Evening star., 1933-10-06

President RooSevelts continued 81
lence ON monetary issues is becoming
oppressive, not to say ominous, to the
business world. During the week he
has delivered two public addresses, one
at Chicago, before the American Legion,
and the other in New York, before the
Catholic Charities conference.-the on
neither occasion was there the anxiously
awaited hint or sign Of administration
intentions on the burning issue Of in
f1ation. Thus, all predictions Of the
past fortnight that the President was
on the threshold Of unbosomtng himself
on money matters have to date turned
out to be wrong. Optimists still hope
that Mr.. Roosevelt's remarks at to-
morrow's dedication Of the Gompers
statue may bring forth a pronounce
ment. The more prevalent view Is that
the President apparently feels he has
given the country ample indication OF
his immediate purpose-to expand
credit, not the currency-and to give
that impulse to recovery opportunity to
work before recourse to other panaceas.
Meantime the people have his pledge
of May Z, to avail himself Of the cur
rency powers Congress voted him
when. as and If necessary" On that
program F. D. r. appears to be stand
ing pat, inflationist clanor and per-
plexities of business to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
Proclamation of turmoil in Cuba
threatens to disarrange the admins
tration's plans for the Pan American
Conference at Montevideo, as far as
the personnel Of the United States dele
cation is concerned. AS long as condi-
tions at Havana remain chaotic and
with them the enduring possibility OF
American Intervention, 1t is highly un-
likely that either of the two men
hitherto regarded as certatnties for the
delegation, Secretary Hull and Ambas-
sador Welles, could be spared to 60 to
Uruguay. For economy reasons, the
American delegation will probably be
smaller than usual. We sent nine dele
gates, headed by Secretary Of State
Charles Evans Hughes, to the preceding
conference, at Havana, in 1928. AT
Monteviodeo the delegation may not
consist of more than five. II President
Roosevelt decides upon some Republican
representation, he may name William s.
Culbertson Of Kansas, who has Just re-
tired as Ambassador to Chile. MI: Cui-
bertson ranks as Charley curtis
man" is q fluent speaker Of Spanish
and knows his Latin American onions.
Kosciusko, Miss, is making great
plans to entertain enthusiastic stamp
collectors on october 13. The Post
Office Department is to issue stamp
on that day commemorating Thaddeus
Kosciusko, Gen. George washington
great Polish lieutenant at whose death
4 - "fTAadnm
shrieked." The Mississippi town Is the
only one in the United States bearing
Kosciuskos name, which it received by
act of the State Legislature in 1889.
At the instigation of Senator Pat Har-
rison, Postmaster General Farley deslg-
mated Kosciusko as the ONCE OF nrst-
day sale for the commemorative stamp.
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The American Foreign Service Journal
for October prints a snapshot OF Nelson
T. johnson, American Minister to China,
being towed through Peiping In a
jinrikisha. The caption Of the picture
narrates that Mr.. johnson practices
Government economy" by riding IN a
"rickshaw," evidently to save the cost
Of automobile upkeep. AS our seasoned
envoy to China displaceS something
around 200 pounds Of avoirdupois, his
rickshaw men have their work cut out
for them.
A great yarn about Cordell Hull is
brought to town by q Washingtonian
who recently toured the Hull country in
Tennessee. It dates back to the time
when the Secretary of State was on the
bench Of the nth judicial district in his
home State Before him one day came
a wrinkled old woman charged with
moonshining Judge Hull even in those
days was a corrugated dry, and moon
sinners knew what to expect at his
hands. The culprit in question, it ap-
pears, had once rescued the judges
father from capture by hostile troops
during the Civil War. After the de-
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