Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-15

liquid" The Herald Tribune's CORES
pOndent asks: will Mr.. Jones please
tell us what he means by over liquid
banks?"
Miss Mary z. Hughes, head Of the
women's division OF the N. R. A., claims
among other distinctions the record Of
having talked to more American school
children than any other person. She
hung UP the record in her capacity As
promotion and publicity manager for
the United States Navy and Marine
Bands on their tours across the coun-
rate Of q town q day and sometimes a
dozen schools . day for 20 minutes per
talk. Miss Hughes, who is q native Of
Lexington, KY, began life with the
Radcliffe Chautauqua in Washington.
At N. r. A. she has a Nationwide set
up Of women with 48 State chairmen,
county chatrmen in every county and
in many county subdivisions, making
a body Of actual N. n. A. leaders Of
women aggregating something Like
100000. The grand total number of
women enlisted and interested, accord
ing to Miss Hughes, is just about iden.
tical with the total number Of women
In the country.
This is going some In the way Of ex-
plotting the magic initials N. r. A., but
. Federal omcial In Washington writes
this observer to ask: How about MIRA
Ford" or Louis McNRA Howe" He
adds, by way of explanatory detail:
~NRA sounds like Henry, doesn't it?"
Well soon know.
Guessing about imitation and how
soon President Roosevelt will exercise
his authority under the Thomas law
L. now the Capitals favorite indoor
sport. Senator Pat Harrison's tnfia-
tionary activities in Washington this
week gave fresh impetus to the game
There are wiseaeres who tell you that
the machinery for imitation is already
and that it will be working by October
Is. No one 80 far has been able to
coax q word out of the President a. to
when" remains his only disclosed atti-
tude. Most authorities are persuaded
he Is loath to initiate. There Is grow
ing consensus that If by January
there's no broad upward sweep in
prices, Congress will impose mandatory
imitation upon the President.
The late Jack Nevin. old-time Wash
ington reporter, was . genius In polit-
ical prophecy. Many months before
Mr.. Coolidge's famous dictum. Nevin
made the positive prediction that the
Vermonter would not choose to run for
President In 1928. The veteran scribe
wrote many famous stories in his day,
but none, his friends think, was Q more
beautiful piece" than his narrative of
the burial of the Unknown Soldier at
Arlington on November IL, 1921. Its
theme was Buddy Is Home Again. !"
The story deserved a Pulitzer prize.
Is Gen. johnson a soothsayer? At
Chicago, on Labor day, acclaiming N.
r. A. General Counsel Donald r. Rich
berg, johnson said that compared to
eli the lawyers I've ever known, Rich
berg Is q Supreme Court justice" II
name Supreme Court juStices-which Is
. strong probability -Riehberg is sure
to be In line for a vacancy, as an addi-
ton to the liberal bloc" which now
includes Justices Brandeis, Stone and
Csrdozo, and. at times, other members.
Richberg was strongly in the running
for Attorney General in the Roosevelt
cabinet. ,. D. r. holds him In high
regard. Organized labor would rejoice
In Richberg's elevation to the Supreme
Court. especially It he were there In
time 10 pass on certain N. r. A. ques-
tions slfssdy headed In that direction.
lcopyyigbt 1889