Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23
LONDON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

lowed in the room. The dinner was
served exclusively by mattresses. There
were only two speeches. The Adamless
Eden was arranged in honor of Britain's
woman members of Parliament. The
other unusual episode OF the PankhuFst
statue day celebration was the con-
ducting of the Metropolitan Police
Dame Ethel SB1yth at the unveiling
ceremony in Victoria Tower Gardens
She led the bandsmen through pro-
gram which included works by four
woman coFnposers-herself, Dorothy
Howell, F, Hill Rivington and Amy
Woodforde- Finden. Dame Ethel, In
gown, hood and mortar board, was at
her animated best as she welded the
baton during the rendition OF her own
composed during the old sufragette
campaign.
Horses, nowadays almost completely
disappeared from the streets OF the
United States, are still quite common
sights In the thoroughfares Of London,
Huge Huge delivery vans of all sorts are
pulled by powerful draft horses, which
lumber through the most crowded
highways, impeding traf1c in irritat-
ing fashion, but yet given every priv
lege by London's incompatible bob
bies" No Rolls-Royce can get by the
i1umhlest debbin If the nag has the
right of way. Bicycles, another relic
Of the dim and distant past, can also
be seen in profusion in London and en-
virons, especially on Sundays and bank
holidays. They, like the archaic horse
drawn vehicles, are the pet aversions OF
the automobiling community. Now and
then an antediluvian hanson cab plies
its trade in London. A specimen OF the
popular two-wheeled carriage of the
Victorian era has a niche Of honor In
the British Museum.
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Admiral Wilfred Henderson, Royal
Navy, retired, fully coneurs in the well
known view Of Senator Borah that no
naval limitation treaty will ever be
worth the paper it's written on until
John Bull and Uncle Sam can get to-
gether on the freedom of the seas.
That thorny question settled, Hender-
son declares that war between Great
Britain and the United States Will be-
come truly unthinkable. Conversely
until it is tackled and disposed Of he
great English-speaki commemorative
Is not only "thinkable," but almost tn
evitahle, in case the u. 8. A. should
again Gas In 1914, 1915 and 1910 be a
neutral In an international conflict In
which Britain Is q belligerent fighting
for its life. Admiral Henderson has Just
aired his theories In persuasive
brochure entitled, grimly, Our Next
War With America" Arrangements are
pending for its reproduction In the
United States. This observer has had
access to its contents and finds IT slim
ulating and arresting In the highest
degree.
Senator Joe T. Robinson, "the man
with q Veto" as LONDON pontice!
paragrapher chFistens him, had q call
the other day from beautiful resident
of London, who revealed herself as q
one-time Arkansas girl and the daugn-
ter Of a longtime constituent OF the
Democratic leader. Her dad, IN carrier
days, was sawmill proprietor IN an
obscure neck Of the Arkansas woods.
The name of Robinson having been
since her childhood one to eohlure
with In her household, she explained 20
the Senator and Mrs. Robinson she ielC
it her duty to look them up ana oner
her services while they are in EngIanu
The belle of the Ozarks has become an
apostle Of the occult sciences since sne
married Rriton, but made no attempt
to convert Senator Joe. For Whlle
he admitted that the naval conference
might have to resort to some OF ner
doctrines to find way out, put ngnt
and leading on more ortnodox Ahes
were eventually forthcoming.
(CeuyriRht, 1907