Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Senator McNary, chairman of the
Senate Committee on Agriculture, thinks
! there is a possibility that drought re-
| lief may be an issue In Congress again
next Winter. He hopes to be able To
/ find out for sure by a personal inspec-
ton Of the recently stricken areas. The
Governors and Legislatures Of several
of the drought States have invited Nc
Nary to tour those regions. As head OF
| the Senate committee charged with re-
lief measures, such as the SOS 900. 900 the
late Congress appropriated, the Oregonian
believes he ought to look conditions in
the face. 1t is Senator McNary's pres
ent intention to return to his own State
little later in the Spring, through the
Southwest, where the drought was the
worst, and survey existing conditions
Senator Joe Robinson Of Arkansas. in
dedicating the new Dixie network of the
Columbia Broadcasting System the
other night, said that "the effects OF
overcome He added: THE processes
of rehabilitation. quickened and re-
inforced by generous assistance from
the country as q whole, are restoring
confidence and stimulating enterprise.
The Red Cross is disseminating its
helpful activities with the return Of
conditions approaching the normal"
\
Everybody in Washington is wonder
ing how former Representative Louis
C. Cramton Of Michigan is going to
cope with the wide-open and wild and
woolly ways which the State Of Nevada
has just legalized. The distinguished
Wolverine lame duck, who was dryeSt OF
the drys while he adorned the lower
branch of Congress. has been appointed
If k,a TV1fa IN
take charge of leases for residential and
business property in Boulder City, New.
This is the community which is to be
mushroomed into existence out in the
sagebrush as a habitat for the con-
Structors- of Boulder Dam and their
families. Mr. Cramton is not expected
to look with a complacent eye upon the
dens Of frivolity which Neyada'S laws
nov not only validate but encourage.
Perhaps the lately dethroned darling of
the prohibition gods intends to make
Boulder City a desert among the Ne
vada GASES.
One Of the best groomed members of
the United States Senate-he has not
yet left Washington-waS complimented
at recent dinner party on the i'm
maculate appearance Of his dress suit.
Haven't had a new one in rs years, +"
he chortled. MY weight is 155 pounds,
hasn't varied an ounce in all that time,
and this outfit is still comfortable" A
retired Army officer not long ago re-
turned to Washington to live after an
absence OF quarter of century. At
his flrst temperance in society q spin
Ster OF advancing vintage addressed the
colonel familiarity by his first name
He apologetically explained that he
couldn't recall her. But surely" she
said. you remember -" The old
soldier rejoined: Sorry I don't, but
one Of these days may be recognized by
his glad rags.
DIR. Won Prittwitz und Gaffron, the
German Ambassador at Washington,
went Rotarian this week when he ad-
dressed the Rotary Club of Harrisburg
Pa. He disclosed during his remarks
that there are 10 Rotary organizations
in Germany. The first one claims dis
! tinguished paternity, for it was founded
at Hamburg in October, 1927, by DR..
Cuno, former chancellor of the Reich
and now president of the Hamburg Amer
lean Line When DR.. Cuno visited the
United States In July, 1923, to att nd
the International Rotary meeting at
Minneapolis, he praised its ideals as
peculiarly useful in a world of economic
suffering. Ambassador Won Prittwitz
did not discuss at Harrisburg the Eu-
ropean question of the hour-the pro-
posed customs union between Germany
and Austria-but did say that there can
only be "a better organization Of the
| world II It Is based on 3 synthesis of
national aims and international necsS-
stiles" That seems to be the leitmotif
Of the Austro- German deal into which