Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-12-02
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

| Anybody who knows what a canny
politician Charley Curtis is will account
| 1t a good break for Herbert Hoover that
the Vice President Is ready to run again
| for his present job. 1t meanS that he
| thinks the signals are set for another
| Republican victory in 1882 Mr.. Curtis
was generally looked upon as a sure
| fire winner for the Kansas senatorShiu
| if he had preferred to go after his Old
| seat from the alfalfa belt The fact that
| he chooses to tempt fate a second time
at the Lail-end Of the Hoover ticket can
| only denote that the nobleSt Republican
Indian of them all believes the going
| next year will be at least as good ma
| tionally for the G. o. P. as 1t would be
| in Kansas. 1t would be interesting to
know just what corroborative evidence
| the Vice President has acquired on that
score. II he has any, it runs counter to
| what nearly all other observers, even
| Republican StalWarts, think. Except for
J publication, their view is that if election
were now, the administration would be
| headed straight for a disaster at the
| polls. Vice President Curtis evidently
| thinks, as many politicians do, that bet
! ter times :. year hence will save the dav
| for Mr.. Hoover and his party-perhaps
! by narrow margin, but a sufficient
| one.
Main Street comes into its own in
| the high command of the House of
Representatives that takes office next
week. All three ranking membership
| Speaker, the majority floor leader and
! the minority floor leader-hail from
small towns. Jack Garner, who in
herits the Longworth throne is a resi-
~
Rainey, captain Of the Democratic
| Bertrand H. Smell, who has Just wrested
the Republican minority leadership
! from John @. Tilson, of Connecticut, is
| from PotSdam, N. Y Smell has a
| finger in a number Of important cor
! porate pies In New York State, in
| Guiding banks, power companies, oil re-
| fineries and paper mills Sitting in a
| place OF authority in the House will not
be a new sensation for the minority
manager. AS chairman of the auto
cratic Committee on Rules, he was one
Of the old LongWorth Tilson- Smell tri-
| umYirate that so long was monarch Of
all it steam-rollered in the lower
! branch.
Frank Billings Kellogg. former Unit
| ed States Senator from Minnesota,
| former Ambassador to Great Britain,
| former Secretary of State, co-author of
| the Kellogg pact and now an associate
| justice OF the World Court, is in Wash
| ington. It's strictly private business
that brings him here. The main rea-
son Is that he is giving another sitting
| to Philip Laszlo, eminent Hungarian
| portrait painter, who did the kellogg
portrait now hanging among other Sec
| retarieS Of State done in oil at the
State Department. Incidentally, Mr..
Kellogg has been seeing his medical
advisers in Baltimore, who pronounce
him flt as fiddle despite his rs years.
Il x
Somebody in Washington whose DUTY
1t was to collect all the public utter
ances of Signor Dino Grand in Amer
lea discovers that never once-at least
when he spoke in English - did the
| young Italian statesman mention the
words MusSolini or FaSciSm. There
was, Of course, method in his Austen
ton. The ever-conscious aim of II
Duce's administration is to have the
outside world believe that Mussolini
and FaScism are synonymous with
Italy. and that their respective places
In the picture should not be over
stressed, especially on international oc-
casions. Thus the gracious Grand
always referred to my government" or
to my chief" or to the chief of nv
! government"
| X X X
Senator Willard E Tydings. Demo-
crat: of Maryland, is likely to have the
whole student and alumni body of the
University Of Maryland out on the
political side-lines roofing fer his re-
election In 1882. Annually Tydines
devotes the Autumn to following the
fortunes of the Maryland foot ball
team and the late season was no ex-