Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-03-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

to call Germany that damned land OF
professors. Well, President Roosevelt
has started in to convert the District
Of Columbia into a happy hunting
ground for professors. Prof. Moley OF
Columbia has been appointed an As
siStant Secretary of State, Prof Tugwell
OF the same university has been named
Assistant Secretary Of Agriculture. and
Prof. Berie, who is also attached to
Nicholas Murray Buffers citadel of
culture on Morningside Heights, is
scheduled for an assistant secretaryship
Of the Treasury. The trio constituted
the Roosevelt campaign brain trust"
of 1882 renown. Professors in high
places at Washington are no novelties.
Bill Castle, who has just quit the
Harvard don. John Lee Coulter of the
United States Tariff Commission taught
economics for years at the University
of North Dakota, before becoming its
president Senator Fess of Ohio is still
called the "schoolmaster of Yellow
Springs"
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia
welcomes Harry F. Byrd as colleague
in the Senate for many reasons, but
conspicuously on account of Byrd's
record at Richmond as a fiscal admin
istrator. Virginias State finances were
never in better shape than when Gov
Byrd left Office. conditions being such
that substantial reduction in taxes
became possible. Glass expects to find
in Byrd valiant and well posted
lieutenant when the time comes-as
most authorities think it is bound to
come and soon, toto defend sound
money from attack by inflationists,
radical silverites, gold-dollar devalu-
! ators and others. There's margin Of
exactly 80 years in age between the
senior and junior Senators from Vir-
ginia, who are already dubbed the
strongest combination boosted by any
State in the Union.
Seniority brings Senator Key Pitt
man, Democrat, Of Nevada to the
Craftsmanship of the blue ribbon COM
mittee of the Senate-Foreign Re-
lations. Though the Craftsmanship
changes political complexion, its geog-
raphy will continue to be Far Western,
as it was when Borah of Idaho held 1t.
Pittman is one Of the acknowledged
best minds Of the Senate. President
Roosevelt holds him in high regard.
He accompanied the Democratic presi-
swing across the country last Fall,
serving as confidential adviser on oc-
casions of high political strategy. The
Nevadan enters this week upon his
twenty-first successive year in the Sen
ate. He took part in the Klondike gold
rush as youngster Of Is and his first
public Office was that Of prosecuting at
torney at Nome, Alaska. The world
wide cause Of silver will have q power
full friend In the new Senate Foreign
Relations boss.
Jokesmiths, rhymsters and other
wisecrackerS, including punsters, will
have to revise their designs on the sur
name Of Secretary of the Treasury
Woodin. The tip is out that he pro-
nounces it Woo-din, and not like the
word wooden.
One Of the quips of the current bank
ing tie-up has a plutocratic Washing
ton bank director as its butt. At a
board meeting on the eve Of this weeks
holiday he proudly proclaimed to his
codirectors that his faith in the sound
ness Of their institution was attested by
the fact that he had 100000 Of his
own funds on deposit and hadn't with
drawn cent. Say, Bill (Which isn't
his name)," the chairman Of the board
calculated, %you oughtn't to be paid in
terest. You should be charged storage"
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What will be in the nature of an
official G. o. P. reply to President
Roosevelt's program is expected from
Representative land former United
States Senator) Jimmy Wadsworth of
New York next Saturday night. He will
broadcast over a Nationwide network
on Republicans Duty In the Premises. :"
(Copyright, 1881