Evening star., 1937-02-03
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

across the ocean from London to aid in
rehabilitating his home town of Louis
vile, recalls that in 1907, as Mayor OF
the Kentucky metropolis, he and his
fellow city fathers thought they had
erected all possible bulwarkS against any
such catastrophe as the recent flood.
I'VE did our best" he says, but could
not conceive that the time would ever
come when even the Courier Journal
which I own, would stop publication for
one day. as it had to do last month.
1t was the first time in ITO years that
we failed to print regular issue, due
to shutdown of our power plant" AM
bassador Bingham, after bringing Wash
ington up to date on Anglo-American
relations, plans to return to his post
before the end of the month.
Washington seems to be Japan's
favorite training quarters for foreign
ministers If Ambassador Saito assumes
direction of Nippon's external relations
in the new cabinet, he will be the second
envoy to the United States to be pro-
NOTED to the island empires minister
ship of foreign affairs. The other was
Baron Shidehara, who attained that
rank after his mission to the United
States, including the 1922 armament
conference. Ambassador Saito'S great
crony in the Washington diplomatic
corps is Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky.
Their comradeship dates from common
official days in Japan. The entente
cordiale between the two diplomats,
which includes a mutuai fondness for
bridge, is regarded as a good omen for
Russo Japanese friendship under
Saito-ruled foreign Office at Toxic.
Up in Wall Street. where SuperStitions
and omens frequently affect the mar
kets trend and give brokers and specu-
lators weird lunches, a typical yarn is
making the rounds in connection with
the automobile strike Somebody called
attention to the fact that the new WASH
ington headquarters of John L. Lewis
Committee for Industrial Organization
the former University Club Building
stands in Mcpherson Square. The bulls
and bears are harping on that circum-
stance for the purpose of recalling that
the square is named after general in
Shermans army, who was killed on the
march to Atlanta and who achieved dis
tinction by becoming the highest rank
ing Union officer to fall in action in the
Civil War AS the conductor of Wall
Street column sagely observes: THE
trouble with this story is that the Lewis
union is not marching into Georgia. 1t
sat down in Michigan
Add to the list of reputed Democratic
aspirants for the 1910 presidential nomi-
nation the name of Senator Millard E.
Tydings of Maryland. Although Havre
de GraceS talented son was valiant
advocate of President Roosevelt's re-
election, he has by no means always
seen eye to eye with the New Deal. On
the contrary. his voice was periodically
raised in outspoken criticism of policies
violative of the Jeffersonian tradition.
Tydings will be so in 1910. He comes
I'D for q third Senate term next year.
Friends are confident he will prove no
mean contender for the partys highest
honor if he decides to throw his hat in
the ring. Tydings boasts Of two profess
sions, in addition to politics-mechanical
engineering and the law. He won both
the Distinguished Service Medal and the
DISTINGUISHED Service Cross In France.
tCopyrisht. 1877