Evening star., 1934-02-21

That President Roosevelt and his
Administration believe in looking be-
fore they leap is evidenced by the
fact that all recent records for opin-
ion giving by the Department Of JUS
tice have been broken during the
first year Of the New Deal. In the
four years prior to March 4, 1888.
the Attorney General Of the United
States rendered to the executive
branch Of the Government SO written
opinions. The Roosevelt Attorney
General, Homer S. Cummings, in a
period of a little less than a year,
has rendered 1870 written opinions. In
addition, he has supplied many oral
opinions and passed upon the legality
and constitutionality of numerous i'm
portant executive orders. One of the
Attorney Generals primary duties is
to give advice and opinions when
requested by the President or by the
heads of executive departments Mr..
Cummings was drafted for advisory
service from the instant the Roose-
welt Administration led off with its
breath taking banking and monetary
innovations in March, 1888. Since
then, he has been in action as coun-
sci to the Administration virtually
without cessation
At the Department Of Commerce
and in other official quarters cordial
welcome Is being extended to the Aus
train Trade Commission now visiting
fc haro fn avnInro tho
possibilities of marketing Austrian
goods on some reciprocal basis where
by Austria might take more Of our
products. The campaign Of the Ger
man Nazisr has dealt a heavy eco
nomic blow to Chancellor Dollfuss'
hard-pressed little country, which nor
mally Is dependent on German tourist
traffic and German trade. 1t now
costs $3.50 for a German to get a
passport visa for Austria. This has
had the intended effect Of keeping
Germans out of Austria for business
or other purposes. Disturbed cond1-
tions naturally have reduced visitors
from other countries. The Viennese
trade delegates are hopeful that busi-
ness eventually can be drummed up
in the United States, which will con-
siderably compensate their stricken
industry for loss OF European markets.
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Hamilton Fish, jr., Republican, Of
New York, who represents the home
congressional district of President
Roosevelt in the House of Representa-
tives, apparently faces some unusually
vigorous Democratic opposition this
year News reaches Washington that
a movement has been started to place
in the field against him a popular
Democrat, DR.. H. Landon Ryder,
member of the Civil Service Board at
Poughkeepsie. The district is pretty
invincibly Republican. Fish carried
it by 10000 in the Roosevelt 1892
landslide. As he latterly has been
hammering administration policies,
the plan to unhorse him may have
its origin in the statuesque New
Yorker's militant opposition. At pres
ent Mr.. Fish is haying the Presidents
airman policy.
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Chief Justice Hughes, who Is seldom
heard on the radio, will broadcast
over a Nationwide Columbia net
work on March 20, at Harvard's cell
ebration of the Tooth anniversary Of
the birth of DR.. Charles w. Eliot.
Others on the program are the new
president of the university, DR.. James
B. Conant; former President A. Law
renee Lowell and former Secretary Of
the Navy Charles Francis Adams.
The Chief Justice will speak from
Washington, but his address will be
specially piped into Sanders Theater,
at Cambridge, where the celebration
wN be held. -. hughes himself y