Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

In addition to trying to figure out Just
how dry he is, Capitol Hills favorite
indoor sport nowadays is guessing when
President Hoover would call a special
| session of Congress, and how long 1t
would last. A diverting tale is going
the rounds on that score It credits
Mr.. Hoover with a Machiavellian plan
for getting Congress of his hands as
soon as possible, provided an extra siege
Of it is unavoidable. The President
would not summon House and Senate
back TO Washington, according to the
story, until early in June. During the
intervening two or three weeks, with
the end of the fiscal year just over the
horizon and the need for appropriations
legislation desperately urgent, Hoover
reckons that Congress would get a
prodigicus move on. If the financial re-
quirements Of the Government by them
selves shouldn't suffice to produce
speedy action, the President calculates
| that hot weather would. What sort of
an understanding Mr. Hoover has with
Chief Marvin of the Weather Bureau
nobody knows.
THE three RS" don't mean Rum.
Romanism and Rebellion" any more. In
Washington nowadays they stand for
fDSUEUIlOn. WlCn
everybody wondering what H. H. stands
for.
Washington, D. c., and Marion.
Ohio, are jointly waiting for word
from Northampton, Mass, before fixing
definitely the date for defeating the
Harding Memorial. When former SEN
ator Joe" Frelinghuysen Of New Jer-
sey, on behalf of the memorial asso-
citation, received President Hoover's
| formal assurance at the White House
last week that the latter would deliver
the dedicatory address, it developed
that Mr.. Hoover thinks Calvin Coolidge
| ought to be at Marion on the same
occasion. If the former President has
decided to participate, he hasn't sig
nailed that fact publicly so far. The
! expectation is general that Mr. Ccol-
idge will be on hand There's said
also to be some delicate discussion in
| progress as to the other dignitaries
who should be on the platform. Exalted
| personages are understood to be har-
boring certain inhibitions on the sub
iect.
There must be something in a name,
after all. Take what happened to Rep
| resentative Joe j. Manlove, Republican,
Of Missouri, the other night at Wash
ington restaurant heavily frequented by
after-theater folk and other nocturnal
| jewellers. Mr.. and Mrs. Manlove had
| just put stack Of buckwheat cakes out
| OF commission when the gentleman
from Joplin noticed a soldier of the
United States Army standing at the
cashiers desk fumbling in his khaki
pockets for some change that very
nanifestly wasn't there. Manlove
| - he =
| out what the trouble was, and vol
unteered to meet the situation "Pard,"
said the soldier, IT haven't the glim-
rner of an idea who you are, but you
| sure do know when a Teller needs q
| friend. looked through the windows
of this joint, and saw they didn't have
| any tablecloths on the tables, so I
thought it must be cheap place. But
my quarter wouldn't reach"
+ X +
Representative Henry T. Rainey,
| Democrat, of Illinois, has 1t all figured
out that Jack" Garner is going to ride
in the Speakers automobile, all right.
| The average rate of human mortality is
the grueSome basis Of the House vet
Grams confidence that the Democrats
will boss the show after March 4.
Rainey appears to have taken the
trouble to compute that the Republicans
in the next House considerably outstrip
in age the 216 Cor thereabout) Demo-
Gratis, who were elected to it-that is
to say, there are more Republicans of
advanced age than there are Democrats.
Ergo, reasons Representative Rainey,
the law of probability points to the dis
appearance of more Republicans through
natural causes than Democrats. The
Illinoisan isn't disturbed in his theory
by the fact that only two members
Of the Seventy-second House thus far
to leave the scene were both Demo-
crats-New York Tammany men.
| X X X
Charles R Crane. who has just been
| invited to become adviser on foreign af-
fairs to Nationalist China, is an in
| ternational D'Artagnan. Like the Ma
rines, Crane is ready for either a fight
or q frolic, provided its far enough
aheld and takes him into parts un-
known. The millionaire diplomat, globe
kynkkMr and humanitarian uyoaI1d Ike