Evening star., 1929-11-29
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

President Hooyer's message to the
regular session of the Seventy first Con-
| gress Is awaited with breathless interest.
! 1t will unfold for the first time the
Chief Engineers scheme for working
out many of the Republics major prof.
| HoSverS one presidential message so
far was that which he addressed to tbs
special session last April. There was
| no surprise about tl->t Everybody
knew he was going to submit his views
about farm relief and tariff revision.
| But it will be different yarn the
President viii spin next week. Pre-
Sumably, the message VIII deal with
"tha state Of the Union" as a whole and
| cover corresponding multitude of Fed
eral sins which Hoover would like to
see abolished Reorganization of Gov
ernment departments. about which
| there hasn't been much said lately, is
| thens on which the President holds
strong views, and for which he is known
to have interesting plans.
! \
Packed Senate galleries are in pros
pect for the big show the Senate win
stage as SOON as it gets down TO busi-
ness, on December 3 or 4. The Ware
case will be the drawing card-tlle an
cient controversy which began with the
Pennsylvania gold dust primary contest
of May, 1895, and is now in its vener-
able fourth year. It is a many-angled
| squabble. Ware. first of all, is alleged
to have spent recklessly in the fight for
nomination. Then he Is charged with
| having been Illegally elected. Finally
| there is the formal contest for his seat,
| filled , his Democratic opponent, for
mer Secretary Of Labor William B. Will
! son. Half dozen different constitu-
| tional questions are involved. Have what
James Montgomery Beck calls "tlle vzrf-
ishing rights of the States" been so
| much ooiiterated that they are no long
| eS visible, to say nothing Of command
ing respect? Should Ware, be seated and
then ousted or be denied The oath at the
outset? Many words will be flung. much
time consumed, before these issues are
! thraShed out.
A Senate page, one of the fleet-footed,
| knickerbocker-trou lads who fit to
! and fro in the hombsr with such unob-
! trusiveMsss. won a prize for the best
Thanksgiving slogan. His entry was,
Let us hope for the breast"
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Egypt's first envoy to the United
States Mahmoud Sany Pssha, has Just
| left washington. 8fter four and a half
| years OF ssrvice here. Political exigencies
| at Cairc-the sort with which Americans
! are not unfamiliar-forced Mr. Samv
| into retirement. A particularly shrewd
! oiplcmatist, his friends propheSy he will
| come back from Elba Egypt wes put
! ef1ectually on the map in America dur
| ing Mr.. Sanly's ministership. H bought
a beautiful legption building for his gov
| ernment-aS handsome premises as
Uncle Sam himself occupies in any
capital Of the world Three Egyptian
conSulates-genersl were eStabEshed-at
! Washington. New York and New Or
| leans. An American steamship line was
induced for the FIRST time to make Al
exandrt1 regular port Of call for pas
sengers and freight Mr.. Samy's an1bi-
! tion is to see Yankee business men estab-
Itsh great warehouse in Egypt. as a
means or distribution for Near Eastern
markets. Our European trade compete
tors maintain such depots at Alexan-
dria arrd operate to corresponding ad-
v-ntag% over us in Turkey, Asia Minor
and other points Est.
Mr. Hoover's habit of filling blotters
End merorandu pads with geomet-
rical and astronomical designs has inst
b"en nsychoanalyzed. Leon p. York
OF Chicago. who calls himself a "psy-
! ch"P"nrhogist, has it all doDad out.
For Is years, he saws, he's boen Studv-
ing the "aimless hieroglvpllies' made
by persons who are telephoning or
otherwise mentally engaged" Presi-
dent Hoover while recentlv confabulet- f.
ing with prosperity conferees in thr
White House. srribb'ed comet. a cob
wrb. a shsr. trough and p plank-the
LATTER 2 bv 4. not q. o. p. plank.
Psych- -grsnhogist York's conclusion,
from an X-rav of Hnover'S pnnciiings.
is generally that this man is highly
cfi"ient, biit an fI1si1e Office man. a
builder cf b iiges. rather than an ex-
ecutive He doesn't reach out and ex-
ccute, but sits and figures out"
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WarmlN welcomed. Senator Henril:
Shipstead, Farrer-Labor, Of Minnesota