Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-01
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM EILE.

Ordinarily. heads Of governments
throughout the world take notice only
OF the passing of fellow rulers as an
occasion for transmitting appropriate
messages of coincidence The death Of
Nicholas Longworth, late Speaker of
the House, evoked an unprecedented
number of such communications from
foreign capitals With few exceptions.
the governments of the whole world
express their sincere regret over
'Nickis" demise. In the names Of
Kings, prime ministers and foreign
secretaries, as we'll as in the names Of
various parliamentary bodies, notes
have been sent to the State Depart
ment deploring Longworth's untimely
disappearance from American public
life. Apparently, "Nicks" unique pop
ularity in his own country had spread
across the seas. Doubtless his relation
ship to Theodore Roosevelt helped to
enhance his fame. The lamented
Speaker himself had many friendships
among the worlds statesmen. Secretary
Stimson has instructed that copies of
all the foreign messages of sympathy
shall be placed in Mrs. Longworth's
hands.
President Hoover sat only a couple
of feet away from Gov. Pinchot at the
Union League dinner in Philadelphia
the other night, but nobody saw them
fraterni2ing A formal how-do- you do
before entering the banqueting hall was
the extent of their hobnobbing The
Governor continues to be credited with
the notion that he might be the next
Republican nominee for the presidency
If by any chance the convention runs
amuck and goes Progressive. Not far
away from Pinchot sat another man
who has no cause to love him, George
Wharton Pepper, whose ambition to
succeed himself in the United States
Senate was thwarted by the Pinchot
independent candidacy in 1926 Senator
Jim Davis was also at Union League,
but the Republican he worsted in Penn
| sylvania in 1880 was conspicuously miss
ing-"Uncle Joe" Grundy. Throughout
Mr.. Hoovers Philadelphia Valley Forge
junket former Pennsylvania Gov. John
S. Fisher was in the presidential vi
cinity-a circumstance which strength
ened reports that Fisher is Hoovers
choice for the G. o. p. national chair
rnanship.
Part of the Presidents escort as long
as he was within the city limits of
Philadelphia. consisted of a dashing
motor cycle police detachment. On the
COPS shoulders was an emblem reading,
Motor bandit patrol" an organization
formed a couple of years ago for the
special purpose of apprehending crooks
who operate in automobiles. The force
consists of $50 privates and IS officers.
It's sole duty is to observe persons who
behave in motor cars as If they might
be engaged in criminal activities. The
motor bandit patrol works in pairs.
One cop stops a car, and his part
ner covers" it with drawn pistol
while examination of the occupants is
Under way. BILLY" Mills. Philadelphia s
statuesque superintendent of police,
who invented the motor bandit patrol.
reels of some significant figures about
violators of the traffic laws. "Not
long ago." he says, I'VE issued in one
year 10000 summonses against traffic
violators. Six thousand took notice OF
our summonses, but only 1900 were
penalized."
When q President Of the United
States goes travelling, an intricate sched-
ule of preliminary arrangements has to
be evolved, even If the trip is to last
only "a hours. The job falls to the lot
of "Dick" Jervis, head of the elite
White House Secret Service squad. Once
the Chief Executive Is under way
"Dick" has only to sit back and OBJ
serve his plans work out with clock
like precision. The day after the
| Franco-Prussian War began, tradition
has it that Field Marshal Won Moltke
was seen in Berlin railway station
with his fishing tackle, bound for q
vacation in the country. He explained
| that his work was done and he coulo
now enjoy himself. Dick Jervis en-
/ =; o1no ri q r1rACidanfiQ1 o.
! cial train solving crossword puzzles
though nobody need ever run away
with the idea that he doesn't know
what's happening all along the line.
French Strother, since 1929 Hoover
research assistant, lays down that posi-