Evening star., 1925-01-28
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC EILLLfM VILE

oil has become the Cinderella of the C.
o. P, entirely out of keeping with her
historic role as the source of campaign
war sinews- Examination of the roll of
Federal higher-ups doesn't exactly dis
close that Penn State Is out in the cold
To begin with. it has exactly oue-fifth
of the Cabinet-the secretaryships of
the Treasury and Labor. 1t has a couple
of our priced ambassadorships-th
to Italy and Spain. 1t has four coveted
foreign ministerships-to Greece. Al
baHia. Honduras and Liberia James
Montgomery Beck, Solicitor General of
the United States, is at least so per
cent Pennsylvania. Pennsylvauians
are chairmen of the House committees
on foreign affairs. naval affairs. bank
ing and currency. claims, Judiciary,
printing. post office and roads and
Labor Department expenditures. Bofes
Penrose was the champion patronage
getter. Perhaps when Pepper and
Reed are in the Senate as long as the
Philadelphia boss was Penn will again
bestride the Federal universe.
NJ. Franklin Bouillon. the French
statesman who is reported to be COM
ing to the United States on an unofficial
visit, is famed in Europe as a man
whom La Belle France is accustomed to
send abroad on private and personal
missions. 1t was In an unofficial. pri-
vate and personal capacity that Bouil-
lon made his famous sojourn in Angora,
the capital of Young Turkey. a. couple
of years ago, and there laid the founda-
tions of the Franco-Turkish treaty that
paved the way for the new deal in the
Near East. The suspicion Is bound to
a rise that Bouillon is headed for the
United States on matters connected with
the French debt. He commands our
language fuently. and on his maternal
side claims descent from Benjamin
Franklin
John L. Shook of Idaho, who has
been in Washington on the way to
his new post as warden of the Federal
prison at Atlanta, was a United States
deputy marshal In the rough-and-
ready days. of the Klondike gold rush
I'm Alaska. His speciality was round
ing up bandits who were tough as
they ever made 'em. Two gun men
were the rule rather than the eX-
ception, and Shook fought them in
their own way. The most notorious
outfit Shook had to deal with farthest
north was the "Soapy" Smith gang.
While taking one of Smiths gunmen
to Jail at Sitka, Shook was shot twice
and still carries the bullet marks of
that encounter. Before he was
through with them, IL members of
the Smith gang were brought to book
under Snook's direction. The new
master of Uncle Sans lookup in
Atlanta discussed the recent escape
of Gerald Chapman from that prison
I'm terms that indicate bad cess to
that accomplished highwayman the
next time he attempts to absent him
self without leave.
X :
Pro-Soviet @partisans, since Japan
came to terms with Moscow. have
been -jubilating that the United States
is now the only frst-rate nation that
boycotts the bolshevist government
That isn't SO. Uncle Sam is in
splendid company in refusing rela-
tions with the Communists. In the
first place, all of our sister republics
of Central and South America stand
with us, except Mexico. In Europe,
states like the Netherlands, Belgium.
Spain. Portugal, CZechoslevakia,. .Juge-
siavia = Ruhania. Bulgaria and Swift
zerIand have declined to recognize
Soviet Russia.
Copyright, 1881