Evening star. [volume], December 28, 1936, Page A-9, Image 9

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

Image provided by: Library of Congress, Washington, DC

                
Bur.au Chiefs’
Pwer Abets
lobbying
1-'
Set • l|> Promotes Fat
Fees Dr Those Know*
ng Ropes.
BY IVin LAWRENCE.
THIS Is the open season for
•■flifs," for lobbyists, for pro
fes^nal exploiters. For Con
gre is about to convene and
the usual mber of bills threatening
this and tl t to businesses or business
* men is ts ed about and the usual
protective ?vices are being adopted
by those nst affected.
There Ive always been profes
lionals her bouts always but under the
New Deal leir opportunities for big
fees and cm sensation have been multi
plied manMimes.
This is tfause
the New j Deal
believes invest
*• ihK more and
more discjtion
ary power ji ex
ecutive a aides.
When disietion
is vested in a
bureau orjin a
commission so
that an PBcial
may decif or
rule upon jpiven
question |volv
ing pernafl mu- „„„ L,wrfnre.
lions of pllars
In economi gains or losses, the mere
payment oja fee ranging from *5,000
to *25,0001 is very little, relatively
* peaking, d pay for a favorable
decision.
Sometime it is just, one of thc*e
•‘inqplrles’nt which the victims are
exploited t headline-hunting prose
cutors wh< are engaged for a little
While andthen go back into private
practice tcjreap the rewards of their
notoriety. (Sometimes is is a high
official wWresigns from an important
post in wjch he himself has influ
enced the election or appointment of
many of l|s assistants or subordnate
officials, iturally they feel friendly
to him whn he comes back to argue
the case oia big corporation.
Imilies No Corruption.
■ It shoulj not be assumed that just
because a former official practices
before his(former associates there is
something; wrong about it. On the
contrary, ^me of these former officials
know hofl often the point raised is
merely thsdifference between tweedle
dee and weedle-dum with emphasis
cn the ‘‘rjm” part. For too often the
victims of this form of exploitation
pay monet just to exploit some piece of
routine wjich they innocently believe
•* might be ised to hold up their trans
actions.
It is diflcult, to estimate how much
money is paid annually just “to get
things though” and without the
Slightest nint of corruption. Yet the
very existence of this whole scheme
cf exploitation is directly fostered by
the politiial system. ’ It is closely
akin to tie spoils system.
It is rre that political managers
Want anytiing for themselves in the
way of pinllc office. They are, to be
sure, imp<rtlined by their henchmen
to get miror jobs and once in a while
they migh capture an important job
for an irmortant constituent, but on
the whole what the politicians want
s metlod of making money for
themselves They would rather play
upon theii influence, real or fancied,
With officii Is of the New Deal, than
to hold ofice.
Busiiess Hires “Enemies.”
The bes sidelight on this sort of
thing may be obtained among business
men thepselves nowadays. Though
many of them denounce the New Deal
and take part in campaigns against
Its continuance, they turn around as
soon as jossible and hire the most
alert or tie shrewest New Dealer they
can find U look after their interests in
Washington.
Senator Black of Alabama con
ducted a lobby investigation last year
and while it is true that his committee
was subjected to considerable criti
cism for endeavoring to pry into pri
vate a flaks through telegraph offices.
It is nevertheless a fact that this was
one way to get evidence of lobbying or
clues to what was going on.
Unfortunately, the committee em
phasized the activities of political or
quasi-political organizations which
were engaged in fighting causes more
or less in the open instead of con
centrating on the individuals who
were appearing before executive de
partments and commissions dealing in
the public's business. Black's bill.
Which aimed at restricting activities
of lobbyists, failed of passage but as
between his measure and the one that
passed the House there is no doubt
that the Senate bill was far more
comprehensive. None of the bills,
however, reaches adequately the root
of all the evils of lobbying, namely,
what goes on in the commissions and
executive agencies of the Government.
