Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23
LONDON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Every woman member of the con-
gresS1onal set in Washington will be in
terested in course about to be opened
at Bonar Law College, Ashefield, the in
stitution founded in memory of the late
Conservative political leader and one
time prime minister. The course is
designed for the special benefit and in
struction Of the wives of members of
Parliament and for prospective woman
candidates for the House of Commons
One Of the lectures in the course Is
entitled Some Trials of q Members
Wife" 1t will be given by Lady Iveagh,
M. p. She is an excellent speaker
daughter of the late Earl of Onslow
and elected to occupy her husbands
seat in the Commons when he formerly
Lord Elveden) was elevated to an earl
dom in 1928. Another lecture for the
fair politicians deals with Public
Speaking, Both at Political Meetings
and at BaZaars." Any wife of a mem
Der of Parliament can attend the spe-
clal course at a cost of $l7s50, including
weeks board and tuition.
Prof. Albert A. Nicholson. eminent
american physicist, now has a claim
70 fame in common with Mark Twain
His death has been prematurely an
nounced. The untimely event was for
mally and officially bulletined on Janu-
airy at meeting of the Academic des
Sciences of the InStitut de France, in
Paris, and duly reported in the Ler.
don Times. The Thunderer has lust
published statement that the news of
Prof. Michelson's demise was a mistake
and adds that I'VE are glad to learn
that though he was i'll, he Is now re-
covering in Bermuda" The latest num-
Der OF the French Academy's Official
gazette records with satisfaction that
the American scientist Is still in the
land Of the living.
At recent meeting of the British
Legion, Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton. pouular
and venerable British soldier, deplored
the current popularity of "defeatist" war
books. He was evidently driving at such
best sellers as "All Quiet on the west
ern Front" Farewell to Arms" Good
Bye to All That" ct al. He decried the
universal absence in such books of the
soldierly qualities Of self-sacrifice, devo-
ton and love of adventure. 1T can tell
you," Gen. Hamilton said, that the re-
suit OF trying to present war to the
public as you might push the dirty end
only or a stick under a mans nose and
pretend that was the stick, the whole
stick and nothing but the stick-the re-
suit of this, ethically speaking, is to ira
duce the character of the men who
saved our country in the World War"
All oflcial hosts and hostesses during
the Naval Conference are, of course,
members of the Labor Government or
their respective wives. One of the hor-
rors which English uppertendom feared
would come in the immediate wake of q
Socialist" regime was the complete COL
lapse of London society. There was
grave anxiety lest the pomp of other
days las reflected in George Arliss' in
comparable film version Of "Disraeli'O
would be submerged in a swamp of
cheap dowdiness too terrible to con-
template. Well, the prime minister, the
chancellor of the exchequer and the
flrst lord OF the Observation-Disclosures
all-have in turn entertained conference
society and, by unanimous consent, car
ried things of with an elan and dignity
worthy of Palmerstonian or Gladsto-
Man days. Mr.. Alexander, first lord of
the admiralty the portfolio correspond
ing to our Secretary of the Navy, was