Evening star., 1934-10-19

american Points of View" is the
title of a series of noteworthy trans
atlantic broadcasts soon to be trans
mitted from the United States TO
Great Britain. They are being ar
ranged at the special request OF the
semi official British Broadcastlng
Corp, by Cesar Saerchinger, Euro
pean representative of the Columbia
Broadcasting System, now in this
country on leave. Among the promi-
nent Americans whom Mr. Saerch-
niger hopes to line up for the series
are Secretary of Labor Frances Per-
kins. Senator Borah, Owen D. Young,
William Allen White, Sidney Hillman,
Sinclair Lewis and Gov. John G. Win
ant of New Hampshire. The B. B. C.,
finds that the New Deal has fired the
British public with liveher interest
in American affairs than it ever
eyinced before, and it is for the pur-
pose of meeting the demand for po-
litical and economic information
about 'the States" that the scheme
was Matched. If the listener response
is as encouraging as expected, "Ameri-
can Points of View" will probably be-
come a permanent feature of British
programs.
There's a merry yarn making the
rounds about a New Deal head-on
collision in a Washington hotel lobby
the other night between Senator
James Hamilton Lewis of. Illinois and
former Senator James A. Reed Of
Missouri. As the tale goes, Lewis
had Just emerged from rather
lurid argument with Scott M.
Loftin of Jacksonville, Fla, presi-
dent of the American Bar Asso-
ciation, In the course Of which the
chairman of the Democratic Sena-
torial Campaign Committee remon-
strated politely but firmly against the
bar associations attitude toward the
New Deal at its recent annual conven-
tion in Milwaukee. Jim Reed ambled
along about the time Lewis was elo-
quently acclaiming the Roosevelt era
and Joined in the confab. While the
exact text of the Missourian's remarks
is not available, ear-witnesses describe
them as having been picturesque in
the extreme. When the two colorful
Jims were colleagues in the Senate
passages at arms between them were
not infrequent and were always pyro-
technical.
Word comes to Washington that
a Roosevelt is about to go into the
movies-not as a Hollywood star, but
in the "magnate" end of the game.
James Roosevelt, the Presidents eldest
son, as report has it, has severed his
connection with the insurance busi-
ness in Boston and will soon become
an executive in the New York head
quarters of one Of the big motion
picture organizations. It was recently
reported that Jimmie" had leased
an apartment in fashionable New
York residential section, but the Capt.
tai until this week had not heard Of
any impending change in his profess
sional activities.
Gen. Johnson's friends understand
that for the time being he will hang
out his shingle in Washington as a
private consultant for big business on
the mysteries and pitfalls of N. r. A..
procedure. The long distance tip on
the two-fisted brigadier's plans is that
he aspires to come to the United
States Senate in 1896 as the Demo-
cratic successor of Senator Thomas
P. Gore. Having had more or less
permanent domiciles in Illinois and
New York, johnson would appear to
have the choice Of at least three
States as a springboard for political
ambitions. He was born IN Kansas.