Evening star., 1936-01-20
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

chairman of the Committee for Indus
trial Organization and president of the
United Mine Workers, quoted Rudyard
Kipling ITO paraphraSe the message
of the poet in verse dedicated to friends
in India" said Mr.. Lewis, I'VE of the
United Mine Workers can also truth
fully say to you that the deaths you
died we have watched beside, and the
lives you led have been ours"
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President Roosevelt is deeply inter-
ested in the project now before Congress
to build up the Naval Reserve to 100000
odd men. or about five times its present
dimensions. What the commander in
chief and the Navy Department have
in view is not the needs of the immedi-
ate moment, but the requirements of
the feet six years hence, when the
United States treaty Navy" will be COM
pleted. The expansion plan is notice to
all the world that Uncle Sam intends to
maintain his allotted naval quota at full
strength, in man power as we'll as ships
Although the program has been launched
at the very hour the collapse of the Lon
don Naval Conference opens the way to
renewed building competition, it was not
timed to coincide with that development.
Japan and all others concerned are
nevertheless made aware at a psychologi-
cal moment of Americas determination
to keep abreast of any consequences
that flow from the breakdown of further
limitation efforts.
Charles Lathrop Pack president of the
Association of Wo chino.
ton is now distributing the forty-third
edition of his famous Forestry Primer" /"
He issues it to celebrate this years six
tieth anniversary of forestry, dating
from the appointment of Franklin B..
Hough as first forest agent of the United
States in 1876. The commemorative edi-
copies of the booklet presented to schools
and colleges since the first edition in
January, 1926 Last years issue was
Corps, the establishment of which in
1888 is accounted q landmark in Ameri-
can forestry history. After the World
War the American Tree Association sent
millions of tree seeds to Europe. For
esters in France, Belgium. England
Scotland anc Ireland now report fine
suit of those American benefactions.
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From a Florida radio constituent OF
this observer comes the following mis-
sive: II heard you broadcast the other
night that the President considers 1t
moral obligation of the Government to
pay the farmers for commitments al
ready entered into under A. A. A. II
Mr., Roosevelt considers that these Gov
ernment promises to the farmers should
be. fulfilled, why aren't the promises to
nay our United States bonds IN gold
regarded equally sacred?"
It's not generally known that there are
four ships OF the United States Navy
aboard which whole families live. They
are the households of the respective COM
manding officers. The most famous OF
these vessels is U. S. S. Reina Mercedes,
the old Spanish cruiser OF that name
sunk in the harbor of Santiago in July,
1898, and later raised and reconditioned.
Housed over. she has been station ship
land also brig of the Naval Academy
at Annapolis since 1912. Other ships
which serve family residential purposes
arc U. 8. 8. Seattle, receiving ship at
New York; U. S. S. Rigel, tender, re-
ceiving ship of the San Diego destroyer
base, and U. S. s. God Star, station
ship also used as transport tor naval
personnel from Guam and other Far
Eastern ports.
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