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NATIONAL CAPITAL!
By Carter Field
[ "EAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
Washington. —Talk about abolish
ing the electoral college will in all
human probability come to naught.
There are too many reasons for
keeping it. but one of them is sel
dom mentioned. The Founding Fath
ers either thought of an amazing lot
of things which might develop in the
future, or they had remarkable luck.
One of the samples of this in justi
fying the electoral college is that it
prevents a type of sectional feeling
which might easily lead to civil
var.
Assume, for example, a very
close election—in fact, the favorite
example of those who would like
to abolish the electoral college—
where all the states except New
York and Pennsylvania add up even,
both as to popular and electoral
votes. In this often used illustra
tion the idea was that New York
would go Democratic by 500, or
some such trifling majority, ^ut that
Pennsylvania should go Republican
by a million.
Nevertheless, despito this tre
mendously greater strength of the
Republican candidate, the Demo
crat would be elected. Pennsylvania
having less electoral votes than New
York.
It is perfectly true, of course,
that this could happen. It Is also
true that it has almost happened in
our history. For instance, in Cleve
land's time For instance, in the
case of California in 1916.
But in neither case did it pro
voke the citizenry of some of the
states, which had gone for the los
ing candidate by big majorities, to
think in terms of a mob marching
into the offending commonwealth to
burn and harrow There have been
bitter words. In fact, in 1916, one
of the great papers on the losing
side referred to California as "the
boob state." But even that paper
did not propose the raising of an
army to invade California and pun
ish her, or to march on Washington
and seat the candidate defeated by
California's close vote.
Hayes-Tilden Case
In contrast, in 1876, a great Dem
ocratic editor, Marse Henry Wat*
tcrson, actually appealed for 75.000
volunteers who should march t o
Washington and seat Samuel J. Til
den as President. And that propos
al was not so futile as most folks
are apt to think today. As a matter
of fact, it was very potent. The
Democrats of the country were
thoroughly aroused. The danger of
civil war was much greater than
most histories reveal. It was avoid
ed only by the promise of the suc
cessful candidate. Rutherford B.
Hayes, to withdraw all federal
troops from the South.
The point is that most Democrats
of that time, and for that matter
many historians since, believed
firmly that the seating of Hayes
after the election was a gross fraud,
which is very different from being
defeated by the mere fact that a
big state with a small majority
happens to have more electoral
votes than a smaller state which
may have a big majority the other
way.
But suppose that the electoral col
lege were abolished, and popular
voting substituted. Consider what
would happen if the entire country
outside of the city of Chicago should
be decisive. And suppose that the
people of the country thought of
Chicago politics what they do now.
or what they think of the Pender
gast machine in Kansas City, or
what they thought of the Vare ma
chine in Philadelphia in the old
days.
And then suppose Chicago, on the
face of the returns, should roll up
a million majority for one of the
candidates, with practically every
body In the entire country absolute
ly convinced that the machine had
sold out!
That would not be like California
in 1916—or New York in Cleveland's
time. That would be like 1876, with
no guarantee that there would be
any such happy solution!
G. O. P. Minus Leaders
It is literally amazing that a par
ty which polled nearly 17.000.000
votes should be so utterly starved
for available leadership as the Re
publicans are today. The word
"available” is highly important, in
this connection, for there are would
be leaders and saviors and resusci
tators galore.
It was the formula of those who
ran the campaign for Governor Alf
M. Landon that none of the old
G. O. P. leaders should be promi
nent in the picture. It seemed good
strategy then. The mere fact that
they were overwhelmingly beaten
does not prove now that it was bad
strategy. It is per^ctly true that
the Republican campaign was run
by amateurs, but on the other hand
the few remaining old guard lead
ers have never proved their polit
ical ability in any striking way.
Quite the contrary.
In fact, with the illness during
this campaign of J. Henry Rora
back, the last of the practical old
guardsmen passed from the stage.
Charles Dewey Hilles and D. E.
Pomeroy of New Jersey art cited,
but when these names are men
tioned few others still living and
potent occur to one’s mind. And
the truth is that Pomeroy has not
been in vigorous health, even in
this campaign, while Hilies was al
ways noted not for practical or
ganization or the running of a ma
chine, but for other qualifications.
He is thought by his admirers—
though this is bitterly contested by
many critics—to have great polit
ical sagacity.
This was scarcely demonstrated
when he was secretary to President
Taft, so far as sensing popular
trends or avoiding political errors
is concerned. Hilies did have the
confidence of many political leaders,
and also of many o* what President
Roosevelt calls the ‘‘economic roy
alists.’’ In short, he had a great
facility for dealing with leaders who
did control political organizations,
such as Boies Penrose of Pennsyl
vania, Murray Crane of Massachu
setts, Dave Mulvanc of Kansas, etc.
