Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-17
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

This is Thrift week. Secretary
| Mellon. asked by this observer to say
something that would stimulate the
people of this gasOline-wasting land
| to remember the rainy day, produced
the following terse essay:
Thrift is financial preparedness.
It is equally important from the
standpoint of the Nation and of
the individual We found during
the war that Americas real finan-
cial strength consisted not in few
great fortunes, but in the combined
savings of many individuals In
the case of the average man saw
ings may be the means of Selling
opportunities which otherwise
would be lost through lack of a
small amount of capital While
saving is not easy and involves
sacrifices, it is worth while, be-
cause of the sense of security
which financial independence brings
to its pOSSeSSOr.
William G.. McAdoo is expected TO
descend upon Washington during the
next few DAYS, cast the spell of his
stimulating presence upon the faithful,
and blaze the trail of the "McAdoofor-
President-in-192S" campaign. Though
he persuasively denies that he has
transferred his allegiance from Nc
Adoo to Smith. Daniel c. Roper. COM
missioner of internal revenue under
wv. G.s' regime at the Treasury.
will be somewhat conspiCuously absent
when his former political playmate is
in Washington. Roper, who was one
of the field marshals of the McAdoo
drive at the Democratic national con-
fusion in Madison Square Garden. has
gone South on reclamation and taxa
ton business. he insists, and not to
garner Dixie delegates for Smith.
This scribe's most vivid recollection
of the national dissension of 1924 is
the near-fisticuffs in which Dan"
Roper and Joe" Tumulty. Smith
booster, INDUCED. 1t was at that en-
battled moment when fraZZled and
frenzied delegates were debating the
wisdom of inviting McAdoo and Smith
to address the convention. Roper and
Tumulty were argufying on the steps
leading down from the rear of the
platform. Their jowls were livid with
passion. their language torrid and
their fists c1enched in each others
face. But only verbal blows were
exchanged.
When Thomas w. Miller. former
alien property custodian. goes on trial
again in New York on February Z. he
will have a new defending counsel
Aaron Sapiro of Chicago. Sapiro is
lawyer though best known as CO.
operative marketing expert. He and
Miller are longtime American Legion
buddies. Out of their friendship
sprang an offer by Sapiro to take
charge of Miller's case on retrial. The
brilliant young agricultural expert
will supplant William Rand as Millers
principal lawyer. Sapiro's proudest
boast is that he is the product of
California Jewish Orphanage. He was
destined for the rabbinical profession
and was actually graduated at Hebrew
Union College at Cincinnati. But he
finally preferred the law to the church.
pirO amassed a fortune before he
was 80 as counsel to producers CO.
operative organizations in the West.
He will no sooner be finished with the
Miller trial in February than he will
take charge of his own 81 900 900 libel
case against Henry Ford at. Detroit
in March, with Senator Jim" Reed as
opposing counsel.
Il. X x
While the United States is LAYING
down a blueprint fleet, Germany is
quietly re-creating a navy. The bud
get just presented to the Reichstag
for 1927 calls for expenditure of
roundly $4,000, 600, or twice as much
as in 1924, The German fleet at pres.
ent consists of 10 small battleships
and cruisers and some 20 torpedo
boats, but for their, upkeep and opera
ton appropriations of more than
$4,000 900 are asked. Berlin dis
patches report that members of the
Reichstag are in critical and curious
mood as to the reasons which make
all this naval money necessary. The
explanation may well be that the Ger
mans are rapf1ly re-establishing them
selves a. 6<et-eaass merchant ma