Evening star., 1933-11-03

From a constituent Of this column
comes documentary proof that it was
Mark Twain, and not President Roose-
welt, who first used the term new deal
in the sense in which 1t has achieved
immortality. The one and only Mark
coined the phrase in his masterpiece,
"a Connecticut Yankee in King Ar
thurs Court" This is the passage in
which 1t occurs: And now here I was,
in a country where right to say how
the country should be governed was
restricted to six persons in each thou
sand Of its population. 1t seemed to
me that what the 994 dupes needed
was a new deal"
Another deserving Democratic woman
leader, Mrs. Hal Sewer, national COM
mitteewoman for Texas, has just been
band is the newly appointed American n
Ambassador to Chile, Mrs, Sewer is
called the "savior Of the Alamo" be-
the restoration of the shrine dear
to the hearts of all loyal Texans The
ans National Democratic Club in
Washington, now edited by Helen Es-
sary, says: Mrs. Sewer is capable
efficient and in her spare time writes
books She is president Of bank in
Corpus Christi, her home town, and a
director of two others. She manages
two or three ranches with ability and
acumen inherited from her father, who
was one of the pioneer ranchmen of
Texas Despite these varied activities
the new chatelaine of the American
embassy in Chile long has found time
to be an active participant in Texas
Democratic politics" Mrs. Sewer
speaks Spanish fuently, which will
make 1t easy for her to enact her future
role as a diplomatic hostess at
Santiago.
Although Gen. johnson officially
barred the Blue Eagle from use as
party insignia in the New York mayor
atty fracas, one of N. R. AS key men,
DIR. Leo Wolman, chairman Of the
the ranks of fusion speakers by intro
friend Of organized labor in a radio
talk In Manhattan. The talk was spon-
sored by the Fusion Committee Of the
International Ladies' Garment Workers
Union and the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers of America. DR.. Wolman, who
is q professor of economics at Columbia
University, is a New York citizen and
voter and therefore entirely within his
| individual rights in participating in
| the municipal campaign. Maj. La
Guardia considers Wolman's backing
an Offset to the Mckee Recovery
partys claims of affinity with and sup
port by the Roosevelt administration.
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Two international currency experts
| have arrived in the United States at
this psychological moment and are
presently expected in Washington un-
officially to survey and discuss the sit
uation at close range. One Is Raymond
Philippe of Paris and the other Is DR..
| Robert Eisler of Vienna. The two
Europeans are said to hold opposing
views on the subject of gold as me-
dunn of exchange. M. Philippe Is de-
scribed as the "F'renchman chieny re-
sponsible for holding the franc at par
| in 1926"
Industry feels it had a bad break
when the Presidents recent letter to
Gen. johnson about the merit clauses
in codes was recently made public on
the same day as the retail code and
thereby was crowded of the first page,
and, in the case Of many newspapers,
crowded out altogether. It was the
communication in which the President
pointed out there is nothing in the
provisions Of section (a) of the ma
| tional industrial recovery act ito in
| terfere with the bona fide exercise of
| the right of an employer to select, re-
tain or advance employees on the basis
Of individual merit" The business