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I Till: IUtOOKLYX DAILY lUtlUl MIW YORK. THURSDAY. FEHHUAUY 23. As a var mraMir the sort of oa tia exports that hat brrn put oa ruster ripens to Aatrrxa vx-i4 utterly Altars ruScient vjcia hrrwll i our Anro! THE SHADOWERS SHADOWED to that end Pot.fc"T advrra pj-ciKbCfy 1 created by iLch aa m.prrsuon. He-pt-blnan wrn IXt to be emiitti la cure the ilhi-non ttjt M-lert their oa ia r.a::cTil ror.iej-.-ion.

The tailij cf u.u.ua means apathy oa Election D.y. C-overaar Fuller an4 Dr Bailer ciay each be l-laiuiS a Cas-'sndia role, proplirsyinf the truih ur.brlifvirg ears: bu: they dtwrrf brr.er of tueir parly than the tur.e senen who lean to Poiharma and would lee a to class ii-iia. 1 JW ipwbu(-uen of 4 ren cifMU? tr.i:i4 i hrnu crr4.ini u. paper. vponttnvou ri.n A r.

c.pUi lirir.a ifirrtfl psprr hi r.rr.:.on Larr T'an That r.ini Paprr of I curd .1 may become more deeply lines may show, his hair i to silver, his frame may Eut the soul of William can never grow old. Government and Opposition In Japan Resort to Use of Spies; Each Watches Other in the Coal Mines. rTlmcs Picayune. step forward in safety and coal mines has been the recent invention of a lamp" that might more termed a "warning lamp." the name "safety lamp" CREEPING AT 2t MILES AN HOLR. Thrills from racinc hat gnaiiy in recent years and it a to be d-bte4 il the public at larje U1 ever revue its oute intense interest In this form of daredetiltry.

Frar.k Itvkharts narrow escape from death rhUe trying to lower the new record of 7C4S culrs an hour, made at the Da ton meet on Sonday. i a a-bering remindrr of the danger from increasing speed on the ground. When autotnob les wee new, racing them was popular. It will not be forgotten that Henry Ford hunself raced machine early in his career. This was a sure way to advertise motors.

Today Uie automobile industry spends little money and effort trying to increase the speed of motorcars. Most of the racing now is by specially built machines for which the average person, aitli traffic policemen every few blocks, mould have no use. For speed, in this age, the person with a hankering for thrills takes to the air. This is more Interesting and safer and infinitely more satisfying. Racing aviators regard 200 miles an hour as a snail's pace.

HUNGARY AND THE LITTLE ENTENTE. If Foreign Minister Benes actually proposes to try and create a five-Power Mittel-Europa which will include the three Powers of the Little Entente Czechoslovakia. Rumania and Jugoslavia with Hungary and Austria, he cherishes an Idle dream. Austria's orientation is toward the West, not the East. Her only chance of enduring life lies in a union with Germany, and this will come about just as soon as France Is no longer ready to go to war to prevent it.

As for Hungary, the only thing which the Little Entente could offer that would persuade her to accept political union with her neighbors is an extension of her frontiers to include territory which is rightfully Hungarian and of which Hungary was deprived by the Illogical hate-born Treaty of the Trianon. And since the Little Entente exists only for the purpose of preventing Hungary from getting back that territory it is difficult to see why and how Hungary should join it. Some time in the future Hungary probably will ally herself with one of the Little Entente Powers. Her purpose will be to get help in recovering territory from one of the other Powers of the Little Entente. Hungary knows that her present frontiers will stand while the Little Entente endures.

Her chance will come when her three neighbors start quarreling among themselves. She is waiting for that time with ill-concealed impatience. Her recent illegal importation of machine guns indicates that the Hungarian Government Is doing its best to make ready. PARTIAL KLAN REFORM. No longer will pillow cases serve as facial covering for the members of the Ku-Klux Klan, if one may Judge from the announcement sent forth from the national headquarters of this association.

