Evening star., 1925-04-13

More than so newspaper editors
and publishers are with the United
States fleet for the maneuvers in
Hawaiian waters tEis month Tine
Navy Department for the past two or
three years has made a special EFFORT
to sell" the feet TO the molders OF
American public opinion. They have
been urged to attend these annual
battle exercises in the Atlantic, Pa :
cifio and Canal Zone in order TO
Dossess themselves of first-hSnd i'm
pressions of the naval establishm ent.
The participation of small-toUn edt-
tors is feature of this year
maneuvers They come from interior
places far removed from either sea-
board. The intent is that they snail
return home imbued with the i'm
portance of the Navy for even the
most inconspicuouS community In the
country, no matter how far removed
il may be from salt water.
II isn't often that poetry and the
classics are drawn upon to make
point in an argument before Inc
United States Supreme Court. put
avery solicitor general isn't Shake
snarean scholar like James Mont
oornerv Beck. Mr.. Beck's brief in
The pending proceedings to establish
tba ..independence" of the President
ss against the encroacnments OF
Congress ends with the following
onotation from Henry the Fifta,
act /, scene z:
For governments, though hlsh'
and low, and lower, put into parts,
doth keep in one consent, asree
ing in a full and natural close'
like music.
x x x x
coming events cast their shadows
long before, especially in that lynx-
eved establishment known as the war
Iisnartnent of the United states.
ManifestIy. in the confidence that the
election of Hindenburg to the Ger
man presidency OF some otner hlsnIy
militaristic development Is imPeno-
ing in that region, Uncle sam mas
lust made. q significant reafrahSe- sc
ment OF his central European MILL
.ary attaches. Hitherto Col. Arthur
T. couser. general staff, United states
ARMY. has been military attache TO
Germany, Norway, Sweden, denmark
and the Netherlands, with station AT
Berlin. He will henceforWard be per-
ndtted to concentrate on Germany,
other officers having been detained 1or
duty IN the Scandinavian countries
and the Netherlands. Col. Conger
was Mai. Gen. Dennis e. Nolan's able
assistant, when Nolan, with desk.
an orderly and a. typist, was assign d
the hercuIean task of organizing
Pershings Intelligence Service in
France in 1917.
How many Americans know. that
Norwesians claim that George Wash-
inston was OF Morse ancestry? The
contention was made in the House OF
Representatives just before Congress
adjourned in conn ectfon with the
Norge American Centennial. which
President Coolidge will attend in Min
nesota in June. Representative o. j.
Kvale of Minnesota declared:
ut properly belongs here to note
the fact that George Washington was
proud of his Morse ancestry. This
blood the first President acknowl-
edged and gave particular expression
to his pride IN it in an address de-
livered December IL, 1882, before the
Scandinavian Society OF Philadelphia,
a society in which he held an honor
ary membership"
the foreign countries invited to join
in the Morse Centennial Representa-
tive Kva1e told the House that "the
first Norwegian immigrant in Amer
lea preceded Columbus by 500 years
Left Erikson, who came in the year
1000 A. d.
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Everett. Sanders, secretary to the
ssident., was punctilious about
key that doesnt belong TO him,