Evening star., 1933-01-23
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

President-elect Roosevelt left assur-
ances with Democratic leaders In WASH
ington that he would not announce his
cabinet until late in February, and per-
haps ton the Woodrow Wilson modeD
not until the eve of Inauguration on
March 4. So the guessing contest has
at least another five or six weeks to 60.
On what purports to be the Governor S
authority, only three things at this
writing oan be put down as certainties-
% That he IS urging Owen D. Young
to take the secretaryship of state; t2)
that similar pressure is being applied
to Carter Glass to accept the Treasury
portfolio. and 90 that Jim Farley will
be Postmaster General. Almost as def
mite assurance is forthcoming that
Senator Walsh of Montana has the re-
fusal of cabinet place, probably the
State Department, in case Young yields
to the entreaties of his business asso-
ciates not to take his hand from the
General Electric helm and its affiliateS.
Norman Davis. hitherto rumor's rank
ing favorite for Secretary of State, now
figures mostly in the gossip as Ambas-
sador to Great Britain, with a rowing
European assignment.
Republican ProgreSsives seem to have
been awarded the Secretaryship OF the
interior as the reward for their bolt
from Hoover to Roosevelt Up to the
President-elect's recent sojourn in
Washington, Senator Hiram johnson
appeared to be the anointed one. Now
Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico
looms as the prospective beneficiary of
F. D. RS. gratitude to the group that
helped to landslide the agricultural and
mining West into the Democratic
column. Though Cutting halls from the
wild and woolly spaces where men are
men, he's really of the same aristo-
cratic Eastern background as Gov.
Roosevelt himself. The Bayard Cuttings
and the Roosevelts long have been con-
temporary New York blue bloods.
Senator Cutting was at Harvard only
four or five years later than the Presi-
his Groton, Harvard and Phi Beta
Kappa pedigree. Cutting Is dubbed
Henry Cabot Lodges successor as the
scholar in politics. He followed Horace
Greeley's advice and went West i'm
mediately after leaving Cambridge, in
1910.
DR.. Alfred SEE, newly appointed
Chinese Minister to the United States.
has Just received interesting news about
his eldest son in England Young SEE
recently was appointed casualty officer
and resident physician at London s
famous st. Thomas Hospital, the first
Asiatic tn its history ever so to be
chester Britain's swagger prep school,
and took his pre-medical work at
Cambridge University.
Aaron Sapiro, New York and Chicago
lawyer who bearded Henry Ford in q
celebrated libel action four or five years
ago, was an interesting witness before
the Senate Banking and Currency
Committee one day last week. He
appeared in support Of the George bill,
designated to make funds Of the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation available
mated himself as the spokesman with
unpaid school teachers Of Chicago and
other regions He Is familiar figure
on Capitol Hill, which for years has
recognized him as one Of the country's
foremost authorities on cooperative
farm marketing. Senator Capper Of
Kansas says Sapiro knows more about
that subject than any other man In
the United States. The Sapiro-F Ford
feud grew out of the Dearborn Inde-
pendent's charges that Sapiro organized
conspiracy" to ruin" the American
farmer. Acting as his own counsel in
the libel litigation, he clashed violently
and not ingloriously with Jim Reed,
Ford's lawyer.
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Senator Bob Reynolds Of North
Carolina thinks he has the most per-
sistent Democratic constituent job
hunter who has yet offered to immediate
himself on the Roosevelt altar. The
Tarheel patriot navigates hts own air.
plane. It's so easy to soar back and
forth between North Carolina and
Washington that he flies up here two
or three times q week, just to see what
progress Senator Reynolds Is making on
his behalf.
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It's beginning to dawn upon Wash
ington that now and then public life is
infested by individuals who deliberately
court ri1icule and abuse, and thrive on
them. They proceed a the theory sue