Evening star., 1933-02-08
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

David S. Barry, deposed sergeant at
arms OF the United States Senate, will
not have to join the bread line as the
result of losing three weeks of his
former. $4,000 year salary. For many
years Mr.. Barry has been president of
the Pathfinder Publishing Co. of Wash
ington, which issues popular weekly
magazine with circulation of we'll over
100000. His friends always under
stood that Mr.. Barry's holdings in the
company were so extensive that they
yielded him an uncommonly handsome
income and long ago made him COM
Aartably rich man. The Pathfinder
deals in lighter tone with men and
affairs at the National Capital and
enjoys wide vogue in the rural dis
tricts and small towns of the country
from coast to coast.
Senator Otis F. Glenn, Republican,
Of Illinois, though he fought a losing
case in opposing the removal of Ser
sively on a fundamental phase of the
question at issue when he tilted
at congressional immunity. Glenn
charged the Senate, and especially Sen
ate committees, with Systematically
"browbeating" and attacking" men
and assailing regulations because Sen
ators are able to wrap themselves in
"the cloak of immunity" The Illi-
noisan's argument was that Senators
ought not to develop tissue paper skins
when they themselves come under fire,
inasmuch as the Constitution permits
them to snipe at their fellow men to
their hearts content without risking the
slightest responsibility for their words.
Senator Couzens, Republican progress
sive, of Michigan sustained Senator
Glenn's contentious. A celebrated
American juriSt, now in high station,
moment hbelous matter Is printed in
the Congressional Record, i. e., attains
circulation far beyond the actual con-
fines Of the halls of Congress, it passes
beyond the immunity pale and becomes
actionable.
X X
America, too, needs a Hitler or a
Mussolini Yes, if I were a German,
1, too, would be a Hitlerite! So say
many Americans today" is the state
ment broadcast to Germany on Febru-
ary from Washington by K. G. Lue-
decke, who represents the Hitlerite
National Socialist press in the United
States. Herr Luedecke took the air a
day or two after Chancellor Hitler's
broadcast in Germany was relayed to
this country by short wave. Here are
some Of the other radio exuberances of
the "NaZi' ambassador: 1.-THE sudden
coming into power of the new Hitler
government has had the effect of
bomb in America, aroused tremendous
interest everywhere and undoubtedly
evoked sympathy, surprise and admira-
ton. Confused for years by certain
press with false reports about Ger
many, and misinformed by articles
and interviews of so-called Germans
who travelled through this country and
posed as experts on German affairs,
but have wrong or no conception of
the new, young Germany, of its leader,
our Reich chancellor, Hitler, who is
already immortal, and of the powerful
National Socialist movement. =
What an event-Hitler's voice IN
America! Even over the radio, 1000
miles away, one Is captivated by the
charm of his personality. What an
event for me to hear over the wide
ocean the voice Of my beloved leader
the only man who will save Germany!
The American press has taken
the news much more calmly and mod
erately than could have been expected
after its rather hostile attitude of the
last two years"
X X
If the domestic allotment farm relief
bill, which provides a bounty for pea
nut growers, ever comes to vote in the
Senate, 1t isn't likely to command the
support OF Carter Glass of Virginia The
Old Dominion Is q considerable peanut
Onna q q mn
of representative Virginians called on
Senator Glass to get him to work for a
higher tariff on peanuts. The grim old
| editor statesman listened patiently to
thetx arguments Then n . character