Evening star., 1932-08-05
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

This week marks the eighteenth an
niversary CT the outbreak of the World
War Now that danger Of a Bolivian
Paraguayan conflict seems to be averted
Washington breatheS more easily. There
was the gravest anxiety at the State
Department that hostilities might not
! have been localized and could have
spread sooner or later, into a conf1a-
grafton involving war throughout the
South American world. Infiammable
material in plenty exists all around the
frontiers of Bolivia and Paraguay and
beyond, and no one in Washington
knew where the sparks from battle in
the Gran Chaco might have lit. If the
Hoover doctrine" of ncn-recOgnition of
territorial conquest, with which all the
other Americas identified themselves
in the round robin to Bolivia and Para
quay, tulns out to be the thing that
stopped their war, chalk up big victory
fer the Kellogg pact The round robin
specifically borrowed the pacts Ian
guage about remuneration of war as IAN
instrument of national policy" August
27 will mark the fourth anniversary of
the signing of the anti-war pact at
Paris. Former Secretary OF State Frank
B. Kellogg, its parent-in-chief, will cele-
brate the event in a Nation wide radio
| broadcast from Minneapolis.
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However inhoSpitable the bonus
marchers may have found Washington,
| the country'S automobile tourists en-
| counter a welcome when they enter the
District of Columbia. Midsummer finds
the motor tourist camp maintained for
their benefit by the Federal park
authorities under Lieut.. Col u $
= flo nf nnnlllaTltV
and usefulness. Nowadays an average
of 70 cars, carrying some $50 persons,
registers at the camp in Potomac Park
near the Speedway. The management
says business has dropped of around
| IS per cent from last year. There are
now bed accommodations for TOO tour
| lists in l32 cabins, 20 of them new.
! Campers have the privileges OF the
whole establishment for so cents
person per night. They have .the use
! of fine new bath house, laundry,
! cafeteria and store, and, OF course,
plenty of parking space. License tags
| indicate that the Capital City is the
| mecca for cars from all quarters OF the
Union. including even regions as re-
mote as the Canal Zone.
~
! Here's a rich one Japan is flooding
| the country with small American fiagS
manufactured by cheap Nipponesc labor
and sold in the United States Tor
! little less than they car be produced by
! American manufacturers. some OF
Representative Clyde Kelly's friends
among the postal workers OF the Pitts
burgh district refused the other day to
wear any made-in-Japan editions OF
Old Glory when they were distributed
in connection with the Washington
bcentenary anniversary Of the postal
service. Local officials explained that
the japanese flags were purchased from
a wholesale dealer ana sent out for
distribution before the foreign label
was detected.
or course, it's a long, long way to
Tippersry but already politicians who
haven't anything better to do have 1t
all doped out that Secretary of the
Treasury Ogden L. Mills is already
anointed as the Republican candidate
for President in 1886. Whatever be-
tides in November for the fortunes of
Herbert Hoover, these long distance
wiseacres viii tell you that It's all set
for the greatest Secretary of the Treas
ury since Mellon to inherit the G. o.
+. earth four years hence. Mr.. Mills
will be In the thick of the. campaign
this Fall. He's one Of the hardest
hitters in the administration team and
his special assignment Is to shoot holes
In the Roosevelt economics outgivings.
Mills Is an original Hoover man. He
was out for the Chief" early in the
1923 game and was one of the powers
behind the scenes at the Kansas City
convention.
Nothing so concrete as the Mills
horoscope is rampant in Democratic