Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-11
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

No branch Of the Hoover administra-
ton has more nuts to crack during this
sweltering September than the Depart
ment of State. Secretary Stimson is
correspondingly about the busiest cabi-
net officer in Washington. The world
for him nowadays is like many-ringed
circus. He must keep his eyes peeled
in half a dozen different directions at
once. In Europe it is, Of course, the
critical negotiations with Great Britain
which mainly absorb his attention. but
with the Matching of the United States
of Europe" Col. StimSon has new
issue that calls for his vigilance, even
If it does not yet arouse his anxiety.
In the Near East there is Palestine,
with its explosive possibilities and with
rival groups of American citizens IN
this country-Jews and Arabs-compet-
ing for Uncle Sans favor and influence
in the Holy Land controversy. AS II all
these worries were not enough, Secre-
tary Stimson must now divert his gaze
to Manchuria, where Russia and China
are staging very lifelike imitation OF
war. The sun never sets on Amer
ica's foreign affairs.
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Claudius H. Huston, the new Repub-
lican national chairman, was born on
the famous banks of the Wabash in
Boone Township, Harrison County,
Southern Indiana-a fact which his
proud fellow Hoosiers are determined
shall not be overlooked amid the
claims that the new Republican
South" has been recognized by the
G. o. P. in the election of a Southern"
party leader. Huston'S mother was a
native of North Carolina and that helps
him out with his Dixie political merits.
The chairman now owns the Indiana
farm on which he was born, sentiment
having prompted its purchase some
years ago. Like President Hoover,
! Huston worked his way through college,
earning his board and room by ringing
the school bell at Valparaiso Qndiana)
college" The Republican generalissimo s
first venture in life was a small business
college. He ranks as millionaire
today.
Senator Walter E. Edges vote on the
tariff bill is so essential to the Repub-
lican regulars that he has deferred his
departure for the ambassadorship to
France until the fate of the Hawley-
Smoot bill is decided. Whether that
will be some time this year or not, no
body knows. The Jersey statesman is
meantime putting in hard ticks on the
French language, with which he has
something more than nodding
ACQUAINTANCE, and on French history,
with a library of which he supplied
himself several months ago when it was
intimated that he would be sent to the
Paris embassy. Ever since de LeSSepS
conceived the idea Of the Panama
Canal the French have been interested
In all and sundry connected with the
waterway situation in Central America,
so Senator Edge, the author of the pro-
posed new Nicaraguan Canal, will be
able to talk with them authoritatively
on that theme.
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Former Senator and Republican Ma
tional Committeeman T. Coleman du
Point of Delaware has practically lost
the use of his voice and Is obliged to
depend on the expert services of a
young woman lip reader, who Is able
seeks to articulate. The Diamond State
politicians hearing being in no way
impaired, he is able. with the co-opera-
ton of his helpmate, to carry on con-
versation with friends amid compare
lively little difficulty. Not long ago he
received President Hoover, Chairman
Huston and other distinguished guests
aboard the du Pont yacht in Chesa-
peake Bay. Through the intermediary
OF the lip reader Mf. ou PonG ana MS
visitors remained in animated discus
sion for more than an hour.
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The National Woman's Party is about
to take the although not in the
way its favorite enemy, the National
League of Women Voters, wishes it
would. The militant sisters, who have
Just vacated the "Old Capitol" their
longtime washington headquarters, to
make way for the new building Of the
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