Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-12

Apparently with view to building
up its defenses against anticipated at
tack in Congress next Winter, the
Federal Farm Board has gone in for
an educational compaign throughout
the country II is not to be directed
so much at the farmers, who are pretty
| thoroughly sold" on the benefits of the
agricultural marketing act. Chairman
Stone and his nluch-maligned colleagues
are bent rather on enlightening the
non-rural world as to what the board
is, what it is doing, and what it still
hopes to accomplish to pull agriculture
out of the dumps. The business COM
munity is the goal at which the educa-
| tional drive is aimed. The Farm Board
wants the merchant, the manufacturer,
the shipper, the exporter, the banker,
the lawyer, the professional man of
every class. to understand what CO.
operative marketing means, and all and
sundry perpetrated in its name, espe-
cially boarding of wheat and cotton
for price Sterilization" purposes. This
! week w. G, Owens, principal attorney
Of the board, Is addressing the Montana
State Bar Association. The boards
missionary effort will be directed by
q newly-created educational service"
division.
Acting Secretary Of State "Bfll"
Castle has just had a striking nlustra-
ton of the almost illimitabie carrying
power of radio over the transoceanic
short wave. A day or two after the
termination of the Hoover moratorium
negotiations at Paris. Mr.. Castle took
the air for a broadcast of the stu
alton Up to now he thought he'd
only been speaking to the people Of
the United States. But this week he
got letter from Carl A. Fisher, secre-
tary of the American legation in Greece,
saying that on the morning in ques-
ton cit was am. over there, while
Castle was talking in Washington at
10 pm) he was reused from his Athe-
MAN SAUNDERS at the romantic hour
Of 5 o'clock by familiar voice, It was
that of Bill" Castle, literally telling
the world" about the debt suspension
plan.
REPRESENTATIVE Charles A. Eaton. Re
publican, Of New Jersey, who was a
preacher before he degenerated into
politician, Is putting In the congress
sional vacation writing book. 1t IS
called America in World Age ana
deals with the role the United States
is destined TO play in international
reconstruction. mo country can re-
main an island Of prosperity m an
ocean of adversely" is the keynote.
Eaton says he isn't sure whether
American entry into the League Of Ma
tions is advisable or not. He Is sure
that the Nationwide acclaim which
greeted President HooVer's moratorium
gesture" signifies that there's an i'm
nense body Of American public senti-
ment ready to be captained in favor
Gf.rtrfHnF m the
world wheel more intensively than it's
been there during the past IL years.
X
Zachariah Chafee, jr,, Harvard law
professor. who was mainly responsible
Tor the Wiekersham Commissions as
sault on "the third degree" is one Of
the shining lights Of the modern lib
eral' movement in the United States
His books on Freedom OF Speech" and
.aTThe Inuuiring Mind" are considered
modern classics in the fields with
which they deal. The work for the
Wickersham investigators wasn't DR..
Chafee's first activity in the realm OF
exploration. In 1920 he was one Of
on illegal activities" Of the Depart
ment Of Justice in connection with war
time prosecution Of persons suspected
Of seditious conduct. Chafee is DEM
ocrat. g New Highlander by birth and
practiced law in Rhode Island before
going 70 the Harvard Law School.
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Today--The famous twelfth OF Au-
gusts when everybody in England and
Scotland, who can afford it. goes grouce
shooting Col Etimson, American Sec
rotary Of state, saw TO 1t that MS Eu-
roDeaFl vacation ended in time for
Him "a ha snfflnd ON the Ylnrnrk he