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more than six feet tall, with a back as straight as that of a drill sergeant, the blonde goatee and mustache often affected by German Naval officers, a face denoting rigid determination and intellect, Dr. Eckener landed at Lakehurst

DR. HUGO ECKENER He dawdled genially.

with a calm that the most enthusiastic plaudits did not affect. His English is none too good; but he managed to convey pithy and valuable information to those who clustered about him. Like Commander Kraus, he made up for lost time by puffing immediately at a huge cigar. With him came Captain Ernest Lehmann, small, dapper, resourceful, with a 17-year record for piloting without the loss of a ship-considered by the Germans their lucky pilot, with whom nothing could go wrong. Also came Hans Fleming, Chief Pilot, straight, tall, seamanlike, determined to do his duty, to teach Americans taking over the ship everything he knew. Also came a blueclad crew that looked very much like our gobs, with perhaps a touch more of stolidity.

What Next? The ZR-3 was ordered deflated, placed on skids, so that her weight might be taken up as the cells were exhausted of gas which is impure, unfit for further use; and some $11,600 worth of this gas was ordered released into the atmosphere. Several weeks will be spent in a rigid inspection of the ship and in technical study. The Shenandoah (TIME, Oct. 20) was ordered back from the Pacific coast and, because helium is so scarce, she will yield her precious supply of this gas to the ZR-3, which is to make a variety of exhibition and training trips.

The ZR-3 cannot be used for naval or military purposes according to the conditions laid down by the Reparations Committee. To turn her over for commercial exploitation will require an act of Congress. "Will the tremendously successful trip be a nine days wonder,

to be soon forgotten-or will it be d precursor of commercial dirigibles cover every ocean and every contine

Pro. A few arguments broug forward by dirigible enthusiasts:

A transatlantic schedule of 66 hour could be maintained in all weather New York, Havana, Panama, Vale raiso, Buenos-Aires means 22 days sea, 4 days by air.

A business man could go up the ex vator of a mooring mast in Manhatta at 9 o'clock in the evening, have leisurely bath and shave on reaching Chicago in the early morning, do bu ness and return at night to Manhatta without losing a working hour and with perfect comfort.

The use of helium and heavier, noninflammable fuel for the engines r moves all danger of fire.

With larger and faster ships, all weather becomes fair weather.

The use of the ballast-recovery process will bring loss of helium to a negligible quantity.

Courage and capital and vision are alone essential to the establishment of a series of transoceanic dirigible lines with which no steamship companies could compete.

Con. The "arguments" of dirigible enthusiasts were met by dirigible non-enthusiasts and "steamship men" in this wise:

A dirigible must always remain expensive; to make the gas cells tight, gold beater's skin must be used,

Vol. IV. No. 18

The Weekly News-Magazine

November 3, 1924

THE PRESIDENCY Mr. Coolidge's Week

A hat, a large hat such as Mexican "greasers" wear, such as cowboys wear in the cinema-in short, a sombrero, its rim a burning red, its crown a brilliant blue, was given into the hands of Mr. Coolidge. After a short moment of admiration for so engaging a specimen of the hatter's craft, Mr. Coolidge stuck his head under the hat's ample canopy—and in no time became a member of the Smoki Tribesmen of Prescott, Ariz. With the President in the rear grounds of the White House were representatives of the Prescott Chamber of Commerce, who performed the initiative ceremony, explained that the object of the Smokis was to preserve to posterity Southwestern Indian rituals.

It was a talkative week for Mr. Coolidge (see THE CAMPAIGN). He addressed: A large delegation of Manhattan tradesmen, who came before him on the White House lawn bearing ancient guild banners and their own goodwill; the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, before whom Mr. Coolidge went where they sat assembled in their newly dedicated home in Washington; the "Golden Rule Dinner" of the Near East Relief, at which Mr. Coolidge was guest of honor; the $100-a-plate dinner of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, the guests at which sat in Manhattan while Mr. Coolidge sat in his chair at Washington and let his voice be heard over a private telephone wire.

