Evening star., 1933-02-15

Enough has already tranSpired IN the
Senate Finance Committees big parade
OF best minds to make certain that be-
fore it's over every ism and 'ocracy
conceivable by mortal man will be
trotted out on the issue In question
what caused the depression and how to
end 1t. Senator Pat Harrison. Demo-
ings, says they'll continue till every
mothers son ct the $50 invited wise
men Of the East and West and North
and South has given OF his wisdom.
Two big guns who were expected to
bark early IN the proceedings have
asked to be heard later-Owen D.
Young and Newton d. Baker. Senator
Harrison, who viii be chairman of the
Finance Committee after March 4, ex-
poets the friendly inquisition win extend
well into the special session Of the new
Congress. I'VE intend to give every
school CT thought its day In court" says
Pst. ."Gold standardists, bimetalists
free SilycTftes, single takers, high pro-
tectio1ists, free traders, inf1ationists
deflationists, refiationists, drys, vets,
technQerats, wealth redistributors-
everybody is free to come and air his
views" This weeks Labor, rail brother
hood organ. complains that no spokes-
men Of the organized workers have
been requested to address the Senate
committee. But that's probably due to
the fact that all the invitations haven't
gone cut yet Labor's turn is sure to
come,
President Hoover's "valedictory" In
New York was DISAPPOINTMENT to
Washington politicians. The expectation
was rife that he'd lift the veil bit on
his own future role In politics. Beyond
the broad suggestion that the G. o. p.
would support worthwhile Democratic
measures for recovery, and challenge
these which, in Republican estimation
don't deserve support, Mr.. HooverS
speech was conspicuously non-poltical
in tone. Opinion remains pretty wide
spread that, despite his overwhelming
defeat In 1882, the Californian may be
his pasty,s best bet IN 1886. Some OF
his more ardent supporters declare that
at this time at least, with Calvin
Coolidge removed from the scene, no
Republican approximates Herbert Hoover
in availability. Ogden l.. Mills and
James w. Wadsworth, both Of New
York are about the only names COM
monty mentioned nowadays as presi-
Dental possibilities four years hence
who might outrank Hoover.
IL X Il
This is sure enough q topsy-turvy
world we live in. The strongest support
to be found in the Nations press for
Jack Garners proposal to make Presi-
dent Roosevelt dictator" appears In
the columns of the Republican New
York Herald Tribune. That rockribbed
old G.. O. P. moutllpiece isn't itself
boosting the plan, but it's letting its
widely-read Democratic editorial con-
tributor Walter Lippmann, do SO. Mr..
Lippmann says the country will not be
shocked by the Garner scheme. What
is shocking" he writes, lis the danger
that Congress will not act quickly and
decisively in the present emergency.
item In q long list Of things needing to
be done. - II the program Of relief
and reconstruction Is worth advocating,
IL Is worth the price Of q temporary sus-
pension Of some OF the prerogatives OF
Congress"
Jim Farley Is bent upon a new deal
In party financing as well as in ad-
minttretion of the Government. Hence,
his pre-inauguration appeal to Demo-
cratic party faithful to wipe out the
$3.50 900 "war debt" left over from the
ls2s and 1882 campaigns, and do II
now" what the national chairman
end Roosevelt Postmaster Qencfal-to-be
wants merely to avoid Is the suspicion
that high posts In the incoming ad-
ministraticn were put up on the patron
age auction block and sold to the high
est contributor, He refers TO the "fe-
currinx scandal or what amounts to
sAle ok important Qoyeknment o&aces."
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