Evening star., 1938-03-21
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

more greedy neighbors. with its rights
respected on neither land nor sea-"
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There's a prominent Federal Official
who has threatened his beauteous wife
with dire reprisal If she bobs her hair.
Being himself as devoid of q name as
billiard ball, he insists that If his better
half trims her f1axen locks on the modish
model, he'll Immediately blossom out
in toupee.
One of South America s rising younger
statesmen, DR.. Eduardo Santos, presi-
dent-designate of Colombia. has just
left Washington after a brief visit to
both Europe and the United States. DR..
Santos, who is so and looks IS, will take
of1ce next August. A lifetime newspaper
man by profession, he is the editor and
owner Of TEMPO, Of Bogota, Colombia's
leading daily. The journalist-statesman
is an enthusiastic exponent of Pan
American fraternity. He says inter-
American relations during the Roose-
velt-Hun good neighbor regime have
reached the most salutary level in their
history, with oldtime suspicion Of the
Colossus of the North reduced to the
vanishing point. The keynote Of Presi-
dent Santos administration Of the sta
BILE and thriving republic, which fronts
both the Atlantic and Pacific in North
ern South America and is bigger than
Germany, France and Switzerland COM
bined, will be to cement still closer the
ties that bind the 81 sister American
republics. Colombia's next first lady,
though pure Spanish, is q golden blond.
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Quiet but growing attention attaches
to the Republican presidential boom of
Frank E. Gannett Of Rochester, N. Y,
chain newspaper publisher, and q leader
in the tight against the Roosevelt court
packing bill, the wages and hours meas
ure and the pending Government reor-
ganization bill. Gannett has carried on
all these fights on a strictly nonpartisan
basis, cooperating with Democrats in
Congress. He declined place on Glenn
Franks Republican Policy Committee
because he doesn't want at this time to
be tagged partisan. The Gannett-for-
1910 movement" got under way a few
weeks ago after the publisher addressed
big g. o. p. meeting In Fort Lauder
dale, Fla. Subsequent speakers anointed
him "the next President" Later on the
State Republican leader told Gannett
he could count on Florida's delegation
In the national convention and other
Southern backing. Editor 4 Publisher,
organ Of the national newspaper fra
ternity, observes editorially: "How Frank
Gannett feels about his boomlets, we
don't know, but from q long acquaint-
ance, we might note that If Uncle Sam
wants q Republican version Of the New
Deal in 1910, he could look much farther
and do no better than to take the gen.
tleman from Rochester" In 1896 the
New Yorker figured as Borah's vice presi-
Dental running mate. Gannett Is also
being urged to make the Empire State
gubernatorial race. II he were sent to
Albany, he would be almost q natural
for the q. O. p. In 1910.
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Business nowadays Is thankful for
small favors. One of these currently
earning its gratitude is President Roose-
yelt's mastery silence on all and sundry
that could >rile the already sufficiently
troubled financial and commercial wa
ters. F. D. RS studied evasion of White
House press conference questions that
could be headlined into new business
disturbances-his apparently indefinite
fireside chat vacation from the radio
all these things are held to be to the
good. from the business standpoint II
only Congress, with or without White
HOUSE Iee4ership vould now eat the