Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-29
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Senator Jim" CouZens, Republican,
of Michigan, is likely to find himself
in a controversial pickle as soon as
his brother solons can get at him
in mass formation. The dictum OF
Concentrated, with his reputed $780,
600 900 fortune, the richest man III
Congress, with the possible exception
of Senator Phipps, Republican, OF
Colorado-that Senators are oVerpald
finds little agreement among them.
Indeed. most Of them think they are
overworked and undergrad. Many are
poor men and are known to nave
real difficulty in making both ends
meet at Washington. Senator Borah
has never felt he could afford an
automobile. Senator Joe" Robinson
of Arkansas, the Democratic leader,
was four years paying off, in in
stallments, his senatorial campaign
expenses. During the same interval
he and Mrs. Robinson hunted WASH
ington high and low for an apart
ment that they could afford. Any
number of Senators devote their en-
tire $4,000 salaries to employment
Of extra secretarial and clerical help,
in order to attend adequately to the
incessant demands of constituents.
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A we'll known Hoover man
Claudius II. Huston-who was AS
sistant Secretary of Commerce during
HooVer's first two years at the head
of that department-has just become
a labor union executive. The power
full Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers has engaged Huston to be its
fiscal adviser. The brotherhood is the
financial aristocrat of organized labor.
It's various banks and other business
institutions have resources of more
than 100000 900. Huston's job will
consist of administering, with a board
of directors, the brotherhood's vast
capital investments. He has been, in
his day, a banker, a manufacturer, a
college professor and an oil magnate.
Now and then Huston has dabbled
in Republican politics. In the G..
0. p. he's known as ''the first man
to break the solid South" his feat
in helping the Republican State COM
mittee of Tennessee then his home
base) carry that State for Harding
and Coolidge in 1920. In 1924 Huston
was chairman of the ways and means
committee of the Republican national
committee.
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Observed on a placard attached to
tumble down flivver parked near
the White House during the week
end: II do not choose to rum
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Mai. Roy A. Haynes seems to be
a natural-born preventer. His legion
of dry friends throughout the coun-
try have been wondering in what di-
rection the longtime commissioner
of prohibition would turn his
energies, after he fell outside the
Mellon breastworks last Spring. Now
Haynes comes forth as the presi-
dent of a new Washington fire in
surance company, which will special
ize in schemes for preventing fire
losses, rather than in paying them
after they've occurred. Despite his
plunge into prosaic business, Haynes
will continue to be an interested by
stander on the prohibition sidelines.
His record as chief enforcement Off
Ger, from 1921 to 1927. Is part of
the history of prohibition and his
friends assert it will stand the
searchlight of investigation in the
perspective of time.
The Woman's National Democratic
Club. having successfully staged a
1928 slogan contest at it's Wash
ington headquarters in May, has
decided to hold a nationwide con-
test and award prizes to the win
ners. The local competition was won
by Mrs. Wilbur w. Hubbard, Demo.
cratic woman leader from the East
ern Shore of Maryland, with Eight
Years of Wall Street-Give Main
Street a Chance" First, second and
third prizes of, respectively, $l00,
$50 and $25 are hung up for the
rivalry of nimble- Witted men or
women who can suggest victorious
Democratic battlecries for next years
presidential campaign. Politicians
lay great store by slogans. Many
q time since "TippecanOe and
Tyler Too" put President in the
White House, slogans have done eff
fective duty in national campaigns.