Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-30

Hustle and hustle at the State De-
partment and the White House this
week are outward signs OF the trans
cendent importance the President and
his Secretary of State attach to the
visit of Ramsay Macdonald. The
young men of the protocol brigade
sometimes irreverently called the white
spat boys and cookie puShers"-are
buster than cranberry merchants. A
foreign prime minister doesn't happen
in Washington every day, and the ex-
ouisite niceties and proprieties of the
situation require corresponding care.
Receiving lines, luncheon arrangements,
dinner places and order OF precedence
here, there and everywhere have 10 pc
worked out with punctilious exactitude:
President Thomas Jefferson's attempted
rule of "pell-mell' at one time threat
ened another European war
Practically ever since those ultra demo
cratic days official life in washington
on august occasions like the MacDon-
aid to-do. has been Systematically or
dered Our British cousins are them
selves such sticklers for the correct
thing that no effort is being spared TO
make their premier's sojourn at wash
ington the last word in that line.
X X X X
DR.. Leo S. Rowe, director general OF
the Pan-American Union, Is going 10
establish a brand-new radio record on
October IL. which is Columbus DAY.
He is going to broadcast speech IN
his faultleSS Spanish from the stuolos
of the General Electric Co. at Science
tadv. N. Y, which is to be transmitted
over it's short-wave circuit to the whole
of Central and Latin America. Inc
company's oficials assure DR.. Rowe OF
their ability to broadcast him 70 every
nook and corner of the sister ~ Amer
lean republics.
President Hoover, it appears, Is doing
an occasional Haroun- al-Rascnlo S1unI
in washington. Lest not EVERYBODY
know who this Oriental stroller was,
let n he told that he was accustomed
tn roam incognito through his capital,
tn learn for himself what was gong
IN Our engineer executive has more
than nassine interest in the big new
Government buildings springing up IN
wa shinpton lust now. One recent sun
dev when he was in the White House
and not at the Rapldan camp. tHe
president walked over to The oeautliui
marble unit which Is linking up tne
long-separated twins OF the Department
of Agriculture buildings. The con-
troctor,s Guard. on duty over the holi-
dev. stopped the unknown visitor as ne
was aboiIt to mount the steps. A secret
earvice man disclosed the President
identity. well, that's all right, Salo
the guard, "but Mr.. Hoover or no MI
Hoover, don't let him stay in there all
day!"
mr. Gustav Boess. chief burgomaster
of Berlin, who is Washingtons guesi
today, is a type of the pro1esslonai
municipal administrator who Is at o tne
government. Berlin's mayor holds
ofice for IL years. He is not elected
hv his fellow citizens. but is chosen
by the city council, which is generally
made mn of civic experts. There Is
also a vice burgomaster, who functions
in the absence of the chief. Usually
| German mayors are university men VINO
have specialized in economics or phi
losophy. Nearly always they nave tne
wears the unfailing badge of academic
educstion in the Fatherland-a deep
scar across his cheek, the sign that ne
is the survivor of student duels with
| sabers. The mayor of Berlin is in his
| fifty.sixth year, was formerly an ON
| ciai of the Prussian state railway ad-
ministration, sat in the city council fol
several years before the war, and, JUST
nrevious to becoming burgomaster, held
the title of city chamberlain. DR.. Boess
took office in 1921 and will serve until
1888.
It happens that the oldest ranking
| officiaI of the British embassy in Wash
| ington, Sir John Joyce Frederick, K. B
lE,. G. M. G., commercial counselor
| will not be on hand to welcome Premier
! MACDONALD, Sir John has been con.
tinuously on duty in the United State!
Cor more than - years. He fell III a