Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-27
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

One of It's highest trump cards will
be played by the Hoover administration
this week when it sends Andrew w. Mel
lon to the microphone to broadcast an
eleventh hour appeal for Republican VIC
tory on November 4. 1t will be the Sec
rotary Of the Treasurys only speech of
the campaign, and one of the few ut
terances on any subject that has been
eXtorted from him in recent years. Talk
Is not Mr.. Melons long suit During his
nine and half years at the Treasury
his platform appearances can almost be
counted on two hands. He Is the shyest
and most modest man in American pub
lie life. Since the late j. Pierpont Nor
gan's days there has been no such SYM
boil of national financial stability as
Mellon. During the darkest days of the
existing unpleaSantneSS men have en-
visaged Uncle Andy" as part and par
eel Of the administration at Washing
ton and taken fresh heart. Even Demo-
Gratis go so far as to admit that Mellon
Is the greatest Secretary Of the Treas
ury since McAdoo."
Kentucky. land of fast horses Is also
the realm of slow election results. 1t
may be week before the final out
come OF next weeks Blue Grass sena-
torial contest is known. With candi-
dates for two Senate terms-short and
long-in the field, the colonies and
their fellow-citizens will be on the anx-
ious seat longer than folks in any other
part of the country. Under the new
Kentucky State ballot law, voting boxes
may not be opened until 9 am of the
day following the election. Some ex-
perts believe it may be Armistice day
before all counties have been heard
from and definite Statewide returns are
available.
Jim" Davis, who has every reason
able expectation of being Senator ELECT
Davis of Pennsylvania before many
more hours are past, occasionally flies
from Washington to New York on the
airline now in hourly operation be-
tween the Potomac and the Hudson
The other day Davis turned up at the
Capital airport, Juggling a parachute
which'd been loaned him by the War
Department. The Army requires every
body who flies in one of its ships to be
equipped to jump. After Jim the
Puddler" had strapped his parachute
around him, he was a pretty bulky and
rotund proposition. In fact, it was
found impossible to squeeze both him
and 1t into one of the airplane seats
He decided to scrap the thing and take
chances. During the past six weeks the
Washington-New York on-the-hour-
.every-hour" air service has broken
world record, 500 passengers carried
within that period. On October IL, PAL
paid fares were transported, which beat
the Anglo-French channel-crossing
peak for q single days traffc.
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President Hoover has just established
an appointive precedent in the United
States Army by making Maj. Gen. Mer-
rite w. Ireland surgeon general for
fourth successive term. Gen. ireland
has now served uninterruptedly as the
head Of the Army Medical Service since
October 4, 1918. Ordinarily bureau
chiefs tour Of duty lasts four years,
The President pays Gen. Ireland
the signal compliment of extend
ing his tenure. Under the Army re-
tirement law, the surgeon general will
be eligible in 1881 for honorable leave
from the service he has so long adorned.
Ireland will be "a years old next May.
He will then have completed exactly Al
years as a military surgeon. Indiana
claims him as native son.
No fears are entertained at the State
refusal to let arms be sent to the
Brazilian Ievolutionists has undermined
our status with the incoming regime
at Rio de Janeiro. International prac-
tice is all on our side in upholding that
attitude 1t was constantly maintained
during decade of revolution in Mexico.
Three or four years ago practically the
whole world joined in treaty outlaw
ing shipment of munitions to revolu-
tionary forces. AS the result of an
eventual arbitration proceeding. it cost
Great Britain some $15,000,0 900 in
damages awarded the United States for
the British venture in fitting out the
Alabama for the Confederacy during
the Civil War Conceivably, this coun-
try might have found itself In similar
pickle had events taken q different
turn in Brazil.
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One at the great broadcasting sys-
TENS, In q spirit Of all-around political
fairness, offered Senator George w.
Norris of Nebraska its Nationwide
facilities In connection with his fight
for reelection. The underlying theory
was that as long as the regular Re-