Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-23
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

lery," he wisecracked, the apprehen-
sion Of criminals hereabouts. ought
herceforward 10 be fraugf1t with fewer
difficulties" Mr. Rover was referring
TO the fact that Police Commissioner
Crosby Is a retired Cavalryman and
that Police Superintendent to : be
Glassford Is q retired Field Artillery
man Of the United States Army.
While Democratic leaders concede
that Gov: Roosevelt Is still far out In
front for their 1882 presidential nomi-
nation, it's felt that current events
are taking good deal of the curse
of the Newton D. Baker candidacy.
Bakers so-called ineligibility is always
said mainly to be his pro-League OF
Nations attitude. But now that Hoo
YER and Stimson have contracted a
morganatic marriage with Geneva, the
Republicans have a considerably less
effective antiBaker talking point than
before the Manchurian fracas.
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There was trundled unobtrusively into
Washington this week the most valuable
cargo of books that ever crossed the
District line. It came down from New
York in a heavily armored car manned
by FIVE armed guards and consisted Of
$50 OF the priceless volumes to be lodged
in the new Shakespeare Library. soon
to be unveiled" adjacent to the Library
OF Congress. The building and collec-
toni are the gift to the Nation Of the
late Henry G. Folger, one-time presi-
dent of the Standard Oil Co. The Fol-
ger Shakespeariana, the finest extant
has value of $4.265,00 In his will
nance of the collection. Among the
books now stored in the Library vaults
are the first printed work of Shake
speare, Titus Andronicus"; collec-
ton OF flrst-edition poems. including
Venus and Adonis.'' and the Vincent
first folio Of 1923. which Folger called
the most precious book in the world"
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Harvard men have accorded one jof
their priced honcrs to q Washingtonian,
Col. Frederic A. Delano, who has Just
been elected president Of the Harvard
Alumni Association. Col Delano was
graduated with the class Of 'S5. He
I happens first to have seen the light of
parents were both born in MasSachu-
sets. Delano began life as an appren-
tice machinist at Chicago and achieved
fame as railroad consulting engineer.
Washington has Harvard alumni
group of nearly thousand men. They
are scattered all over the Federal land
scspe. Enough are in the State Depart
ment to have club of their own. Col.
Delano is a former member Of the
Harvard Board of Overseers.
DR.. otto H. F. Vollbehr of Germany,
who sold his famous collection of books,
including the Gutenberg Bible, to the
Library of Congress for 81 500 900, con-
tinues to reside In Washington He
chose the moment of the French
premier's arrival this week to issue
six-paged blast on the subject of repa-
rations and the other burdens laid upon
his native land. The upshot Of his
special pleading is that Germany has
already paid not only once, but at least
twice, and possibly three times, the
full amount of 80 billion dollars which
the treaty of Versailles imposed" Dr.
Vollbehr strongly hints that unless the
Young plan is lifted from the Reichs
Bonded back, Communism or something
worse is certain to overtake Germany,
to the unutterable less Of the whole
world.
(Copyrisht, 1917