Evening star., 1932-12-09

The difference between a candidate
for President and President was never
better exemplified than in that hardly
noticed sentence which appeared In
President Hoover'S message on the
state of the Union on Tuesday. Speak
ing of the election, the President had
this to say: Its very tranquility and
the acceptance of its results furnish
abundant proof of the strength OF our
institutions" Here speaks Herbert
Hoover, President and statesman, after
the tumult of the campaign battle
While admitting the tranquility" with
which the defeat of the things Tor
which he fought was taken, the Presi-
dent gave more than an 1ntimatlon
that he himself is still strongly welded
to those beliefs he sponsored. He pro
claimed once again the effect OF the
turmoil abroad on conditions at home,
and the benefits accrulng from the
economic measures he himself had
sponsored. There was perhaps touch
Of pathos in the presentation OF the
Presidents message, as was inevitable,
since 1t was read by clerks to a Senate
and House, every member OF Wnlcn
knew that he has but little chance to
have these measures executed.
With a deluge Of bills for the now
anticipated food tide Of beer and per-
chance light wines of natural alco-
holic" ferment (whatever that may
mean), the absorbing question now Is
what will the alcoholic content Of the
beer be? The Collier bill before the
House Ways and Means Committee pro-
vides for a 2.75 per cent alcoholic con-
tent by weight. The tall, silvery
haired Senator Bingham of Connecti-
cut, the spearhead in so many anti-Vol-
stead battles, proposes 80 per cent by
weight, while Senator Barbour, Repub-
lican, of New Jersey, who survived the
Democratic sweep of his State in No
vember, proposes per cent by volume.
And so they come, by weight and by
volume. but standing by. awaiting tnelr
turn among some three score witnesses,
is notable band with banner still up
held around the half of l per cent
of the noble experiment--Mrs. Ella A.
Boole of Washington, D. c., head OF
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union, and Mrs. Henry w. Peabody,
head of the Women's National Com
mittee for Law Enforcement.
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With Secretary of the Treasury
Ogden L. Mills insisting that he will
leave Washington after March 4, former
Senator James w. Wadsworth of New
York, recently elected from his home
district to seat in the Seventy-third
Congress, will secure at least a tenn
porary advantage over other aspirants
to Republican leadership in the years
immediately ahead. The LANES OF
Mills and Wadsworth are coupled to-
gether as two of the real "hopefuls" OF
the G. o. P. With his knowledge OF
Congress and Of Government In general,
with the fearlessness he has demon
strated In his political battles, with
determination such as he exhibited
when he ran for the House after spend
ing years in the Senate, Wadsworth will
command a place of respect that no
other newcomer to the House is likely
to receive. In the meantime, we may
be dead certain Ogden Mills will not
be lost sight Of. 1t is generally agreed
that he will leave the Treasury with
his stature undiminished and his
friendships unstained.
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Senator Huey CKingfish) Long of
Louisiana is apparently as determined
as ever to force his strident and color
ful personality on that dignifled club,
the United States Senate. Tradition
had 1t that Senators would abstain
from speechmaking until the fourth
day after convening. Not so for the
Kingfish. At the second session, he
took the floor with drastic and forth
right program Of reforms-a la Long
brand And while establishing his
reputation as breaker of "precedents, +"
he was not too modest to allude to his
claims as maker of Presidents" re-
ferring, of course to his activities in
behalf Of Gov. Roosevelt at Chicago.
In his offering of the leadership of the
Senate to Senator Norris of Nebraska
many observed recrudescence of the
war between Arkansas and louisiana
But Democratic Leader Robinson had
left the chamber, and there were no
fireworks.
Unless all signs fail, william Green,
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