Show t SEEN ad HEARD around thor tho r National Capital r C By Hy By CARTER FIELD 53 Two Washington Tn Two 0 divorces In the Immediate Loosevelt eIt family sInce time the President his has been In the hIte House ha have hate e started rene renewed cd speculation as to whether woman suffrage e did not remove remore to some ex et extent e tent r rather than Increase e the handl cup cap at the polls of candidates who ho hn Name e been Involved In marital troubles troubles trou troubles bles Up to W 1920 1020 O the mere suggestion su that a man might become oh e is In a divorce was as sufficient to pre went ent an nn convention from I i lag Ing him Ly a curious coincidence r nation wide Ide woman om In suffrage and timea the time a nomination of a n divorced mm for or rr of the tile United States time that car fir At Chicago that lint year the Republicans nominated Warren G 0 Harding Perhaps a few of his bis close friends realized that he be had hadr r married a divorced dh woman oman but very few tew of the delegates knew lne about It it It If they had bad the tile story ml might hie c been very fery different because at that partIcular moment there was no realization that there had been a change assumIng change assuming there really Las bas been a change A few rew weeks later the time D Democrats at San Francisco nominated James JamesM M Cox who was not only himself divorced but had remarried In the time at a I- I Ih time when h hardly anyone thought Cox had a chance Homer S Cum Cummings wings now v attorney attorn e general was as one of tIle the active e candidates One of the woman om In orators seconding the nomInation of John W W DavIs made some come cau lc references to the necessity necessity sity of ot nominating a n man whose hose family life was as Ideal She men no names but mo most t of the t delegates thought th that lt she wis wms hit hitting flag at Cummings who ho had been dl forced This speech was of interest large largely I d latet ly y because It showed showe that as as late t 1 liS as 1 1920 0 were a little con conr concerned concerned r about the domestic status of theIr candidates The fact Is that the nomination of Cos Col proved pro ed very fery little It came suddenly at the end of what bad had looked like Jile an 11 most hope hopeless hopeless less deadlock between McAdoo IcA oo and Palmer lalmer It Js is highly improbable that thal during the billot on which s I he was nominated any an of the dele dele- delegates delegates gates thought about Co Cox COt s divorce Divorce Ignored Far more Interesting Is 1 the fact that although Cox was as hopelessly t Lenten beaten In the en ensuing election the 4 divorce thing did not figure In the campaign at all aU Prior to that time primaries mid r c far less les to do with Ith nomination than the wishes of the political bosses It Iti ItIs itis ItIs i Is a general commentary on the mars mar system the direct election of y 1 senators and othe other officials tint hat far farless farless farless less careful scrutiny Is given to cnn can candidates Y r prior to nomination than was the case when hen the bosses die dic dictated them T The e erne average political l boss nominated a 8 slate with wIlla a vIew to InnIng lie took no chances most of the time In those woman pre pre pre- woman oman suffrage days dais one of the thIngs they accepted and md newer never ne er both 1 erect ered to test was that a n dh divorced can cant candidate t would make mahe a poor run It Itma 1 ma may never ha Name e really been so There T ere Is no way to prove that nut But the bosses believed ed It and acted on It The old tradition bobs up lip e emery ery now and then therm even now no but no one now v belIe es tha that t enough voters to tomake tomake make any difference would vote no Roosevelt at the next net elec elee- electIon election tion merely because his children s se e marital affairs have hae not turned outwell out outwell we well t Big Surprise Passage of the housing bill was as one of the time big surprises of the clos closIng Ing fog of the congress just pa passed Into hIstory Although regarded as an emergency measure It was as known knon kno n to most of the leaders on Capitol that the lie President would prefer preter a for congress to adjourn on the time te fixed fined In confidential White WhiteHouse House directions to senate leaders to shy In session se lon to break the expected filibuster Word of this importance of time the date fixed for adjournment leaked out and seeped through the thea a senate It must have hame reached the themen men en who ho were ere lighting fighting the he housing measure let ILCI they did not tai til e a ad advantage advantage vantage of It for tor J or some unknown n reason teason they suddenly decided to the Un Cht Actually the con of the measure on the floor of the lie senate occupied only a 8 afew afew t few v C hours in normal times It w have taken a n week even eHn It if there theres s had bad been no serious opposition The amazing part of the whole whoa e story Is that the tb opponents ot or the th e measure mC sure and Its bickers both h thought thou ht the bill scheduled for tam the e waste basket hasket right up until the has t three days I of the time ses session lon Another t curIous part of the situation Is tha t the any opponents opponents any three thrle or four o or f them b lO ed together could together could hiv hl e e killed the measure But nut they were mien e not willing to talc take the 4 Dodge Responsibility The only answer td to t solve this political mystery Is that tha t none of the group of opponents of othe the bill found themselves e willing tilIng to t take the tIle re responsibility for killing 1 It t They dIdo didn t like It but they though thought