Show t I W as hington in on Observations serva ons ey By FREDERIC WILLIAIM WILE Written for The Tho Telegram W June The McNary-Haugen McNary bill Is a for punishment lh Its defeat de- de o- o feat Ceat In the senate on June 4 24 lIethe lIe lis the third vo knockout the tb scheme has suffered during the tho past Palt three years smashed the proposition the first time In 1932 1 kicked It to pieces again In 5 1924 and has nOW trampled upon It In 1926 The mea inca SUrf sure always bobbed up In cn term But Dut UK Its bone and sinew remained re- re ged Ever ver It wu the tho expression ot of the farming West's discontent with the exl economic order order- Under Senator arys stubborn leaderShip farm relief on corn belt lines this thIs thIs' month came nearer to realization realization reali- reali than on any previous pre occa- occa sion Only four votes ot of Southern Democratic senators stood between victory and defeat Had they been CAst for the bill Instead of against It it the vote Ote would have been oJ 4 to 41 in Its favor The Tho ary counted on the Dixie quartet to the tho bitter end But when the showdown C came me they were aligned with the tho enemy Hoover Attends Ship Launching Secretary Hoover at the hud head of ofa R. R delegation ot of distinguished Wash Washington j Ington officials Including the the entire entire en- en tire personnel ot of the United States shIpping board attended on June 26 the munchinG launching of the steamship Malolo at Cramps Cramps' shipyard In Philadelphia The rhe Malolo Maiolo Js is tho largest hugest and fastest high powered passenger vessel ves-sel ever constructed on this side ot of the Atlantic She will displace tons and have havea a speed ot of more than 22 knots for tor the American HawaIIan American Hawaiian Steamship company for tor service between between be- be tween San Francisco and Honolulu the tho will wUl cut the round trip time between California and the lIaw Islands u. u full tull tour four days Although designed for lor first class I passenger and cargo argo traffic she he heIs Is convertible readily Into a troop transport airplane carrier or armored armored ar- ar mored cruiser Gun foundations are part ot of the structure It wilt will be practicable to a battery battery bat bat- tery o of twelve 6 Inch guns and tour four 4 inch anti aIrcraft glins guns 3 3 inch or aboard her The new queen of the Pacific will wUl enter service In the I spring ot of 1927 Commander Byrd Extremely Modest r Commander Dick Byrd U. U S. S N airplane conqueror ot of the north pole will win the lecture audiences he Is about to address throughout the co country not by eloquence but with his captivating modesty They will forg forget t all about his platform rm shyness halting speech and unta- unta with h the arts ot of the spellbinder spellbinder spell spell- binder when they hear him shower praise on those great fellows who according to Byrd really did the historic trick farthest north Commander Byrds Byrd's moving pictures ot of his prep preparations at Spitzbergen and his actual encirclement ot of the po pole e shown tor the first time before be- be tore fore a Washington audience on June 3 23 are thrilling beyond nil all description Unforgettable Is the arrival ot of Amundsen's Norge at Spitzbergen just on n the eve ot of Byrds Byrd's for the pole EquallY Splendid is Captain Amundsen's sportsmanlike un unaffected and joy joy- bus welcome ot of Byrd w n the young AmerIcan returned with the laurels Amundsen first hoped to gather The Conquest ot of the North Pole Is Incomparably the thelast thelast last word In motion pictures No staged ed Is con that can rival this actual epic In human courage Much Interest In Commencements June university commencements contained much ot of Interest to Washington Andrew V secretary ot of the was thrice doctored first at Amherst CoolIdge Coolidge Cool Cool- Idge alma alma mater then at Yale and again at Harvard Another Washingtonian Wash Wash- bearing a worthy name Joseph Patrick Jr won the coveted Phi Beta Kappa for tor scholarship at the university over which his fathers father's celebrated chief Woodrow Wilson once presided t Dana ana Yung Kwat Kwal son ot of the coun- coun seler seIer o the Chinese legation at Washington received the Russell Henry Chittenden prize awarded annually at Yale dale to the B B. B S. S candidate candidate can can- who has the highest scholastic scholastic schol- schol work Kwai's father also Is a aYale aYale 84 Princeton Yale man class of made Dr William H. H Vf Wilmer mer ot of Washington world renowned eye surgeon a doctor ot of scIence Among Dr WIlmers WIlmer's many claims to h hence nc Is his rescue pf ot Earl Grey ot of from blindness sIx years ago Col Clark Loves His Birds Most Colonel Edward B Clark veteran Washington newspaper man loves birds most next to jour Hes He's been worried for the past six weeks about a a. a robin which had bunt built a a. a nest In some some White House shrubbery The nest n nest st with Its precious contents or of three eggs was wasso wasso so conspicuously In sight that Clark vas afraid some ot of the thousands ot of youngsters trooping through Washington at this season would not be aide le to resist the temptation ot of stealing the eggL The other day to Clarks Indescribable joy he observed observed ob- ob served the mother robin and three offspring scampering around the push bush as blithely as you please He thinks It a wonderful demonstration ot of the respect ot of the modern generation generation gen gen- ot of kids for bird life Once Clark Intervened wIth President Roosevelt also a bird lover to prevent prevent pre pre- vent workmen from layIng sacrilegIous sacrilegious Ious hands on an evergreen tree about to be removed from the White WhiteHouse House root roof Clark told T. T R. R that some robins were nesting In the tree and that removal would be fatal tatal to them Teddy stormed out of the executive offices and personally prevented the disaster To Exhibit Copy Of Declaration What Is said to be the only certified certified copy ot of the Declaration ot of Independence Independence In- In dependence known to be In existence existence exist exist- ence Is s shortly to be exhibited at atthe atthe the centennial In Phila- Phila delphia It Is the property ot of the well known Philadelphia collector pr Dr A. A S. S W W. Rosenbach and Is valued at The document is not a replica ot of the original dec dec- enshrined In the library ot of congress at V Washington but isone Is Isone one ot of two certified copies made at atthe atthe the order of the continental congress con con- gress One copy was sent to King Louis XVI ot of France and has been lost The other was sent to King Frederick the Great ot of Prussia This Is s tho copy now owned by Dr Rosenbach who obtained It two years ago from the descendantS ot of Baron von one ot of Fredericks Frederick's crown ministers The original signers did not affix theIr names to th the copy but It Is autographically auto auto- graphically certified as a true cop copy by Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane commissioners Erwin Geisser Is Proud Steno The proudest stenographer In the United States Is Erwin C. C Geisser president personal shorthand shorthand short short- hand writer Geisser has been away from the White House offices ot- ot for a spell weathering a slight op operation The first day ay he attended attended at- at tended the weekly semI press conference con con- terence ference recently the president called attention to Geisser's return rejoiced rejoiced re- re at his recovery and spoke spoke ot of the high value he places upon his young oung lIeutenants lIeutenant's services Geisser has been at Mr Coolidge's elbow ever since the latter's vice presidential presidential days das He learned stenographic stenographic steno steno- graphic discretion as an ot of the Quartermaster generals general's office In the war department Geisser Is distinguished among his fellow AmerIcans In one interesting re- re He hears more talk tatk from Cal than nIl all the rest ot of the country country coun- coun try put to together ether Copyright ht 1926 |