Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-04

Minnesota-there she stands, grow
ing fatter and fatter at the Hoover
pie counter. Appointment OF Attorney
General @. Aaron Youngquist to be
Assistant Attorney General OF the Unit
ed states in charge of prohibition and
taxation raises the Gopher State al
most to the pinnacle IN the present
commonwealth represented In the Sem
ate by a Farmer-Labor man and a
Republican Progressive, It's doing pretty
well in the patronage patch. In the
Hoover cabinet sits Attorney General
Mitchell of st. Paul DR.. James M.
Doran, the prohibition commissioner, is
credited to st. Paul. At the White
House two-thirds of the Presidents
secretarial staff 49, George Akerson and
walter H. Newtor1-come nom Mime
apolis. Roy A. Young: governor OF the
Federal Reserve Board, is Mmneap-
oils banker in his private capacity.
william F. Schilling, the dairy indus
trys spokesman on the new Federal
Farm Board, halls from Northfeld.
Arch Coleman, First Assistant Postmas-
ter General was until recently post
master of Minneapolis. Charles H.
March, member of the Federal Trade
Commission, is from Litchf1eld. Edgar
Markham, assistant to the chairman
of the Federal Farm Board. calls st.
Paul his home town. DR.. Shipstead Is
chairman of the Senate committee on
printing.
John v. A. MacMurray's resignation
as American Minister to China and his
incidental departure from diplomacy
constitute an acknowledged loss to the
United states foreign service. He is
the finest type Of career man" Uncle
Sam has developed, entering the inter-
national field Immediately after leaving
Princeton and devoting his entire life
to It,. Few diplomats OF any nationality
know the Far East as MacMurray does.
His two volumes on Chinas foreign
treaties were official text books at the
Washington conference on Pactf1c al
| fairs in 1922. Just what prompted
| MacMurray to relinquish an appar-
entity distinguished future is not quite
clear. Some of his friends allege he Is
disappointed over the thwartfng OF his
embition to become American Ambas-
| sador to Japan. There have been ir-
| responsible reports that the Toxic gov
eminent intimated that MacMurray
would not be persona grata to 1t, be-
cause of reputed pro-Chinese and anti
J Japanese sentiments. Johns Hopkins
University, in which he is to have an
| important post, is taking front rank as
a Specialist in world politics. Perhaps
MacMurray will head its department
of Far Eastern affairs.
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bill" Borah is at least one prophet
not without honor in his own land.
Idaho, through its State Geographic
Society, has adopted suggestion to
name the highest mountain in the
state Mount Borah." Perhaps in
subtle compliment, the peak Is described
as "a hard old eminence." 1t Is part
! of the Pahsimerel Range and "has with
stood the shock Of many centuries OF
storms, resisting the elements with
| adan1antine vigor." That might almost
| be q citation Of Borah's record in the
| Senate. Commenting on Mount Borah's
weather-d efying qualities, the Pocatello
! Tribune remarks: But there's q limit
even to shock ahsorbers, and it is doubt
full whether the old mountain will ever
feel the same after a bottle Of cider
| is dropped onto 1t from an airplane
in a christening ceremony. Thus to
| be baptized is nothing short of a hard
blow. However, It may be hard cider,
without the Senator's knowledge"
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| M. Paul Claudel, French ambassador
| to the United States, will soon add to
his many distinctions that of having
one of his plays produced for the first
time in Washington. 1t Is a prose
tragedy, entitled THE Tidings Brought
| to Mary" translated from the original
French into English by Louise Morgan
SUI, American poetess. The play VIII