If it was required that the name of
every lobbyist not only be registered
but that his fee in a given case be
published along with the rulings or
decisions in which he submitted briefs
or arguments, there would be less
lobbying one, or rather, less “fixing.”
“Cure” in 5-Ye«r Limit.
Also if members of Congress as well
as members of the executive branch of
the Government were forbidden by law
for a period of five years after they
left office from practicing before any
Government department or legislative
committee, there would be still less
lobbying and “fixing” done.
But the best-w ay of all to cure the
growing opportunities for bureaucratic
discretion is to eliminate much of the
discretion Itself. It was Andrew
Jackson, idol of the New Deal, who
said in a message to Congress Just
•bout a hundred years ago:
"No one can be more impressed
than I am with the soundness of the
doctrine which restrains and limits,
by specific provisions, executive dis
cretion, as far as It can be done
consistently with the preservation of
Its constitutional character.”
(Copyright, 1936.)
r Holds 13 Spades.
MIAMI, Fla., December 28 {IP).—
Joseph Simonsen of Philadelphia re
ported yesterday a perfect bridge hand
—13 spades. He bid seven but was not
doubled.
Simonsen’s partner was Daniel
Robins of Warren, Ohio. Their op
ponents were Edgar Steinhardt and
Issay Eisenberg, both of New York.
Dcvm'i Paint* arc a Standard trand.
922 N. X> Ava, NiHmuI <110
This Changing World
French Indicate Willingness to Fight if Hitler Steps
Into Spain.
BT CONSTANTINE BROWN.
REMIER BLUM had a Christmas present for Hitler. He sent him
two packages. In one there was a sharp sword, In the other s nice
fresh olive branch.
The first package Indicated that the French, with Britain's
backing, are willing to fight if Der Fuehrer decides to send German reg
ular troops Into Spain.
The second package told the German people that France waa willing
to forget all about the Versailles treaty and would be prepared to consider
the Reich’s colonial claims, If Hitler was to call off his war dogs from Spain
and decide to talk business with .
the other powers.
The French have, of course, a
powerful argument In their favor
at the present moment. It Is no
longer a question of well-founded
German grievances which are in
volved at present. It is just a gross
violation of the neutrality agree
ment signed by the European pow
ers not to interfere in Spain's pri
vate little war.
As long as the Germans and the Italians were helping Franco
sub rosa nobody objected very strenuously. Neither the French nor
the British had a very clear conscience about it. All big powers
were playing their own political game at Spain’s expense.
But if Hitler actually decides to send troops—regular Reichswehrmen
—Info Spain, the breach of a treaty signed without coercion only a few
months ago would be so patent that the French feel they could enM
world public opinion against the Reich.
* * * ik
For the time being it seems Great Britain is behind France. Blum
and Delbos shook Baldwin and Eden out of their somnolence and warned
them that unless they go ahead with him now they will have to pay later
a heavy price.
Hitler, who is trying to play up to the British, has just mads
another gesture to show his concern for the welfare of the British
statesmen and legislators. He decided to answer the French note
only after the Christmas holidays. He did not want to put to shame
^ Anthony Eden, the young and brilliant foreign secretary, who pre
dicted only last week to the departing members of the Commons
that they need not worry over the situation. Everything was well
under control.
• * * * *
Mussolini is keeping remarkably quiet these days. The crisis is on
and II Duce has made no speech and has given no Indication of his atti
tude in the present rumpus. But he must be amused at the way every
body is courting him. It is just a year since the British and French states
men could find no adequate words in the diplomatic dictionary to qualify
the character of the Italian dictator and what they thought of him. Opin
ions change rapidly in Europe.
* * * *
All the reports from Paris and Rome that II Duce does not agree with
Hitler's policies ir. Spain and Is ready to desert him and Join the other
camp must be taken with plenty of salt.
For the time being the team work between 11 Duce and Der
Fuehrer is excellent.
