Evening star., 1927-10-31
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Still another agricultural council
OF war is about to assemble. 1t will
hold forth at the geographical center
of the corn and cotton belts in st.
Louis tomorrow and Wednesday. The
call for the powwow was issued by
George w. Donaghey, Democratic
Governor Of Arkansas from 1909 to
1913. 1t summons the embattled agri-
cultural forces of ''the West and
South" to come together ''in behalf
OF national policy of farm relief and
surplus control legislation" Some 400
delegates from a score of different
States are expected to participate
They'll include farm leaders, United
States Senators, members of the
House OF Representatives., State gov
ernors and officials of State farm
bureaus. The great associations of
cotton-g growers and tobacco-raisers
will also send spokesmen. Illinois,
Iowa. Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Nebras.
ka, Wisconsin and South Dakota, corn
and wheat commonwealths, will stand
shoulder to shoulder with the cotton
States--Gov. Donagheys statement in
dicates-for formulation of program
designed to arrest national attention
on the eve Of the assembling of Con.
gress.
X X X
No sooner has the ancient fable
about Herbert Hoover and the anti
farmer pegging of the war price of
wheat been blown up than up bobs
a tale OF Hoover's antipathy to law
yers. It's about as justifiable as the
wheat-price myth. Hoover has just
brought about the appointment as
Assistant Secretary of Commerce of
Walter +. Brown of Ohio. Brown is
lawyer. Brown supplants J. Walter
Drake, another Hoover selection.
Drake Is a lawyer. When the office
OF Assistant Secretary of Commerce
for aeronautics was created in 1925
Hoover drafted for 1t William p. Mac.
Cracken. jr., of Illinois. MacCracken
Is lawyer and secretary Of the Amer
lean Bar Association to boot. When
Curtis D. Wilbur was appointed Sec
retary Of the Navy, Hoover received
popular crest for bringing his brother
Californian to President Coolidge's at
tention. Wilbur is a lawyer. When
radio was under the exclusive super.
vision OF the Department OF Com
merce. Hoover put Stephen b. Davis
in charge OF it. Davis is a lawyer.
Armistice day in Washington this
year page big Bilp' Thompson-ad-
dress, City Hall, Chicago will be gay
with British uniforms and music.
Canada. which is unveiling in Arling-
ton National Cemetery noble monu-
menr in memory of the Americans
who fell fighting with the Dominion
forces in the World War, is sending
here two of her finest military bands
and detachment of 200 crack troops.
The bands will be those of the 4Sth
Highlanders Of Toronto and of the
Royal Canadian Regiment, which are
attached. respectively, to units which
correspond to our National Guard and
Regular Army. The troops will be
practically all Canadian regulars. The
soldiers from across the border will
arrive in Washington on the morning
of Arn1istice day. Friday, and spend
all Of that day and Saturday in the
District of Columbia. Arrangements
are under way to give the visitors
fitting welcome.
There's more than meets the eye in
the announcement that Gen. John j.
Pershing will be the principal speaker
at this years annual convention Of
| the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton at Chicago. When the command
| erin chief Of the A. i. F. addresses
the horny-handed sons of the soil on
December S, Washington politicians
are convinced that the Pershing- for.
President boom will be formally
launched. "Black Jack" has evidently
| been encouraged to revive boom that
| first sprouted in 1920 and was ready
to bud afresh in 1924. Perhaps the
gallant general of the armies has
| taken heart Of grace from the fact
that 1928 has now become sexa.
genarian free.for.all Pc. shing re-
tired under the service age limit (64)
| in 1924. He was 81 in September.
Folks say he's highly regarded in the
farm districts, whence he originates: