Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24

In his present predicament, Chairman
Claudius Huston may well recall the
line Of Hamlet's soliloquy: ITO be or
not to be; that is the question; whether
It's nobler in the mind to suffer the
sings and arrows Of outrageous fortune
or to take arms against sea Of trou-
bles." To date Mr.. Huston has suffered
in silence the arrows of outrageous for
tune, and to be or not to be longer
chairman of the Republican National
committee is the question of the hour.
That sooner or later his resignation will
be required, if Il is not voluntarily ten
dered is now rated a certain eventu-
atty. 1t is a trying situation for both
Chairman Huston and for his friend
and sponsor, President Hoover The
latter is faced with the alternative OF
either defending him or disowning him.
It is Hobson's choice. The ties OF
long association and close friendships
are strong. Mr.. Huston was Mr.. Hoo
ver's lieutenant in the Department of
Commerce, his powerful aide in the 1928
can,1aign particularly in the pre-con-
vention stages, and the Presidents per-
sonal and entirely individual selection to
succeed DR.. Work as head of the ma
ticnal committee. But, in the realm OF
politics, blunders are sometimes worse
of Mfr. Illusions affairs brings to light
blunders of high order
Y X
Soviet Russia repudiated the imperial
Russian bonds to the loss of tens OF
thousands of American and European
| bondholders. The Soviet is charged
with ever plotting world revolution. Yet
| the Soviet's own banking and trading
corporations continue to ask and receive
| millions of dollars of commercial cred
its in this country and abroad. upon
their unsupported promises to pay. The
recently amalgamated New York Chase
National and Equitable Trust are Arneri-
| can bankers for the SoVietS' Amtorg
Trading Corporation and Peter A. Bog
| danoff, chairman of this huge Soviet
commercial agency, was reported in con-
| ference here last week with Gov. Young
of the Federal Reserve Board anent
extension of further American banking
credit. The contemplated establishment
of the New York branch of the Narodny
| (People's) Bank of Moscow was also
projected Russian trade with the United
States is now of greater volume than
| in the pre-war days under the CZarist
regime. Further increases are claimed
to hinge on further credit.
X X X
The April issue of Senator Capper's
magazine reports that MIR. FARO Agha.
| 156-year-old Turkish teetotaler, is COM
| ing to the United States to show con-
f1rmed vets what a life of abstinence
will do for one, and suggests that to
carry on the argument the vets may
| bring over a 163-year-old Chinaman who
| uses liquor. The Capper paragrapher
| also remarks on the fact that in pre-
| prohibition days "shipload upon ship
| load of champagne and other sparkling
wines reached these shores from
| France" and cites the fact that last
! year the total had fallen to sol gallons,
and concludes that "the Atlantic Ocean
has become remarkably dry"
X X X \
Uncle Sans out-of-pocket cash ex-
penSe, for the London naval parley is
reckoned roughly at $4,000 per day.
This figure takes no reckoning OF the
cash value Of the time and energies OF
the American delegation and their corps
of experts. But ever so, upon dollar
and-cents basis, If the naval building
program Is to be held in allegiance while
negotiations are in progress it would &c
an economic expedient to resolve the
delegation into permanent tact-nn0-
Ing commission and maintain 1t at the
Ritz Hotel in London indefinitely, or at
any rate until after 1882 But, of course,
nothing OF the sort is within the realm
! of serious contemplation, and in fact
the American delegation Is reported all
ready FESTIVE to return to their native