Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-01
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

, nation Of the average farmers chroms
need Of relief: He gets up TO the
alarm Of a Connecticut clock, buttons
his Chicago suspenders TO Detrole
overall, washes his face with Cincinnan
soap, sits down to a Grand Raptd4
table. eats Kansas City meat and MinA
nesota -four cooked on Sears-Roebuoa
stove. He goes out to the barn, puts 6
New York bride on a Missouri mule ID
with Colorado alfalfa, and plows hi
farm, covered with Vermont mortgage
with an Illinois pillow. When bedtime
comes he reads q chapter from the
Bible printed in Boston, says a prayer
written in Jerusalem, crawls under q
blanket made in New Bedford, only 70
be awakened during the night by the
bowling OF home grown dog-the only
then the son-of-a-gun wonders why the
hell he can't make q living!'
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1t may be mere coincidence, but fore
eign governments seem to have q
penchant during this administration for
sending mining engineers to Washing.
ton as Ambassadors. At any rate, Spain
is the second country within two years
to station a member of Herbert Hoover's
profession on the Potomac. The first
one was M. Tytus Filipowicz, Ambassa-
cor Of Poland, and now comes Senior
Don Salvador de Madariaga, Ambassa-
dor Of the new Spanish Republic. The
Polish envoy still claims mining engi-
neering as his calling, but Senior do
Madariaga became a professor of Span
ish literature at oxford University. Not
long ago Harvard men in Washington,
having heard the brilliant Spaniard
lecture, thought Of asking their alma
mater to invite him to fill chair at
Cambridge.
Just before the White House mailbag
began to be choked with letters approx
ing the Presidents debt holiday plan,
Mr.. Hoover received shoals Of appreci-
atoms Of his speech at the Harding
Memorial. An attache of the executive
Offices had this note from one Of the
most famous educators in the country:
Ever since I read the Presidents
speech at Marion have been thinking
about 1t and about him. 1t was one Of
the bravest things I have ever noted.
We have a few men left. thank God,
who have the courage to speak the
truth in love- men who are willing to
be poor politicians in order to be great
public servants 1 believe it will prove
to be the best kind of politics in the
long run. Anyhow, I was very proud
and thrilled to the heels when I read
the address"
recent high school graduate, evil
IDENTIFY under the spell of front-page
news of the hour. was asked the mean
ing OF the word "crematorium." He
said it was "a place where you burn up
debts"
Venerable Admiral Colby NJ Chester,
who retired from the Navy in 1906, has
been suggested as the ideal commander
of "Old IronsideS," which is about to
be towed into various ports under her
ancient and glorious spread Of sail. As
though no man on active duty in the
Navy has commanded q full-rigged SAIL
ing ship, Chester, at the age of %. and
with the rank Of lieutenant commander
and executive off1cer, commanded the
square.rigged Galena. In 1891 Chester
was skipper Of the Constellation, also
sailing man-of-war, when she took
out Of Annapolis midshipmen for their
practice cruise. A veteran naval officer,
who was one of the middies that sailed
with Chester, 40 years ago, proposes
that the Navy Department ask the 81
year-old admiral TO take command of
the rejuvenated Constitution his health
permitting. and. after breaking in a
crew. conduct the ship to Atlantic ports.
The proposal Is described as especially
appropriate because Admiral Chesteris
nag Is understood to have been the last
to ny on "Old IronsideS."
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