l about the people back bick home who ho would be sore ore nt Ht not getting cheap money from the government for home building repairs etc an and 1 of the fact that the opponents of the measure back bick home while very total were ero comparatively ely few In number Perhaps one of the big ren reasons ons was the lie sudden though belated Ity of the American Federation of La Labor Labar Labor bar bor Union leaders saw ce eral things for them In this bill I list there was the time obvious point that It would mean menn work orb for the tho building trades trades-a a tremendous amount of work ork I Ien men en en though no one expects the new building phase of time the bill to hold bold In the tho next few months the repair phase Is expect expected expected ed to be Immediate and to run Into consIderable figures On top of this obvious point is time the fact that the building trade un an unIons anions unIons Ions are hawing having ha Ing a n lot of trouble keeping their members from taking scab jobs at the tile present moment flight In 11 all the con contractors contractors contractors tractors on government buildings are trying to break brcik the scale and operate on the open shop basis If It they could coul 1 provide n lot of jobs for their members In repaIr work the threat of ot this tills thIng spreading all 0 over orner er the country witha wIth wItha a certain amount of public opinion favorIng cutting wages In the build buildIng buildIng buildIng Ing trades would be curtailed Yen Even If a carpenter Is getting only two or three days work n a week on repaIr jobs he Is not nearly so like likely likely ly Iy to take tale n It scab job as If he Is not wort ing at all So tint hit the housing bill Is a long step In the direction of maintain maIntain- maIntainIng maintaining maintaining ing the present high wages ages In the buildIng trades The Time union leaders were ere considerably consider considerably considerably ably worried also ilso about publIc I opInIon Men working at other otIler lInes for tor 20 S 0 O a week neck for or example have hare little sympathy for striking carpenters demanding 12 a 8 day dayan an and 1 scorning 10 n a dray div Nor did they like governmental Interest t in cuttIng housing costs So they got the housing bill In a bIg wa way World Wide Drouth Possibility at the entire world Is fo for i drouth Is admItted by of the weather bureau This Is not a prediction n It Is sim simply pI ply admitted as a i r The point Is according to Chief Meteorologist Joseph B n hinter that all over omer 0 er the world are slightly abo above e normal and records show how that high tern and go to- to together together to together gether w Which condition produces the other oth other other er Is another question It Is like the lie hen and the egg Mr Lancer comments Ml we e know he said Is that each Induces or the other The point here is very tery simple To produce rainfall winds carrying mo moisture must roust t I Ie e chilled If It the weather Is very hot hot the winds are not chilled and therefore do not precipItate On On the other hind hand absence ot of ofrain ofrain raIn tends to produce heat so we get back to the hen lien and the egg illustratIon Some scientists Mr Lancer nd ad admitted blime the higher tempera temperatures temperatures tures on time tIle sun spots pot The er bureau Is not certain about thIs Of course the bureau con concerns concerns terns cerns Itself only about the weather of the lie UnIte United 1 Staten State Weather Wether out outside outside outside side this Is Interesting only as It may affect weather w cither Inside this countr country Though this Is very much more wIde widespread pread thin might at first t be thought For example the drouth In SovIet Russia resulting according to cables received from London in purchases of Argentine wheat bythe by bythe bythe the SO Soviet let republic h his a very marked Influence In tho the United States because It boosts the prIce of wheat But nut that hunt Is not the concern ot of the weather bureau Another dl visIon of the Department ot of ArI Agri Agriculture AgrIculture culture worries about that What condItIons do concern con concern ern the tIlO weather bureau outside the United States are chan changes es In the Arctic the Pacific the Atlantic and Mexico co which result In changes in rain rainfall rainfall tall fall or temperature In the United States Scoff at Theory One theory about the drouth is In Inthe Inthe the Northern I Central states much talked about recently Is scoffed at by the bureau experts eXI 1 That hat Is the theory about the change In course courso of the Japanese current being responsible re- re re responsible It was a pretty theory Time The only thin thing that Is wron wrong about It it a according to the weather bu be bureau bereau reau Is that the Japanese current has not changed Its lour course e But nut It ft Is true that the winds lu s car carrying tying moisture from the tho Pacific whIch formerly flowed Cowed down the McKenzIe valley alley and hence dropped theIr moisture 0 over oer er the now drouth stricken area did not blow v that way ay last winter or this summer sotar so eo far tar they 1 hey have ve been pissing passing 0 over er erthe the lime Hudson on Bay nay country and thence down the Atlantic coast orthe of or the he United States State Which accounts for the much sno snows s In that region last winter Inter and the time more than usually abundant rainfall this sprIng and summerTime summer Time The Japanese current theory be Ing beIng out out the weather bureau experts admit frankly they have not the slightest Idea why the these e winds changed their course Nor whether bether they could do an thing about It t If they dId Copyright a VI NU 11 ionIc |