Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-23

Virginia. Once an actress in stock"
at washington and q prominent social
figure during the Wilson administra-
tions, Mrs. Miller has just publicly de-
clared that she no longer supports pro-
hibition. Speaking at the Church of
the Universal Design at New York on
whose board of lectureship Mrs. Miller
now serves, she said: Prohibition as
a means to attain temperance is q
criminal disregard of human nature.
Years ago I was an earnest worker for
it. / believed in it with all my heart.
AS the years passed saw the law
hagrantly broken by those in places
of high authority, who were supposed
to be enforcing t. began to realize allie
the method. The consent of the gov
erned' must be won to the understand
ing and desire for temperance"
When J. Theodore Mariner, chief Of
the Western European division at the
State Department, starts for London to
deposit our document of ratification OF
the Naval treaty at No. 10 Downing
street, he can take with him, If he de-
sires, an interesting souvenir. It's just
been presented by colleagues of the
division in token of Mariners services
at the London Conference. He was chief
diplomatic adviser of the American
delegation. The gift is an old-time grog
container, which once did duty on O
British man-of-war. A magnificent bit
of hammered copper emblazoned with
nautical symbols, the container is of
sprinkling- dimensions and has I'M
miStakable unitarian value. Just what
sinister significance attaches to the pres
entation OF such a trophy to the only
Mariner In the State Department has
not been disclosed, for he rates as an
abstemious person
Senator Lee s, Overman, Democrat,
of North Carolina, has hung up brand
new radio record-that of the only
Senator of the United States ever de-
liberately CUTOFF in the midst of
broadcast. 1t was accidental and I'M
avoidable, and the father of the Senate
took 1t with smiling composure. Over
man was dedicating new North Caro-
lima station. He'd been assigned five
minutes. After he'd been INDUCING
in Tar Heel rhapsody for seven min
utes, that unseen hand which shapes all
wave-length destinies was required by
program necessities to break in and
stem the tide of senatorial eloquence. A
studio attendant tapped the noble old
Roman on the shoulder and explained
what's happened. Good gracious!"
calculated Overman--and that got on
the air, too-"I haven't begun to tell
'em anything yeti" One of the things
he had told 'em" was that North Caro-
lima refused to ratify the United States
Constitution until It included the Bill
of Rights.
4 X
American Food in the World War
and Reconstruction Period" a 75O-
PACED, chapter-and-verse record of Her
bert Ho0ver's activities from 1914 to
1919. is about to come off the press
in New York The publication is
edited, sponsored and published by the
"A. r. A." the American Relief AS
ISOLATION, which embraces the hundreds
of men and women who worked under
1.-The Chief throughout the world dur
ing the five years I'M question. The
volume bristles with figures. Altogether
there were shipped to Europe 81, 800, 900
tons of food. The aggregate sum In
volved was $4,000. 000, 900. These totels
are little less than staggering. The
money represents about nearly half OF
the whole allied debt to the United
States. The book will be available for
general acquisition.
tCopyright. 1901