The fourth biennial convention of the United Lutheran Church in America, in Chicago assembled, had read to it a Coolidge greeting: "As I study the three great movements of humanity into the American Colonies-the Puritans into New England, the Lutherans and Quakers into Pennsylvania, and the Cavaliers into Virginia.

Secretary Slemp, eternally vigilant, stepped between the busy chief executive and a sheaf of letters from Washington renters at odds with their landlords. The renters, threatened with raises, applied excitedly for pres

idential intervention, for army "pup" tents on the White House ellipse in case the landlords remained adamant. Vigilant Slemp passed word about rent raises to the District Attorney, about "pup" tents to the War Department. Realtors offered the President their services and Mr. Slemp thanked them. Thus was the Presidential desk kept free for national business.

The President and Mrs. Coolidge attended a wedding-that of Miss Beatrice Beck, daughter of the Solicitor General, and one S. Pinkney Tuck.

The President canceled all his engagements for Oct. 27, directed the State Department to issue a proclamation of official mourning for the late

Henry Cantwell Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture. With Mrs. Coolidge, the President called on Mrs. Wallace, later wrote her a letter: "His loss will be a grief to the entire nation, for his fine qualities and able, untiring services had endeared him to all the people."

Services at the White House were in the nature of a State funeral.

THE CAMPAIGN Alarums and Excursions

The progress of another week's campaigning brought all the candidates to the eve of the election.

Calvin Coolidge no longer kept his peace. He marched before the members of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington assembled, and with the aid of 23 broadcasting stations addressed the country at large as well as the Chamber men. All other U. S. radio stations hushed their voices for 45 minutes while Mr. Coolidge enlarged on his favorite topics of economy, reduced taxation, efficient government. He repeated his party's oftcried warning against persons desiring Government ownership of railroads and subjugation of the Supreme Court. Said he "The intelligence, the courage, the faith of the people will support America."

Standing on the south portico of the White House, Mr. Coolidge also spoke, politico-officially, to a delegation of business men representing 47 trades. This time he said: "This is a business country. . . it wants a business Government."

Another officio-political utterance was drawn from Candidate Coolidge by the "Golden Rule Dinner" of the Near East Relief. He reminisced about the Administration's foreign policies, saying: "In our country are many exceedingly modest souls. Constantly they depreciate their own assumption that our country has done nothing for Europe, made no contribution to world welfare. . . . I do not think that our country needs to assume any attitude of apology. America is ready today, as always, to

do its full share. It wants the peace of goodwill and of the Golden Rule."

Also, Mr. Coolidge mailed a long letter via Col. Hanford P. McNider, onetime head of the American Legion, "to the service men and women of America." Said he: "I appeal to you who in the past have proved worthy of all reliance."

Charles G. Dawes headed a general eastward migration of all the stumptouring candidates. Bundling together notes, pipes and baggage in Evanston, Ill., he boarded the Dawes Special. Across flat Indiana sped the train, through sleeping Ohio, over the Alleghenies as Pittsburghers were sitting down to breakfast.

In Harrisburg,

Pa., a Bishop went to the station to pay his respects, but was informed that the candidate was taking a siesta. Disappointed, the Bishop went away; but a few minutes later rail employes beheld General Dawes freshly arisen from his day-bed, smoking on a brassrailed rear platform. Cheers followed the train as it pulled out for Philadelphia.

There the echoes in the Academy of Music crackled and rang with the staccato Dawes voice. "Where do you stand?" the voice demanded, . . . “on the rock of the Constitution and under the flag with Coolidge or on the shifting sands of Socialism?"

Back aboard the Special, the candidate recrossed Pennsylvania, spoke in Pittsburgh, in Washington, Pa., swung down into Wheeling, W. Va., for a mass-meeting, complete with parade and red fire; circled north again through Lancaster, Pa., to Wilmington, Del., where he announced: "The pinheads on the political committees have been advising me to preach one thing in one section of the country and another thing in another section. . . Not so with the women in this campaign."

On to Newark to say this: "I blush for my sex when I think of some of the advice I have received from members of the National Republican Committee of my own sex." Also to reiterate "the shifting sands" alarum. Then a sleep in Montclair, N. J., at the C. A. Hanna home, and the candidate entered Manhattan, crossed to Brooklyn and spoke, slept at the Waldorf, motored to Albany.

