Evening star., 1933-02-08
; EDITOR REGRETS DISMISSAL.
Gratified, However. That Article Turn
ed Searchlight on Congress"

ca ScaTcnugnt on congress"
NEW YORK, February 8 (R.-Fran-
els Walton, managing editor of New
, Outlook, said last night he regretted
that David S. Barry had been dis
missed as sergeant at arms of the United
States Senate but that t is gratifying"
that Barry's remarks, appearing in the
New Outlook, could so effectively turn
searchlight upon the shadier activities
of Congress"
Walton, in formal statement, said
the Senate's action today, dismissing
Barry, has not shaken our confidence
in Mr. Barry and the New Outlook will
carry further articles on the Senate ac-
tivities"
Paragraph Was Changed.
Discussing the first paragraph of
Barry's article, the basis for the Sem
ate's action, Walton said the magazine
editors moved this paragraph up from a
lower position in the article ''for the
sole editorial purpose of making it clear
at once to the readers that the
intent of this particular article was not
to discuss again the popular viewpoint
OF crookedness rampant In the houses
of our lawmakers, but that the intent
was to deal with the newer and equally
serious situation of the rising tide of
demagoguery on the hill in Washing
ton."
The paragraph referred to read as
follows:
Contrary, perhaps, to the popular
belief, there are not many crooks in
Congress, that is, out-and-out grafters.
or those who are willing to be such;
there are not many Senators or Repre-
y1nfQfjVoc uyhn coll fHoir
money. and it is pretty well known who
those few are."<
THE making Of this manuscript
change" said Walton, "for this editorial
purpose, and with the use of the mild
indirect language of Mr.. Barry, there
are not many Senators or Representa-
tives who sell their vote for money
could involve no hesitancy or second
thought IN a journalistically trained
mind capable Of recalling the more than
vague rumors of the $4,000 bribe alleged
to have been paid In the attempted
defeat Of the McFadden banking bill
and the tawdry little affair of the deal
surrounding the making of the sugar
tariff of 1929.
Result is Gratifying.
ut IS gratifying, in view of the aims
~ OAi PubiACdtAOll, ClldI Ilic ulIiOCcIltly
intended remark Of Mr. Barry could so
effectively turn searchlight upon the
shadier activities of Congress; and If
the focusing of this attention does no
more than bring out the apparently
serious charges in the Dahlberg deal
against certain Senators, which some
hoped would die in the Lobby Commit
tee, perhaps even the time of The SEN
ators-the paid representatives of the
American people-will not have been
altogether wasted by the amusing floor
show of Friday, February 3, 1888, when
these modern Neros began fiddling while
our Rome burns"
1t was stated at the magazine Offices
that neither Alfred E. Smith, editor in
chief, nor Frank A. Tichenor, publisher,
would have any statement to make.
I'VE are not surprised" said Walton,
"at the action Of the United States
Senate now convened in Washington for
the purpose of dealing with such press
ing problems as that of finding ways
and means of reducing Federal deficit
Of nearly one billion dollars, of taking
action for the relief of our stricken
farm populace and the care of the
country'S millions of unemployed, in
summarily removing from Government
office an employe of IA years service
and an American citizen because he has
presumed to criticize the conduct of
certain members of the legislative
branch of the Federal Government.
Such action is entirely consistent
with the record Of body whose greatest
contribution of service to its country is
in giving away of the Philippines"