Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-17

rine power. with corresponding need
of protecting their maritime com
merce. Every new German merchant
man launched in recent times Is
Diesel-engined and oil-burning-the
last word in modern ship construction.
Congress has been requested by the
Navy Department to pass legislation
raising the status of Edward 2. War
ner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy
for Aeronautics. The idea is to make
it possible for Mr. Warner to function
as Acting Secretary of the Navy just
as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Theodore d. Robinson) is authorized
to do under existing law. At present
the duties of the Secretary of the
Navy deVolve upon the chief of opera
tions during the temporary absence
of the Secretary of the Navy and the
Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ="
What's now proposed is that the As
sistant Secretary for ANronautics shall
rank the chief of operations in the
right to act as Secretary of the Navy.
North Central States Agricultural
Conference-Executi Committee of
22"--is the imposing and impressive
title of the organization now on the
congressional firing-line in behalf of
farm relief legislation. The confer
ence's home headquarters is Chicago.
But it now operates in Washington
from downtown office building.
Farm leaders from Illinois. Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Montana. Nebra ska. North
Dakota, Ohio and South Dakota make
up the executive committee. of which
George n. Peek of Illinois is admin
istrative chairman. For natlonal
program to establish agriculture on
an economic parity with other indus-
tries" is the conferences terse version
of its mission in Washington.
Throngs of tourist patriots VINO
pack the Senate galleries on Dig
DAYS" when Borah. Jim" Reed, mn
Wheeler. Lenroot, Tom WASH
"JoeF Robinson and other star. per
formers hold forth are always lhteI
ested in the leatherlunged eiocutlIn-
list who calls the rolls and READS tne
resolutions. He's John {. Crockett'
veteran reading clerk of the SenAte.
Crockett dates from the senatofSS11.ips
of Allison and Dolliver OF Iowa Till lu
self a Hawkeye. it was Ailson w1o
first brought him to the oehdte'
There was a plenty OF cornpetlllJ, i
for the reading clerkship, but Crock
EFT. once an actor, bawled every other
contestant into the discard after nee
weathered a trial addition before 10
or 90 Senators. They had him feaa
new consular bill with jaworeakIhs
names like Aix-la-Chapelle. iqulque
Tegucigalpa, Aguascallentes'
fuegos, Ciudad. Villefranche oe
Rouergue and then some. CrochetI
ratified 'em off like A linguist. IN
not satisfied" he said to Senator Dol-
liver, II don't know whether | pro
nounced half those names right. he
Joined Dolliver, Hell. no one else
does, either" Crockett learned now
to make the Senate chamber ring oy
driving oxen when a boy. MY Volce
today is the product of yelling whoa,
'haw.' gee buck at oxen on my
dads Iowa farm" says the real
Demosthenes of the Senate
Mrs. Alvin r. Hert of Kentucky
astute vice chairman of the Repuo-
lican national committee. was hostess
to woman political leaders from %
States in Washington last week. Sne
sent the G.. o. p. sisters home Win
one parting injunction. They We're
adjured to see that the sex WnIcn
achieved suffrage at the cost OF SO
many years and tears hencerorWdru
evinces a decent respect for enamel
patton" by going to the polls on cleo
ton days. It's. a sad, but incontro-
vertible, fact that women have rapid
ly learned to vie with men as vote
slackers. About the same number of
them-a fraction under half-shirk
suffrage duty as men, according to
fluctuations of the elections since the
bobbed-hair fraternity got the vote.
Mrs. Hert's right-hand man is the
former Miss Alice Gram, who picket
ed the White House for suffrage In
the fighting days.