Evening star., 1932-05-02

the other day out of a yarn now goin
the rounds in New York. Bernard MI
Baruch, Manhattan financial magnatE
and economic expert, was called awaN
from a banquet to the long -distanc
telephone. The hotel bellhop said tn L
White House at Washington wantek
him. Baruch and Herbert Bayarj
Swope, former New York World editol1
are cronies and fond of playing prac.
tical jokes on each other. Barney wal
sure that it was Swope at the othef
end of the line, trying to put onn
over him again. Hello, you big cheese,
chuckled Baruch when he reached thu
phone. whats that?" was the rejoint
der. II said, Hello, you big cheese,
repeated Baruch. The next thing Bari
ney heard was the voice he then rec
ognized. 1t was the President of tn +
United States.
Silas H Strawn. who is about to re
tire from the presidency of the Unite1
States Chamber OF Commerce after
particularly effective years administra
ton, is on the Executive Committee oN
the First National Bank of Chicago
President Melvin A. Traylor of that inA
stitution is a 1892 Democratic dar
horse. Somebody asked Strawn whdN
he, staunch Hoover Republican, woul
do If Traylor should be the Democratic
nominee. I'D be between hell and TIL
ironworks." he admitted, adding thaR
in his opinion Mr. Traylor has "mor
on the ball" than any Democratic
possibility now on the horizon.
o s doesn't any longer mean ed
clusively call Of distress at sea. Whej
you step up to Pullman window an
ask for a sleeping-car birth, the clerl
asks: IS. o. So" That seems to stanI
in Pullman parlance for single occu
pancy section"-a lower, with the uppe
not made up.
William Allen White, editor Of til
Emporia Gazette, Is said TO be the lat
est distinguished convert to the prohi4
bition referendum cause. Kansas moS
famous litterateur, a Sahara dry, apH
parently now takes his stand alongSidl
the growing number of RepublicaI
drys who feel that both public god
and the @. o. P. cause in 1892 viii
promoted by resubmisSion, with loc&
option as the eventual consequence
bill" White put himself in the Hal
of Fame by asking, Whats the matta
with Kansas?" and replying that
started in to raise he'll and had a
overproduction." Perhaps he has con-
to feel that way about bootlegging.
X 4 X
Jouett Shouse, executive chairman
the Democratic National Committd
failed last week to be elected a delaga
at large from Kansas to the Chica
convention. The news arrived on tf
third anniversary Of Mr.. Shouse's a
pointment to his present Job by Joh
j. Raskob. Kansas Democrats may M
be aware of the fact, but Shouse h
put more pep, punch and prospects IN
the donkey's cause than any parS
manager within recent history. His n
lection in the Cornhower State, whid
Is Shouse's voting domicte, suggeste
that parties, like republics, can be ur
grateful.
One Of the phenomena Of presen
hour topsy -turvydom on Capitol Hill
Senator Hiram Johnson's valiant q
fense Of Department Of Commerce
propriations. AS all the world know
tive pet, and as 1t also is not unaws
the same state of affairs does not
actly persist between johnson and H@
yer. The Senator declares with
qualification that II he were cabi
officer he would be making the sal a
stubborn fight to oppose appropriat
cuts conducive to inef1iciency that
Of President Hoover's cabinet memE
are now putting up.
(Copyright, 1s32)