When Blum proposed the non-intervention pact last August,
Hitler kept quiet and Mussolini did the talking.
Now it is Hitler who will do the talking and Mussolini will keep quiet.
But there Is no reason why there should have been a change in Mussolini's
policies toward Spain. Both dictators have set down a line of conduct in
their “fight against Communism”—whatever that may mean—and none
of them is embarking Into any adventures. Mussolini and Hitler are im
pulsive men. but their policies are not dictated by Impulses. And this was
shown in the conquest of Ethiopia and in the remilitarization of the Rhine.
* -A,
f I J
I WAxrtD
f 2,000,0oc.cer i
RtWARQ J
, It is queer how little imagina
tion political propagandists have.
At the height of the Ethiopian
campaign "unimpeachable
aources,” highest "confidential au
thorities” and so forth were spread
ing the news that Mussolini's days
were numbered, that Great Britain
had loaned $150,000,000 to the
aotl-Fascist forces to organise a
f*volution in Italy. Propagandists
srent so far as to say that Count
Sforzsi. former Italian roreign secretary, at tnat time in new xora, was
rushing back to Italy to take over his old portfolio with Italo Balbo as
prime minister. And people shook their heads and were surprised to see
mention of a revolution in Italy.
* * * *
The same thing is happening now. “Unimpeachable sources" just
returned from Germany prophesy that Within the next few weeks we shall
see another “blood purge” in Germany, this time with Hitler as the victim.
The stage Is all set and Great Britain has promised the anti-Hitler forces
to refinance Germany to the tune of *2.000,000,000. It's undoubtedly the
highest price ever put on an individual’s head. But these “unimpeach
able” sources fall to say where the anti-Hitler forces will be drawn from.
They merely indicate that the Reichswehr might have something to do
with it. _
FARM CREDIT HEAD
OPTIMISTIC FOR ’37
Gov. Myers Points to Decrease in
Loans as Reflecting End
of Emergency. ?
By the Associated Press.
A bright outlook for the financial
status of farmers next year was de
picted today by Gov. W. I. Myers
of the Farm Credit Administration.
Myers said total loans to farmers
by the various F. C. A. agencies
amounted to $670,000,000 this year,
compared with $1,060,000,000 in 1935.
The decline reflected a decrease In
the "emergency demand” by farmers
for assistance from Federal agencies,
because they "had no other soyrce of
credit after the depression,” Myers
said.
"In the country as a whole, farm
ers apparently had more money for
equipment, machinery, farm build
ings and repairs in 1936 than in any
year since the depression,” Myers said.
He added that this should continue
next year because of "increased pur
chasing power and the opportunity to
get short-term cash loans at the pres
ent reasonable rates.”
Myers reported that long-term
mortgage loans by F. C. A. this year
amounted to $184,000,000, less than
half the 1935 total of $444,000,000.
He said this drop was due to passing
of the depression emergency “and less
pressure by other creditors for liqui
dation.”
DR. GUY CARLETON LEE,
73, EDUCATOR, IS DEAD
Was Author and Former Literary
Editor of Newspaper—Fu
neral Wednesday.
B* the Associated Press.
CARLISLE, Pa., December 28.—Dr.
Guy Carleton Lee, editor, author and
educator, died Saturday. He was 73.
Lee once was literary editor of the
Baltimore Sun and later published
the Carlisle Herald, now discontinued.
He was one of the founders of the
Carlisle Chamber of Commerce and
erected Carlisle's first apartment
building.
The funeral will be held Wednes
day with private burial at Center
ville. __
• ESTABLISHED 1865 •
.9
FATHER TIME
Turn* Another Page
A new year soon begins.
Another book of life opens
for ell of us; lot us plan to
fill our 1937 edition with
more good deeds ... more
thought of others.
GEO. M. BARKER
• COMPANY • |
I LUMBER and MILLWORK
649-651 N. Y. Art. N.W.
1525 7th St. N.W.
