Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-03

Everybody In the world knows that
Canada's hit-back at our skyscraper tar
III touches only one Of the Dominion's
grievances against the United States.
If Premier Bennett were to submit
merely q list of them to Secretary
Stimson, it'd be a document a yard
long. Prohibition has stuck in the Ca
only dislike cur interference with a
once legitimate Canadian export trade,
but particularly take umbrage at our
expectation that they should help us
enforce the noble experiment, both by
land and by sea. The American Coast
Guards habit of sinking a Canadian
rum-runner now and then hasn't ex-
actly conduced to popularization Of the
eighteenth amendment north OF the
border, either. The Ottawa government
has never seen eye to eye with us re-
Radio is still another bone Of conten-
ton. Canadians claim that American
controlled wave lengths so dominate
the North American ether that the
Dominion broadcasting Is practically
under the control of the Federal Radio
Commission at Washington.
Arrival Of Col. William Duncan Her
ridge, new Canadian Minister to the
United States, will practically coincide
with enactment Of the fighting tariff"
Just promulgated at Ottawa. Col. Her
ridge plans to present his credentials
before the end Of June. He'll speak
with more than ordinary authority
here. Through marriage with Mr.. Ben
Nets sister, Col. Herridge recently be-
came the prime minister's brother-in-
law. Apart from that unique status,
Washington is destined to come to
know Herridge for what he ts-a two
listed young diplomatist. Like the
United States Minister to Canada, Col.
MacNider, Col. Herridge is a World
War soldier with brilliant service rec
ord in France The two Ministers are
almost the Identical age-42. Herridge
accompanied Premier Bennett to Wash
ington last Winter, but 1t wasn't pub
licly known then that he was slated
to be Canadian envoy here.
II X
Word has reached the White House
that positively no bones are to be picked
when President Hoover Is at Indian
apolis on June Is. He Is to attend a
monster chicken dinner given by the
Indiana Republican Editorial Associa-
ton. Five thousand Hcosiers will sit
down with the President at the State
Fair Grounds. The caterer in charge OF
the mammoth feed contracted to supply
chicken, sans necks, wings or backs.
Frank j. Hogan, nationally famed
Washington lawyer, recently was speak
er-gueSt at dinner Of the District OF
Columbia Fire Department. His wit
and eloquence so charmed the firemen
that the marshal wrote him cordial
1nktaN ~ fHonkS Winding f0ll0WSs
Hoping that the department can soon
be of service to you" Hogan wonders
If he can depend on that.
X \ 4 y
Jefferson Davis, now immortalized in
bronze in the Capitol of the United
States, was opposed to prohibition. In
acclaiming his virtues at Statuary Hall
yesterday, Senator Pat Harrison, whose
address was q masterpiece, omitted an
interesting phase of the soldier-states-
mans career. During the closing years
of his life, the unbowed leader OF the
lost cause was immersed in bitter de-
bate on prohibition by constitutional
amendment. Texas was wrestling with
the issue. Davis, still the idol Of Dixie,
was asked for advice. He held that the
State should not invade the field Of
legislation concerned with personal or
moral reform and ranged himself
squarely against prohibition. It was in
1887, two years before Davis death, that
Bishop Galloway of Texas, in a scath-
ing attack on him, publicly regretted
that "the last words Of a soldier, sage
or Christian should become the shib-
boleth Of the saloon"
X i
Though one of the Misunderstanding.
this weeks freedom Of the-press decision
by the United States Supreme Court Is
only the latest of q long series OF kin
dred pronouncements. Zechariah Chafee,
r., professor Of law at Harvard, In ''The
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