Evening star., 1937-11-03
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

words of st. Francis Xavier, five CEN
turleS ago, i know not when to cease
in speaking of the Japanese; truly they
are the delight of my heart. Devoted
to the cause of japanese American
friendship and peace, Mrs. Burnett is
hopeful that a more intelligent and
sympathetic understanding of Japans
rights and procedure in China may yet
prevail in the United States.
Speaking of I'D Rather Be Right" as
all New York is now doing, that amiable
assault on the New Deal recalls an in
cldent of the Coolidge era in Washing
ton. Soon after the Vermonter chose
not to run for the presidency in %, the
name of beloved Republican already
IN high Federal office was trotted out
as that of logical successor. His only
weakness being an acknowledged fond
ness for the flowing bowl, his wife
blasted the budding boom with an epi-
gram. Nothing doing" she said. Dick
(which wasn't his name) would rather
be tight than be President"
M. Jules Henry, battle-scarred veteran
counselor of the French Embassy, is eX-
pected to leave Washington shortly be-
lore the end OF the year to become chief
OF the American section of the Paris
foreign offlce-a promotion which is a
tribute to the fact that no living French.
man (and not many Americans) has so
thorough knowledge of the politics and
economics of the United States. M.
Henry's days on the Potomac date back
to the World War. He has survived
half dozen ambassadorial chiefs, after
serving successfully and successfully as
their guide, philosopher and friend.
Henry's admirers are confident that
sooner or later he'll return to Washing
ton as his country's envoy.
X y
George w. Simpson, Washington cor
respondent of the Houston Post, is lust
back from a vacation in the grass roots
of Iowa and neighboring corn and hog
belts. Asked by newspaper colleagues
how things are looking politically in
the Middle West, the 1886 president of
the National Press Club replies, sig
nificantly: Il found people for Roose-
ve!t and against the New Deal"
y
Not long ago a certain official of the
Internal Revenue Bureau and a DOZEN
odd of his relatives formed a little
family corporation as the best method
of handling modest estate in which
they're jointly interested. Before long,
as it's executive officer he found him.
self stumped by so many and so intricate
tax questions from the branch of the
Government in which he himself ranks
as an expert that he had sorrowfully to
confess to his kinsmen that the situation
was beginning to battle him.
*
Recent proceedings at the convention
OF the United States Brewers Associa-
ton in Pittsburgh developed that the
beer industry is in a ferment of jitters
over the nightmare of prohibitions re-
turn. Speakers INDUCED in panic
stricken warnings of rising tide OF
dry sentiment as expressed in local
option elections. Jacob Rupert, owner
of the New York Yankees and head of
the organization, admonishes the brew
masters that they must particularly be
on their guard against letting beer play
the role in politics that brought the
entire beverage industry into disrepute
in the corrupt days before Volsteadism
Mahatma Gandhi is one of the brewers
scarecrows. Confident that we're on our
way back to the water wagon, Gandhi
thinks prohibition can be made so ef-
fective in India that 1T will be an
example to the rest of the world, espe-
cially the u. S. A.
(Oopyright, 1879