Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-30
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

President Hoover counted heavily on
Theodore E. Burton's support in the
Senate in case Of fight on the Lon
don conference naval limitation treaty.
The late Ohioan was consistent foe OF
naval expansion because he saw in it the
seeds of future wars. When the Senate
had the 15-cruiser bill before it early
this year, Burton stood like Ajax defying
the big-Navy lightning in his opposition
to the measure. In later years the man
who had seen so long a period of serV-
ice in both branches of Congress was
identified mainly with foreign affairs.
But Burton's work as chairman of the
House rivers and harbors committee is
probably as important a chapter in his
career as anything he ever did. PreSi-
dent Hoover at Cincinnati last week
paid public tribute to Burton's effective
interest in the Nations internal water
way development. While at the head
of House river and harbor affairs, Bur-
ton made himself an engineering expert
on the problems of his committee. More
than once he went abroad in quest Of
information and ideas. In our time no
more capable or conscientious man ever
sat in Congress.
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Friends say Mick" couldn't be in
duced to take it, but if Gov Cooper of
Ohio were to offer Speaker Longworth
the vacant SenatorShip, Buckeyes by
the thousand would be delighted.
Whether Mr. LongWorth would feel that
he was as big man in Washington as
Senator as he is as Speaker is another
story. AS long as the Republicans can
organize the House, "Nicks" job on the
rostrum is secure. What his longevity
as United States Senator might be, amid
the Kaleidoscope eXigencieS of Ohio
politics, involves uncertainties which
may make Speaker Longworth feel that
ne would rather bear those ills he has
than ny to others that he knows not Of
X X X X
Does Secretary StimSon's reversal of
the Hughes Coolidge Kellogg ban on
Count and Countess Karolyi mean that
change in the United States Govern
ment'S attitude toward Soviet Russia
Is Just over the horizon? A lot of peo-
pie in Washington, putting two and
two together, think it does. The State
Departments OK. of the Karolyis'
American passport visa follows Secre-
tary StlmSon'S decision to let Miss Doro-
thy Deter of the Women'S Interna-
tlonal League for Peace and Freedom
get passport with reservations about
bearing arms in defense of the Consti-
tuition. Liberalism" is apparently on
the march in Uncle Sans foreign Of
flee. Not long ago Secretary Stimson
announced that no recognition of Soviet
Russia was in prospect. But some au-
thorities opine that the Karolyi busi-
ness is straw indicating that the wind
Is blowing In another direction. They
suspect that the wind on this occasion
Is not Boreas, but Borah.
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Otto H. Kahn, New York international
banker, who has declined to be treas
urer of Senator Moses 1880 senatorial
campaign committee, has just had a
comtng-out party as Republican
leader. The Kuhn-Loeb partner re-
Gently became chairman Of the Suffolk
County Gong ISland) Ct. o. P. cam
paign committee and entertained 800
members of it at his palatial place"
at Cold Spring Harbor. To show that
the plutocratic gentleman from lower
Manhattan Island is no amateur in the
language of the tribe, che brought
down the house by telling his guests
that organization workers are the back
bone of the party" Then he told them
that it is they who are in the 'front.'
line trenches, in direct touch with the
enemy every day in the year and not
just on election day" and, finally, that
mot enough credit is given you work.
ers" The chief angel Of the Metropoli-
tan Opera may not know his political
onions all the way through, but he sure
| does know the stuff to give "the boys"
X X X X
Senator Arthur Capper. Republican,
of Kansas, is probably the only man
In Congress who owns big radio sta
ton Of his own. He plans to develop
it-W1BW ut Topeka into one Of the