Evening star., 1932-09-09

Is 1t fact that the party in power
at Washington. especially the party in
possession Of the White House, is al
ways driven from Office at the national
election following a great economic de-
preston? Let's see. The most devas-
tating depression the country has ever
weathered, preceding the present one
took place in 1873, the first year of
the second Grant administration. The
Democrats claimed, and still claim, to
have won the succeeding election in
1876, but it was the Republicans who
actually remained in Office, with the
inauguration OF Rutherford B. Hayes
as President in 1877 The next big
business crisis was the depression Of
1907. Roosevelt was President, and
Taft, Republican, was elected to sue
ceed him IN 1908. Thirteen years later,
in 1921, the postwar depression of
that year set in, finding 100000 men
out Of work at one time. Yet in 1924.
notwithstanding the added taint of the
oil scandals, the Republicans retained
the presidency by q wide margin with
Calvin Coolidge as their standard
bearer.
It's Mormon versus Mormon in the
Utah senatorial contest this YEAR The
Democrats have nominated as their
candidate against Senator Red Smoot
one of the States intellectuals, DR.
Ebert D. Thomas Ee is professor of
government and political science at the
University Of Utah. DR.. Thomas has
never run for Office before or figured
IN politics. He is an authority on the
Far East and has written books on the
cubJeCt, the fruits Of a fiVe-year So
IouTn in Japan as head of the Latter
Day Saints missionary activities in the
Orient. Senator Smoot IS aspiring to
his sixth successive term in the Sen
ate, In which he is completing 80 years
OF uninterrupted service. Utah went
Democratic for both Senator and Gov
ernor in 1928. The first apostle of the
Latter Day Saints has averaged be-
his various senatorial contests. This
time, the Democrats say, he's up
against it as never before. Mormon
youth are reported to be somewhat
anti-Smoot minded, the Utah silverites
think he's too gold-plated and resent
ment Is reflected over the failure of the
big Mormon Deseret Savings Bank, of
which the able and angular solon was
a director. Many of the brethren feel
that the Hon. Reeds mighty pull at
Washington should have saved the
bank.
September l8 vii mark the first an
| niversary of the japanese surprise at
| tack on Mukden and the subsequent
invasion and occupation of Manchuria
| Apropos that tragic event in Far East
ern history, DIR. Yuen-Li LANG, distin-
! guiShed Chinese statesman and scholar
/ now in this country will broadcast to
the American people over a coast-to-
! coast network of Columbia stations. DR.
L.ang is a former counselor of the
| Chinese legation in Washington and
| recently pleaded China's case at the
| Williamstown Institute of Politics. Dur
ing the past few years Dr. Liang has
| served as a technical delegate to the
League of Nations Assembly and The
Hague Conference for the codiflcation
| OF international law He compares
Mukden to Seraievo-the latter the
town in Bosnia where, in June, 1914, the
shot was fired that led to the World
War.
| Great interest is aroused in Wash
| ington by the announcement that the
Earl Of Reading will address the forth
| coming annual convention of the Amer
ican Bar Association here. 1t will be
the noble earl's first visit to the United
State since he served as special British
ambassador during the last year OF the
war. Diplomacy and Statecraft are Lord
Readings second loves. The law is first.
He has he'd three of the highest off1ces
within the gift of the crown-lord chief
justice Of England, viceroy and COVER