Evening star., 1932-05-18

came to the National Capital after
three weeks on Long Island. near
Brooklyn, during which it played to a
gross gate Of 100000. A well known
politician, who never misses the circus,
was watching the sensational "balanc-
ing act" done by group of sure-footed
young men and women at dizzy attitudes
above the SaWduSt arena. Amt in it
with the balancing act Congress is try
ing to put over" was his comment.
Probably he was referring to the
budget.
There was little tragi-comedy at the
National Democratic WomanS Club in
Washington the other night when a
member of Congress divested himself Of
a fervid attack on the Federal Reserve
Board. In the course of his remarks
he held that body responsible for nearly
all the ills and crimes of the hour.
Among those present, unbeknown to the
statesman, was the wife OF Federal
Reserve official. When the speech was
over, she asked permission to interro-
gate the Representative. Certainly,
madame" he smilingly replied. There
upon she asked him to state in little
detail just what the board had done tC
upset the economic apple cart, and to
give the audience some concrete evi-
dence thereof. The gentleman from
was visibly fiustered. He stam-
mered out something about not having
the necessary data at his tongues tip
but that his desk was full of letters"
and other material which proved his
point He left the rostrum hot and
bothered, indicating that on the whole
he wished he hadn't let off so much
steam.
Washington is chock full OF business
men, including heavy sprinkling OF
New York brokers and other worried
Wall Street people, who have come TO
find out all they can about the trend of
things in the immediate future. They
are blue and dismal lot, for the most
part Their criticisms of the President,
OF his advisers and of Congress know
no bounds. Nearly all of them see only
black ahead-many of them, red. They
peddle panaceaS with gay abandon.
Every mothers son of them knows just
what to do, If only he were on the job.
The sales tax Is faVorite prescription
among these itinerant medicine men.
There is almost as much agreement
that abolition of prohibition, wholly or
III part, is what the country needs to
get back on the right track. No di-
vision of opinion seems to exist at all
on this Score-that Washington Is the
source Of all the Nations evil.
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Another Harriman-Henry l.. Boston
public utility magnate-iS likely to
figure in the country's business news
from now on. He is slated to be elected
president of the Chamber of Commerce
Of the United States at San Francisco
this week in succession to Silas H.
StraWn of Chicago Mr.. Hartman
ranks as liberal in industrial rela-
tions. His list of utility directorships
in New England Is long and impressive
Assistant Secretary of State Wilbur
j. Carr will celebrate on June ! the
fortieth anniversary of his connection
with the Department of State. Barring
Eddie Savoy perennial Negro doorkeep-
er for the Secretary of State, Mr.. Carr
must be the department. oldest inhabit-
ant, and is one of its real indispens-
ables. In his day he has seen, since
1892, fifteen Secretaries of State come
and go, beginning with John w. Foster
in the Harrison administration and
lasting until the present regime. Mr..
Carr had the lions share N the draft
ing of the Rogers foreign service law
He Is primarily concerned with the
personnel and budget affairs of the
State Department and the foreign
service.
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