Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

For the benefit Of certain exalted Re-
publican quarters which will be the
most interested in them a year hence
some significant prohibition calcula-
tons have just been made. They con-
Germ the number of wet votes likely to be
| found in the 1882 G. o. p. National
Convention. The tabulation shows that
| at the outside there will not be more
than $50 or 275 delegates in favor of
moistening the Republican platform in
| any way, shape or manner. AS the
party conclave numbers roundly 1,10O
votes, 1t would appear that the vets will
! The survey In question indicates they
will be delegates hailing from the great
| urban centers Of the East and North,
ranifying West as far as Chicago, with
| some scattered supporters from points
beyond. His friends confidently fore
shadow President Hoover's denomination
| on a law enforcement platform, making
no more concessions to the vets than
they received in 1928.
r X y
No signs of perturbation are visible at
| the White House over the hullabaloo
raised in the Virgin Islands by Mr..
Hoover's reference to them as a poor
house" The classification was made
| deliberately and with a definite pur-
pose in mind. Time will demonstrate,
this observer has reason to believe, that
| the purpose is one destined to rebound
materially to the islanders benefit. The
poor house" Characterization OF the
Virgins has already achieved the re-
| suit OF calling attention to their plight
| throughout the United States. It has
| set in motion an interest in them that
| gives every indication of lasting. It is
! the Presidents known hope that it will
be sustained long enough to cause Con-
gress to acquaint itself with the Virgin
Islands economic straits and provide
generously for mitigating them.
| X X
It's too bad that the Forthcoming
annual banquet of the American Society
of Newspaper Editors in Washington on
| April ID isn't going to be broadcast
The 'unvarnished truth" about unem-
ployment and economic conditions will
be told there by the two men best quail
| fed to disclose it. Col. Arthur Woods
the Administrators director general OF
unemployment relief, is to spill the
beans about the Nations voorhees, army
OF 100000 men and women. DR..
Julius Klein, the Assistant Secretary of
Commerce, is scheduled to give the low
down on business depression. Each
| OAhSAoA PAS08C0 AhALAoC4l 10 supply
stun" on the understanding that moth
ing is to be published.
X u X X
| They're breathing much easier at the
Veterans Bureau than in the early rush
during March, following passage Of the
new veterans bonus-insurance bill
Gen. Hines Woodworking staR has
whipped things into such shape that
| applications for loans can now be acted
on with a minimum of delay. Provided
everything is in order, o veteran may
file his application and count on get
| ting his money in exactly one week
Gen. Hines sticks to his estimate that
( total loans applied for and granted viii
eventually touch the billion-dollar mark
n \ ~
| Another of Uncle Sans trained men
is going to leave the Ship of State and
pun an oar in new boat. Tyler Den
nett, historical adviser to the State
Department since 1929, is going tc
Princeton in February, 1892, to become
professor of international relations III
its School of Public and International
Affairs. Mr.. bennett, who formerly
was editor and chief of the State De-
partment's Division Of Publications, Il
now on leave of absence, while coni-
Melting q biography of John Hay. He
ms a1tasked ~ Che Aypegicem naleR