Evening star., 1933-12-06

NO more ClSllluSlone0 ana dlSgrun-
tied a group has wended its way
through Washington in many a moon
than the liquor people. To judge by
importers and wholesalers, they'd have
been almost happier if prohibition had
not been repealed, so agitated are they
over the rigid Federal control the in
dustry faces under N. r. A. codes
A. A. A. management and the Govern
ment's general control set-up. All con-
cerned realize there's nothing to do
but grin and bear it, but they utter
dire prophecies of what is now in store.
They predict continued bootlegging,
consequent disappointment for the
Treasury from the revenue standpoint,
and an enforcement problem, in the
than anything experienced under the
eighteenth amendment. The industry
pins confident relief hopes on Congress.
The burden of the liquor peoples dis
content is that they were fooled into
believing the end of the noble expert
ment meant States rights in the field
Of supervision. Instead, they complain
they're confronted by Federal control
on a scale never dreamt of In pre-
prohibition days.
T. v. Soong, the young Chinese min
lister of finance. who negotiated the r.
F. c. $4,000, 900 cotton and wheat loan
in Washington last Spring, has lost his
job at Nanking. The Harvard and
Columbia educated statesman fell out
with his brother-in-law. Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek, over China's attitude
toward Japan. Soong was for strong
resistance against japanese aggression,
while Gen. Chang and his followers
have been pursuing a conciliatory and
realistic" course. The late finance
minister, too, always assented grudg-
ingly to military disbursements, eSpe-
cially funds to suppress internal op-
position to the Nanking government.
Soong took over the finance portfolio
in 1927 and won an international repu-
tation by achieving the miracle Of bal
ancing the Chinese budget. His recent
retirement resulted In a sharp decline
Shanghai market. Mr.. Soong's sue
cessor as finance minister Is H. H.
Kung, a lineal descendant of Con-
fucius. The finance ministry remains
in the Marking ruling family, as Kung's
wife and Gen. Chang Kai-sheks wife
are sisters.
Since July 1, 1888. the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor has granted charters
to 825 new unions. The number of
1929 was only IS. This means that
IL times as many new unions have been
organized in four months of a depres-
sion year as we're formed during all of
the 1929 boom period. N. R. A., with
its collective bargaining guarantees for
labor, is considered chiefly responsible
for the unprecedented growth Of
unionism.
One of the disconsolate distillers now
In Washington. who is a constituent out
in the Chicago area of Mrs. Anna Will
marth Ickes, wife of Interior Secretary
Ickes and member Of the Illinois State
Legislature, considers her one of the
most fortnight persons in politics. Be-
fore the 1892 election, when she was
a candidate to succeed herself at
Springfield, the distiller wrote Mrs.
Ickes, wanting to know definitely and
categorically whether she was a dry or
wet. "You have perfect right to
ask me that question:" replied Mrs.
Ickes, who was not then Washington
cabinet hostess. "and I'll answer 1t.
I'm not only q dry, but q bone-dry. !
would, of course, like your vote. but,
as assume you're a wet, I wouldn't
want your support under any misappre-
hension."
Among Republicans of Sound money
views, the impression Is crystallizing
that If currency is to be the issue IN
1895, former Secretary Of the Treasury
Ogden L. Mills will have logical claim
on the G. o. p. presidential nomination.
Mills have always loomed as Repub-
lican national white hope. His friends
say his availability will be paramount
and interchangeable if monetary mat
tcr5 h--~rle the main bone of contcn-