Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-18

Col. Stimson's designation as chief
American delegate to the flve-power
naval conference in London was prob
ably determined during Prime Minister
Macdonald's sojourn in Washington.
Not even President Hoover himself saw
quite as much Of the British statesman
as the Secretary of State did. Col.
Stimson's opportunity for getting
next" to Macdonald and to the labor
chieftain's viewpoint was correspond
ingly larger. What is of even more
Importance, in the light of coming
events, is that the premier and the
Secretary of State struck up something
like q real comradeship. They found
themselves talking the same language
before Mr.. Macdonald had been on
American soil "a hours. 1t fell to the
Secretary's lot to meet the prime min
ister at the boatSide In New York, to
chapsron him to washington and to
be his principal American confldante.
That the two men hit 1t OF in great
shape Is beknown to all who had occa-
sion to observe them at close range IN
Washington.
Sir Esme Howard, who will retire from
the British embassy In Washington and
from the diplomatic service early next
year, after As consecutive years of as
has no intention of succumbing to q
life of idleness. His friends are informed
that Sir Esme will devote his time to
the cultivation of his hobby, which is
bookbinding. They attribute to him a
rare artistic talent In that field. Per-
haps Ambassador Howard will quit the
Kings service with higher rank In the
nobility than the mere knighthood he
now has. A baronetcy would be the next
step. Such an honor is customarily be-
slowed upon BrttonS who have dtSt1n-
guished duty to their credit like Sir
Esme's closing years In the United
States.
President Hoover has q brand-new
ornament on his work desk in the White
House of1ces. It's porcelain elephant Of
dainty design, cleaning tusks and all,
and stares the titular leader of the
G: o: P. right in the face. One OF the
Chief Engineers callers this week, who
saw the official Republican emblem
| there for the first time, remarked that.
after all, 1t was perfectly natural for
Hoover to want to watch Philadelphia
win the world series, because the Mack
| Athletics emblem is an elephant, too.
| So now we know why the President
dashed of for Shibe Park this week.
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Senator Frederic M. Sackett, Republic
can, of Kentucky, chairman of the SEN
ate subcommittee appointed to tnvesti-
gate the government of the District of
| calm and collected members of the
Upper House. With his New England
native conservatism is combined a nat
ural judicial temperament-the scholar
and the lawyer rolled into one. Sackett
is an alumnus of Brown University, like
Charles Evans Hughes, and got his Law
at Harvard. He was in college at Provi-
dence at the same time that Senator
| George Higgins Moses was an under
graduate at Dartmouth. They used to
| meet in those days-the late 80s-
when they represented their respective
| universities on the Eastern Intercollegi-
ate Athletic Association board, little
mindful that 40 years afterward they'd
be sitting cheek by jowl in the United
States Senate.
Alexander p. Moore of Pittsburgh
American Ambassador to Peru, Is cast
ing the sunshine. OF his presence or
Washington friends in the course OF q
leave of absence from his post. Wher
King Alfonso's diplomatic pal in Madrid
was transferred from Spain to South
America, Moore's friends haZarded the
guess that the days Of the Peruvian
Chilean imbroglio over Tacna-Arics
were numbered. They did not reckon
without their host. The ancient SQUAD
BILE evaporated before Moore was II
South America q year. Insiders sa!
that he played major, though out
wardly inconspicuous, role in wiping i
out. The Ambassador, despite hi
diplomatic achievements in two hemi.
spheres, remains the born newspaper
man, and journalistic shop talk is hi
favorite Zine"
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