Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-23
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Herbert Hoover was in Paris with the
American Peace Mission in 1918 and
1919, and is aware from that first-hand
knowledge what a fatal blunder Wood
| row Wilson made In not including rep
resentation of the United States Sen
ate on the delegation. The present
President is determined there shall be
no such mistake. as far as the forth
coming London naval conference is
concerned. That is why the White
House is anxious to have both liberal
and notable senatorial leavening in a
group which will speak for America on
the Thames in January. 1t is by no
means certain-provided he asks Sem
| ator Borah to go-that Mr.. Hoover can
induce the temperamental foreign re-
lations chairman to be a delegate. Re-
ports that Borah has sworn grim VOW
never to go abroad have no foundation
In fact. His reluctance to participate
in the London conference would be due
entirely to his passion for independence
under any and all circumstances. II
| the eloquent gentleman from Boise City
were to take part in fashioning treaty
in London, 1t would not be easy for him
to attack it in the Senate, should 1t
happen. in his opinion, to deserve at
tack. Borah wants no entangling al
liances. either for the United States or
| for himself.
Word reaches this observer that there
has been under informal consideration
| within the National Law Enforcement
| Commission proposal designed to eX-
tort from Gov Roosevelt of New York
some explanation of his action In max
ing the famous Wickersham letter pub
lie last Summer. The governor was APP
| prlsed many weeks ago OF Chairman
Understands amazement that COM
tmunication, written at the addresses
own request and Enthusiastically sent for
non-quotation purposes, should have
! been broadcast to the world. A still
more astonishing feature of the episode.
| it is veraciously asserted, is that certain
phrases at the beginning and the end
| of the WickerSham letter did not ap-
pear in the version made public. 1t is
| these phrases which are said to reveal
on their face that Chairman Wicker
sham was making Roosevelt purely
some private suggestions which might
| stimulate discussion OF the many-angled
| prohibition question at the governors
| New London conference. To date, so the
| story goes Gov. Roosevelt has not been
| Eeard from. But this does not mean
that the incident is to be considered a
closed one.
Senator Wesley L. Jones, Republican,
! Of Washington State, has just been SEN
fenced to an indefinite term of absence
from the golf links. The punishment
was decreed by the West Coast states
mans physician, who had told him
that if he would lay of his favorite
sport for a while the Senator could look
forward before many moons to complete
relief from an annoying. though not
serious. ailment. Jones was admonished
to that effect some time ago, but, being
golf addict, has been bootlegging HIM
self few Surreptitious practice puts,
along with an occasional mashie shot
or two. The Senator was Dragging
about his secret the other day, and
able chairman of the Senate commerce
committee received orders to keep of
the grass.
Charles C. Hart of various points
West-newspaper man and diplomat
has just been rewarded with a fine
promotion in the American foreign
service. -Four years ago President Cool
idge found Hart working member OF
the Washington corps of correspondents.
the representative of the Portland
Oregonian, and appointed him Minister
to Albania. Under difiicult conditions
at Tirana, the capital Of the little
mountain state ruled by King Zogu,
Hart acquitted himself with distinction
and now President Hoover has made
him Minister to Persia. Teheran Is
destined to loom conspicuously in future
DEVELOPMENTS In the Near East. One
of the marvels-and giortes-of Amer
teas place in the big, mysterious Orient
Is that she fills the role Of the protec-
tor and alder of the prosecuted ana
suffering. During the World War Q