Evening star., 1934-08-10
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

Communications Commission with the
greeting I'VE, who are about to
die, salute you" The occasion was
far from funereal, however, and the
general idea seemed to be that a new
milestone in communication service
was being passed and that everything
was on the up and up.
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Even the most gifted Of the Wash
ington columnistS are completely out
classed by the gaudy pyrotechnics
spouting from the pen Of Robert M.
Washburn, the choice of the Massa-
chusetts Republican State Convention
for United States Senator to oppose
David 1. Walsh at the polls. Bob
Washburn is a veteran of Bay State
politics and Bay State journalism
whose flare for satire amounts to an
obsesSion. Here is Candidate Wash
burns latest campaign efusion: "Da-
vid is certainly some administration
bluebird. Mr.. Walsh indicted Mr.
Roosevelt, for every known virtue, as
our marvellous. great, stupendous and
glorious President but he may give
the President even incipient megalo-
cephaly, or, in easy English for out
side of Boston people, big head. If
what Thermos Bottle Dave says on the
outside about the President should
come in close contact with what he
thinks on the inside about him, a
spontaneous combustion might result
which would send David up into even
greater heights than any he has hith-
erto reached"
What the weekly Pathfinder, railway
guide, is to the railroads, the Blue
Eagle, the weekly digest issued by the
N. r. A., is to the regiments of code
authorities, trade associations and
legal lights who are engaged in ad-
ministering, interpreting and enforcing
the codes. The Blue Eagle is COM
pendulum of the weekly grist Of admin
istration orders and schedules of hear
ings and a wealth of other informa-
ton. N. r. A. officials describe 1t as
their house organ" 1t is not in
tended for public consumption, though
there is nothing confidential about it..
Only 10000 copies are issued instead
of millions. 1t carries. however, a
weekly grist of CHEEKY business news
under such captions as Triple In
come" Store Sales Gain 400 Million," p"
Coal Operators Optimistic" Shows
66go Gain" Fewer Than 20 Guilty
of Code Violations" Such items tend
TO pep up N. r. A. morale.
X X X y
Former Representative Samuel Z.
WinSlow of Massachusetts, has joined
the procession of veterans in Gov
ernment service who have been given
their walking papers under the new
deal. Mr.. Winslow, after long and
distinguished service in Congress, be-
came chairman of the Board Of Medi-
alton when it was created eight years
ago and remained in that post until
the boards recent extinguishment
pursuant to the railroad labor act
passed by Congress in the closing days
of the last session The new law sub
stituted a new National Mediation
Board-a three-man, bipartisan COM
mission. There had been some notion
that the President might retain
Chairman WinSlow as the Republican
minority member of the new board by
reason of Mr.. Winslow's long expert
ence in this field, his fine record and
pre-eminent capacity and character.
That Mr.. Roosevelt did not do so
ought to occasion no surprise and
probably did not surprise Mr.. Win
slow. The President, when he does
not pick his friends and political al
lies for appointment to public ONCE.
almost invariably picks jealous ex-
| ponents Of the new social order. Mr..