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If You Want Conversation,
Say "Al Smith"

(Continued from page 573) professional politics. Southerners who will announce frankly that if Smith is named they will vote the Republican ticket are apparently, even in the present heat of the controversy, less numerous than Smith supporters and seem to be mainly confined to the staff organizations of such dry and ecclesiastical bodies as might be called the official opposition. One meets certainly a good many more who announce that when the Smith nomination is achieved they are through with politics for the year and will spend election day fishing. Again, there seems to be a fairly representative amount of opinion which, while anxious. to carry its opposition up to the last ballot of the Convention, is disposed to accept Smith nominally as the party candidate if a two-thirds majority sewithout lects him a too scandalous amount of log-rolling or engendering too much bitter feeling.

The task of the practical politicians, then, in the event of Governor Smith's choice, will be to bring enough of this lukewarm vote to the polls and to coax enough of the positively disgruntled out of their fishing resolution to produce, with the aid of the avowed pro-Smith minority, a Democratic poll greater than the normal Republican vote in the Southern States swelled by the extreme anti-Smith firebrands. In States like Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas, where the Republican vote, while normally impotent, is nevertheless considerably more than a cipher, success is by no means a foregone conclusion.

Even pro-Smith optimists admit it is largely a question of whether the State and local party organizations will do an unprecedented amount of election campaign work.

And on this point, too, there are differences of opinion both among laymen

Our Own Theatre List

"Coquette,"

(See page 585)

Maxine Elliott.-Comedy, tragedy; youth in a small Southern town; Helen Hayes and excellent cast; first choice for tears and humor.

"The Ivory Door," Charles Hopkins.-Fantasy; mediæval fairy tale, telling the truth about human nature; Henry Hull and good company; one of the best things in town. "Trial of

Mary Dugan," National.-Mystery, murder, melodrama; circumstantial evidence turned inside out before your eye, convincingly acted; you won't move.

"The Royal Family," Selwyn.-Comedy; home hubbub of a family of famous theatrical stars; fairly well acted; so funny that it sometimes isn't real enough to be as good as it should be.

"The Shannons of Broadway," Martin Beck.Comedy, melodrama; vaudeville actors running a small-town hotel; James and Lucile Gleason; good hard-boiled sentiment and some music.

"The Queen's Husband," Playhouse.-Modern light comedy; royalty in a mythical kingdom; Roland Young; Sherwood's most subtle humor. "Marco Millions," Guild Theatre.-Satirical comedy; O'Neill's beautiful spectacle of Marco Polo's trip to Venice and China; the immature West meeting the wisdom of the East. "Strange Interlude," John Golden.-A psychological novel put upon the stage: a new kind of drama; Tom Powers and Lynne Fontanne in O'Neill's finest.

and those who are supposed to know the last word about Southern Democratic politics. In two of the larger Southern States, I happen to know, the controlling politicians believe the latent strength of the party organizations can be brought out if there is a sufficient challenge from the Republicans and the anti-Smith die hards. Hence in these States elaborate precautions are being taken even by some ostensibly dry and anti-Smith leaders to make it possible for their delega tions to swing eventually to Smith at Houston, on the theory that he may be elected and the South cannot afford to stay off the band-wagon longer than the last graceful minute. On the other hand, the same Governor who denounces Smith as a party traitor because of his superior vote-getting ability predicted to me that State and local leaders will not trouble to carry the Southern States for him in November. Mere Federal patronage and the prestige of National victory, he explained, will not tempt them to endanger more profitable, permanent places at the State and county political pie-counters by excess activity in favor of a candidate whom the rank and file of the voters regard at best as a calamitous dis grace to the party.

Whether he is right in his judgment or merely, like most parties to the Southern Smith controversy, reading into the situation what he wants to see, will appear in due time at Houston and afterward. Anyway, it is safe to say that whether the State party organizations rally to Smith or sabotage him, the section will learn considerably more about the devious ways of practical politics before Al Smith ceases to be the inevitable topic of Southern conversation.

THE OUTLOOK, April 18, 1928. Volume 148, Number 16. Published weekly by The Outlook Company at 120 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y. Subscription price $5.00 a year. Single copies 15 cents each. Foreign subscription to countries in the postal Union, $6.56. Entered as second-class matter, July 21, 1893, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., and December 1, 1926, at the Post Office at Dunellen, N. J., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1928, by The Outlook Company.

WE are not informed, at this writing,
whether smiles in Chicago are news just
now or whether Miss Banky, the movie
actress, is so rarely pleasant that a gen-
uine smile on her features is an extraor-
dinary occurrence. But, in either event,
she smiled the other day in the city of
Chicago. And the telephone wires car-
ried the smile instantly to New York-
and a picture of it was flashed on the
screen in the Embassy Theater, some
nine hours later.

