Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

If national conventions Of the two
great political parties didn't have to be
held in halls seating upward of 10000
persons, Constitution Hall in Washing
ton, the magnificent auditorium of the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
would be ideal for the purpose. AS the
place holds comfortably 1nly 1000 or
5000, the politicians couldn't use 1t.
There are few finer assembly chambers
in the country or in the world. The
Daughters are using their temple of
patriotism for the first time at their
thirty ninth annual congress in Wash
ington this week. Delight with its glori-
Gus dignity and spaciousnesS is uni
versal. The prediction is freely hazard
ed that the remaining indebtedness on
the noble pile will be wiped out before
the next congress assemblies because of
the enthusiasm 1t generates among the
members of the society. Constitution
Hall Is destined to be a great national
forum and was more or less designed
to that end.
When President Hoover addressed the
D. A. r. he used the perfected little
jigger contrived for him by Col. Ed.
Startling of the White House life guard.
A good name for the contraption would
be "scriptaphone," for its object is to
a manuscript with a maximum of
ease. The arrangement consists of a
holder for the Presidents notes, placed
directly under a reading lamp, so that
at distance of 19 inches, they are
about level with his eyes. Mr.. Hoover
slips one sheet of his roteS from the
holder as soon as he has finished read
ms it, finding the next sheet tidily in
place. For the purposes Of the Star
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Printing once now runs of the presi-
Dental speeches in handy sheets 412
by inches in size and in extra large
type legible q foot or two away. Col.
Startling says that a radio engineer Is
a co-inverltor, and the statuesque
secret service man has generously Of
fered to let him take out the patent.
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Illinois and PENNSYLVANIA aren't the
only States in which the dollars roll IN
senatorial primaries, though they holo
the gold dust record to date. New Jer-
sey is ordinarily no piker when 1t comes
to slush funds, and the mosquito com.
monWealth isn't likely to be overlooked
when Senator Nye's champaign FUNDS
Investigators swing into action. Million
aires are pitted against each other In
the Jersey senatorial primary this year
Dwight w. Morrow and Joseph I.
Frelinghuysen. Recently the report was
spread abroad that Ambassador Morrow
intends to conduct a cashless crusade
for the toga-a prospect which chilled
the enthusiasm of 1.-The boys" all along
the line. Douglas G. Thomson, Mr..
Morrow's campaign manager, has
thought it well to quash this disturbing
story. "It is not true" he announces,
that Mr.. Morrow wants no money spent
at all. He only desires that expenditure
shall be as little as possible to win the
election, and wants to keep within the
spirit Of the election laws"
~ ~
Sir Ronald Lindsay, newly accredited
British Ambassador to the United States,
Is making his radio debut In Washing
ton this week. Over the short wave cir
cult of the Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tenn, King Georges Aerculean envoy will
take the air at the romantic hour OF !
am. In order to be heard In New Zea-
land, on the other side OF the globe, at
pm, the day before. He will talk
from the old embassy on Connecticut
| avenue. The Ambassadors brief mes
| sage to his compatriots down under"
will be part of a two-hour program of
| American music especially arranged
| for New Zealand listeners. Sir Ronald
has been getting lot of amusement out
| Of seeing his name printed here and
| there In America as "Sir Roland" If
he continues to be the victim of such
| typographical mishaps, he fears some
body may headline an ambassadorial
utterance 1.-THE Song OF Roland" Brit
aims spokesman diScla1Ims any connec-