Evening star., 1933-11-01
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
RY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

the late Morris Hillquit of New York.
Mr. Krzycki IS national organizer of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers OF
America For the past few months he
has been in charge Of labor organlza-
ton work in Eastern shirt factories.
He was born in Milwaukee in 1881, OF
Polish parents. A photographer by trade,
he was once president OF the Lithog-
rapher Press Feeders Union in 1904
and has long been active In SOCIALIST
organization work. Three years ago Mr..
Krzycki went to Europe on behalf Of
Polish American organizations. to study
social and labor legislation in Europe.
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Forthcoming new books include City
Management" by Charles P. Taft. who
lived in the White House as a lad,
while his father was President Of the
United States. It Is an account of
Cincinnati'S successful experiment In
municipal government. Another volume,
about to leave the press, is 'The Roose-
velt Revolution" by Ernest K. Lindley
of the Washington staff of the New
York Herald Tribune-a narrative of
President Roosevelt's first six months
in Office.
His friends and admirers In the Dip
lomatic corps are wondering anxiously
whether Signor Augusta Rosso. Italian
Ambassador to the United States. is
destined to be a victim of the reported
new Mussolini policy to do away with
bachelors in the Fascist civil service.
Rome hears that unmarried men are to
be replaced by heads of families. who
in future will have priority according
to the number of their children. Signor
RoSso has long ranked not only as q
brilliant diplomat, but the most "eligi-
BILE" bachelor in the entire Mussolini
service.
Controller General John R. McCarl,
who may be cast for stellar role in
knock-down and drag-out fight to the
finish with Gen. johnson and N. r. A.
over contracts for Government supplies,
fits naturally into a fighting part in
these strenuous days, because he halls
from bleeding and belligerent Nebraska.
A good deal Of his well known pug
nacity has its origin In the fact that
he entered public life as private secre-
tary to Senator George w. Norris 10
years ago. Being responsible alone to
Congress, and not removable or con-
trollable by the President, the controller
general Is perhaps as near real "dic-
tator" as washington can boast Of. He
had a reputation for being hard-boiled
long before Gen. johnson was ever
heard Of.
The Army foot ball team. outstanding
contender for 1888 national gridiron
honors, is said to have a one-man brain
trust Of its own in Washington. The
trust appears to consist Of Mai. Robert
Sasse, former head foot ball coach at
West Point and now y, a. student student, at the
Sasse went to Franklin Field. in Phila-
delphia, last Saturday to scout" the
Navy team In its successful encounter
with Pennsylvania. The Army and Navy
clash again this year at Franklin Field
on November IS.
Claiming to be possibly the only man
In America who made money out Of the
closing of the banks last March, the
Minister Of one Of the smaller Euro
pean countries Is gleefully telling friends
In the diplomatic corps how he prof1ted
as a result of the bank holiday pro-
claimed by President Roosevelt. About
10 days before the envoy had bought at
a Washington bank draft on Belgium
fer some $4,000 francs, to be sent to his
wife, then in Brussels. The Washington
bank having closed by the time she re-
ceived the draft, she could not cash It.
The transaction was recently adjusted
and, owing to intervening fluctuations
In the Belgian-American exchange, the
Minister sold the draft back to the Is
suing bank, receiving for 1t $75s-odd
instead of the $50O-odd he'd paid for It.
(Copyright 1881