5UU .1341 Uahai Makar"
TWICE DECLARED
CONGRESS VICTOR
Jenks Gets 10-Vote Edge in Sec
ond Tabulation by New
Hampshire Board.
Bt the Associated Press.
CONCORD, N. H„ December 28.—
For the second time since election day
Arthur B. Jenks. Republican, today
was United States Representative
elect from New Hampshire's first dis
trict. •
The State Ballot Law Commission,
after an 11-hour session last night,
announced Jenks had defeated Al
phonse Roy, Democrat, previously
named winner of the contest by 17
votes, by a 10-vote margin. The com
mission gave Jenks 51,649 and Roy
51,639.
On the first tabulation Jenks was
declared the winner by 550 votes, but
Roy protested and a recheck tied both
at 51,679, the first congressional tie
in the country since 1826.
Another recount gave Roy the elec
tion by 17 votes. Jenks protested.
The commission's announcement of
Jenks’ final victory came after an
exhaustive check of 337 disputed bal
lots. Roy will carry his fight to the
National House, said his attorney at
Nashua, N. H.
Bj*the Associated Press.
PARIS, ifo„ December 28.—Liza
Sproul, 8, and George Nevins, 13, were
honored last night at a union church
service for being the most polite and
courteous children in this Northeast
Missouri city during 1936—and espe
cially during December.
Each received a cash prize of $10.
It’s an annual custom here. The
late Henry J. Boatner, bachelor, who
died in 1922, set aside $$00 in his will,
the income of which was to provide
prize money for the most courteous
girl and boy. An award has been
made every year since then.
Boatner was inspired in his act by
the kindness of 9-year-old Phoebe
Sparks to his aged mother and him
self. Miss Sparks, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Sparks, was the
fMMNMK Household Effect* of
Every Description, Up*
right Pianos, Oriental
and Domestic Rugs.
Radios, China, Glass
ware, Pictures, Beds,
Springs, Mattresses,
Lamps, Sectional
5355" Moot cues. Office Fur
rmmtimam Prbm Chan
deliers, Paintlnfa, Draperies, ate.
At Public Auction
AT SLOAN’S
715 13th St.
Wednesday
December 30th, 1936
At 10 A.M.
T,rm,d fr'Sisa, 4Ca.Ua.iHla
CTHE opinions of the writers on this page are their 'own, not
± necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in
The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its
readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s.
We, the People *
Radio and Newspapers Seen to Compete Little, Each
Having Own Assets.
BY JAY FRANKLIN,
refusal of the Supreme Court
review the case of the Asso
ated Press against a radio
cation charged with having
pirated A. P. news coincides with the
conclusion of the Plrst National Con
ference on Educational Broadcasting
at Washington. This conference was
the first occasion on which formal
consideration In the country has been
given to the relationship between
radio and public opinion, politics and
propaganda.
After a presidential campaign which
was apparently fought and won in
the ether, it would seem dangerous
to question the omnipotence of radio
in politics, but the fact remains that
there are very serious technical limi
tations on radio, limitations which
are reassuring to the newspapers as
organs of public opinion.
Whatever people choose to say about
government by radio in Russia, Ger
many and Italy, it must be remem
bered that neither Hitler, Lenin nor
Mussolini came Into power over the
microphone. In fact. Hitler built up
his Nasi majority party in the face
of a government which denied him
the radio as an Instrument of po
litical propaganda. Nine-tenths of the
German press was also against him,
so that his movement was reduced
to word-of-mouth agitation and man
to-man organization, based on the
common experiences of the German
people.
Ether Impressions Sketchy.
In the second place, radio is most
effective in registering a swift, sketchy
impression, least effective In trans
mitting an argument or detailed in
formation. For this purpose the print
ed page is supreme, for it lets' the
reader turn back and reread and
study and reflect, if he wishes to. or
to skip entirely. In a democracy this
process is basic to political opinion.
