Evening star., 1934-12-21

Both President Roosevelt and Sec
retary Hull indicate that 1t is prema-
ture to suggest that there is any
thought of abandoning Americas his
toric policy of the freedom of the
seas" The State Departments neu-
trality study may eventually reach the
point of considering the scrapping of
the principle, for which the United
States went to war in 1912 and in
1917, but apparently no such decision
has so far been reached. If it is ever
seriously proposed to renounce our
traditional position, 1t is q safe proph-
ecy that there viii be q wealth
of opposition argument. The wheat
raiser, the cotton grower, the meat
packer, the steel maker and the host
of other American interests that since
time immemorial have done overseas
business in war time. may not forego
without protest the right to continue
that practice and to demand the pro-
lection Of the United States Navy.
Apart from the practical commercial
questions involved. there's undoubt-
edly an fashioned school Of
thought that favors keeping the stars
and Stripes at sea rs long as Uncle
Sam is attending legitimately and
legally to his own business In the
maritime realm.
One of the advantages Of having
our Ambassadors and Ministers, now
here In unusual number, come home
periodically Is the opportunity to keep
them abreast OF political and economic
DEVELOPMENTS in the United States.
An envoy who remains at his post too
long, especially in kaleidoscope New
Deal times, loses touch and Ii cor
respondinsly handicapped In inter-
preting the American viewpoint to the
government and people to which he
Is accredited. Foreign governments
only exceptionally allow an Ambassa-
dor or Minister to remain for q pro-
tracted period at any one capital.
The late Jules Jusserand was French
Ambassador in Washington for the
better part of IS years. At the time
it was thought that this may have
been one of the reasons why the
scholarly diplomat was retired.
One Of the striking records made
in the November elections, as finally
disclosed by ofIicial figures, was
chalked Up by Senator Joseph G.
O'Mahoney, Democrat, Of wyoming,
in his successful contest for re-elec-
tion against Representative Vincent
Carter, Republican. The total sena-
torial vote of s4,376. though 1884 was
an on year, was larger than the 1882
presidential vote, which was only
9S953. OMahoney's total, with q
majority Of 13,05S. represented 56.s
per cent of the entire poll and was
the largest ever received by 3 Wyom-
ing candidate for the Senate, ex-
ceeding the big votes that the late
Senators Francis Z. Warren. Repub-
ncan, and John B. Kendrick, Demo-
crat, were accustomed to roll up. In
cidentally, O'Mahoney, formerly Jim
Farley's First Assistant Postmaster
General, led wyoming to the greatest
Democratic victory in its history.
Representative Paul r. Greever s
the FIRST Democrat the State hss
sent to the House in AZ years. In
addition, Wyoming for the first time
elected q Democrat to every State
office and made both Houses Of the
Legislature Democratic.
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Women deplore the passing Of Mary
Hartman Rumsey because she was SO
typical an exponent of the theory
that women have place in govern
ment and can fill it efficiently. Mrs.
Rumsey, long before coming to WASH