Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-21

Heat to the contrary notwithstand-
ing, Senator Reed Shoots finance COM
mittee is driving ahead to its appointed
goal, viz, of completing tariff hearings
by July 10. That Is why the committee
has segregated itself into four subcom-
mittees, each charged with a different
set of schedules, instead of holding
hearings en- bloc. as Chairman Hawley's
ways and means committee did on the
House side. BY July 10 the finance
committee hopes to be able to have suf-
ficient data in hand to finish its task
in executive session during the rest OF
the Summer up to August 10, when
the Senate reconvenes. Smoot is the
man of the hour for the business in
hand. He has long ranked as the
hardest worker in the Senate and has
capacity for injecting his colleagues
with a passion for zeal and industry
Senate tariff making this time is no
young mans job Smoot is in his sixty
eighth year and Senator Simmons,
ranking Hoovercrat on the finance COM
mittee, was rs last January.
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One of the diverting features of current
tariff og-rolling on Capitol Hill is the
temperance there of former Senator
Porter j. McCumber of North Dakota,
who now practices law in Washington
The co-author of the Fordney-McCu Cum
Der BILL now undergoing revision, came
before the committee of which he was
once chairman this week on behalf of
the Brentwood furniture manufacturers
Previously McCumber represented the
same interests before the ways and
means committee. He also had some
thing to say in the name of the plate
nlQcC industry 70
Joe" Fordney of Michigan turned up
at the Capitol last Winter and poured
sweet nothings into the ears of one
time House colleagues about lumber, in
which he is now heavily interested, but
did not enter any official appearance
Fordney devotes most of his attention
nowadays to his model dairy farm near
Saginaw. The dairy trade is not en-
tirely, unconcerned with the Hawley-
Smoot bill.
Here's the latest from the diplomatic
liquor front in the District of Column
bia: Sir Esme Towards failure to in
duce any other embassy or legation In
washington to mount the water wagon
mas given the British embassy a new
name. It's now known as the I'm
Alone"
These Californians seem determined
TO keep the lions share of the. honors
within the family circle. Now comes
the revelation that Helen Wills is about
to become cousin by marriage, once
removed, of Herbert Hoover, ir. The
tennis queens f1ance, Fred Moody, II,
is a first cousin of the Presidents
daughter-in-law-i. e., of young Mrs
Hoover.
1t was bound TO come sooner or later
Now the woman flyers-or at least some
of them-want equal rights" in the air
with men. The particular bone of con-
tention concerns records. AS is not
altogether surprising, too, the ladies of
the sky are not unit on the question
Their opinions differ Marjorie Stinson
FIRST woman licensed as pilot in the
District of Columbia and a member of
whole family which flies (she taught
her famous brother Eddie, thinks
woman aviators should try on even
terms for the same records as men and
take their medicine regardless of their
own seX-in other words, that they
should be just aviators. not women
Equal rights and equal flights" is Miss
Stinson's slogan. Amelia Earhart takes
the other side of the fence.
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The fight for creation of depart
ment of education has not ended
Many authorities thought it had col
lapsed, as far as the Hoover admins
tration Is concerned, when Secretary
Wilbur issued his blast against the
project last month. The numerous ma
tional organizations which have so long
been crusading for the department are
still in battle array. DR.. Wilbur's re-
Gently formed Advisory Commission on
Education has just held its maiden SEES
sion in Washington and gone home with
instructions to give a Summers study. Il