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BRISBANE THIS WEEK Propaganda To Influence Men Very Cheap Empire ! Good Airplane News t The learned Doctor Lorge. of Teachers' college, Columbia university, has been studying laws

governing pro paganda that Influences human minds, experimenting on 99 “educated” adults from the list of unemployed, from twenty to slxty-nlne years old. These were asked to express their views of “some opinions” uttered by Lincoln. Roosevelt, Hoover, Thomas (the Socialist candidate),

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Artbar Brisbane Coolidge. Hearst, Karl Marx. Many that reacted favorably to the name of "Lincoln” did not approve Lincoln's statement: : "Capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed If labor had not existed." Those that “objected” had sound reason on their side. Capital Is not the fruit of labor any more than labor la the fru.lt of capital. Capital and labor are both the fruit of human intelligence, . The Intelligence of Thomas A. Edison supplied labor, jobs employing millions of mon and paying billions In wages, and that Edison Intelligence alone supplied capital to those that knew how to use Edison’s Ideas on a big scale. The great element In "propaganda,” “persuasion.* In advertising, is repetition. Say a thing often enough and the average man believes It. not asking why. Os all human convictions, none Is more firmly fixed. Immovable, than those based on eupersitlon. Ignorance, falsehood and preposterous credulity. Encouraging news: “An aviation program of more than 1,000 new planes to cost approximately $00,900,000 has been mapped by the Army. Navy and Marine corps for urn.* If we can afford five thousand million dollars to prevent the depression killing too many Americana we may well spend sixty million dollars to keep foreigners from shooting at all of us. The Van Kweringen brothers had nitlroad properties that financial writers called a “three billion dollar em plro.“ Perhaps “three billion” referred to bonds, watered stocks and other “securities* of the “empire.” In any case, the Van Swerlngens borrowed forty-eight million dollars on that "empire.” largely from J. P. Morgan A Co. They did not pay the forty-eight million dollars, the whole thing was put up at auction, the Van Swerlngens bought back, control of the “three-bil-lion dollar empire* for three million dollars, one-tenth of 1 per cent of the three billion# and forty five million dollars leas than the amount borrowed on IL The hurricane that spread destruction over Jamaica and Cuba obeyed the suggestion Os whither bureau and went 200 mNes out to s -a. Florida, much oblige,! to that hurricane, wonders whether anybody has any definite plan to control destructive hurricanes. WillKm J. Cameron, broadcasting from Detroit, able to Interpret Henry Ford’s views better than anybody else, finds economic signs “already changed for the better.” More important,, the “American mind has made a remarkable recovery of equilibrium.* Ethiopia’s king has “about* 2.000,000 men massed on three fronts, all facing Italians, and ready for anything to happen. Ender those conditions something probably wIU happen. Whatever starts must go to the end. If Is not likely, with Hitler preparing for revenge, that France will sever her present relations with Italy for the sake of distressed Ethiopia. If dear old England should sally forth and find herself all alone, she would probably “sally” back again without firing that first deciding shot Mussolini knows that In Nebraska President Roosevelt addressed l»l» first speech of the campaign of 1336 to 15,000 farmers gathered around the rear end of hl«»car and 20,000,900 other fartnera by radio. Be talked earnestly, with jesting; he understands the silence of farmers who applaud little while expressing no disapproval. The farmer, who lives and thinks by himself, is rfot a demonstrative being. Explaining and-defending AAA. an administration device that tells farmers what, where, how much they may plant, what animate they may raise, what prices they must charge, the President chose this convincing statement : “Three years ago 1 visited farms In this state and saw farmers threshing 30-cent wheat and shelling 20-cent corn.” With farmers, facts count. There Is no 30-cent wheat or 20kent core w. c mac F««ture» Sya<Uc«t«. Inc. WXU OWViM. Calais* Oil Calaba oil Is an illuminating oil made from retake nuts, which come from a tree of thg order of guttlferae that flourishes in Brasil and the West Indies. The oO consists of the glycerides of palmitic, stearic and oellc adds, and contains about 15 per cent of a greentab resin which is poisonous and renders the oil inedible. It Is, however, need medicinally. Si gw es S tin gi mm A man with thin, tightly-drawn Bps to likely to be stingy with hia money.

