Evening star., 1937-03-26
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

of course, unof6cially-as the representa-
tive of millions of American women be-
lieved to be hostile to the plan. There's
no way of tabulating just how many of
the sex disapprove the proposal, but
members of Congress are tremendously
impressed by the evidence of women's
sentiments reaching them from all quar-
tiers. From virtually every organized
form of feminist activity notably the
D. A. R., women's clubs teachers fed
erationS, and the like-protest messages
have arrived in avalanche dimensions.
Letters from women in the humbleSt
walks of life, in both town and country,
are conspicuous Sinclair Lewis brilliant
wife will be followed by other outstand-
ing women witnesses before the opposi-
ton S case is closed.
One of Japan's best known diplomats,
C. Ohashi, now vice minister of foreign
affairs of Manchukuo, plans soon to visit
Washington, en- route back to the Far
East from a comprehensive tour of
European capitals, including Moscow,
Berlin, Rome, Paris and London. Mr..
Ohashi is a former secretary of the Japa-
nese embassy here. At the time of the
Mukden incident in 1881 he was a Japa-
nese consul in Manchuria, but identified
himself with the militarists as against the
Toxic foreign office. When NippOn'S
pnppet state was set up, he became at
tached to its government and is now
virtually director of foreign affairs under
a nominal Chinese superior. It's said
that Ohashi will make no formal efforts
in the United States to secure diplomatic
recognition for Manchukuo, which so far
has been granted by only one country,
the Central American republic of Ell
Salvador.
Senator Royal S. Copeland Democrat
of New York, one of the archfoes of the
judiciary bill, was discussing it before
the Boston Chamber of Commerce the
other day. He recounted with pride that
one of his ancestors, Lawrence Copeland,
born in 1852, lies buried in colonial
cemetery at Braintree, Mass. THE old
fellow lived to be no. said Copeland.
What hell of time he must have
had, hanging around 40 years after
reaching the retirement age"
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the most graphic evidence of happy days
trotted out in many moon. Sears-Roe-
buck disclosed that their mail order busi-
ness for 1886, with net profits of s30,660,-
1913, was the biggest in the firms history,
topping the previous peak of $30,057 ,652
in 1929. This year is expected to be an
other record-breaker. On the same day,
steel reported production and business
levels comparing with the best records OF
1929. In the Pittsburgh district the
volume has risen to SO per cent, highest
since the World War, while for the coun-
try at large output is lowering around 80
per cent of capacity.
Possibility of the Duke and Duchess OF
Windsor becoming residents of nearby
Maryland is understood to cause certain
frowns in high official quarters at Wash
ington. Reported lack of enthusiasm
over the idea is supposed to spring from
the fear that monarchial restoration
complications may one day ensue, in
which event Uncle Sam would much pre-
fer that Europe should be the scene of
them. Canada, it's thought, isn't much
enamored of the notion of Edward and
Wallis building nest so close to the
Dominion border.
Copyright, 1879