Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-17
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

War In Manchuria this Summer
would be an Ill wind which would blow
professional good to at least one group
Of people, l. e., the party Of American
newspaper men now touring China. It's
the ambition Of the average scribe to be
q war correspondent, even II he has to
realize it while enjoying the hospitality
of the Carnegie Endowment for Inter-
national Peace. Some Of the men who
may find themselves in journalistic
clover In the Far East have had war
writing experience, but most Of them
have such reportorial thrills to look for
ward to. In any event, II the dragon
and the bear have at each other, the
American press should be in incom-
parably fine position to get the news
hot on the griddle. As far as can be
figured out from their correspondence,
the Carnegie tourists are in or close
to the very seat Of RuSSo.ChineSe
trouble at this time. They are under
the chaperonage of the japanese gov
eminent, while in Manchuria, which
might mean that they'd only see and
hear the side Of the picture that is
pleasing to their hospitable. but ex-
pert. hosts.
Still another group Of Americans
in their case, on an ofdcial mission
finds itself In China at this witching
hour. It consists Of the trio Of Ameri-
can Red Cross commissioners, who
went to the Far East at President
Hoover's instigation, to investigate
famine conditions in China. The party
is made up Of Col. Ernest p. Bicknell,
vice chairman of the Red Cross in
charge of foreign operations; his as
sistant, Ernest J. Swift, and william
M. Baxter, jr.. of the st. Louis branch.
They left Vancouver for Shanghai on
May 80. so they have been In China
roundly about q month. When the
Red Cross a year or two ago was asked
to mobilize American dollars for
Chinese famine relief. 1t decided not
civil war. Perhaps If China were en-
broiled In a great international war. it
might not be deemed feasible to put
the Red Cross facilities to work until
peace was restored.
Germany is not on the list Of the
as or 80 foreign governments which
have transmitted tariff protests to the
United States, but the Fatherland Is
hard hit by the Hawley schedules. She
is not putting up any formal roar at
washington, and even her accomplished
Ambassador, DR.. Won Prittwitz, unlike
most Of his colleagues in the diplomatic
corps, has gone to Europe for the Sum-
mer, instead Of staying here and keep
ing an eye on Capitol Hill. German
goods are seriously affected by the pro-
posed increase in rates on chemicals,
oils, paints, earthenware, glassware,
metals and manufactures thereof, cot
ton goods, leather gloves, artificial fiow-
ers, pencils and greeting cards: The
against us, which they term "adminis-
trative protection" It consists Of
Treasury ruling requiring that even so
tiny an article as . label (for garments)
shall have woven into 1t the legend
Made in Germany" AS q consequence,
the entire label industry Of at least
one German industrial community,
Crefeld, has been put out Of business.
Five factories there formerly did an
immense label business in the United
States.
Evidently American women don't
think they are diplomats diplomatic
after all. Az any rate. two Of the
foreign service have now retired. after
climbing successfully the earliest rungs
of the career" ladder. The first Amer
Miss Lucille Atcherson, had reached
the grace OF turQ secretary OI leSa"
ton at Berne, when she was trans
ferred to . secretaryship at Panama:
Then she committed matrimony and
quit the service. Now comes another
rail-hlazer, Miss Pattie Field, who
has Just resigned from vice con-
sulship at Amsterdam. to enter
the sales promotion branch of the
National Broadcasttng Co. Three
young women still adorn the foreign
service--Miss Frances Z. willis. vice
consul at Valparaiso: Miss Margaret