Evening star., 1932-09-07

Now that that Republican craven
image known as Calvin Coolidge has
found his tongue and spoken up, the
Democrats await with feverish anxiety
the word that is to appear in the
same place from their own sphinx,
Alfred E. Smith. The former Gov
ernor Is contributing TO the Saturday
Evening Post at once an article on the
/ soldiers bonus, but his piece on the
1892 campaign is rot due for several
weeks, apparently. This observers in
formation-and it's the kind popularity
,, known as "inside''-is that the main
kink in the Roosevelt-Smith feud is
who shall take the initiative in kiss
ing and making up. Al Is represented
as feeling that Mahomet should come
to the mountain-he being the noun
tain. Gov. Roosevelt Is said to hold
that his, as that of a presidential nomi-
nee, is the dignity entitled to the
greater consideration, and that AL
should do the approaching. Democratic
leaders profess confidence that in good
time Smith will line up like the dyed
in-the-wool party man he is. A speech
IN Massachusetts, for his friend Gov.
Ely may. it's thought. provide the op-
portunity for an ice-breaking pro-
Roosevelt pronouncement.
In attending this months maneuvers
of ie Polish army, Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur, chief of staff of the United
States Army, will witness sham fight
ing on the terrain which many authori-
ties expect to be the scene of the next
European war. Polands army, with
332,095 active troops and trained re-
serve Of l,645 900 men, Is about five
tiprnc ha cd - he
While the Poles must keep a weather
eye peeled in the direction of Soviet
Russia, it's Germany and the latter's
determination some cay to wipe out
the Polish Corridor that chiefly keeps
Poland awake at night. Gen. Mac
Arthur presumably will get a closeup
Of the battle plans Poland has evolved
for defending the Corridor-or, as the
Germans increasingly aver, for conquer
ing East Prussia, which the Corridor
amputates from the rest Of the Reich.
The German army itself Is holding
maneuvers simultaneously with those of
Poland, and in East Prussia, on the far
side of the hated Corridor, with Gen.
| Won Schleicher, fiery minister of war,
| on the scene Of action.
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Another important American military
man who soon will be in Eastern Eu-
rope is Maj. Gen. Frank r. Mccoy,
home bound via the Transsiberian
Railroad from his service on the League
of Nations commission Of inquiry in
Manchuria. Reports are current in
| New York and Washington that Gen
| Mccoy. who is diplomat of experience
as we'll as brilliant soldier, was or
dered from Washington to come home
| by way of Soviet Russia, in order to
J give the land of the Reds the once-over
Department wants his views in connec-
ton with allegedly imminent plans for
American recognition of the Moscow
] government.
If the X-ray could be applied to the
locations of the IL regional Federal
| Home Loan Banks about to be created
by Uncle Sam to put mortgage loan
! sharks out of business, bets are offered
/ that some neat and nifty log-rolling
would be revealed. Four banks in par
! ticular are cited as having political ear
/ marks big as house. The Indianapolis
bank was dropped as an outright plum
in the needy lap Of Senator Jim Watson,
| author of the bill. Sunny Jim" Is
having hard shedding in his campaign
for reelection. Indianapolis capture
of the regional bank is being bally-
hooed all over Hoosierdom as one of
the best and biggest things Watson ever
did for Indiana, especially for Marion
County. which generally dissembles its
| love for him. The Illinois bank was
sent to Evanston, the Chicago suburb
where Charley Dawes lives. The South
western institution was assigned to Lit
tie Rock, Ark, home town of Senator
Zoe Robinson, Democratic minority
leader. The New England regional