Evening star., 1938-04-15
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

American Red Cross will be to pump
some life into the moribund 81 900 600
CHINA relief fund called for by President
Roosevelt several months ago. To date
only about $ll5.O00, OF little over 10
per cent, has been subscribed The dis
agreeable fact has to be faced that, be-
cause of the new depression. the sources
OF charity in the United States have
been pretty effectually dried up Words
to this dlsheartening effect were spoken
at the recent White House conference to
discuss the Roosevelt-Hull plan for i'm
migration here and in other countries of
German and Austrian political refugees.
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Gov. Henry Horner of Illinois. con-
queror of the mighty Kelly-Nash ma
chine in Chicago. mounts automatically
to the stature of Democratic national
fgure. distinguished jurist and Jew,
Horner is often mentioned as Supreme
Court justice in case, for any reason, the
seat OF either Justice Brandeis or Justice
Cardoza should be vacated. A Cook
County probate judge of renown and
popularity before his first term as Gov
ernor in 1888, Horner also rates as a fu-
ture United States Senator. possibly in
1872 If Illinois veteran James Hamilton
Lewis. who will then be on the verge of
oo seeks seclusion after roundly half
century of public life Gov. Homer is
still on the sunny side of so, a bachelor,
and, as events have just demonstrated.
able to claim about anything within his
States gift.
TO the memorial tablet in the State
department.. erected in honor of diplo-
matlc and consular officers who lost their
hVes under heroic or tragic circumstances
While on active service. there has Just
oeen added the name of Consul General
y. theodore Mariner, who was mur-
dered by maniac at Beirut, Syria, last
october. Under the auspices of James
clement Dunn, one Of Secretary Hulls
ADVISERS on political relations, there has
also been assembled bound volume of
all the messages and editorials evoked
throughout the United States and for
elen countries by "Teds" untimelv fate.
Ihe volume has been presented to Mr.,
MARINERS mother as permanent record
OF the expressions Of sympathy which
followed her sons death. It includes
three original letters addressed to Mrs.
Marrlner-one from President Roose-
welt, one from Secretary Hull and one
from former Secretary Stimson. The
production of the book was made DOS
slole through the generosity Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss. Mr.. Bliss,
former Ambassador to Argentina, was a
longtime colleague of Mariner.
Library Of Congress officials have a
dragnet out for letters signed by John
Sherman, Hayes Secretary of the Treas
ury. Garfleld's successor in the Senate
from Ohio and McKinley's first Secre-
tary of State. The letters are desired to
complete the Library's collection of
Sherman papers.
Herbert s. Morrison, M p, chairman
Of the London County Council, spoke
in Washington this week before a select
group of Government officials, members
Of Congress and newspaper men inter-
ested in foreign affairs, on the British
political situation and the international
outlook in Europe. Commonly heralded
as the next labor prime minister, Mr.
Morrison. scholarly, .soft-spoken tele-
phone operator and newspaper circula-
ton manager by origin, thinks the Cham
berlain governments recent defeat in a
London by-election is an augury of a
Labor comeback at the next general elec-
ton. He attributes the Conservative loss