Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-23
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Circumstartia1 details are lacking.
but the story persists that the Hoover
medicine ball cabinet has Just suffered
its first rift. At least certain charter,
member some time ago ceased turning
up for the early morning game and the
little birds that twitter in the White
House grounds are whispering that
for the maiden breach in the spheroid-
throwing ranks run all the way from
differences with 1.-THE Chief" over the
World Court to the suggestion that med
icire ball proved too strenuous pas
time for the lately departed. He has
long been pillar in the Hoover church,
but recent rather conspicuous worship
of false international gods-according
to the tale his colleagues have heard
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Next Saturday, of Hampton Roads
and Newport News, Uncle Sans two
great aircraft carriers, Saratoga and
Lexington, are going to do their stuff
before distinguished delegation from
Congress. The big mother ships" of
the Nays flying service have just come
into the North Atlantic from the ma
neuvers in the Caribbean area. Their
regular station Is with the battle fleet
on the Pacific Coast. From their huge
Lexington will release whole f1ocks of
the complement of 100 airplaneS which
each Of them carries. They will 20
through a variety of stunning evolu-
tons, including the dropping of bombs
on targets. Rear Admiral William A.
Moffett, chief Of the Bureau of Aero
nautics Of the Navy, who has just re-
turned from the London conference,
will attend the show. He is smile
wreathed as the result of his success
full efforts to keep the Washington
treaty total of $4,000 tons of aircraft
carrier strength stabilized under the
new pact.
Anybody who has tried to hear him.
self think in Washington hotel restau-
rant these tourist days will see some
thing sweetly reasonable in the typo
graphical error on a card placed at the
plate of every guest in a well known
downtown hosiery: Attendants will
park your car while DINING here"
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Now that the Post ONCE Department
has barred delivery of letters or cards
bearing freak addresses-such as carica-
lures of popular radio stars-this OBJ
servers attention Is drawn to a couple
Of amusing salutations successfully
sprung on the postal authorities of other
days. Benjamin Franklin got a letter
addressed, Franklin, The World"
sive to MARK Twain, God knows
where" Mr.. Clemens received it in
Switzerland, and replied. HE did"
Propaganda for the League of Ma
tions, to which even Senate irreconcil-
ableS will hardly object, is now on view
at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in
washington. 1t consists of collection
of drawings of League personalities, in
Guiding a graphic picture of the Coun-
Gil in session at Geneva. The artist is
gifted Philadelphia, Miss Violet
Oakley, a League enthusiast, who has
spent many months in Switzerland for
the purpose of illustrating, from time
to time, the progress of events at
Geneva and compiling a permanent
record of the statesmen who are shap-
ing them. Miss Oakley'S graphic pencil
has portrayed vivid likenesses of BRAND,
Macdonald, Stresenann, Chamberlain
and the other world figures, who have
pirouetted across the League scene in
recent years. She calls the collection
THE Miracle of Geneva" title which
typifies her conception of what's going
on there.
Ambassador Dwight Morrow Il the
Amherst man who said that sorrel-
topped "Cal' Coolidge would go farther"
than anybody else in the class Of 1895,
of which they were both members. Now
comes Calvin and writes preface for
biography for Mr.. Morrow, which is
just off the press. "It Is the glory Of the
United States that it can produce such
citizens" says the former President in
his several pages of encomium of
the college mate whom Mr.. Coolidge
launched upon a distinguished career
Of public service. 1T Is said Of Morrow