Even the best and most persuasive
oratory is crippled unless it is but
tressed by printed material and com
mon experience.
It was this which frustrated both
Huey Long and Father Coughlin in
their air-attacks on the New Deal.
They, like Roosevelt, were past mas
ters in the art of conveying impres
sions by a turn of phrase, a quality
of speech which was vital, colorful
and held the Interest of the listener.
The human voice has too long been
neglected as an instrument which can
convey ideas apart from the words
it utters, and radio has reminded us
of its Importance.
Yet Coughlins and the Kingflsh’s
arguments were too emotional or too
remote from common experience to
find detailed justification in print.
2 JEWISH GROUPS VOTE
FUNDS FOR PALESTINE
Resolution Urges Conference Here
Set f5,000,000 Quota for Amer
ican Contributions,
BJ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. December 28-Finan
cial support of settlement work In
Palestine was voted by two large
Jewish organizations meeting here
yesterday.
The Advisory Council of the Jewish
National Fund voted to apply about
$500,000 of American contributions
to the Palestine Land Fund for the
Lake Huleh land reclamation project
on the Syrian border of Palestine.
At the thirteenth anniversary con
ference of the Greater New York
Council of Jewish organizations. 1,000
delegates adopted a resolution urging
that at the National Conference on
Palestine in Washington January 24
a quota of $5,000,000 be set for Amer
ican contributions to the United
Palestine Appeal.
ROBBERS ONLY POLICE
_________
Man. Reporting Car Theft Gets
Good News in Phone Call.
LINCOLN, Nebr. OP).—J. M. Gordon
of Fort Collins, Colo., almost lost his
faith In the efficacy of police pro
tection when his car disappeared from
in front of the Lincoln police station.
He was inside telling the sergeant
about the theft when the telephone
rang. Said the voice: "We just stole
somebody’s car and we’re bringing it
right back.”
Shortly two officers returned with it.
They mistook it for a police car in
their haste to answer a call and discov
ered their error when they couldn’t
find the short-wave radio.
Girl, 8, and Boy, 13, Awarded
Annual Prizes for Politeness
first girl winner. She now is Mrs. J.
B. Corldns and lives in St. Louis.
Stuart Bassett, the first boy winner,
is a traveling salesman.
Liza, one of the youngest ever to
receive the award, is in the third
grade. She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Sprcul.
George is in the eiahth trade and
works outside school hours at a feed
and produce company to aid in sup
port of his widowed mother, Mrs. Mar
garet Belle Nevins.
The awards were presented by Rev.
Harold Roberts. Names of the com
mittee members who select the win
ners never are made public.
REN AU LI
AMERICAN
PORT
79'
PULL FIFTH
AT ALL OOOO STOMI
(Alcohol 20% by volume)
LJL RaiHMrtt A Sms, toe.
^ l|» Harbor City. N.J.
j^^^EitebfiihoS (ITS
The impressions which they created
over the microphone faded under the
daily drizcle of typography and be
came Irrelevant to the rising tide of
individual and general prosperity. The
facts of substantial business recovery
and the arguments based on New Deal
policies were what put Roosevelt's
radio personality over with a political
bang.
Radio Tool of Propagandists.
As a mater of fact, since propaganda
Is the art of Seating impressions,
unsupported by reason and often con
trary to experience, radio is a tool
made to order for the propagandists.
That this is so is shown by the way
in which an advertiser will buy an
hour of music on the air and insert a
couple of minutes of reference to his
product—in order to transfer the good
will of the audience from a swing
number or a symphony to some par
ticular type of cigarette or automobile.
This is also shown by the fact that
dictatorial governments hammer away
at their regimented peoples over the
ether.
In one field alone is radio an ap
parent competitor with the press—
in Imparting basic news to the general
public. The simultaneous radio
quality of being everywhere Instan
taneously robs much spot-news of its
commercial value for selling new edi
tions. It was this consideration
which lay beneath the Associated
Press suit against Seattle Station
KVOS. Whether the injury can be
reduced to dollar values is a matter
for court decision.
