Evening star., 1937-04-23

can give you $50 complaints that the
people coming in there are unbearablv
ruoe. occasionally in the rush season
one OF the temporary people NAV be
curt. IL is exacting work. Many persons
ooJect 70 being questioned concerning
personal matters, which must be set
1ortn IN passport applications. When
CLERKS ask Tor that information and
inslst upon having it, they are said to
ne rude. Most complaints are based on
that"
Herbert Claiborne Pell of Newport
II. l., who has just been appointed Min
iSIef 10 Portugal, is longtime political
crohy OF President Roosevelt, as well
as former fellow student at Harvard.
Following term in the Sixty-sixth Con-
eress as a member of the House of
Representatives, Mr. Pell was Chairman
OF the New York State Democratic Com.
mittee while Mr.. Roosevelt was being
groomed for the governorship and later
Tor The presidency. Previously Pell was
active in the Bull Moose movement and
chairman of its Orange County, N. Y.
committee. Though he is without ex-
perlence in the foreign service. Mr..
Pell has numerous ties with learned
societies in Europe concerning them
serves with diplomacy, history, political
science, literature and international af-
lars. He has been an occasional lee
turer on those subjects at Columbia
and Harvard.
Following recent action of the Ameri-
can cotton textile trade in patching up
an export quota agreement with Japan,
to avoid flooding OF the United States
with loW-cost Nipponses piece goods,
the National Association of Hosiery
manufacturers, acting for the entire
hosiery industry of the country, has
just made three-year quota arrange
ment with the Japan Knitted Goods Ex-
porterS' Association. The pact, retro
active to January, 1887 covers cotton.
rayon and cotton-rayon hose of all
classlncauons. 1t will limit annual
Japanese sales In this country to 15OO,-
o0o dozen pairs. In recent years these
imports have grown steadily, until in
1886 they totaled 2144,00O dozen. The
new agreement thus effects 80 per cent
reduction.
Further to cement cordial relations
between Canada and the United States,
a second conference on Dominion
American affairs will be held at Queens
University, Kingston, Ontario, during
the week of June 14-18 under auspices
OF the Carnegie Endowment for Inter-
national Peace. The endowment has in
preparation a library of A volumes
comprehending the history of Canadian
American relations. DR.. James T. Shot
well, supervisor of the collection, SAYS:
1T is doubtful If there is any other
frontier in the world so untouched by
the menace of war as that which divides
Canada from the United States. This
fact might seem to make the study of
our relations superfluous except as
purely academic interest, but there is
as much to learn from success in an
international neighborhood as from
failure. When government
railway runs freely in the territory of
another sovereign state, it provides an
object lesson sadly needed in Europe
and Asia"
Apropos Belgian Premier Van Zee
lands forthcoming arrival in this
country, they're telling story in Prince
ton about an episode at Brussels in
November 1885, few days after Yale
had unexpectedly defeated Princeton
in foot ball. A Yale friend of M. Van
Iceland, Princeton 81, handed him q
slip of paper on which was scrawled: !:
yale. 7; Princeton, o." The premier
scribbled message on the paper and
handed it back. His rejoinder read:
Belgian cabinet-Princeton, Q; Yale, o."
The other Princeton-t trained cabinet
member to whom Van iceland thus re-
ferred is Viscount Charles de Bus de
Warnahe, minister OF interior. Like the