Evening star., 1931-11-25

Massachusetts, being just as hard
boiled protective tariff bailiwick as
Pennsylvania, the transfer of the chair
manship Of the Tariff Commission from
Henry p. Fletcher, a Keystoner. to Rob-
ert Lincoln O'Brien, Bay Stater,
doesn't menace the sacred principle Tor
which the sky-Scraping Hawley -Smoot
structure stands. It's the second time
within a decade that the chairmanship
has gone to Bostonian. From 1922 to
1880 Thomas o. Marvin, secretary OF
the famed Home Market Club, guardian
angel of protection, was the hea0 OF
| the commission. Mr. O'Brien comes
| into the Office with an up-to-date IN
| ternational background. When ne quiz
| the editorship of the Boston Herald IN
| 1928 he embarked upon tWo-year TRIP
around the world, observing things eco
nomic, which have long been MS hooDy,
at close range Wiseacres mainly give
credit to Ted Joslin, President HooverS
journalistic secretary. for the O'Brlen
appointment. In their respective times
OBrien and Joslin were warrington
correspondents of the Boston Evening
Transcript. Another Ted, who was
once a White House Secretary-Presi-
| dent Coolidge's-Ted Clark, prooaoy
had a hand in the O'Brien job TOO.
Massachusetts, having no more Eepupn-
patronage occasions, Clark, as local rep
resentative of Republican NatlonaI
Committeeman Liggett, is supposed 70
have the presidential ear when there
Is pie to pass.
That conCtabulary demonstration
around the White House yesterday, IN
anticipation of a Communist descent
upon the presidential precincts, was
| only a curtain-raiser. The big snow -
scheduled for Monday, December Z,
the date of the national hunger march"
on Washington. The acting president
of the National Civic Federation, Mat
thew Woll, red-hunting vice presloent
of the American Federation OF LABOR,
has lust sent to the Capital FAC
sirnile of the lurid fly sheet circulated
by the unemployed Councils Com
mittee for the National Hunger Marcn;
The advertised purpose OF them the ma[cn tc
snrance IS ee, eouSi to to- full pay" and for
$3.50 cash Winter relief" According
to the organizers of the National Hunger
| Marchers, they will appear before
Congress in the name of the starving
! millions" and "come from every. State
\ and as directly elected delegates OF
| hundreds of thousands Of unemployed
and employed workers"
X X X X
One of Notre Danes alumni In
Washington, who has been in sackclotn
and ashes ever since the TroJans OF
| Southern California toppled the lrlsn
| (and the Poles) from the loot Dali
| throne last week; recalls story OF
Knute Rockne on the occasion OF an
Army game four or five years ago. west
Point rolled Notre Dame in the mud
| by even a worse score than the South
ern California catastrophe. The Army
coach was consoling Rockne and saying
| that he oughtn't to begrudge the Caoets
| the rare sensation of a victory over the
Ramblers. "Victory?" quoth the IN
imitable Rock, why, the Pope Will an
nul that game on Monday"
| 4 X 4 x
Frank H. Simonds of Washington, one
| of Americas uncompromising realists In
1 the realm of international affairs, has
| lust written a diSillusioning book en-
| titled Can Europe Keep the Peace?"
/ Wherever his trained eye roamS across
| the Atlantic, Simonds discovers powder
| barrels, the explosion of any one OF
| which would blow the dreams OF q
warless world sky high. Mr.. Simonds
has tackled the job Of awakening the
| American people into consciousness OF
| these stern realities. IdealiSts, pacif1sts
| and others who believe that Uncle Sam
/ can bring about an era OF eternal peace
] by merely wishing for it will find the
Simonds volume bitterly informative
Before he writes finis, the author tells
US that war debts viii never be paid;