Evening star., 1927-09-30

mission, Secretaries Mellon and
Hoover. The Chicago manufacturer.
Ifnancier, whose views on tho Nations
|shipping problem recently aroused the
I interest Of President Coolidge, con.
.siders it almost the paramount Ameri.
can issue. Hurley declares 1t would
be fatal to let our merchant marine
situation drift from bad to worse
The builder Of ''the bridge to France"
says the question ramifies into our
whole economic life and calls for
prompt, statesmanlike treatment.
Nelson T. Johnson, the newest As
sistant Secretary of State, was pro-
| NOTED from the chiefship Of the Far
Eastern division Of the State Depart
| ment, but the advancement is costing
him $1,000 a year in salary. That Gil
bert and Sullivan state Of affairs ID
due to the fact that Johnson was q
class A foreign service (consular) Of.
| fetal. earning $4,000 q year, while an
Assistant Secretary of State draws
only $500. Another foreign service
career man. recently promoted into
a lower-paid job is William Phillips.
the first American Minister to Can
ada. In Belgium, where he was Am
bassador, Phillips was paid SIT, 500 per
eannum. His wages at Ottawa are
$4,000.
| Don't let anybody run away with
the idea that '1ong- distance weather.
Iforecasting." Of which Washington
now boasts a notable exponent, Is
lmere pastime. It's a real business
THE prophet in question has on hiH
books upward of 500 clients, including
great corporations and other concerns.
to which advance knowledge Of the
weather is of vital Importance. The
forecaster doesn't always hit the
meteorological bull's-eye as accurately
as he did when he predicted the
Summerless Summer" of 1927. But he
has achieved a reputation for uncanny
ability to guess at the weather, and
now devotes himself to 1t professional
ly and profitably.
The Ear Northwest Hoover Club
of New York; has just hung out its
flag on Manhattan Island. 1t was or
ganized by former residents Of Wash
ington State and Alaska. The presi.
dent Is Col. Samuel Lewis Lennon.
a Broadway broker who once was q
Washington State Republican commit :
teeman. The club says it's swung
into action without the knowledge Of
the Secretary Of Commerce. It's pur.
pose is to spread Hoover-for- -Presi-
dent gospel.
Washington friends Of the former
Secretary of State and Mrs. Balm
bridge Colby have heard that the
New York lawyer-statesman's Paris
divorce action is not wholly discon-
nected with a book Mrs. Colby pub
lished last Spring. 1t Is entitled "The
Green Forest" The central male
character suggested the accomplished
cambridge to many readers, although
this Is vigorously denied by his wife.
"My husband Is much too colossal q
figure" Mrs. Colby observed, "to be
eneompassed in any single book"
Once in magazine article Mrs. Colby
discussed dangers in marriage" She
asserted that "a wonan's greatest
danger Is union with an egoist. He
is fatal in a home and the credit OF
his rapid disappearance Is due to the
modern woman. He must have IN
vented the term wife deriving 1t
from the verb 'vibrare.' to tremble."
William Spry, commissioner gen.
eral Of the United States Land once.
is the latest Republican to shy his
sombrero into the senatorial ring. He
aspires to the toga now gracefully
worn by William H. King, DemocraS
Junior Senator from Utah, who must
face the reelection guns In 1898.
lSpry was once United States mar
shall. then governor Of Utah for two
Eerms and later head Of the Federal
and office. by appointment Of Presi:
lent Harding, the post he still adorns.
Commissioner Spry boasts an aristo.
cratic birthplace, Windsor, England.
ancient seat of the British royal
family. But he outgrew that long
ago. He is a Mormon.
! tCopyrixht. 1877, AsstxeA3