Evening star., 1934-05-16

Regardless OF political Affiliations,
all Washington is intrigued by the
suggestion of w. Kingsland Macy,
New York State Republican chair
man, that Supreme Court Justice
Harlan F. Stone is ideal G. o. P.
presidential timber for 1885. The pro-
posal has the element of novelty, as
far as public mention of Stones name
is concerned, although privately his
White House eligibility has frequently
been discussed. If elected President
two years hence, Justice Stone would
be in his 65th year when inaugu-
rated in 1887. but his physical and
intellectual vigor wholly bellies his
actual vintage. Stone has the frame
of a professional wrestler. He threw
a wicked medicine ball at the daily
session of the Hoover breakfast cab
met. Everybody who has known him
since he came here 10 years ago as
Attorney General in the Coolidge
cabinet comedies Justice Stones presi-
Dental quality Despite his promptly
announced disinclination to descend
into the hurly-burly Of politics. the
general opinion is that Chairman
Macy has had a real brain wave
That Stone was once "a Wall Street
lawyer" is the only critical note his
presidential boomlet evokes, but his
demonstrated liberalism in the Su-
preme Court takes the sting out Of
that taunt.
Re-establishment of the Civilian
Conservation Corps on a basis ap-
proximating its maximum strength Of
about 300 900 men, calls attention to
one of the indisputable successes of
the new deal. The corps enrolled
personnel dropped to below 100000
men at the close Of the second half
years enrolment period on March 81.
The new men, roundly 100000 in all,
have been mobilized by the War De-
partment during the past five weeks,
as requirements for men discharged
before the opening of the third six
month period on April l. There
are now some 100000 men in the
camps. The C. C. C. record of health
and citizenship building. apart from
the work accomplished in the forests,
on the roads and in flood control,
reclamation and conservation, is ac-
knowledged to be one of the truly
bright spots in the entire emergency
and recovery program. Uncle Sam is
about to purchase 5000 900 acres to
expand the national forests in the
headwaters of the Tennessee Valley
and 10000 acres In As national for
est-purchase units. G. c. G. men this
year will be at work in many of the
newly acquired areas
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"The United States and Cuba" by
Harry F. Guggenheim. former AM
bassador to Cuba, is just off the press
The book is an exhaustive review of
our relations with the island since
Spanish colonial times. Mr.. Guggen-
helm advocates abolition Of the Platt
amendment. "The history of our re-
lations with Cuba" he says, "indi-
Gates that the utility of this article
in the present treaty is outworn and
that it is now inappropriate. In spite
OF a policy by the United States
of strict non-interference in Cuban
affairs, the existence of Article III
contributes to the ever-present threat
that intervention may be deliberately
provoked. In place Of it might be
substituted a guarantee Of independ-
ence similar to that contained In the
treaty between the United States and
Panama"
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w. Campbell Armstrong. legal ad-
wiser to former Governor General
Dwight r. Davis in the Philippines, u
authority for the xtatemert that ,Iapan