Evening star., 1933-07-12
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

sive. For many years DR.. Howe has
conducted at Nantucket a Summer
School Of Opinion at which famous
speakers on economics and sociology are
heard.
There's no more interesting auto
biography in the Congressional Direc-
tory which appeared at the end of the
late session. than that of Representative
Terry McGovern Carpenter, Democrat,
OF Nebraska, a newcomer to the House
He was born in 1900, about the time the
featherWeight boxing champion, Terry
McGovern. vas a national sensation,
and Mr. Carpenters Iowa parents ap-
parently named him after that hard
hitting bantam. Representative Car
penter narrates that in 1880 be opened
cut-rate gasoline filling station in his
Nebraska home town. While tempo
rarily forced out of business by big op-
orators, he managed to refinance and
start again. and as the depression grew
worse his business flourished He sets
forth that he is actively fighting the
power trusts and power monopolies and
has tried to have more effective regula-
tory rate commissions set up."
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And still they come-the irresistible
New Deal professors! President Roose-
welt has just designated DR.. Isador
Lubin of the Institute of Economics of
BrookingS Institution, Washington, to
be United States Commissioner of Labor
statistics. Lubin was statistician of the
War Industries Board in 1918 and has
taught at the Universities of Missouri
and Michigan, as well as at Brookings.
In 1928 he was loaned to the Senate
Committee on Education and Labor, to
investigate. at Senator Couzens' insti-
cation. the unemployment problem in
the United States. Two years ago DR..
Lubin was loaned to Senator La Fol-
lette and the Senate Committee on
Manufactures for their investigation
into economic planning. He has also
specialized on unemployment reserve
and Federal employment Offices. He
ranks as one of the most brilliant
among the younger economists.
Officers Of the American Federation
of Labor are putting the finishing
touches to the program of their annual
convention at Washington, beginning
October 2. In many respects, because
of existing industrial conditions, the
convention is expected to be the most
memorable on record. It's outstanding
feature will be the unveiling Of the
Samuel Gompers Memorial, on Massa-
chusetts avenue near A. F. of L. head
quarters. President Roosevelt will prob
ably address the convention. Organized
labor expresses itself highly gratified
with current developments at Wash
ington. Its whole-time objective being
to combat unemployment and main
tain living wages. labor leaders con-
slider that the outlook for the move
ment's basic ideals. including the abo-
lition of child labor, was never so
bright as under the new regime now
swinging into existence throughout in
dustrial America.
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Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin, president Of
the Woman's National Democratic Club
and wife of the veteran member Of the
Federal Reserve Board, is ready to de-
pose and say that the ancient quip
about ones ability to cook eggs in
Washington's Summertime weather is
more fact than fiction. Recently, in Mrs.
Hamlins downtown apartment near the
White House, it took less than five
minutes perfectly to poach an egg in a
ran set out on her window-siu on
torrid afternoon.
Col. E. Alexander Powell. Washington
traveller and author. Is spending the
Summer in Germany, gathering ma
terial for a book on the Hitler mania.
Col. Powell was on an airplane trip
through South America earlier in the
year but decided to go to Europe and
devote his time to volume on the
Fascist Reich.
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