Evening star., 1933-09-27
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Postmaster General Farley's forth
coming airplane dash into Texas is in
tended, in a sort OF way, to pay the
Roosevelt administration compliments
to Vice President Garner and to assure
him that tho lost to sight to memory
dear" he lever wilt remain" In other
words, Jim wants to demonstrate that
Jack is not the forgotten man, despite
his conspicuous absence from the Cap
ital since last March. Farley has at no
time ignored Garner in patronage mat
tiers. All Texas appointments, in addi-
ton to the Endorsements Of Senators
Sheppard and Connally, have carried
the Garner o. K.
His recent week end trip down the
Potomac with President Roosevelt may
explain the current story that Rear Ad-
miral Cary T. Grayson is to be the ar
bitter of District of Columbia patronage
matters. The Presidents long delay in
appointing new District Commissioners
and filling other Washington jobs has
been interpreted as a sign that the
local Democratic organization, whose
recommendations have long been be-
fore Patronage Chief Farley, is not re-
ceiving all the consideration at the
pected. If there's anything to the
Grayson yarn, action may ensue with
more speed than has hitherto been
manifest. President Wilson's physician
and close friend has figured in the gos-
sip about a one-man government for
the District of Columbia, but his friends
insist the Roosevelt inaugural chair
man has no hankering for such glory.
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There will be the usual scramble for
the national commandership of the
American Legion at next months Chi
cago convention. The West Is ex-
pected to present solid front in favor
of George w. Malone of the Depart
ment of Nevada Malone has been
State engineer of Nevada since 1927
and represents it on the Boulder Dam
Commission. Once an amateur boxing
champion on the Coast, he has carried
two-fisted fighting temperament into
all his public activities. Malone is
widely known to service men through
out the Union and his friends predict
substantial support for him from all
sections at Chicago. He proposes
new approach to the whole program of
veterans relief. which contemplates
substantial reduction in the total bur-
SSA ASoehlS tIlc rcucIdl
and curing the veterans administration
Of many Of its shortcomings.
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Mr. Roosevelt holds number of Jobs
at Washington in addition to the presi-
dency of the United States. Among
them are the ex officio presidency of
the Washington National Monument
Society, first place in "the establish
ment" of the Smithsonian Institution
presidency of the American National
Red Cross and patron ex officio of the
Columbia Institution for the Deaf.
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Among emergency relief administra-
tions not much publicized is the Science
Advisory Board. The chairman Is Karl
T. Compton. president of the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology The
board was established in July for CO.
operation with Federal recovery agencies
in all fields where science can be of
service. The vice chairman and director
is Isaiah Bowman of the National Re
search Council. The other members
are half dozen of the country's fore
most industrial and scientific leaders,
including R. A. Millikan, famed physi-
cist, and DIR. John C. Merriam of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington.
(Copyrieht. 1881