Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-06
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

When President Hoover the other day
received the members of the American
NeWsboys' National Association on their
second annual pilgrimage to Washing
ton he listened attentively to a neat
little patriotic address by a freckled-
faced youngSter who hailed from a town
in Virginia not far from Washington.
Mr.. Hoover said to the lad when the
speech had been delivered: Harry, I'd
like you to stay here for lunch today"
The boy squinted at his wrist watch,
figured quickly about how much time
was left to deliver afternoon papers on
his route, and replied: Sorry, Mr.
President, but 1 have duties to per-
form"
DR.. Clyde Heck Marvin, president of
George Washington University, is an
expert photographer in his non-aca-
demic incarnation. An amazing exploit
in deep-sea photography stands to DR..
Marvin'S credit as the result OF 1881
Summer vacation trip to the Tortugas
Islands, which lie at the tail end Of
the Florida Keys, some rs miles south
and west of Key West. There, as the
guest of the Carnegie Institutions sci
entific laboratory on one of its boats,
putting on a diving helmet and de-
Scending to the bed Of the ocean with
a camera specially equipped for taking
submarine motion pictures. After stay
ing down about an hour and half
he came up with marvellous lot Of
snapshots of underSea Verdure. includ-
ing coral reefs and hedges and a host
of other horticultural disturbance that
fiouriShes in Dayy Jones locker. They
are said to be the only collection of
colored motion pictures ever success
fully made at the bottom OF the sea.
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Washington politicians are reading
with interest correspondence appearing
in the New York papers suggesting the
availability of DR.. Nicholas Murray But
Ter as a candidate for President of the
United States on both the Republican
and Democratic tickets. The SuggeS-
lions seem to spring from the beStOWal
of the Nobel Peace Prize on the veteran
head of Columbia University. One Of
DR.. Buffers admirers refers to him as
"a Monroe" barking back to the fact
that when Monroe was elected for his
second term he received every electoral
vote except one. Let us have another
era of good feeling, he says, by put
ting DR.. Butler in the White House at
the head of coalition government.
A facetious opponent of the Butler
movement writes that he would never
vote for any man who pronounces the
IT" in the word "often"-a slam at DR..
Buffers pronunciation in recent radio
talk.
Probably the Japanese American in
cident over the attack on our consul IN
Mukden will be promptly and satisfac-
torily closed, but it's little pin pricks of
this sort that leave indelible stings be-
hind. especially in Japan. II the Toxic
government is called upon to make any
thing that savors to the japanese mind
as cringing apology to Uncle Sam, our
stock in Nippon will sink TO an even
lower point than 1t reached during the
period of American protests against the
conquest of Manchuria, earlier IN the
Winter. Undoubtedly the most upper
turbed japanese In all the world Is Kat
sui Debuchi. the Mikado's Ambassador
at Washington. The present unpleas-
antnesS in China comedies with the
opening of the palatial new Japanese
embassy on Massachusetts avenue.
There the suave and smiling envoy from
Toxic entertainS the American nigh
and mighty with a carefree bonhomie
that is the marvel of all who come
within its orbit.
(Copyright, 1897