Evening star., 1935-08-09

One of the most interesting historic
celebrations which the United States
has ever witnessed, and one which prom
ises also to be extremely picturesque
and colorful will be the Texas Cen
tennial OF its independence to be OBJ
served throughout the whole of next
year. Curiously enough, as the Texan
War of Independence was all crowded
into the short space of a twelvemonth,
it will be possible to commemorate in
chronological order the successive battles
and other events as they occurred dur
ing the year. 1t will be literal I'M
folding of the pages of history from the
memorable battle of the Alamo on
through to the crushing defeat Of the
Mexicans at San Jacinto. President
Roosevelt in the appointment of Cullen
F. Thomas of Dallas as commissioner
general of the centennial gave deserved
recognition to the man whose dream
this celebration has been for years. With
impressive eloquence he urged it before
committees of Congress, which has ap-
propriated 3,0O0 900 for Federal par
ticipation and appointed commission
composed of Vice President Garner and
Secretaries Hull, Wallace and Roper
to aid.
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Going back into American history so
years farther, Congress has made provi-
sion for another epochal series of moving
events to be fittingly celebrated. In
doing so, Congress declared in its reso-
luton looking to the observance of the
150th anniversary of the adoption of the
ordinance of 1887 and the settlement
oF ha hot
is an indicative analogy between the
national problems of $50 years ago and
those of the present day, making study
of the accomplishments of those early
days of value to Our people today" The
famous ordinance, passed by Congress,
sitting in New York only a few weeks
prior to the completion of the ConSti-
tuition in Philadelphia, formed the basis
of government not only for the North
west Territory, embracing what is now
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
conSin and part of Minnesota, but for
each succeeding territory acquired by
the United States.
In the person of Theodore A. M.
Stauning, premier of Denmark, who is
planning to visit the United States in
the near future, although his arrival
has been delayed from this month until
early october, Washington officialdom
will have the pleasure of meeting and
greeting man-impressive, dominant,
picturesque-who has been an important
figure in the life of his nation for many
years past. He desires a closer COM
mercial accord with this country.
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Precautions are taken by the Gov
ernment to guard much information
vitally affecting the public welfare
against premature, or immature, publi-
cation, but these precautions, amplified
to the nth degree, reach their climax
in the impenetrable veil of secrecy
thrown around the assembling and
tabulation of the reports received and
the resultant announcement by the De-
partment of Agriculture of the first an
nual cotton crop estimate. There IS good
reason for the unusual care with which
the Government cloaks this inestimably
valuable secret, because leak" on
Americas initial estimate OF its cotton
crop would "set the world by its ears"
and within few minutes after that
news had been flashed to New York,
Liverpool and other marts of the trade
q wild wave of speculation would start
which might be disastrous u its financial