John W. Davis. put Tennessee behind him and rumbled into Kentucky. At Franklin, Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, he saluted throngs. In Louisville, the Horse Show pavilion at the State Fairgrounds was his forum. He was among friends and spoke genially, quietly, saving his fire for stormy Indiana, whither he repaired next day for

a third time since the campaign opened. Vincennes, Princeton and Evansville were the stumps selected.

In Vincennes, Mr. Davis was at pains to scotch a rumor that he was kin to Henry Gassaway Davis, Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1904, and that he was a member of a family that had employed non-union labor in its West Virginia coal mines.

In Evansville, he referred to Secretary of War Weeks as "one of the two unmuzzled members of the Cabinet." (The other member evidently being Secretary of State Hughes, who had, up to that time, delivered three formal campaign speeches. Secretary Weeks. had just made a speech in Manhattan.) Mr. Davis talked of "a housecleaning at Washington" if he should be elected; of "creeping paralysis" in the Republican system.

Soon after this, Newton D. Baker introduced Mr. Davis to an audience in Cleveland. The introduction and Mr. Davis' speech had to be curtailed in order to be broadcasted, as it was the night of Candidate Coolidge's speech and the air was to be "cleared" earlier than usual. But Mr. Davis, speaking from the very rostrum from which Candidate Coolidge was nominated in June, found time to denounce the tariff and the Republican record and to squelch a heckler who bawled out "What is your stand on the Ku Klux Klan?"

The second 6,000 mile tour was over. Journeying to Manhattan, Mr. Davis sank into the cushions of his motor car, was whisked off to his Locust Valley (L. I.) home. It was his intention to finish the campaign in and around Manhattan. Said he: "The Democratic Party will win the Presidential election."

No sooner had John W. Davis left Illinois than Charles W. Bryan entered it-his first trans-Mississippi appearance. But whereas Mr. Davis had gone chiefly to large towns, centres of capital and industry, Mr. Bryan visited the smaller farming and laboring communities. With Candidate LaFollette harrying north of him, Mr. Bryan devoted two days to scouring the southern part of the state in flag-decked automobiles. He stopped in Christopher, Benton, Fairfield, Mount Vernon (near his birthplace, Salem, where he is still known as "Jack" Bryan, a boyhood nickname). Winding up with a speech at Robinson, he then jumped over into Ohio, working through Norwalk and Middletown (home of James M. Cox-onetime Presidential candidate), and thus back into Indiana, the while Mr. Davis worked the other way, from west to east.

The end of the week found Mr.

Then the whirlwind gathered speed. It spun along the railroad tracks into Grand Rapids, Mich., and the voice said: "The issue in this election is between constructive men and destructive men."

It tore along the ties into Syracuse, N. Y., and the voice said: "We are determined that Wall Street shall not buy this election." Then it headed for Weehawken, N. J., Aiken, Md., Baltimore, Schenectady, Boston, Pittsburgh.

On the Kansas circuit, Burton K. Wheeler was rebuked. Leading Republicans* admonished him, brought it to his attention that politics was one thing while "merchandising half-baked scandal," "raking up unsupported allegations," "mudslinging," constituted quite another. "Very prettily said," retorted Mr. Wheeler; and continued his attacks on the Coolidge and Dawes pre-office records, through Caldwell, Wellington, Herington, McFarland, Topeka.

Factional strife among the Kansas Third Party leaders occupied his attention a moment then he was off for much-stumped Illinois, speaking in Chicago ("The Dawes' Plan means economic servitude for Germany!") and in Rockford ("Watch Washington for startling 'slush fund' disclosures!").

Meantime, La Follette headquarters in Washington continued to issue "direct challenges," "defies," "prizes for evidence contradictory to this and that charge," all published under the direction of Candidate Wheeler.

Rat Hunt

The Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures repaired to Washington, D. C., there to continue its hunt, started a fortnight ago in Chicago, (TIME,

* Among them, Henry J. Allen, Republican, onetime Kansas Governor, who owns and edits the Wichita Beacon.