Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-02-03

Manchuria Shanghai and Marking
are casting long dark shadow over all
international affairs. The World Dis
armament Conference now opening in
Geneva can hardly hope to escape the
implications Of the Far Eastern crisis
Congress, considering a naval program
and Army and Navy appropriations,
must take it into consideration. Special
point is given to the American naval
maneuvers off Hawaii. II is perhaps
more than coincidence that just now
the Atlantic battle feet and the Pacific
battle fleet are both in the Pacific.
The issue Of Philippine independence is
affected The League Of Nations has
received the heaviest blow in its his
tory. The Kellogg pact and the treaties
guaranteeing the integrity Of China are
in a sad plight The ultimate conse
quenceS are as yet imponderable. The
immediate consequences in Washington
affairs are manifold and plainly evil
dent. For the time being at least the
World Court question is dead as door
nail The court issue is virtually elm
mated from the coming presidential
campaign. There is new impetus be-
hind the drive for advancing our naval
building program beyond the blue print
stage. Consideration by the House of
the regular War Department appropria-
ton bill Is momentarily Shelyed pending
developments The administration, al
ready overburdened with domestic prob
lens of aiding business recovery and
balancing the Federal budget, with its
twin questions of new economies and
new taxes, now has new sheaf OF
anXieties.
The administration is fortunate in its
representatives in the Far East in the
present holocaust of shot and shell.
Nelson T. johnson, the American Min
lister to China, is veteran Of the For
cign Service, as wise in the ways OF
the heather Chinese as any white man
ever can be- He knows China like
book" and speaks the language. At
Toxic w Cameron Forbes, whose resig
nation has been in the hands Of the
State Department for some time, still
carries on and will not leave his post at
present. He long served as Governor
General of the Philippines. He, too, is
Of broad experience and ripe Judgment.
His path is streWn with pitfalls but he
is proving equal to the occasion. Ac-
cording to Secretary StimSon, Ambas
Sador Forbes is being given full liberty
of action by his superiors here in his
delicate parleys with the japanese for
eign office. The transfer to Toxic, as
Forbes successor, of Ambassador Joseph
C. Grew, now in Turkey, Is being held
in allegiance.
The political dopesters having by now
fairly we'll exhausted the possibilities of
the favorite son candidates in the DEM
ocratic presidential field, Garner of
Texas, Robinson of Arkansas, White of
Ohio, j. Ham Lewis Of Illinois, Traylor
of Kentucky Richie OF Maryland and
perchance David l. Walsh OF Massachu-
sets, Thomas F. Walsh of Montana and
Jim Reed of Missouri they are now
turning their attention to dark horse"
possibilities. First in that category was
former Gov. Cox of Ohio, the 1920 Dem
ocratic presidential nominee, and Sena-
tor Buckley of Ohio and Newton D. Ba-
ker of Ohio and John w. Davis of New
York the 1924 standard bearer. The
latest additions to this illustrious group
as darkest of dark horses are William
Gibbs McAdoo and cambridge Colby of
New York once Secretary OF State in
the Wilson cabinet.
Some learned persons of erudite
minds have taken the trouble to ana
lyZe a recent speech Of ex-Gov. Smith,
delivered in Boston and speech de-
livered the same night by Gov. Roose-
welt in New York City, with reference
to their word content and as measure
Of their respective vocabularies. The
Smith speech of $500 words in length
contained $50 different words. The
Roosevelt speech was just about half as
long, some $500 words, and OF these
CTS were different. Hence it appears
that Roosevelt used one new word to
every five he spoke and Smith one to
every nine If this proves anything 1t
demonstrates the worthlessness OF es-
timating a mans command of Ian
guage BY his printed utterances. For
it must be obvious that in neither OF
these speeches did the speaker tap his
entire reservoir of words. He simply
played the changes on his professional
on Smiths vocabulary, he combines his