ONLY two hours, however, were re-
quired to receive the impressions for the
ten feet of film. And this was ten times
faster than a mail train could have de-
livered the originals, and five times faster
than even Lindbergh could have brought
them by plane. So that a new triumph
for science has been recorded—and an-
other shudder is almost visible on the
backs of people who still sigh for the
"good old days." For the telephotograph
method of sending motion pictures will
be used chiefly to relay news reels of
important events. And the day is prob-
ably not far away when the happenings
of the world will flash on distant screens
almost as soon as the event takes place.
INDEED, it doesn't take much imagi-
nation to conceive of a day when news-
papers, as we know them, will have
completely disappeared. In their stead
will be a picture frame by the telephone
on which will flicker the news of the
world, photographed as it happened, by
news gatherers on every continent, di-
gested and interpreted at stated intervals
by editorial services which will use the
printed word only for ideas, opinions,
and explanations, and will compress the
pictorial events of the day into the news
reel of the evening.

WILL this be a good thing, or a bad
thing? Frankly, we don't know. It may
be that the more complicated existence
becomes, and the harder all its compli-
cations are fired at us-radio, telephone,
telegraph, news reel-the more confused
humanity will grow, until progress be-
comes a whirling dance of death. But
we should venture the opinion that if
everybody in the world sees the next
World War at first hand in the picture
frame by the telephone, we might-for
one thing-get arcund to ending wars.
And from that standpoint, every step
toward helping humanity to see things
as they are, and quickly, is that much
gained-even though today it only hap
pens to be Miss Banky's smile.

Francis Profes Bellamy

Baseball Looms

April 18, 1928

BASEBALL opens with the world's champion Yankees again favored in the American League, despite the very poor training season they have gone through. Some years ago the Yankees, perhaps the most colorful aggregation of players in baseball's modern history, had just such another training season when they lost everything they played. That year the touring experts announced to the skies that the Yanks were through and were in for the worst sort of a trimming. It will be remembered that the Yanks won by a wide margin that year. This time the experts are more cautious.

In the National League there is real interest in the strengthening of the Boston team. Rogers Hornsby, the famous second baseman, went to the Braves in the sensational deal of midwinter, and since then they have acquired other good

men.

In his seventy-sixth year the play was produced in London and, so despatches say, unanimously acclaimed by the critics. But did this engender a mellow state of mind in the author? Not precisely.

Having disposed of Shakespeare, Mr. Moore proceeded to do the same thing to his contemporaries, living and dead.

"I absolutely refuse to speak about my living contemporaries," he told interviewers, "because there is not one worth talking about. In my opinion, this generation is the most sterile of any there has been in the way of literature. There is not one outstanding genius.

"Conrad's work will be dead in a year. Any one could write the stuff he wrote about barges floating in a green-blue haze.

"Thomas Hardy couldn't write two lines of correct English together, and, instead of being considered a master of English country life, he should have been considered more like a country schoolmaster. Besides, as is evident in Tess, he had no knowledge of human nature."

Mr. Moore delivered these remarks from a nursing home where he rests after an illness, in his own words, "a weak old man, barely able to stand."

A Front-Room Nomination, Then? PERHAPS it was a disturbing recollection of a certain midnight conference just preceding the Republican nomination at Chicago in 1920 which prompted a woman member of the party to approach an official of the Republican National Committee, on duty at Kansas City recently, and to whisper in some agitation:

"What we women are worrying about is that the men will get into a smoky back room and nominate a President."

The official, James C. White, assistant

to William M. Butler, Chairman of the National Committee, was quick with a soothing answer:

"Rest assured, it won't be done," he said. "The Committee has assigned all delegates to front rooms."

It Was April Fool's Day

WE seem to be having a spring epidemic of newspaper toads. The alleged thirtyone-year-old horned "toad" which recently made a corner-stone in Eastland, Texas, famous has already been nearly forgotten by a fickle public and the warfare of science with sciosophy has quickly shifted to Frederick, Oklahoma, where, we think, a certain practical joker who manufactures evidence of ancient toads is snickering with his cronies. In France the recent Glozel finds divided a whole nation into two bickering camps, the Glozelians and the anti-Glozelians. Should we Americans not take thought. before similarly dissipating our energies on the eve of a political campaign by splitting wide open on the alleged high antiquity of one toad and one pseudotoad?

Now that the local newspaper reporters have, according to their own lights, rendered full scientific decision on the famous corner-stone "toad," Professor Willis G. Hewatt, of Texas Christian. University, has handed in to "Science," the official organ of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a laconic report revealing that the creature in question "appeared to be a perfectly normal specimen which had undergone winter hibernation." Thus romance departs where science enters. Scientists have been put to torture for a less offense against a community.

But now comes the new toad, alleged to have been found, at Frederick, in a

ball of dense, hardened red clay and gravel. It was sent to a scientist in Denver, who immediately pronounced it 750,000 years old, still alive, and doing quite nicely, thank you. When it was forwarded, however, to the National Museum at Washington, other scientists reduced its antiquity by some 749,998 years, regarding it only as the common or garden variety of toad incased in a mud ball similar to those enjoyed in winter by many well-regulated amphibians. The editors have just received word in a private communication that there is a famous practical joker in Frederick, and, oddly enough, it was he who submitted the famous toad to the Denver scientist. The date was perilously close to April 1.

