Evening star., 1927-03-25

There are high politics, and implica-
tions of rare degree, in the victory
won by the drys in the appointment
OF Mai. Roy A. Haynes to be COM
missioner Of the new Bureau OF Pro-
hibition in the Treasury Department.
HAYNES was not Secretary Mellon 8
candidate, nor that Of Gen. Lincoln
C.. Andrews, the Assistant secretary
in charge of the Treasury's enforce
ment branch. Their man was john
d. Pennington, a former commandsr
in the Navy and now pronDltion u
rector for western Pennsylvania at
Pittsburgh. The political significance
of Maj. Haynes appointment lies IN
the fact that it was virtually forced
nv the pressure which the Anti-Saloon
League, Senator Willis OF Ohio and
other super-ardent drys brought 10
bear at the White House. Little
doubt was left in administration quar-
ters that the supersession OF Haynes
would evoke a. howl among the foes
of liquor, which might easily echo
into the 1928 presidential campaign
with dire effect upon all and sundry
responsible for Haynes "humilia-
ton" President Coolidge sometimes
lets straws show how the wind in his
vicinity Is blowing. DIR. Nicholas
Murray Butler and others who think
that "Cal" would court defeat in 1923
on a dry platform will read of the
Haynes appointment with mixed emo
tions.
Herbert Hoover has left Washing
ton to indulge himself in a few days
of his favorite pastime-fshing.
Aboard his official yacht" L. s. S.
Kilkenny. one of the Diesel-engined
boats used in the lighthouse and
navigation services, the Secretary OF
Commerce Is cruising serenely In Vir-
ginia and Carolina waters. Three or
four of his headquarters staff are in
his party, including William p. Mac
Cracken, jr., Assistant Secretary OF
Commerce for Aeronautics: DIR. julius
Klein, director Of the Bureau OF For
eign and Domestic Commerce, and
George Akerson, one of HooVer's all
around handy men. The Secretary or
Commerce thinks a good many OF the
Nations ills are due to the fact that
there are not more fishermen. A
thorough disciple of Izaak Walton,
Hoover looks upon the piscatorial art
as the finest stimulus to reflective
thought, and he is constantly urging
his friends and colleagues to get the
habit of hy-casting and trolling.
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Washington's cherry blossoms are
as famed in Japan, whence they orig
mated, as they are throughout the
United States. Their annual flower
ing at this season is always a news
event which American correspondents
of Japanese newspapers cable to Nip
non. This years blooms are to figure
in a specially staged series of moving
pictures, on orders from some WIN
Hays who bosses screen affairs at
Toxic. To that end the Japanese
Amba ssador in Washington, Mr..
Matsudaira, and his charming consort
and children agreed to participate In
some action" photographs amid the
cherry blossoms. Just as soon as the
resultant reels can be speeded across
the Pacific the pictures will be re-
leased In hundreds of movie houses
throughout Japan. Our Japanese
friends are as much addicted to "the
pictures"-and to radio-aS we Occi.
dentals.
The country at large ought to be
deeply interested in the "battle OF Six
teenth street." just won by those who
are bent upon preserving Washing
toms finest and longest arterial high
way as a residential boulevard. The
decision Of the District Zoning Com
mission not to permit conversion of the
lower end of the street which leads di-
rectly to the White House door into
business region was based upon ma
tional rather than purely local con-
siderations. Sixteenth street is the
thorQu9Afare 0G entry into Washinm'