News Review of Current Events the World Over

Italian Troops Invade Ethiopia and the War Begins— Mussolini Warns Nations Not to Interfere— Craig Made Chief of Staff. By EDWARD W. PICKARD © W«»t«rn Newspaper Uatoa.

WAR Is on In east Africa. Mussolini's troops in Eritrea Invaded Ethiopia because, according to a note he sent the League of Nations, of the

Ethiopian 'mobilization, though this was not ordered until after the Italians had crossed the border and occupied strategic positions south of ML Mussa AIL Baltlngheta Heroul. the Ethiopian foreign minister, sent to the league this message: “A telegram received October 3 from Ras Seyum, Informs the

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imperial government that Italian military airplanes this morning bombarded Aduwa and Adlgrat. leaving many victims among the civilian population, including women and children, and destroying numerous houses. “A battie Is at this moment taking plape in the province of Agame, “These events, occurring on Ethiopian territory, constitute a violation of the empires trorftler, and a breach of the covenant of the league, through Italian aggression.* A Reuters dispatch from Addis Ababa said the Italian force advancing on Agame had been defeated, but thia report probably was false. The Italians, moving south from the Asmara region, crossed the Ma reb river frontier at widely separated points and converged In heavy columns toward Atjuwa, the scene of the terrific Italian defeat 39 years ago. Government authorities In Rome at first denied that Adua and Adigrat had been bombed, but this action was reported by American correspondents with the Italian army. The whole operation was under the direction of Gen. Emilio De Bono, commander in chief of Italy's colonial armies. Halle Selassie’s order for general mobilisation was carried throughout the empire by the ominous beating of the war drums, and his eager warriors responded by the hundred thousand. The emperor’s first war order was to his chieftain. Ras Kaba da. and three other generals, to take 50,090 men to Mt. Mussa AIL The defense in the North was entrusted to the Negradas of Wollacho. It was estimated at Addis Ababa that the emperor could count on the services of about 1,250,000 fighting men, and the women also are ready for active work in the conflict. SIMULTANEOUSLY with the opening of hostilities- in Ethiopia. Mussolini gave the signal for tremendous mass gatherings of all Fascists in Italy. Millions of Black Spirts in all the cities dropped everything and assembled to cheer for the Duce and his African adventure. From the balcony of the Venezia palace In Rome the premier Shouted the words that committed his nation to a policy that may mean either victory or ruin. He reiterated his determination to seize territory from Ethiopia but declared he would do everything possible to prevent the campaign from bringing on a European war. But he warned the League of Nations and all nations to keep their hands off, saying: “To sanctions of an economic character we reply with our discipline, our sobriety, and our spirit of sacrifice. To sanctions of a military character we will reply with measures of military character. To acts of war we will reply with acts of war." Summoned hastily to a meeting of the league council in Geneva, the statesmen of Europe found themselves confronted by the fact that an undear was being waged by a league member against a league member. Article XVI of the league covenant provides for severe penalties for such a war when the aggressor has been determined. The sanctions range through an economic and financial boycott to final military penalties. Before going to Geneva. Anthony Eden of Great Britain conferred with Premier Laval of France in Paris. He had instructions to throw the full support of his movement behind league efforts to Isolate or halt the conflict in Africa. French officials believed that if sanctions were applied by the league, they would be only economic, which would shut off loans and raw materials from Italy, The mobilization of the British navy in the Mediterranean and the Red sea continued with accelerated speed. FIRM assurance that the United States would not be drawn into a foreign war was given by President Roosevelt in his address at San Diego. He said: “We not only earnestly desire peace but we are moved by a stern deter mination to avoid those perils that will endanger our peace with the world. As President of the United States I say to you most earnestly once more that the people of America and the government of those people intend and expect to remain at peace with all the world." In Washington Secretary of State Hull made a strong plea for peace. declaring that economic recovery Is being retarded by international political uncertainty. Re warned that world political stability cannot be achieved without a revival of world trade and that war win block trade. BULGARIAN conspirators formed an elaborate plot to assassinate King Boris 111 and seize control of the government, but they were foiled and many persons were arrested. Among them were 27 army officers and former Premier Kimon Gueorgulett. x - Sources tdoeo to the government declared an attack was to have been

made on the king as he appeared before Ms subjects to review a parade in celebration of the anniversary of his accession to the throne. March.ing soldiers were to have been without ammunition, and tn the confusion following the attack the plotters hoped to take control of the arsenal and public buildings. CHINESE customs officials at Swatow seized a lot of rice that had been smuggled from Formosa by Japanese. Thereupon Japan sent ten warships to Swatow and formally demanded that the rice be surrendered and that provincial taxes on imported Japanese rice be abolished. The Chinese protested and argued, but under the Japanese guns what could they do?

