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1t is impossible to tell the story
Of Mrs. Jenckes' fourteen months
in congress in few words; she
has busted herself with too many
things.
Her first big exploit was in con-
nection with the second Bonus
Army that invaded Washington.
They were a surly group of war
veterans who, remembering the
bayonets of the Hoover admins
tration, were distrustful of the
Overtures of the new administra-
ton. She went among them, took
their troubles as her own, helped
find food for them, and negotiated
with the White House to provide
quarters for them at Fl. Hunt, in
nearby Virginia. Many of them
did not want to go. But they re-
garded her as a friend.
T ISTEN boys" she said. "You
IL are tired-your Stomachs are
empty, your bodies are dirty; let's
go where you can get beds, and
food and bath" They went, and
in a few days were all mustered
into the civilian conservation
corps, taken out of Washington
and installed in forestry camps
throughout the country.
When running for congress, Mrs.
JenckeS had said to the war vet
Grams in her district: Boys, I'll
never vote to take away any of
the benefits that you now enjoy"
To keep that pledge, a few days
after taking the oath, she voted
against the economy law. That
was the first time she broke with
the administration.
She bolted the administration
program several times since in
connection with veterans legisla-
ton. When the vote was taken to
override President Roosevelt's veto
of the independent offices appro-
priationS bill, Mrs. Jenckes was in
Maine, making the keynote speech
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intrepidity were her petitions to
the President to declare a two
year embargo on the Importation
of butter fats, and her petition for
an embargo on the Importation of
black-strap molaSseS, which have
been going into the manufacture
of alcohol, in competition with
grain. Those petitions came to
naught, Of course.
NNE day she is at the Office of
~ the secretary of the interior,
pleading with him for an allot-
ment of $35,O0O,OOO to construct
levees and reservoirs for the con-
troll Of floods on the Wabash and
White rivers. Another day, she is
at the Office of the director of i'm
migration, negotiating for the en-
try Of an Assyrian girl, the daugh-
ter of naturalized citizen in her
district.
Her WabaSh-White f1ood-con-
troll campaign was one of the most
aggressive that Washington has
witnessed. She devoted almost all
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grand jury investigating army
purchases, smeared him for row.
ing with Woodring.
So the other day the White
House sent to the war department
an 90 k" for the reassignment of
General G.. B. Pillsbury as as
sistant chief of engineers. Like
Macarthur, Pillsbury already had
served four years in this job, was
reassigned to serve four more.
But attached to the 20. k" was
a slip Of paper on which was
scraWled in pencil There are
to be no further reassignments of
general officers beyond the regu-
lar fOur-year period"
Below the scrawl were the mi
tials Fl. D. R."
XXTHEN Pat McCarran, bushy-
W haired, scrappy Nevada SEN
ator, sauntered into the outer
lobby toward the close of the
senate debate on overriding the
Presidents veterans veto, report
ers made for him.
How does it look, senator?"
they asked. Have you folks got
enough to override?"
We'll, boys, I'll tell you" came
the drawing reply. It's this way.
1t reminds me Of the time I was
defending bank president out in
my state.
They had him up under thirty
two counts. The case was being
tried in Carson, and we lived in
Reno. We Travelled back and forth
every day by automobile. 1t was
only thirty miles apart, and the
trips gave us chance to talk
things over.
AS the prosecution developed
the various counts it began to
look pretty bad. When they
reached No 20 the outlook was
anything but promising.
When we drove home that
night I didn't have much to say,
because there didn't seem to be
much to be said. Finally, my
client asked how 7 thought things
were going. had to admit they
looked pretty dark.
Pat" he said, Just remem-
Der one thing. I am not guilty.
Hold that thought, hold that
thought"
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Syndicate Incl
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3E
Now the situation is reversed.
Harry Woodring has cleared
himself of suspicion, in fact was
praised by the house military at-
fairs committee. The eX-GoVer-
nor of Kansas unquestionably was
little too anxious to please some
of his old Kansas friends, but he
has now worn off the rough edges,
learned something about the
army, and is getting places.
General Macarthur, on the
other hand, is not. His four
year tour of duty as chief of staff
comes to a close soon. Army Gus
tom specifies that this job should
rotate, that no general should
succeed himself.
Macarthur, however. feels that
he should be an exception to this
rule. And he has been pulling
every conceivable wire to this
end.
WTIRE-PULLING is one OF the
w generals greatest arts. From
his first days in West Point he
learned how to get ahead in the
army. Son of General Arthur
Macarthur, Young Doug had as
his chief rival Ulysses S. Grant
III, grandson of the Civil war
hero. The mother of each lived
at West Point to boost her son
ahead of the other.
But during the World war, Mac
Arthur won the confidence of
Secretary Newton D. Baker, sud-
denly was promoted from major
to brigadier-genera was the only
brigadier-general below the grade
of colonel to keep his temporary
war rank afterward.
In the Philippines later on Mac
Arthur chafed because he wasn't
being promoted fast enough. He
wanted to be a major general. So
his wife, now Mrs. Lionel Atwill,
cabled her stepfather, Edward T.
Stotesbury, wealthy Philadelphia
flnancier. StoteSbury, a heavy
contributor to the Republican
campaign chest, hammered on the
desk of the late John w. Weeks.
then secretary of war-and Mac
Arthur got his promotion.
But now it is not so easy.
MAC ARTHUR got in wrong
1V1 at the White House for the
way he slid out of responsibility
for the air mail fiasco. Also the
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He has been impressed, for ex-
ample. with the fact that eco
nomic progress often leaves
groups of people stranded The
thing they produced is no longer
in demand. or it can be produced
more efficiently elsewhere, or the
natural resources which they
were using have run out.
Then, like some of the coal
miners, some farmers, some mill
workers, they are permanently in
trouble, and something intelli-
gent and humane and magma
tive needs to be done to set them
on their feet.
1t may be that they ought to
move to other regions, or to learn
new trades, or to be supplied with
new capital to catch up with the
procession. The President thinks
that it is the business of the COM
munity to make plans for dealing
with situations of this sort.
He has been impressed, too,
with the waste and disorder OF
the helter-skelter development OF
cities, of transportation, of for
estS and minerals and water
power. and he would like the ma
ton to look ahead and be order
ly and sensible in its economic
activity.
Surely. this is a good gospel to
preach to any people, and par
ticularly to a people which has
settled a continent and has now
to begin to husband and organ
ize its wealth.
DUT if it good gospel to
ID preach, it is a good gospel to
practice. and it is in the actual
planning of its own major politics
that the new deal is most vulner-
able. They have not been prop
erly planned; that is to say. they
do not fit into one another and
supplement each other as they
should if the great objective of
recovery is to be achieved as
promptly and as certainly as pos
sible.
What We have are a number Of
policies. each according to a plan.
but not all Of them according to
the same plan.
Take the agricultural adjust
ment administration as first eX-
ample. since it was the first big
measure of its kind Machinery
was set up for the purpose of rails
ing the price of wheat, cotton
and few other staples to their
pre-war value in terms OF what
the farmer buys.
Last April this required price
of about 81 cents a bushel for
wheat. But while the argicultu-
raj adjustment administration
was working to raise the price of
wheat to that figure. the NRA was
set up and under it the price of
the goods the farmers buy was
raised AS a result. the agricul-
tural adjustment administration
now has to aim at S1.06 bushel,
instead of 81 cents if it is to carry
out its plan"
Instead of taxing the consumer
80 cents bushel 10 help the
farmer, it probably will have TO
tax him 40 or 80 cents. The NRA,
however. has been trying TO in
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Fair Enough
by
WESTbROOK PEGLER

