Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-15

Encouraged by the success which Of:
tended the 5000 .000, 900 additional
authorization for public buildings en-
acted before Christmas, House commit
tee hearings now In progress on the
500, o00, 900 rivers and harbors Dill are
being expedited with view TO speed
ing the bill to safe and early passage.
CONGRESS has responded with alacrity to
the Presidents suggestion that one way
to promote prosperity Ia to expand ana
speed up the Governments own pubic
works. House and Senate are Walting
for no second invitation nor standing on
ceremony. Post Offices, roads, bridges,
rivers, harbors and canals, monuments,
barracks, hospitals, any and every
project under the sun which involves
the spending Of money anywhere within
a voting precinct is being rushed for
ward to aid Mr.. Hoover. 1t Is policy
upon which the Republicans, Democrats
and insurgents, the Old Guard and the
Young Turks, the East and the west
and the South are all in accord. It Is
a glorious opportunity for service, ooupiy
welcome after the lean years LOT the
pork barrel under the stern Mr. Coot-
omy and budgets, and forever frowning
upon raids on the Treasury.
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To those persons who are stu! fol.
lowing the tariff bill, fairly well plotCeo
from sight by the welter OF pronlplClon
discussion, 1t may be Of interest 70 note
that with the completion Of the sugar
schedule there still remain three scheo-
ules, paper, sundries and the free hst'
to be disposed of in the order named
Boots and shoes and leather. among
many other things, are within these
categories. It will be February ! at
the earliest before the Senate VIII nave
completed the first reading OF the Dill
for committee amendments. AFTER tnat
the Senate goes back to the beginning
and starts on the bill all over again
for individual amendments from the
floor. One Senator Is reported TO nave
81 such amendments in his coat pocket.
Many members have q dozen or Two
apiece, so the end Is as yet scarcely
within hailing distance.
The Anti-Saloon League executive
committee, meeting this week in De-
troit, heard from DR.. Ernest H. Cher
rington, their managing director, that
"the present critical period makes i'm
perative a new educational campaign"
He estimated that $50, 000,0 900 would be
required by the league to finance the
adequate program" which he outlined.
Contributions for the cause OF alcohol
free America will be welcome. Coinci-
dentally, Bishop Cannon, the leader OF
the Southern MethodistS, says the issue
Is no longer prohibition enforcement
but the maintenance Of constitutional
government and suggests to Congress
! that dollars do not count when SUP
preston of anarchy" is required and
alludes to $200,000,000 as a possible
| figure.
Dame Rumor having failed to entice
Calvin Coolidge into the Senate Is now
States Supreme Court. 1t Is easy to
theorize that vacancies on the court
are apt to occur before 1882 rolls
around, and that our only ex-President
In private life could with dignity &C.
| cept such q place, and that his ap-
| pointment would be hailed by the
| country as particularly appropriate.
| Such speculations ignore Mr.. Coolidge's
| personal taste or the fact that, though
! he Is q lawyer by profession, he lays
no claims to being a jurist. If sub
sequent events demonstrate that he has
quit public life for all time to come,
then 1t Is much more likely that after
completing his present apprenticeship
he will graduate into a full-fedged life
insurance company president.
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| Though the Radio Commission as a
Federal agency has received a new lease
Of life, the terms Of the entire present
board expire by limitation on February
! %. and the President has given no sign
yet al TO what course he proposes TO
follow. whether he win reappoint all