Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-13

Hail the opening of the blithe and
merry season of political prognostlca-
tion-America hardest biennial! IL
ALWAYS sets in about this time-three
weeks before election. Party managers
can indulge in it with gay 1rresponsl-
bility and the Sky's the limit. There's
a stronger ring of conviction In Demo-
cratic claims this year than In the
prophecies Of Republicans. The brutal
truth is, though no loyal son OF the
@. o. P. will admit 1t, that President
Hooyer's oppressed and depressed party
will consider itself mighty lucky IL on
the morning of November 1t discovers
that it still holds what Mick" Long
worth calls nominal control OF Con-
gress. Republican Executive Chairman
Lucas says things are looking splendid
Democratic Executive Chairman Shouse
foreshadows tremendous Democratic
gains" Col. Tilson, Republican House
leader. and Eastern campaign director,
is confident of "a safe Republican ma
jority'' in his branch of the next Con-
Rress. Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Chairman Tydings declares that the
Democrats will win the House. Some
body iss going to be wrong.
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Conspicuously leSs.is being said about
complexion of the new House. There is
| fair agreement that the Democrats will
| score at least four or five, and possibly
more, net gains in the senatorial cleo
| tons They concede Stecks defeat In
Iowa and tom" Walsh's peril in Mon
tana. But they contend with positive
ness that they'll elect Gerry in Rhode
Island, Coolidge in Massachusetts,, Bay
ard in Delaware, Nicely in West Virginia,
Gore in Oklahoma and Logan and Will
liams (long and short term candidates.
| in Kentucky. Now that the independent
| Republican Cincinnati Inquirer has
come out for Buckley, Democratic sena-
torial candidate in Ohio, the Raskobians
| will move the Buckeye State out of their
doubtful column and claim 1t. They
| believe Jim Ham" Lewis chances are
| improving hourly in Illinois along with
Democratic prospects in Minnesota,
South Dakota and Colorado. If the
Democrats make six net gains in the
Senate the count after March 4, 1881,
will stand: Republicans, so; Democrats,
As; Farmer-Labor, /. But that tabula-
ton includes at least dozen tempera-
mental statesmen knowns as insurgent
Progressives. The White House and
Jim" Watson know what that means.
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achieve national acknowledgement
Secretary of State Alice Lee Grosjean
of Louisiana - expects, like her chief,
Gov. Huey p. Long, to cap her career
| in Washington. She is coming here
| with him in 1892, she announces, to
be his private secretary on Capitol Hill,
| when Long Is in the Senate.
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This weeks meeting of the Ameri-
I can Society of Industrial Engineers in
| Washington revolves almost wholly
around the achievements of one man
| Harrington Emerson, who will be glOri-
| fed as the first efficiency engineer"
Since the dawn of the present century
Emerson has been telling railroads and
other great industrial concerns how to
lido more at less cost with the aid of
better paid and happier employees. One
| OF hfs earliest triumphs was with the
Santa Fe Railroad IS years ago. Though
Emerson is II, he's still on the job,
and at this moment is preparing studies
on unemployment for the French and
l'Qefman governments. In his spare
time he functions as railroad adviser
to Soviet Russia and to the Marking
l.goyerhment of China. Harrington was
born in New Jersey, educated all over
Europe, and became an eff1clency engl-
neer after starting out as college
professor in Nebraska.
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With South America afame-4 out
of her 10 countries in revolution-and
Europe in q state when anything can
happen. President Hoover and Secre-
tary iStimson have other worries these
days3 than those of the Republican
party. Four Of our principal diplomatic
representatives win have brought the
l adnHfv1f9tra fi0Va I'M tn date nm Ole
World affairs before Winter comes. AM
hassadors Gibson of Belgium and Sack
; EFT Of Germany are in this country, Min
lister Wilson of switzerland (and the