Evening star., 1933-03-10
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

A flx that scans the news all day
To see If just one bank will pay
A single copper from its till
To buy some gaS-at least q gill;
Or let me buy . pack Of butts
Before the bank entirely shuts.
Banks were made for fools, by heck,
When only God can cash . check.
President Roosevelt signed an appli-
cation for associate membership in the
National Press Club during his maiden
conference with the Washington CORE
spondents, but smilingly inquired Of
Pete" Brandt. president of the club
and Bascom Tmmons, former presi-
dent, who Jointly proposed F. D. r. for
membership. whether he had to pony
up the full $110 initiation fee right
away. Il haven't had any salary yet,
you know" the President alibied. Hard
ing Is the only President in our time
who made the Press Club as an active
member. so it cost the late editor of the
Marion Daily Star only SIS to Join.
Coolidge and Hoover, like Roosevelt,
were associate members.
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Both Your Houses" is q new melo-
drama by Maxwell Anderson. author of
What Price Glory" and Elizabeth the
queen" which has just opened in New
York and has the House Appropriations
Committee room at Washington for its
scene OF action. Like q recent talkie
named after a undertaking book about
contemporary Washington, Both Your
Houses" is the story of young West
ern member who arrives In Congress
full OF idealism and good intentions,
only to discover that the way Of such
as he Is strewn with dismay and pit
falls on Capitol Hill The villain Of
the piece is a hard-boiled veteran Rep
resentative who believes that public Of
flee Is a private snap and has a COM
plex against reformers and uplifters.
There is nothing. except store whisky"
he says, that hate as much as I do
an honest politician"
Acting Senate Sergeant at Arms J..
Mark Trice, who bore the brunt of
arrangements for the Inauguration of
Vice President Garner and the assem-
bling OF the new Senate, is another
one-time Senate page who made good
IN q big way. As lad of IL or Is he
Joined the light-footed corps in 1916.
His late chief, David H. Barry, recoe-
nized his superior talent and q few
years later he became Barry's ofiice
assistant. At night Trice studied law
and eventually joined a firm of attor-
neys In downtown Washington. Then,
two or three years ago. Barry had him
appointed his deputy. Few Senate
spectators on March knew the identity
Of the tall, slender, boyish fellow. who
was here, there and everywhere. or his
background. Mr.. Barry, by the way,
Is now f1lltnQ Speak king enOa oeuoe epte iy,
the East. His topic is "The Senate"
Col. Campbell Hodges, military aide
at the White House throughout the late
administration, who Is still on the
job there, saw four naval aides to
the President come and 60 during his
tour Of duty. President Hoover used
the quiet-spoken Louisianan for many
chores OF an official character vholly
unrelated to ceremonial occasions. Col
Hodges is a scholar as well as a soldier
He was elected president Of the Uniyer-
sity of Louisiana shortly after becoming
Mr.. Hoover's aide, but declined the post
for two reasons. In the first place. he'd
have had to resign from the Army; and
in the second place, he faced certain
dismissal by the board Of regents, about
to come under the domination Of Huey
Long, then Governor, Col. HODGES
brother being identified with the anti
Long faction In Louisiana politics. The
colonel now goes to the Army War Col
lege. He halls from q distinguished
West Point class. which included Gen.
Douglas Macarthur and Lieut.. Col. q.
8. Grant, Sd.
Copyright. 1887