Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-30
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Huston Thompson, militant member
! of the Federal Trade Commission. is
, the latest gladiator to enter the sena-
! torial arena. He aspires TO be the
| Democratic candidate in Colorado at
| the 1926 election. Thompson's term
on the Trade Commission, to which
he was appointed by President Wilson
| in 1920 will expire in December. He
| is going to Denver in few days to
explore the political situation. His
| friends are urging him to enter the
| Democratic primary against former
| Gov. William E. Sweet. and, if he
| wins the nomination, promise to wage
| an aggressive campaign for his cleo
ton against Rice w. Means, Repub-
lican incumbent. When Gov. Sweet
! had to fill the Colorado senatorial
vacancy following the death of
| Senator Nicholson in 1928. Woodrow
| Wilson sent famous telegram to
Denver. recommending the appoint
ment of my friend Huston Thomp-
SON." Sweet did not act on the sug-
gestion but named Alva B. Adams.
Thompson would be battling eX-
| ponent of Wilson ideals in the Senate.
| He is an aggressive liberal, Prince
! ton man. just turned so, and has the
| backing for the Colorado senatorshp
| of national Democrats who consider
| him one of the party's future leaders.
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Andrew w. Mellon bagged three
| university degrees at June university
cOmmencements. heading the cabinet
| batting average list for the year. but
the Secretary of the Treasury is still
a long way behind Herbert Hoover as
| a degree holder. The Secretary of
Commerce has been 'doctored" by no
fewer than % institutions in the
United States and abroad-in token,
in most cases, of his World War serv-
| ices as American food administrator
and reliever of human distress around
] the globe. Not long ago Hoover found
that to be a doctor" isn't the empty
| honor it's supposed to be. He and his
| boys were motoring through southern
California. There was a temporary
embargo on gasoline supplies for
everything except urgent cases. Only
| physicians were being accommodated
| without question. Hoover had an ur-
gent trip in front Of him. One of his
youngsters suggested that the Secre-
| tary was doctor" many times over.
/ That was all right with the dispenser
| of the gas, and the Secretarlal tank
was forthwith filled.
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| June 80, 1926, marks the twentieth
anniversary of pure food legislation by
Congress. so in honor of the day the
| New York Consumers and Producers
Association gave a luncheon party
this noon for Dr. Harvey w. Wiley of
| Washington. AS chief chemist of the
Department of Agriculture in 1906
DR.. Wiley was mainly responsible for
the passage of the pure food act. The
New York organization which recent
! ly made him honorary and advisory
| chairman of it's national food stand
ards committee, thought it fitting to
pay tribute to Wiley's pioneer work.
| Oscar" famous chef of the Waldorf
| Astoria Hotel, made a birthday cake
for the veteran, who has lived 80
. years and is still active in the field of
sane edibles. Whole wheat bread is
/ one of Wiley's hobbies nowadays, as it
is of Calvin Coolidge.
| Mai. Gen. Hanson E. Ely, U. S. A.,
| commandant of the Army War Col
lege wants officers of our military
establishment to be good takers, as
well as capable fighters. At the recent
college commencement exercises Gen.
| Ely pointed out that the Army be-
longs to the country. and that it ought
to contain men qualified to tell the
country about it. To train them for
that duty, the War College. requires
it's students. now and then to take the
platform and "let themselves CO."
Pacifism is still abroad in the land.
1t is well organized and strongly
financed. Trained speakers are at its
| disposal. They lose no opportunity
to decry preparedness. It Is not the
business of Army and Navy officers
to make propaganda for the military
and naval establishments. but Gen.
J Ely properly holds it to be within