Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-02

Tariff debate In the Senate, which is
about to make the welkin ring on Capt.
toI Hill, will promptly and graphically
disclose the complete chaos INTO Wnlcn
present-day American party lines. have
been thrown. Republicans, or men
labeled as such, are botn LOT tne
@. o. p. tariff measure and against
n while Democrats, or men so tagged,
are likewise against the Hawley-Smoot
bill (or what's left of it,. and for 1t.
Roll call after roll call will reveal this
crtss-cross state Of affairs. At this hour
neither Republican Leader watson nor
Democratic Leader Robinson has
plirnmer of a notion as to how many
of his so-called followers are going
to be for this, or against that. provision
of the tariff legislation. The whole
business is q mess and q muddie al
most without parallel. With industry
arrayed against agriculture and section
against section, and with special in
terests Of all sorts scheming and clam
oring for advantage, 1t Is the open
season for log-rolling. Thereu be a
plenty Of it before many Autumn leaves
have fallen.
As far as the White House is able to
check UP on these things, the country
at large isn't wildly excited over the
C9rln lroCdS. IlCIc IlOt OSClA e'AA
administration in many years with so
many and so expert mechaniSms for
keeping the presidential ear to the
ground as the regime now in power Its
information Is that the people are only
mildly interested in the terih as a
general proposition, and far less inter-
ested in the chickering's and bargainlngs
over 1t. Even the suggestion that such
things as sugar, shingles and SHOES
may cost bit more, If the projected
new tariff becomes law, doesn't seem
yery emotional extent. A well known
political psychoanalyst says there's so
much money about in America now
adays-broadly speaking-and people
are SO accustomed to high prices that
the Shaping of an extra cent or two,
or even dollar or two, onto this or that
commodity has ceased to mean any
thing.
What's in q name? President Hoover
is said to be considering Connecticut
lawyer named Alcorn for the prohibi-
ton reinforcement assistant attorney gen.
eralship recently vacated by Mabel
Walker Willebrandt. Nationalist China
statesman named HUI Shih, which al
most spells "hush." Speaking of names,
this observer has solved the mystery OF
the ID" in Owen D. Young's name.
The patentee of the Young reparations
plan has no middle name at all. He
has only a middle initial. How he got
1t not even some of his closest rela-
tives are able to explain.
X y X X
Apropos the Arab-Jewish war in
Palestine, few know the circumstances
under which the British mandate over
the Holy Land came into being. The
man generally credited with its achieve
ment is DR.. Chain Weizmann, now
president of the World Zionist Organi.
cation. When the World War broke
out, Weizmann was an instructor In
biochemistry at the University of Man.
chester. For the production Of high
explosives Great Britain sorely needed
a chemical ingredient of which the
Germans alone held the secret. One
day DR.. Weizmann came to Mr.. Lloyd
George, newly appointed minister Of
vented a process for duplicating the
priceless component. It proved an in
estimable boon for Britain. Weizmann
became director of the Admiralty
laboratories In London, but refused re-
Enumeration of any kind. Two years
later he realized his life arnbition-tle
Balfour declaration setting up the
Jewish National Home in Palestine.
After the war, Weizmann sold his ex.
plosives patent to an American COM
oaYy for q round million dollars, most
OF which he has devoted to zionism's
cause. So
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