Evening star., 1932-09-23
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

! Henry Cabot Lodge, grandson Of the
late Republican Senator rom MaSsa-
chusetts. whose famous name he bears.
has now embarked upon the ancestral
political career by winning a iIomina-
| ton for the Bay State Legislature
from his home district on the North
Shore. Senator Lodge entered public
life by the same route, when he wss
elected to the Massachusetts lower
house in 1880. at the age of 80. HIS
grandson is Just about that vintage.
Until year ago the present Henry
Cabot Lodge was a Washington news
paper correspondent. He Is now on
the editorial staff of the New York
Herald Tribune, specializing in ma
tional defense matters. Harvard grad
uate, tall. handsome and brilliant, he
has also inherited the tribal flair for
politics. His friends predict he'll 60 far.
Washington has more than pass
ing interest in the lively congressional
contest in the fifth Michigan district,
where Representative Carl E. Mapes,
Republican, is seeking an eleventh term
in the House. He is the statesman who
as chairman Of the special committee
on fiscal relations between the Federal
Government and the District of Co
lumbia, favored the imposition OF
heavier tax burdens on diSfranchiSed
Washngtonians. He's now up against a
stiff fight. His Democratic opponent is
Winfield H. Caslow, who calls himself
"the Main Street Crusader" For the
past three years Caslow has been max
ing the Wolverine welkin ring from a
Grand Rapids broadcasting station with
a drive against the chain stores. He is
trying to unhorse Mapes on that issue.
The incumbent Representative usually
wins bv big Republican majorities, but
November, 1882, may tell different
story.
At an American Legion post meeting
in Washington this week an ingenious
way was proposed to Gov. Roosevelt
for straddling the bonus issue. A service
man suggested that II the Democratic
presidential nominee came out for i'm
mediate payment of the bonus balance
only to unemployed veterans he'd take
the curse off any charge OF being pro-
bonus. IT'S estimated that some 100000
men might qualify under these circum-
stances and that instead Of costing the
Treasury $2,3000 100000 Uncle Sam
might get OF with a mere bagatelle
of $1,000, 900 or $7o0,o0o,oo0.
The Marques Of Reading OF England
will not be the only distinguished
stranger at the American Bar Associa-
ton convention here next month:
France will be rep, escnted by M. Paul
Reyraud, former minister Of justice and
of finance In various Tardieu cabinets,
NJ Reynaud has also been ''batonniere"
Ceader) of the Paris bar. He is now in
Mexico, looking after some extensive
private investments and will come to
Washington directly from there in time
to address the lawyers on october IA.
x X
Had not the exigencies Of the Re-
publican presidential campaign made
their services more necessary here, It's
understood that President Hoover
wanted Senator Dave Reed of Pennsyl-
vania and Ambassador Walter Edge to
represent the United States at the
Geneva Disarmament Conference steer
ing committee sessions now in progress.
Their mandate would have been to
hammer into the consciousness Of The
reluctant European brethren that the
United States means business on dis
armament and doesn't want to see the
Geneva engine stalled. Senator Reed
is to be used for eleventh-hour cam
paign speeches at,,Notal points.
(CopyriSht, 1881