Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-24
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

Mr.. Hoover has sent q new batch
Of important diplomatic appointments
TO the Senate tnic week. The Presi-
dent signed the bill which elevated
the Warsaw post from a legation to
an embassy, and Immediately assigned
this berth to Alexander P. Moore,
Pittsburgh millionaire once Ambassa-
dor to Spain, and more recently Am
bassador to Peru, and who could scarce,
~ be expected to step down to the
title Of Minister. He transferred
Franklin Mott Gunther, a veteran Of
the foreign service, from Egypt to
Ecuador. The other diplomatic plums
were distributed outside the service
Ralph H. Booth, Michigan newspaper
publisher, as Minister to Denmark;
Henry w. Shoemaker Of Pennsylvania,
Minister to Bulgaria; John M. More
Sweden, and Gilchrist B. stockton Of
Florida, Minister to Austria. These
fresh disappointment to the career
men In the foreign service, who were
passed over, can be better imagined
than described. The resignation of
H. Percival Dodge, who was displaced
as American Minister to Denmark, and
who has had a notable career in the
diplomatic service, covering period
Of 80 years, is significant.
All 1lve aspirants, three Democratic
and two Republican, entered in the spe-
cial primary in the second congressional
made vacant by the tragic death Of
Representative william K. Kaynor of
Springfield, Republican, who lost his
life in an airplane disaster at Boiling
Field just before Christmas, have de-
clared for modification of the Volstead
act or repeal Of the eighteenth amend
ment, or both. This is the district of
Calvin Coolidge of Northampton, and II
he votes at the primaries next Tuesday,
February IL, he must perforce record
himself in support of an avowed wet.
How congressional investigations APP
pear from the Wall Street point Of view
is perhaps indicated by the following
comment in a current issue Of New
York financial journal: Incredibly
foolish questions are asked, unutterably
stupid answers are given. Committee
members indulge in repartee and
would-be humorous filings at each other
and the witnesses that reveal the human
mind at its lowest plane Of emerging
mentality. Nowhere else except In the
sessions Of the houses Of Congress
themselves could inanity be 80 extern
Sively uttered and so infinitely re-
corded" but the article concludes that
Congressional Investigations may be
an essential part of the process whereby
democracy maintains itself against the
tyranny Of the business world. They
are ridiculous in detail, but respectable
In mass; petty in method, but large in
effect"
y 49,
Paulina Longworth, aged 5, or there
abouts, Is just now sitting for her
first portrait in oils which is being exc
cuted by Miss Berta De Hellenbrandth,
Hungarian artist, with much attendant
publicity. The painter says she finds
Miss Paulina most absorbing and in
spirational subject. Washington pur-
veyors of feminine habiliments are also
well acquainted with the young lady, for
despite her tender years she goes on
shopping expeditions and personally Sc
lects her own wardrobe. Her mother,
Princess Alice" has confided to her in
Inmates that the rearing Of a genius has
its trying moments.
* So
Speaking Of paintings in oil, doubtless
the historic assemblage In the royal gal
lery Of the House of Lords last Tues
day morning, when King George
v welcomed the conclave Of delegates
to the London Naval Farley, will be de-
picted on canvas, despite the plenitude
of photographic and photographic rec
crdS of the scene. But no camera re-
corded the picture Of President Hoover
clad In old sweater, khaki trousers and
canvas shoes, with q group of his medi-
cine ball cabineteers similarly logged,
clustered about the radio receiver in the
bare basement room of the White House,
listening in on the scene which was
transpiring on the other side of the
ocean. This White House scene will
surely fire the iIliagina ton Of the paint
er, and should certainly be recorded for
posterity.