Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-01
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM HILE.

minor post In the State service, instead
Of one of the various eminent places at
which he's aimed since his theatrical
experience in the Washington limelight.
MagnuS Vox'S principal Sortie Since
leaving the Senate was an unsuccessful
campaign for the Gopher governorship
In 1926 johnson has just gone to work
as a district appraiser for tae State
Rural Credits Bureau, which lends
funds on farm lands. His bailiwick is
Southern Minnesota and his salary
So 600. Another one-time member OF
Congress, Knud Wefald, Farmer Labor,
who was in the House of Representa-
tivss from 1928 to 1927, has just b come
executive secretary of the State Finance
Commission at $4,000 year.
BY the irony of fate it's the one
State in the Union named aft-r the
Father Of His Country-Washing
that comes forth with the sad state
ment that 1t can't afford to- take part
in the 1882 Bicentenary Celeb alton.
Gov. Roland H. Hartley has just an
nounced, to the dismay of the D. A. r.
and other patriotic organizations in
Washington, that the State treasury has
no money available for commemorative
purposes. Not even enough postage to
carry letters about it," wrote the Gov
ernor. Mr.. Hartley added: George
Washington would consider his memory
better honored by the economy now so
necessary" According to some of his
critics, Hartleys attitude toward next
years events may spring from his Brit
ish nativity-he was born in the Ca
madam Province of New Brunswick.
The intensive drive for traffic which
the various airlines in and out OF
Washington, and elsewhere. are now
making may be due to pretty stern
warning Just issued by w. Irving
Glover, Second Assistant Postmaster
General in charge of airmail. Writing
in the current issue of Aviation, Mr.
Glover says: From the Post Ohice'S
point of view, passenger transport by
air is on trial We are prepared to
continue that trial for couple OF
years. If we do not then consider
that it has justified itself we shall go
back to the airmail as separate under
taking, served by fast Cpen-cockpit
planes, without thought OF passenger
accommodation and paid for only at a
rate which will cover the actual ex-
penseS of operating-a rate consid-
erably lower than those now in force.
Glover contends that passenger lines
should in many cases be able to hold
their own without assistance IN the
form of airmail contracts.
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At its monthly meeting this week
the Chamber of Commerce OF the State
of New York, the most powerful in
the country, will consider proposal
for creation of new Federal cabinet
Office 1t wants an executive depart
ment, headed by Secretary with full
cabinet rank, to deal exclusively with
foreign trade. TIE argument is that
the industrial development of the
United States is now at a point where
prosperity and employment vitality de-
pend on overseas commerce. "A 10 to
20 per cent reduction in production
and consumption of American manu-
features" claim the proponents of the
plan, means business depression" APP
parently the New Workers figure that
Uncle Sans sales abroad represent
something like Is per cent of our in
dustrial output.
Copyright. 1919