Evening star., 1925-10-07
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Herbert Hoovers name stands for
so much in Europe that he still
hears from people over there who
look upon him as almoner to the
world at large. This week he received
a letter addressed TO His Highness.
Secretary Of Commerce Hoover.
written in German from the town of
Banat komlos, Rumania reading as
follows:
The supreme blessing that has
come to me prompts me to make
an appeal to your highness so that
1 may carry out my hearts wish
of leading my chosen one to the
altar. AS ] wish to seal the bond
of matrimony and do not possess
much money. l beg your highness
for a gift in order that 1 may pur-
chase the baronial estate that Is
located here. Then ] hope to
achieve my life's happiness. and.
as the founder of our family. 1
will have a monument erected to
your memory Trusting in your
kindness of heart send you
friendly greetings.
Col. Billy" Mitchell believes in
straight shooting whether his quarry
is a Government department or big
game in the jungles. His Washing
ton hotel quarters are adorned with
trophies of the hunt in which the
Col. and Mrs Mitchell both took part
in India year or two ago IN the
course of their globe -girdHng honey
moon. One Of the spoils Of the ex-
pedition was Bengal tiger which
Mitchell shot in the center Of its
eyeball, killing his prey instantly.
As the specimen was SO unique the
ra jah, who was the Mftchells host,
insisted upon supplying documentary
evidence of the colonefS feat, lest
lit might be thought the tiger had died
a more or less natural death. Octo-
Der II will be the second anniversary
Of their marriage, and the Mitchells
are wondering whether they will be
celebrating it in the midst of court
martial proceedings. When the col
onel was courting his present wife,
a Detroit lady. one Of his stunts was
to fy over her home and bomb her
with bouquets of flowers.
Our pacifists are strongly pro-
Mitchell. The current number OF their
official organ. the Bulletin of the Ma
tional Council for Prevention Of War,
devotes the bulk of it's space to the
coloneIs crusade. Across its front
page the Bulletin strings a headline
on Trial" Anything designed to bring
national defense into disrepute Ia al
ways sure Of pacifist approval. That
10 why the Bulletin observes:
We wish we had room for Col.
Mitchell's whole statement. 1t car
ries in every sentence the marks of
sincerity, expert knowledge and
sound common sense. If he exag-
gerates the incompetency Of the
bureaucracies that control our mill
tary policies the fact will appear.
we hope. in the invest cation, and
Justice be done them. The dan
ger will be that to save their pres
tige Mitchell will be sacrificed.
X
Observed in lobby of luxurious hotel
| where foreign delegates to Interpar-
liamentary Union conference are liv-
ing: English NJ. P.s, easily distin-
guishable by their spats-bespectacled
Germans animatedly discussing
| whether "smokings" Teutonic for
| dinner jackets) should be worn al
banquets-woman delegates from
half dozen continental countries
clad more modestly than the aver
age American working girl. con-
templating with mingled admiration
and envy Gorgeously clad fiappers on
their way to q dinner dance-buzz OF
excitement as somebody says thai
Charles Evans Hughes. formerly Sec
| retary of State. has just stepped to
| the desk to register-stage whisper
| in German. Swedish French. Italian
and Hungarian to the effect tina,
Hughes Is greatest living American
EdaPper group Of excessively busi