Evening star., 1932-03-28
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

| their choices either by acclamation
or on the first ballot; 81 that the
| Garner boom has now assumed the
| posture of a pancake, and "a that
| prosperity Is still around the corner.
Although Hoover stock is generally ac-
| knoWledged TO be higher, thanks TO
the Smith Roosevelt feud and Demo-
cratic antics in the House, the Presi
dent according to current Washington
| opinions by no means out Of the
woods The change in sentiment
! toward him is described as merely
matter of relativity. Men say it isn't
, SO much a case OF Hoover's being more
popular as it is of his being less un-
popular. The idea seems to be that
the President Still has a long. long
trail ahead of him before he can over
come the country's inclination to hold
the G. o. P administration responsible
for its endless economic woes.
A member of the American delega-
tion at Geneva was buttonholed by a
well-known English dowager "a lady Of
title). who inquired: And just who
! is this Mr.. Melloney who's going TO sue
ceed your Ambassador Dawes in Lon
don?"
What war did Woodrow wilson's sup
porters, in the presidential campaign
Of 1916, have in mind when they coined
the slogan: He kept us out Of WARP"
H. H. Byrne, Washington patent and
! trademark lawyer-whO Is q Republi-
can-has set himself the task Of clear
ing the World War President Of the
charge of hypocrisy. Mr.. Byrne would
welcome the chance to go before jury
and prove that 1t was war with Mex
leo, and not the war in Europe, that
Wilson kept us out Of" 1t was in
1915 that the United States was EN-
broiled with Mexico. Pershing was sent
! in pursuit of villa In March Of that
| year Wilson averted war with the
! Mexicans" according to Mr.. Byrne,
"and l contend that he subsequently
campaigned for reelection exclusively
on that Issue. The World War was in
| full blast. and there was at that time
no question of our having been kept
out of it, What we were kept out or
was a war with Mexico" Byrne says
he'll not rest content until historical
! Justice" is done to Woodrow Wilson
| on the "he-kept- out t-of-war prop
| oSition.
| Early in the disarmament conference
! this observer cabled The Evening Star
| that the busiest man in Geneva was
| the American delegations healtn OIL
| Ger, Capt. Kent c. Melhorn, U. s. N.
The cable narrated that the whole
Yankee contingent in Geneva was down
with head colds. fortnight later this
radio-scribe received from a Washing
! ton druggist a liberal consignment of
his own patent remedy for that grippy
| feeling. with a request that 1t be dis
| tributed with his compliments TO the
wheeling Americans. The shipment
was turned over to Capt. Melhorn, who
| found that the potion seemed to pos
sesS charms TO Danish the stubbornest
of catarrhal kinks.
| y
Has anybody over here heard the
wisest crack sprung at Geneva? Its
author Is the witty and cultured Senor
| Dr. Salvador de Madariaga, recently
! Spanish Ambassador at Washington
and chief Spanish spokesman at the
conference. Soviet Russia had just
submitted its naive proposal for total.
general and immediate disarmament"
Madariaga asked for the floor and re-
marked: Once upon q time the ami
NAL kingdom held q disarmament con-
ference. The first speaker was the
bear, who said: I propose thst the
eagle give up his talons, the tigE his
claws, the lion his teeth, the bun his
horns and that we then join IN
loving embrace" Even Litvinoff sue
cumhed to the merriment which ensued.
! ccDsrishk Isss.