Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-17

President Hoover'S dispatch Of
Secretaries Stimson and Mellon to the
London conference on Germany Is an
expression of his determination to see
things through-the things he set go
ing with the moratorium plan OF June
40. In q way, the latest White House
move called for even more nerve"
than the debt suspension did. When
the two chief members Of the Hoover
cabinet sit In with the heads OF the
British, French, italian, Belgian and
German government; on July 20, Uncle
Sam will be intervening" In European
affairs ON full-dress lines. It's enough
to make Henry Cabot Lodge. Frank
Brandegee, Medill Mccormick and
other field marshals Of the Battalion OF
Death turn in their graves. That 1t
brethren-notably Hiram Johnson-to
the battle front again can hardly be
doubted. That noblest of all irrecon-
cilable' Romans, Senator Borah. has
maintained an ominous silence during
the later developments of the German
relief program. a He is understood to
harbor certain mental reservations
about 1t, but Is not unburdening him.
self until all details are settled and
known.
There are all the earmarks of first
class row in the blast that emanates
from the Lynchburg sanctum of Sena-
| tor Carter Glass. The Virginia editor
statesman, who disputes II he does not
actually share, the authorship Of the
Federal Reserve law with former Sena-
tor Robert L. Owen, brother Democrat.
Of Oklahoma, Is steamed up over pro-
| spective participation of Federal Re-
serve banks in big loans to Germany.
\ Glass says, roundly, that there's no
| warrant under the statutes for the
banks to do anything Of the sort. AS
the peppery Southerner right now is
! chairman of the Senate Subcommittee
charged with recommending changes in
the Federal Reserve system, he speaks
with uncommon authority. utterly
lawless," "dishonor" and 'discreditable''
are some Of the epithets the glum and
glowering Glass hurls at projected ar
rangements to thrust the Federal Re-
serve into the maelstrom of this Eu-
| ropean financial panic" Them Is
strong words, but probably only MUIR
muir compared to the thunderbolts
Dixie's little giant viii unleash In the
Senate as soon as he gets q chance.
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Two episodes-one Republican, the
other acknowledgements the attention
of political X-ray specialists at WASH
| ington this week. One Is the sudden
| emergence of pictorial campaign de-
signed to keep Calvin Coolidge before
the gaze Of newspaper readers and
movie audiences. The Vermonter and
Mrs. Coolidge have been posing at the
old homestead In Plymouth for series
| of photographs highly reminiscent of
F! the days before Cal chose not to run.
The camera men snapped him hay
making, trout-fishing, hobnobbing with
the home folks and doing q variety of
old-fashioned stunts, including an in
spection of the perambulator in which
baby Calvin was trundled considerably
more than half century ago. Mr..
| Coolidge still goes fishing for the pic
tures) in sailor hat, business clothes
and stih collar.
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The Democratic companion piece in
| significance Is the alleged rebuff which
Tammany Hall has Just administered
to Al Smith. Harry G. Perry, one of
the famous Sullivan clan, was dethroned
this week rs Tammariy leader Of the
second assembly district In Manhattan.
At the Fourteenth street wigwam this
has been interpreted as blow to any
ambitions Gov. Smith and his friends
may entertain Of regaining control Of
Tammany. 1t appears that the disap-
pearance Of Perry and other pro-Smith
faithful practically puts an end to AIS
leadership Of Tammany affairs on the