THE Gridiron Club of Washington, D c., is one
of the most exclusive clubs in the United
States 1t is limited to fifty active members who
must be active newspaper reporters. correspond
ents To be active reporter, or correspondent,
candidate must have an employer. The employer
thus is a silent. assistant member. This silent
membership usually entities the boss to more
invitations to the Gridiron dinners. That is, the
correspondent had better invite him or else.
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dinner is a great honor and worth the risk
The Gridiron Club is now fifty years old. The
dinners have always been held in the Willard The
Mayfower hotel a in which many of the
minor statesmen and lobbyists reside, made some
seductive passes at the Gridron Club but the Grid
iron Club repulSed the Mayower with its hydraulic
elevators and reinforced concrete construction and
its resident senators, including Huey P. Long, and
remained true to its traditions and the old New
Willard
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10 Cutie up 4DI FOLt- 4 A4t
measure was strangled in the
senate and assembly judiciary
committees. And I think that
this underhand sort Of fighting
has been typical of the amend
ment's foes all along the line.
The men in Albany did not want
to go before the voters smirched
by opposition to the child labor
amendment. The dirty deed was
done stealthily and in secret.
u NHE ngnt Tor the amendment
Il has been a difficult one, be-
cause for the most part the OPP
position has been in the form of
sniping from the underbrush.
The proponents of the measure
have endeavored to bring about
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The ReU. John Brett LdHgStdf