No mask or covering of any kind will longer hide the features of Klansmen. In taking this step the organization has done much to divest itself of its most obnoxious feature. With faces exposed the members of the Klan cannot openly go about in bands breaking the law, committing acts of violence, without probability of identification. Neither can other groups of people go about committing lawless acts behind the Klan mask and thus putting the blame on Klansmen. The Klan in abandoning its favorite disguise not only bows to popular opinion and to the statutes of some of the States but also protects itself from the disrepute of excesses laid at its door by lawbreakers who borrow its form of concealment.

In taking on a new name, that of Knights of the Great Forest, the Klan has, on the other hand, cither slipped up badly or else deliberately made a gesture of menace. Spelled with one the word forest signifies nothing amiss. Spelled with two "r's" it forms the surname of Nathan Bedford Forrest, one-time slave dealer, brilliant cavalry leader under the Confederacy, wJio commanded at the capture of Fort Pillow, In 1864, when the negro soldiers of the garrison were said to have been massacred. Forrest was the reputed leading spirit in the organization of the older Ku-Klux Klan, which maltreated negroes in the Southern States in reconstruction days the defunct organization from which the present Klan took its name. The tactics attributed to General Forrest were not such as the country would wish to see the present Klan adopt.

The omission of an from the new alternative appellation of the Klansmen does not remove the feeling that they have pitched upon a name with unfortunate implications. The presept Klan has a right to hold its own opinions on racial, religious and political matters. It has no right to illegal actions, whether in the form of night-riding terrorism or in that of corrupt control of State governments. Unmasking is in itself a step in the right direction. But the Klan should go the whole way; should abjure the methods and name of Nat Forrest, and the effort to maintain political power through corrupt activities on the part of the members.

Germany's secret trial of an American accused of "commercial espionage" in dye factories might well be considered by the hundred percenters, who think we know everything. We don't, but we will pay well to be shown. The two subjects to which all American politicians are deaf took up a lot of time which might have been better used by the Pan-Americans down at Havana. The tariff and immigration demand vote defense if attacked, but no argument will ever be Invited by Washington. Descendant of Brewsters and Bradfords and Standishes will have no sympathy with a young actress who has chosen to tako the name of "Alden Gay," even If Britain throws her out of a Job.

The name lacks consistency. Also it lacks what Mrs. Malaprop might have called "vermicelli." The cotton mill crisis In Great Britain has leached a point where the master spinners have agreed to reduce wages by 12'i percent and lengthen hours. New England probers, her. compliments to Old England.

She, too, has had, and Is having, her troubles In the same field. Oply our Dixieland, with cheap labor. Is prospering. By ALFRED E. Snecial Correspondence of IOKIO, Feb.

10 Both ernment and the have set spies to having been applied to ft RATMOKD Ol'KN'IftON. Vic WILLIAM VAW ANDfJf KEffTLR. crLAiy. ft ARRIS CRTBT, Traiurr. VAIN OFT1CK BSCRIPTION RATES: Tare Ontt Duly.

T.v onU undy. By iOuUui Brook n-. 1 jr. m. and Sfidiy VI- 00 6 ouy fl-T 00 4 50 4 ind? on 00 8 00 Monday armon pcavst 1 00 60 1 1 1 -0 1 00 ThardAT ChM Ni 1 30 It Saturday fChurcta kuor 10 "5 15 Ueoy, Wfdatiaiy or IS) '5 ij Pornfti Rt Postpaid' 9V4 Sunday MM 114 00 Sunday only 00 5 00 85 Monday 3 00 IS THE FOUR-YEAR AMENDMENT.

The Assembly Judiciary Committee celebrated Washington's Birthday by voting down four measures urged by the Governor. "Butchered to make a party holiday'' Is an adaptation exactly lifting the case. The Republican majority of the committee voted solidly against all four. They will not again submit to the people of the State the amendment extending the term of the Governor. They will not let the Legislature pass upon the proposal to compel the filing of campaign expenses before election.

They will not tolerate a reapportionment based on population. They are against the submission of Federal amendments to the voters of the State before action by the Legislature. Upon one, at least, of these burked proposals the Governor Is resolved to make a fight. That is the amendment doubling the term of tlie Governorship and that of other elective State offices, now restricted by the Constitution. The argument of the Republican leaders who oppose this amendment is that the people in voting down the amendment last November by a majority of 700,000 declared emphatically against extension upon any conditions.

