Evening star., 1927-03-09

| Official dry forces throughout the
country will be grievously disappoint-
ed If Maj. Roy A. Haynes fails to
inherit the commissionership of pro-
hibition created by the new enforce
ment law. Secretary Mellon is ex-
pected to name the head of the Treas
ury Bureau. henceforward to admin.
lister enforcement, almost any day now.
Haynes friends declare that the best
argument for his appointment to the
job Is that the known enemies of
prohibition want somebody else to
have it. The former Ohio editor has
held the thankless post of principal
Volsteadian longer than any other
man associated with the service since
Uncle Sam ascended the water-wagon.
No one knows the ins and outs Of
the tortuous enforcement game a
tithe as thoroughly. Haynes has a
constituency" that believes in him
wherever ardent drys do congregate.
He has stuck to his work, as all the
world knows. under a myriad of dis
heartening conditions, including the
meddling of politicians. Two names
are prominent among those in the
running for the new commissioners.
ship, In addition to that of Haynes
E. c. Yellowley, prohibition director
at Chicago. and Comdr. J. d. Penning.
ton. director at Pittsburgh, former
naval officer.
Representative Albert Johnson, Re.
publican, of Washington, veteran
chairman of the House immigration
committee. Is going to do Haroun
al Raschid stunt at Ellis Island later
in the month. He wants to give the
new inspection system, in vogue for
the past year or two, the once.over
at close range. Since it went into eff.
fect--i.e., the scheme whereby emf.
grants are examined at the point of
embarkation for the United States
the whole character Of Ellis Island
has undergone change. The heart
break and the heartache have prac-
tically been taken out of it. In the
old days about 10 per cent Of alien
arrivals was rejected on grounds OF
inadmissibility. Nowadays only two
tenths is turned back. The result is
that narrowing disappointments with.
in the shadow Of the Goddess of Lib.
erty are rare. Representative John
son for three or four days and nights
Is going to see things there for him.
self-observe food and lodging condi-
tions, sit in at actual conference with
would-be immigrants, live among
them, and generally study Ellis Island
In minute detail.
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The country long since has come
regularly to the National Capital and
pilfered the Federal service whenever
private enterprise needed men train
ed by Government experience. Now
the colleges and universities have fol
lowed suit by invading the District Of
Columbia in search Of executives. DR..
Hnt r Hf
George Washington University since
1923, has been Communicated by La
fayette College in consequence of his
brilliant four.year record here. The
trustees Of the old Pennsylvania in.
stitution, which has just celebrated its
centenary, felt that man like DR..
Lewis is ideally equipped for La.
| fayette's purposes because Of his ma
| tional' background.
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1t isn't only in the corn.belt that
| the Lowden boom Is being planted. It's
seeds have just been sown in what is
apparently considered to be the fer
| tile East. The "Lowden-for-Presid
Association of New York" was incor-
| porated at Albany on March IA sug-
gestive date--by James r. Garrett, an
| insurance man with Offices adjacent
to that region which Western farm
ers consider the well of all iniquity,
| viz, Wall Street. The New York Low
| den boosters now number $50 organic
| ed souls. They will proceed forthwith
| to multiply themselves. Describing
| the movement as wholly spontane-
| Gus one launched by personal friends.
these aver and avow they have hoisted
the Lowden banner over the ram.
parts Of Manhattan without the for.
mer governors knowledge. Chief
Booster Garrett says his enthusiasm
for the Westerner dates from the time