TN any discussion Of child labor" said Mr. Lang
staff, the voice of the mother should be heard.
Politicians and social workers know well do
advertisers and newspaper men that a child inter-
est has great publicity value There has been much
legislation for good behalf of children, and
there promises to be more as long as mothers are
willing to bring children into the world Let every
voter consider what effect public legislation is hav-
ing on the private discipline of the home. America
does not wish its juveniles to be ignorant, and 1t
does desire them to be healthy. If the child be-
comes intelligent enough to realize, however, that
the mother is forced to keep him from work, she
forced to send him to school, what respect for the
authority of the home is he likely to retain?
1T is no longer because mother thinks best but
because the law requires it for all children Is
there not perhaps some cause here for why in so
many cases the bond of love no longer holds the
home together and mothers find themselves sur
rounded by merely companionate children?"
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HJeemC bM.
! h
Haywood BROUk

I THINK it was Charles Eliot who said, When
Il good cause has gone down to defeat the only
question to be asked is When do fight again? ."
The national child labor committee has already
answered the question by saying that the campaign
for ratification in New York will continue and that
1T is the determination Of hundreds of civic groups
to force a showdown in 1885"
II is well to remember that the present New York
legislature did not permit the question Of ratification
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UptIlf
they have been thwared BY the tactics Of that press
which so loudly proclaims that it is free.
Last Sunday the Rev. J. B. Langstaf of st. Ed
munds Protestant Episcopal church, Morris avenue
and Nth street the Bronx spoke against adoption.
The New York Times gave him half col which.
as remember, is rather more than accorded to
President Roosevelt
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TODAY AND TOMORROW
By Waller Lippmann

MICE again the President has called
~ 1t Is evident that he the
where 1t directed according official plan but
me sense OF foresight orderly
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SumerS to the tax on cocoanut oil,
by making the tax apply only to
the oil that is used for edible pur-
poses. She introduced a bill to
strengthen the pure-food laws. 1t
is still in committee.
She had a Washington attorney
friend take Richard Little Dick
Wernecke. Vigo county Demo-
cratic boss, before the United
States supreme court, and move
the latter's admission to member
ship in the supreme court bar.
Mrs. Jenckes probably now re-
gretS that gesture of friendship
toward Little Dick" Back in her
district, campaigning for re-elec-
ton, it is reported that she has
found Little Dicks" faction lined
up behind her primary opponent,
Charlie Whitlock, prosecutor of
Vigo county.
Charlie Whitlock is the father
of Douglas Whitlock-who is a law
partner in Washington of Everett
Sanders, One-time congressman,
one-time secretary to President
Coolidge, One-time lobbyist, and
now chairman of the Republican
national committee.
In 1882, Mrs. JenckeS, running
as an outspoken advocate of out
right repeal of prohibition, de-
feated the incumbent, CORTLAND
Gillen, in the primary. and van
pushed the veteran Republican,
Fred Purnell in the general cleo
ton. In that election, she had
the left-hand support of Little
Dick"
But with or without Little
Dicks" support, she will make
things in the coming primary
plenty hot for Charlie Whitlock.
In 1882, she carried Vigo county
by 1000 votes. Whitlock's plural
ity in the same race was less than
three hundred.
II TITLE DICK" it seems, is
IL sore because he failed to be
appointed Indiana director of the
national emergency council. And
it is reported that he blames Mrs.
Jenckes. That happens to be one
thing with which she had moth
ing to do.
Protests against Little Dick
poured into the White House
from citizens living in all sections
of Indiana, who declared that
Little Dick was partisan, pro-
fessionaI politician of the boss
type, and therefore unfit for such
an important post.
Mrs. Jenckes is a born cam
paigner. With her daughter, Vir-
GINA, who serves as an extra clerk
in her office without pay, the
congresswoman tours her district,
beaming smiles upon her constit-
uents, telling them what's what
in Washington
ut may develop that Little
Dick" has overstretched himself
again, just as he did when he
tried to become the voice of the
new DEAL in Indiana.
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"MOther Thinks Best"

