Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-07

Considerable unrest is manifest in
administration circles over the COM
tinuing silence of the regular Repub-
licanS in the Senate whenever Mr..
Hoover is attacked. The party leaders
alibi themselves with the explanation
that the present objective is to get the
tariff bill passed and that the debate
will never end unless the speeches OF
the coalition are for the time being
ignored. Friends of the President are
said to believe, however, that few 10
minute speeches now and then would
have a beneficial effect, and at least
would dissipate any impression that the
Republican Senators do not want to
defend the President. However, this
week has brought indications that
more militant policy is at hand. Sena-
tor Tess of Ohio, reliable Republican
party wheelhorse, delivered a Hoover
paneoyric last Tuesday commemorative
of Mr.. Hoover's first IL months in
ONCE, and the Republican national
committee, for the first time in long
time, this week issued a bit OF party
publicity, being advanced copies OF an
address to be made by Chairman
Claudius Huston before the Indiana
Republican Editorial Association.
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The Federal Oil Conservation Board,
composed of Secretary Of Interior VIII
bur, Secretary of War Hurley, Secre-
tary of Navy Adams and Secretary OF
Commerce Lamont, after nearly year
of study. has reached the conclusion
that there is coming to be too much
gasoline and its manufacture Is pro-
ceeding unchecked" according to a
press memorandum from the Depart
ment of the Interior this week. The
rilrtQ1l.
ment, that the petroleum refining in
dustry work six days a week instead OF
seven. The board has written to the
governors of the three great oil-produc-
ing States-Texas, Oklahoma and Cali
fornia-suggesting that they pass this
suggestion along to all interested parties
within their borders.
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Representative Mary T. Norton,
Democrat, of New Jersey, announces
that she wants to debate the prohibit
ton question with some other member
of her sex over a Nationwide hook-up,
but is encountering difficulties in find-
ing dry opponent who is ready and
willing to cross swords with her on the
air. Both Mrs. Mabel Walker WILLIE
brandt and Mrs. Ella Boole, the latter
the national president of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, were ten
dered formal invitations to meet her III
debate, Mrs Norton says, but they re-
fused.
The advisory committee on education
by radio, appointed by Secretary of
Interior Wilbur, is undertaking to as
certain facts of vast Importance, par
ticularly to appraise the listener reac-
ton to educational programs. 1t has
received a significant report of the re-
suits of radio QUESTIONABLE circulated
by the Commonwealth Club of San
Francisco in Pacific Coast territory. OF
1000 replies received SO per cent wanted
more of The spoken word" II per cent
wanted "Ielore education talks" so per
cent wanted more radio dramas" "a
per cent wanted more semi classic mu-
SIC" 81 per cent admitted they listened
to radio book reviews, II per cent said
they liked children's hours, 80 per cent
said their children listened to the radio
wanted censorship and % per cent
wanted Government control.
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An appeal for funds to erect statue
of Albert Gallatin, treasurer OF the
United States from 1901 to 1914, has
been launched by the Gallatin memorial
committee. 1t is proposed to place II
on the steps of the Treasury, alongside
of the present statue there of Alexander
Hamilton, and the sculptor will be j. E.
Fraser, who did the Hamilton statue.
Congress has approved the project and
appropriated $4,000 for the pedestal
and other expenses incident to the UNI
dertaking other than the statue itself.
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Add to the roster of Indian tribes of
which Calvin Coolidge is an honorary
chieftain the Apache and the Pima
clans of Arizona. The ex-President be-
came Chief White Father" of the
Apaches and "Chief Bringer of Waters"
Of the Pimas, initiated with due cere-