Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-04
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Other more tlustriouS names may
get the ltneltght during the impend-
Ing congressional campaign, but the
two men who'll really wage the battle
are Charley" Nicholson and Jim"
West. Degenerated from the high es-
tate of Washington correspondents into
the publicity directorshipS, respectively,
of the Democratic and Republican par
ties. they are the men behind the party
guns. Each Of them draws more pay
than q cabinet officer. It'll be Pat
Harrison or Tom Walsh or Jack Gar
ner who'll appear to be laundering for
the Democrats from time to time, but
they will merely be reproducing their
masters voice 49, the terse and telling
tones of Nicholson. Likewise, in the
G. 0. p. camp, when Jim Watson or
Jack Tilson or George Moses says this
or that in a Republican rejoinder to q
Democratic onslaught, the chances are
8 out of 10 that it's Vests words of
wisdom which they're speaking. The
Michelson-West duel is now on full tilt.
The mimeograph is the Big Bertha.
Michelson's batteries have been In ac-
ton for the past six months. At first
the Republican national committee pre-
tended to ignore them. But the Demo-
cratic fire became so devastating that
the Hoover organization determined the
tillery OF its own.
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Was 1t an unconscious humorist in
the Bureau of the Census who chose
Bach" Henry b. as the specimen
entry for "lodger". in the preliminary
family schedule which Uncle Sans
children are filling out this week? The
mythical Mr.. Bach is described on the
reverse side Of the schedule, in the
space for the unemployment report"
as q musician who has been out of a
Job for six weeks because of an "or-
chestYa disbanded." AS all the world
knows, Bach (Johann Sebastian) was
one of the greatest composers who ever
lived. Probably he, too, was once upon
q time an unemployed ledger In
garnet where genius is supposed to
sprout Orchestra disbanded." Direc-
tor Steuart is destined to discover, Is
the principal reason why thousands OF
American musicians are now voorhees,,
The talkies are mainly to blame.
A% + "
Herbert Hoover has a double in Lon
don by the fine Anglo-Saxon name OF
looks like the President Ia director OF
public relations for the British Broad
casting Corporation, the Semi-govern-
ment institution which controls radio,
or wireless" as it's called In John
Bulls islands. Members of the Amert-
can Naval Conference contingent, who
met Murray, almost universally remark.
ed his resemblance to "the Chief"
Murray Is q native Of the British Co
lunnbia woods After graduation from
McGill University at Montreal, he be-
came a reporter in New York, and
wound up by being Canadian Rhodes
scholar ct oxford. His task In LONDON
is to keep public opinion safe for the
81. d. C." As the corporation has laid
down the policy of giving the radio au-
dience not what the audience wants,
but what the ~. b. G." thinks 1t ought
TO have. Muryay's job isn't always q
bed Of roses.
The Federal Farm Board has cele-
brated Lent by getting out . catechisn.
IT'S an eight-page pamphlet OF ques-
tjons and answers, designed TO supply
the information most commonly asked
concerning the activities of the Legge
men. Forty-tlsree questions are posed,
and anybody who reads the answers
ought to be pretty well posted as to
the why's and wherefores of the egg
which Congress Matched last year in
the name OF farm relief. Answer No.
% tabulates the IL commodities already
designated" by the Farm Board %
entitled 10 the benefits Of the agricul-
tural marketing act. In answer NO. -