Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-03-12
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

, But our political concern with the Is.
lamic world is limited. Since last De-
cember American capital has had a
substantial fooehold in Irak formerly
Mesopotamia), In consequence OF deal
between five American oil companies
and the Turkish Petroleum Co The
| Standard companies OF New York and
New Jersey. the Pan American petro-
leum & Transport Co, the Atlantic
Refining Co. and the Gulf Oil Corpora
ton now participate actively with the
British. French and Dutch concerns
| which were already In the rich Irak
Fields. Each Of the foreign groups con-
trolls 23s4 per cent Of the Turkish COM
| pany's shares
N%*
Bill Borahs Idaho State Society
speech in Washington Saturday night
sounded mighty like presidential cam
didacy announcement. II the idoli2ing
Gem, Staters who paid the Senator
homage had been the delegates consti-
tuttng the Kansas City convention.
Borah would have been nominated by
reclamation. Voters who want shorter
and better platforms would have de-
lighted In Borah's brief and brave set
OF principles, Here they are /. Rejec-
ton In toto OF Bolshevism and Fascism
as substitutes for the American theory
or government; .. party issues that
the people are interested In: 5. aboli-
| ton Of boss rule and hand-picked dele
gates to national conventions: I, plain
statements by parties and by presi-
Dental candidates on burning uiies-
tons OF the hour: s. ruthless con-
demnation Of tainted campaign funds.
Borah boasted that he's voted No"
oftener than any man IN Congress dur
Ing the past - years. and regrets hay
Ing cast only one such negative
| Senator Arthur Capper Republican.
| OF Kansas recalls that Theodore Roose~
welt saw the American farm crisis COM
| Ing and was fllled with an earnest de-
sire TO confront IT, Capper declares
that "T. RS" untimely passing was
a real loss to the farmers OF the United
States" More than any other national
| leader, Cnpper says. Roosevelt UNDER
stood agriculture's difficulties and be-
| lieved In their right to expect relief M
the Nations hands. II know this 10
be no." Senator Capper has just told
New York audience because was one
Of the last men In public life To talk
with Roosevelt lie then expressed to
me niS DeieI tnat the FARMER was not
on fair and equal footing with indus
try and business. and that hard times
were ahead for our rural population
unless constructive national agricu!-
turel policy was adopted"
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Yet another American girl has
made" the foreign service, She Ii
Miss Frances Elizabeth Willis of
Metropolis. III, who has just been APP
pointed vice consul ut Valparaiso, Chile.
after passing the State Department en-
| aminations and n distinguished career
| In college, both as u student and al n
| teacher, A graduate OF Kempel Hall,
| nj Kenosha, Wis, and an A. H. Of Stan
ford University, followed by two wears
| Of post graduate work at the Untversity
Of belgium, In Brussels. Miss Willis was
| an Instructor In history al uolcher Col
lege Haltinore and later an assistant
professor uf political science at Vassar.
Just prior To deVating herself 10 study
| for the foreign service, Miss willis was
volunteer worker for the International
tsrenteil Associations health~ed education
| campaign IN Newfoundland. Uncle
aam's newest diplomat viii not be 80
until next year
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