Evening star., 1932-05-06

Ohio, birthplace of the Anti-Saloon
League of America is holding next
Tuesday what amounts to prohibition
referendum. In both the Republican
gubernatorial and senatorial primaries
orys and vets are pitted against one
another. Because of its ancient ale
glance to the water wagon, the Buck
eye vote will be watched with more
than passing interest. The Hoover
delegates to the National Convention,
having been hand-picked by Postmaster
General Walter F. Brown, will be a
solid resubmission delegation at Chi
cago, as far as the G. o. P. liquor
plank is concerned. Assistant Secre-
running for the Republican guberna-
torial nomination as a wet against
bone-dry former Gov. Miles Cooper and
Ohio Secretary OF State Clarence Brown,
who is almost dry. In the Republican
senatorial primary Attorney General
Gilbert Beetman, an outright advocate
of repeal, is matched against L. J.
Taber master of the National Grange,
who was put in the race by the Anti
Saloon League and has its solid sup
port.
Acclaimed as an unnamed presi-
dental possibility" Justice Benjamin.
N Cardozo, baby member of the United
States Supreme Court. is the latest
Democrat to be honorably mentioned
for his party's consideration at Chi
cago in June. The suggestion was
launched at a recent meeting of the
Woman'S National Democratic Club in
Washington. 1t originates with
prominent Maryland Democrat, Mrs.
Wilbur W. Hubbard Of CheStertown. on
the Eastern Shore. Mrs. Hubbard
thinks that Justice Cardozo'S detach-
ment from the controversies of the
hour, his militant liberalism, his bril-
liant record at the bar and on the
bench and the special appeal he would
make to progressives in both parties
single him out as uniquely worthy OF
presidential honors.
Senator Frederick Hale, Republican,
of Maine, now in the midst of his
valiant fight for the treaty Navy, was
accosted by a woman tourist in the
Capitol one day this week She was
evidently stranger on the Hill and
didn't know her way about. Can
you tell me the way to the House?"
she asked. Mr.. Hale gave the neces-
sary directions. whereupon the woman
said: oh thank you. I do hope
It's more interesting over there than
it is in the Senate. Why. those fellows
look to me as if they'd just been
dug up!'
There has just been an interesting,
though accidental little reunion at the
German embassy in Washington. A
visitor in the city is DR.. Wolff, dis
tinguished editor of Germany'S leading
medical publication-the Deutsche Medi-
zinische Wochenschrift. He dropped in
Ambassador PrittWitZ, but without an
nouncing himself in advance. To DR..
VOLTS astonishment, the young Ger
man doorman, Immediately the caller
crossed the threshold, calculated: GOOD
day, Herr Doktor." Surprised to be
recognized, the latter replied: We'll,
evidently I was expected" The at
tndant, now standing at salute, said:
"Oh no, Herr Doktor. Don't you re-
member the corporal in your medical
detachment in France?" DR.. Wolff re-
called him at once, and then there was
a pleasant period of war "reminiscences
before the visitor was ushered upstairs.
It's too bad Gen. Pershing isn't in the
country to lead the drive against the
proposed ruthless Slashing of the Army
budget. The House Appropriations Com
mittees heavy cuts in the funds for
Citizens Military Training Camps and
the Organized Reserves strike at the
foundations of the national defense
act, passed in 1920 under our World
War leaders active direction. The
chances are that Pershing would not
hesitate, II he had the opportunity. TO
20 to Capitol Hill and do q vigorous