Evening star., 1934-09-10
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

With Col. Henry Breckenridge, Balm
bridge Colby Is Franklin D. Roose-
velt's second fellow-member of the
Wilson administration within week
to come forward as a foe of the New
Deal. The former Secretary of State s
bliStering attack Is all the more
notable because he used to be one of
those Republican progressives with
whom F. D. r. is now carrying on
so lively Irritation. He helped to
found the Bull Moose party in 1912
and in 1914 and 1916 was its candi-
date for the United States Senate in
New York. Speculation is rife as to
whether Colby, Stanch member Of
the Wilsonian Old Guard, may not
be speaking the language of that in
duential Democratic contingent. His
onslaught is directly in tune with the
American Liberty League, in which
Wilson administrationists John w.
Davis and Jouett Shouse are leading
spirits. Wilsonian critics of the New
Deal have long included two men who
were particularly close to the World
War President and Carter Glass.
One of Colby's supposed grudges
against the Roosevelt administration
is the recognition of the Soviet Union.
AS Secretary of State in 1920, he
paved the way to 13 years Of con-
sistent anti-recognition American
policy.
From constituent of these obser-
vations comes a request for names
Of women who would most naturally
qualify if the country was already
minded to look to the fair sex for
presidential timber. Here's a random
multi-partisan list Of what might be
considered more or less logical poSsi-
bilities: Federal Judge Florence E.
Allen, Frances Perkins, Ruth Bryan
Owen, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Representative Florence P. Kahn,
Representative Mary T. Norton, Rep
resentative Edith Nourse Rogers, Mrs.
Charles H. Sabin, Mabel Walker
Willebrandt, Ruth Mccormick Simms,
Grace Abbott, Alice Roosevelt Long
worth, Emily Newell Blair, DR.. Mary E.
Woolley, DR.. Marion Edwards Park, DR..
Ada L. Comstock, Ruth B. Pratt, Nellie
Tayloe Ross, Alice Paul, Belle Sher-
win, Representative Isabella Green
way, Josephine Roche, Cornelia Bryce
Pinchot, Mrs. Borden Hartman, Mrs.
Harold L. Ickes, Mrs. George Horace
Lorimer, Jane Addams, Carrie Chap
man Catt-and others!
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In the current American Foreign
Service Journal, published in the
State Department, Leo r. Sack, Min
lister to Costa Rica, returns to his
graphic descriptive article about that
country. The article is accompanied
by a snapshot of the former Wash
ington newspaper man, showing him
at the crater of the Costa Rican VOL
cano IraZu, which rises to a height
of 1892 feet, on the outskirts Of the
ancient capital of Cartago. Irazu has
been in constant eruption for the past
"a years, and Mr.. Sack predicts that
tourist meccas of Central America,
when the proposed inter-American
highway is completed. Mr.. Sack says
that while his picture makes it appear
that he Is stepping from the fiery
furnace, he was, as a matter of fact,
merely at the edge of the crater, with
the roaring pit at least 200 feet away
on the lower level.
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Yet another member of the House.
Representative Francis T. Maloney,
Democrat, of Connecticut is aspiring
to promotion to the Senate. He has
just been nominated to oppose incum-
bent Republican Senator Frederic G.
Walcott, whose impending renomina-
ton Is conceded. Representative Ma
loney is completing only his first term
in Congress, having been elected to
the House in the Roosevelt landslide
of 1882. He has twice served his ma
tive city of Meriden as mayor and was
in the Navy during the World War.
With an established reputation as .
vote getter, the young Connecticut
Yankee is expected to make a strong