Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-19
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

Other American families may have
supplied more high appointive officials,
but the La Toilette family probably
holds the palm for the number of high
elective officers within the span Of
schoolboy's memory. One son of the
man who was Governor of his State,
United States Senator and candidate
for President in 1924, is in the Senate,
and the other is Governor-select of Wis
consin, for the Republican nomination
in this case is equivalent to election.
What makes the record still more amaz-
ing is the fact that Young Bob" who
holds his fathers Senate seat, and
Gov. Phil" are only IS and SO, re-
spectively.
Don Carlos @. Davila, Chilean Am
bassador to the United States, while
back home in Santiago after three years
in Washington, talked on North
American Imperialism" at q public
conference attended by the American
Ambassador and other representatives
of foreign countries in Chile. La
Nacion, copies of which have just been
received here, gave considerable space
to the affair, featuring Senior Davila's
remarks on North Americanism.
which, he said, presents itself before
the world as an irresistible fact as far
as older civilizations are concerned.
North Americanism is not only an
economic reality but 1t is also a cul-
tural reality" Senior Davila told his
distinguished hearers. North America
not only produces and sells; 1t has
created q manner of living" Aside
from its fabulous statistics on trade and
commerce, it exhibits "portenttous
figures which describe its cultural
activities and reflect the idealistic in
quietude Of the American spirit" This
last aspect he stressed as an important
part Of the program" OF North
American life.
Among the "portentious figures" cited
by the Chilean Ambassador TO convey
an idea of the cultural effort" Of the
United States were these: One thousand
universities with 100000 alumni; $4,000
secondary and normal schools with 49,
600 900 scholars, and 100000 primary
schools with $4,000, 900 pupils. I'm the
apogee of its economic forms" he con-
tinued, the United States Is fabricat-
ing a culture having It's own character
istics and which seems destined to de-
fine, as did Athens and Rome, vast
cycle of human civilization" In the be-
ginning, the North American was face
to face with hostile nature, Senior Da-
villa recalled. Activity and labor became
the essence of his religion and philoso-
ply. Then when the land was domi-
mated and reduced to his ideas, he be-
gan to think and 10 take time for the
recreation Of his soul Now the United
States Is allowing itself the luxury OF
less labor. Ford and his men rest not
only on the seventh day, but also on
the sixth" the Ambassador summed up.
The fJtility of 1.-The older civilization"
seeking to resist North Americanism"
q ~ mt I'D
Names anti-hitch- hiking law, making
1t a misdemeanor punishable by fine or
Imprisonment, or both, Ito endeavor by
words, gestures or otherwise, to beg, In
vite or secure transportation" from
passing motorists, is working fine, ac-
cording to the chief of highway police
of that State, who reports that the
records fail to reveal a single case OF
prosecution for violation OF the act since
1t became effective more than year
ago. Only two instances Of violation
came to his notice in that period, and
these involved out-of-State hitch-hikers
who had never heard of the law.
FL ~
When Col Amos w. w. Woodcock
returns to his bachelor apartment after
an unusually hard day at the ofiise
he seeks relaxation in the original clas-
sizes. The new prohibition commits
sioner, who has established schools to
train enforcement agents to act always
as gentlemen and to use their brains
rather than their Drawn and their guns
only In self-defense, is very much a
scholar. Before taking up the law he
taught Greek and Latin and higher
mathematics in st. Johns in Annapo-
lis, where he had been star student.
His intelligent administration of prohi-
bition as United States attorney in
Maryland brought him TO the favorable
notice of Attorney General William D.
Mitchell, in whose department the Pro-
hibition Bureau is now placed.
II X
Word comes from West Orange, N. j.,
of the death there of the trolley con-
ductor who was the inspiration of the
famous newspaper cartoons, "Tooner-
Vile Folks" by Fontaine Rox. George
A. lines, from early In the nineties
! until the motor bus put the Montrose
line out Of business, was the conductor
on the first morning car. Commuters
did not need to hasten. for Imas would