MAJ. GEN. MALIN CRAIG, a veteran of two wars and commandant of the war college, was appointed chief of staff of the American army by

president Roosevelt. . He took office Immediately. succeeding Gen. Douglas MacArthur who is on his way to the Philippines to be j military adviser to the ' new Island commonwealth. Craig is ad- j vanced to full general- 1 ship. Born in St. Joseph. Mo., In 1875, Craig was graduated from West < Point in 1898.

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Immediately afterward he saw service in Cuba daring the Spanish-Ameri-can war. and in June, 1900. partlcipat- , ed in the China relief expedition made necessary by the Boxer outbreak. After service in various,army posts in this I country, Craig, upon American en- i trance into the World war In 1917, was assigned as chief of staff of the Fortyfirst division and sailed with that out- i fit for France. Later he became chief of staff of the First army corps, serving In that position until the armistice was signed. Then he marched into Germany as chief of staff of the army of occupation. For his fine work in the World war he received the Distinguished Service medal, and he also was given the Legton of Honor and Croix De Guerre of France, Order of the Bath of England, I Order of the Crown of Belgium, and Order of the Crown of Italy. TREASURY report for three months ending September 30 showed a firstquarter deficit of $832,000,000. This was 34 per cent greater than for the corresponding period a year ago which at that time was a record deficit Elx-1 penditures for the quarter amounted to $1,830,000,000. This was an average of about $20,000,000 a day. The deficit occurred in spite of increased taxes and other revenues in- i cldent to Improved business. Total revenues for the three months were $998,000,000 compared with $954,000.000 In the corresponding period of the preceding fiscal year. A substantial amount of the Increase In' expenditures was due to AAA payments to farmers. Increased I army, navy and other departmental spending, as well as larger allocations to veterans’ adjusted service certificate ! fund, public debt sinking fund, and civil service retirement fund, contrib- . uted to the increase in regular expenditures. ACCORDING to the monthly report of the civil service commission, the federal pay roll now numbers 770.128 workers, the largest tn the peace time history of this country. The total for July was 729,769. The workers draw approximately $110,000,000 of tax money a month. The report, shows the NRA pruning Is proceeding slowly. Up to August 31 only ebont one-third of the employees had been discharged on President Roosevelt’s Instruction to cut the staff following the Supreme court de- ’ cision. POTATO control was the subject of discussion at a hearing called by the* AAA in Washington, and officiate, farmers and consumers were given a

chance to, say what they thought about the Warren act. which provides for quotas for potato growers with a prohibitive tax on production in excess of quotas, and is armored with jail penalties for 'willful buyers or sellers of bootleg potatoes. This act was opposed by the New Dealers, and Secre-

tary of Agriculture Wallace said at the conference that. be dore not want to enforce It and will do all in his power to avoid enforcing It He offered several plans for voluntary methods which would reduce potato surpluses and raise prices. He continued: “Potato growers are tn real trouble and the AAA wants their judgment on possible cures for potato problems. Potato prices are about half of parity and the AAA deeires to get the foil benefit of the judgment of potato producers concerning plans for Increasing their returns." THE AAA announced a production program for cigar-leaf tuuacco for the next four yean. It x rovides a maximum acreage production of 40 per cent Benefit payments will guarantee producers not less than “fair exchange eatue," or parity, for the crop. Contract signers wIU be prevented from growing tobacco on farms other than those covered by the contract. ■

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TRAVELING rapidly to the Pacific coast for some fishing. President Roosevelt delivered several Important addresses. The first was at Fremont,

