Evening star., 1934-02-28
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Despite the rough political Winter
into which the new deal has run
with incipient revolt in Congress on
the veterans legislation, Government
pay, the St. Lawrence waterway and
the airmail-no signs of cold feet are
discernible anywhere around the
White House. Probably the least con-
cerned of all in the administration
high command Is that worry-proof
master politician, the President him
self. Bulwarked by undiminished
popular confidence, as F. D. r. be-
lieves he is, he seems serenely content
to let matters ride on Capitol Hill and
await developments Administrations
lists are persuaded that If it became
necessary for Mr.. Roosevelt to swing
his veto axe for the first time, to frus-
trate efforts to undermine his econ
omy program, such action would en-
nance rather than injure the Presi-
dents prestige. In Rooseveltian
| quarters, of course, there's no SYM
pathy with the idea that the Presi-
dents luck" has left him. Those
who know his mental processes are
sure he considers current events Just
part of the game and nothing to cause
sleepless nights. As to opposition In
Congress, the President became
tough skinned on that score while at
Albany, where he was accustomed to
hostile Legislatures.
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Nor does the fact that the Repub-
Iican party has come to life again
at least for the 1884 congressional
campaign perturb the Democratic
high command. The Democrats will
lose seats in the House-possibly as
many as 50-but they expect to make
gains in the Senate-perhaps displac-
ing as many as six Republicans from
among the II up for reelection.
House losses are most probable among
incumbents admittedly elected as &C
cidents" in the Roosevelt landslide OF
November, 1882, and who represent dis
tricts normally safe for the G. O. p.
Here and there the pendulum Is bound
to swing back in the old direction.
That control of either branch Of Con-
gress can be wrested from the Demo-
Gratis is out Of the question. Never
theless. the Republicans take heart
from the fact that when the pre-
ceding Democratic President, Wood
row Wilson, in the midst of another
war, asked the country to give him q
Congress that would continue to sup
port his policies the prayer was not
answered.
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh is be-
coming Americas most decorated
young woman. Having recently re-
ceived the National Geographic So
ciety's coveted Hubbard gold medal
for her participation in Col. Lind
bergh's latest transatlantic exploits,
the Veteran Wireless Operators Asso-
citation has just voted Anne Morrow
Lindbergh its annual gold medal for
having "done the most to further the
application of radio communication
to the aid and safety Of mankind" /"
Mrs. Lindbergh did q record job in
control of the radio apparatus aboard
her husbands plane. Throughout
their 3O,OO0-mile flight they were
never out of touch with stations ashore
or afloat.
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Gov. Clifford Pinchot's slashing
manifesto announcing his candidacy
for the Republican senatorial nomi-
nation in the Pennsylvania primaries
on May Is, followed by Senator David
A. Reeds denunciation of the Gov
ernor as "an unscrupulous politician
and a common scold," means another
Of the knockdowns and dragouts for
which Penn politics is famous. With
ex-National Committeeman Joe Guf-
fey and former1 Ambassador Roland