Evening star., 1930-06-23

II Senator Hiram JOhnSOnS naval
treaty mail following his recent radio
attack on the pact is any criterion there
Is undoubtedly a considerable body of
public sentiment opposed to ratification.
Johnsons passionate plea for ''rejec-
ton" reached millions Of listeners last
week, and the Californian is hearing
from a lot of them. 1t was almost IL
years ago this week to the day that the
signature of the treaty of Versailles un-
leaShed that torrent of senatorial an
tagoniSm, which was doomed to swamp
the World War peace covenant at
Washington. Hiram johnson was one
of the "wilful few" that led a band
once thought to be pursuing forlorn
hope. He has gone about the business
OF smashing the London pact in the
same vigorous and determined way
Perhaps the fear that history may re-
peat itself induced the State Depart
ment. on the heels of Senator Johnson's
broadcast broadside, to put in pamphlet
form Secretary Stimson's pro-treaty
radio address and give 1t wide circula-
ton as public document Possible
lack of a special-session quorum re-
mains, at this hour, the principal OBJ
stacle to favorable Senate action on the
naval pact.
M. Jules Henry, charge d'affaires of
the French embassy, will deliver the
civic Fourth of July address at Boston
next week. Only those Americans who
remember their country's early history
from schoolday studies recall that the
French were practically the pioneers
in settlement of the New England
Coast. Presumably NJ. Henry will dwell
eloquently on that almost forgotten
fact. In his Founding of New Eng
land James Truslow Adams says: I'm
1903 the French King assigned to the
Sieur de Monts charter, with definite
colonlzing bounds This grant embraced
all the territory between the fortieth
and forty-sixth degrees of latitude, or
from Philadelphia to Montreal The
issuance of this patent was immedi-
ately followed by an attempt at settle
ment, de Monts and Champlain, both
of whom had previously been in Cam
ada, sailing with 100 men in the Spring
following the receipt of the grant.
Buildings were erected, and the first
Winter passed on the Island of st.
CroiX, in the mouth Of the river of
the same name, which empties into
PasSamaquoddy Bay. 1t was thus the
first authorized attempt to colonize
New England"
Representative Ruth Bryan Owen,
Democrat, of Florida has just won a
new distinction for congressional wom-
en-. She is a member Of the American
delegation to the Interparliamentary
Union meeting in London in July.
being the first of her sex ever to attend
these annual conferences as a delegate
from the United States. Mrs. owen
has not been back to England since
she returned from there in 1915.
Bryans gifted daughter faces an op-
positionless race for reelection to Con-
H..
moved down her recent primary op-
ponents, not in the ratio of 16 to /
on which she grew up politically-but
by 4 to /.
Senor DR.. Don Ricardo j. Alfaro,
Panamas young but veteran envoy at
Washington, has just gone to Maine
for the Summer with his wife and
family. It's almost the first time that
the Minister hasn't chosen his own
country for his midyear vacation re-
treat. He likes to tell Washingtonians
that the tropical Panaman weather
in Summertime is on the average much
cooler than anything the National Capt.
tai, New York. Philadelphia or other
Atlantic seaboard cities cuStomarily ex-
perience. DR.. Alfaro studies weather
reports now and then, he says, for COM
parative purposes. He claims that al
most invariably when it's 90 to 96 in
Washington, it's around rs to 80 in
Panama City or Colon.
Up on the third floor of the State De-
partment, in an ONCE embla2oned "Geog-
rapher of the Department" sits and
works a modest young member of the
United States foreign service named
Samuel Whittemore Boggs. Mr.. Boges
duties assume an unusually interesting
Importance at this time because Of the
international possibilities conjured up
by Admiral Byrd's discovery of new land
In the Antarctic and his claiming of its
frozen reaches for Uncle Sam. The