Evening star., 1934-08-10

Big business and Wall Street are said
to be in the throes of another attack
of the "iitters," induced by widespread
reports that Congress is to be recon-
vened early in october. The extra
session idea is based upon the hypoth-
esis that the drought disaster is at
tanning such calamitous magnitude
that present emergency funds at the
Presidents disposal, large though
they are, will not hold out until Janu-
ary; that Congress will have to be re-
assembled to give Mr.. Roosevelt an
other blank check and perhaps to
grant other sanctions, such as new
emergency taxes and the establish
ment of a Government bank to fur
ther centralize control of money and
credit. All such reports are Scoffed at
here and rated just Midsummer
nights dream. The President, under
no circumstances now conceivable,
will be under no absolute necessity OF
calling Congress together before the
new year. Congress has already vested
in him authority to do almost any
thing under the sun, and as for funds,
the unexpended balances of the vari-
Gus emergency agencies aggregate
nearly six billion dollars, and much
of this money can be shifted about,
just as troops are shifted about IN
war, to the point where needed most.
That the President would reconvene
Congress, of his own free will and ac-
cord, in the midst of the Autumn
elections seems a preposterous as
sumption. Mr.. Roosevelt is prone to
do the unexpected and to upset po-
litical prophets. But on the face OF
the cards, as they now lie, he is apt
to do almost anything except call an
extra session.
James Lawrence Fly was this week
appointed to head the legal staff of
the Tennessee Valley Authority, now
wrestling with manifold legal prob
lens. The new general solicitor"
for the T. v. A. never served as pri-
vate secretary for Justice BrandeiS,
but did attend the Harvard Law
School, completing his course there
in 1926. So presumably he will be
bracketed with that steadily expand
ing group of pupils of Prof. Felix
Frankfurter who are engaged in ra-
! tionalizing the new deal with the
Constitution, or vice versa. Mr.. Fly
came into the Department of Justice
during the Hoover administration for
! service in the Antitrust Division.
Prior to that he had been a junior
in a prominent New York law firm.
| Apparently his brains were too good
! to be dispensed with when the pres
ent administration cleaned house"
in the Department of Justice. A ma
| tive of Texas and a graduate of the
| Naval Academy, he is of Tennessee
ancestry and now moves on to Knox
Vile the main headquarters of the
/ 7. V. A.
In celebration of the inauguration
of the first commercial radio teIe-
graph service for the City Of Wash
ington, the Mackay radio division
of the International Telephone &
/ Telegraph staged luncheon party
| Wednesday at the Mayflower Hotel,
with the new Federal Communica-
tionS Commission as the guests Of
| honor. Retired Rear Admiral Luke
/ McNamee, president of Mackay Radio.
delivered a brief and gracious greet
ing. Chairman Sykes Of the Com
munications Commission was pre-
vailed upon to dispatch a message
via Mackay radio to Admiral Byrd
| in Little America. Other guests sent
complimentary radiograms to friends
at nearer points. Frank C. Page,
vice president of the International
| Telephone & Telegraph, who acted
as master Of ceremonies, welcomed the