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the welfare of the people. Defining his idea of constitutional government he said its true function is “to promote the general welfare, not by interfering unduly with individual liberties, but by bringing to the aid of the individual those powers of government which are essential to assure the continuance of the inalienable rights which the Constitution is intended to guarantee. It is democracy in the good old American sense of the word." Coming to the AAA, in which his hearers might be supposed to be most vitally Interested, the President asserted that "agricultural adjustment is an expression in concrete form of the human rights those farmer patriots sought to win when they stood at the bridge at Concord, when they proclaimed the Declaration of Independence. and when they perpetuated these ideals by the adoption of the Constitution." No matter what attempts may be made to tear it down, "the principle of farm equality expressed by agricultural* adjustment will hot die. 1 ? the President told the crowd. The AAA has made “honorable history," the President declared, and as a result, smoke is pouring from chimneys again and workers without regular jobs are obtaining employment He served notice that it is the purpose of his administration to “use every square mile of the United States for the purpose to- which it is best adapted." Nature must be harnessed a Instead of despoiled, he asserted. At Boulder Dam the President assisted in the dedication of the great project and delivered an address in which he announced that government spending for employment purposes was nearing its end and that now private Industry must take up the burden of decreasing the army of the unemployed. He defended the administration against the charges of “boondoggling’' and said Its efforts “meet with the approval of the people of the nation.” He touched only lightly on the power question. Secretary Ickes, who also spoke, said Boulder Dam should be re-named Johnson Dam, in honor of Senator Hiram Johnson. Again at Los Angeles in the Hollywood Bowl and at San Diego the Chief Executive delivered adddesses, and then he went to catch some fish.

FRANK KNOX, publisher of the Chicago Dally Ttavs. Is now an accredited candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, for be has

received the indorsement of the Republican state central committee of Illinois. Colonel Knox has been In a receptive mood for a long time and has traveled all over the country making speeches. In various unofficial straw votes he has been placed second, only Senator Borah being prefefted to him.

Addressing the Illinois central committee, Colonel Knox said: “I have been from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from West Virginia on north, and everywhere I find that the Republicans not only think that they will be victorious but they have a deep sense of responsibility to rescue the country from the hands of socialists.” Van SWERINGEN brothers have ’ regained control over the vast railway and real estate empire they built and lost to New York bankers. At the height of the boom this was valued at $3,000,000,000. It was taken by a banking group when the Van Swerlngens defaulted on loans of $48,000,000 and was put up at auction. The brothers regained control for $3,121,000 by bidding In the majority stock of the Alleghany corporation, holding comx»any for all but one of the so-called Van Swerlngen roads, including the Chesapeake & Ohio, Peru Marquette, Nickel Plate, Missouri Pacific, and Chicago A Eastern Illinois, and the Van Swerlngen corporation through which the brothers ruled their vast real estate possessions. IN HIS second trial Nelson veil, publisher of the Panama American, was convicted by a federal jury in the Canal sQ»ne District court on a libel charge resulting from his criticism of conditions at Fort Clayton. The charges were brought by Maj. Gen. Harold' B. Fiske.. commanding the Panama renal department, and Col. James V. Heidt, commander of Fort Clayton. ERNEST P. BICKNELL, for 27 years prominent in rhe American Red Cross, died in Washington at the age of seventy-three soon after hte return from Hawaii. He was vice chairman in charge of insular and foreign operations of the Red Cross and directed relief of the San Francisco earthquake ; floods in the Ohio and Mississippi rivers; the Cherry and other mine disasters; forest fires and many catastrophies abroad, including the Messina earthquake to Italy. OBEYING the instructions es the President, the federal trade commission has begun a survey to determine why the cost of living is mounting so high. Severn! members of the commission's staff started the investigation to Itetroit, where the housewives staged a meat strike some weeks ago. Other members of the staff will take up the work in Chicago, and later the inquiry will be carried 00 to other centers. The agricultural income esneciallv is to be tovesttoated.

