Evening star., 1934-07-23

President Roosevelt has been in
vited TO visit William and Mary Col
lege on October 20 10 receive an hon
orary degree and deliver an address
The occasion is the installation of
John Stewart Bryan, editor-publisher
OF the Richmond Leader, as
president of the college. 1t will also
mark the formal completion of the
$4,000 900 project sponsored by John
d. Rockefeller, jr., for restoration of
Williamsburg, picturesque Colonial
capital OF the Old Dominion. It's
difficult to conceive OF a more ideal
environment for q presidential So
journ than William and Mary, from
the campus OF which three Presidents
OF the United States were destined TO
emerge - Thomas Jefferson, James
Monroe and John Tyler. Chief jus
tice John Marshall was also = stu
dent at William and Mary. under
George Wythe. first professor of law
i'll the United states. Williamsburg S
wealth OF political traditions includes
the fact that although q community
OF barely a thousand souls. no fewer
than tour Of its citizens were delegates
to the Constitutional Convention ut
adelphia-George Wythe. John
Blair, Edmund Randolph president
Washinston's Attorney General and
later Secretary Of State), and DR., Nc
Clurg-the latter the flrst American
professor OF medicine. William and
Mary recently conferred an LII. ID.
upon Secretary of State Hull.
One OF the almost certain results
OF the turmoil on the Pacific Coast
and in other disturbed industrial
areas is intensified vigilance by Fed
eral. State and local authorities with
regard 10 Communist activities. Moth
ing In the form OF q concrete drive
| or crusade against red radicals Is in
sieht, but on the occasion of future
labor troubles their maneuvers are sure
70 be carefully watched. with a view To
prompt and drastic suppression of
anything Savorlng of subversive oper-
atoms. Organized labor may be re-
| lied upon 10 keep its ears and eyes
| open even more widely than hitherto.
| to Illustrate the Vaccinations of Conn
munlsts, who are notoriously bent
unon boring from within in order to
undermine conservative American
labor policies. Nearly all observers of
recent events on the coast are of
| opinion that the general strike, and
other extremist measures which were
! hnally thwarted at San Francisco,
were Of Communist inspiration.
| -
DR.. Leo s. Rowe. director general
of the Pam American Union, has lust
sailed for Colombia, where he will be
( the official guest of the government.
President Olaya, an old-time friend
OF DR.. Rowe from the formers days
as Colombian Minister in Washington
and member of the governing board
OF the union. desires to entertain and
honor Uncle Sans Minister for
Latin American affairs" as a tribute
10 Rowes sleepless efforts in the Cause
/ OF pan-Americanism. DIR. Rowe will
also be the guest of President -elect
Lopez who was recently in Washing
ton. The director general Of the
4 PanAAmerican Union has long desired
to visit Colombia because It's one OF
AAtC ANN AHtiI filkfCItCdn COuEttA ACS lle
doesn't know at first hand.
DR.. Gilbert Grosvenor, president OF
the National Geographic Society, and
Mrs. Grosvenor have just arrived in
Europe at the outset of a vacation
during which they will shortly cross
South Africa by airplane. They plar
then hy from Cairo to Broken Hill
South Africa iatnr xNroenalina tr