May Prove Boon to Papers.
Yet it might be argued that the
very nature of radio, even In this
field, may serve to advertise rather
than eliminate newspapers. Pew peo
ple who heard King Edward Villa
magnificent farewell to his empire
failed on that account to buy the
next day’s papers In order to get
fuller details.
Even when catastrophes are
‘■broken’' over the air people clamor
for details, lists of names, etc. The
public wants precise information as
well as a swift general impression.
There would seem, therefore, to be
reason to make haste slowly In cur
tailing the right of radio to take its
news where it finds it and to broad
cast it to a public which has cer
tainly shown Itself willing to support
both press and radio In the style to
which they are now accustomed. But
since radio Is required to pay musical
and other copyright charges In broad
casting, there is no reason why radio
should not also pay a service charge
to the A. P. or any other news source
for the privilege of putting copy
righted news on the air.
(Copyrlsht. 1936,»
———■ ■ ' ————^ »
READING PUBLIC HELD
MORE CONSERVATIVE
Library Association Head Says
Trend la Away From Mob
Mindedness.
.Br the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 28.—Mal
colm Glenn Wyer of Denver, president
of the American Library Association,
said yesterday the American reading
public had become “more conservative,
less mob-minded, more willing to
•live alone and like It.’ ”
Arriving for the opening of the
organizations annual convention to
morrow, Wyer asserted a survey of
reading trends In public libraries dis
closed Americans "are more interested
now in self development than in col
lective bargaining.”
“During the early years of the de
pression.” he said, “there was a cer
tain deviation from our national phil
osophy. People showed a great deal
of interest in Russia, Italy and Ger
many. Now they have decided the
collectivist or the totalitarian state
are not the answer to the American
problem.”
Wyer said the largest proportion
of non-'fiction works in demand dealt
with painting and music.
Gold Eush Delayed.
Gold was discovered at Juneau,
Alaska, In 1880, but the great Klon
dike-Yukon rush did not begin until
1896.
* LOWEST *
ANTI-FREEZE
COST
PER SEASON
(wood alcohol) mixtures. That it pro*
tecta to lower temperatures than or
dinary denatured alcoboL And it costs
33 to 60% less per season, compered
with expensive brands, even If 2 or 3
quarts are added daring the winter.
Besides, Super Pyro’s patented in
gredients protect mil 6 gm mm ,
metals of the cooling syt
tern. Thus you get most
protection at lowest cost Aiianr
per season. Be sure to l|UnKI
tell the service man:—Put
in Super Pyro.
wm-U,V'
flv1 .2
News Behind the News
Rift Between Morgenthau and OlipKant Blamed on
Silver Policy or Earnings Tax.
BY PAUL MALLON.
THE Treasury keeps its secret well, but It has not been able to keep
the news from getting around Inside the New Deal cloister that
a rift has developed between Mr. Morgenthau and his ace brain*
truster, Mr. Oliphant. '
Whether the difference will lead to Mr. Oliphant’a departure down
the primrose and molasses paths of Profs. Tugwell, Moley et al. haa
been a subject of much animated
but whispered discussion. Mr.
Morgenthau is as quiet as the
gold he sits on. Mr. Oliphant Is
general counsel of the Treasury
and a lawyer. Their friends have
pried little from them except vague
diplomatic denials. '
Exactly what started the
trouble is consequently a
matter of surmise, but the
situation is of far more than
personal significance. Out
T4£
AND AV>CA«f£> I
aiders may not know it, but Mr. Ohphant thought up the silver
policy and the new tax program on undistributed earnings of corpora
tions. Differences over one or both of these two policies undoubtedly
led to the break. Most insiders believe it was silver primarily.
If Mr. Oliphant goes, some of the silver policy and most of the
enthusiasm for the new tax policy will go with him.