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Neb., where he spoke to about 15,000 farmers and was enthusiastically received. Mr. Roosevelt set forth the chief accomplishments of his administration to date, and challenged his opponents to do better. He defended the legality of the New Deal doings and made it plain that he would continue to carry on experiments for

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IMPROVED ' UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY! chool Lesson ay REV P. B. FITZWATER. D. D, Member of Faculty, Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, ft Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for October 13 THE STORY OF JEREMIAH LESSON TEXT—Jeremiah 1:8-18; >t:B-l&. GOWEN TEXT—Thou ahalt go to all that 1 send thee, and whatsoever • 1, command thee thou shalt speak. Jeremiah 1:7. PRIMART TOPIC—The Story of Jeremiah. JUNIOR TOPIC—The Story of Jeremiah. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPlC—Taking a Stand for God. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPlC—Attacking Entrenched Evil*. I. Jeremiah's Call (1:1-10). 1. It was pre-natal (vv. 4. 5). Before Jeremiah was born God ordalneJ him a prophet to the nations. 2. His diffidence (v. 6). This seems to have grown out of his youth and ] inexperience. 3, His hesitancy overcome (vv. 7; 8). God graciously appeared to him and made clear that he should go where sent, speak as commanded, aud | to be not afraid of the faces of his enemies. This was accompanied by the assurance of the divine presence. It matters little as to the strength of the foe if the presence of God is with the messenger. A The divine message given (v 9).' The very words were put Into the mouth, not merely the thoughts but the proper words to express the thoughts. 5. The nature of his ministry (v. 10). It was to be wider than that of prophesying. Six words were given as descriptive thereof. The first four ; are destructive in their implication; “root out," “pull down," “destroy," and “throw down.” The last two are constructive; “build” and “plant.” The destructive precedes the constructive. il. Jeremiah's Grief (9:1). The unbelief of the people made him feel that his, efforts were, fruitless. Seeing so clearly the awful doom which awaited this people, he wept sorely. The true prophet of God takes to heart the seriousness of his ministry and sorely grieves over the wicked unbelief of the people. 111. Jeremiah's Prophecy in the Temple Court (26:1-24). 1. Jeremiah’s solemn warning to Judah (vv. 1-7). The Lord commanded him to stand in a conspicuous place in the Temple and proclaim the judgment which was about to fall upon them. The object was to provoke them to repentance. If they did not repent. God would make the Temple as Shiloh. Shiloh was once the dwelling place of God; now It had fallen into decay. So will It be with the Temple. Jeremiah was sent to speak the words which his Lord had told him and not tt> diminish a word. 2. Jeremiah on trial (vv. 9-11). a. Cause of arrest. He was arrested for speaking all that the Lord had commanded. b. The charge (vv. 8,9). They charged him with a capital crime, which involved pretending to speak for God and speaking against/he Temple and the city. This would make him to be guilty of blasphemy and sacrilege, both of which were to be punished by death (Deut 18:20; Lev. 24:16). c. The princes sit in judgment (vv. 10, 11). We thus see that matters of state were not entirely tn the hands of priests, but in part were controlled by members of the royal family. 3. Jeremiah’s defense (vv. 12-15). Threats of death did not deter him from preaching, but only inspired him to repeat his message with clearness and tenderness. a. Reiterated the divine commission. b. He urged them to amend their ways and to obey God and thus avert the divine judgment (v. 13). c. He gave himself up (v. 14). He did not resist the powers of government Knowing that God had sent him, he was content to trust God for deliverance. d. Warns of fatal consequences. He frankly told them that God had sent him and if they killed him they would be guilty of defying God. 4. Jeremiah saved (vv. 16-24). a. 1 The princes pronounce him not guilty (v/16). They were convinced that Jeremiah was speaking the truth. b. The elders plead for Jeremiah (vv. 17-23). They cited two cases; Micah (vv. 18, 19) and Urljah (vv. 20-23). They argued that killing God’s prophets did not turn aside his judgment but intensified it The only way to avert the judgment is to turn from their sins. c. Jeremiah rescued by Ahikam (v. 24). He was a man of such Influence that he was able to Interfere at such a critical time. Th* Seventh Wave The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land, will find that the seventh wave is a long time coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and Invites you to ride with him to wealth or Influence. —J. B. Gough. Conciliation The essence of all fine breeding Is hl the gift of conciliation. A man who possesses every other title to our respect, except that of courtesy, is la danger of forfeiting them aIL A rude manner renders its owner always liable to affront He is never without dignity who avoids wounding the dignity of others.— Lytton. Duty * He who to questions of right virtue or duty sets himself above aU ridicule to truly great.—Lavater. Pity Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine. when enemies use the same article as poison.—-J. F. Boyes.

