in 1919. Great happen
ings in history, like death, are relent-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05

large amount of money involved and
the deep-seated interest of car riders
in the outcome, that such directly in
terested parties may be represented also
by associate counsel, properly authorized
to represent them as actual car riders,
tect and secure their rights under the
law? JOSEPH w. CHEYNEY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05

Homicide mysteries develop so many
clues that the police may be pardoned
for not being able to keep track OF
few of them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05

President Hoover points out that the
Nation is prosperous. Public interest
is concentrating on the idea of remain
ing so, regardless of the temptations to
spectacular finance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
Tariff Talk.

"The tariff is much talked about"
when lobbyists hang around" said
Senator Sorghum, cit is more than.
talked about. 1t is positively scandal
lied"
Jud Tunkins says most folks are like
doctors who like to give advice without
taking any themselves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05

December calls for another income
tax installment which tempts the aver
age citizen to wonder, once again,
whether there really is a Santa Claus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05

The late Father Tondorf took note
of earthquakes. He wisely refrained
from studying the stock ticker for signs
of commissions of nature In finance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
Christmas Forecast.

We should appreciate the freeze
Which in December comes, because
rhe scene is full of Christmas trees,
And each man is a Santa Claus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05

There are two problems connected
with vast fortune. One is how to get
it, and the other, what to do with it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
Cussedness?
,nce (Ala.) Herald.

From the Florence (Ala) Herald.
Several contemporary authors have adj
mitted that they dislike to write. We
have suspected that some of them do it
out Of pure cusSedneSS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05

Reports from Wall Street are to the
effect that prices were steady and only
the thoroughfare was skiddy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05

Business is regarded as substantial
and secure. The bulls and bears will
retire in favor of Santa's reindeer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05

Many experts insist that prohibition
laws can readily be enforced by some
body else.