Evening star., 1924-03-15

With the entry. of Judge Curtis D.
Wilbur into the secretaryship Of the
Navy there will be two Californians
in the Coolidge cabinet Hoover Is
the other. Like Hoover, Judge Will
bur is an Iowan. The latters brother.
DR.. Ray Lyman Wilbur, is president
of Leland Stanford University, Hoov-
er's ma mater, and is an intimate
friend of the Secretary of Commerce.
Dr. Wilbur was chief of the conser-
walton division of the Hoover food ad-
ministration. Judge Wilbur also will
be the second Annapolis graduate
in the cabinet, his academy mate be-
ing Secretary John w. Weeks. The
class OF 1888. with which Wilbur
was graduated at Annapolis, included
Admiral Samuel S. Robinson, COM
manderein-chief Of the c]n United bsasbes states
was Rear Admiral A. H. Robertson:
commandant of the eleventh naval
district at San Diego.
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William NJ. Hughes, former prime
minister of the Australian common
wealth, has arrived at San Francisco
at the outset of an extensive speaking
I tour Of the United States He comes
to preach the gospel of English
speaking fraternity in general and
of Asiatic exclusion. In particular.
Hughes cordially supports the Cali
fornian point of view that the Japa-
nese must be kept out of Anglo-Saxon
lands IL white civilization" is not
to perish. Australia'S late premier,
who comes from the same corner OF
wales as David Lloyd George, mas
been a pioneer ip the yellow peril
,movement in the antipodes. He be-
gan life as dock walloper, Went 10
Australia when the cause OF lapor
first took on political importance, ana
became the commemorative nrSt Ia
nortant factor at the Paris peace
conference. While in Europe, ne func-
tioned as vice president of the rep
arations commission. II was iaIseiy
through his leadership that Japan
was frustrated in her desire to nave
racial equality clause written INTO
the league of nations covenant
A medical officer Of the District OF
lColumbia's board of education was eA-
plaining the other day to meetins
of a mothers club at a primary scnooi
the desirability of the Schick test for
dinbtheria. "A Questionnaire on the
subiect, he said, had been sent out TO
parents,. with requests for their ap-
nrova, or disapproval of the project
to subject school children 10 ine Icy
3Several fathers and motnerS' the nisu
ical officer reported. repiied IN npL IN >,
dignation. They'd seen The Sheik
on the screen. they said, and some OF;
them had read the book, and tney
were decidedly of opinion the treat
ment was not a proper one Tor young
sters.
'"Rilln Healy of the United States
Capitol police force has sat peat
at the main entrance of the Senate TOT
the past six years. To his desk
streams an endless procession of the
J. great and near-great, fncludins the
4 lowly taxpaying tourist, visiting Ine
citadel of the republic for the nIst
time Just opposite ,sHstSrs Heaiys 9sss ona "for Tor
. senators only and one for the use or
the fproletariat. They, are not unlike
de luxe prison cells in their external
aspect. At least they struck one or
looked them over. and CALCULATED
perhaps under the influence OF current
events on the Hill:.s 'Well, see
you're all ready for 'em!'
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Western High School in Washing
ton ought to have a considerable pull
| with the present administration. Its
| principal, DR.. Elmer s. Newton. was
graduated from Amherst with Presi-
dent coolidge's class Taciturnity