Washington Digest National Topics Interpreted By WILLIAM. BRUCKART jWjTfflFNATIONAL -S::- W sL' ,

Washington.—The Republican party leadership has made its first moves for the 1936 campaign. G. O. P. Ready The executive comfor Fight mittee of the Republican national committee has held a meeting here, a session that started and ended with enthusiasm bubbling over. The reason the members gave for all of their joy was, as expressed by Chairman Henry P. Fletcher, that “the tide has definitely turned and we are going out to defeat President Roosevelt for reelection." Whether all of this Joy is Justified, no one can tell, but certainly the Republican wheelhorses for the first time in almost five years have shown signs of genuine tight They are convinced that Mr. Roosevelt and his New Deal are in a tail-spin and the.v are committed now to help the present administration to continue until it crashes—help it by calling attention to every shortcoming and every mistake it has made. While, as I said, the executive committee - meeting simply bubbled over with enthusiasm, unbiased observers could not jwlp reaching the conclusion after they watched the situation that the committee did very little of a constructive nature. It may be that this group was not intended to map out many plans, but If it did not have that purpose, one Is inclined to rise and inquire: Why hold a meeting? The one outstanding action taken was the authorization given Chairman Fletcher to establish a young Republican club division In the national committee headquarters here. The rest of the session that lasted all day apparently was given over to the exchange of ideas. All politicians and observers as well recognize the necessity for the exchange of ideas but the question Is being asked around .Washington what they are going to do with these ideas. •• • ' Rank and file Republicans may take heart in the circumstances that brought their party leaderSee It at ship to headquarters Good Sign months earlier than they ordinarily meet. It Is a good sign, from the Republican standpoint. It ought to mean that they are all set to do business and to keep doing business until they have elected a candidate to the Presidency in November, 1936. But still, none of the Washington writers was able to determine exactly what Is going to be done. The Washington writers can hardly be blamed. If inside Information that leaks out is correct, because the executive committee really did not get very far with any plans. I said above that the wheelhorses appeared to be full of fight There was every evidence of this. There was also evidence of possibilities, at least, that there may be family fights. There is no doubt that many members of the national committee do not like Chairman Fletcher. Likewise, Chairman Fletcher is not enthusiastic about certain members of the committee over which he presides. It is made to appear, therefore, that there may be some mud slinging before the machine Is attuned for the campaign next year. If there is much of IL the Republican party may as well save the money it is preparing to spend, as money always is spent In a campaign, to defeat Mr. Roosevelt. It won’t have a chance if it is going to fight without a united front against such opposition as the President and his party set-up is prepared to give. ® • • • It may have been by coincidence or it may have been by design but whatever the reason, the Won*t Help action of Robert H. Either Lucas, former executive head of the Republican national committee, in filing a libel suit against one of the party members Is not going to help either Mr. Lucas or Charles D. Hilles, national comltteeman from New York. Mr. Lugas has sued Mr. Hilles and Frank R. Kent. Baltimore newspaper columnist and political commentator, for 5206,000 librt. He charged tn a suit filed on the same day that the executive committee met here that Mr. Hilles and Mr. Kent were “conspiring” to destroy him politically. It is unlikely that Mr. Lucas can sustain his charges in court but whether he can or cannot sustain them, the court action against a prominent member of his own party, a man with whom he was associated in party leadership, naturally will have a disrupting Influence. It will go far beyond the two personalities involved because obviously the names of other party leaders will be dragged to. Mr. Kent said after learning of the libel action that Mr. Lucas was acting “silly” and he was not alarmed at all. The. comment here among observers who know both Mr. Lucas and Mr. Kent seem to think that the action was brought by Mr. Lucas to order to upset Mr. Hilles. Mr. Lucas has disliked Mr. Hilles for years and so, to the opinion of many astute political writers, Mr. Lucas is seeking to wreck any political aspirations Mr. Hilles has by joining him as a defendant In a suit against Mr. Kent Mr. Lucas, it will be remembered, is the Individual who got mixed up in a rather sour mess in the effort to beat Senator George W. Norris in Nebraska. Senator Norris has bolted the Republican party and supported Democratic nominees through the last eight years, meanwhile continuing to claim Republican affiliations when he sought election to the senate. While it was never proved how much Mr. Lucas had to do with It, the belief has always prevailed that it was Mr. Lucas who conceived the idea of persuading George W. Norris, an obscure grocery ..

