Evening star., 1933-04-17

1t would be premature to suggest
that the Roosevelt honeymoon is over.
but there are certain Indications of rift
in ths lutte which has twanged so mer-
rily since March I, and a consequent
slowing-up OF the New Deals pace
Partisanship begins to re-assert itself
on Capitol Hill. influential Republican
newspapers are no longer as whole.
heartedly with the President. Even
Democratic solidarity in Congress has
ceased to be 100 per cent dependable.
Last weeks straws showed how the wind
may presently be blowing. The House
majority refused to be bound by the
caucus. In the Senate, out of IS DEM
ocrats voting on the cost production
amendment TO the farm relief bill. %
opposed the administration as against
81 who stood by it. This does not mean
that Mr.. Roosevelt already faces an in
sursent movement within his party of
the sort that bedeviled Mr Hoover. But
it does indicate that the Democratic
ma jority in the Senate will stay
hitched only when 1t Is SO inclined. To
what extent Democrats are chafing
under patronage delays there's no way
Of telling. That something has hap
psned to cool their Rooscveltian ardor
Is obvious. Whether the administru-
tons lines will hold until all of the
Presidents emergency legislative pro-
gram Is enacted into law now becomes
bit problematical. The congressional
snail shows signs Of fatigue with the
dizzy gait at which it's been asked to
travel recently.
Hitler anti-Ssmitic persecution has
at length reached German whose mis-
fortunes may sooner or later have a
certain repercuSsiOn in the United
tions here. He is Prot. DR.. MoritZ ].
Bonn, who was last week expelled. be-
cause of his religion, from the director
ship OF the Berlin School OF Commerce.
Prof Bonn is the German member of
the European Committee Of the Car
negie Endowment for International
Peace The committee consists Of 10
distinguished scholars and economists.
The trustees Of the Carnegie endow-
ment are Americans OF the caliber OF
Nicholas Murray Butler. John w. Davis,
Norman II. Davis, Frederic A. DelRno,
James Brown Scott. Silas II. Strawn.
Charles s. Hamlin, AlansOn B. HOugh-
ton, Frank o. LoWden and Elihu Root.
1t is not beyond the realm Of posi-
bilities that the influential Americans
who administer the Carnegie Endow-
ment may make representations OH be-
half of their oppressed German asso-
ciate.
Members of Congress who resent pub
lie assaults on their sacred honor have
never received a gentler hint than fell
from the lips of Senator Ashurst, DEM
ocrat, of Arizona, one day last week.
hi ovku IN
tive colleague now under fire in his
own State, Mr.. AShurst said: Let us
remember that he who lives by the
sword shall die by the sword. There IS
in this world law Of compensation,
which soon or late does its perfect
work. No one escapes that law. II
we in the Senate-and apply this ad-
monition to myself-were more careful
respecting the tender subject Of human
character and respecting the reputation
of other persons who cannot answer
here, we would have more sympathy
extended to US when We find ourselves
the objects of calumny, as we all DO
now and then. It u Rn inescapable
part OF public life"
Meredith Nicholson, shining Light in
Hoosisrdom's galaxy OF literary luml-
naries, Is being doomed py Inolaha
Democratic leaders for q Roosevelt dip
iomatic appointment. The indianapolis
noyelist. VINO achieved fame with IT, =
Main Chance" The House OF o Thou
sand Candles" and "'The Port Of Missing
Men" was offered the choice Of the
ministsrship to Greece or Portugal by
President Wilson, but did not at that
time care to tear himself away from his
books. Nicholson would tit ideally into
the picture which F. d. r. Is steadily
filling up with Ambassadors and Min
isters chosen from writing ranks. Wood
row Wilson had just named two Pages.
walter Hines and Thomas Nelson. re-
spectively. as Ambassadors to London
and Rome, when the Hoosicr sage. Vice
President Tom Marshall, was moved to
remark that the diplomatic service was
being turned over to the Nterati. Page
by Page"
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David A. Brown Of New York, pub