Evening star., 1936-03-16

With Secretary Hull already absent on
a brief vacation and President Roose-
welt about to embark upon his annual
fishing expedition in the South, WASH
ington international quarters are con-
vinced that Uncle Sam isn't expecting
war in Europe. Otherwise, it's argued,
administration leaders responsible for
conduct of foreign affairs would not be
absent from their posts.
Both the President and the Secretary
of State, it goes without saying, Will re-
main in constant touch with develop
ments, which are recognized here TO nave
taken q turn that makes war touch
and-go proposition. Nevertheless. our
official adviceS all foreshadow blood
less settlement sooner or later.
One highly placed official sums up the
situation by saying that it's more a
matter of tempers than terms-that II
responsible leaders in Paris, Berlin,
London. Brussels and Rome keep their
respective shirts on, a settlement can
and will be arranged.
In deciding to have John D. M. Hamil-
ton nationally organize the Landon-for-
President boom instead Of letting 1t con-
tinue on the go-as-you-pleaSe plan, tne
Kansas Governors boosters have taken
a leaf out of the wise political notebook
of Will H. Hays. The former G. 0. F.
national chairman and present move
car patented the aphorism that in pol
itics things don't just happen; they nave
to be brought about"
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Representative Karl Stefan, Republic
can. of Nebraska. who has just declared
that the White House is fire trap, mas
one of the most versatile records in Con-
press. In addition to being volunteer
fireman." in which capacity he ventureo
to proclaim the combustlblllty OF the
Executive Mansion, he describes himself
as newspaper writer, world Traveller ano
radio announcer. Mr.. Stefan, native OF
Austria, won his first seat in the House
in 1884 by defeating for reelection the
picturesque Nebraska Democrat, Edgar
Howard, longtime associate OF william
Jennings Bryan.
Reports from the Pacific Coast reflect
lively qualification over assignment OF
Mai. Gen. George S. Simonds, deputy
chief of staff, to the command OF the
9th Corps Area, with headquarters at
San Francisco. Under his jurisdiction
the Army will presently be spending some
$15,O00,000 on new defensive works IN
the coast region, and it's accounted a
fortuitouS circumstance that an ofncer
so well versed in the needs of that area
is to take charge at the Preside. During
Gen. Simonds' long career in the Army
he has had many tours OF duty that
familiarized him with Far Western mill
tary problems, including service in
Alaska, on the Mexican border and In
China and the Philippines.
BY general consent, Assistant Attor-
ney General John Dickinson made one
of the most effective pleas before the
Supreme Court yet offered on behalf OF
New Deal legislation when he recently
defended the constitutionality OF the
Guffey coal act. 1t was his maiden ap-
pearance as Government advocate, and
Chief Justice Hughes and the rest OF
the bench paid conspicuously close atten-
ton to his sonorouSly and logically pre-
sented argument, which occupied more
than three hours. Mr.. Dickinson, de-
scendant and namesake of John Dickin-
son. who represented Delaware at the
constitutional convention, quoted his
famous ancestor On the broad scor: