Evening star., 1938-02-09

high esteem in which the 55-year-old
omcer Is held by his superiors.
4 X Il
Senator Rush D. Holt of West Vir-
ginia, Pecks Bad Boy of the Democratic
minority, has received what he thinks
may be the farthest North radio wig
wag yet flashed to these ATTITUDES. He's
sure it's at least the remotest Arctic
voice ever to cry in the congressional
wilderness. The message, received on
February 4, read: Greetings from the
MacGregor Arctic Expedition and was
signed &C. j. MacGregor, captain" The
flash came from Reindeer, northernmost
point in Greenland. via short-wave w.
1O-XAB. 1t was picked up at Swarth-
more, Pa, by W-3-DHH and relayed by
mail to Senator Hollis Office in WASH
lngton. 1t apparently was evoked by
the West Virginian's radio talk on Feb
ruary l, entitled you Pay the Federal
Budget
One of Washingtons coveted news
paper honors has just been awarded to
Erwin D. Canham, Christian Science
Monitor correspondent, who was elected
president Of Overseas Writers, the spe-
cial group of Capital scribes with for
eign Journalistic experience. He en-
tered his profession at the age of as
reporter of country news in a little
town in Maine. A year later he was
helping his father take over weekly
paper supported by Bull Moose Progress
Sives in an ultra a-conservative community
dominated by mill. owners Canham
joined the Monitor after graduation
from Bates College. getting the offer of
job by cable while in Edinburgh as
captain of an American debating team
that was touring the British universities
Two years later he went to oxford on
Rhodes scholarship. His tours of duty
abroad included two years as Monitor
correspondent in Geneva, attendance at
the 1880 Naval Conference and 1888
Economic Conference in London. and
participation in the congressional
Journalistic junket to the Philippines,
Japan and China in 1885. The young
Down-Easter is one of a quartet of
Rhodes scholars in Washington journal
ism-Felix Morley of the Washington
Post, Raymond p. Brandt Of the st.
Louis Post Dispatch and Ernest K. Lind
ley of News-Week.
secretary 1cKeS Trials ana trlDulatlOnS
In and out of Congress may result, if
his detractors don't watch out, in "a
fraternal rally of the farm bloc to
Honest Harold's" support. It's not
generally known that the monarch of
all he surveys in the Interior Depart
ment has been a dirt farmer for the
past year. Ickes attained that distinc-
ton through purchase of Homewood, the
late "Dick" Probert's picturesque acreage
in Montgomery County, Nd, some 20
miles outside of Washington. Whether
H. L. I. intends to run the place as a
commercial dairy farm. and also raise
sheep, as Probert did, hasn't been dis
closed. Not long ago, across luncheon
table, he jocularly warned Jesse Jones
that some day he might make an r. F. c.
touch
When Ambassador Joe Kennedy clears
for action in London for a reciprocal
trade agreement, he'll run bang into
big apple question. It's a fruit and not
terpsichorean issue. Canada comes
conspicuously into the picture. Canadian
growers now have tremendous ad-
vantage in the British market over
American competitors because of the
preferential tariff margins on apples and
other Dominion fruits.
(Copyrisht, 193S.)