Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-19
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

The Hoover Haiti Commission, after
brief two weeks on the island, is re-
puted to have made a quick cleanup
of the political chaos, and is en- route
home to report complete success of their
mission. Luis Borno, Haiti presi-
Dental dictator, is eliminated, and in
due course the American high commits
sioner, John H. Russell, is to be re-
placed by an American minister, and
after the legislative elections are held
new treaty is to be negotiated. Com
missioner Russell has been carrying a
white mans burden since 1921, sur
rounded by knavish native political op-
position, and SHIPPED by American senti-
mentalists. He has labored under
heavy odds. There has been a wide
spread and wholly erroneous impression
in this country that Gen. RusSell's
status in Haiti is that of military despot'
In fact he is not there in his capacity
OF Marine brigadier general. He wears
no uniform and commands directly
neither the American Marine Brigade
nor the Haitian Garde. He occupies the
American legation, and combines with
his prerogatives as civil administrator
the duties and responsibilities of a Dip
lomatic envoy. He is no more and no
less the soldier than was Gen. Leonard
Wood as civil governor of the Philip
pines.
DR.. William Henry WEIGH of Johns
Hopkins University at Baltimore, whose
lifetime of work and achievement has
earned him the sobriquet Dean of
American Medicine" will celebrate his
eightieth birthday on April 8. President
Hoover will join in the international
tribute to be paid to Dr. WEIGH on that
M 0cffa be
air via the Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tenn. The famed pathologist was born
IN Connecticut, graduated from Yale,
took his medical courses at Columbia
and at Strassburg, Leipzig in Berlin,
and more than 40 years ago came to
the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The
chronicle of his honors and degrees, So
cieties and medical text books comprises
one Of the longest paragraphs in Who's
Who in America. This compendium
accords DR.. WEIGH more space than
Herbert Hoover, whose biographical
summary is by no means brief, and ever
so much more space than given to such
notables as j. P. Morgan, Owen D.
Young and Calvin Coolidge.
Nearly every one har his favorite
flower or favorite color Secretary of
Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur has a favor
ite animal. 1t is the goat. Discussing
child welfare, Secretary Wilbur de-
clared: I'm our thought for children
we have long adhered to the herd spirit
of following the leader. We have been
sheep. AS l grow older the animal
have come to admire most is the goat.
Nobody ever saw a goat with his tail
between his legs, He turns his front
end to the world and fights. It is up
to us, in studying this vital problem of
the child, TO change our tactics and
initiate the goat"
Harvard College received a clean bill
Of health at the hands of a prominent
feminine witness before the House jul
dietary committee last week. The lady's
husband is a professor at Harvard, and
TO question as to present-day drinking
proclivtties of Harvard students she re-
piled, Since 1920 have never seen
an intoxicated student, and my hus-
band, who has close contacts with
large proportion of the student nooy,
assures me he has never detected the
odor of liquor upon the breath OF a sin
gle undergraduate" The crowded COM
animation. The following day press
results of prohibition poll OF Yas
students. Seventv-one per cent admitteo
to liquor drinking, 800 students salo
they drank frequently, and WHISKY was
voted their favorite beverage. with gin
close second. Meantime, the seniors
at Dartmouth, on their own conIesslon'