Evening star., 1933-12-13
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

P. w. A. dollars are to be set rolling
at vastly accelerated rate. Authori-
ties consider that prospect about the
most important single assurance of re-
vived industrial prosperity now in sight,
along with civil works benefits steadily
finding their way into circulation. OF
the $500, 900, 600 appropriated by Con-
gress for public works, and notwith-
standing the s3,000,000,0O0 already
"allocated" for various projects through
out the country, only $153.475,000 had
actually been disbursed up to December
9. If present plans materialize. P. w. A.
funds henceforward will be disgorged
on so rapidly Using a scale that by
from $250000.000 to S300,000,00 a
month. In other words, as the con-
templated peak is approached more
cash will actually be paid out every
four weeks than during the entire six
months of the Public Works Administra-
tion's existence to date Secretary
Ickes has two motives for speeding up
expenditure. Not only Is he anxious to
create jobs and improve business. but
If he expects to find Congress in mood
to okay an additional $4,000, ,000, 900 or
thereabouts for more public works
House and Senate will require brass
tacks evidence that P W. A. money is
really being used and not boarded for
distribution some sunny day in the in
definite future. Congressional COM
policy of p. w. A. is bitter and con-
tinuous.
Russia and Japan may not see eye
to eye on Far Eastern matters, but
Alexander Troyanovsky, Soviet Ambas-
sador to the United States, and Toshi-
hiko Taketomi, charge d'affairs of Japan
Washington, look at the world through
the same spectacles. They proved it
on certain public occasion in Toxic
a couple of years ago. Mr.. Troyanov-
sky, as acting dean of the diplomatic
corps, was called upon to extend q
greeting to the delegates Of the Pan
Pacific Union. 70 his chagrin, he'd
forgotten his reading glasses and
couldn't proceed with his manuscript
Thereupon Mr.. Taketomi, then chief
of the Commercial Bureau of the JAP
anese foreign Office, came to the rescue
by offering the Russian Ambassador
his own spectacles. They were just
right and enabled Mr.. Troyanovsky to
reel off his remarks in fine shape
The japanese diplomat is looking
lOl " dlu W Will
his Soviet colleague here next month.
Speaking of Ambassador Troyanovsky
how many people realize that, diplo-
matically and internationally speaking
there is no more Russia-but merely
the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub-
lies? So the first envoy from Moscow
Will not be known in Washington as
tha Apaho dor IF Pnccio b11t <hc
representative of the Soviet Union. His
official establishment, accordingly, will
be the Soviet, not the Russian. en-
bassy. Russia henceforward will be
catalogued at the State Department
as the Soviet Union or, as this is the
era of initials, perhaps as u. S. S. r
X X Il X
Arthur C. ToEnley, who is about to
descend upon Washington at the head
Of motor caravan of North Dakotans
seeking $5,000,000 of Federal money tc
set up State factories, has been a pic
turesque and stormy figure in North
Dakota politics for 20 years. While the
old Non-Partisan League was in Its
| heyday Townley was maker and un-
maker of Governors and United States
Senators, with the embittered and EN-.
| battled farmers generally backing him
to the hilt. A Washingtonian, who has
known Townley throughout his tempes-
tuous career, describes him as lone oi
the most persuasive, dynamic, ambi.
| tious and masterful rabble trousers evel
churned up by American politics. HI
Is tall, fair, smooth-shaven. hawk
nused, about SO years old, and, If hi
were not personally honest, he might
have been rich. But Townley rich
| wouldn't have been Townley." He
started life as q fax farmer In Western
Montana. United States Senator Lynn
J. Frazier used to be one Of his politi.
cal partners, and so was "Bilf" LANCER
present Governor Of North Dakota
Once Townely aspired to q seat in thu
House Of Representatives on o we,
aalA ke hat r.