Evening star., 1934-01-15
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

will seek the cooperation OF Uncle
Sam in effecting standardization of
silk stockings To pass the test. they
would have to endure 10000 cycles on
| a special stretching machine developed
by the Bureau of Standards. The
proper stocking would also have to
| keep its normal color and strength
/ throughout six launderings. Other
standards would apply to dimensions.
elasticity and reinforcement. The
Bureau Of Standards has discovered
that price has little to do with dura-
bility of hosiery. a 69-cent pair of
stockings having stood the test better
I than any other.
William r. Castle, jr, former Under
secretary of State. has a certain claim
to priority in recognition of the Soviet
Union. In 1880. while special Ambas-
SadOr to Japan during the London
Naval Conference, he made the &C
quaintance of Alexander Troyanovsky.
now Soviet Ambassador to the United
States. As Washington and Moscow
were not then on speaking terms,
there was certain frigidity when the
+ Ambassadors encountered each other
in Toxic although Castle broke the
ice by extending his hand in greeting
| the first time they came into close
contact Later in the season Baron
Shidehara, foreign minister, gave a
diplomatic dinner on the Emperor's
birthday anniversary. Castle and
Troyanovsky sat opposite each other.
Shidehara having remarked laughingly
that instead of American cocktails
there was Russian vodka. Castle tilted
his glass in Troyanovsky's direction
and said: Mr.. Ambassador, your very
| good health?" Baron Shidehara,
observing the pleasantly, remarked:
well. If that isn't recognition, don't
know what is
There's been 8 quiet but successful
revolution under the dome Of the Cap
itol. 1t ranges around one of America S
most cherished institutions-pie. The
scene of the uprising was the Senate
restaurant, which startled its clientele
when Congress reconvened on January
with a menu indicating that a cut
of pie cost Is cents, instead of 10, as
formerly. Complaint, prompt and
loud, started in the section of the
restaurant reserved for Senators and
then spread to the room set aside for
the press gallery. The result was
restoration of the 10-cent rate, although
the management no longer supplies
| cheese which costs an extra nickel
Mr.. Meaney, manager of the Senate
restaurant, says the increased cost OF
materials has compelled an average
boost of IL per cent in his prices. Bread
and butter or crackers are no longer
supplied with soup. Like cheese with
pie, they, too, cost an extra nickel now.
Mr.. Meaney says If beer were legal on
| the Senate SIDE as it is in the House,
he might be able to keep prices down.
Beer is said to net a profit of $3.50 q
week for the House restaurant.
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Representative Connery, Democrat. of
Massachusetts,, observed during the
House debate on the gag rule that not
postal workers he overheard a couple
of postmasters discussing the display of
the Blue Eagle in the windows of their
respective post Offices When Mr.. Con-
merry spoke later in the evening, he said
"You gentlemen are all wrong on that
proposition The Blue Eagle is for con-
Germs which have raised wages and
| shortened hours. The United States
Government has cut wages and length
ened hours, so what we ought to have
in our post offices, as well as in all
other Government departments, is a
black hawk
| You'd hardly expect the capitalistic
and TORY" East to be the geographical
source from which the New Deal
would derive Supreme Court resort
Yet, since the Minnesota emergency de-
cision was handed down. it's been noted
| that of the five justices who voted for