Evening star., 1932-10-07
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC HILLI4M VILF.

mother" For 46 years she has been
the helpmate of Dean Compton OF
Wooster College and she is the mother
Of four children. all of whom have Won
emlnence in the cultural world. Her
sons are President Kari Taylor Comp
ton of Massachusetts Institute Of Tech
nology; DR.. Wilson Martindale Comp
ton OF Washington, economist and pres
ident Of American Forest Products In
dustries. and Prof. Arthur Holly Comp
ton, Nobel prize winner and purSuer of
the cosmtc ray. Mrs. Compton's daugh-
ter, Mary Compton Rec is the wife
Of the president of Ewing College, AL
lahabad, India. The occasion for the
conferring of the degree upon this out
standing specimen OF American wom
anhood is annual college day" at OK
ford, when Mrs. Compton is to be guest
of honor.
This is a tale Of statesman who
was sorry that he spoke He IS tempo
was recently asked to deliver an ad-
dress in a lecture series at Chicago
next Winter. Having observed that
Clarence Darrow was on the seasons
program, the statesman wrote: Il
think l ought to be paid as much as
Darrow is getting Next DAY he re-
ceived a telegram from Chicago reading:
That's all right with us. Darrow is
speaking for nothing"
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Representative Ruth Bryan Owen S
Democratic radio talks are making a
hit in the Midwest Folks liked her re-
cent wisecrack about a woman who
wrote to Washington that she heard
Hoover was getting rid Of Government
bureaus" and said she'd like one for her
bed room Ruth tells the story. and
then gibes: Now, if that good woman
had applied earlier. she might even have
obtained an oil-stained cabinet.
x x x x
There's no happier man anywhere IN
Washington this week than Gardner
Ccwles, Des Moines newspaper magnate
and now a director of the Reconstruc-
tion Finance Corporation. It's 0n open
secret that it was largely at his inSt-
| CATION that President Hoover chose the
Iowa metropolis as the scene of his
opening battle for reelection. 1t is also
we'll understood that it was Mr.. Cowles
personal organization at Des Moines-
notably his able son, Gardner, Jr.-
which is entitled to principal credit for
the gratifying day and night Mr.. Hoo
Yer experienced there. Always there
was the possibility of unpleasant Incl
dents, and Mr.. Cowles, who was in his
home city and returned to Washington
on the Hoover train, breathed COM
prehensible sigh of relief when all was
triumphantly over.
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Watch out for concerted Republi.
can movement during the next two Of
three weeks to scare the country int
believing that Franklin D. Roosevelt Il
a radical wolf in a conservative sheep:
clothing The plan is to call loud at
tention to the love feast between Roose-
welt and Senator Norris in Nebraska {
fortnight ago, on which occasion th'
Democratic nominee-as the G. o. P
managers viii avow-swallowed Morris
and his isms hook, line and sinker, BY
that token radicalizing himself 100 pc
cent. This, Of course in different terms
is the strategy Mark Hanna used il
1896 to frighten the country into tn
election of William Mckinley. It re
mains to be seen whether the medicin
will be as effective this time as j
was SO years ago, and especially whethe
it's being prescribed in time. Z
! toopyright. 1854, , T..