Evening star., 1932-04-22
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

National Convention, for a presidential
and senatorial campaign funds investi-
CATION. The general impression Is that,
owing to depression not nearly as many
dollars are rolling this year as usual
and that an investigation would develop
slush funds of piker proportions It's
an open secret that both Republican
and Democratic managers are worried
sick over the fat-frying prospect. All
indications point to the tightest-wad
campaign on recent record.
Col ]. Clawson Rcop, director of the
budget, who is field marshal of the
Hoover economy forces, was one of Gen
Charles G. Dawes wartime discoveries.
Roop, who entered the Engineer Corps
in 1917 in the midst of a successful
career with the J. G. White Man
agement Corporation, encountered
Dawes casually one day at Paris
headquarters of the A. E F. pur-
chasing agency. The Reconstruction
Finance chief, who has just done an
other Hell and Maria" turn as an
anti-bonus witness before tile Ways and
Means Committee, liked the cut of
Rocp's jib. invited him to join the pur-
chasing agency outfit and then took
the colonel on as Dawes chief aide in
the first Bureau Of the Budget in 1921
Roop served Gen Lord in the same
capacity and became his successor in
1929. Young. alert and gifted with
prodigious memory for figures, he en-
joys high esteem in Congress. even In
these stormy budget times. Col. Roop
is Pennsylvania.
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Nations story from day to day in press
pictures and movie reels, bemoan the
completion of the Unknown Soldiers
Tomb at Arlington. Ever since the
Unknown was laid to rest in q simple
white marble grave, the great of many
lands have paid him tribute while
cameras shot" them in the act of de-
posting wreaths from an ideal perch on
a nearby balustrade Now a huge
block of marble, quarried in a Colorado
mountain, has raised the height OF the
tomb to II feet. and the balustrade
has been removed. Wreaths hencefor-
ward must be laid at the end of the
tomb, with corresponding range finding
dlfnculties for the camera men.
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While Massachusetts, and Pennsyl-
vania on April 26 are deciding whom
their Democrats love the better-Al
Smith or Frank Roosevelt Washington
and Lee University at Lexington. Va,
will be holding its sixth mock Demo-
cratic convention" It's called "a
prophetic preview of the 1882 national
party situation" Claude G.. Bowers will
open the convention as official observer
for the Democratic National Commit
tee. The student event" the an
nouncement says, will resemble a ma
tional convention In every detail. e.,
cigars, fist fights. etc" Mock conven-
lions at washington and Lee guessed
right in 1916 by nominating Hughes
on the @. o. p. ticket two months in
advance of his actual selection. and in
picking Davis in 1924 and Smith in
1923 on those respective Democratic
tickets.
The American Foreign Service Jour
nal, published at the State Department,
reveals an old-fashioned toast to George
washington. It was written In l778 by
Francis Hopkinson. the first known
American composer and one of the
signers OF the Declaration Of Inde-
pendence. 1t reads
'Tis Washington's health-fill a bumper
around
For he is our glory and pride
'Tis Washington's health-our hero to
bless,
May heaven look graciously down.
Oh! long may he live our hearts to
possess,
And freedom still cali him her own.
Oh, long may he live our hearts to
possess,
And freedom still call him her own,
Still call him her own.
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