Evening star., 1931-12-30

In appointing Norman H. DAVIS an
American delegate to the Geneva Dis
armament Conference, President Hoo
yer names a second Democrat as col
league Of Senator Swanson OF Virginia.
Davis. too, is one of the woodrow VIII
son Old Guard Although he is New
York banker and has a Summer home
in the Berkshires Of Massachusetts, Mr..
Davis is a Southerner, halllng from
Tennessee. His brother, Representa-
tive EWin L. Davis Of that State mas
lust become chairman OF the House
Committee ON Merchant Marine. The
former Undersecretary OF State, VINO Is
to go to Geneva, has long and merl-
torious record in international aHalrs'
After serving as financial adviser to
President Wilson at the Paris Peace
Conference, Mr.. Davis was on the rep
arations commission and later, as Assis-
tant Secretary Of the Treasury, was IN
charge of foreign loans. His knoWl-
edge of the problems now perturbing
Europe Is unrivaled. Before be lett
Federal Office at Washington in 1921,
the League Of Nations made him chair
man of its commission to determine the
status of Memel. Davis was last at
Geneva In 1927 as an American dele
gate to the International Economic
Conference. Incidentally - perh"25
that's the feather that has just turned
the Hoover scales in his direction
Davis is an alumnus of Stanford Uni
versity.
Richard v. Oulahan, dean Of the
CORPS of Washington correspondents,
is seriously III with pneumonia at his
home, in Georgetown. He was stricken
lust before Christmas In the midst OF
good health. Oulahan is not only the
dean Of Capital newspaper men, but
ranks as the Adonis among them, his
tall, erect figure wholly belying his 81
years. A native of the District o. Co
ilmbia, he began journalistic work in
Washington As years ago and has
served here practically uninterruptedly
since 1912. For a few years preceding
his appointment as chief correspondent
of the New York Times in that year,
Dick" as he is known from one end
of the country to the other, was
European correspondent OF the OLD
New York Sun. All the honorS of Wash
jngton journalism have been his. The
fraternity contains no more beloved or
vivid personality.
F.* ....
Many Of Representative Louis T.
McFaddenS colleagues in the House
keep on believing that he is the
spokesman of some important group
interested in getting before Congress
and the country the extreme views re-
Gently uttered by the Pennsylvania
in his vitriolic attack on President
Hoover. A House member tells this OBJ
server of an episode that attracted at
t4Y1 tNT7 In Of IN 10 NE
a year or SO ago.. AS delivered, the
Representative in question says, NC
Fadden's remarks mentioned your
Secretary of State" as if somebody not
an American we're. the. author Of the
phrase. In next days Congressional
Record it was noticed that the passage
was published as "our Secretary OF
State" ...
Not since Gilbert and Sullivan wrote
"Pinafore" and "Iolanthe," satirizing
the British Navy and the British Par
lament, has anything been produced In
this country which lampoons the ship
of state as "Of. Thee I Sing" just
opened in New York, makes merry with
politics, parties and the Government at
llbrettist, and George GershWin, COM
poser, of Rhapsody in Blue" fame have
evolved masterpiece of topical wit and
lyrical beauty. What they do to our
cherished conceptions of the presidency,
particularly the vice presidency, and to
the Senate and Supreme Court is q
caution. What 50,000000 Frenchmen
will say about the poke the piece takes
at France and her war debt to Uncle
Sam is worth waiting to hear. Chief
Justice Hughes is the only contemporary
burlesqued recognizabiy as he cavorts at
the head OF a bench Of au-Whiskers JUS