The Governor denies that this Is a correct interpretation of the vote. He opposed the amendment with his customary vigor solely because It failed to separate State and national elections, and he contributed more than any other Individual to its defeat. The purpose of a Republican Legislature In so framing the amendment that national and State elections coincided was clearly to secure for the Republican party the reflex advantage of the Presidential vote upon the vote for State candidates. It was not willing that State candidates and State issues should be considered on their merits. In his speech at the last annual dinner of the State Bar Association the Governor paid particular attention to the claim that the November tote on this amendment should be accepted as a definite expression of popular opinion against the principle of extended terms.

He denied that the people were hostile to extension. He insisted that they were hostile only to the confusion of candidates and Issues. "If I am wrong," he said In effect, "that can be best determined by a resubmission of the amendment in changed form v.Ith national and State elections separated." That Is the challenge -which his political opponents desire to evade. The Assembly Judiciary Committee has faithfully carried out the orders of the bosses. It records Itself as unwilling to let the people speak.

It is wrong, as the bosses are, in assuming that the question has been settled. It is wrong, as they are, in assuming that the Governor and those who hold with him on the principle involved are effectually squelched. The extension of terms with separated elections Is a doctrine held by too many independent Republicans, as well as by the practically solid mass of Democratic voters, to permit of its being shelved by a mere committee majority in the Assembly. TWO IMPRESSIVE WARNINGS. Alvan T.

Fuller, millionaire, captain of industry, art collector and Governor of Massachusetts, the home State of President Coolidge, a Republican indeed in whom is no guile, says frankly to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston The next President of the United States will be Herbert Hoover or Alfred E. Smith. If the Republicans put over some candidate nominated by the bosses in a back room at 2 o'clock in the morning and the Democrats nominate Al Smith, I believe Smith will be elected President of the United States. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, declares in an address to Jersey City Republicans: "Signs multiply that at Houston the Democrats will nominate either Governor Smith or Governor Ritchie.

It would be ai useless as unbecoming to meet either by a personal atfack. Despite the overwhelming majorities of 1920 and 1924, the best opinion is that the election in November next will be very hotly contested and that the result may be very close." He adds: We cannot afford to play with fire or blindly to overlook the most significant manifestations of public opinion. The voters next November will not be particularly influenced by the formal, unctuous and pussyfooting declarations of party platforms. Governor Fuller did not go into the matter of geographical alignments. Dr.

Butler touched upon that matter. He held New, York and New Jersey pivotal States, likel. to be followed by Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware and Maryland. He expressed the belief that the South and West would "run true to form" and intimated strongly that either party must have the East to win. Two such warnings to the Republican organization have corollaries that President Coolldje might find well worth studying If, as we assume he is anxious that his party shall not be repudiated by the people In November.

Ho cannot afford to urge upon the House of Representatives, commonly In Administration control, any policies that are offensive to the Eastern States. Also he cannot afford to let the Impression gain trength that he Is seeking to name his own uccMor and using the power of Uie Adinliils- THE DWELLINGS BILL AND ITS OPPONENTS Opposition to Uie proposed revuion cf the Tenement Law expected, but it doubtful if the Commission that drafted the new Dwellings Bill was prepared for the formidable onslaught that has been made on its work. Certainly the opposition was far better organized than the supporters of the proposed measure. The Dwellings Bill aims at drastic reforms in city housing. In focie rejpects it is revolutionary.

Tliat such changes as those proposed ran be made ithout a ell-prepared educational campaign seems to be obvious. This will take time. Nothing need be lost by a year's delay. It will give the advocates of housing reform a chance to explain their aims and to modify any provisions to which there are reasonable objections. But the effort to improve housing conditions must go on.

AS DREISER SEES RUSSIA. Theodore Dreiser, whose realistic noveU reveal the drab side of life in America's big cities, has been to Russia to see for himself what things are like under a Communist regime. He brings back the report that happiness is more widespread under the Hammer and Sickle than under the Stars and Stripes. Mr. Dreiser went to Russia as the guest of the Soviet authorities.

