Evening star., 1933-10-27
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

To survey N. r. A. at close range, two
distinguished British politicians-the
Right Hon. Sir Robert Horne and the
Right Hon. Sir Arthur Steel-Maitlan nd
have just arrived in washington. Sir
Robert Horne is former chancellor OF
the exchequer and holder of other
portfolios in Conservative cabinets dur
ing the past IL years, and Sir Arthur
Steel Maitland. another Conservative
follower of Stanley Baldwin has also
had a noteworthy cabinet career. In
addition to observing the progress OF
national recovery. the British statesmen
are expected to participate more or less
unofficially in the debt discussions
Economic conditions in Great Britain
are steadily and substantially i'm
proving and. while there is no sug-
gestion that the government is
thinking of an N R. A., Sir Robert
Horne and Sir Arthur Steel Maitland
intend to give the great American ad-
venture a thorough study, presumably
with view to recommending such fea-
lures of our planned economy as may
In addition to their activities as men,
bers of Parliament, both Sir Robert and
Sir Arthur are identified with impor-
prises.
N. r. AS plans for barring imports
which threaten recovery may figure
conspicuously in approaching negotia-
tions with Russia. Practically every
thing the Soviet produces and exports
is made on either such a lOW-coSt or
no-cost basis that it is in position to
invade foreign markets on terms do
neStic competitors cannot meet. The
United States Treasury a couple OF
years ago was looking into this very
question from the standpoint of the
alleged forced labor which enters into
production of certain Russian COM
modities sold abroad. Russia's princi-
pal exports are grain, oil products, lum-
ber and furs. We also buy her man
ganese.
Apparently one of the notable cas-
ualties OF prohibition repeal is Mrs.
Ella A. Boole of New York, who is
abou. to retire as president of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
in which for years she has been the
guiding spirit. In 1920 Mrs. Boole was
Prohibitionist candidate for United
States Senator against James w. Wads-
worth, jr.. Republican. She did not get
very far, but when Wadsworth was up
for reelection in 1926, the Empire
States woman drys, under Mrs. Boole S
militant leadership, were the main sup
porters of the independent Republican
Cristman candidacy, which rolled up
Just enough strength to bring about
Wadsworth's defeat. Mrs. Boole says
she is not embittered by the repeal OF
the eighteenth amendment She is "juSt
sad"
Former Senator Tasker L. Oddie
Republican. of Nevada is the prime
mover in the Gold Mining Association
of America, just formed at San Fran
cisco, in the wake of the Roosevelt
scheme for Government purchase OF
newly mined American gold. Oddle Is
a mining man. The 500 representa-
tives Of Western interests who launched
the new association are confident the
administration monetary program
holds out a bright future for the in
dustry Representative Englebright
Republican, of California, a mining
engineer by profession, told the gold
people that it is essential for them
to have "a spokesman in Washington
to promte beneficial legislation and to
protest against antagonistic laws"
II X
It was to James Marion Baker OF
South Carolina, recently appointed
Minister to Siam, that the late Vice
President Tom Marshall addressed his
famous remark: What this country
needs is a good five-cent cigar" The
amiable Hoosier had been listening to
a long -winded speech by Joseph L.
Bristow, then a Senator from Kansas,
who was endeavoring to diagnose the
ills of the Nation from the viewpoint
of a Western progressive and to sug-
gest cures. Baker, then secretary OF
the Senate, was at the Vice Presidents
side on the rostrum. Time and again
Bristow kept saying: what this coun-
try needs" etc. After noting six or