Evening star., 1934-11-02
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

There's q popular myth that We
are q "two-party" country. william
Tyler Page. former clerk Of the House
of Representatives and well-informed
authority on congressional politics,
reports that 1884 nominees for House
and Senate represent an all-time
peak of 10 different party designa-
tions. Here they are, in alphabetical
order: Balance Federal Budget, Com
monwealth. Communist, Constitution,
Democrat, Farmer Labor, Inde-
pendent, Independent Citizens. Inde-
pendent Veterans, Industrial Re-
covery, Labor. Law Preservation, Ma
tional Prohibition, Non-partisan Pro-
gressive, Prohibition, Republican,
Socialist and Socialist Labor. The
result of this hotchpotch of party
appellations in many States is
blanket-size ballots and confusion
worse confounded in the minds Of a
bewildered electorate.
With Mrs. Roosevelt on the stump
and women more active in politics
than ever before, it's interesting to
know exactly what public affairs
nowadays make the Hveliest appeal to
them. Two organizations, the Ma
tional League of Women Voters and
the National Federation of Business
and Professional Women's Clubs, re-
Gently sent questionnaires to candi-
dates for Congress seeking their
views on q variety of issues. The
subjects on which the League of
Women Voters wants light include
the merit system Of appointment and
retention Of Federal, State and local
government employees; dismissal Of
married women in Government serv-
ice: Federal activities for protec-
ton of the consumer; unfair trade
practices; food and drug legisla-
ton; continuance of Federal un-
employment relief; adequate appro-
priations for the Bureau of Home
Economics; the Children's Bureau,
the Women's Bureau, the ONCE
of Education and the Federal EN-
ployment Service; American entry
into the World Court, and Govern
ment control Of the manufacture and
cAuPAlCAt vi a4hAS 41lC boSlACOS anu
professional women want to know
whether prospective members Of Con-
gress will support entry into the
World Court; reduction of armaments
and practical substitutes for war;;
whether they favor appointment of
qualified women to public office and
the diplomatic service, and whether
they will vote for work relief appro-
priations for unemployed women pro-
portionate to that given to jobless
men.
Chester A. Arthur. forgotten man
among the Presidents of the United
States, as far ~ biographical literature
Is concerned, has just had tardy
justice done him. George Frederick
Howe il the author of what Is said
to be the first life" Of the twenty.flrst
Chief Executive of the Republic, who
was in the White House from Septem-
Der, 1881, until March, 1885. The
Arthur biography Is the latest addi-
ton to q series Of volumes on Amer
ican Political Leaders"
Senator Robert r. Reynolds, Demo-
crat, of North Carolina, Is back from
jaunt to Mexico City, where he was
chaperoned by that other son Of the
Tar Heel State, Ambassador Josephus
Daniels. While he< was attending q
session Of the Mexican Senate with
Mr.. Daniels, proceedings we're inter-
rupted to permit Senator Reynolds, by
invitation, to address the body. He
is probably the first United States
Senator ever to be accorded such an
honor.
II California counts its ballots next
week as leisurely as it did In 1915,
when the dnai tally reelected