"NEERELY companionate children Mr. Langstat1?
WI What on earth do you think good old Dr.
Freud might make out of that? But meeting the
clergymen only on the conscious plane, 1 under
stand him to argue that the state should take no
action which might tend to weaken the validity OF
the assertion Mother thinks best"
Little Harold mustn't nit cousin Clarence over
the head with sharp meat cleaver because mother
thinks it would be ndiScreet And Harold must not
swpe the lady's gold watch and put it in his pocket
Mother would be veXed.
You can not keep it from him forever that, in
addition being part of family. he is also part
of state and that there is constituted authority
existing outside the walls of the house in which
he lives
But I think Mr. LangstaffS gaudest sentence
was in still another paragraph of his sermon IN
which the preacher exclaimed In all the cries Tor
womens rights is there none to voice the motherS
rights?" Some older person should take John Brett
Iangstaf into the attic and tell him the facts OF
life A busy clergyman intent upon the welfare OF
the little ones should not be allowed TO go on forever
looking under cabbage leaves.
Copyright by The Timesl
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EXCHANGE CLUB WILL
HEAR NEW DEAL TALK

Luncheon Guests to Be Addressed
by Henry L. COchrane.
Industry and the new DEAL will
be the subject of a talk by Henry
II. Cochrane, Indiana Manufacture
ers' Association secretary, at the Ex-
change Club luncheon tomorrow in
the washington.
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MAC ARTHUR got in wrong
1V1 at the White House for the
way he slid out of responsibility
for the air mail fiasco. Also the
Evening star., 1934-09-16

OF one having sold for $4,000. But $500
to 5000 covers the bulk Of such horse
flesh
INTH recent years game confined to
the wealthy and socially prominent,
polo in the United States at least, has
come to be as democratic as base ball.
The interested student of the game will
find 1t being played on ranches through
out the West, supplanting rodeos as a
means OF keeping cow-punchers and
COW ponies in trim.
In fact COW ponies make splendid polo
ponies, for heading off wild steers takes
about as much stamina in horse as
running down a furiously riding polo
opponent. One Of the greatest polo
players in the United States today for
merly herded cattle on a Texas plain
And the team which made the East sit
up and take notice was one which came
out Of the West last year and met the
East at Chicago. The East went down
in two meets out of three and now the
challenge is out for the West to come
Evening star., 1934-09-16
The United States Army team.

Siawush and Afrasiab. As it came down
1t was caught In this ladle-stick and
thrown on the ground for the game to
start. Another method OF starting the
game was to toss the ball into the air
and strike 1t as it came down. The ac-
cepted way in modern polo is for the
referee to throw the ball on the ground
in the middle of the field from side
position. The players then ride peI-
nell for it.
Polo ponies are not necessarily any
particular breed, although thoroughbred
horses are not without their preference.
The game is fast as lightning, the horses
are usually 141a hands high, wiry, quick
at the turn and sound at heart. AS the
game used to be played it was divided
into 15-minute periods before rest. Now
the division is 7A minutes, welcome
respite to the ponies that are called on
to put everything they have into the
game as they thunder down the field
to head off some other pony and dashing
player.
Especially bred polo ponies have
brought fancy prices. There is a record
Evening star., 1934-09-16
Locusts TN argentina