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story proprietor in Nebraska, to file for the United States senate against Senator George W. Norris who was then seeking re-election. Punishment was meted out to the Grbceryman Norris who, it appeared after the thing was over, was more or less of an innocent bystander who was willing to lend the use of his name. Thus, when a few weeks ago, Mr. Lucas personally sent a questionnaire to the hundreds of Republican state and county chairman, seeking their views as to a Presidential nominee for the party, those who remembered his services with the Republican national committee immediately wondered what his object was. I have tried to ascertain what the purpose might be and have thus far had no success other than the statement which Mr. Lucas made to me. He told me at the time of his poll that he wanted to discover exactly what the sentiment,was of those party chairmen far removed from the hot bed of party control. It was his conviction, he said, that the method he was employing would bring to the attention of those in control of the Republican party facts that should awaken them and keep them from allowing the party machine to be subordinated to the wishes of a few. He declined to name those few. Now, however, he is in the limelight in a new fashion. If he has been damaged, as he claims, by the conspiring of Mr. Hilles and others, then he ought to collect and those who conspired ought to be exposed. Nevertheless, unbiased observers remain without a conviction that Mr. Lucas has been the victim of such a conspiracy. • . ♦ • Let us turn fro ma discussion of political rows and personal enmities to learn something About Miss about one of the O’Reilly most calm and complacent women who has ever served in a public capacity. I refer to Miss Mary M. O’Reilly. It is probable that few of those who read my observation on Washington affairs ever have heard of Miss O’Reilly, nor Is it strange that they have not heqrd of her for 1 do not believe there is any individual more retiring and less desirous of publicity than she is. For 32 years. Miss O’Reilly has graced an office in the treasury. Starting as a minor clerk she continued as a servant of the public in the office of the director of the mint. 'She did a Job as once so faithful and so efficient that promotions continued to come until eight or ten years ago she was made assistant director of the United States mints. Administrations came and went through all of those years and Miss O’Reilly continued to do her job, to do it so faithfully that no one ever thought of what her political affiliations nftiy have been. A few days ago, there came from the White House an executive order which said that the treasury mighj continue to keep Miss O’lteiUy on the pay roll for'a year after November I—she will be seventy years old on that date and under the law would be forced to retire. Secretary Morgenthau, however, recognized the unique capacity and ‘quality winch Miss O'Reilly possesses and has.extended her term of service. Her dread is publicity. Rarely, if ever has she been interviewed for direct quotation. Newspaper correspondents went to see her after it was announced that would be continued at her present post for another year. She said: “I am deepi? grateful to the President for his extreme kindness. Life without work does not even remotely Interest me. “But do you have to print anything about me?” And that last line is typical of Miss O’Relll.v and tells more of her character than one could display in a whole volume. • • • 1 was telling a Washington visitor the other day the system employed in the national Capital Why No for the Identification Street? ot streets, explaining that the north' and south streets bore numbers and the east and west streets were nambd after letters in the alphabet or with names beginning with those letters in the order of their appearance in the alphabet Ln the course of my explanation my friend discovered that there was no street given the letter “J” and it resulted in a little research work to determine why this had happened. From records of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of Washington and from the office of the register of deeds, I found definitely that the letter never had been used alone although out beyond “the first alphabet” where names are used for streets and the names begin with the alphabet in regular order, there are streets whose names begin with “J." But there was no “J” street and never had been. Further inquiry developed what I believe to be the basic reason, namely, similarity of the letter “I” and “J" when written. There were hints that the early city fathers feared poor penmanship would result in considerable confusion when letters were addressed to numbers in “I” or “J” streets. So they eliminated the “J” in deference to the average American's poor penmanship. ft WMtern Newspaper Union. Largest City According to the report of a geography professor, neither London nor New York can claim to be the largest town—in the matter of size. This is claimed by Debressen in Hungary, for the area of that town occupies over 600 square miles.—Pearson's .Weekly.