And he was able, once a plan was
mapped and candidates were agreed
upon with these gentlemen, to con
vince the "economic royalists” that
it was necessary for them to furn
ish the wherewithal to make the
fight.
This time the scene shifted amaz
ingly. Whatever may be said of
Hilies, there is no doubt whatever
that the gentlemen who provided
the contact Letween the big con
tributors and the practical political
organization ej the Landon cam
paign did not have anything re
motely approaching Hides' political
sagacity—even with a very low ap
praisal of that sagacity.
On the contrary, it was this sub
stitute for Hilies in his normal role
which played havoc with the direc
tion of the Landon campaign.
Election Aftermath
It is not unusual after a landslide
for politicians and observers to pre
dict that the party buried is dead
forever—that new party line-ups are
coming. But this time there seems
to be more logic in the prediction
than at any time since the (Jivil
war.
The Republican party and the
Democratic party have both suf
fered terrific defeats. In 1912 Presi
dent William II. Taft won only the
same number of states, two, and
the same number of electoral votes,
that Governor Alf M. Landon re
ceived this year. In many ways it
might have been better if the Re
publican party had died then. Had
it called itself the Progressive party
the story might have been different
in subsequent campaigns.
But now the Republican party has
nothing to compare with what the
party had in 1912 after Taft’s de
feat. In the first place, every one
knew that the so-called Progressive
leaders were really anxious to get
back into the Republican party pro
viding they could climb on the
driver’s scat. In the second place,
there was a speedy reaction against
the Wilson administration, a reac
tion which would undoubtedly have
swept it out of power four years
later had it not been for the "kept
us out of war” issue.
This time there arc no such el
ements in plain sight. Practically
speaking, the tariff issue, which
caused the reaction against Wood
row Wilson up to 1910, or at least
was one of the important factors,
does not exist today.
Obviously this election decided,
for some time to come, that the
tariff policy of this country is the
reciprocal treaty plan, including the
“most favored nation” clause
which is one of its most important
features.
Republican orators during the
campaign reported that the farm
ers of the Mid West were incensed
at exhibits of imported farm prod
ucts. The statement that it would
require 30,000,000 acres of good farm
land to raise the farm products im
ported was believed by the Repub
licans working on that issue in
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Minneso
ta to be making votes for Landon
by the thousand.
Farmers for Roosevelt
But the farmers votel heavily for
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Now some will claim that the
farmers voted for Roosevelt despite
his tariff policy because of AAA
checks That may or may not be so.
It is very difficult to be sure about
such things. But it is very doubt
ful indeed if any major party would
dare go into a campaign on that
assumption. Hence the reasonable
probability is that the present policy
will continue to be the policy of the
country, not just the policy of the
Democratic party, for some years
to come.
Some of the friends of John D. M.
Hamilton, Republican chairman,
thought that maybe Landon would
be defeated, but that the personal
ity and magnetism of Hamilton
would make him the plumed knight
for four years hence. That prospect
seems rather remote at the mo
ment.
In fact, the only Republican to
make an outstanding race in the
entire country is thirty-four-year-old
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., of Massa
chusetts. So there is at least some
basis for the argument that what this
country needs is a new party, with a
new name, new leaders, and no an
tipathy in the South, to oppose the
dominant party.
t) Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
I Happy
Tonga
Isles*
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South Sea Islander Paling His Canoe.
Prcparwl by National Geographic Society.
Wnxhlnatan. D. C.—WNU Service.
THE sovereign of Tonga is
lands in the South Pacific is
Queen Salote (Charlotte),
who, from her capital Nukua
lofa, on part of the archipelago, gov
erns the islands under a British pro
tectorate. The currency used is Eng
lish money. In language and cus
toms, the Tongans are like the Ma
oris of New Zealand and the Sa
moans. Being Polynesians, they dif
fer decidedly from the Fijians, who
are mostly Melanesians. Tongan so
ciety is distinct, with hereditary
lines of chiefs, and Niuafoo has its
own peculiarities of culture. The
people are entirely civilized and
Christian; they are strictly gov
erned by a high chief, a magistrate,
and police service. There are usu
ally seven or eight Europeans at
Angaha.
Wesleyan churches with native
ministers and elders are conspicu
ous in all the villages. On Sunday,
services start before daylight, with
crowded congregations singing chor
al music in parts without any or
gan. The rhythmic and harmonious
blending of the deep bass voices of
tiie men and the soprano of the wom
en is pleasing. The music has a
quality quite unlike Hawaiian mu
sic, and the Sunday services are
fascinating. There is no need for a
pipe organ.
One evening service in the dimly
lamp-lit church at Angaha consists
of a musical competition between
the choirs from several villages.
The choirs, each usually composed
of eight persons, men and girls,
rise in turn in their places and
sing. When a song is finished a rev
erent chorus of bravos, or the
equivalent in Tongan, goes up from
the congregation.
