Evening star., 1933-11-29
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

defines the comfortable industry as
the manufacture and sale Of COM
fortables and comforts"
Hard boiled Gen. johnson has just, ac-
cording to the New York Herald Tribune,
apologized to Editor William Allen
White of Kansas, for alleging in
recent speech at Kansas City that the
editor of the Emporia Gazette, Amer
tca's most famous smalltown news
paper, is antagonistic to N. r. A. In
an editorial next day White said he
would make johnson "eat them words,
without sugar and cream, or pepper
and salt, or else choke" johnson
forthwith wrote the Gazette that the
offending passage crept into his man
uscript by mistake, explaining: II
made IL speeches in eight days and
had to write them all in long-hand,
usually in an airplane between stops,
to be transcribed later. I'm sending
you copy of my notes, so you can
see the sentence was all jumbled in
transcription. You're about the last
spercon I would think of jeering at in
a public utterance. Since boyhood you
have been one of my pet admirations,
and I have not even heard of anything
from you to which I could object. I
am very sorry and If, as hope, the
publication of this will help to remove
any different impression, you are free
TO use it." "Bnl' White published
the amende honorable and states that
he hopes the Gazette and the General
may live together happily ever after.
No. 1, of "The Awakener. 4-pared
Iortnlgntly national organ Of sound
opinion, published at New York, has
Just reached Washington. At its mast
head 1t flies the slogan-"For the Amer
icanism OF the Right and Against
tne socialism Of the Left" The
AWakener'S attitude toward current
events on the Potomac is disclosed in
It's opening remark: The New Deal is
fast becoming a new delirium." In a
Iront-psge column called Cracking
Down on the News of washington" the
Awakener chronicles a report that Sena-
tor Dickinson, Republican, of Iowa.
cHell Raising Dick" Hoover keynoter
at Chicago in 1892 is already drafting
a bill for repeal of the National Re-
coVery act. Harold Lord Varney is
named as editor of the Awakener:
Joseph p. kamp as executive editor,
and Lawrence Dennis and Col. Milford
w. Howard as associate editors.
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Jim Farley's trip to Europe is accepted
as prima facie evidence that the RooSe-
velt high command looks for no poll
teal repurcussions worthy of the name
from Al Smiths recent broadside. If
the Democratic leadership feared any
thing In the way of party rift, the
ADMINISTRATIONS political generaliWimO
1t Is felt, would hardly have left the
burst forth just as the Postmaster Gen.
eral was about to board ship. F. D. r.,
at Warm Springs, met AIS onslaught
with q smile. That's apparently the
symbol Of the policy to be observed to-
to laugh 1t of.
X X \
It looks as If recognition of Soviet
Russia threatens to become epidemic
on this side OF the Atlantic. Canadian
manufacturers Of agricultural iTnple.
rnents and cattle-raisers are now urging
the Ottawa government to follow the
United States example in resunaing dip
COW. Canadian organized labor, like
our A. F. Of L., has resolutely opposed
recognition, and so has the present OF
tawa government. Another American
innovation just initiated in the Do
minton Is Premier Bennett's emulation
of President Roosevelt's example in
using the air for periodical broadcasts
on important occasions.
(Copyright, 1933l