Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16

You can lead horse to the trough,
but you can't make him drink-or, in
the case of the Senate, think. Presi-
dent Hoover and G. o. P. leaders be-
tween them have managed by dint OF
brute force to round up total OF
some 60-odd Senators for the naval
treaty session. But at no stage OF its
dreary progress can more than ten or
dozen ENTHUSIASTICALLY fewer than
that-be discovered in the chamber.
Yesterday, for example, when Senator
Robinson, Republican, of Indiana, ful-
minated for hours against the pact, his
audience, for the most part, consisted
of Senator Shortridge, Republican, OF
California. Indeed, it looked from the
galleries as if Robinson was concen-
trating exclusively on the solemn sage
of San Francisco. What happens is
that Senators amble in for quorum
calls, then stream away, one by one,
leaving the treaty and its respective
assailants and defenders to their own
dull devices. When reservations are up
for a vote, and when the ratification
yeas and nays are called Tor, the senate
will fill up. Meantime statesmen are
spellbiding to empty benches-a sad
commentary on their interest in
project so prodigious as naval limlta-
ton and world peace.
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President Hoover is sending DR.. VIII
liam M. Jardine OF Kansas to Egypt as
American Minister because OF our IN
terest in the development OF long staple
cotton. The average person In TINS
country isn't aware that cotton OF that
particular grade enters largely into the
manufacture of automobile tires. Egypt
now has a practical monopoly OF 1t. The
United States has begun to cultivate
3v1 6n Tr10nnrioI
ley of California and plans are afoot
to extend the planting of 1t to other
suitable sections. The former Secretary
of Agriculture, who is bit OF a cot
ton expert, will probably look into con-
ditions in the British Sudan, too. john
Bull latterly has been complaining about
the quality of cotton he imports from
Dixie. He claims that the boil weeVl
is seriously deteriorating it. Dr. Jar
dine should be in position to learn how
much there's in the British determin-
alton some day to obtain from the Su-
dan the bulk of the supplies now i'm
ported from the u. S. A.
Harold A. Lafount of Utah, chairman
of the Federal Radio Commission, Is
receiving congratulations on the big
hit recently made in the movies by his
beautiful young daughter, Constance.
She triumphed over a hundred-odd
rivals in a New York try-out for star
work in a famous Hollywood organiza-
ton with which she is now engaged.
Miss Lafount has already been cast for
a. play in which she will play talkle
lead opposite John Gilbert, an achieve
ment said to be record for begin
ner. Admirers predict for her a bril-
liant career on the screen.
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Patrick ]. Hurley, Secretary of War,
has come pretty near to hanging up a
flying record. Last Saturday he break
tasted in Washington, flew to Pitts
burgh for lunch and dined the same
evening at the Presidents camp on the
Rapioan. During his five hours in the
Smoky City Pat" attended reunion
of the Sd CMarne) Division, A. E. F.
and saw the Pirates play base ball.
Then he took of for the Virginia
mountains, where he turned up upper
turbed as a daisy. The war Depart
ment chief sailed in his crack Official
Army plane-one of the SHIPS known
among the aviators at Boiling Field as
sacred cows" Hurley has just ac-
quired half interest in the big new
Shoreham Building, at Fifteenth ana H
streets. He's a bull on the future oil
Washington, where he has long been an
owner of downtown property.
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BY October the Department Of Com
| merce expects 10 move out Of its pres
ent quarters into the central section OF
the mammoth building some day TO be
occupied in its immense entirety at the
head of the Federal triangle" Robert
p. Lamont, Secretary of Commerce. Is
in receptive mood for suggestions OF
| suitable inscription to be carved along
the Fourteenth street front OF Uncle
Sans newest, finest and biggest once
! building. The sentiment viii have to be
800 feet long and glorify commerce.
Perhaps Homer's odyssey" contains
| what lamont wants, Somebody has
proposed that there be emblazoned over
the portal The House That Herbert
Built"