Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19

Chairman Wickersham himself is au-
thority for the statement that, con-
trary to widespread expectation, the
report of President Hoover's Commits
sion on Law Observance and Enforce
ment will not be q solution" of the
prohibition problem. 1t will be exactly
what 1t is supposed to be-a report.
pure and simple. Facts and figures will
be its distinguishing characteristics. To
obtain such data was the commission s
assigned task. Chairman Wickersham
is confident that the country will have
no fault to find on that score, whatever
it thinks about the merits or dement's
of the information submitted. With
the liquor question of its hands, Mr..
Wickersham intimates that other
branches Of "crime" will now engage
the commissions energies. At any rate,
he himself looks forward to at least
another four or five months in con-
tinued pursuit of the elusive truth be-
fore surrendering his Craftsmanship.
The former Attorney General of the
United States creates the impression
that his year Of prohibition sleuthing
has rejuvenated him. He's approach
ing 70, and generates the activity Of
a youngster in the middle fifties.
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Col Lindbergh is setting up another
record. Most men are men of their
words, but Indy is disproving the
theory that age makes them men of
many words. He's nearly four years
older than when fame overlook him in
1927, yet invincible modesty remains his
outstanding characteristic. Yesterday,
after Ambassador Claudel had placed
the red ribbon of the French Legion of
Honor around the colonel's neck, Lind
bergh's speech" of response was ex-
actly IT words long. "Mr. Ambassador .
honor you and your government nave
conferred upon me-" The colonel has
evidently adopted Peter Pan as his pa
tron saint-he simply refuses to grow
I'D. In all ways he's still every inch q
boy. Lindbergh was the only man in
the Rilded salon Of M. Claudel's embassy
who wasn't in formal afternoon dress.
He wore bluish-gray sack suit. Med
ais and decorations were de rigueur az
this function. Many of the distinguished
guests trotted theirs out. "Lindy" LETT
all his at home. His dainty wife and
her parents, Senator and Mrs. Dwight
w, Morrow of New Jersey, beamed With
suppressed pride as Indy Joined the
French immortals.
Now that Gen. Pershing has given
credit where credit is due for the
Lafayette, we are here!" affair - to
Col Stanton of his wartime staff at
Paris-the c. in c. of the A. E. F.
might tell us just who it was that per-
petrated in his presence the celebrated
'bull' about Stanton's undying apho-
rism. One day after the war, Pershing
was making a speech somewhere in the
American Southwest. This was the in
PRODUCTION he got from the mayor:
General, we folks of this town look
upon you as one Of the great men OF
all time. You accomplished great
things in France. But the finest OF all,
we think, was that address of yours in
Paris when you said: Lafayette, we
are herev"
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In q certain well known home at
Washington, where the youngsters of
the house are accustomed to see a
convivial gathering of their parents
friends at shutdown, daddy came home
the other day and announced, with
pride, that he had an appointment to
call on Mr.. Hoover next day. What
| do people do when they meet the Presi-
dent?" piped up an 8-year-old some
day debutante. "Oh, I don't know"
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