Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-16

Something bearing a cousinly reSem-
blance to a Democratic presidential
boom viii be launched next week when
Senator Robert j. Buckley of Ohio
makes his maiden speech in the Senate.
The occasion viii be an attack on the
Prohibition Bureaus request for 500
additional dry agents and an additional
appropriation of more than $4,000, 900.
Buckley rode into Office on the crest of
the wet wave that recently rolled over
Ohio, SO it accords with the eternal
fitness of things that his oratorical
debut should hook up with the noble
experiment. Stranger things have
happened than that the Democrats
should turn to Buckeye wet in 1882,
after favorite sons from New York,
Maryland and Arkansas turn the ma
tional convention into deadlock. Ohio,
like New York, has one other posi-
bility, for Newton D. Baker Is by no
means to be left out Of account Next
week will witness not only Bulkley's
emergence into activity on the Senate
floor, but into a renewed coInradeship
with Senator Glass Of Virginia, in the
Committee on Banking and Currency.
When both Glass and Buckley were In
the House years ago they worked to-
gether on the creation of the Federal
Reserve act. Now they'll cooperate
on Senator Glass searching inquiry
into the banking situation and its
widespread woes.
I'VE shall meet, but we shall miss
him." lamented Senator Moses, wise
cracking Republican of New Hampshire,
yesterday at the end of tom" Helms
entertaining onslaught on Chairman
John Jacob Raskob" and Toms" re-
cent trials and fluctuations In Alabama
Moses spoke the literal truth. The Sen
ate will be a duller and drearter place
to live in, after Helms yellow vest no
longer nlunrinates the landscape and
his believing has ceased to shiver the
chambers tinbers. Beyond all COM
pare, the leather-lunged ALBANIAN puts
on the best show the Senate ever has.
If it gets noised around the Capitol that
tom" has broken loose, all Senate
doors swing inward, the galleries I'LL
UP, and the moths nest on the pre-
siding officers gavel. Hefiin Is at his
best when he plays to q capacity au-
The expiring statesman from the COM
monwealth of cotton hasn't disclosed
his future activities, but the gayety of
the Nation will suffer If means are not
evolved for employing about the best
storytelling talent in the country.
Like the British Empire itself, it ap-
pears C11S sun uCNCE 6cLS Oh tk4C
fame Of Eddie Savoy. Early in the
year Secretary of State Stimson asked
official authority to keep the courtly
colored doorkeeper of the Secretary's
private Office on duty indefinitely, al
though Eddie reached retirement age
years ago. Savoy has been at the State
Department uninterruptedly since the
Grant ADMINISTERS tion-roundly go years.
This week Edwin L. Neville, counselor
Of the American embassy in Toxic, ar
irving In Washington, reported that
he'd brought only one direct commune
cation to this Government from Baron
Shidehara, japanese foreign minister.
The message was, "Give my kind re-
CARDS to Eddie Savoy" Shidehara knew
him well during the Nipponese states
mans three years at Washington as
Ambassador between 1919 and 1922.
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Complete Federal control Of Wash
ington, D. c., is just around the corner,
according to Frederick A. Fenning, for
mer Commissioner of the District of
| tional Municipal Review, Mr.. Penning,
now a washington lawyer, says: Prom
the establishment of the seat Of gov
eminent at washington at 1878, no
fewer than five changes were made by
Congress in the method Of administer
ing the municipalities business affairs.
The present plan has served more than
so years New laws, new methods and
| other changes of time have wrought
its obsolescence The time is fast APP
preaching for change which will mark
the passing Of this form of government.
The handwriting on the wall stands out
with increasing clarity. It is the writ
ing of the men and women who COM
prise the National Legislature, sent to
Washington as representatives of the
whole country, and it spells Federal
management of the Federal City. IN
| less clear signs fail, the United States
will take over the management of the
city which is the official home Of the
Nation"
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It would seem as If the American
| people talk less--at least by telephone
when times are bad. At any rate,
the American Telephone g Telegraph
90. announces that the net gain OF