* * * *
This does not mean any important changes In the corporation tax
structure will be recommended at the coming session of Congress. Mr.
Morgenthau apparently is not that angry. If you could get him to take
down his hair and tell you frankly what he thinks you would undoubtedly
learn that he would like to modify the law, but here is the situation'.
The act was passed only this year, it w>as greatly ballyhooc.d
during the campaign. New Deal spokesmen advertised it os a major
reform of the corporation tax structure. They cannot turn around
now, after election, and change the law before it has been tried.
Despite what you heard from Congress, therefore, the plan seems
to be to keep the law substantially intact for a full year before under
taking to correct Its defects.
* * * *
The roots of these matters (Morgenthau-Oliphant. silver, taxes) run
down deep into the fundamental present problem within the New Deal.
Up to last week, Treasury policies leaned on the Inflationary side.
The Oliphant silver policy was designed to increase the price of silver
directly and other prices indirectly. The Oliphant tax bill was conceived
to force money into circulation and buoy up purchasing power. It seeks
to take earnings away from corporations and give the money to stock
holders who will spend it or invest it, and pay larger taxes on it, whereas
the corporations would only hide it away in reserves.
These policies suited the uphill climb, but the situation now is
changing. Mr. Morgenthau himself virtually conceded this the other
•’ day when he announced the Eccles plan for purchase of foreign gold
\ imports by the Treasury. This move was counter-inflationary and
* fn o direction exactly opposite to that in which Mr. Oliphant has
been leading the Treasury. •
The problem now is not to increase prices, to buoy up. and to inflate,
but to keep the threatening boom from running away with the New Deal.
Prices have been Jumping so fast
that the Federal Reserve Board Is
frankly apprehensive. They must
be kept in hand.
The New Deal is taking its foot
off the throttle and reaching for
the brake.
* * * *
This change of technique Is
likely to throw a whole new list
of brain trusters into the front
seats from which the old ones are
withdrawing.
To the fore are coming men like Gov. Eccles of Federal Reserve,
Chairman Landis of Securities and Exchange. Agriculture Secretary Wallace,
Electrifler Cooke, Bankers Crowley and Jones, Vice President Garner.
Senators like Pat Harrison. Receding are the Tugwells, Hopkinses and
Oliphants.
The change will make an entirely different kind of New Deal.
* * * *
Senator Borah has said nothing publicly about it. but he has definitely
declined to head a movement for reorganisation of the Republican party.
He said it would be of no use.
Borah looks best in, and likes best, the lone wolf role. He will
continue to urge the party to come to him He may attack National
Chairman Hamilton later on, but he is not going to tangle with the
organisation seriously.
In this space recently it was related that Senator Borah was back
of Representative Hamilton Fish's fight against Hamilton. He was. but
away beck. A more accurate way of stating the situation is that Mr. Borah
wished Fish well, but advised against the fight he made.
MISSING GIRL FOUND
DROWNED IN BARREL
Six'Weeks’ Search Ends Within
200 Feet From Grand
parents' Home.
Br the Assocltted Press.
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y.. December
28.—A six weeks’ search for Rachel
Ianniello. 7-year-old mute who dis
appeared on November 11, ended yes
terday when her body was found in
a water-fllled rain barrel 200 feet from
her grandparents’ home.
Medical Examiner Amos O. Squire
said the girl apparently had fallen
into the barrel head first and drowned.
He listed it as an accidental death.
Willi Hempel of Breslau, Germany,
will teach Afghans to fly.
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Fiery Igor Stravinsky
Arrives to Stage
Poker Opera.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.
IGOR 8TRAVINSKY pins good luck
charms on his underwear. Fit
tingly, he Is the great composer to
write the first poker ballet. Com
missioned for this work last Oc
tober by the American ballet, he ar
rives in New York to prepare for its
metropolitan production in April. It
won't be strip poker and, naturally,
the ace-kicker will head the cast.
