Evening star., 1934-06-25

Although Congress has adjourned.
Washington is still full of politicians,
and there's no livelier topic of dis
cussion among them than President
Roosevelt's passing observation at
Yale that he couldn't tell the politics
of lot of persons at present engaged
in important Government duty. De-
spite the activities of the Farley pat
ronage machine, there are undoubt-
edly numerous new deal jobs that are
held by nominal Republicans, while
many G. o. P. holdovers still draw
Federal pay. This is a condition
which has never ceased to irk stalwart
Democrats, who think the ''raScals"
should have been turned out" prompt
ly after March 4, 1888, and all avail
able spoils distributed without delay
to deserving Democrats. Partisan re-
sentiment has never subsidized over the
fact that two out of ten cabinet port
folios-Interior and Agriculture-were
assigned to men who once rated as
Republicans. The recent case of DR..
Willard L. Thorp, former director of
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, reflected what old-line
Democrats. who blocked his confrma-
ton. think about Republicans in high
| office at Washington in these times.
Twenty-one honorary academic de-
grees altogether having been thrust
upon the Roosevelt cabinet this month,
including the President himself, it's
been suggested that heads of the ex-
ecutive departments may be willing to
be known in future by their new doc
torate titles, instead of the formal and
traditional Mr.. Secretary" etc.
Should F D. R. set the fashion by
consenting to be called "Dr. Roose-
welt" the custom is likely to spread
all through the administration house.
hold, which, because of the current
LII. D. epidemic, is now a sort of
glorified brain trust.
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Apropos the Yale Harvard entente
| cordiale established by President
Roosevelt's adoption as a son of Eli,
Washingtonians recall one of Wood
row Wilson'S pet stories. 1t was to
the effect that Pat and Mike were
digging in the street outside of the
Harvard yard, when Pat looked up at
| an inscription over a nearby arch,
! reading "Omnia vincit labor" and
| asked Mike what it meant. Says
Mike: Il think it means To hell
with Yalep"
There are suggestions that DR.. Hans
Luther, the German Ambassador to
! the United States, now en- route to
| Berlin. has been recalled to discuss
the Reich's financial crisis and fur
| nish some advice. Before entering the
, diplomatic service, DR.. Luther had
been both chancellor of the Reich and
president of the Reichsbank. He ranks
with DR.. Schacht, present president
! of the Reichsbank, as Germany's
foremost authority on national
! finance and economics. BY profession,
Ambassador Luther is a lawyer and
municipal administrator. He was at
| one time chief burgomaster of the
| city OF Essen.
X y r n
Bernard M. Baruch's Forthcoming
autobiography will not be his maiden
| literary effort. In 1920 he wrote q
| book entitled THE Making of the
| Economic and Preparations Sections
of the Peace Treaty." In addition, his
| name has been attached since the
| World War to an extensive series of
pamphlets and public addresses on
agricultural and economic subjects.
| He writes with the terse directness of
the man of affairs, who prefers clear
ly stated facts to stylistic flourishes.
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"Youth Rebuilds," the epic of the
Civilian Conservation Corps. is the
| title of book just off the press
under the editorship of Ovid Butler,
editor Of American Forests Maya