Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-03

All short sessions Of Congress are
crammed and TANNED with business,
but the one which has just recon-
menced, as witty son of Erin might
put it, is just like the rest, only more
so. A staggering array of big issues
confrontS House and Senate. Without
exception, they bristle with contro-
versy. No single one will emerge from
proposal into law without bitter dis
cussion. A mere tabulation indicates
the importance of the legislative pro
gram and suggests the hot and heavy
argument it will generate. Here's an
incomplete bin of the play to be en-
acted on Capitol Hill 'twixt now and
the ides of March: Cruisers and air
ships for the Navy; larger personne!
and more equipment for the Army;
the fate of Senator-designate Frank
l.. Smith of Illinois; alien property
disposal; Muscle Shoals: farm relief;
the Lausanne treaty with Turkey: ra-
do control: tax reduction and other
measures of varying degrees of ur'
gency. Congress has but SO working
DAYS in which to climb this Mount
Everest of national business. Unless
King Cloture now and then takes the
throne, the outlook for it's transaction
is not brilliant. The betting odds
favor a talkfest.
4 i i =
Americas most notable round table
Of journalism is to hold forth in an
nual conclave at Washington on Jan
uary ii and 10. 1t is the meeting of
the American Society of Newspaper
Editors AS usual, it will be slim
ulating feast Of shop talk, with a gal
axy of distinguished front pagers do
ing their stuff in the flesh before the
men who keep them in the limelight.
Nicholas Murray Butler. Charles
Evans Hughes, William Allen White
Senator James A. Reed, Senator Will
liam r. Borah and Col. Hanford Mac
Nider, Assistant Secretary of War
are among the speakers on the two
day program. President Coolidge will
as has become his custom, be honor
guest and principal speaker al
the banquet which will close the pro
ceedings on the evening of January
| 15 A paper to which special interest
| attaches, entitled Radio and the
| News will be read to the society by
Fl. V. Kaltenborn, associate editor OF
| the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and a pic
| neer broadcaster of world events.
x x x X
| Prohibition accomplished the miracle
of producing a couple of new stories
during the holiday recess at Washing
| ton. A reelected Western Senator
| sheepishly lowering DER a flowing
| bowl on New Year day, said he had an
alibi--"My State voted for modiflca
| ton in November Nearby, also in
dulging, stood a national notable, who
remarked: 1.-THE post / occupy is rep
rese ntative Of the whole country. AS
half the country's wet and the other
half's dry, drink half the timer
& X X X
One of the congressional sessions
! distinguished abSentees IS Representa-.
| tive Daniel r. Anthony, jr, Repub
lican, of Kansas. Mr. Anthony has
been seriously i'll in a hospital at
| Tucson. Ariz., for many weeks. He
| suffered a nervous breakdown last
| Summer and was ordered to the South
west after a siege in a Kansas City
| hospital In private life Anthony is
editor and publisher of the Leaven
worth Times. AS ranking member OF
| the House committee on appropr1a
tions his counsel and cooperation at
| this juncture are missed by Chairman
| Madden The Army claims Repre-
sentative Anthony as friend in need
| too.
! X X
S. Parker Gilbert, brilliant young
American financier. who is agent gen
eral for reparations at Berlin. has
lust arrived in Washington for brief
annual leave of absence. He is max
ing his headquarters in his old dig
! gings at the Treasury Department
| where he served at Secretary Mellon 5
elbow as undersecretary in 1921. 1877
and 1928. Gilbert has enhanced ar
already high reputation by his admin
| istration of the tangled PREPARATIONS
problem in Germany. To date it has
been satisfactorily solved along the
systematic lines of the Dawes plan
and Gilbert radiates confidence that
barring accidents and granted con
| tinuance of the German will to pay,
things Will work out. The real crisis
from the Germans standpoint, has