Evening star., 1934-12-10

President Roosevelt returns to the
helm vigorous and refreshed after his
working vacation at Warm Springs.
He Is in the pink OF condition. physi-
cally and otherwise. and well fortified
for his impending bout with Congress
and any other vicissitudes along the
, rocky road TO recovery. Evidently as
compliment to the second New Deal
House and Senate the President in
tends to reserve his legislative recon-
| mendations for their exclusive ear
because he repeatedly admonishes the
press that NUNS the word until his
message is sent TO Capitol Hill oil jan
| uary 3. Anything said In the mean
time will apparently be sheer guess
work. F.. d. r.. adopting the alpha
betical lingo OF the era. says that un-
authorized representations about the
| budget, relief. housing. N. r. A.. A. A
| A.. social security, bonus and every
thing else can be labeled IS. c. S.
| Sewing Circle Stories. But the ex-
pectatiOn persists that In advance OF
| the message to Congress pretty vivid
hint of what the President has up his
sleeve will be given when he broad
, casts his "fireside chat" some time
before Christmas.
It looked more like a mass meeting
than a press conference when the
newspaper men and women assembled
for their first parley with Mr.. Roose-
Welt after his return from Georgia
Seldom has the throng been bigger, for
the scribeS expected an earful on some
of the tremendous national and inter-
national issues now pending. But they
came away almost copyless. The Presi-
dents handsome new ONCE, though
considerably larger than the old one,
Is still too small. he noted, to hold the
| journalistic brigade when 1t descends
upon him en- masse. Mr. Roosevelt
! fancies the large-scale reproduction
of the presidential seal which sdorns
the ceiling of his new quarters. and
| called the special attention of his press
visitors to that feature of the decora-
| tive scheme.
Youth hear women political OBJ
servers say that the appointment of
Miss Josephine Roche as Assistant
Secretary Of the Treasury is the New
Deals answer to- the Mussolini- Hitler
cult that women have no place in
public life and should be banished
to the realm once defined by the eX-
| Kaiser as the three K's-kinder.
Kirche, Kueche. i.e.. children, church
and cooking. American women have
been seriously disturbed by the Fas-
cist -NaZi movement to keep their sex
out of politics and civics. Mrs. Roose-
Welt has frequently alluded to this
trend, which, Of course, violates all
her theories about women's right
and duty to take a hand in govern
ment. Mr.. Morgenthau says Assistant
Secretary Roche's job Is to "hllmanize
the Treasury"
E. F. Colladay, Republican national
committeeman for the District Of
Columbia, takes philosophical view
of the family row within the G. o. P.'s
disgruntled and disorganiZed ranks.
''The Republican party hasn't been
talked about so much for two years" !"
ne says. IudtS y uoPclui oiBH.
People don't quarrel about q dead
duck-or elephant. Current events
prove there's plenty of life in the old
pachyderm yet" Martha r. Gold,
Washington lawyer, staunch Re
publican and long time secretary to
Senator George H. Moses of New
Hampshire, says she expected the
worst in November and wasn't dis
appointed"
II
Book reviewers are speculating
whether Herbert Hoover bankers to
come back. The past few months
have witnessed q succession of sig
nificant publications. First came the
former Presidents own Challenge to