Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25

Washington members Of the A. r. A.
! ASSociation-the merger Of the Hoover
overseas and war service organizations
received a Christmas invitation from
New York headquarters to grace the
next issue of the A. r. A. Review with
contributions. To stimulate their re-
spective muses. the editors, evidently
for dealing with social trends ct al, sug-
gest "a few widely divergent topics
upon which the Hooverians may be
pleased to discourse. Here's the menu
i. Suggest a good, new slogan Tor
either of two well known political par
ties. beginning I'VE Kept You Out
2. Have you ever attempted to recon-
cile the chain-store movement With 9
recent famous variant Of the best
known and most ambiguous line In our
Constitution?
8. Do YOU find any significance in
the spread Of the Yo-Yo in the same
connection?
4. Are you still convinced that Mr..
Alexander Hamilton was right?
5. Got any ideas as to the future et-
feet on culture Of the latest canned
goods expectations from California?
6. Could you give any legitimate rea-
son why the great, gun-toting American
public is so concerned with international
| disarmament, or vice versa?
T.. Would you recommend any changes
in future editions Of Webster's because
word "felon"?
Mrs. Vernon Kellogg, wife Of the per-
manent secretary of the National Re-
search Council at Washington, is sail
| ing for Europe in January on an I'M
| commonly interesting literary mission
For some time Mrs. Kellogg, who saw
| Hoover relief service in Poland during
| and after the war, has had in the
| hopper a biography Of Queen Jadwiga
the famous Polish sovereign who was
she passed away at the age of %, Jad-
| wiga (Hedwig, in German, and Edvige
| in French) lived and reigned long and
| gloriouSly enough to leave behind q
| tradition still cherished in Poland with
an almost holy reverence. Mrs. Kellogg
encountered it when working in the wal
canteens and refugee camps. She de-
cided one day to bring the story OF
Queen Jadwiga to English readers. The
opening chapters are complete and now
Mrs. Kellogg is going to Poland, Hun
gary, Lithuania and Austria in search
Of supplementary material. She will
cross the Atlantic with the American
, naval conference delegation aboard
! the S. S. George Washington.
X \ y y
When the late James w. Good left
| the scene in November, the War De-
| partment sent to all United States Army
! posts throughout the world the follow
! ing general order: During a mourning
period of 80 days ending December 18
| all national and regimental colors will
be draped with crepe" Last week the
| Quartermaster's Department in Wash
ington received voucher from Fort
! D. A. Russell, Cheyenne, Wyo., calling
for 500 "for draping post mules with
crepe in memory of Secretary Good -
Investigation ensued forthwith. It APP
pears that the order to drape national
and regimental colors" reached Fort
Russell reading: animals and regi-
mental colors."
About the time the delegates of the
five big naval powers are putting their
I heads together in London, a Chinese
naval mission will arrive in the United
States. It's headed by Admiral Tu
! Hsi-kuei, former premier under the old
Peking regime and who now holds his
commission under the Nationalist gov
eminent of Marking. After visiting the
principal American naval stations, the
!
stated purpose of the mission is to
! search for information which will help
build up the Chinese Republics navy
Admiral Tu Hsi-kuei and his colleagues
have just spent six weeks In Japan
China's navy at present is nothing to
write home about.
X X
Calvin Coolidge has written the pref
ace for the latest American political
biography to leave the press-"A Pas
sionate Patriot" being the life Of Col
diplomat. Harvey has the distinction
If serving three Presidents Of the United
States in succession-Wilson, Harding
and Coolidge. In his predatory eulogy
the sage Of Northampton writes that
Harveys intelligence YVES brilliant and
comprehensive" his Opinions always
positive, making friend to be cherished