Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23
The Story the Week Has Told

will become provisional president, that
popular elections of a Senate and
Chamber of Deputies will soon follow,
and that these bodies will elect a per-
manent President. The process is not
made clear by the dispatches, but is
said to be conformable to the constitu-
ton. So, unless the plans gang agley,
everything should be "hunkydory"
within a few months. The American
commission left the island on March Is.
M. Roy Is described as a business
man Of substance and standing, IS
years Of age, distinguished looking, -
travelled and fluent in English.
One awaits with eager curiosity the
report Of the returning commission.
Presumably withdrawal in the near
future OF the high commissioner will
be recommended, to be followed at no
very great interval by withdrawal Of
our Marines as a body. and that to
be followed at at somewhat greater
interval by replacement of American
by native officers in the Haitian Ma
tional Guard (thiS to be q gradual
proceSs). In general, the American civil
ian job-holders will no doubt be going,
but 1t would seem likely that the finan-
cial adviser will remain Though prob
ably with some reductions of authority
until expiration Q952) of the republics
loan contract with the National City
Bank. Our treaty with Haiti is due
to lapse in 1886.
UNITED STATES.-John J. Parker of
Charlotte, N. c., Federal Judge of the
Fourth Circuit Court and q Republic
an, has been nominated by the PreSi-
dent to be associate justice of the
Supreme Court to fill the place of Jus
tice Sanford, who died recently. Judge
Parker is only a. years of age and so
one of the youngest men ever named to
the Supreme Court bench.
The directors of the Chase National
Bank, the Equitable Trust Co. and the
Interstate Trust Co. have voted (sub-
ject to the approval of the stockholders
of the several companies) for consolida-
ton of the three organizations under
the name of the Chase National Bank,
the institution so formed to be the
greatest banking institution in the
world, with deposits of nearly $780,
100000 and capital funds of nearly
$500, 900 900.
The house on the estate Of Poplar
Grove, some Is miles from Richmond,
Va, in which tradition has 1t that
Washington first met Martha Gusts,
is to be restored by its new owner, q
New York man.
On March IS the United States
frigate Constitution (Old IronsideS)
which for three years has been under
going reconstruction in dry dock at the
Boston navy yard, again took the water.
The nation shared its thrill of Joy.
NOTES-On March IA, after a career
OF only 10 weeks the Polish cabinet,
hnn al Avy AfW n,
having been defeated, 1877 to 100. on a
non-confidence motion. Prof Stanis-
las Szymanski, marshal of the Polish
Senate, has been invited by President
MoScicki to form cabinet.
The distance of the tranS-Neptunian
planet, or Planet X" from the Sun Is
approximately Abs, 100000 miles Ac-
cording to an eminent authority the
temperature thereon does not extend
minus $50 degrees Fahrenheit The
name "PromemtheuS" has been suggest
ed for it Indeed, It Is kind of Snob-
biShnesS that has hitherto denied Pro-
Tending Jupiter and his Olympian set.
who, though deprived of their divine
status. retain, so to speak, the most
exalted social position. It has been
left to the social rebels, like Shelley,
duly to honor Promotheus, "the friend
of mankind"
Experiments covering three years,
conducted at the agricultural station at
New Brunswick, N. j., under the direc-
ton OF Ray Hutton and B. F. Diggen,
bee specialists, are said to have COM
pletely demonstrated that the rus
sian," or Caucasian" bee does not
sting humans; further, that 1t makes as
much honey as the nasty tempered
italian and hybrid bees, and of rather
better quality. There are, at any rate,
four Russian products deserving I'M
qualified approval: The Russian bee,
Russian caviar. the Russian ballet and
the novels % Turgenev.