Evening star., 1935-10-30

With the next session Of Congress
little more than 10 weeks away, New
Dealers will soon be concentrating on
the legislative problems to be tackled in
the months Immediately preceding the
1886 presidential campaign. 1t was with
a view to clearing the decks that the
Government made its recent unSucceSS-
full attempt to induce the Supreme Court
to speed up the Hoosac Mills case, which
may spell the doom of A. A. A. processing
taxes. Budgetary problems will bulk
conspicuously in the House and Senate
program. With unceasing Republican
emphasis on Roosevelt expenditure and
eventual tax burdens, the administration
is anxious to avoid supplying the OPP
position with arguments that appeal too
wildly to voters pocketbooks. AS signs
multiply that the New Deal IS going to
the country with recovery and pros
perity" as its battle cry, Rooseveltians
will see to 1t that nothing Is done on
Capitol Hill between January and June,
II they can help it. to mar the HAPPY
days" picture they are preparing to paint.
Most everything that happens in Con-
gress during that period will be with
an eye to the ides of November.
Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky IS
sailing for Russia this week for two
months sojourn. which he says is ex-
clusively for vacation purposes. Natu-
rally, current Soviet-American questions
like debts, credits. trade and our objec-
tions to communist propaganda will be
discussed while the envoy is in Moscow,
but none of these subjects is officially
concerned with his trip. Following our
protest against certain proceedings at
the recent congress of the Third Inter-
national, suggestions were heard that
revocation of Soviet recognition was only
a question Of time and might not be de-
layed beyond the 1886 presidential elec-
ton. There are no indications that any
such step is actually in contemplation.
Some authorities believe the deSirability
of cordial relations with the u S. S. R.,
in view of possible Far Eastern compli-
cations, is a consideration which out
weighs all other factors, except Red agi-
tation, to which the administration re-
mains unalterably opposed. On that
rock Soviet-American relations might
easily go to smash.
lOWnScnQ FldlIlcIS IldNc dPPdICiloAy
adopted a national anthem of their own.
At a recent New York rally Of the old
age pension leaders adherents they
chanted a paraphrase of Onward,
Christian Soldiers" the chorus of which
runs as follows:
Onward pension soldiers,
Marching as to war,
With the plan of Townsend
Going on before.
This great pension leader
Bids depression go.
Join him in the battle;
Help to fight the foe"
With what a bafiing complexity Of
liquor laws and regulations Uncle Sam
has to cope is graphically illustrated by
a summary just issued by the Distilled
Spirits Institute at Washington. AS soon
as Texas acts in accordance with its re-
cent repeal VOTE forty-one States and the
District Of Columbia will have statutes
and rules of widely varying nature COW
ering such matters as local option, meth
cd Of control, license fees, bonds, excise
taxes and type Of containers. North
Carolina presents a novelty with 16 wet
counties, while the rest Of the State 10
arid. The seven dry States are Alabama,
0eorgia, Kansas, Mississippi, North Da.