Under the circumstances he was naturally predisposed in their favor. And as one who is by temperament a critic of his own country he was naturally looking for those things in which the United States is inferior to Russia. But in deploring New York's bread lines and declaring that In Russia the government lets no one starve and pays the rent of those unable to pay themselves he goes too far. There are no bread lines in Moscow because there is no one willing to give away bread. If there were, the lines would be unending.

People do starve in Russia, sometimes by tens of thousands. And the government pays no one's rent unless it happens to be that of a Communist in good standing. We must find a new definition for happiness before we can agree that it is more widespread in Russia than here. The Slav is unhappy by tem perament and life is hard under a Soviet regime, as Mr. Dreiser found out.

In the United States when there Is unemployment we draw on our reserves to meet the problem it creates. In Russia unemployment means starvation and there are no reserves. TESLA AND THE FLIVVER PLANE. Neither electricians nor physicists have laughed at Nikola Tesla, though the general public may have done so. That he is an easily self-deceived inventor, that he didn't end war by his device outlined in 1898 to blow up battleships from a distance, that his claims to precedence over Marconi in the wireless transmission of Intelligence were doubtful though his 1893 experiments were interesting, that his Wardencliffe tower, blown down by the United States Government In 1917, accomplished little for science we may believe.

But his basic patents on alternating current power paid him immense royalties for a long series of years and In the hands of the Westing-house people defied all attempts to Invalidate them. And most of his profits were put into further experimentation. Tesla is now 72 years old. His announced Invention of a real "flivver plane" compels attention. He says he has a device that is only eight feet in its greatest dimension, that weighs only 500 pounds', that can rise from an open window on helicopter principles, that will carry two passengers aloft and can be built to sell for less than $1,000.

If these specifications can be met only a model has been built so far then flying will be brought within the reach of the multitude and aviation will be revolutionized. "Such stuff as dreams are made of?" Who knows? Nikola Tesla has always been a puzzle to fellow inventors. He will remain a puzzle to ine ena. remaps his practical weakness is that he has been and remains a puzzle to investors, who are not fond of puzzle-solving. TIN SHORTAGE AND STARVATION.

When a' bit of airy persiflage floats in from the British Islands we Americans feel a new thrill of cousinship with the Islanders. For example, nobody has ever thought of George Ranken Ask-with, First Baron Askwith, created in 1919, as a humorist. We have to sit up and take notice when he says: "If anything happened to America's tin supplies about 25 percent of American husbands would go hungry, for the simple reason that tinned food has robbed American women of their culinary skill." And we laugh with him when he adds: The United States Is effectually sealing itself up In a la can. Half the food the Americans eat is tinned. Americans are so busy and so imprisoned In their tinned lives that they never pause to consider what would happen if the tin supply ran out and they had to fall back again upon ordinary food.

Now Baron A.skwith, president of the Britlsa Federation of Iron, Steel and Tinplate and himself a tin magnate, knows his subject. He could tell you all about the Saxony, and Bohemia, and Bolivia and Australasia and Straits Settlements, and Cornwall sources of tin; but he doesn't know America if he thinks we can bi starved or half starved by cutting off the tin for tin plate. Born In the St. Ives of Mother Goose, educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he hasn't had time for much travel. And our national psychology Is not easily understood by the casual student.

Indeed, according to scientists, our health would be Improved by substituting glass cans for tin ones, vhich would be more expensive but not beyond our resources. Cheaper substitutes for tin plate for mnny uses are available. Not yet do we have to contemplate the awful possibility of family starvation while our women are rr learning to cook food that has never been canned. -ii t. William Allen White at 60 In his face etched, new Watertown Daily Times.

A terrible, unexpected, unimaginable thing happened to the editor of the Gazette today. Out of a clear sky and with no warning he became 60 years old. The thing is unbelievable! No possible explanation either in the plans of man or the wisdom of a kind Providence can explain or mitigate this terrible affliction. Emporia Gazette. When we saw the above as the leading editorial of the Emporia Gazette of Feb.

10, we thought that it must be a typographical error. But when we referred to Who's Who, there it was, William Allen White, born Feb. 10, 1868. If Eill White himself had not confessed to the fact that he was 60 years old, we never would have believed it. And even now we have our doubts.

