Evening star., 1933-06-23
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILL

Roosevelt to be of yeoman service at
London in this cantankerous hour.
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Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry
Latrobe Roosevelt is making the same
kind of reputation for strenuous &C
tivity in the department as those two
other RooSevelts-Theodore and Frank
lin D.-achieved in the same post years
ago. Across Col. Roosevelts desk IS
said nowadays to be routed the lions
share of the multifarious details aSso-
ciated with the construction and admin
istration of the Navy. He will play
prominent role in the carrying out OF
the 32-ship building program Just au-
thorized. Secretary Swanson, VINO per.
soEally discovered" Col. Roosevelt and
brought about his appointment to the
assistant secretaryship, rejoices IN the
fine account the former Marine Is glV,
ing of himself and in the widespread
popularity his chief departmental aide
has already won throughout the service.
x y x X
In the District of Columbia courts
case is soon to be tried which may es-
tablish the legal right of finder Of lost
ar.icies to claim a reward. Last VIM
ter we'll known Washington woman
recovered a costly collection OF jewels
left in a taxicab. Five hundred dollars
was offered the honest driver by the
lady's husband. but the chauffeur found
himself compelled to go to law to collect
balance of $3.50.
Political gossip persists as to some
Of the reasons which induced former
Federal Reserve Governor Eugene Myer
to plunge into journalism by acquiring
the Washington Post. One of the
end of the session stories that rumbled
through the iobbies of Congress was
to the effect that the Post, under its
new ownership, Is going to come forth
some sunny day as boomer and groomer
in chief of Ogden L. Mills as Repub-
lican candidate for President in 1886.
Should there be Mills presidency, the
same yarn had 1T that Eugene Meyer
would be Secretary of the Treasury in
such a set-up. And finally, SO the
story went, 1t would be difficult for any
President to make a more appropriate
selection. Senator Carter Glass ranks
as one of the men who, despite the
difference in their political faith, holds
Mr.. Meyers financial genius in high
regard.
All the members of the United States
foreign service, both fncumbents and
newcomers, find President Roosevelt
deeply interested in everything con-
nected with the personnel of the serv-
ice. He has indicated to them that
his interest springs to considerable
extent from the fact that the service
now functions under the Rogers law,
whose author was the late Representa-
tive John Jacob Rogers OF Massa-
chusetts, husband of Congresswoman
Edith Nourse Rogers. The former
member from the Lowell district was
a clasSmate of F. d. r. at Harvard,
graduating with him in 1904, and their
friendship was perpetuated throughout
their respective public careers.
Prof Moley has left Washington just
about the time some of his colleagues
in the State Department We're Begin
ming to know him. He has earned the
reputation there of being a bit of
recluse and not keen to extend his
acquaintance throughout the staff. Not
long ago a junior official swanked that
he had succeeded in breaking the ice
and getting to know the head man OF
the brain trust. Forthwith the envied
official became famous throughout the
rambling and ramshackle old mansard
monstrosity known as the State, War
and Navy building as the man who
met Moley"
tCopyrght. 1933D