The dusky faces in the lamplight,
many of them beautiful; the splen
did figures of the men draped in
spotlessly clean valas, which sug
gest a Roman toga; the minister
exhorting his flock, and elderly pa
triarchs nnd matriarchs rising at in
tervals to make confessions of faith,
make the scene one never to be
forgotten.
IIow the People Live.
The Tongan race is dominantly
agricultural, with copra as the lead
ing product. At Niuafoo intervals
between shipments of copra are
long, for the bad anchorage and
landings make visits by even tramp
steamers rare.
The four villages immediately
around Angaha represent half the
: population of the island. Each fam
ily lives in an elliptical, thatched
house, w'ith woven matting for the
walls, but these curtains do not lift
up as in the Samoan houses. There
are doors in the ends and sides.
Wealth consists of land, planta
tions, mats, and tapas The owner
of many and fine mats is respected
for his prosperity and thrift. Numer
ous silver shillings circulate from
j the traders in return for copra and
i back to the traders’ stores for
: shirts, cloth, and chewing gum.
Of native markets there is no
sign. Each adult male has his own
eight and a quarter acres of planta
tion lands assigned to him by the
government. He is required to cul
tivate this ground and plant a cer
tain number of coconut trees.
Men and women work hard, sub
ject to the orders of the government,
on the roads and cisterns and other
structures required for the progress
of the community. Pigs and chick
ens are abundant, but there are few
cattle. Each householder has his
truck garden in the hills. To this
he goes, leading an old pack horse,
and gathers what is needed of yams,
taro roots, sweet potatoes, oranges,
breadfruit, or the like. The girls
think nothing of trudging miles to
wash the family clothing at the
lake. All are free, happy, and smil
ing, and all are fine specimens of
muscular humanity, leading a nat
ural life of cultivation of the soil.
Like other Polynesians, these peo
ple have a fine dignity. Their own
customs are regulated by the dic
tates of a host of ancestral tradi
tions which center about the guilds
of the craftsmen, the requirements
of the family, and the orders of the
chieftainship.
Method of Fishing.
The fishermen use canoes of hewn
and pegged timbers and also a log
device of the light wood of the fau
(same as the Hawaiian hau, a spe
cies of hibiscus), to which a splinter
rod is lashed tightly lengthwise,
with one end free for the purpose
of stringing fish by the gills. Hooks
are made from pieces of bone at
tached to short shanks of wood.
The fishline is a sennit (a braided
coconut fiber), fastened to the log.
Wearing water spectacles, two
plain glass windows in wooden cups
held by string around the head, the
fisherman swims out with his arm
across the log, his face plunged
beneath the water, so that he may
watch fish come to his hook.
After a capture, he removes the
fish from the hook and strings it on
the splinter rod. He then swims
away slowly with the floating log.
Two or more baits may be operated
at the same time; and two fisher
men may work from a single log.
The fish are small and not abun
dant, and many of the species found
in these seas are said to be in
edible. With the canoes large sharks
are occasionally taken.
Recently, the Tonga natives cele
brated the completion of the govern
ment radio telegraph station. The
command went forth that native
dances or laka-lakas, would be in
progress for a day. On the ap
pointed feast day each village was
to furnish a certain quota of bas
kets of food, and in the evening
there would be a European dance.
During the morning the clans be
gan to gather, young and old,
dressed in the costumes of their
forefathers, with garlands of shells;
beads, beans, and flowers; head
dresses of many kinds; and skirts.
Some of these last were tapas cov
ered with scarlet berries cemented
in place in elaborate designs with
native gum; others were very old
and fine mesh mats, prized as rel
ics of antiquity.
At the appointed hour, the high
chief emerged surrounded by func
tionaries, and seated himself on the
veranda of the radio building. Clan
after clan came forward, each rep
resenting a village, the headman
and warriors flourishing spears for
war dances.
The women and girls formed an
other line, bringing forward the bas
kets of food, placing them on the
ground in a straight line, and sing
ing and dancing with the stately
steps and graceful motions of the
arms that told a story of bygone
days. Some of the dances are en
tirely hand and body gestures of
girls seated cross-legged.
Drums Always Beating.
The beating of the drums is one
of the characteristic noises of the
country. At all hours of the day the
sound can be heard by one wander
ing in the jungle. The beating
means something with reference to
village timekeeping, or signifies spe
cial orders to the people. The is
landers guide their lives by the
sound of the drum, on the one hand,
and the clangor of the church bell
on the other.
Niuafoo, alias Tin Can island, is
one of the Tonga islands. Like a
vast angel cake in shape, Tin Can
island was formed when a volcanic
peak, protruding from the blue wa
ters of the Pacific, violently blew
off its head and left only a hollow
outer shelL On the shores of a
peaceful tropic lake which now re
places the molten lava and suffocat
ing gasses of its crater, a wise
bird, the malau, lays large eggs in
Nature's incubator, the hot volcan
ic sand.
