Evening star., 1926-04-09
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

But for their swarthier cOmpieXions
the South and Central American news
pa per men in " ashington for the Con
gresS of Pan.AmerlCan Journalist
might ea silly be mistaken for con
clave Of Yankee scribes. They are In
other words, an exceedingly prepos'
sessing lot-alert, active, Sood-hu-
mored. well groomed and strikingiy
keen.witted our Latin colleagues put
us to shame in one important respect
--ha rdIV any Of us know Spa nlsh of
Portuguese. while nearly all OF them
speak English. They have the trad1-
tional courtliness Of their race. TOO
Some Of the delegates have hfousht
their black.eyed wives. who yield no
aims to their North American sisters
in respect of bobbed hair, short skirts
and modern chic generally. me
visitors are entering with Zest into
the strenuous program arra need Tor
them. Naturally they find the soii
bit arid. But as they scan front'page
news from Capitol Hill this week they
wonder when prohibition Is going to
begin
Or. Walter Williams, president ot
the Pan.American Congress, oniH re-
Gently completed month as suest
professor" at the Mexican National
University In Mexico City. The dean
of journalism at the University OF
Missouri delivered IL lectures. ana III
their end received the degree. gra nted
ON rare occasions TO uistihs uioheu
foreigners. of professor extraordi'
nary" Dean Williams learned TO his
:, ,stonishment that the first printing
press ina the Western Hemisphere was
sci nm i'm Mexico City in 1884 by cou-
ole of Spar nish printers, Estaban Mar
lin and Juan Pavios. They were
brought to North America by one OF
the early Spa anish viceroys. IL wasn't
tn a century later that printing was
common in our own part or tne contf
nent Williams found that printing
shop still stands on the spot "hefe
Martin and Pavlos pioneered. he
placed an American wreath over the
door and now carries batch OF Visit
ing cards struck off for him on the
hIstor premises.
Baron de Cartier de Mafcnienhe,
the Belgian Amba ssador to the Unlted
states and active dOyen OF the WASH
ington corps diplomatique, Is the oniy
allied envoy on duty during the
World War who Is still stationed
here. In the interval ne mas seen
whole battalion of British, French,
Italian and Japanese colleagues come
and go. Baron de Cartier arrived In
America the day the United states de.
.Iared war-April 6, 1910 that he
has lust entered upon his tenth sue
cessiye year In Washington. The
Be roness de Cartier Is an America IL
formerly Mrs. Hamilton Wilkes Cary
of New York. She was married 10 the
Belgian Amba ssador while ne was on
duty at the peace conference In Pars
seven wears ago. The baroness mas
the UNIQUE distinction Of being the
onlv mbassadress who ever enter.
tained on her own native soil the klnx
and Queen of the country TO which
she owes Official allegiance-the occa.
sion when she was hostess to their
Belgian majesties at Washington In
1919.
Wallace X. harrington, governor OF
Hawaii. who In making his annual
official visit to Washington, has lived
In the Territory since 1884. he nails
from New England, whence came the
first Americans to explore the Hawai-
ian Islands for trading purposes early
in the nineteenth century. MIR. Far.
rington has been working newspa-
per man all Of his life, dating from
cub reporter days in Ba angor, Me-. 3b
years ago. lie Is now tue oHStoIluB
spirit in the Star. Bulletin, the leading
daily of Honolulu. having trained his
son Joe" in Washington to be his
understudy, while dad rules Hawaii.
Gov. Harrington Ia the author of the
standard treatise on the Hawaiian up
heaval which eliminated in the revolt
Of Is9H. He has occupied Queen Lips
palace at Honolulu uninterruptediy
since appointed governor by President
Harding in July, 1921. With sugar,
pinea pples, coffee. climate and tcurists
~ its foundation. Gov. Farrinston