Evening star., 1933-01-04

Is Franklin Delano Roosevelt-to use
the description once applied to Disraeli
"a master of the tedious art Of man.
aging mem? The country should have
pretty good line on the President
elects capacity for leadership after this
weeks confab with Democratic con-
gressional moguls in New York and
when he boards those lions in their own
den at Washington later in the month.
Few Presidents have come to the White
House more experienced in the field of
political lion-taming than the recent
Governor of New York During most of
his four years at Albany he had to deal
with unfriendly or hostile party influ-
ences, and generally subdued them. He
may not find 1t so easy to deal with
political friends. A distinguished Re
publican, now lame duck once OBJ
served that perhaps Herbert Hoover's
principal shortcoming as President
was an inability to realize that Con-
gress consisted of 1881 men who are
rugged individualists, too" The appar-
ent completeness with which certain
Democratic leaders have curled up on
the sales tax since it Mortified" Mr..
Roosevelt would indicate that he has a
way with him. Capitol Hill rather ex-
poets the first fur to fly when the in
coming President and some of his
progressive friends Democratic ana
Republican alike-fail to see eye to eye.
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Carter Glass of Virginia, though his
locks and his vigor utterly belle the
statement, is rs years old today, He
will celebrate that diamond jubilee OF
his life by taking the Senate floor to-
morrow on behalf of the banEing-re-
form bill mich bears his name. Sena-
tor Glass is now the father of the
Senate, u age, not tenure. 1t is "a
years since he embarked on public
career as a member of the Virginia
State Senate. Journalism completes
with politics as his main interest, and
the science and economics of banking
are the hobbies of the statesman who
piloted the Federal Reserve act into
law as chairman of the House Banking
and Currency Committee during the
first Wilson administration. Senator
Glass still covers under bouquets which
reach him for his devastating Demo-
cratic campaign speech on the eve OF the
November election. He'd never broad
cast before, yet it was one Of the radio
events of the epoch.
Some of the utility people who've
been shivering in their boots ever since
President-elect Roosevelt announced
that he and Senator Norris are going
to give Muscle Shoals the once-over
together recall that the Governor has
distinguished utility ancestry One
| of his progenitors, Hilborne L. Roose-
velt, was founder and for many years
manager" of the original Telephone
Company of New York" out of which
grew the Bell interests and the vast
A. T. & T. Of today.
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Speaker Garner, as Vice President
elect, adheres relentlessly to the rule
of no telephone calls after o pm. al
his hotel residence. The other night
| a prominent United States Senator
called up about half an hour after the
deadline, only to be told by the nymph
I at the switchboard that the message
would have to be relayed to the Speaker
Next day, little warm under the col
lar, the solon demonstrated to him
Jack, up in Boston they say that
Lowells speak only to Cabots ano
| Cabots speak only to God You seem
to have improved on that, because wher
Senator wants to talk to you he car
only speak to telephone girl"
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"State Government monthly organ
of the American Legislators Association
about to convene in Washington, adorns
its January number with frontispiece
OF the Colorado State Capitol captioned
| When this graceful pile was set at the
crest of Denver's Capitol Hill 81 years
ago one of the portico steps was marked
| by a horizontal line exactly $3.50 feet
above sea level, and dubbed the first
milestone on the road to Heaven One
| so fortunate as to stand upon 1t sees
$50 miles of snow-capped Rocky Noun
tain peaks. Here the Legislature of the
Centennial State congregates on jan
uary 4. And almost simultaneously (be-
tween January and l6) regular ses-