No springs or streams are found
on the isle, so the natives must de
pend on rainwater for their drink
ing supply. Neither are there har
bors, for foam-flecked lava cliffs,
rising abruptly from the ocean, sur
round the island with hardly a
break. A tin can, bobbing in the
water offshore, pushed by a swim
ming native, to be picked up by a
passing steamer, is the islanders’
mail bag.
Homemaker
By HORACE McLEAN
C McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
JAMES EVERETT looked at the
slim, dark girl before him.
"You seem rather young, Miss
Sanders,” he said. “Are you sure
you can handle this big house? Of
1 course I do little entertaining . . .”
Janet Sanders smiled. “Before I
became secretary to Mr. Morton I
kept house for my mother. She
was an invalid for five years be
fore — she died. But she loved
crowds and we did much enter
taining — quiet entertaining, of
course. And,” she must get this
position — “I am really quite
efficient.”
Mr. Everett handed her a check.
“Here you are, then. Suppose we
try it out for a couple of weeks.
Allowance enough to run the
house?”
“Very much so.” And the con
versation between employer and
employee was at an end.
What lay back in Mr. Everett’s
life she did not know, but she could
guess. In her daily work in his
room she saw the photograph on
his book table—the picture of a
dark-eyed, dark-haired girl of dis
tinctive beauty. Somewhere in his
life there was a broken romance.
Jane shook herself. “I must stop
this. I am his housekeeper, nothing
more—and I must remember it.”
Then the evening came when he
asked her to stroll around the
ground with him.
"I need your advice,” he said
smiling at her. ‘‘I’ve always wanted
to beautify these grounds, but some
how I’ve been too busy. Suppose
you give me some of your ideas on
how to go at it. You seem to have
a knack for getting the best out of
everything.”
It was a new, a sweet sensation
to walk beside him down the paths,
pausing here and there to talk over
possible settings. She forgot that
he was a distinguished lawyer,
famed for his reticence and cold
ness.
“I have a notion to do a wild
thing,” he said, “to share these
grounds with others. Then I’d like
people to see what a delightful home
you have made for me. I’ll do it—
throw a party!”
She laughed. “I know people
would like to se.e the grounds.”
“We’ll make out a list of the folks
we want!”
In the house he turned the list
over to her after it seemed com
plete. She looked at it: “Any others
you would like to invite?” she
asked, remembering the dark-eyed
girl’s picture.
His face clouded. "There is one
—but I doubt if she would come,”
he said briefly.
She sent the invitations the next
day, and at the last moment, moved
by some desire that would not be
denied, she added the name of the
girl of the photograph. The moment
the invitations were in the mail, she
regretted her act. The girl might
be married — many things might
have happened, but she was the
one, Janet was certain, he wanted
to see, and she might come.
On the evening of the party he
was gay. She watched him with
tender eyes and aching heart even
as her heart whispered to her:
“You love him yourself—you know
you do!”
He caught her arm as she passed,
and putting her hand under his arm
led her through the rooms. His
voice was happy, but there was a
deeper undertone in it.
“I’m counting upon you, you
know, to engineer things!”
When the guests began to arrive,
she found she had things to “en
gineer,” and she forgot entirely
about the dark girl until she hap
pened to see him staring at a slim,
tall girl who smiled as she came
up to him. A guest took Janet’s
attention, and the rest of the scene
was lost to her.
The evening went gayly and hap
pily, and Janet knew that his guests
were enjoying themselves. One re
mark she overheard. The dark girl
was speaking:
“Jimmie, after this, darn you, ac
cept our invitations, too!”
Janet was desperately tired, but
when the last guest had gone, she
began to rearrange the rooms. She
heard his step and looked up. He
stood near her—and the look upon
his face made her tremble.
“Janet, you must never leave me
now!” It was the cry of one who
has been desperately lonely and has
suddenly found companionship.
There was no mistaking it.
It was natural, it seemed, for her
to step into his arms.
“But, James, what about the girl
upstairs whom I—I invited without
asking you?"
He smiled. ”1 clean forgot about
asking her—and to be honest I for
got the picture upstairs was there.
The one I wanted to come was a
little old lady who was good to me
years ago—and I knew she couldn’t
come. You see, I love you — and
only you. Won’t you stay with me—
always be my little homemaker?”
She kissed him by way of answer,
The Goose Step
The goose step, or “Gansemar
son,” is peculiar to the German
; army and is used on ceremonial
| parades. It is a slow march in
which the leg is extended at right
angles to the body and the foot
stamped flat on the ground. History
of the William IV period mentions
•t.
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