Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-28

Ambassador Dawes is leaving London
on June and will arrive in the United
States prospectively just about the time
the Senate Is tackling the naval treaty
in special session. Officially, Gen. Dawes
Is coming home on leave and on Chi
cago Worlds Fair business. Actually
President Hoover very much desires his
presence on American soil while the
Senate is milling over the London pact
There's small danger that the anti
ratificationists can ever muster any
where near enough votes to torpedo the
treaty. But the administration Is anxious
to bring it into harbor by as large ma
jority and with as little rough weather
as possible. Dawes is immensely popu-
lar in the body which he began by
scolding and ended by loving, even
though, when he babe 1t farewell on
March 4, 1929. the retiring Vice Presl-
dent thundered, 81 take back nothing!"
AS lobbyist for ratification, the White
House could wish for no more potent
pleader than Dawes, who helped to ne
gotiate the treaty. He was conspicuously
inconspicuous during the conference at
London, but played powerful role be-
hind the scenes.
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Charles S. Hamlin, one OF the vice
governors of the Federal Reserve Board
gave some impressive figures about
Uncle Sans hoard Of gold when address,
ing the visiting European journalists IN
Washington Monday night. He said
that Americas stock Of the precious
yellow metal amounts to a tidy $4,000
600. 600, which represents about As per
cent Of all the gold bullion in the
world. A quarter Of this sum, or ST.
600 .0Oo. 900, Is free gold' of the Fed
eral Reserve banks. e.. the. amount
they have on hand over and above the
gold required as resources against their
deposits and currency note liabilities
which aggregate $4,000 100000. Gov.
Hamlin added, evidently to convince
the overseas visitors that we've all
the gold we need, that the United
States could part with $500,000,000 OF
It's stock practically without feeling it.
Incidentally, the Federal Reserve vet
eran paid a warm tribute to President
Hoover's part in quelling economic mis-
trust last Fall. Hamlin foresees the
dawn of normal activity and believes
that the sun will soon rise"
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The age Of chivalry is not gone-at
least in Washington and among its
motorists. A State Department on
cial, while parking his car in front of
the State, War and Navy Building one
day this week, observed that an auto
parked q couple of spaces ahead of his
had tag on the seat wholly dissimilar
from the kind the cops are accus-
toned to distribute. He took look at
it. It was a card on which was writ
ten: my name is. My address
Is -. My telephone number Is
-. bumped into your rear right
fender while parking. Will you kindly
have 1t repaired at my cost and mail
m the hi1lon
Senator Morris Sheppard, Democrat,
Of Texas, designer Of the water-wagon
on which Uncle Sam is more or less
firmly seated, faces three-cornered
primary fight for denomination in July.
His principal opponent Is Robert Lee
Henry, who served in the House of
Henry Is running on q wet platform
against the author of the eighteenth
amendment. Senator Sheppard's other
antagonist is a man named Kitchener.
The chief issue on which he Is seeking
the Lone Star toga, according to Shop
pard, is Government COW for every
citizen, especially Texans.
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Senator Hiram johnson, Republican,
Of California, doesn't like the World
Court any more than Representative
Ruth Hanna Mccormick does. The
implacable irreconcilable from the coast
was commenting in the Senate cloak
room not long ago about one of our dis
tinguished internationalists who is 100
per cent pro-court and telling of radio
speech the latter had just delivered.
He devoted his first /. minutes to sup
porting the court" said johnson, the
next Is minutes to opposing the court,
and the last Is minutes to rebuttal."
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Clifford Pinchot is a rangy cuss,
stretching feet 4 inches In space.
When he was Governor of Pennsylvania
from 1922 to 1926, he had himself built
a special bathtub in the executive man