Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-23

It won't be long now. IN all prob
ability, before some demon Democrat
will seize upon the letter just addressed
to the Western Mail and South Wales
News by James j. Davis, Secretary of
Labor The text was cabled to the
United States this week from London.
To the people of his native land Mr..
Davis communicates the somewhat
startling news that "eighty-six per cent
of the American people are poor" Be-
fore 1929 is much Older Republican
members of Congress, clarifying the
blessings of the tariff. are bound to
dwell eloquently upon the omnipresence
of prosperity in the United States. There
was some mention of that subject in
the recent presidential campaign. Some
authorities think Hoover was elected
on the prosperity issue. Now comes
Secretary Davis and reminds WelShmen
that while 1.-THE American worker is
better off than the worker Of any other
country in the world, he is not dwelling
in Utopia" Jim the Puddler" adds:
1T may be that we are on the way
to solving the problem Of poverty in
America. I hope we are, but we can
hardly claim We have solved it so long
as many Americans are living under
depressing conditions. The brother
hood of poverty is worldwide. We
share it with you"
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President Coolidge discussed with
White House callers this week a pro-
posal to celebrate the diamond jubilee
the seventy-fifth anniversary-of the
Republican party at Kansas City this
year. He called attention to the fact
| that while most G.. 0. P. historians
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there is discrepancy between the various
dates on which that event took place
Mr.. Coolidge also reminded his visitors
that Jackson, Mich, and Ripon, Wis,
claim to have been the cradle in which
the G. o. p was rocked. When Senator
Pat Harrison of Mississippi, the Demo-
crat who specializes in razzing the
Republican party heard about Gals
uncertainty as to where it originated
Pat said it made him think of some
thing which Booth Harrington once
observed about George AIDE. Intro
ducing AIDE at an Indiana society din
ner In Chicago once upon a time" ac-
cording to Senator Harrison, "Tarking-
ton remarked that George AIDE is one OF
| the few men who are claimed by two
cities. Lafayette claims he was born
in Logansport, and Logansport insists
he was born in Lafayette"
| X X X X
Senator Arthur Capper, Republican
Of Kansas, has a double in Washington
who bears distinguished name-Wade
Hampton, a member of the District OF
Columbia bar and descendant Of the
famous Confederate general, reconstruc-
ton Governor of South Carolina, and
United States Senator from that State
from 1879 to 1891. Mr.. Hampton
| fhnI1Uh
is constantly being mistaken for the
Kansan all over Washington. Not long
ago man who met him in a street
car began laboring eloquently with
Hampton over District of Columbia leg
islation, because he thought he was
addressing himself to Capper, chairman
of the Senate committee on District
i affairs.
Insiders are persuaded that two con-
didates, both Ambassadors, are running
neck and neck for the Secretaryship
of State of the Hoover cabinet. One
is Dwight w. Morrow and the Other
is Henry P. Fletcher. Morrow is said
to have the personal backing of Presi-
dent Coolidge. Fletcher, besides his as
set as Latin American specialist, en-
joys the support of the Mellon-Reed
Pennsylvania influence. being himself
a KeyStOner. Morrow has to his credit
the reputation of having smoothed out
our ruffled relations with Mexico
Fletcher is career diplomat, and might
be more useful in wiping out the career
man system in the foreign service than
an outsider like Morrow. The Presi-
dent-elect is reported to be ready tC
sweep lot of State Department tradi-
tions and traditionists onto the SCRAP
heap. Fletcher, it is suggested, would
be better broom for the purpose than
Morrow. Morrow, on the other hand
is an experienced business man, and
Hoover intends starring foreign trade
in our international diplomacy.
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Baron Tanaka, the Japanese premier
and foreign minister, has once again
opened the Diet Of Toxic by reminding