THE United States Is not alone in having
trouble with its crops. For the second year
in a row, Argentina IL threatened With o serious
plague Of locusts. Last years locusts did tre-
mendous damage In the grain belt and this year
the prospects are for equally as serious an out
oreaS,
An appropriation Of $575,0O0 has been made
by the Argentine Congress for purchase of live
locusts which are stained and then turned loose
In an effort 10 check mp sons the habits Of the
insects.
Evening star., 1934-09-16

steeds, strong of heart and hong winded,
agile and fleet.
The court games were great gala
affairs. The king rode forth to a raised
dais on the field of battle, his courtiers
following him with fanfares of trumpets
and clashing of cymbals on every side.
Banners flew from every post and pylon
and the players cavorted across the field
in gala attire. The highly decorated pill
lars marked the end of the field at op-
poSite ends.
When it came time for the game to
start-but let us give description from
one of the ancient writer's, witness of
the game The players are Siawush and
Afrasiab with their followers. Siawush,
Persian prince is sojourner at the Court
of Afrasiab, in disgrace from his fathers
court. Both were mighty polo players
and warriors. The story Is told in the
Persian Iiad, the "Shahnamah,' I'm
4shed in 1908 by Firdausi.
THE game is now on, taking place, ac-
~ cording to legend, at Tashkent. After
the preliminary toss-up, the ball was
handed Siawush by Afrasiab, who:
Taking fresh horse, dropped the
ball on the ground and with mighty hit
sent it to the moon; the heavens were
amazed and drew the ball towards them.
None could compare with him in play.
The great king and his followers were
overwhelmed with astonishment, and
never, they said, had so marvellous a
player been seen. SiawuSh was peerless,
and his bearing on horseback was like
Snto the cypress"
In these latter days we have no such
players-or better, perhaps, no such
poets. But the quotation gives an idea
Of the intensity with which the game
was played by Persians, long before the
British Isles were invaded by the Saxons
and the present Kingdom of Great
Britain was begun, the country that in
troduced the sport to the Western world
from its crown colony, India, in 1869.
Polo, like all ancient sports, has un-
dergone changes in the manner of play
and in the number of players on the con-
tending sides. In the United States the
accepted play is four men to the side,
two forwards and two backs, as in the
case Of basket ball. In the olden times
as many as Is players on each side con-
tended and there are instances of 80, 40
and even whole villages taking part.
There has not been much change in the
instruments of warfare" the willow ball
still being used. In fact, polo as we know
it-the word comes from Tibetan word,
"pulu," meaning willow root. In Per-
sian times the game was called "gu-i-
chugan," or ball and stick" Instead of
the mallet, a stick shaped like a ladle
was used. This accounts for the tossing
of the ball so high in the game between
Evening star., 1934-09-16

East and do it again." The games have
just been played
Next week in Washington the crack
Mexican Army team meets the United
States Army team. This meeting will
undoubtedly be the sporting event of the
Fall in the Capital. The Mexican team
is here now and has been here for sew
eral weeks, getting in trim for the match.
They have played practice games with
various Army teams, notably the Sd
Cavalry team at Fort Meyer
AS an Army Sport, says Maj ]. M.
Swing, expert Army poloist, nothing sur
passes polo. For the officer it teaches
him to make quick decisions, the most
important thing in coming through a
bad situation safely. 1t teaches him
superb horsemanship, teamwork and,
above all, control In the heat of battle.
The superior officer watching his juniors
play polo, gets direct line on the char
acter of his junior, both as to how he
acts when placed in a tight situation
and as to whether he is a good sport
or not.
The officer and his mount soon come
to know each other and horse-handling
becomes second nature to the rider. The
enlisted man gets kick out of the game,
it being not uncommon for them to bet
their whole months pay on the team
representing their military unit.
The training of polo player and his
pony is most interesting. For the Army
the player first starts off on a wooden
horse in cage. He learns to reach and
strike the ball which returns to him
constantly over the slanting floor of his
practice field. Here he learns the vari-
Gus strokes and how to handle a mallet.
From the cage he goes to the field on
horseback and continues his practice
from his mount. In time he begins to
participate in game with other players.
The pony Is first taught to "handle'
with rein. This training is gradually
enlarged until It learns the second
method Of handling, that of the knees.
The reins and the knees, and even the
swaying Of the body, means to the we'll
trained pony the will of its master.
There is no particular age limit to good
polo playing. There are excellent play
ers far past 40 years of age. But like
all athletic games, the man under 40 has
the edge on the man over 40.