Evening star., 1933-08-30
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

old Rushville district to send him back
to the House. This district. made over
out of the old Burnt Sixth" which
gave Jim" his start of 10 years of
public service. is pretty safely Repub-
lican. although represented at present
by Finlay H. Gray. Landslide" Gray,
as the incumbent calls himself because
of his victories in the Democratic
sweeps of 1912 and 1882. Former Sen
ator James w. Wadsworth of New
York. who returned to the House of
Representatives after a couple of terms
in the Senate is among those urging
Watson to start a congressional career
all over again. I'VE two Jims will run
the House if you will only join me
there" Wadsworth is reported to have
said to the Hoosier veteran. Word floats
up from Alabama that yet another ex-
Senator, none other than Tom Hef1n.
aspireS to return to the congressional
spotlight and is preparing to tempt fate
by running for the House in 1894 1t
appears that Toms district voted dry
in the recent Alabama repeal election
and that he thinks he could win out
next year on a prohibition ticket.
Brother and sister Democrats famil-
lar with her long party service record
have chriStened Mrs. Lester j. Pollock
of Washington the forgotten woman"
Of the new deal. AS an F. r. B. G. de-
gree holder she became an active cam
didate for Director of Labor for the
District of Columbia but although she
was backed by Postmaster General Far
Ter. Secretary Roper. Senators Wagner
and Byrnes. Pennsylvania National
Committeeman Guffey and District of
Columbia National Committeeman Co.'S
tello, Secretary Perkins bestowed the
JOB on some one else. In charge of the
Democratic National Committees
Bureau of Absentee Voters in 1880, Mrs
Pollock rounded up enough votes in the
District of Columbia to help change the
complexion Of both the House and SEN
ate. After serving as Roosevelt dele
gate at Chicago she directed the Wash
iHgton Absentee Voters Bureau here
again in 1882. Mrs. Pollock's friends are
hopeful that when Farley shakes down
more patronage plums for deserving
Democratic sisters she'll turn out to be
remembered, instead of the forgotten.
woman.
the Federal Council of Churches has
list of some 1000 unemployed preach
ers seeking pastorates. In the Episco-
pal Church alone there are over 600
Jobless rectors, due to closing up of
small churches unable to pay salaries
In New York City there are hundreds
of unemployed ministers of all denom-
nations working at almost any sort of
job in the secular line.
X X
Senator Carter Glass newspaper, the
Lynchburg Advance. is rapping the
General Assembly of Virginia for re-
fuSing to take a dose of its own econo-
my medicine. The State legislators,
though their own pay is very small,
voted themselves the same compensa-
ton while expecting other State en-
ployes to take a cut. Were the present
special session regular session." says
the Advance. I'VE would have some
sympathy with the legislators. But as
they themselves forced the special ses-
sion over the Governors protest on the
plea that Virginia needed revenue from
80 beer, it is difficult to reconcile that
argument with insistence that the ses-
sion shall cost the State of Virginia
every possible cent"
Why not "In Code we trust" as an
up-to-date creed for Uncle Sam?
X
Trust-buster Oswald F. Schuette
writes to say: In your recent para
graph about the Borah amendment to
the recovery act you inadvertently
conveyed slightly wrong impression.
The amendment merely prohibits the
approval Of codes which would sane
tion monopolies or monopolistic prac-
tices.' It was my suggestion to the
N. r. A. that. to protect itself against
possible violations Of the Borah amend
ment. codes before approval should be
submitted to- any Government agency
which had previously investigated mo-
nopolistic practices In given industry.
The amendment itself does not itself
call for such submission"
(Copyright. 1881 s..