Evening star., 1936-09-04

in nineteenth century American history.
Oil-bearing land was discovered on the
Steele ancestral farm, and, as the tale
is told it was with the resultant lush
profits that Johnny" later achieved
renoWn as the most lavish distributor
of dollars ever known up to his arrival
upon the Yankee scene. 1t was in the
oil atmosphere of his native heath that
ALT Landon imbibed his interest in
petroleum. from which he was destined
to derive a fortune in Kansas Perhaps
1t was the horrible example of Coal
Oil Johnny" that predestined the other
Mercer County lad to espouse the vir-
tues of thrift
Count Kaneko, veteran Japanese
statesman, who had planned as a Har-
vardS graduate to attend this months
tercentenary ceremonies at Cambridge,
has just sent word that he's been
obliged to cancel his trip. The count
was the personal representative of the
Japanese Emperor in the United States
during the RuSso-Japanese war and was
conSpicuouSly identified with the Ports
mouth Peace Conference. He was
looked upon there more or less as
spokesman of President Theodore Roose-
velt, with whom Kaneko enjoyed an
intimate friendship. He is at present
member of the Privy Council at Toxic
and recently completed his monumental
work on the reign of the Emperor Meiji.
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Under the title of Bedrock" an edi-
ton of 100000 copies of book by Sena-
tor Borah has just been issued. 1t con-
Sists of some so speeches, letters and
articles by the Idahoan, now included
for the first time in volume and pub
lished by the National Home Library
Foundation for popular distribution at
25 cents. Senator Borah has persiStently
rejected publishers entreaties to write
an autobiography embracing his genera
ton OF public life. He is said to have
represented that the price ordinarily
charged for books would keep his mes
sage" from reaching the people. Borah
has renounced all royalties from the
sale of Bedrock"
Once again the Farley resignation
rumor is stalking through the Capital
land. The Roosevelt political field mar
shall is quoted as having recently de-
clared to Washington friends that he
definitely intends to leave the postmaster
generalship following F. D. RS second
Inauguration in January, assuming, of
course, that such there is to be. Sunny
Jim" is credited with having reafirmed
on the same occasion his ong-cherished
preference to concentrate on Democratic
party management and relinquish cabi-
net responsibilities, but that he had
determined not to do so under conditions
that might suggest he was getting out
under fire.
Former Washington Metropolitan Po-
lice Inspector William H. Harrison isn't
j. Pierpont Morgan's only twin" here
abouts. Another double is Joseph D.
Rodgers, veteran Republican House Of
Representatives official and now one of
the minority clerks. For years Joe has
been so often mistaken on Capitol Hill
for the New York plutocrat that his
friends think he only narrowly escaped
having a circus midget deposited on his
lap on a certain occasion in 1888. Rod
gers has still another claim to diStinc-
tion-he, Chief Minority Clerk William
Tyler Page and former Representative
Charles r. Crisp, Democrat, of Georgia,
were born on the same day, and when
they were all on duty in Congress regu-
larly celebrated their birthdays together.
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