Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-19

It was a brain trust outside OF the
Moley- Berle- Tugwell combination sup
posedly supplying intellectual gas TO
the Roosevelt engine that Matched the
production control plan recommended
by Secretary Of Labor Perkins as an
amendment to the 30-hour-week bill
now before Congress. Capitol Hill
heard that the incubator from which
the scheme emerged was in the Brook
ings Institution, across the way from
the White House In Jackson place. The
chief architect Is understood to have
been DR.. Harold G. Moulton. president
Of the Bookings Institution and CO.
author of recently published and
widely discussed book on war debts.
Working in close cooperation with DR..
Moulton was a former New York men,
Der Of Congress and now a Rochester
bank president. DR.. Meyer JacobStein
who ranked while in the House Of Rep
resentatiyc5 as its most brilliant econ
omist. Still another reported collab-
orator was Col. Frederic A. Delano,
uncle of President Roosevelt and chair
man of the National Park and Plan
ming Commission. The Moulton-
Jacobstein-D elano plan for "a meas
ure of production control to eliminate
unfair competition" was sold" to most
rotary Perkins, before finally winning
Washington becomes an ever-grow-
ing Mecca for the Nations writer's, es-
pecially these in quest of authentic
source material The latest to pitch
his literary tent on the Potomac Is
James Truslow Adams. author Of THE
a E1a ;Iy,s, E,lin of
and The March of Democracy" who
recently returned from London, where
he lives much of the time Mr. Adams
has settled down in Washington for
while 10 gather data for his forthcom-
ing new book on the history of the
Civil War. Next month another liter
airy light. Lothrop Stoddard of Boston
Is coming to Washington for the pur-
pose of making the National Capital his
future home. Mr.. Stoddard's The Ris-
ing Tide Of Color" 'The New World
OF Islam" and Lonely America" have
given him international fame.
This observer started something when
he recently christened the President
Franklin Dynamo Roosevelt" and re-
produced some suggestions as to what
N. D. stands for. In addition to New
Deal Now comes in an envelope
stamped Calvert County. Md. Gods
Country" this: In view of President
Roosevelt's splendid work 50 far. F. D.
R. stands for Finest Democratic Rec
ord.'"'
One night not long ago the nine
teenth century comedians, Weber and
Fields in the course of q fOrtieth ami
yersary turn on the radio pulled this
one. Joe asked: Lew, If should put
my hand in your pocket and take out a
roll of bills, what would I be?" Quoth
Lew: You'd be q wonder" Recently
Senator Robert r. Reynolds of North
Carolina, who, like everybody else on
Capitol Hill, is besieged these days by
lob seekers, waved $40 bill to en-
phasize q point during a Senate debate
on currency expansion. Next day Rey-
nolds' office was stormed by the biggest
throng Of visitors the season SO Tar mas
seen.
X i 4
On two different occasions within a
week more Senate Democrats have voted
against tie Roosevelt administration
than have stood by the President. A
few days ago Senator Joe Robinson S
supporters ran aInuch Va VIC !oiA ASAeA
bill. Monday 25 out OF 48 Democrats
went on record for the Wheeler 16-to-l
silver plan in the teeth of Robinson s
stat ,msnt that President Roosevelt OPP
posed it. One Of the striking features
Of the vote was Senator Borah's lining
up with the administration cause. The
Idahoans devotion to silver is complete.
but he declines to favor imitation as long
as the President is against l.. Senator
Borah is convinced that nothing effec-
tive can be done for imitation. by the
silver route except by agreement at the
World Economic Conference. Capitol
cloak room gossip credits Mr.. Roosevelt
with q project to link the United States
with Great Britain. France, Germany.
italy and Japan in an international
currency agreement based On bimetal-
lism. Meantime the specter Of Demo: