The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-28
Washington
Merry-Go-
Round
NOV. g, 1885
BY DREW PEARSON and
ROBERT :. ALLEN,

NTASHINGTON, Nov. 28-Those
w who have been sitting in on
some of the conferences between
British and American diplomats
during the Mediterranean and Far
Eastern crises, say that probably
never before-not even during the
World War-waS there such COM
plete understanding and sympathy
between the heads of the two Eng
disappearing countries.
Here is one significant illustra-
ton OF this which has escaped gen.
eral attention.
When the Canadian Treaty was
signed it was only natural TO ex-
pect an outbreak of indignation
from the British press. The effect
of the treaty virtually was TO nullify
British Empire trade preference in
Canada. The lowering of tariffs
against United States goods meant
a definite blow to British sales to
the Dominion.
Yet there was not single peep
from the British press.
Reason was that the British For
eign Office, which usually can guide
the press in its attitude toward for
eign relations. had given it a quiet
hint to lay off. The Foreign Office
did not want anything to disturb
the new Anglo American entente.
Reason for this entente is no Sc
cret. 1t accrueS from Roosevelt
British fears that Japan will en-
gulf all Eastern Asia. coupled with
the knowledge that the British and
American navieS each is powerleSs
in the Far East without the support
OF the other.
This is behind the appointment OF
Under Secretary of State Phillips as
a delegate to the London Naval con-
ference. Actually. this conferences
will move more to solidifX Anglo
American policy in the Far East
than it will to reduce navies.
Note-SenatOr Hiram Johnson has
written friends that he will stage
one of his old-fashioned League Of
Nations forensic battles against the
Roosevelt neutrality policy or-as he
says-lack of it. He claims RoOse-
welt is taking the United States into
the back door OF the League of Ma
tons.
"NOUD be surprised at Rex. He
Il knows a lot about bugsl" says
Lee A. Strong, chief bug expert in
the Department of Agriculture.
"a lot of people don't know the
difference between the cotton boil
weevil and the pink boil worm. but
Rex Tugwell does" says Strong. He
knows all kinds of bugs-fruit fliesy
chinch bugs, graSshoppers, or the
wire worms in Walla Walla."
Strong's enthusiasm for Rex Tug
we'll as an entomologist grows out
of a recent trip to Mexico with the
Undersecretary of Agriculture. They
drove a thousand miles together
from San Antonio over the new
highway to Mexico City.
I'VE took it easy so we could see
the countryside. Every once in a
while Rex would get out and pick
an orange from the orange trees that
grow wild in the hills.
And if he got ahold of an insect,
he knew it every time. l tell you,
there's nothing smateurish about
Tugwell's knowledge of bugs"
Note-Though Tugwell's main job
is administrator of resettlement, he
remains Undersecretary of Agricul-
ture.
TT is Harry Hopkins boast that he
i. has brought new hope to New
Yorks Greenwich Village.
Authors and artists of the "Vil-
lage" have discovered that not all
WPA projects were designed for
Wielders of picks and shovels, and
as a result, many well-known
writer has been taken from relief
rolls.
Maxwell Bodenheim is one. Harry
Kemp is another. Bodenheim was
famous in 1925 as the author of the
novel, "Replenishing Jessica," and
he has published a lot of verse.
Kemp is the man who made trip
around the world, starting with %
cents, and wrote about it in the
book, "Tramping on Life" He also
founded the Poets Theater.
Both men were destitute and on
relief when their old friend Henry
Alsberg came along. Aslberg is the
man Hopkins picked to manage
writer's projects. He is editor in
chief of The American Guide.
WPA project on which unemployed
authors in every state are collsb-
Grating.
A1sberg is excited about the zest
he finds among writer's who, once
famous, are glad to get 500 month
from the government, and work for
it.
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