Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-28
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Otto H. Kahns selection as treasurer
OF the Republican senatorial campaign
committee for 1880 admits Of a variety
Of implications. In the first place, Kahn
is of the very flower of the Wall Street
international banking" fraternity
the ilk to which Herbert Hoover's name
once upon a time was anathema. In
the second place, such watchdog of
the @. o. P. war chest means that 1t is
not likely to lack the sInews necessary
to national contest. The senatorial
organization is nominally an entirely
separate outfit from the national COM
mittee, and Kahn's treaSurership is
said to have originated with the chair
man of the senatorial committee
Moses Of New Hampshire. But the
choice was announced at the New York
dinner in honor of National Chairman
Huston, so it's reasonable to suppose
that Kahn has the national committees
o. K. Kahn was born IN Germany,
lived in England for a while, and is
now an American citizen. Once upon
a time he is said to have aspired to
seat in the British House of Commons.
M. Tytus Filipowicz, Polish Minister
to the United States since last Spring,
Is the one member of the Washington
diplomatic corps who shares a quality
in common with President Hoover. He
is mining engineer by profession. M.
FilipoWlcz has also been in jail oftener
than any other diplomat in this coun-
try. During the pre-war years in which
the Polish people sought to liberate
themselves from the Russian and Prus-
sian yokes, M. Filipowicz. an ardent
young patriot, ran afoul the Cars min
ions so often that he underwent no
fewer than six separate prison sentences
for revolutionary activity While serv-
ing as the diplomatic representative of
independent Poland with Gen. Wran-
gels army in Russia, he was seized by
the Bolshevists and Jailed. Later NJ.
FilipoWtcz was Polish Minister in Mos
COW, and also in Helsingfors and Brus-
sells, before being sent to Washington.
Lieut.. Col. H. Edmund Bulls, Re-
serve Corps, United States Army, saw
in these observations a recent reference
to George Eastmans proposal to name
the additional month in his 13-month
calendar SOL" Bulls once was on the
lecture platform advocating the East
man calendar reform. Il discovered"
he asys, lin addressing women's clubs, a
distinct objection to calling the thir-
tenth month SOL because women told
me that girls would object to being
married in a month by that name. So
In a lecture before a New Jersey wom-
ems club asked If there were anybody
in the audience who could suggest q
good short Latin name for the extra
month which would be an improve
ment on SOL A lady came up to the
platform when I was through and said
she would suggest Luna I thought
she meant Luna for the moon. But
she corrected me and explained that
Luna was short for Iunacy,' which
she considered the whole l3-month year
to be-"
called at the Interior Department to
transact some business with the Blu
reau of Indian Affairs. What was
chiefly on his mind was improved high
way communications through a part Of
his State chiefly given over to Indian
reservations. The Senator said he
would expect to get what he asked for
because the Hoover administration Is
bound to Scattergood-R hoads. The
wisecrack has reference to the fact that
the present commissioner Of Indian af-
fairs is Charles j. Rhoads and his as
Sistant commissioner is j. Henry Scat
tergood, a brother Quaker. There has
never been such teamwork In the In
dian Bureau as these two fellow Phil
adelphians are exhibiting. President
Hoover told a recent caller interested
in the Indians that he looks upon Com
missioner Rhoads as At for any exec
utive post within the administrations
gift.
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Senator James E. Watson of Indiana,
the Republican leader in the Senate,
had a visit last week from a Hoosier
constituent who Is a prominent textile
manufacturer. The 1ndustrialist gave
Jim" a brand-new slant on tariffs,
from the manufacturing standpoint
"You can put q tariff as high as the
Washington Monument on foreign tex
THEA the mill owner said. "but Il