White must be measuring his age by that arbitrary method of referring to a calendar, which every one knows doesn't mean anything in particular. William Allen White can't be 60 years old. Of course there is a rim or iron-gray hair which is not as dark as it was ten years ago and there are lines in his face which could only be etched by time. But his heart is young, and that is, after all, the only real measuring stick of age. What of it if 60 years have passed since he first opened his eyes upon this world which he has made so much brighter and so much better by his having lived in it? He can look at the world with all the enthusiasm and the hope of youth.

He can have and he does have a lively sympathy with the much-maligned youth of today. A person really grows old when they think that the world is going to the dogs and the younger generation is beyond all hope of salvation. William Allen White loves youth because he has never forgotten that he was a youth himself. Emporia, of course, is proud of William Allen White. But it is no more proud- of him than he is of Emporia.

He was born there, and when some one loaned him a couple of thousand dollars with which to buy a small town newspaper in Emporia he announced that his lot was forever cast with that town. In his initial editorial in the Emporia Gazette he announced that he had come to stay. He cavorted into fame on the back of that stinging editorial "What's the Matter With Kansas?" No man ever wrote from the heart more than he. In 1921 his daughter Mary died. The day following the funeral the Gazette published an editorial, "Mary White," which immediately became famous.

It was the father's appraisal of a dear daughter who was taken from him. William Allen White simply had to write it. Some bereaved fathers would have mourned in solitude. But writing war, the natural expression of White. He could best express his emotions In ink.

We do not know how many tears were dropped by mothers and fathers all over the country as they read that editorial. Sometimes in his career White has been in the minority, but he never has been forced to desert his convictions or flee from his home town. He lives there In Emporia, a town which he lias constantly sought to make more beautiful. The park which ho and Mrs. White have presented to the town as a memorial to their daughter Mary is a symbol of their love for her and their love for other children.

But William Allen White can never grow old. As years pass, the lines Lis very old, will turn be bent. Allen White Safety Another efficiency In made by new "safety correctly be To be sure Sir Humphry of great scientist labor in the gamble holding coal there spark or damp or mine the digging and often times when sometimes in candles, the mines in willing for of one that When Sir turn his he quite explosive gas a fine mesh lamp with a protection an end. For thereafter damp risk, a sorry When use it that It would mining, as seemed to But far would admit with the of the circuit. had to be danger.

The mines, however, other ways especially so and also was the short circuit, been far less most other diggings old methods more and If without And now so It is claimed. one designed spark, but faintest trace warning that long the mines stage. IPt. An Ohio time is not and means of right out of r.orc strongly early and And IPt. Just think.

the vivacious not the others' spies. The Government has appointed spies to watch the procedure of the elections, these spies consisting of its own officials who have been exhorted to be scrupulously fair and at the same time to see that Government candidates are returned a paradox that is decidedly humorous, to say the least. The Opposition has appointed spies to watch these spies, which is a return to feudal times when all officials had spies attached to them a3 a normal procedure. At the Tokio hotel last week, where the Opposition party was holding a secret a Government spy was discovered disguised as a waiter, this spy being further a police detective. When the manager of the hotel was asked why he let detectives loose on people In this manner, instead of seeing 'that guests were attended to by proper and capable waiters, he replied that this particular detective was frequently there in the guise of a waiter, but that his duty really consisted of keeping an eye on foreign visitors and guests, which goes to show that in Japan it is within the natural order of things presumably for detectives to figure B3 waiters in order to know what foreigners are talking about.

THIS particular case, however, 1 the waiter-detective could not speak any foreign language, so that the Opposition party leaders have refused to accept ths hotl manager's explanation. But one need not, waste sympathy on the Opposition, for they would not Davy's remarkable invention 113 years ago. Before the solved the problem coal mines was a constant with death, death usually the high cards. To mine had to be light, light meant flame, and if there were fire damp brought forth by. there was an explosion death.

