Evening star., 1932-12-07
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

husband in his dramatic role In the
House; Mrs. Virginia Jenckes Of In
diana, who forgot the age-old movie
line, Ladies please remove their hats, I"
and thereby broke q custom in the
House; Senator Walter Walker. who
established new record for arrival
nearest the time of the opening ses-
sion. He came by plane. And also
young Lee Brownfleld, jr., age 13, Of
Pittsburgh, who beamed with new
found joy as q Senate page; Mrs. N.
A. Reynolds Of North Carolina, who saw
her son take the oath Of office as Sem
ambition; the man from New York,
who somehow passed the doormen and
seated himself on the floor Of the House,
only to be elected about the time the
curtain went UP, and, finally, the TN
known lady In the gallery who seated
hersek on q derby hat.
Friends Of the late Nicholas Long,
worth are proudly pointing to the fact
that the popular Speaker Of the House
was also prophet. In support Of their
contention, they quote the statement
made by their hero at the time the
Volstead act was enacted. 1t reads, in
part: II am sincerely afraid that this
bill will not make for q temperate
America. fear that 1t will act as a
stimulation to the business of the
moonshiner and drug peddler. I can
not bring myself to support this meas
ure, I fear that we are sowing the
wind and only pray that we may not
reap the whirlwindl" Perhaps the
forthcoming biography Of the late
Speaker, "The Making of Nicholas
Longworth," by his sister, Countess
Adelbert de Chambrun, will deal with
'Nick's" prohibition views, which were
consistently and soppingly wet.
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More than passing interest attaches
to the entry into the national political
arena of two promising sons of two
brilliant fathers, who played a major
role in American public life The new
comers are Bennett Clark Of st. Louis,
Mo-, and Joe Bailey Of Dallas, Tex.
Bennett Clark has won a seat In the
United States Senate, while Bailey has
fought his way into the House Of Rep
resentatives. Senator ELECT Clark Is the
son of the former Speaker Champ Clark,
who came within an ace Of winning the
Democratic nomination for President in
Baltimore in 1912. Joe Bailey is the
son OF former Senator Joe Bailey of
Texas, who came to the lower House
when he was barely Is years old and
reached the rank Of House Democratic
leader before advancing to the Senate,
where he played brilliant and pic
turesque role. Both men are lawyers,
but Senator-elect Clark comes with
fresh laurels earned in the field Of lit
erature. His book, "John Quincy Ad-
ans, Old Man EloUuert." has been very
favorably reviewed and received.
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Cynics on Capitol Hill are getting a
good chuckle out Of a recent dispatch
from Iowa, that erstwhile Republican
citadel. According to the dispatch,
Iowa Democrats, who have swept the
State for the first time in history, esti-
mate that Federal patronage alone viii
be worth S1,350,000 year to them dur
ing the four years beginning March
4. 1888. If the Iowa figure Is based
on a statistical check-up of Federal
offices now held by Republicans, the
election should be worth something
like sl00, 100000 year to Democrats.
The cutting Of this melon is one job
Roosevelt. Neither Of his two immediate
predecessors in ofiice had q patronage
problem Of anything like the propor-
tions which he has to meet. since both
Coolidge and Hoover inherited a large
number of the Party Faithful" from
the Harding regime. The question now
is not who will help Roosevelt make
the selections for Federal offices, but
who will be "the Lord High Execu-
TONER" VIII 1t be Jim Farley?
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