Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-26

How to get the best Of those trou-
blesome prohibition twins, Straddle and
Trim, has Just been shown out In Indi-
ana, where, as Jim" Watson ct al. can
tell you, they know thing or two about
politics. Down in the Ohio River end
of the State, at Madison-where Presi-
dent Hoover set foot last Fall-the Hon.
Joe" N. Cravens was campaigning for
the State senatorial nomination. A
heckler broke in at one of Cravens'
meetings with this leading question,
Twill you vote dry in the Legislature?"
The would Senator braced himself
the faintest ripple Of applause. There
upon he added, Mot" That didn't go
so big, either, and then the Hon. Joe"
neatly supplemented, Commit myself
at this time" That brought down the
house. Indiana's prohibition policy Is,
apparently, Wait and see."
Americas present-hour favorite pas
time-roasting the United States Sen
ate-lends timely interest to a new
Roosevelt utterance, for which Owen
Wister, novelist and historian, assumes
responsibility. In the June Harpers, in
o chapter on Roosevelt and the World
War Mr.. Wister tells of once remind
is supposed to say every morning: God
bless the Senate! God save the people!"
Wister says that Teddy" retorted:
This Is a democracy, and you
mustn't be of those who always see
the worst of 1t, instead Of trying to
make the best of 1t. It's Q democracy;
1t can't be anything else, and we
wouldn't have 1t anything else.
That's all very well about your chap
lain and the Senate, but the people
we elect are merely piece OF our
expect them to be superior to the
average. A stream cannot rise
higher than its source"
Lady Lindsay, charming consort OF
the newly accredited British AmbasSa-
dor at Washington, Sir Ronald Lindsay
gave a diveFting exhibition the other
day Of her democracy and resourceful-
ness. She was shopping on Connecticut
avenue in her town car-one of those de
luxe autos in which the chauffeur sits
outside in splendid isolation. When
Lady Lindsay emerged from shop she
found her driver missing. AS she hadn't
any time to spare, on account Of an
she simply hoped into the chau1feur's
seat and piloted her car through Wash
ington's busy little Fifth avenue" her
self Sometimes q town car Is called a
"to-hell-With-t the -chaufieur" car. Lady
Lindsay has justified the nickname.
Y \ X
- There's a German proverb, of which
joe FTelinghausen may have heard
when he was a boy, which says that
when the devil Is hungry, he'll eat flies
At any rate Frelinghuysen, hard put to
Ga. he 1nR
rival for the New Jersey senatorial
nomination, has just thought up an idea
for Fostering Dwight Morrow. Freling
huysen is now on the stump Justify call
ing upon Morrow to make clear his
stand on the London naval treaty. Let
my worthy opponent who helped to
frame that pact" the former ruddy-
faced Senator is laundering, speak out
and inform the people of New Jersey
about its provisions. The people want
an adequate Navy, not large enough to
threaten, but big enough to protect"
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Alexander Legge Of Chicago, hard
hitting chairman Of the Federal Farm
Board, who's going to stick on that
thankless Job after next month, though
In 1929 he agreed to stay only year,
once refused a $4,000 raise" Legge
had been president of the International
Harvester Co. at $4,000 q year only q
couple of years when his directors de-
eided to advance his salary to 500, 600.
The offer was declined. The Harvester
corporation was embroiled in some Nti-
cation with Uncle Sam, and Legge,
canny Scot, didn't think 1t was the right
time to be getting 50 fat Q pay check.
The board voted him the extra money
nevertheless, but turned it into an en-
dowment fund for the katherine Legge
established In honor of his late wife,
and for the benefit Of Harvester women
employees. The club is at Hinsdale. nsar
Chicago.