Evening star., 1932-07-13

Immediate beer" was annihilated in
the Senate on Monday by the votes of
Democratic Senators from Virginia
North Carolina, South Carolina Georgia
| Alabama. Mississippi, Arkansas, Ten
nessee, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico
and Arizona. This circumstance causes
the baffled beer brethren to lament that
the South is still under the domination
| of the drys, recent events in the North
| Carolina senatorial primaries to the
| contrary Notwithstanding. If the Sen
ate Democrats had voted in anything
like the proportion their national con-
vention went on record for Deer
now" they would have pumped for the
foam and froth Overwhelmingly, and
with the aid of the IA pro-beer Repub-
/ licans, sent the Bingham bill bounding
over to the House with bang. Repub-
| licans gloat over what they consider the
now demonstrated division in the
| Democratic ranks on liquor. That the
episode will be exploited by the G. o. P
| in the 1882 campaign to expose the in
sincerity of the Democrats repeal ano
modification plank Is foregone con-
clusion. Democrats, on their part, con-
tend that Senator Bingham's sole pur-
pose in forcing the beer issue at the
fag end of the session was to molsten
up his own chances for reelection IN
Connecticut this year, and, incidentally
put the Democratic party in a hole
Whatever way you figure 1t, the senate
roll call Is a violent reversal OF the
4-to-l platform vote for beer at Chicago.
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Congressional opinion is divided as to
the merits of Senator Couzens' resolu-
ton for turning the searchlight on the
operations Of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation. If the object OF the m
vestigation is to disclose in detail the
help which banks throughout the
country have received, the consensus
seems to be that such revelations on
the whole would be undesirable. Those
who think so hold that depositors in
such banks would be needleSSly alarmed.
Authorities who favor bringing out the
facts and figures assert, on the con-
trary that depositors' confidence can
only be revived and strengthened by
the knowledge that Uncle Sans mil
lions have been put at the disposal OF
their banks Secrecy was provided for
when the act was passed In February.
Capitol Hill gossip is that some persons
VINO don't like Gen. Dawes are yearn-
ing to show up" that his Chicago bank
was literally aided by the Reconstruc-
ClOI1 r TuldLlSC SOAPOIoeAoAA' "N~~AN 80
formerly headed. There are uncon-
firmed and published reports that the
amount was $50, 0,000,000.
Franklin D. isn't the first Roosevelt
who took the air while holding high
and responsible Office. Since the New
York Governors dramatic flight to the
Democratic convention at Chicago, it
has come to light that Theodore RooSe-
velt, while President, took trip in the
original Wright airplane at Fort Myer,
across the Potomac from Washington.
To fly in those days-2S years ago
meant something. 1t wasn't long after
that Teddy did another adventurous
stunt by plunging to the bottom Of
New York harbor in one Of the Navy's
earliest submarines. The incident
caused the old New York Sun to
observe that it was the nearest Charles
w. Fairbanks, then Vice President,
ever came to being President Presi-
dent Coolidge was urged. once upon
time, to cruise in the ill-fated Navy
airship Shenandoah. He declined, say
ing he didn't think Government off,
cials ought to fly, except on duty.
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Speaking of Cal" and during these
days of rumor, recrimination and re-
morse over war debts, Washington re-
calls the immortal Coolidge wisecrack
on the subject, when visited by a dele
CATION advocating cancellation. well" "
drawled Cal, the President, they hired
the money. didn't they?"