Evening star., 1935-02-03
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

Mr.. Ogden Mills. Secretary of the
Treasury in the Hoover administra-
ton, would certainly have made a
ducky headliner for a sensational
news sheet, for his new book. with
the ominouS question mark, "What
of the Fruture?" is absolutely bristling
with snappy titles. After all it's the
title that first catches the eye OF the
buyer. OF course, any one would readily
sense the meaning of Mr.. Mills title.
for the public generally knows what
is uppermost in his mind, and If the
man in the street does not know, It's
because he was blind, deaf and dumb
during the campaign last Fail, when
Mr.. Mills speeches on the musings
were among the few which showed
what a progressive program in the
opposition party would include.
He Travelled far and wide last Sum-
mer over the West and the Middle
West, and while many people out
there thought that he was proprietor
of the Mills Hotel in New York and
knew all about the forgotten man. he
told them In no uncertain terms that
the Republican party was far from
being the forgotten party-which was
verified by the 100000 votes that
1t polled in November, 1884.
But What of the Future" is neither
a noval, a romance nor religious
tract: it is a warning against the
New Deal, with fetching titles. vigor-
GUS English and now and then touch
Of humor
Mr.. Mills began quite sedately in
1888 with Some Aspects of the
Monetary Problem; this was fol-
lowed by Where Do We Go From
Here?"-it will be recalled that he
was with the A. E. F. in France
Evolution With an R." Back to the
Middle Ages Dictatorship or
Democracy" Recovery or Bust
think of the elegant, aristocratic Mr..
Mills using that title-and finally. in
November, his swift uppercut, I'm
employment Reserves" his final
thrust against what he considers the
failure of the unemployment program.
If Boake Carter's John @. public is
not educated in the sWift-mOving
uAAo ~ "AAA AlSS
be the fault of President Roosevelt's
cabinet, Mr.. Mills, Mr.. ShouSe and a
few others whose books are rolling off
the presses with tremendous rapidity.
Reams about the Constitution. The
Preamble to the Constitution is beau-
tiful in the simplicity of its wording
and the choice of its language.
Representative WadsWorth of New
York made the rather startling state
ment the other day-a reminder
that some States have put off for
more than a century the ratification
OF proposed constitutional amend
ments. Mr.. Wadsworth seeks more
prompt and uniform ratification ma
chinery and proposes a bill setting
a maximum time limit of two years
and % days for holding Nationwide
referenda on changes in the Consti-
tuition.
At reception a few days ago some
one remarked that V. Sackville Vests
husband was in town. There were
obs! and abs! and it suddenly broke
that Mr.. Harold Nicolson, the dis
tinguished British biographer, was
meant. He seems to have been much
interested up on the Hill-maybe he
is picking a new subject to biograph.
Mr. Nicolson has in preparation a
biography of the late Senator-elect
Dwight w. Morrow of New Jersey, and
has been spending some time going
over matter with Mrs. Morrow at her
home there She expects to accom-
pany him to Mexico to collect further
material. This will be particularly a
labor of love for her, for Mexico held
many charms for the Morrow family
and it is not often that an American
Ambassador to the country to the
south of the States became so much
part of the people and entered so
happily into their customs and amuse-
ments. Their charming Spanish-type
house in Cuernavaca, up in the noun
tains, was a constant source of
pleasure to the entire family, and it
was there the late Ambassador would
go for rest and relaxation.
Washingtonians took kindly to Mr..
Nicolson's biography of the late Lord
CurZon. While he spoke with eX-
ceed'ng frankness of the character
and foibles of his lordship, his criti-
cisms were never offensive and were
made with the good taste for which
Lord Curzon was such a stickler. So
much cannot be said of Mr.. Nicolson's S
Lord Byron" biography. There is a
fascination about writing biographies
of distinguished or prominent folk,
and the flrst-with the exception of
Boswell's Johnson-is usually followed
by a train of others. The biographies
in the Bible are simply delightful
literature. aside from the sacred
message which they convey.
The late Prince Gelasio Caetani,
former Italian Ambassador in Wash
ington, and very popular here, and
who died in Rome last October, be-
queathed the archives of the feudal
princes of Caetani to the Vatican
Library, also his own private library
which was rare.
The Caetani archives comprise more
than 100000 documents, 2,700 VOL