Evening star., 1929-01-02

AS no fewer than 100000 women
! probably-were among the l,429, ,109
, citizens who voted for Herbert Hoover
| on November 6, it isn't surprising that
| talk of a woman member in his cabinet
persists. It's equally natural that gos-
| sip should center around Sallle OF
| Lyndon Hall-otherwise Mrs. Alvin T.
! Hert of Kentucky, vice chairman OF the
Republican national committee. AS long
ago as November 19. the widow OF
"Tobe" Hert was mentioped in this col
| umn as the prospective occupant OF
Hoover portfolio. There are rivalries
among woman politicians just as there
are among their male colleagues, strange
| as that may seem. Hence it comes that
Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick, Repre-
sentative -at-large-elect from Illinois, Is
| to the front with the theory that the sex
| hasn't been in public life long enough
| to deserve cabinet rank. Few OF either
| the Republican or Democratic sisters
sympathize with that view. They think
of Ruth Mccormick herself, and of Alice
| Longworth, of Mabel Walker Willie
brandt, Florence Hartman, Of Pauline
Sabin, of Sarah Schuyler Butler, of
Emily Newell Blair, Of Florence P. Kahn,
of Nellie Tayloe Ross, and OF Mrs. Ellis
| IA.
and wonder how the gifted daughter OF
Mark Hanna 'gets that way
| There's one tradition that certain
associate justices of the Supreme Court
of the United States would like to see
scrapped, even though it's rooted in
the venerated past. That is the habit
of holding conferences of the bench
1 C1k, - ton
originated with Chief Justice Marshall,
and none of his successors has ever
ventured to do away with it. The mod
ern objection to the Saturday confer
ence is that it interfereS with golf. 1t
has been said on fairly reliable author
| ity that If it ever comes to a vote
| there1l be at least 7-to-2 decision
in favor of another conference day or
hour. The prospective dissenters, 1t
| appears, are not golfers.
y X r. II
! Brig. Gen. Frank r. Mccoy, u. S. A.,
| is back from Nicaragua with glowing
accounts of the era of tranquility that
has apparently settled over the coun-
| try since the Marines supervised the
recent presidential election. Although
| Gen. Mccoy was in supreme charge of
| the polling, he generously gives credit
to the Leathernecks and their COM
manders for their tactful assistance in
seeing that voting proceeded without
| friction. Mccoy says the Nicaraguan
| revolution may now be regarded as
thing of the past. DR.. Harold B. Dodds,
| professor of government at Princeton
I University was one of Gen. McCoy'S
| principal coadjutorS in the election
campaign. 1t was Prof. Dodds' pro-
| gram which was carried out to the
letter. Altogether $4,000 Nicaraguans
voted for president-a record ballot
and surprising one, Mccoy explains,
because it indicated vastly larger
country had Sandino is still at large,
but is not taken seriously as disturb
ing factor.
Senator Henrik Shipstead, the
Farmer Labor party's sole sentinel in
Congress, is no longer the pivotal man
Fon whom the Republicans have to de-
| pend for majority in the Senate, but
he'll enter the next Congress clad in a
considerably more flattering distinction
He was reelected to second term
I from Minnesota by the largest plurality
ever given senatorial candidate in the
Gopher State. Shipsted has grown"
immensely since he first came to Capt.
toll Hill in 1923. He has specialized in
international relations ever since the
late Henry Cabot Lodge, realizing there
was promise in the tall young Scandi-
navian giant, had him put on the for
eign relations committee The dentist
statesman defeated Frank B. Kellogg
for the Senate six years ago, but since
then he and the Secretary of State
have become bosom friends. A year or
two after he came to the Senate some
body prevailed on Shipstead to have an
oil painting of himself made. Friends
thought that would ruin him with the
farm vote, but late events in Minnesota
show their fears were unfounded.
| X X
A distinguished Jewish churchman,
Rabbi Morris S. LaZaron of the Balti-
more Hebrew Congregation, refused to
| join in the "anti-cruiser conference
about to be held in, Washington under
the auspices of "a citizens committee, -
DR.. Lazaron, who was a World War
. Army chaplain overseas. vigorously dis