Evening star., 1934-10-12

One Of washington's current polit-
ical yarns projects a new explanation
of Gov. Clifford Pinchot's enthusiasm
for the cause of Senator David A.
Reed in Pennsylvania. According to
it. Pinchot's support of Reed may
assure the Governor an-powerful
Reed Mellon backing for Pinchots
own ambition to come to the Senate
in 1888 as the Republican successor
of James j. Davis. If Reed is re-
elected, Pennsylvania will continue to
have two Republican Senators from
the western end of the State. Pinchot,
supplanting Davis. would give the
eastern neck of Penn's Woods the
representation it is now denied in the
upper branch of Congress.
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President Roosevelt does not believe
in absentee-voting-by mail. He an
nounces his intention of being at Hyde
Park on November and casting his
ballot in person, in accordance with
time-honored custom. Presumably he
will remain at his Hudson River
estate over election night and receive
there the returns of the Democratic
landslide victory which Chairman
Farley so confidently asserts Is going
to sink the G. o. P. to the most
-ignominious level the party has ever
occupied in Congress since before the
Civil War. The Democrats need all
the votes they can get in F. D. RS
home county, which has long had a
habit of going Republican. Hoover
carried it in 1882 by more than 5000
majority.
Our secret service people are more
interested than average Americans in
the assassinations of sovereigns and
statesmen in Europe, such as the
recent tragedy at Marseille. Precau-
tionary measures over there apparently
leave a good deal to be desired. They
are at least far less thorough than the
system in vogue for guarding the
safety of United States Presidents on
their public appearances. In Europe
!, military forces are relied upon for pro-
tective purposes to an extent that Is
unknown in this country. If sure-foot-
ed American Secret Service methods
had been in vogue in France, it might
| not have been so easy to perpetrate
| the crime which cost the lives of King
Alexander, Foreign Minister Barthou
and four others.
In DR.. Robert D. W. Connor, Just
appointed archivist of the United
States at $4,000 year, the University
| Of North Carolina contributes its
second man to the Roosevelt pro-
fessoriat. The other is DR.. Claudius
T. Murchison, director Of the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
who also came to Washington from
the Chapel Hill faculty. In case you
are uncertain about the pronunciation
of "archivist," as many people seem
| to be, let it be known that the bulk
| of dictionary authority favors lark
| iyist," and not 'ar-ki-vist," which is
! the rendition encountered in some
official quarters. His friends think
that Jim Preston, librarian of the
Senate, would be an ideal second in
command for Uncle Sans stately new
hall of archives. Archives are Jim's
| middle name.
Senator Royal s. Copeland, Demo-
crat, of New York is following the
New Deal literary trend by publishing
a book. Just of the press, under his
authorship, is "Dr. Copeland's Home
Medical Book-What to Do Before the
Doctor Comes"-issued just in time to
generate interest in the medico-States-
mans campaign for reelection. Sena-
] tor Copeland faces three opponents-