Evening star., 1934-07-30
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

seven successive terms in the House
and made a creditable record as a
progressive. Having been beaten In
his unsuccessful primary by a bare
1000 votes, his friends feel that with
the LANCER influence no longer potent
the seasoned House member from the
wheat belt can easily stage come
back.
Among the things of which Presi-
dent Roosevelt was reminded at
Honolulu last week is that Hawaii
occupies the unique position Of being
the one on-contiguouS addition to
the area of the United States which
has been continuously profitable to
the Federal Government. Since she
became part OF the United States she
has contributed to the Treasury an
average of more than $5,000,000
year. Her stipends total $l85, 900 900.
During the same period the Federal
Government has expended on the
government of the islands only about
SIS, 100000. Thus, 1t is claimed,
Hawaii represents to date a direct net
profit to Uncle Sam of $50, ,000, 900.
Representative Tilman B. Parks,
Democrat, of Arkansas, a member of
Congress since 1921, will succeed Rep
resentative Ross A. Collins Of MisSiS-
sippi as chairman OF the House Sub
committee on Military Appropriations
War Department officials welcome the
prospect as the Army is one of Mr..
Parks particular hobbies. His father
was the youngest captain in the Con-
federate forces, and his interest in
military matters dates from child
hood. Representative Collins, who
did not fancy heavy expenditure on
the Army, is now a candidate for the
Senate in the three -cornered Demo-
cratic primary in Mississippi. Army
folks are glad that an enthusiastic
friend like Representative Parks Is to
be on the House appropriations job
when our largest peace-ttme military
expansion program will be under way.
Former Gov. John Garland Pollard
of Virginia, now chairman of the
Board of Veterans Appeals in Wash
ington, spins a favorite yarn about
an appeal for a pardon submitted to
him at Richmond a couple of years
ago. A delegation from one of the
Southwestern Virginia counties, which
occasionally go Republican. sought a
pardon for a convict under life SEN
tence for murder. They said he was
positively the only one who could
carry the county for the Democrats
at the impending election. Gov. Pol
lard knew all about the culprit and
observed that the man had a par
ticularly bad homicide record. The
delegation indicated it was aware Of
his eheckered past, but pleaded with
the Governor to take into considera-
ton the fact that without exception
every man the fellow ever killed was
a Republican, Gov. Pollard decided
that even such credentials did not
justify a pardon.
For some time a movement has
been in progress to acquire the mod
est frame house at No. 81 Massasoit
street, Northampton, Mass, in which
Calvin Coolidge for years lived as a
| tenant. as a national memorial TO the
Vermonter. The plan was apparently
abandoned, as the house is now ad-
yertised for rent at $40 a month.
! New England motor tourists passing
/ through Northampton invariably ask
| to be directed TO the unpretentious
home from which Silent Cal" went
| to the governorship of Massachusetts
and eventually to the presidency.
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