Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-17

One encounters a pretty general i'm
preston on Capitol Hill that President
Hoover is the architect of his own
troubles in connection with the farm
relief mess. Politicians. including those
who are friendly as well as others who
are hostile to the White House, say all
the existing turmoil would have been
avoided II the President had indicated
at the outset exactly the kind OF bill
he wanted. Mr.. Hoover took the other
turning. He decided to do nothing that
would SAVIOR Of big-stick tactics. The
result was that both houses of Congress
ran wild and mapped out the kind OF
agricultural legislation they respective
" preferred. Ecarly everybody beneath
the dome believes that the Chief Engi-
neer could have killed the debenture
plan in advance by proclaiming his OPP
position to 1t. Administration SpokeS-
men argue that Hoovers position on
farm relief was made sufficiently clear,
both in the st. Louis campaign speech
and in the message to the special seS-
sion last month. But this contention is
denied on the hill Here and there the
Presidents alleged lack of leadership is
bitterly asSailed. even in the quarters
where his friends predominant.
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Presidential proclamation of increased
duty on flaxseed is an Ill wind which
blows no good to Argentina. but Is a
| zephyr that breeZes agreeably across
North Dakota. The commonwealth OF
| Frazier and Nye produces about IS pei
cent of all the fax grown in the United
| States This year in order to combat
surplus production of wheat, North
Dakota farmers planted 20 or 80 per
cent less wheat than ever before. In
stead they sowed fax. Now, with
Argentinian fiaxseed practically shut
| out by the higher American tariff
North Dakota farmers are assured of a
full and profitable market for their fax
Hitherto this country'S fax require
ments, including the by-product of lin
seed oil-essential to the paint and
varnish industries-have been in excess
OF the domestic supply. With North
Dakota and other Northwestern farmers
! "diversifying" their crops so as to grow
more fax. they expect to be able to full
| fill the home demand in future.
There drifts into Washington from
Minnesota a report that Walter H. New
ton of Minneapolis. President Hoover's
man Friday in connection with con-
gressional and departmental affairs, has
senatorial ambitions. Newton has just
|
order to devote himself exclusively tC
his secretarial duties at the White
| House. The story goes that he may
contest next years Republican SEN
atorial nomination with the present in
cumbent. Senator Thomas d. Schall
| the blind member of the Upper House
| Schall was one OF the troublesome l3
who voted the debenture plan into the
Senate farm bill ten days ago. 1t has
| hna Il i,, el,t,
| Is Gov. Theodore ChriStianSon, not
Secretary Newton, who intends to fight
Schall In the 1880 Minnesota primaries
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| Mabel Walker Willebrandt has Joined
the other. ladies who want to Danish
booze from private social affairs. The
| Portia of prohibition has Just sent a
letter to the Republican Women OF
Pennsylvania-the militant organization
| headed by Mrs. George Horace Lorimel
| OF Philadelphia - commencing women
who entertain without dispensing liquor
They set standards of social habits >
said Mrs. Willebrandt, land are doing
a thing fundamental to prohibition en-
forcement. They are relieving some OF
the economic pressure that produces
bootlegging by taking away much OF
the profit and alleged responsibility OF
the trade. President Hoover has un-
dertaken to reduce crime. Women who
refuse TO patroniZe the fruits of crime
are rendering sportsmanlike allegiance
tn the President which true patriotism
dictates"
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r. Trubee Dawson, Assistant Secre-
tsry of War, is in the midst of a cross
country inspection trip by airplans
| which will have covered approximately
1000 miles by the time he returns K
Washington. He has been gone since
May and expects 10 fy IS far AAele