M. Stravinsky long has been a Joker
wild in the musical deck. His “Fire
Bird" and "Sacre du Printemps" have
upset many an old-fashioned pet
hand. Their first rendering caused
riots. He never took back a single
note of either of them—he never re
tracts or backs up.
Everything was wild in Diaghileff's
Russian ballet, whose mad rigadoon
bridged the years of wars and chaos
in the capitals of the world. Diaghileff
was its angel and Stravinsky and
Nijinsky Its creative geniuses. Dlaghi
leff is dead and Nijinski is mad. Bo
here is little Stravinsky, steely and
whippy as ever, at 54, bundled up to
the ears, slaying demons with his
baton, but scared of drafts. He’s a
Rolls-Royce engine on a frail chassis,
racking himself to pieces every once in
a while and going to Switzerland for
repairs.
He used to be a musical outlaw—
public enemy No. 1 around the salons
and conservatories. Now he wears as
many garlands as he does mufflers.
His striped orange and purple shirts
are as dissonant as his music. There
is an insatiate gleam in his myopic
eyes, behind double-lensed glasses.
He’s always catching some superaural
eacophanies, watching for them like
a trapshooter, spearing them with a
sharp pencil.
Paris hooted his compositions at
first, but now he is a naturalized
French citizen and loves Paris, and
vice versa. There’s nothing precious
sbout him and the Dadaists and Sur
realists couldn’t head him into their
squirrel cage no matter how they
tried.
"Modernism Is a soiled word," he
says.
In Russia they groomed him for a
lawyer, but at 19 he cut loose, as a
pupil of Rimsky-Korsakoff, with a
niagara of pent-up genius which swept
him to the heights of his profession.
He has relayed his master's inspira
tion far into the modern world. He
is a nervous, temperamental little man,
witty and sharp in repartee, smoking
two or three packages of cigarettes a
day. He conducts rehearsals in a
sheepskin coat and a muffler,
(Copyrnht. 1936, >
TWO DEAD IN BLAST
Explosion Aboard Tanker in Gulf
of Mexico.
NEW ORLEANS, December 28 (If).
—The death toll of an explosion
aboard the tanker Dillwyn of C. D.
Mallory & Co. In the Gulf of Mexico
reached two yesterday.
One man, reported to have struck
a match which caused the blast in
a gasoline storage tank aboard the
vessel, was killed instantly. The
identity of the man, an able-bodied
seaman, was not immediately learned.
The other seaman, identified as
Kenneth Horton, 23. of Virginia, died
late Saturday night while being
brought here in another ship fo»
hospital treatment.
WASHINGTON
NEW YORK
'"UNO THU*
MIW VOUK ■
miupnmu
ff T’M a traveling salesman—but up until a few months ago
*“■ I was spending more time traveling than selling! Often
I’d have to take a six- or seven-hour trip in order to see a
customer for just an hour. And only too frequently I’d
arrive after business hours and have to wait overnight
before I could get to my man.
"A few months ago I had to make an unexpected trip
between Washington and. New York and I discovered that
SI could fly it in 80 minutes—instead of wasting more than
|9 3V4 hours on surface travel. So I joined the '80-Minute Men’
I and went down as a passenger in one of Eastern Air Lines’
f huge planes.
"It was the most pleasant trip I’ve ever taken—and I’ve
traveled thousands of miles. My chair was so comfortable
I took a short nap and awoke just as the journey ended. I
arrived feeling rested and ready to go—and that’s worth
money to a salesman! From then on, I’ve been flying with
•The Great Silver
Fleet1 on all my busi
ness trips through the
South!”
FOR RESERVATIONS:
Phone NAdonal 3646
or any hotel, travel
bureau, Western
Union or Postal Tele
graph Office.
• WMHIHOTOH ^
» ■MTIMOil
♦ cmcAoo
ATLANTA t
* TP
JACKtONVIllf
§ MIAMI
NIW ORMANS