Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
BY WILLIAM HARD.

The summary Of this administration
to date, ct this week end. from Q GER
tain standpoint, is all in panied re-
mark which was most moanfully made
here the other day by visiting bust
ness man from New York.
This is what we get," he said, "for
electing a business man and q mil
lionaire' to be President"
He then proceeded to review the ad-
ministrations achievements as seer
from a chair in q New York club
corner.
Oil men aren't allowed any longer to
dig in the earth on the public domain
and they are hardly allowed to live on
the earth anywhere. The Secretary OF
the Interior has told them to chase
themselves off his Federal lands in the
West, and the Attorney General has
told them that they cannot combine tc
save themselves from drowning In the
flood Of oil out Of the private lands In
California and Oklahoma and Texas
They creep into Washington now, and
how do they look?
They look--and the New York BUSH
ness mar was quite right on this point
they look limp. They look licked
Where now is the fat arrogance which
bloated oil magnetism cartoons, al
any rate-are supposed to display? II
is wholly gone. . 1t Is replaced by Q
look of abject desolation.
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Oh, the good old days when Harry
F. Sinclair used to come down here and
get entertained at dinner by our very
best people! Who would entertain him
now? Only common people in care oil
the most common" jails.
The fashionable ladies who used t.
place Mr.. Sinclair at their right at theil
dinner tables now are most partic.
ularly severe upon him. They loatht
his iniQuities The more they once
committed themselves to him socially
the more they emphasize their loathins
OF his iniquities now. The fashionable
Washington world does not stand By
its buddy, Mr.. Sinclair, or by his race.
horses, or by his oil industry.
The oil industry, so lately the potent
prince Of our industries at Washing.
ton, Is as much out of luck now ir
social Washington as In political Wash.
ington. The oil barons and oil dukes
and oil kings who come down here nov
to see what can be done to pick up the
pieces Of the Attorney Generals de.
striction OF the production of petroleum,
arrive without noise and creep on tip.
toe along the streets to evade attention
and to avoid the rousing of any wrath
from any Washington enraged power
They have Is much pep as so many
wet rags.
That is the condition, says the indig.
nant New York business man, to which
Washington has now reduced one Of oul
noblest and most puissant industries.
Moreover, says our New York bushes.
man. Just look at our millionaire
President gonig on to live in q Marine
Corps dog-tent on the banks Of thu
Rapidan River In Virginia to fish like
any other rough.neck Izaak Waltoniar
for trout. with the magnificent stately
White House saddle horses dismissed
back to the working Cavalry and the
palatial cruises on the Mayfiower Sent
into oblivion along with the Mayfiowel
herself, and the President getting hi
daily recreation tossing q medicine
ball around like any ordinary clerk II
o Y. NJ. G. A. gymnasium.
Where Is the high touch In an Of
this?" the New York inquirer seems tx
want to know. Where Is 1.-The spectacle
that man of wealth In the presidentia
ONCE should display to the country
Where Is the consideration that q rich
and elegant administration should Civ,
to the proprieties? All gone. Look d
the Gam case"
The reporter, under the guidance o.
his new friend, looks at the Gam cas-
and sees as follows:
The state Department has thrown
the town back into Jeffersonian demo
cratic social chaos. Except when thu
diplomatic corps interveneS to save thu
precedence in its own embassies ane
legations, there are no more social rule.
Of any sort There Is no more advice
on any social procedure whatsoever
from the state Departments Protoco
Division. There is no concern In any
slightest degree manifested BY any par
OF the administration as to what MAJ
happen socially anywhere. People car
20 socially anarchist now If they like.
The President even, it Is said, has lei
it be known that an informal invita-.
ton to the White House need not bt
considered any longer to be roya
obligatory command, II some othel
formal fixed engagement interferes
Think OF thatl Think Of the shirt
sleeve looseness Of It!
And the Supreme Court has caught
it. It seizes upon the incoming Of thi.
administration to send Sinclair to jai
and to order the traction interests o.
New York not to charge the public
more than 5 cents for ride.
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The Federal Reserve Board has
caught It too. It used TO listen to the
wise bankers in the board Of directors
OF the Federal Reserve Bank Of New
York. Now does 1t listen to them.
Now It cannot hear them no matter
how often and hard, they telephone
These bankers know that oil this pun.
melting OF Federal Reserve Banks K
make them pumniel their member
banks To make them In turn pumYne
their borrowers to make them etoE