Evening star., 1934-12-02
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Literature, Art, Politics
President Writes Foreword for Capt. Knox New
Book-Donkey and Elephant Trail Into New
Ofices-Placing Callatin Statue.

to send out I. o. U.'s-they would owe
his Uncle Sam $3.50, 0,122.354. A tidy
little sum as interest on war debts.
A prompt and polite answer came
from the Republic of Finland that
she would meet the semi-annual in
stallment due on her debt to the
United States. she always has. But
acceptanceS from the other debtor
countries have not been very brisk IN
coming forward. Maybe there were
no r. S. w. Ps. on Mr.. Hull's notes.
In the case of Finland virtue
hath its own reward, for while the
Finnish government pays the semi
annual installment with one hand.
syndicate of New York banks markets
an issue of 100000 Finnish gov
ernment per cent notes due from
1886 to 1910, the proceeds to be ap-
piled to the retirement of some
Sl80O0,000 of Finland's 7 and 5i2
per cent bonds held here. Mr. Hull
and Mr.. Euclid father of geometry,
B. c. may understand this tranSac
ton if Mr. Morgenthau says its all
right. but the man in the street with
his little Liberty bond, can't quite
get it.
Secretary Hull made a charming
short speech at the Women'S Ma
tional Press Club luncheon last week
in which he referred to Mr.. Sumner
Welles as his official orator Mr.
Welles was quite up to snuff and said
a lot in little A charming, well-bred
gentleman; a diplomat and the hus-
band of the beautiful Mathilde
Townsend, who came along with him
and who, too, was gracious and demo-
cratic.
Capt. Dudley w Knox, N. S. N,
has compiled a volume of old naval
records. for which the Skipper Presi-
dent has written the foreword. He
was certainly in his element and it
was undoubtedly a labor of love for
President Roosevelt. He writes: The
many-sided lessons locked up in old
naval manuscripts are we'll worthy
Of public attention. Our early naval
and maritime history is closely asso-
Ciated with the country'S pioneer
settlement and expansion. with the
" IllIlILlS VI 1lo PClllCllNC anu Will
its subsequent security in very pre-
carious times" He goes on to say,
partisan and non-sectional in
sympathy it devoted itself exclusively
to the promotion and defense of broad
national interests These manu-
scripts-about to be sold by the Gov
ernment-have been hidden away in
dusty receSSes In his foreWord Mr..
Roosevelt recalls that when he was
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy, he
himself discovered hidden away
among the caves of the State. War
and Navy Building quantity of
captains" letters from commanders
of Americas earliest ships.
In years past the Government was
not careful in preserving many of its
archives and tucked away in several
of the old department buildings, COW
cred with dust and cobwebs. research
could bring to light delightful in
teresting reading relative to the early
history Of the States.
Mr.. James e. Watson, sometime
Senator from Indiana, says there are
Just too many Democrats. This is
why he had to change his occupation.
Now he is director of corporations
or is it just to sell stock?
Come on California with your poll
tician-poet. There is romance and
sentiment in the newly elected Rep
reSentative John Stevens McGroarty,
nf tho oloUoyoth nf To1ifnrr,io Er
McGroarty is an editor, lawyer, miner
and poet. The name would imply
a Democrat, and he is one. He pur-
poses to go all the way with the Presi-
dent, beginning with the New Deal.
The most frequently quoted of his
poems is perhaps the concluding STAN
"a of Just California" It's like this:
Sun and dew that kiss it, Balmy
winds that blow. The stars in clus-
tered diadems, Upon its peaks of snow"
and other enchanting things he
says about Mr.. Hoover's State.
How about Representative Irving
Sirovich, D. D., of New York? Fellow
of the American College of Surgeons,
who writes plays. Good many literary
lights will be in the coming session
of the Congress. And one must read
that early novel of Mr.. Donald Rich
berg-is he second in command to
President Roosevelt, first lieutenant or
just Gen Johnson's successor-Which
Crowell has reprinted at 81 per. Its
title is very apropos OF the pl esent
course of events. "A Man of Pur-
pose" Quite so, Mr.. Richberg: one