Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-29

Eugene Meyer, jr., ranks as the most
likely successor Of Roy A. Young Is
governor Of the Federal Reserve Board.
His appointment would restore TO the
Government service one of the most
brilliant Ananciers associated with 1t in
our day. Until he voluntarily retired
year ago, Meyer was managing dirsc-
tor Of the War Finance Corporation.
In that post he scored the unique rec
ord of serving under four Presidents in
succession--Wilson, who first appointed
him; then Harding, Coolidge and Hoo
yer. Organized for war needs, the cor
poration developed in its latter days
into a purely emergency relief agency
for agriculture. Mr.. Meyer, who Is him.
self dirt farmer in Westchester ceun-
ty, NJ Y, eventually directed financial
operations running into the hundreds
Of millions for the benefit Of distressed
agriculture, acquiring nrst-hand,
problems and of farm leaders. Born in
California, educated at Yale and abroad,
Meyer resides in New York State when
he is not at his home in Washington.
He Is a Republican. President Hoover
Is known to hold . high opinion OF
his talents.
Labor day will mark the formal OPEN
ing Of the congressional campaign,
Everything that's gone before has been
of the skirmishing order, including the
daily barrages let down by the Fespec-
tive national committee mimeograph
batteries. The 1890 contest, 1t Is al
furious than any off-year campaign
since the Wilson give-me another DEM
ocratic- Congress battle Of 1918. The
Democrats determination to make the
Hoover administration the paramount
issue is the factor destined to fill the
impending fray with bitterness and ran
cor 1t won't be long now before the
air-in q very literal sense, for radio is
to be intensively used by both parties
will be jammed with controversial
static. The Republicans have redrafted
had charge of their hroadcasting acttvi-
ties in previous campaigns.
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Peru is the second South American
country within recent times to which
the United States dispatched q new en-
vey on the brink Of . revolution. Ed
ward F. Feely, our new Minister TO Boz
livia, reached La PaE, the capital, al
most at the very moment the late SHE'S
government was given the order OF the
boot This very day, August 20, when
the revolutionary party Is taking con-
troll at Lima, Fred M bearing, newly
Peru, u sailing from New York to that
turbulent terrain. MIR. bearing recent
ly relinquished the post Of Minister to
Portugal, to accept promotion to am
basSad0rial rank In Peru. In the case
Of the Bolivian revolution, the United
States sent Minister Feely to La Paz
with credentials in blank, there being
k~A Dv.~. ~
whom he could be accredited at the
time. The superstition Is that Am
hassad0r bearing will proceed to Lima
with the same sort of blind documents,
awaiting the arrival Of Q regime worthy
Of Uncle Sans recognition.
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Not the least of the results of the
sOjourn Of British lawyers In WASH
ington this week was the explosion of
the theory that humor in John Bulls
sons, as Mark Twain once claimed, %
selves In the land Of wisecracks, many
OF the visiting barristers proceeded to
show that they can do Jimmie walker
now and then, too. Your lunch and
dinner hospitality" said one of them
in q post-prandial speech of response,
has not only been extensive. We have
found 1t distensive,"
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Gladys Moon Jones, the Washington
publicity lady who told the Caraway
Senate Lobby Committee last Winter
exactly where 1t headed in--as far as
she was coneerned-has just sailed for
Paris an business. Mrs. Jones Is ex-
tending her international interests to
Europe, When she made her cantri-
button TO the gayety OF the Nation be-
fore the Caravan dlliHRefs she was nro-
safer for Cuban sugar. Mrs. Jones,
who writes and practices law, when she
Is not pursuing the persuasive paths
OF publicity, plans to attend the Sep
tembeF assembly Of the League Of Ma
tons before returning to Washington,
She took her LII. b. at the Law School
OF Northwestern University at Chicago,