Those -were the in the early English diggings men, heavily muffled non-inflammable material and carrying daily would crawl Into advance of the workers, a price to risk the deatn many might be saved. Humphry was asked splendid mind to the improvement of this abhorrent condition soon discovered that th would not pass through metal screen. He built a the light inclosed In such and the danger was at three-quarters of a century miners ran little Are but the safety lamps were substitute for real illumination. electricity came into industrial was forthwith assumed be most efficacious in the incandescent bulon promise complete immunity. from it! A broken bulb the explosive gas to contact still incandescent poles Therefore bright light paid for by a reversion to value of electricity to the was far greater in than as an, illuminar.t, as a power to do the digging remove the coal, but there constant menace of the so that electricity has used in mining than in major Industries.

In thj hand methods and mule persisted, when obviously cheaper coal could be produced electricity could be employed hazard. comes such a or The invention is not to occlude the electric to give warning of the of dangerous gas, a would halt electric operation before the gas content of would reach the danger Sanitary Synthesis Wyn professor believes that the far distant when synthetic sandwiches and other sustenance will be taken the air, and we arc even than ever in favor of active sn.okc abatement. PIERES. scruple to use the same means if it The Eagle. wcic iii Liieu puwui.

iiiL-se question able tactics of the Government, how ever, go to show that the Government Is not quite so certain of victory, despite the optimistic confidence that tinges the campaign speeches of its leaders. And this fresh outbreak of "spyitis," the word foreigners here have coined for the predilection of the Japanese, especially of the petty officials, to act the ferret adds a new terror to dining in a Tokio hotel. At the same time, It is only fair to state that there are a great many men in politics who are honestly anxious to promote the welfare of their country and to whom the cl.icanery incidental to politics In Japan is distasteful, even though they may not hr.ve for it the abhorrence which a traininj In purer atmosphero would engender. the Gov Opposition watch each IT ERE it is not out of order to state that, although professional propagandists at the recent annual dinner of the Japan Society of America declared that there was no such thing as Japan's "positive policy" In China, this alleged positive policy forms one of the biggest clubs with vhich the Opposition intends to beat the Government, although it does not to beyond generalities, since it might And it convenient, if returned to power, to harass Japan's weaker neighbor. Although the Diet Is still, constitutionally, a debating society and other factors decide on Japan's foreign policies, especially wl('- regard to armed protection of Japan's interests In China, the Diet Is gradually becoming more and more powerful, and, at present, there is the new condition, of manhood suffrage to reckon with.

The More Daring Sex I Detroit Free Press. 1 A man has less courage than a woman. Try to imagine on3 with l'J cents in his pocket when trying on tcven Eults of clothes. A Smoker Reflects. I'd like my cigars from Havana, Vuelta Abajo for choice; Eut statutes that nurse the old "mid- dlemnn" curse Quite double the price and are rifling my purse, And Congress hears never my voice.

I The mail-order, parcel-post business wiui io nan as a ooon; Machndo's bold bluff Is consistent enough; I thank him for facing a battle that's tough, And hope he'll be winning It soon, I'll then have cigars from Havana. Vuelta Abajo for choice; The middleman brash will not pit up the, cash, Consumer and shipper will not feat Ills llUill, And smokers will surely rejoice, J. A. 1 What Lindbergh Has Taught Us ISt. Louis While all of us think of Colonel Lindbergh as that hero which he obviously is, how many of us have thought of him as our greatest teacher? Not many of us, perhaps, yet Lindbergh has taught us seme of the finest things that could pessibly be impressed upon us, things that are doubtless to make their Impress upon his time.

1. lis. taught u.3 that above everything Use the world loves courage. We had perhaps forgoUen this. If so, we know it now.

2. He taught us the value of modesty. It would be hard to say whether or not we admire his courage more than we love him for his modesty. 3. He has taught us that honor and good taste are beyond, price.

Money has been unable to "exploit Lindbergh. How many of us could resisted the offers ho received, by every one of which ho would have t'hrnpened himself and dulled the brightness of what he did? After all, not all of our teachers In universities, colleges, schools, etc. As the grotesque old Socrates, who must have resembled a satyr, taught men to think, so the slim youth Lindbergh bus taught us nomelhlng. Now She's the Limit Wnynn There was a time when tomboy was the exception, rule..