Evening star., 1933-05-05

Apparently President Roosevelt thinks
Washington isn't a half bad place to
spend at least a portion of the Sum-
mer. The White House is not to be
tenantless during the hot season. The
Executive family's plans remain some
what undetermined pending the ad-
Journment of Congress, but Mr. Roose-
velt's present program calls for pro-
tracted residence at No. 1900 Pennsyl-
van1a avenue over some of the weeks
when deniZens of the District of Co.
lumbia are accustomed to flee to cooler
parts. There1l be brief vacation at
| Campobello Island. just across the
Maine line in the maritime Province of
New Brunswick, Canada, where the
President spent happy boyhood days at
the camp the Roosevelts long have
maintained there Then a sojourn at
Hyde Park, N. Y, but large part of
the Summer right here in Washington
F. D. r. is keenly contemplating trip
down the coast from Eastport, Me, to
Baltimore aboard the spick and span
new 10,000-ton, 8-inch-gun cruiser In
dianapolis, when she churns her way
South on shake down" spin. The
sea minded President has long hankered
for an experience of that sort. The In
dianapolis is capable of anything from
311a to 33 knots. She represents the
last word in Yankee warship building
genius in the particular category of
treaty" vessels she typifies.
With the offer of a United States Cir
cult Court of Appeals judgeship in the
Southwest to Senator Sam Gilbert
Bratton, Democrat, of New Mexico.
President Roosevelt signals that his
raid on the Senate didn't end with the
drafting of Hull Of Tennessee and
Swanson Of Virginia for the cabinet.
Senator Bratton has another full four
years to serve in the seat to which he
was reelected in 1890, but evidently
prefers his first love, the bench. He
resigned as an associate justice Of the
New Mexico Supreme Court in 1924 to
accept nomination for the United States
Senate. Previously he had been a
State district judge. Native of Albu-
querque, Bratton was lawyer at 81, a
Judge at 80, and a United States Sem
ator at 36. He's youngster OF A
today.
William B. Shearer, who sprang into
international fame six years ago when
he was keeping the world safe for war
ship building at Geneva, is in Wash
ington's midst on business not publicly
! disclosed. When Bill" was last in
town he was bent on prying loose from
Senator Sam Shortridge's Naval Affairs
Committee the report on ShearerS al
| legged activities in Switzerland, which
yindicate him. As the author Of the
inquiry into the Geneva affair, Herbert
Hoover incurred Shearer's enthusiastic
enmity, and t"Bill' did what he could
to even scores during the 1882 presi-
Dental campaign. Having recently
been seen at Washington In the COM
pany of men close to the patronage pie
counter, Mr. Shearer may be member
of the grand army of Democratic hope
fuI who intend fighting 1t out on the
| Farley line if it takes all Summer.
They seldom creep into the stories
| about the doings in Washington Of
| lister Guido Jung of Italy and special
| Argentine envoy, Ambassador Tomas
| lie Breton, but it's humble things, like
| lemons, olive oil and cheese, in the
case of Italy, and f1axseed and meat
products, in the case Of Argentina, that
are really at the core of their respective
missions here When the Italians talk
about economic reconstruction" at
| Washington they mean freer access to
our market for their lemons, their olive
oil and their cheese, and what the Ar
gentines want is more brotherly love
for their faxseed and meat products.
| When all's said and done-when the
state dinners and receptions and
other high-hat functions are over and
forgotten-the things that matter and
remain are prosaic trade questions. If
Messrs. Jung, Le Breton and all the