Evening star., 1933-06-28

From top to bottom the Navy re-
| Joices in President Roosevelt's impend-
ing trip down the Atlantic Coast aboard
U. S. S. Indianapolis, latest of our
| 10,000-ton 8-inch gun cruisers, most
| powerful men-of-war Uncle Sam is
permitted to build within existing
treaty limitations. The Indianapolis
was commissioned on November Is,
1882, having been recently completed
works at Camden, N. J. She has al
ready made one short cruise to the
West coast of South America as a
shake down" trip-that is to say, for
the preliminary training Of officers and
| crew of 700. A lean, speedy ship, with
600 feet of graceful stream lines, the
Indianapolis powerful engine can drive
her easily at 81 or 80 knots. She in
corporates every attribute of modern
naval construction and the sailor Presi-
dent will see at first hand what the
last word in this type of warship en-
bodies. It Is safe to say that every
officer and man of the Indianapolis
personnel will be keen to demonstrate
the possibilities of this latest unit of
our sea power Also it is foregone
conclusion that the President will con-
duct a bombardment of questions as to
the qualities of the ship, to answer
which will keep his shipmates of the
moment on their toes. Mr.. RoOSevelt's S
love of the sea and knowledge of naval
| history are proverbial. In his recent
Congressional Directory autobiography,
F. D. R. proudly records that as As
sistant Secretary of the Navy he had
charge of the inspection Of United
States forces in European waters in
| 1918 and their demobilization in 1919.
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Amherst College is coming into al
most as much of its own under the new
deal as it did during the Coolidge
regime The former Presidents alma
mater now claims no fewer than three
distinguished sons in high places at
Washington-Speaker Rainey, Budget
Director Douglas and Federal Railroad
Co-ordinator Eastman. Mr.. Eastman
is afraid that the urgencies of the hour
may rob him this year of his coveted
annual Summer outing with his Am
herst classmate, Fayette B. Dow, Wash
| ington lawyer, with whom since college
DAYS, more than 25 years ago, Eastman
has always gone camping in the Cana
dian woods. Another Washingtonian
who was at Amherst with Messrs. East
man and Dow is Albert w. Atwood OF
the Saturday Evening Post staff. Once
upon a time, Eastman, Atwood and
Stanley King, now president of Am
herst, constituted its debating team:
The railroad czar's favorite method OF
keeping fit is hand ball.
As they're still razzing Secretary Of
State Hull for having committed the
| faux pas, while tarrying at Cork en-
route to the London conference, of re-
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worthwhile recalling that even the
Mayor Of Boston, hub of American cul-
ture, once made a break in Europe
quite as egregious. He was the cele-
brated Honey Fitz," John F. Fitzger-
aid, who headed a delegation of the
Boston Chamber of Commerce then
touring Germany. At luncheon in its
| honor at the Berlin City Hall, Honey
Fitz" declared that the Bostonians,
having already seen Hamburg, Bremen
and Berlin, now looked forward to
visiting "those two other great Ger
man cities, Vienna and Budapest" 1t
was about the same time that an
American admiral in the harbor OF
Copenhagen, by q slip of the tongue,
responded to q welcome from the head
Of the Danish navy, by proposing q
toast to the German navy. And there
was the distinguished United States
Senator at Rio de Janeiro, who, re-
spending to a toast to the United
States Pan-American Conference dele
CATION by the President of Brazil, de-
plored his inability to reply "in your
beautiful Spanish language" the ANA
zon republic being the one Latin
country in which Spanish is despised
and only Portuguese recognized.
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