Loan Sharks and Automobiles

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DESPITE stringent laws against them, the loan sharks seem to continue their activities. Changing their victims from time to time, they are now preying.upon the automobile owner; chiefly the taxi driver who operates his own cab. investigation being undertaken United States Attorney Tuttle in New York City indicates that several corporations and individuals are working outside the law. All the old usury tricks are being repeated.

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One taxicab driver, it is related, obtained a loan of $100 from a Broadway credit corporation. For this he was charged a premium of $50 and was required to pay back the total at a rate of $15 a week. After three or four payments had been made he found that his car needed repainting, and the company advanced $120 additional for this purpose. This time $40 was charged. The viciousness of the scheme, the taxi man testified, was illustrated a few weeks later. His car needed repairs, and he was told to take it to a garage operated by the credit company. Here he was charged $347 for the job and assessed $80 interest.

Before the man was well aware of it, in brief, his $100 loan had increased to $552. He could not pay according to schedule, and in the end the credit concern began legal action to seize his car. That they had the arrogance to do so is indication enough that their activities are as constant as they are vicious. Often, other witnesses told Mr. Tuttle, cars were attached quite without legal

warrant.

The defense against the loan shark is, however, not difficult. No court aware of the truth will enforce his contracts. He has no legal redress if the borrower

To the combustion engineer smoke is as horrible a confession of waste as any form of waste which has ever irritated the wasteless Mr. Ford. Although the eyelids of several thousand generations of our direct ancestors were doubtless in a more or less constant state of redness due to the use of habitations without proper chimneys, the real trouble the smoke nuisance-began mostly with the mechanical revolution only about one hundred and fifty years ago. And it will surely end in it. Historically, in fact, the smoke nuisance will doubtless be regarded some day as only a brief puff of smoke. Of course, as every one knows, smoke is simply unburned carbon. It is fuel thrown to the four winds. It is more than that; it is deadly to whatever the four winds deliver it to.

"What Price Smoke?" is the title of a booklet just published by the National Conference Board of Sanitation. This survey should prove most satisfactory to citizens of Pittsburgh; for it shows that the "smoky city" has surrendered the palm of smokiness. Even New York is sootier now than Pittsburgh, which finally found a way to clean up. Can other cities accomplish what Pittsburgh has accomplished in so brief a time, or must we hold that Pittsburghers are more capable than the rest of us?

News and Editorials

NEWSPAPERS, in the opinion of Ogden L. Mills, Under-Secretary of the Treasury, have not lost their power to mold opinion since the days of Greeley and Dana, and so forth; the emphasis has merely been shifted from the editorial page to the news columns. Said Mr. Mills, at the semi-centennial banquet of the "Yale Daily News:"

"The majority of us are for the most part inarticulate. And so a newspaper must express for the average man the thoughts he is unable to express for himself. When it does that accurately and forcefully, it fills a very real need and achieves enormous influence among its

readers. That newspaper has the greatest weight which best interprets public opinion and, by not getting too far out of step, is able to guide and direct it along sound lines.

"We are constantly hearing the question debated whether the power of the

press is greater today than in former times. It is not a question, I think, of greater power, but of a different kind of power it exercises at present. News today is more comprehensive than it ever was before. Important as is the newspaper as an instrument of public opinion, its primary function is to supply news. What the average man wants is an accurate and reliable presentation of facts on which he can base his own opin ion."

The Republican Conscience Fund SENATOR BORAH's plan to cleanse the Republican Party by raising a fund of $160,000 for Harry F. Sinclair has not aroused enthusiasm. Somehow people have not seemed to think that Mr. Sinclair needed the money or was entitled to it, or that a popular subscription now, after the money contributed by the naval oil lessee had been accepted and used to pay the Republican Party deficit, would do anything to wipe out the past or insure better practices in the future. At any rate, the subscriptions, all told, have amounted to some seven thousand dol lars or so. So, with the consent of the contributors and with the assent of Senator Borah-at the suggestion of Mrs. B. F. Langworthy, President of the Chicago Woman's City Club, the money may be devoted to "some worthy cause, for example, to relieve the povertystricken families of the Pennsylvania coal miners."

Smyrna's New Disaster

THE people of Smyrna may well mourn that their ancient city is afflicted by Allah. It is reported that the recent earthquake destroyed four-fifths of its buildings and many hundreds of its people. Six years ago, when the Turks drove the Greeks out and atrocities were desolating the city and its vicinity, more than three-fifths of Smyrna was burned. In the last two or three years the city had been largely rebuilt; now the work must begin again.

Smyrna has been a center of commerce for Asia Minor for two thousand years. years. Its people have been a curious mixture of Jews, Armenians, Greeks, Turks, and Europeans. After one of its many earthquakes it was restored by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. No