Evening star., 1938-01-17

Congress and leaders of organized agri-
culture. to meet Sir Charles Morgan
Webb described as honorary adviser to
the Monetary Committee of the British
Parliament. Sir Charles held forth on
the gold standard, advocating in its
stead the British commodity standard"
The Committee for the Nation is the
concern that sent President Roosevelt
famous telegram to the yacht Sequoia
in october, 1888. which was followed
the next night by the broadcast of his
first announcement of the gold deval,la-
ton scheme Among those who accepted
the Committee for the Nations hospi-
tality were Senator's Thomas of Okla
homa. Bulkley of Ohio, Thomas of Utah,
Capper of Kansas. Smith of South Caro-
lima and Nicely of West Virginia, and
Representatives McSweeney of Ohio. Pet
tengill of Indiana, White of Idaho. Hope
of Kansas, Taber of New York, Moser
OF Pennsylvania and johnson of Okla
homa.
Herbert Hoover. possibly because of his
long residence in England. was never
famed for humor or mirth- provoking
qualities as story-teller Apropos the
former Presidents trip to Belgium to
accept assurances of that country's 'un-
quenchable esteem" it's recalled that the
Californian is fond of spinning yarn,
OF which former Senator Reed Smoot
OF Utah is the hero. During the Belgo-
American debt negotiations, the Belgian
commissioners insisted upon putting into
every paragraph of the funding agree
ment clause reading according to
Belgium's capacity to pay" 1t got on
Senator Smoot's nerves. The night be-
fore the Belgians left Washington, Secre-
tary OF Commerce Hoover gave a dinner
in their honor. M. Hymans, the dis
tinguished Brussels financier, who was
sitting next to Mr.. Smoot, said to him:
Senator, your name is very familiar in
Belgium. I'm sure to be asked about you
when I get home. and about the Nor
mons. Confidentially. how many wives
may Mormon have?" Mr. Smoot, with
out batting an eye, rejoined: According
to his capacity to pay!"
One Of Americas famous diplomats OF
the Hay Roosevelt era is q visitor
to Neutrality-suspicious. Ridgeley Carter.
many years Secretary and Counselor OF
the Embassy in London. and later Minis
ter to Rumania, Servia, Bulgaria and
Turkey. Mr.. Carter. since 1912 partner
In the Paris branch of the Morgan
banking house, has come to the United
States to attend the wedding of grand
daughter. He Is Baltimorean by
origin and Harvard law graduate.
While in Washington, Mr.. Carter is a
guest Of former Ambassador Robert
Woods Bliss.
Arrangements for the recent $l00-a-
plate jackson Day dinner were in the
hands Of Oliver A. Quayle, jr, assistant
treasurer of the Democratic National
Committee. Expectation was so general
that inextricable confusion would result
from seating LOO guests that some
Capitol wag suggested 1t would be "the
open season for Quayle." The banquet
entrepreneur did not need bombproof
shelter. for everything ran like clock
work, including the placing of twenty
eight Senators, thirty-five members of
the House. most Of the cabinet and
1,000-odd more or less cheerful givers
among New Deal pay rollers.
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One Of the things DR.. William e.
Dodd might have disclosed in his now
celebrated New York address, in addi-
ton to the charge that Hitler has had
more personal opponents put to death
In five years than Charles II executed
IN 40 years, Is the fact that the Naz
authorities spied on the private house.