Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-11

Law Enforcement Chairman Wicker
sham's remonstrance at Boston against
drastic enforcement adds fresh fuel to
the ever flaming prohibition FIRE at
washington. Liberals and modifica-
tionists, or by whatever other name
vets are known, acclaim 1t as fresh
evidence of the rising tide OF resent
ment against Volsteadism. 1t does not
wholly satisfy the repealers, but even
thew welcome Wickersham's plea for
saner liquor laws. They find in 1t COM
plete confirmation of their theory that
the eighteenth amendment is unen-
forceable because Of the harsh penal
ties for violation now provided for.
Members Of Congress paused In the
midst of the end-of- the-season jam
to comment vigorously on the Wicker
sham blast. So Nationwide has be-
come the ferment over prohibition
most of them declare. that If the Jones
5-and-10 law were to be before Con-
gress today 1t is doubtful If 1t could
command a majority In either house
The definite conviction on Capitol Hill
is that modification is on the march
Prohibition Is safe enough, political
leaders say, but, before its second dec
AIDE has advanced very far. will have
to get new suit Of clothes.
In politics, as In most other things,
it's an i'll wind which blows no man
good. Senator Simmons defeat In the
North Carolina Democratic primary is
destined, according to Joe" Robinson's
friends, to do the Democratic minority
leader no end of benefit. The Arkansas
Senator has q stiff, though not . dan
gerous, fight for denomination In his
own primary on August 12-the same
day Helm faces fate in Alabama. In
the Senate cloak rooms the story Is now
revived that Senator Simmons party
faithlessness In 1928 was directed less
against AL Smith than against Joe
Robinson. The reason the veteran
North Carolinian bolted the Democratic
national ticket, according to this tale,
Is that he resented the elevation OF
Robinson, instead OF himself, to the
Democratic Senate leadership In 1928
Simmons entered the Senate IL years
before RobinSon's arrival, and Is said to
have claimed the leadership on seniority
grounds. X 4
Representative John @. Tilson, Re-
publican, of Connecticut, majority lead
er in the House, will deliver Fourth OF
July grafton at Jonesboro, Tenn, near
which he was born. 1t will be the 150th
anniversary of the towns existence
Jonesboro is the county seat Of Wash
ington County, which, at the time OF
the States creation, comprised the en-
| tire commonwealth. TilSon Is spending
the tail-end of the session In his office
Just off the House floor, listening to
tales of woe from FESTIVE Republicans,
who contemplate the ides OF November
with anxiety and alarm. Hardly ar
hour passes that the House leader isn't
assured that this that or the other
measure pending or projected Is going
| to cost the @. o. P. at least Is seats
in this years elections.
X X X
What Pennsylvania senatorial twain
| Reed and Grundy-will do when the
Hawley-Smoot tariff bill comes to a
vote this week is understood to have
been decided at a Swagger and eX-
elusive dinner party in Philadelphia
last week. The joint hosts were E. T.
| Stotesbury, banker, and Cyrus H. K
| Curtis, magazine and newspaper mag
nate. The Senators were guests OF
honor, along with Andrew w. Mellon,
Secretary of the Treasury. Talk around
the festive board was informal, but
| thorough MeSSrs. Reed and Grumpy
came back to Washington officially un-
| committed and n-committal, but
those who were privileged to sit in at
| the Stotesbury- Curtis feast got pretty
good idea of what PENIS brace OF
Solons will say when the roll is called.
x X X x
George Akerson, presidential secre-
tary, has just given the Nations radio
audience a closeup of Mr.. Hoover in
his working clothes. He did not men,
ton an observation recently made by
the President when somebody asked
the Chief Engineer about his Summer
travelling plAnA "A vacation" Hooyel