Evening star., 1934-02-09
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Addressing editors on certain Oc-
casion last year. President Roosevelt
expressed a desire for critical discus
sion of the new deal. It's about to
get some-in book form-at the
hands of a Washington newspaper
man, George A. Benson. correspond
ent of the Minneapolis Journal, who
has completed volume which will
shortly leave the press. Its provisional
title is vanishing Democracy" Mr..
Bens On says he's written a critical
ANALYSIS of the various emergency
and recovery agencies and programs,
especially N. r. A. and A. A. A. A
nati-e of Minnesota and former as
sociate editor of the Fargo Forum, at
Fargo. N Oak. Benson is looked upon
by his Washington colleagues as an
authority on agriculture and the
tariff In politics he claims to be
non partisan, having Checked up"
the other day and found that of the
six men for whom he has voted for
President three were Republicans and
three Democrats. One of the things
he attacks in his book is the failure
Of all postwar administrations to
tackle the war debts They have
been allowed to degenerate. in Ben
sons opinion. from a political asset
into an economic liability.
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A friendly view of the Roosevelt era
is Washington and the Revolution
lists" Roger w. Babson's latest book.
The business adviser-author admits he
started out as skeptic about the in
Vulnerable innovations that set in on
March 4, 1888. but meantime has
become an enthusiastic sympathizer
with many of them. His book con-
tains intimate pen pictures Of the
President and his associates, including
Vice President Garner. The chapter
on Secretary of Labor Perkins is en-
titled THAT Woman"
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Apropos this weeks dinner in honor
of Mrs. Roosevelt at the New York
University Women's Club. it's recalled
that the First Lady is herself not a
college graduate proof that a
sheepskin isn't essential to achieve
ment in the many fields which Anna
ElCdllOl leOOSCNCle dStOA Aiho. I'M "AAO
Who autobiography states she was
educated in private schools. The only
other academic allusion Is that Rus
sell Sage College gave her the degree
of DILL. in 1929.
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L. D. Tompkins, vice president OF
The United States Rubber Co., has
Just been installed as special assistant
to the administrator of N. r. A. One
of the jobs he will presently under
take is to bring business men to WASH
ington from time to time for the pur-
pose of educating them in the ins and
outs Of the code compliance system
and then having them circulate more
or less as missionaries to preach the
gospel Mr.. Tompkins has been on
duty under Gen. Johnson for several
months and is now looked upon as
one of the key men in the Blue Eagle
organization. He's a native of New
Jersey and Yale man.
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Obituaries Of the late Senator Gill
bert NJ Hitchcock of Nebraska failed
to mention that had he successfully
piloted the treaty of Versailles. in
cluding the League covenant, through
the Senate, he might have aspired tt
the blessing of Woodrow Wilson fol
the 1920 Democratic presidential
| nomination. No one in the Senate
| during the treaty fight was closer tc
| the stricken President, who fire.
quently registered his gratitude fol
Hitchcock's gallant but hopeless strug.
gle.
French Ambassador Andre de La
boulaye spoke In New York this weel